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The reason this show was cancelled:

posted 14 years ago by scoey
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This show was cancelled because it was a threat to the established order when it was aired. The writers we wonderfully creative people who snuck by a concept that was inoffensive enough to be missed by the thought police.

In 1981, if people started to question why we still used fossil fuels, money, and animals as food, they would be questioning the material basis of their reality and would soon question why we allow a small group of moral degenerates to rule us and control the resources of the planet as if they were ordained by God to do so. (Hint: they are not.)

If the show were remade today, the privileged class would be safe because the quest for alternative energy is now recognized as being a money-maker for the established order and the concept of money is mid-way through the change to an all-electronic form, which will make the illusion of money's value even easier for our puppet masters to control.

Bennu would not look so much like an ancient astronaut hero now as he would a class-conscious environmental extremist, a terrorist. He would be the bad guy.

Love is like breathing. You have to take some in and let it out to live.

[–] grendelkhan 12 years ago

It was a high concept, but low excitement show. It was a failure in the ratings and was yanked. No grand conspiracies, just simple economics: no one is watching, so why continue paying production costs? End of story.

"Fortunately, Ah keep mah feathers numbered for just such an emergency!"

[–] scoey 12 years ago

For such a witty and well-read person, Grendelkhan, you sure seem to have missed my humor.

Though I certainly am serious about all the issues, I have no illusions that the show was cancelled for the same reason that "Nat X" was only 15 minutes long.

I love your tag line, BTW. I use it often when politicians get decimated by a scandal, particularly southern politicians, and have to appear on camera for damage control.

I also like the line "Captain Freedom to wardrobe!" when the power elite are confronted by an unlikely challenge.

Also, unless your quotes are self-made, some attribution is nice, to give credit to the originator.

For examples, Foghorn Legghorn, Chris Rock from SNL, and The Running Man

Love is like breathing. You have to take some in and let it out to live.

[–] cinply 11 years ago

I was just a kid when it was on, just starting high school but to this day I still remember the show. So it couldnt have been that bad! I remember it ended very incomplete and left me heartbroken when it wasnt on the next week. Is there anyway of getting a copy of it, or at least has someone thought to put it on YouTube? I see bits and pieces of it there but no complete episodes. Any thoughts or ideas of where to look??

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[–] grendelkhan 10 years ago

Well since, Foghorn Leghorn was swiped from Senator Claghorn, on radio, I am just, I say I'm just carrying on a fine tradition; misappropriation that is.

"Fortunately, Ah keep mah feathers numbered for just such an emergency!"

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