Jack Bauer should appear on every reality show & terminate anyone associated with it. It’s cheap exploitative voyeurism of agony, misery & greed. Keeps actors & real writers out of work too.
juke, you do realize that all of those “reality shows” still employ writers doncha? They sit around and come up with ideas for the “contestants” on how to make the shows more “lively and entertaining.”
This story arc is based on something that is actually happening. Satellite Galaxy 15 lost station keeping control and is drifting towards the AMC 11 bird. One proposed work around is to shift AMC 11away from the rouge satellite (but still within “the box” so that cable companies don’t have to realign their dishes).
Hmm… we could cross up signals and get “House/CSI”… oh, wait, FOX already did that; it’s called “Bones….”
(and therein lies the problem with this strip’s premise–just about every mash-up of even remotely successful TV show scenarios has already been done. If the satellites crossed up their signals, would we even notice?)
Thankfully I don’t watch TV (I stare at this little screen too long as it is), although that might change if I get Windows Media Center set up on my other laptop.
All the same, I’ve seen some online shows and think this mishap may be responsible for the fusion of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Godzilla that appeared on the former recently.
margueritem almost 14 years ago
Love it!
Steve Bartholomew almost 14 years ago
Makes as much sense as anything else on TV.
rayannina almost 14 years ago
I’d watch THAT!
ejcapulet almost 14 years ago
Hee hee hee, now that’s worth watching!
lewisbower almost 14 years ago
Shh! Dr Phil/House is starting.
zero almost 14 years ago
Jack Bauer should appear on every reality show & terminate anyone associated with it. It’s cheap exploitative voyeurism of agony, misery & greed. Keeps actors & real writers out of work too.
MisngNOLA almost 14 years ago
juke, you do realize that all of those “reality shows” still employ writers doncha? They sit around and come up with ideas for the “contestants” on how to make the shows more “lively and entertaining.”
plward98 almost 14 years ago
Tim can carry this gag on for days. Gotta go, “The Office Survivor” is coming on.
Varnes almost 14 years ago
Hey look, Stephan Hawking is on Dancing With the Stars..
Ermine Notyours almost 14 years ago
Dancing With the Stars? Do they boso-NOVA?
GreenBikeGuy almost 14 years ago
“Can your beer do THIS?!”
Trebor39 almost 14 years ago
Just watched “Sponge Bob Rambo” It involved blood, guts, and a pineapple under the sea.
zerotsm almost 14 years ago
This story arc is based on something that is actually happening. Satellite Galaxy 15 lost station keeping control and is drifting towards the AMC 11 bird. One proposed work around is to shift AMC 11away from the rouge satellite (but still within “the box” so that cable companies don’t have to realign their dishes).
puddleglum1066 almost 14 years ago
Hmm… we could cross up signals and get “House/CSI”… oh, wait, FOX already did that; it’s called “Bones….”
(and therein lies the problem with this strip’s premise–just about every mash-up of even remotely successful TV show scenarios has already been done. If the satellites crossed up their signals, would we even notice?)
Sherlock Watson almost 14 years ago
Even older TV shows are being affected; for six years we’ve been watching a mix of Twin Peaks and Gilligan’s Island. The result was called Lost.
pibfan868 almost 14 years ago
Sex in the City meets reruns of Gilligan’s Island resulting in Gilligan in the City??
Rakkav almost 14 years ago
Thankfully I don’t watch TV (I stare at this little screen too long as it is), although that might change if I get Windows Media Center set up on my other laptop.
All the same, I’ve seen some online shows and think this mishap may be responsible for the fusion of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Godzilla that appeared on the former recently.
Dapperdan61 Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Jack could have gotten Lost & tortured Sayid
Coyoty Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Judge Judy Tenuta.
It can happen!
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault almost 5 years ago
Mix and mismatch.