We need to make TV great again by implementing the following:

  • At least one clip show episode per season
  • Heavy-handed anti-drug plots and messages, preferrably featuring gangs that look like they’re from The Warriors selling crack
  • “Very Special Episodes” about topical real-world issues like acid rain or stranger danger, ending with segments with the actors talking to the audience and making some kind of call to action
  • Episodes that are built entirely around stock footage from recycled old films that the studio or production company owns
  • Related to the last point, episodes that are built entirely around existing sets from the studio’s other productions, such as generic Western towns
  • VapeNoir [he/him]
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    2 years ago
    • crossover episodes that imply that every show on the network exists in the same universe
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    • Mindfury [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      isn't the entirety of Law and Order apparently some child's nightmare or coma dream or something because of this?

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        2 years ago

        There was a medical drama called St. elsewhere(a slang term for a cheaper but more excepting hospital than wherever a patient gets rejected from) or something like that, and the last episode showed it was an autistic non verbal kid imagining everything while staring into a snow globe with a hospital. There was no reason for this in series. The show was popular and had a decent run, so they had several crossovers. And some of the crossovers had crossovers, so it spreads like a disease through the TV world.

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        • Mindfury [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          That's it, i was struggling to remember the name.

          I think because of one crossover from that to Homicide caused a whole web of links, mostly due to Richard Belzer's character Det. John Munch being canonically the same character in Homicide, X Files and Law & Order

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