Kristy Reviews Family Ties

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  • Kristy
    DIAMOND STATUS
    • Aug 2004
    • 16338

    Kristy Reviews Family Ties

    When you’re too poor and/or too smart for cable you tend to be stuck with a lot in the way of shit TV. No question cable TV is shit but at least there is this sense of feel good smugness that you’re not paying for it. I watch little TV. I know, I know, a lot of people say that but I truly don’t One reason is such unbelievable shows with unbelievable characters who manage to get themselves into unbelievable situations. Acting, writing, and then that dialogue from that writing and acting is so awful that I no longer question why so many in the world hate America when it prime cultural media is television that literally beats its audience which a stupid stick of self-indulgence.


    80's test tube babies

    So, the other night after cumming home I turned on the corporate-commercial fuck me in the ass box to find something on Antennae TV that literally shocked what is left of my consciousness.
    According to IMDB, [i]’Family Ties[‘i] ran from late 1982 to the spring of 1989. Seven seasons of this shit somehow was broadcast without so much a reason as to why. Now I’ve only seen a few episodes but goddamn, is this one creepy show. Shown during the height of the Reagan-era ’Family Ties’ centers around a two bourgeois neo-liberal parents and their conservative (gay) son who refuses to come out of the closet. No doubt the son plays every angle of neo-conservative ideals that Ann Coulter stills masturbates to this show to this day. There are some other 80’s culture tokens throw in like the abundantly horny teenage daughter and the little P U D G E Y kid who recites lines so fucking stupid that an additional pity laughtrack had to be added. There is also “Skippy” a character so disturbing that you know the writers of ’Silence Of The Lambs’ took their “lotion scene” from. Skippy wrote the book on the nice boy next door complete with the hidden serial killer crawl space.


    yeah, this is just way, way fucked up

    Did I say this took place at the height of the Reagan era? That is what so off is about this show. No doubt it favors young, neo-conservatism and tends to view at the left as being “anti-government.” Wasn’t Reagan himself not so keen on government? There are some hints at political paranoia that come straight from the Bible Of McCarthyism that one can’t help but wonder this is where many of 80’s conservative clichés were born. The mom played by Meredith Baxter-Birney was the 80’s MILF prototype so fucking hot she needed three names. Her peroxided hair, 80’s tight “mom jeans” and endless bad “mom advice” there is no doubt I have the producers of this show cast her for looks rather than content. The father, played by some douche actor I’m too lazy to Google seems to be going prematurely grey and yet never has any inclination to lay the wood to his hot wife. Neither one of them look like parents of such radical liberalism who produced such uber-white teenage miscreants.


    Queen MILF

    That brings us to the son played by frozen hillbilly Michael J. Fox who later went on to become a huge but short-lived film star and Rush Limbaugh obsession. Alex P. Keaton couldn’t have been a better name. A ironically homophobic, anti-woman, anti-socialist, pro-capitalist future Wall Street conservative stereotype fuck Nazi Alex P, does his best to piss off his hypocritical liberal parents by constantly establishing conservative colloquiums like a hatred for the poor, equality for women and how such momentous America historical events such as the Civil Rights Movement were “overrated.” What is even stranger is that by far, he is the most genuine and likable character of the show.


    80's gaydar

    Which is not to say the same of the plots. Most center on American white life in American white suburbia. In fact this show is so white David Duke must have been the shows biggest fan. The sexually frustrated daughter wants to join sororities, fuck dumbass bad boys, and live in her own suburban dream of fasnionista post-plasticville mega-mall Walmarts. She seems so desperate to suck cock like a Dyson on a late night infomercial but usually ends up being harassed by her stalker boyfriend who you know is just waiting to go on Court TV for the murder of his parents.
    Alex P. can’t wait to go to an Ivy League college business school in which he can safely explore his latent homosexuality and wet dream himself into oblivion on how he is going to fuck over the middle class. The parent themselves seem a little young to be living in and moreover, reciting liberal 1960’s JFK rhetoric while mocking their own liberal history of Johnson and Humphrey. One show was about gun control if you can believe it where it is okay for liberals to one guns as long as you know, those liberals are white. This whole show is like The Modern Waltons for 80’s gluttony and pomp. The only show whiter in the 80’s than this tripe had to have been ’The Cosby Show.’

    Ah, nothing like seeing white people on 80's rerun TV is there?



    I need to watch more episodes to understand the “feel” of this 80’s horseshit. I hope I never do. This was way before my time.
  • Von Halen
    ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

    • Dec 2003
    • 7500

    #2
    I've never seen it.

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    • DONNIEP
      DIAMOND STATUS
      • Mar 2004
      • 13373

      #3
      It must have taken you forever to type all that up. Too many words.

      Magnum PI and Miami Vice - that's what you should be watching. Not some tv show that has zero hot chicks or guns or bad ass cars in it. Plus you can watch Crockett shoot Ted Nugent slap full of 10mm holes until he's deader than hell.

      You're welcome.
      American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.

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      • DONNIEP
        DIAMOND STATUS
        • Mar 2004
        • 13373

        #4
        Originally posted by Von Halen
        I've never seen it.
        You ain't missing anything. And do you even turn on your TVs? I know you got em cause I've seen them. I swear, I don't think there's one TV show or movie you've actually watched, aside from Knight Rider
        American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.

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        • Von Halen
          ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

          • Dec 2003
          • 7500

          #5
          I watch sports, and car shows.

          I've seen Breaking Bad, The Soprano's and Narcos!

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          • DONNIEP
            DIAMOND STATUS
            • Mar 2004
            • 13373

            #6
            Here ya go, Kristy. Skip over to the three minute mark and I guarantee it'll put a smile on your face!

            American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.

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            • TFM_Dale
              ROTH ARMY SUPREME
              • Jan 2009
              • 7943

              #7
              Wow, you were REALLY bored huh Kristy?

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              • TFM_Dale
                ROTH ARMY SUPREME
                • Jan 2009
                • 7943

                #8
                Originally posted by Von Halen
                I watch sports, and car shows.

                I've seen Breaking Bad, The Soprano's and Narcos!
                If you seen the Sopranos you are good, it was the pinnacle of TV.

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                • Kristy
                  DIAMOND STATUS
                  • Aug 2004
                  • 16338

                  #9
                  You know, you can all get the fuck out of my thread now.

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                  • DONNIEP
                    DIAMOND STATUS
                    • Mar 2004
                    • 13373

                    #10
                    Originally posted by TFM_Dale
                    If you seen the Sopranos you are good, it was the pinnacle of TV.
                    No, no, no. Magnum PI is the greatest, then Archer and then Miami Vice. Matter of fact, the only thing that can compare to Magnum is the episode where Archer re-enacted a scene from Magnum:

                    American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.

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                    • Nitro Express
                      DIAMOND STATUS
                      • Aug 2004
                      • 32798

                      #11
                      Family Ties? The Cosby Show? Thank's Kristy. Thank's for digging up this shit I completely had forgotten about. Good review. That show sucked. Don and me were brother's from different mothers. We were watching Miami Vice, Magnum PI and jacking our junk off to Joyce DeWitt watching Three's Company reruns. I usually taped Miami Vice thank God for the VCR. It came on Friday Night. I was too busy trying to get girls drunk on wine coolers Friday night that Miami Vice could be watched Saturday after I had nursed my hangover a bit.
                      No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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                      • Nitro Express
                        DIAMOND STATUS
                        • Aug 2004
                        • 32798

                        #12
                        Originally posted by DONNIEP
                        No, no, no. Magnum PI is the greatest, then Archer and then Miami Vice. Matter of fact, the only thing that can compare to Magnum is the episode where Archer re-enacted a scene from Magnum:

                        The cold war was fun. Let's have another one.
                        No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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                        • Nitro Express
                          DIAMOND STATUS
                          • Aug 2004
                          • 32798

                          #13
                          Originally posted by DONNIEP
                          Here ya go, Kristy. Skip over to the three minute mark and I guarantee it'll put a smile on your face!

                          Oiled up 80's babes. Sign me up!
                          No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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                          • private parts
                            Sniper
                            • Jan 2007
                            • 926

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Von Halen
                            I watch sports, and car shows.

                            I've seen Breaking Bad, The Soprano's and Narcos!
                            Add Game of Thrones and you've pretty much seen all you'll ever need to see.
                            sigpic" You ever notice when I scream I sound like Mr. Bill on acid" DLR

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                            • Anonymous
                              Banned
                              • May 2004
                              • 12748

                              #15
                              Originally posted by private parts
                              Add Game of Thrones and you've pretty much seen all you'll ever need to see.
                              Yeah, because if you don't watch it while it's airing it's not worth watching any more.

                              I'm sorry, but that's quite an ignorant statement.

                              There's HUNDREDS OF YEARS, I mean, decades of good & bad TV that is very well worth watching. Instead of turning on the TV to watch whatever is fed to you, my advice is to find what you like & then search for it. Never has so many good stuff been so readily available. Without ads, even.

                              Cheers!

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