Thursday, April 17, 2008

Out of Context.

One of my favorite activities is to take things out of context.

Perfect example: I was watching the Curious George TV show with my kid when out of the blue the narrator says, "George and Jumpy played nut hockey all day." Priceless. It's like free comedy.

Sometimes, I think the writers of kids' shows put things like that in shows on purpose. I mean what person grows up saying, "I want to write poorly conceived children shows when I grow up." There may be 12 people total. The rest are completely disenfranchised writers (an odd group of people, writers) that are writing anything for money at this point. Out of boredom they'll put things like that in the script trying to sneak it under the radar of the sensor. Awesome. Thanks writers that missed the mark!

Anybody else have an example of this phenomenon?

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