History Quotes / LowestCommonDenominator

->Facing stiff competition from the ever-cunty ''{{Two and a Half Men}}'' and ''{{Jersey Shore}}'', the UK edition of ''Series/DealOrNoDeal'' 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!

-->--'''Website/TheFutonCritic''', [[http://www.thefutoncritic.com/reviews/2011/06/27/the-futons-first-look-work-it-abc-514110/20110627_workit/ on]] ''Series/WorkIt''

-->--'''MindlessSelfIndulgence''', ''Bullshit''

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->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 Miley Cyrus concerns about this are simply all over ''Bangerz'', and in particular '[[StepfordSmiler We Can't Stop]]'.

Berlusconi is just like that, the incarnation of a proud and widespread mediocrity and he's extremely appealing to the same audience that made Mike the god of Italian television (the two in the 80's ).

->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!

->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.

->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 show has everything wrong with animation of the 2000's. Let's see, [[AllAdultAnimationIsSouthPark adult cartoons that try to be vulgar, crass, and shocking]], [[TheyJustDidntCare cheap flash animation used by people who don't want to put any effort into it]], [[PanderingToTheBase trying to pander to some random demographic because you can't hope to hit a general audience]], [[TheScrappy the main characters being horribly obnoxious]], [[BadWritingIndex stories that make no fucking sense]], [[TheScrappy background characters that are fucking obnoxious]], oh, as a bonus, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the background music downs out the dialogue]]!
-->-- '''''WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter''''' on ''The Nutshack'' in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudbfEWmX30 Top 10 Worst Cartoons of the 2000's (100k subscriber special)]] video.

->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.

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

Leech-covered grub-eatin' fools on ''{{Survivor}}''\\

-->--'''David Wolkin''' on ''[[GreenArrow The Rise of Arsenal]]'', [[http://comicsalliance.com/worst-comic-books-2010/ "The 5 Worst Comics of 2010"]]

->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.

->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.

->Hey, I've said a million times: {{Wrestling/TNA}} still being alive today really makes me feel better about my own future. Right? I mean, there's an audience for '''anything''', clearly. ''This'' could be the worst show of all time, and there would still be people that subscribe. That makes me feel good.\\\

And TNA has, uh brought me some peace of mind.

-->--'''''WebVideo/RedLetterMedia''''' on ''{{Film/Titanic}}''

-->--'''''WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter''''' on ''The Nutshack'' in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudbfEWmX30 Top 10 Worst Cartoons of the 2000's (100k subscriber special)]] video.

-->--'''Aldous Huxley''' "Silence is Golden"

-->--'''Victor Lewis-Smith'''

-->--'''Music/FrankZappa''', ''Literature/TheRealFrankZappaBook''

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

->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:\\\

->For the most part, they’re crying that [[FollowTheLeader this is Nickelback’s way of selling out]] and that they’re not “rock” anymore. Um, hello, were they ever considered “rock”? It was my understanding that the National Registry of Music Classifications (if that’s even a thing that exists) created a new genre specifically for them called Melodic Douche Grunts or Truck Tunes.

->n 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 ''Franchise/{{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 be bland and pointless American sci-fi, it succeeds admirably, and for that, at least, it is rightly hated.

->The [[HummerDinger SUV]] looks more dafter than ever chasing a fish in a sports car around Welsh housing estates (I’m not sure if that sentence has [[ARareSentence ever been written before]]…or ever should be again) and tossing into the scene a man covered in blood and the suggestion that the ridiculous looking alien is smacked out on cocaine is such a [[MoodWhiplash discordant clash]] of the adult and the childish I was completely out of my comfort zone at the sort of tone Chibnall was looking for here. Then the giant, walking halibut opened its mouth and out came those [[VocalDissonance cultured, aristocratic tones]] and he kindly spells out [[{{Infodump}} the character specs of each of the regulars]]…I’m at a loss for words, I really am. This really is television for morons.

->{{Creator/UPN}} had developed a reputation among the industry as a network that very consciously and very calculatedly targeted the lowest common denominator. This was the network that thought it would be appropriate to broadcast ''The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer'', an infamously [[DudeNotFunny tasteless sitcom]] about a freed black slave who [[{{Irony}} becomes Lincoln’s butler]].
-->--'''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2015/05/05/star-trek-enterprise-bounty-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', "Bounty"

->An upcoming show asks “[[SexSells Can you climax from intercourse?]]” Gee, is this a health question that needs an answer by an expert?
-->--'''[[http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/02/fame-corrupted-dr-mehmet-oz.html Dr. Toni Breyer]]''', "How fame has corrupted [[Series/TheDoctorOzShow Dr. Mehmet Oz]]"

->Creator/DaneCook is a "comedian" that everyone seems to love despite his extreme mediocrity. His amazing lack of jokes combined with his ability to run around the stage like a five-year-old without his meds appeals to anyone without a soul or any knowledge of comedy. His [[CaptainObvious trite and obvious observations]] contain no punchlines and often appeal to people with short attention spans.\\\
''You ever go into the bathroom and everything is WET? The floor is wet! The counters are wet! Everything's wet! --Dane Cook''\\\
''Uh... could it be because people piss on the floor and wash their hands aggressively? --Andy Kindler''
-->--'''''Website/UrbanDictionary'''''

->'''Mike:''' The film carries on the Creator/AdamSandler tradition of social class-mocking, homophobia, racism, and stupidity -- but in a much more PG manner. Jay! What did ''you'' think of ''[[Film/PaulBlartMallCop Paul Blarb Mall Blarb: Blarp Blarp]]''?\\

'''Mike''': Paul Blart.\\

->Russo, irate at [[DearNegativeReader the negative Internet response]] to his two shows, went ballistic on ''WCW Live'', saying [[NeverMyFault none of this was his fault]], and the reason ratings hadn't turned around was because Standards and Practices had banned, among other things, angles like Wrestling/RoddyPiper calling Rhonda Singh "[[YouAreFat fat]]" and Ed Fererra mocking [[Wrestling/JimRoss Ross']] Bell's palsy. Nobody was sure how a fat Rhonda Singh or a poor Jim Ross impersonation was going to [[MissingStepsPlan turn the company around]], but Russo was indignant. He said [Ted] Turner could either have a squeaky-clean show or ratings, but not both. Again, [[ChewbaccaDefense nobody was able to explain why not]]. As revenge, he said, he was going to replace Lenny And Lodi as a dork team called Standards and Practices. That would show them. It sure would.
-->--'''R. D. Reynolds''' and '''Bryan Alvarez''', ''Literature/TheDeathOfWCW''

->n 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.

->This show has everything wrong with animation of the 2000's. Let's see, [[AllAdultAnimationIsSouthPark adult cartoons that try to be vulgar, crass , and shocking]], [[TheyJustDidntCare cheap flash animation used by people who don't want to put any effort into it]], [[PanderingToTheBase trying to pander to some random demographic because you can't hope to hit a general audience]], [[TheScrappy the main characters being horribly obnoxious]], [[BadWritingIndex stories that make no fucking sense]], [[TheScrappy background characters that are fucking obnoxious]], oh, as a bonus, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the background music downs out the dialogue]]!

->This show has everything wrong with animation of the 2000's. Let's see, [[AllAdultAnimationIsSouthPark adult cartoons that try to be vulgar, crass , and shocking]], [[TheyJustDidntCare cheap flash animation used by people who don't want to put any effort into it]], [[PanderingToTheBase trying to pander to some random demographic because you can't hope to hit a general audience]], [[TheScrappy the main characters being horribly obnoxious]], [[BadWritingIndex stories that make no fucking sense]], [[TheScrappy background characters that are fucking obnoxious]], oh, as a bonus, the background music downs out the dialogue!

->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 Miley Cyrus concerns about this are simply all over ''Bangerz'', and in particular '[[StepfordSmiler We Can't Stop]]'.

->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.

->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.

->That’s weird – you’d think people who have listened to Nickelback would be glad that they don’t sound like Nickelback anymore. On Wednesday, growly Canadian beer commercial band Nickelback released the video for their latest single “She Keeps Me Up”, and it’s a damn mess (and that says a lot, since a damn mess is the most accurate way to describe anything human wallet chain Chad Kroeger does).\\\
“She Keeps Me Up” is from Nickelback’s eighth studio album ''No Fixed Address'', and I don’t know if albums have themes, but if “She Keeps Me Up” is any indication, then I’m guessing the theme of ''No Fixed Address'' is either poor man’s Music/{{Maroon 5}} or lazy {{Music/Train}}. It’s like Music/JessicaSimpson’s A Public Affair had a backseat baby with a low-budget {{Music/Rihanna}} impersonator, an electric guitar, and [[Film/WalkHard Dewey Cox’s]] version of Starman – which is probably the nicest thing I could say about “She Keeps Me Up”, to be honest. Unfortunately, the response from die-hard Nickelback fans hasn’t been so kind; Gawker has compiled some of the fan reactions on [=YouTube=], and it’s pretty much the internet comment equivalent of [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks stomping up to your room and slamming your door.]]\\\
For the most part, they’re crying that [[FollowTheLeader this is Nickelback’s way of selling out]] and that they’re not “rock” anymore. Um, hello, were they ever considered “rock”? It was my understanding that the National Registry of Music Classifications (if that’s even a thing that exists) created a new genre specifically for them called Melodic Douche Grunts or Truck Tunes.

->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.

->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.

->As an opener to the second series it seems to say ‘we’re back…and ''sillier'' than ever!’ The dialogue isn’t witty enough and the situation isn’t plausible or fun…although I think all three of these are supposed to be in evidence! The [[HummerDinger SUV]] looks more dafter than ever chasing a fish in a sports car around Welsh housing estates (I’m not sure if that sentence has [[ARareSentence ever been written before]]…or ever should be again) and tossing into the scene a man covered in blood and the suggestion that the ridiculous looking alien is smacked out on cocaine is such a [[MoodWhiplash discordant clash]] of the adult and the childish I was completely out of my comfort zone at the sort of tone Chibnall was looking for here. Then the giant, walking halibut opened its mouth and out came those [[VocalDissonance cultured, aristocratic tones]] and he kindly spells out [[{{Infodump}} the character specs of each of the regulars]]…I’m at a loss for words, I really am. This really is television for morons.

->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.
-->--'''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/six-ways-to-fix-reality-dating-shows/#ixzz33QvGUzYn "6 Ways to Improve Dating Realty Shows"]]

->{{Creator/UPN}} had developed a reputation among the industry as a network that very consciously and very calculatedly targeted the lowest common denominator. This was the network that thought it would be appropriate to broadcast ''The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer'', an infamously [[DudeNotFunny tasteless sitcom]] about a freed black slave who becomes Lincoln’s butler. The show lasted four episodes in October 1998, amid a minor media firestorm. UPN was the network that thought it would be appropriate to air a staged terrorist martyrdom as part of {{Wrestling/WWE}} on July 7th, 2005 -- the date of the London bombings...So ''Bounty'' embodies a lot of the worst excesses of ''Enterprise'' -- a cynical and crass attempt to pander towards a [[HotterAndSexier very young and very male]] demographic by a television network that has yet to figure out that teenage boys can probably find better examples of sexual titillation through a simple internet search. ''Enterprise'' is often unfairly maligned by critics and fans for trying to pander to the lowest common denominator; that is not entirely fair, but episodes like ''Bounty'' make [[IResembleThatRemark a compelling case for the prosecution.]]

->The newest media doc on the block is [[Series/TheDoctorOzShow Dr. Mehmet Oz.]] When he was first seen on [[OprahWinfrey Oprah]], he seemed engaging and answered some interesting questions in a real and professional way. The audience loved his blue scrubs and boyish clean cut open style.\\\
That was then.\\\
Let’s face it: the media spotlight seems to corrupt even the best physicians. Dr. Oz now has his own show and website and production company. That is a pretty big infrastructure to maintain and we know that the public is fickle. So what does he do? ...An upcoming show asks “[[SexSells Can you climax from intercourse?]]” Gee, is this a health question that needs an answer by an expert? ...His website deals with topics like “What his erection is telling you” and “Dangerous health secrets men keep”. Could what his erection is telling you be a dangerous health secret?\\\
Enough Dr. Oz. Please stop embarrassing our profession. See a patient with atrial fibrillation and do something important with your skills.\\\
Dr. Oz, why the goofy business shoes with scrubs?
-->--'''[[http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/02/fame-corrupted-dr-mehmet-oz.html Dr. Toni Breyer]]''', "How fame has corrupted Dr. Mehmet Oz"

->The {{Creator/Gallagher}} of our generation. Creator/DaneCook is a "comedian" that everyone seems to love despite his extreme mediocrity. His amazing lack of jokes combined with his ability to run around the stage like a five-year-old without his meds appeals to anyone without a soul or any knowledge of comedy. His [[CaptainObvious trite and obvious observations]] contain no punchlines and often appeal to people with short attention spans.\\\

->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.
-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' [[http://www.agonybooth.com/tv/Tonight_Show_Will_Fallon_Outlast_Conan.aspx on]] ''TheTonightShow''

->Vince Russo is a deer caught in the headlines as long as there's a wrestling match going. As long as he can make it [[SerialNumbersFiledOff a phony B-movie script]], or [[GimmickMatches an outhouse in the ring]], or [[WorkedShoot woman having miscarriages]]...so get the ''wrestling matches'' outta there, 'cause nobody wants to see that shit anyway. That's been proven over at Wrestling/{{WCW}}, where they don't even have wrestling matches anymore: I watched ''Thunder'' the other night, because I happened to be stuck in a hotel room, and I saw Wrestling/LanceStorm stumbling around like a drunk man. When you make ''that'' guy uncoordinated, [[CharacterDerailment you can do it to anybody.]]

'''Jay''': W-what is the ''opposite'' of art?\\

->'''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.]]

->As an opener to the second series it seems to say ‘we’re back…and ''sillier'' than ever!’ The dialogue isn’t witty enough and the situation isn’t plausible or fun…although I think all three of these are supposed to be in evidence! The [[HummerDinger SUV]] looks more dafter than ever chasing a fish in a sports car around Welsh housing estates (I’m not sure if that sentence has [[ARareSentence ever been written before]]…or ever should be again) and tossing into the scene a man covered in blood and the suggestion that the ridiculous looking alien is smacked out on cocaine is such a [[MoodWhiplash discordant clash]] of the adult and the childish I was completely out of my comfort zone at the sort of tone Chibnall was looking for here. Then the giant, walking halibut opened its mouth and out came those [VocalDissonance cultured, aristocratic tones]] and he kindly spells out [[{{Infodump}} the character specs of each of the regulars]]…I’m at a loss for words, I really am. This really is television for morons.

->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...There is a graphically unpleasant moment when the Doctor has metal sticking from his [[FacialHorror disfigured face.]] So you can add [[RatedMForMoney coarsely graphic]] to my list of complaints. I actually wrote during this scene in my notebook ''I don’t want to be watching this toss.''
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/cyberwoman-written-chris-chibnall-and.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''{{Series/Torchwood}}'', [[{{Recap/TorchwoodS1E4Cyberwoman}} "Cyberwoman"]]