Posted by Duke_of_Fluke at 194.129.43.14 on February 23, 2000 at 00:09:43:
In Reply to: Doh' posted by Another_Girl_Named_Bob on February 22, 2000 at 23:42:38:
: The point of the matter is, dude, is that ABC is really into censorship... especially since now having merged with Disney. I'm still laughing at the idea of Trey Parker re-writing the theme to the South Park movie. He'll walk onstage and perform it in its original state...Then be whisked away by
: Tipper Gore and her sheep.
: I think a lot of us, including myself, are beginning to come to the conclusion that ABC is trying to push Clerks TCS off the board...They don't want to break their contract, but they think maybe Kevin will pull the plug on it and take it somewhere else.
See? SEE? Where the holy fuck has that come from? let me rephrase it for you:
YOU, including YOU, have COME UP WITH SEMI-PLAUSIBLE IDEA that ABC is trying to push Clerks off the board AND ARE TRYING TO BE A PART OF THE EXCITEMENT.
You're making shit up now, and like I said, it's inflammatory. I haven't been there since I posted on the other board, but I'll bet you my dick (s'okay, you don't need to bet) that there's people there laying into ABC, blaming them for everything bad in the world, inflating the seriousness of the situation and generally freaking out.
ABC censored people last week, last month, last fucking year, just like all the other channels, and if there's anyone reading who was seriously entertaining the notion that Trey Parker could have gotten away with performing an uncut version of his song at the Oscars with the TV company's blessing, you're all fucking dreaming. Censorship sucks, it has always sucked and will always continue to suck, but this issue has fuck all to do with Clerks. My interpretation of events is that Clerks wasn't what ABC were expecting so they changed the timeslot, that's fucking all. The plug was not pulled, the plug was just moved that's fucking all.
Now we got fools dragging up the PTA shit again, a bunch of sycophantic sheep armed with "Kevin's righteous anger" running around stirring up the shitpot and paranoid delusions bouncing off the walls. You people are behaving exactly like the tabloid press, only you don't need a newspaper when the Web will do - anything on screen or on paper is EVIDENCE, to be used by anyone for wahtever they want. When the show gets cancelled for no good reason, THEN you can accuse ABC of behaving outside the normal bounds of their business, but you people keep this stupid, STOOPID shit up, and they won't need a reason cos you'll have given them one.
Well fuck it, as there's so many of them about this week, here's my paranoid delusion:
Vincent's email hinted that Kevin was pissed cos they announced the time change in Variety without telling him (although this didn't come up in kev's original email). Now why would they do that? Forgetful? Surely not. Perhaps they want to dump the show, but don't want to look like the bad guys - but what's this? Kevin gave it to PTA last month? He can't keep his mouth shut? He's got an army of pissed-off fans too, who have been fighting his corner with anyone who wants some? Well shit, we'll just give him the chance to say something dumb and shoot himself in the foot, dump the show when he disses us and walk away smelling of roses.
Not too implausible is it? I suggest everyone calm the fuck down, let the man make his own mistakes (if they are) and most importantly READ the news as it happens instead of trying to be part of it.