Everybody Loves Victory
The Australians among you may have noticed something wonderful on their television screens in recent weeks: Channel Ten have reduced screenings of Everybody Loves Raymond from eight to just three episodes a week!
The biggest travesty was ELR's domination of the precious 7 pm timeslot. And now it's gone! No more baritone brother, no more meddling mother.
This is a triumph of the people, I tells ya. I didn't actually get around to sending the petition to Channel Ten, but I am sure they heard our message, somehow. Right?
Among the 146 protesters, there were some memorable comments:
Everybody Loves Raymond is a shrill pseudo-comedy." - Adam"Boo Raymond, however ensure said programming is not replaced with equally unfunny Australian attempt at sitcom." - Jeb
"Channel 10 is my favorite station - but not for long." - Kristian
"Eyes glazed over" - Helen
"I break out in hives." - Saigonsam
"I unplug my tv every night at 7, just to make sure I don't see any." - Si
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congrats... that show offends me because the guy never works and is never on the road. because i share the same profession as the fictional charachter, i know the show is complete bullshit.
Does my heart good to see such hate for Raymond. It's nice, bringing all the kiddies together like that.
... I mean, woo! second comment! har har
Raymond is like a deep-voiced Mr. Bill. Well, deeper.
But now we have those never-ending repeats of Seinfeld.
Hey Shauners, do you reckon you could organise it so Buffy is on at 8pm? You seem to have ample influence.
So what's on at 7.00pm now? Repeats of another tired show? Why don't they just get rid of the 7.oopm time slot altogether - there is never anything good on at that time...
wow! people power! we did it.
btw kiddies, if i have quoted your quote, please let me know and i shall link it up.
Monkey!! I'm so excited you got the second comment! WOOHOO!!!!
...sure it's not first, like I had a while back, BUT STILL!!! you GO girl!
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For a minute there, I thought Australia might have put somehow found a way to stop more vapid tunes from Jeff Lynne and then I realized that I had my acronyms mixed up.
there is a god!
Bah. Seinfeld sucks such bigger donkey balls than Raymond. I'm disappointed. I turned Dawson's on last night and caught the last second of Jerry's whining and nearly cried, and had to get pizza to comfort me. It was awful.
I second the notion that the 7pm timeslot be removed altogether. Or at least that we all just watch Home and Away instead. Or maybe sit down to a family dinner.
Anything but crap, crap, crap repeats of crap, crap, crap American sit-coms.
I love Seinfeld. Though the ELR thing I totally understand.
Ah, Slack, I know, you're insanely jealous.
Jeez, you guys over there don't know great sitcoms if they hit you in the special place. "Seinfeld" is arguably the best sitcom of all-time, and "Everybody Loves Raymond" has been the best sitcom on-air since "Seinfeld" left. ELR is destined for classic status, as we all know Seinfeld is already there.