Why was this hilarious show cancelled?

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One night I heard Leslie Nielsen on a talk radio show. He was saying that they relied heavily on sight gags, and you had not better leave your seat. On other comedy shows like MASH, you could get up and go to the kitchen to get a refill on your beer, as long as you could hear the TV you weren;t missing anything. But with Police Squad, you HAD to sit there to get the full effect.

However he did go on to explain that 1 reason the show was funny & a hit was that they did not try to tell you what was funny with laugh tracks etc., they used the sight gags and YOU could decide what was funny.


Craig

All opinions are well reasoned and thought out, any similarity to reality is pure coindicence.

"I read that it was cancelled because an ABC executive said that too much of the viewer's attention was required, and that when its viewers watched TV they didn't want to have to think about it.This attitude kind of explains a lot of ABC programming of the time (Love Boat, Happy Days, etc) "

It's not just ABC's attitude. It's the agenda of the powers that dictate the rules (of TV, but other things as well).

"They" don't want people to think. They don't want people's brains being active. They want to keep them passive, and TV is the perfect tool for this. Passive feeding of irrelevant mediastream keeps the brain in a limbo - it's not quite resting, but it's not quite doing anything attentive either. It's in a trance, almost in a coma of sorts. There's something about the glow of a TV screen that also helps it (perhaps also the Hz frequencies, rhythms used, etc.) - but I can't remember the details of that right now.

So of course shows like Police Squad! would be dangerous - people would think, they would concentrate, they would laugh - they would feel and be alive, their brains would work - and then they might start using those brains to investigate and wonder about what the heck is going on in the 'government' (and beyond) that's messing up their personal little lives so much and so bad.

No, it's better to keep sheeple in a non-thinking trance-limbo for most of their free time, and working for their agenda for the rest of the time when they are not actually sleeping. It's a very efficient way to control and manipulate people, and keep them in a sort of horrible daze that's hard to wake up from. And it has worked very well.

If there wasn't for internet, it would still be working just as well .. now there's a small flow of information available, and a handful of people are waking up from that slumber to actually use their brains for the first time.. and it feels much better than the passive receiving of propaganda and ads from the television - so much so, that once someone really wakes up and starts researching and using their intelligence, they can never go back to the sheeple-life again.

(Dang, I wrote a long post again, didn't I? It seems to be almost impossible for me to write just a small comment - I almost always intend to, but.. )

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