History Quotes / LowestCommonDenominator

->Owen is [[HeManWomanhater casually sexist]], Jack is a [[JerkJock bully]], Gwen [[ReallyGetsAround cheats on her husband]] and Tosh is [[TheGenericGuy entirely vacant of personality]]. No wonder I considered dropping this show halfway through the first season. [[EightDeadlyWords They’re all horrible]] and I couldn’t give a damn if any of them survived...Owen and Gwen dry hump and snog in [[FanDisservice the autopsy bay]] and Jack takes the opportunity to plant one on Ianto’s lips…this is the Torchwood way of [[SkewedPriorities dealing with a crisis!]] It is banal sexuality; the sort of thing a horny ten year old (and Creator/JamesHerbert) would drop in a story that is completely unnecessary. ''"I was on top of you, I could feel your hard on!"'' -- as low as television sinks.

->''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' was a show with an intriguing and well-written plot with good characters and... well, amazing character designs. ''[[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries Green Lanturn]]'' was a very unique show that showed how much the mythology of the character had to offer the DC Universe outside of that awful movie. But CartoonNetwork, in their infinite wisdom, [[ScrewedByTheNetwork DUMPED both shows after its second and first season respectfully]] and just gave us THIS. A show where one episode consists of two characters saying [[InherentlyFunnyWords "waffles"]] over and over again! [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld THERE IS NO HOPE LEFT IN THE WEST, PEOPLE.]]
-->-- '''[[http://www.deviantart.com/art/OTD-Teen-Titans-Go-Waffles-476835324 Tohokari-Steel]]''', on ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', "Waffles"

->Britney released ''I am Britney Jean'', a [---video cry for help---] documentary, if your idea of 'documentary' involves driving the Maysles brothers into a fit of tears over the legacy of art...The first question the alleged documentary filmmaker interviewer asks is 'what's your favorite bubble gum.' SHUT IT DOWN, BOB WOODWARD.

->It is the present, and I find myself sitting in an office. At first, I think that [[OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList somebody is making a shopping list]]. But then, I realize that I am in the production office of ''That's Life!'' The liver and kidneys referred to are this week's star organ transplant. And as for the vegetables... they are this week's audience.
-->--'''Victor Lewis-Smith'''

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->I would like to voice my strong concern about this show's spiraling decline in ratings. David, ever since you took us to the Caribbean, it's been Jamaica homeless people sucking soup, and a big wave outside that cost a hundred thousand dollars. That's depressing and it's expensive, two words I hate. You know the words I like? I like the word "peppy" and the word "cheap". Peppy and cheap.
-->--'''Edmund Edwards''', ''Film/{{Soapdish}}''

->...vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.
-->-- '''Kathy Torrance''' describing Slitscan's audience, ''Literature/{{Idoru}}''.

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->In the old dramas it was [[LovedINotHonorMore love that had to be sacrificed to painful duty]]. In the modern instance the sacrifice is at the shrine of what William James called 'the Bitch Goddess, Success.' Love is to be abandoned for the stern pursuit of newspaper notoriety and dollars.
-->--'''Aldous Huxley''' "Silence is Golden"

->The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ ([[{{Disco}} fill in the blank]]), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like.
-->--'''Music/FrankZappa''', ''Literature/TheRealFrankZappaBook''

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->[[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Am I not smart enough for this?]] Is this some kind of experimental avante-garde thing that's just going way over my head? Because unless someone makes an argument, I'm just going to assume that I'm not ''dumb'' enough for this; that I've just got too much going on in my head; that I [[BrainBleach can't absorb something this awful.]]
-->-- '''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''' on Mario's "Break Up" ft. Sean Garrett, Gucci Mane

->I know I pooh-poohed Music/MileyCyrus when she claimed that her ''Bangerz'' Tour was going to be a high-art educational experience, but I'll say it: I was wrong. These pictures from the first stop on her tour prove that it's clearly the kind of thing that will draw great minds like [[Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy Bill Nye]] and NeilDeGrasseTyson. Honestly, this should be enough to convince any number of Ivy League Universities to grant Miley an honorary [=PhD=] for her work on this tour, but if they need something in writing, she could easily provide them with dissertations on the following:

->'''Mike:''' [[Creator/AdamSandler Sandler]] and co. turn up the comedy in this new film which is as satisfying as it is hilarious!\\
'''Jay:''' ''Grown Ups 2'' is like [[BreadEggsMilkSquick eating rat poison]]: It really is a good idea!\\
'''Mike:''' Sandler is hilarious in ''Grown Ups 2''! It's like fork in the brain! [[MadnessMantra Fork in the brain!]]\\
'''Jay:''' Adam Sandler's funny, bro! I wanna get [[SanitySlippage chocolate wasted!]]\\
'''Mike:''' [[AC:Stop thinking, brain, you're going to hurt yourself.]]
-->-- ''WebVideo/HalfInTheBag''

->Hitchcock said a movie should play the audience like a piano. ''Film/DeathRace'' played me like a drum. It is an assault on all the senses, including common. Walking out, I had the impression I had just seen the video game and was still waiting for the movie.
-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert'''

->Y'see, the average human IQ is 100, so if you want your film to make money, you've gotta aim for '[[SoOkayItsAverage average]].' Just look at the top box office films of all time, and then consider suicide. It's the reason a high-quality film like ''{{Film/Hugo}}'' earned nearly ten times less than a movie like ''[[{{WesternAnimation/Shrek}} Shrek 2]].''
-->--'''''WebVideo/RedLetterMedia''''' on ''{{Film/Titanic}}''

->So the first thing we do when we set out to slop together a drab, tick-the-boxes, committee-designed, work-the-name-recognition-'til-its-organs-of-generation-dry-up-and-blow-away-like-dandelion-seeds reboot is to isolate everything that gave the original its unique appeal, edge, and soul, put on our big boots and stamp and stamp and stamp, until it can be posted through the letterbox of an ungrateful majority audience who'd be afraid of their own farts if they sounded one demitone higher than usual.
-->--'''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/{{Thief|2014}}'' (2014)

-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2012/12/clinging-to-skin-of-this-tiny-little.html Phil Sandifer]]''', "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie}} The TV Movie]]"

-->--''[[http://www.acidlogic.com/im_billhicks.htm Interesting Motherfuckers]] -- Creator/BillHicks''

->''"Facing stiff competition from the ever-cunty ''{{Two and a Half Men}}'' and ''{{Jersey Shore}}'', the UK edition of ''{{Deal or No Deal}}'' fully deserves the opening award for being the most insufferable puddle of rhinoceros piss to ever contaminate television screens. Firstly, there's the concept: someone chooses a box to open from a selection of boxes……and that's it. Each box has randomly assigned amounts of money inside, of which the contestant loses the chance to win when opened. It's completely random. And viewers lap this shit up like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. [[IncrediblyLameFun People watch other people opening boxes,]] glued to the fucking screen. Every. Fucking. Day. CUNTS!
-->''The Flying Guillotone'', [[http://theflyingguillotine.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/the-2011-cnt-awards/ "2011 Cunt Awards"]]

->Now when I think of writers, I think of people who have something original to say and the gift of verbal communication to pass on their unique points of view to the public (i.e. ErnestHemingway, EdgarRiceBurroughs, [[Creator/DrSeuss Ted Geisel]]). Novelists, maybe some old time poets, journalists, people who have a burning desire inside to share their thoughts about subjects of which they have personal knowledge - like [[Creator/DrSeuss Ted Geisel]], have a great imagination and unique communicative skills. There is a another kind of writer though who has no particular point of view, no knowledge of the subjects he writes about, no imagination and no love for cartoons - and not the least amount of skill or talent for communicating anything fresh or interesting. These are "writers-for-hire" a kind of [[YesMan wimpy mercenary]] who will write anything for money on demand. This is what we had in the cartoon business in the 80s.
-->--John K, [[http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2009/10/are-cartoonists-valued-in-cartoon.html "Are Cartoonists Valued In The Cartoon Business?"]]

!!!Fiction
->''"[[ViewersAreMorons Say no to brains]], it's a no-brainer\\

[[MoneyDearBoy It pays the bills to be this sterile]]\\
Fuck me now, [[FollowTheLeader rip me off later]]"''

->''"All we hear is Radio ga ga\\

Radio [[BlahBlahBlah blah blah]]"''

->''"Like to tie up those programming planners\\

Look there's James Lipton discussing the ''oeuvre'' of [[MistakenForProfound Mr. Rob Schneider]]"''

->''"Our purpose is to amuse, simply to amuse. Nothing serious, nothing political."''

->''"As some illustrious person once said, popularity is the hallmark of mediocrity."''

->''"Never underestimate your audience. They're generally [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall sensitive, intelligent people who respond positively to quality entertainment.]]"''
-->--'''Cameron Mitchell''', ''Series/StargateSG1'', episode ''200''

->''"...vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."''

->''"All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be. But if, as in propaganda for sticking out a war, the aim is to influence a whole people, we must avoid excessive intellectual demands on our public, and too much caution cannot be extended in this direction."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler''' summing up this concept [[GodwinsLaw unsettlingly well]], ''Literature/MeinKampf''

!!!Quotes ''on'' works
->''"In the old dramas it was [[LovedINotHonorMore love that had to be sacrificed to painful duty]]. In the modern instance the sacrifice is at the shrine of what William James called 'the Bitch Goddess, Success.' Love is to be abandoned for the stern pursuit of newspaper notoriety and dollars."''

->''"Bill couldn't get a whole helluva lotta momentum in the [[{{Eagleland}} American McWorld]] (though he had a frequent spot on the [[Creator/DavidLetterman Letterman]] show and did an HBO special sponsored by Rodney Dangerfield)...This stagnation is caused by producers and corporate sponsors who want to keep people as stupid and unthinking as possible. This is best exemplified in their censoring of Hicks' final performance on the Letterman show. It was never shown because of what the producers decided was unfit to air. It's the twisted cycle of maintaining public stupidity which continues, in a bulldozing fashion, to this very day. This whole situation shows how it's all right to tell brainless conventional jokes but it's not all right to step over the edge and poke fun at major sponsoring groups... The more substance and talking points you have in a show, the less attention you'll pay to the commercial break. Your mind would be too busy digesting and pondering the new information that was just received. U.S. media just can't have that. That would be a bullet in the heart of consumerism, capitalism, and the American Dream."''

->''"The 'wealth gap' we often hear about is equaled by the 'intelligence gap' that is kept secret. Those who really understand how the modern world works continue to improve their mastery over the ignorant, in the same way that the rich become richer and the poor become poorer. The ignorant scoff at the idea of social engineering and deliberate campaigns to change consumer habits, and yet it’s obvious that manipulating and managing the population is the optimal long-term strategy for every major corporation. It yields the best dividends. Instead of creating better ads, you destroy the type of thinking that resists ads. Instead of creating superior products, you emotionally cripple people to the point where they feel secretly desperate to buy your product simply in order to feel normal and accepted by society. You don’t need a grand conspiracy to make this happen, it’s just the natural end-game of capitalism. Everybody who understands how the world works can see this, and those who got the ball rolling around the time of the Industrial Revolution have been sure to pass down their trade secrets. Culture is a tool for managing consumers."''

->''"It is the present, and I find myself sitting in an office. At first, I think that [[OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList somebody is making a shopping list]]. But then, I realize that I am in the production office of ''That's Life!'' The liver and kidneys referred to are this week's star organ transplant. And as for the vegetables... they are this week's audience."''

->''"The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ ([[{{Disco}} fill in the blank]]), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like."''

->''"[[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Am I not smart enough for this?]] Is this some kind of experimental avante-garde thing that's just going way over my head? Because unless someone makes an argument, I'm just going to assume that I'm not ''dumb'' enough for this; that I've just got too much going on in my head; that I [[BrainBleach can't absorb something this awful.]]"''

->''"Britney released ''I am Britney Jean'', a [[strike:video cry for help]] documentary, if your idea of 'documentary' involves driving the Maysles brothers into a fit of tears over the legacy of art...The first question the alleged documentary filmmaker interviewer asks is 'what's your favorite bubble gum.' SHUT IT DOWN, BOB WOODWARD."''

->''"I know I pooh-poohed Music/MileyCyrus when she claimed that her ''Bangerz'' Tour was going to be a high-art educational experience, but I'll say it: I was wrong. These pictures from the first stop on her tour prove that it's clearly the kind of thing that will draw great minds like [[Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy Bill Nye]] and NeilDeGrasseTyson. Honestly, this should be enough to convince any number of Ivy League Universities to grant Miley an honorary [=PhD=] for her work on this tour, but if they need something in writing, she could easily provide them with dissertations on the following:"''

-->--'''''[=DListed=]''''', [[http://dlisted.com/2014/02/15/for-those-who-want-to-learn-about-chipmunk-mating-rituals-mileys-bangerz-tour-is-finally-here/ "For Those Who Want To Learn About Chipmunk Mating Rituals, Miley's Bangerz Tour Is Finally Here"]]

->''"Social Entropy, for those unaware, is a term used to describe the predilection of all social systems and structures towards inevitable natural decay. One of the telltale signs of Social Entropy is a noticeable trend towards everything becoming predictable and homogeneous to the point all of society and its artifacts are reduced to their lowest common denominators...This is the end point of civilization, where everything is worn down, run down, boiled down and burned out. Sound familiar yet? If not, maybe go re-listen to Music/FloRida or Music/TheBlackEyedPeas. Pop music is possibly the most entropic of our cultural signifiers, and Music/MileyCyrus' concerns about this are simply all over ''Bangerz'', and in particular 'We Can't Stop'."''

->''"Y'see, the average human IQ is 100, so if you want your film to make money, you've gotta aim for '[[SoOkayItsAverage average]].' Just look at the top box office films of all time, and then consider suicide. It's the reason a high-quality film like ''{{Film/Hugo}}'' earned nearly ten times less than a movie like ''[[{{WesternAnimation/Shrek}} Shrek 2]].''

->''"This movie was buried before it was even released. A director that [[OnlyOneName only goes by a one name moniker]] spends nearly 30 million of his own money and films in 28 countries for his own vanity project. Reviewers and the studio saw it as pretentious overindulgence. The studio shelved it for two years and limped it out in theaters. When it was released, reviewers took its production and shelving [[CausticCritic to rip it apart before even watching it]]... That explains the one a**hole in my audience who was more than vocal about his dislike of the movie [[FanHater and camped outside the exit to tell people who liked it otherwise]]. I wanted to bitch him out in front of his friends, but there's no point. He will always be the Creator/MichaelBay wanking, Music/MichaelBolton loving jack off and there is nothing I can do to convince him this was a great movie."''

->''"So the first thing we do when we set out to slop together a drab, tick-the-boxes, committee-designed, work-the-name-recognition-'til-its-organs-of-generation-dry-up-and-blow-away-like-dandelion-seeds reboot is to isolate everything that gave the original its unique appeal, edge, and soul, put on our big boots and stamp and stamp and stamp, until it can be posted through the letterbox of an ungrateful majority audience who'd be afraid of their own farts if they sounded one demitone higher than usual. "''

->''"This is exactly the type of comic that Fredric Wertham would have cited in ''[[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Seduction of the Innocent]]'' as an example of how comics were destroying the minds of America's children. If there's anything I know about Wertham, he was a guy who hated sex, drugs and stabbing, and this is a comic that [[RatedMForMoney has all three in spades.]]\\\
Today, no one is terribly worried that this comic might have a negative influence on our kids. In fact, there were no labels anywhere on these comics that suggested they might even be for mature readers. And there certainly should be, because this is essentially just a ''Film/{{Saw}}'' movie crossbred with that old HBO special where a young Ben Affleck [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek got addicted to steroids.]] Any negative response to ''The Rise of Arsenal'' had to do with the quality of the book itself as opposed to the nature of its content. I suppose this suggests that some of us (including me) are less concerned about exposing youngsters to sex and violence than we are to having them read bad comics."''

->''"It appears that given the choice between going to series with ''Series/DoctorWho'' and producing another season of ''{{Series/Sliders}}'' {{Fox}} opted for the latter. To be fair to the TV Movie, for all of its innumerable flaws it is not, in fact, worse than ''Sliders''. The reason ''Sliders'' was picked ahead of it was purely that ''Sliders'' was made in-house by Fox. In fact the TV Movie is about as good as ''Sliders'', which is [[DamnedByFaintPraise in some ways more damning.]] There's a slightly irritating current of thought about the TV Movie that suggests that its problem is that it's '[[ForeignRemake American]]' ...The problem isn't that it's American, but that the specific type of American television it's emulating is mediocre, and it has no ambitions whatsoever towards surpassing that mediocrity. The TV Movie is trying to [[SoOkayItsAverage be bland and pointless American sci-fi]], it succeeds admirably, and for that, at least, it is rightly hated."''

->''"One of the great things about people is that if you put them on TV, they'll do anything to win. Sometimes they're not even sure if they're on a show with prizes, or what the prize is--they will debase themselves and taunt their own god to win. For proof, three different groups of women [[Series/FlavorOfLove have competed to let Flavor Flav inside them]], and he looks like something that crawls out of bogs to replace our babies with changelings ...Then there's the dull anticlimax of eliminating the leftover girls after you run out of flowers. 'I'll keep you, you, you, oh, I'm out of roses. Looks like all that's left in this flower basket is [[GetOut fuck you and get the fuck out.]]' This antiquated system takes so long that during one ''Flavor of Love'' elimination, a girl had to relieve herself on the floor. It was like this epiphany hit her--when you lose all dignity, you can just shit where you stand! Or maybe her sphincter saw its one opportunity to express its opinion of the show and took it."''

->''"Facing stiff competition from the ever-cunty ''{{Two and a Half Men}}'' and ''{{Jersey Shore}}'', the UK edition of ''{{Deal or No Deal}}'' fully deserves the opening award for being the most insufferable puddle of rhinoceros piss to ever contaminate television screens. Firstly, there's the concept: someone chooses a box to open from a selection of boxes……and that's it. Each box has randomly assigned amounts of money inside, of which the contestant loses the chance to win when opened. It's completely random. And viewers lap this shit up like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. [[IncrediblyLameFun People watch other people opening boxes,]] glued to the fucking screen. Every. Fucking. Day. CUNTS!"''

->''"It's hard to imagine now, but twenty years ago, Jay's monologues were... not 'funny', exactly, but certainly tolerable by late night standards. His jokes were definitely sharper and more topical than those of Johnny Carson, who had been phoning it in for years as a man with no real competition left... Somewhere in the intervening years, Leno had started phoning it in just as badly as Carson, doing embarrassingly awful, hacky material. And yet somehow, he became the highest rated late night host and stayed that way until the bitter end. And I know a lot of people reading this think that Jay was only popular with [[GrumpyOldMan senior citizens]] who [[HopelessWithTech don't understand how to work the remote control well enough to change the channel]], but the fact is, Jay not only had the most total viewers, he was also consistently beating other talk shows in the coveted younger demographics. It's a bitter pill for some to swallow, but there really is a whole other America out there that they know nothing about, made up of people who watch ''Series/DuckDynasty'' and ''HereComesHoneyBooBoo'' and ''TeenMom'', who think of ''Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}}'' as a legitimate source of news, and who love Jay Leno."''

->''"One of the great things about people is that if you put them on TV, they'll do anything to win. Sometimes they're not even sure if they're on a show with prizes, or what the prize is--they will debase themselves and taunt their own god to win. For proof, three different groups of women [[Series/FlavorOfLove have competed to let Flavor Flav inside them]], and he looks like something that crawls out of bogs...Then there's the dull anticlimax of eliminating the leftover girls after you run out of flowers. 'I'll keep you, you, you, oh, I'm out of roses. Looks like all that's left in this flower basket is [[GetOut fuck you and get the fuck out.]]' This antiquated system takes so long that during one ''Flavor of Love'' elimination, a girl had to relieve herself on the floor. It was like this epiphany hit her--when you lose all dignity, you can just shit where you stand! Or maybe her sphincter saw its one opportunity to express its opinion of the show and took it."''

->''"It's hard to imagine now, but twenty years ago, Jay's monologues were... not 'funny', exactly, but certainly tolerable by late night standards. His jokes were definitely sharper and more topical than those of Johnny Carson, who had been phoning it in for years as a man with no real competition left... Somewhere in the intervening years, Leno had started phoning it in just as badly as Carson, doing embarrassingly awful, hacky material. And yet somehow, he became the highest rated late night host and stayed that way until the bitter end. And I know a lot of people reading this think that Jay was only popular with [[GrumpyOldMan senior citizens]] who [[HopelessWithTech don't understand how to work the remote control well enough to change the channel]], but the fact is, Jay not only had the most total viewers, he was also consistently beating other talk shows in the coveted younger demographics. It's a bitter pill for some to swallow, but there really is a whole other America out there that they know nothing about, made up of people who watch ''Series/DuckDynasty'' and ''HereComesHoneyBooBoo'' and ''TeenMom'', who think of ''FoxNews'' as a legitimate source of news, and who love Jay Leno."''

->''"Bill couldn't get a whole helluva lotta momentum in the [[{{Eagleland}} American McWorld]] (though he had a frequent spot on the [[DavidLetterman Letterman]] show and did an HBO special sponsored by Rodney Dangerfield)...This stagnation is caused by producers and corporate sponsors who want to keep people as stupid and unthinking as possible. This is best exemplified in their censoring of Hicks' final performance on the Letterman show. It was never shown because of what the producers decided was unfit to air. It's the twisted cycle of maintaining public stupidity which continues, in a bulldozing fashion, to this very day. This whole situation shows how it's all right to tell brainless conventional jokes but it's not all right to step over the edge and poke fun at major sponsoring groups... The more substance and talking points you have in a show, the less attention you'll pay to the commercial break. Your mind would be too busy digesting and pondering the new information that was just received. U.S. media just can't have that. That would be a bullet in the heart of consumerism, capitalism, and the American Dream."''

-->--'''Music/FrankZappa''', ''The Real Frank Zappa Book''

->''"Those who do not like ''Series/FamilyGuy'' -- and I confess that I include myself among their number -- criticize it for replacing actual jokes and humor with contentless pop culture references. Although I find this critique stingingly accurate, I understand how a show could get to be like that. I'd like nothing more than to just shout 'OMG [[{{Film/CoolWorld}} COOL WORLD]]' and call it a blog entry. But then I'd risk disappointing you, my imagined interlocutor, and I should hate to do that. And anyway, dipping into the ''Cool World'' level of obscure cultural reference is a bit much."''
-->--'''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2010/10/let-us-never-speak-of-this-again-cool.html Phil Sandifer]]'''

-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2012/12/clinging-to-skin-of-this-tiny-little.html TARDIS Eruditorum]]''', "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie}} The TV Movie]]"

-->-- '''AdolfHitler''' summing up this concept [[GodwinsLaw unsettlingly well]], ''Literature/MeinKampf''

-->''"All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be. But if, as in propaganda for sticking out a war, the aim is to influence a whole people, we must avoid excessive intellectual demands on our public, and too much caution cannot be extended in this direction."''

->''"Jesse James is played by Creator/ColinFarrell, who turned on instant star quality in the {{Vietnam War}} picture ''Tigerland'' (2001) and turns it off here. That this movie got a theatrical push and ''Tigerland'' didn't is proof that American distribution resembles a crapshoot."''
-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert''' on ''American Outlaws'' (2001)

->''"[[MistakenForProfound Am I not smart enough for this?]] Is this some kind of experimental avante-garde thing that's just going way over my head? Because unless someone makes an argument, I'm just going to assume that I'm not ''dumb'' enough for this; that I've just got too much going on in my head; that I can't absorb something this awful."''

->''"Unlike most writers, my competitive instinct - though highly developed - [[NothingPersonal was never personal]]. That is to say, I have never begrudged another writer his success, but I have sometimes deplored the taste of the moment that has made what I thought bad work successful. Happily, since injustice is the rule, one is quite as apt [[SelfDeprecation to be its beneficiary]] as its victim."''
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal'''

->''"The centerpiece of ''So Excited, So Scared'' is the breakdown of each of ''Series/SavedByTheBell''[=‘=]s 86 episodes. As I’ve found out to my own sleep deprivation, these are an absolutely monstrous cultural landscape to traverse, taking on all the catchphrases and quirks you remember as a kid, but with elements that [[FridgeHorror only become apparent through adult eyes]]; like television’s worst ever [[MemeticPsychopath amoral sociopath]], [[CaptainErsatz plagiarised character traits]], unending attempts by the writers to [[StayInTheKitchen bring down leftie feminism...]]"''
-->--'''[[http://franticplanet.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/so-excited-so-scared/ Stuart Millard]]'''