Alyssa Rosenberg's thought on
the Supreme Court's obscenity ruling today:
I’d love to see more shows do what Parks and Recreation and Southland do: write dialogue that reflects how adults actually speak to each other in times of stress and excitement and pain and love, and bleep as necessary.
Wish I'd said that before myself...and lucky for you people,
I did:
2) It's the first show I know of that makes liberal use of the "BEEP!" I don't know why sitcoms haven't done this more - the only one I can think of is the Low-Fat yogurt episode of Seinfeld, and it was hysterical. I know you're supposed to turn your nose up "if you need to lean on the blue, it's not really funny", but I'm often grated whenever I see completely unrealistic conversations between young dudes without any cursing at all. I mean, camon. And if the main gist of the show is Roseanne stomping around being pissed, not having a steady stream of "fucks" and "motherfucker" would be incredibly disingenuous, and the beep is just as funny anyway. I'm sorry, but sometimes in the right hands, cussing IS funny.
No need to bleep the
n-word, even
on a Sunday afternoon, of course.
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