| 1 | ->Remember not too long ago when it was a special occasion when networks would run marathons of a particular show? In the 90s, my best friend and I would put on a pot of coffee at Thanksgiving and watch an entire 30 hours of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. They called it "Turkey Day," and we looked forward to it all year.\ |
| 2 | But now, all of cable TV seems to operate in blocks and I have no freaking idea why. If you're giving me eight straight hours of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', aren't you forcing every single non-''King of the Hill'' fan to abandon your channel for the rest of the day to go watch something else? |
| 3 | -->--'''Website/{{Cracked}}''', [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18886_5-ways-television-went-crazy-since-i-quit-watching-in-2003_p2.html#ixzz26BuuMFyw 5 Ways Television Went Crazy Since I Quit Watching in 2003]] |
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| 5 | ->''I mean, it was clearly obvious that they weren't going to do anything useful, but it was either this, or watch Creator/CartoonNetwork[='=]s latest excuse to show ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' too many times, and they obviously didn't want to see that, so they decided this was better.'' |
| 6 | -->--[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2375953/8/King_Koopa_Katastrophe_Spoof_2 This fanfiction spoof]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' |
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| 8 | ->''"When is this show'' not ''on?"'' |
| 9 | -->--'''[[SelfDeprecation Jackson Stewart]]''', ''Series/HannahMontana'' |
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| 11 | ->Turn on Creator/{{MTV}} - on any day, at any time - and you’re likely to find an episode of ''Series/{{Ridiculousness}}''[.] It is on all the time. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis All. The. Time.]] ''[[RuleOfThree ALL THE TIME.]]'' [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer That’s not hyperbole.]] The night before I started hammering away at this story, I turned on MTV around 8 o’clock in the evening. ''Ridiculousness'' was on. And it stayed on. It wasn’t until 11 a.m. the next morning that MTV took a break from the show to broadcast ''Film/MenInBlack''. |
| 12 | -->--'''The Ringer''', [[https://www.theringer.com/tv/2020/9/15/21436802/mtv-ridiculousness-rob-dyrdek-reinvention How Did MTV Become the ‘Ridiculousness’ Network?]] |
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| 14 | -> Broadway began hundreds of years ago with a small show called ''Almost Three Chaps'', which was recently adapted into the TV sitcom ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen''. ''Almost Three Chaps'' ran for over 20 years, with shows being repeated more than 30 times a week. Bloody repeats. |
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