Oh my, the things that made me clack this week! Everything from lesbian sex to a gentle cow cam:
The L Word is borderline porno. I just started watching The L Word, because I’ve heard good things about it, and I need something to watch late into the night while I work (you don’t think I just sit here with my computer 24/7, do you?). Anyway, wow! Those lesbians have a LOT of sex! They’re either having sex, thinking about having sex, or looking for people to have sex with. I’ve watched a lot of HBO and Showtime shows, but I don’t think I’ve seen one that’s as borderline porno as The L Word. I’ll keep watching, though, even though it makes me feel, uh, funny inside.
That Arby’s commercial is way too provocative. While I’m on the subject of sex, it is just me, or are commercials getting way too suggestive these days? I’m thinking of the Arby’s commercial, where the guy is lying in bed while his wife shouts from the other room, “I’m only doing this because it’s your birthday!” Then she comes in bringing a tray of Arby’s food, and the little red Arby’s hat over his head sproings to life. Excuse me, people, this airs during the day when my kids are watching! This isn’t The L Word, for cripes sake!
We love the cow cam on the RFD network. We recently started getting the RFD network on cable. Didn’t ask for it, but we’re happy to have it. For you youngsters out there, RFD stands for “Rural Free Delivery,” a system of delivering mail to small towns and villages that began in the late 1800s. The RFD network covers farming and small town life. We’re talking quilts, rodeos, tractor pulls, and vintage episodes of Hee Haw. The other day, we came across a show with cows in a field. Just cows. Yeah, we love the cow cam.
I’m so sick of Britney Spears. I swear, it doesn’t matter if you’re watching TMZ or Good Morning America – there she is! During a late-night work session the other night, I caught her MTV documentary, and I must say, I feel a little more sorry for her now than I did before. Sort of. I’m not sure whether having her dad involved in her life is good or bad. I thought it would be good, but after watching the documentary … just not sure on that.
It might be time for Barbara Walters to retire. I mean, she’s almost 80, isn’t she? I watched her 10 Most Fascinating People special tonight, and I can’t even remember who was on there. Uh, Tom Cruise, Miley Cyrus, Barack Obama … see Jane doze off into a glazed-over daze here. I guess maybe I’m numb to all these people after hearing about them all year. And I don’t mean to dis old people at all. I’m in awe of folks who keep chugging it out year after year (go, Ernest Borgnine!), but it doesn’t seem like Barbara is bringing anything new to the table these days.
What about you? What made you clack this week?
Clacked by Jane Boursaw 
on Dec 05, 2008 @ 13:00 EST5EDT
If Lipstick Jungle had 10% of the lesbian scenes that L has LJ would have had a second season.
You’re right! American TV commercials are getting as risque as those on British TV.
One new one, in particular, is for Levis and it shows two teenagers looking shyly at each other and unbottoning their pants and one says to the other “I’m scared” to which the other replies “you trust me, don’t you” or something along those lines. It, of course, implies they are going to have sex, but it turns out they just jump off a pier in their underwear. How that makes you want to buy Levis, I’ll never know.
*POST AUTHOR*
Ginger – Yes! That Levis commercial always makes me cringe, especially when my kids are in the room.
Q – I’m sure you’re right!
Personally, I think Babs should have retired about twenty years ago.
You’re right! That Arby’s commercial is totally gross. It’s not the sexuality that bothers me (I love the Levi’s commercial), it’s the totally oddball equation of sex with fast food. As his sheepish wife indulges in his greasy, disgusting fantasy, the mildly overweight husband resorts to infant babble as the Arby’s hat (now totally phallic to me in a way I never would have noticed)springs up over his head with a cartoonish little Wiley Coyote sound effect. So many signifiers! All so wrong!