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A good show with many flaws

posted 16 years ago by MrFuturedirector
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I think this show was pretty good, but I have a few problems with it

1)Instead of doing something productive,the principal forces students to do things against their will as he harasses them and spy's on their conversations
2)Ray likes Lily throughout the series yet the few times Lily liked Ray he didn't like her, wtf?
3)Nobody can tell that the rfr djs sound just like Ray and his pals,shouldn't Ed and Ted know? Their suppose to be smart
4)Every episode is almost identical
5)Ray is suppose to be funny, but the jokes we see him tell aren't even remotely funny

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[–] degrassiroxkcs 16 years ago

1- Mr. waller is supposed to be an opposite force in the series. Menacing, mean, etc.
2- Not completely true. Most times (if ot all) the two just were afraid to share their feelings with each other.
3- their voices are disguised since the 2nd episode. They use a voice scambler.
4- No comment, if every episode was identical, it wouldnt have been renewed.
5- ray is funny for that area. No one else was funny. He may not have been funny to the audience, but he was funny to the characters in the show because everyone else wasnt funny. Its hard to understand, I know.

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[–] J_J_James_J_J 14 years ago

your weird, these werent flaws
1) waller is the antagonist, so yes he watches the students and punishes them. My school has cameras on us, and most likely microphones too. lots of schools are snoops to know what people are saying in them

2) Its an On, Off thing, and when they even liked each other at the same time they didn't want to act on it because they are very old friends. they don't want to get into a relationship and ruin their friendship too, but they are always trying to get with each other. its a confusing thing

3) Travis was changing everyones voices while they were talking on the air.

4) the series was were all interlocking with each episodes, while having their own plot and end to plot in a episode

5) what may be not be funny to you, may be funny to the majority of the people watching the show.

[–] lilej2 11 years ago

Ok, this is ludicrous. I agree with everyone else on everything but number 3. That was one of the major flaws of this show if not the biggest flaw.

They really didn't have their voices changed when they were on the air. Even when they show people listening to RFR and you can clearly hear their normal voices. We all love this show but let's not be biased and delusional to something big like that. We were young, dumb, and didn't care to think that. Most of you obviously haven't grown up since then.

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[–] chikadee_2012 11 years ago

Granted, we never heard their "modified" voices when they would show students listening to the broadcast on the radio....and I wondered how in "Detention Redemption" how they were able to disguise their voices while doing the show over those walkie talkies. Or in "Radio Wars" when Robbie calls into Cougar radio & states that he's from RFR...how was he able to disguise his voice on his cell?
But for the most part I appreciated it, because it may have been difficult to discern between their scrambled voices, and it just came across better to hear their actual voices.
I think we all thought about it, but it wasn't a flaw that ruined the show for most of us.

[–] yeetman13 9 years ago

I am also one that finds it hard to believe that they change their voices..

i was just going back watching the show from episode #1.. and in episode #7, Lily is running for student president and shady lane is suddenly "away sick" from the show.. but then Lily calls into RFR and they say its Shady Lane calling in.. so they definitely didnt scramble her voice while she is calling in.. and they called her Shady Lane instead of it being Lily.. so really, who knows if they scramble stuff or what, but man, everyone showed know who they are..

like how Waller goes to Robbie "its really interesting how you and mr. strong all of a sudden left cougar radio then RFR started"...

other things like Shady Lane saying how they need a petition to get rid of the ban on headphones, and then boom, next day in school its Lily starting the petition... just soo easy to know who is who!

still a fun show that i watched in my late teens, and now watching it again...

[–] polyfootball08 7 years ago

Okay, I think the voice modulation is something that most people accept. Although there are multiple instances where it's ignored.

The way I see it is that these four weren't super social or popular. Like a lot of us when we were in high school, kept to our group of friends. If I'm not mistaken, the whole point of creating RFR was to have a platform for their voices to be heard. As freshmen, they were coming to a new school as nobodies. They needed a place where they could speak their minds and be themselves without fear of being judged. That's why we see often how they struggle with their double lives and their desire for recognition.

I've always believed, that it was their lack of popularity that allowed them to get away with most things. The reason why nobody thought twice that Lily started a petition after Shady Lane mentions it. We don't see them interacting with a lot of people to indicate that they're at least known throughout the school. Nor is it mentioned that the town is small enough to be accepted that everyone could know everybody. The core group of friends are basically seen as super fans of RFR, like Ed&Ted.

Now to the everyday person, they wouldn't know or care who the cats at RFR were. I believe it's only the people closest to them who has an idea that they're RFR DJs but without concrete proof can't definitively say that Robbie is Question Mark. Ray is Pronto. Lily Shady Lane and Travis is Smog. Isn't the entire show happening during their Freshmen and maybe Sophomore years. The only person that should have trouble with it in the group over the course of the show is Lily. The popular she becomes the more people should be able to either recognize her voice or piece everything together.

We may not hear their voices modulated when they show people listening but I believe that's for the TV Audience. Their identities aren't hidden to us so why hide their voices from us.

Anyway just my two cents on the most widely known plot hole in RFR.