Thursday, October 11, 2007

Who the fuck okayed this?

Let me start this post off with two statements:
1. I loved Seinfeld. It was one of the most brilliant shows in television history, and the writers are geniuses.
2. I didn't watch the NLCS because it was boooooooooooooooooooring. Except for the part where the Diamondback fans politely disagreed with a call for eight minutes. Video here. Does posting about something that is not even tangentially related to sports make me a bad sports blogger? No it doesn't. Who's the one with the blog here, asshole? Me and not you.

That being said, how many people does it take to ruin a glorious evening of My Name Is Earl, 30 Rock and the Office?
Two. One moronic television executive and one comedian that is apparently not making enough money off of royalties.

Every thirty or forty seconds during that two-hour span of television, I got an awesome sneak peak at the new Jerry Seinfeld film, Bee Movie sponsored by Ford! How efficient is America?We've developed the technology to show two commercials AT THE SAME TIME! Germans don't hold a candle to us. USA! USA! USA!
Okay so let's start out here. There are three horribly egregious and incredibly unkosher things about this.
1. Bees? Was Antz not enough of a hard-hitting movie? Who gives a shit about bees? Additionally, from the 98 previews I saw for it while watching TV tonight, it appears that this new movie is promoting a pro-bee propaganda and completely misrepresenting the dark truth about bees. I feel bad for the animators that had to do research for this film.
2. Jerry Seinfeld, what the fuck happened to you? How did you go from this to this? Where have you gone Jerry Seinfeld? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you. What's that you say Larry David? Joltin' Little Jerry has left and gone away.
3. It wasn't enough have a bunch of long, annoying commercials for this crappy movie during the Office, NBC had to have the Bee Movie commercials advertised by ANOTHER COMPANY? Fuck this. I hate capitalism.

My roommate Ian pointed out that there is one minute possibility of this movie being moderately funny: If "B Movie" was a two hour inside joke about how the careers of Jerry Seinfeld and Renee Zelwigger (probably not spelled right, but I don't care. come talk to me when you become a half-way decent actress) have gone into the shitter and are forced to do B films.

If Seinfeld wanted back onto TV and into the hearts and minds of the American viewers, then maybe Jack Donaghy had the right idea in mind...

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