When you see how easy it is to make a hilarious and DEAD ON accurate parody of it:
(via Mike Industries)
This explains why my skin starts to crawl with a weird knowing, whenever I hear the 60 Minutes ticking sound. I know exactly what’s coming next, exactly how it will be presented, and exactly how my emotions will be manipulated, even though I can’t explain why. After seeing this video? I can explain why.
When my kids were very small I was once irritated by how often our favorite kid’s shows repeated – it was the middle of the year, didn’t anyone have new episodes? I did some reading and found out that this is normal, that in fact research into child development shows that kids love repetition, and Sesame Street knows this; the same reason they have the Number Of The Day repeated twelve times in a show is the same reason Blues Clues repeats entire episodes five times a week. It’s intentional. Repetition makes a framework in little minds where information can slip in.
What does it say about both the networks and the audience when some of the most highly rated news shows on television structure themselves for five-year-olds?
okay, that is just effing awesome. go go Charlie.