John “On The Spot”: Response to Cape May Herald “Smutty Network TV Getting Worse”

Not everyone who lives on the Jersey Shore are the same. For instance, the show Jersey Shore features a bunch of retarded kids who were actually neither born nor raised anywhere near the Shore, but instead act as BENNY motherfuckers whenever they come to visit. You would think that’s where stupidity stops, but no, because this guy named Jack Fichter who works for the Cape May Herald wrote an article on how network TV is not family-friendly enough. After the jump, I give him a taste of the REAL shore.

I’ve been to Cape May County, it’s actually really nice there in the summer. Towns like Wildwood and Avalon are popular destinations in Cape May County for people like me who need to migrate further south to get away from all the New Yorkers who try to come down here to Monmouth County/Ocean County and be seen in the same hot spots as the AIDS-ridden Jersey Shore cast, and as such is often undesirable to people like me who just want to eat good (cooked) seafood and enjoy the views over the Atlantic Ocean.

Evidently though, there are people in Cape May County who do not share the same interests as me and that is quite evident in this new article written by Jack Fichter, in which he thinks because of shows like Family Guy, Cleveland Show, and American Dad network TV is no longer family-friendly. Welp, as is custom here at Bubbleblabber, I put Mr. Fichter’s article on the spot!

One year ago I wrote a column about my concerns regarding how smutty network television had become. My concern was with the big four networks: CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox. As I said before, if I had a young child in the house, I don’t think I would have a TV at all or if I did, I’d cut the cable or satellite dish and just play DVDs.

Great, so let your kid be the laughing stock at school because if you have a boy, you have the one dude who isn’t watching sports like football and baseball. As a result, this kid wouldn’t have anything to talk about with his friends at school. Even though I grew up a Cowboys fan living in NJ, I always had friends despite the fact that they were NY Giants fans because they needed someone to argue sports with(this argument was easier when the Cowboys actually were a great playoff team in the early 90s, its a bit tougher now that the Giants have won TWO Super Bowls in 5 years…ugh).

The content of prime time network television, even at 8 p.m., seems to have gotten worse in the past year. I’m referring to graphic descriptions of body parts and everyone jumping in bed with someone.
I don’t have elementary school-aged children in my home but I wonder would I explain the language or plot lines to an innocent child?

Yea, 8pm EST is considered primetime for every television channel in broadcast Monday thru Friday. And I don’t know what you’re watching but that is usually the time all those shitty reality TV shows come on!

I called Melissa Henson, director of communications and public education for the Parent’s Television Council, for an update.
Henson said unless there is some strong countercultural force, things tend to get progressively worse over time as viewers get used to a certain level of shocking content and the ante may be upped to provoke the same sort of reaction from the audience.

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