Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 23, 2013
August 22, 2013
August 24, 2013
Transcript:
Janis: Now, this isn't pay-per-view? Arlo: No. Janis: You're sure? Arlo: Yes. Janis: As long as it's not pay-per-view! Arlo: You have to admit, we saw a lot of good movies that month!
Varnes over 10 years ago
Um, why do men get married again? Come on, besides that……
localhost over 10 years ago
Ha! My wife was home sick for 4 days once. That was a rough month on the old cable bill. Now there’s Netflix, so it won’t ever happen again.
aksebro over 10 years ago
I guess Pay-Per-View still exists (i.e., the movie/concert/fight is airing at a certain time, and you have to pay to activate access to that channel to watch it). But I’d imagine that most folks use On Demand to watch movies instead, since you can pay for and start your movie whenever you want.
rockngolfer over 10 years ago
The last time I saw a pay per view movie I didn’t know 10,000 BC was based on a video game.
GR6 over 10 years ago
…even if the cable bill did exceed the mortgage payment.
twj0729 over 10 years ago
VuDu, Amazon, Netflix, Pandora, On-Demand! Life is good!
Sidneypop over 10 years ago
Have you noticed that the quality and quantity of movies has diminished. It is an intentional effort to push you to pay-per-view. Anyone remember “Pay TV” from the 60"s?
jbmlaw01 over 10 years ago
1980 is the dividing line – maybe two dozen worthwhile movies since then. There were more great comedies than that in the 1930s and in the 1970s. I blame “Annie Hall” for starting the trend of uninteresting shows.
fritzoid Premium Member over 10 years ago
“I blame ‘Annie Hall’ for starting the trend of uninteresting shows.”
Right year, wrong movie. Blame “Star Wars.”
Don’t get me wrong, I love that movie as much as anybody, but it was the watershed for the Blockbuster Mentality, the idea that a $100,000,000 gross (adjust for inflation) is the only definition of “success.”
Besides, if you find “Annie Hall” uninteresting, you were probably either still too young for it in 1977, or already too old.
fixer1967 over 10 years ago
A friend of mine little girl ordered a Disney pay-per-view movie over 100 times in a spend of less than 15 minutes. She just kept pushing buttons on the remote. They still tried to bill him for all 100 shows. The had the cable box take out and now there is no TV at all in the house. He says the next time she sees a TV show is when she is old enough to buy her own TV.