[TV] South Park - Page 112

On October 09 2012 15:11 GhandiEAGLE wrote:


This shouldn't exist. It really shouldn't.

On October 11 2012 22:24 Xenocryst wrote:

This is so fucked up.... and the fact that they put them on TV for America's amusement, disgusting.

On October 11 2012 22:48 Digitalis wrote:


I agree that these shows are indeed disgusting, but I tried watching it myself and I found myself strangely captivated.
Watching 'trash' for some reason is very.... interesting to say the least. Shows like this and Jersey Shore exist because people will watch them, maybe we should discuss the psychology to watching trashy shows like this?

On October 11 2012 23:24 Supert0fu wrote:


It's not really that people will watch them; it's that they make a higher margin compared to a more expensive show. These shows have extremely low costs; even if they get a moderate amount of viewers, less than what they could have in a better quality program, they will use the shitty show because it's all about money. Same thing goes for tv news. Tv news viewership as declined greatly, because news has gotten shittier and shittier. It's easy to run a herr-derr health segment about how eating cheeseburgers is linked to heart failure, than it is to do any actual reporting (i.e uncovering corporate practices, discussing the middle east, you know actual news.) More people will watch the news about the in-depth, high quality news than they would the health, celebrated, faux-news; but making faux news is cheap and doesn't lose as many viewers. Thus people go on to the internet for news and entertainment as the t.v gets shittier and shittier (although the shittiness of t.v is probably a direct result of people using the internet more and more.)

On October 06 2012 07:29 Fueled wrote:

Its $40k now :O

Last time I checked it was $20k. Holy hell

On October 11 2012 23:38 StarStruck wrote:


The news hasn't changed much. It's always been a pile of crap. The reason why people tuning into the news has declined is because of new media and technology like our phones.

If there's a program you want to watch you just dvr it.

Last bit has to do with the direction of the networks and cutting down costs.



Brings me to my next point. The prices for reality stars are escalating because that's what they're doing. Turning them into the celebrities.

Anyway, there's a whole whack of sitcoms and other crap out there that lots of people don't know about because of the networks and the fact they aren't on at prime time. Thank the studies for that.