Don't ask me why, but I was in a mood and felt like ranting about culture...

Why is it that color makes things suck? I was watching The Andy Griffith Show on the TV, as I am often led to do in the afternoons, and it struck me how sucky the show was after it went color. To be sure, Barney had left by this point and moved to the big city. And Gomer had joined the USMC and yokelled his way into our hearts with his idiotic "aw, shucks-ing" during the 'Nam. And George “Goober” Lindsey was just a big ole pile of suck, trying to make a Gomer-esque go of it without dressing in the fatigues. And Opie had the teen awkwardness that made you want to kick his teeth in and just scream, "Get on with it and start making mindnumbingly horrible films like How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" And Andy was so grayish pale and washed out that he looked he was a heroin addict on the make looking for his next fix. And Aunt Bea - she must have read Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, because suddenly she was out there flying airplanes and drinking Everclear. But never mind all that – the cheap and fading Technicolor of the later episodes demonstrates how a gimmick like color can’t replace good writing and creativity.

It’s like when they tried to replace Bo and Luke Duke with them other cousins – what do the creative ego cases in this country take us for, idiots? Even today, reality TV makes the idea of the Vidiot Box that much more of a certainty. There are no more unique ideas, apparently. They must be thinking, "WE MUST MAKE THE “UNDERDOG” CARTOON INTO A MOVIE THIS INSTANT SO THAT WE CAN JUSTIFY HAVING JIM BELUSHI ON TELEVISION FOR SO MANY YEARS!" Who knows, maybe the cast of High School Musical will come together and perform Samuel Beckett's Endgame - although, I'd actually kind of like to see that!