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...hanging out with their blockmates who look favorably upon you. You are freed from a great labor today. You have finally passed the QRR as a sophomore. You will rejoice. Your roommates will stop being condescending. You can multiply fractions. Calculators are no longer enigmatic devices used to write "Boob" (8008). The lies about your "stats" exam can stop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 1/22/1999 | See Source »

...makes it clear that MacFarlane, at just 25, is a prodigiously talented writer. Family Guy, which is set in a sleepy Rhode Island city, falls squarely within the medium's venerable archetype of familial dysfunction, which is to say that Mom, Lois, is a saint; Dad, Peter, is a boob; the kids are mutants (baby Stewie, for instance, is an evil genius plotting world domination); and the voice of reason is Brian, the family's talking dog. The early plots are standard-issue situation comedy (Dad gets laid off, Mom mounts a chaotic production of The King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Fox Gets Superanimated | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...Boob Tube with Brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology Dec. 28, 1998 | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...deprecating double talk from his own perch, aplace oddly, humorously distanced from himself, asthought the life he's constantly dissecting andrevising were someone else's Vacillating betweenmild self-contempt and self-importance, Bechmostly feels that it doesn't matter much. Hefloats beatifically from party to memorial party,counting the boob jobs and Herrera skirts andwondering absently whether he looks as bad as dohis aging colleagues as they jostle and comparehonors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A REVIEW BY ADRIANE N. GIEBEL | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...essay-style ad that appeared on the back of TV Guide shows that ABC, if pressed to express its views in more than a quick catch-phrase, can't decide whether TV is brainlessly inconsequential or culturally important. The essay starts out by proclaiming that TV is not a "Boob Tube" or "Idiot Box," directing angry and defensive words at no one in particular. "For years, the pundits, moralists, and self-righteous, self-appointed preservers of our culture have told us that television is bad.... Well, television is not the evil destroyer of all that is right in this world...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: ABC Ads Come Too Close to the Truth | 8/15/1997 | See Source »

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