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A la Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, etc.:
Narrator: [voice-over; on TV] You're on a scenic route through a state recreation known as the human mind. You ask a passer-by for directions, only to find he has no face or something. Suddenly, up ahead, a door in the road. You swerve, narrowly avoiding The Scary Door.
[The Scary Door graphic appears on the TV and shatters. In a lab, a mad scientist pours green liquid from bottle to test tube.]
Scientist: [on TV] I have combined the DNA of the world's most evil animals to make the most evil creature of them all.
[He pours the liquid into a machine, it crackles and a door in it opens. A man emerges from the smoke.]
Man: [on TV] It turns out it's Man.
[Dramatic, incidental music.]
(Futurama)
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Star Trek's Most Moral Moment is probably the cringe-inducing (and bandwagon-mounting, if I remember correctly) "Just say no" sequence with the young character Wesley Crusher, in an episode about illicit drug use.
I've forgotten which, but it was season 1, because Denise Crosby was in it - before she left to pursue a film career.
I wonder what happened to her...
A lot of shows are created for the entire purpose of influencing the morals of its viewers. I think the total absense of such an approach is exactly what makes shows like Seinfeld so popular. Preechy programs aren't very entertaining to me, because they force me to argue mentally with their writers.
Quite.
Agreed.
I never found Seinfeld funny. It never seemed to find its 'feet' in the TV schedules here, if I remember right.
Really, now? How interesting.
They used to show Seinfeld in the early hours of the morning, if I remember!
You know, I can never tell who will like it and who won't. Completely unpredictable.
Me neither. And not surprisingly, most of the reasons I've heard of why people don't like it have to do with the personalities of the characters. They're too whiney, too obnoxious, or too Jewish, according to critics.
Denise Crosby is in some sci fi chanel movies and independant films.
Tackiness makes the world go round. So do cliches, it seems.
Don't forget the "group laugh!"
Yes, lacka, that's what I remembered; but whenever I saw any of it, it never even raised a smile with me. I couldn't get any of it. Rather like I don't get why Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler are 'funny'.
Early Frasier is more my idea of comedy.
Thanks for that info, modemlooper. Glad to see she's been successful.
Frasier's pure genius. Seinfeld is more cultural than intellectual.
Adam Sandler fills me with rage.
I do like Seinfeld a lot. As Nims said, it's interesting who likes it and who doesn't.Oh dear god in heaven, don't compare Adam Sandler to Seinfeld.
I like Adam Sandler's song "Medium Pace." Nobody expects it at the Karaoke contest.