But a recent poll they're running just for fun has rubbed me the wrong
way.
I'm used to seeing articles all over the web in which either the author or
the commenters suffer from amnesia - never remembering the TV of the past from
before 1980 unless it's something so huge it can't be ignored. Like 'Star Trek'
or 'I Love Lucy'.
But it's inexcusable when they acknowledge that past but then deliberately
exclude it because it doesn't fit their own time-frame mind-set.
And so it is with this poll.
Here's the headline they had for it:
What's with the contradiction? How can you pick an all-time character in
any category and at the same time limit it to the last two decades?
The person who wrote up this CliqueClack poll even admits that they're
going to rig the outcome:
Although I shaved the poll down to favorite sitcom (non-animated) slackers
of the past two decades, some people got totally old school during the
process.
By doing so, I believe the person was aiming to steer the results to a
character he or she preferred. They may deny that it's so, but that's the
impression they give.
But at least in the roundtable discussion of "all-time" slackers, someone
did finally speak up for the one person who should have been the clear winner of
"All Time"........
Jane: Of ALL time? Then Maynard G. Krebs from
Dobie Gillis should be mentioned. At least here. Because no one besides
me and probably Michael will remember him. Since we’re old. But only old enough
to have watched Dobie Gillis in reruns. I do think Maynard may be the original
TV slacker, though.
Michael: *applauds Janey, agrees*
Chuck: Hey I’m the oldster here (I think)! I know Maynard (aka Gilligan).
Michael: *applauds Janey, agrees*
Chuck: Hey I’m the oldster here (I think)! I know Maynard (aka Gilligan).
And yet Maynard skews the list to betray the pollster's desire to be hip
(again, that's the impression given) so there was no way he could be included.
And the same goes for any candidate you might have considered from before
1991.
This is what I wrote in response:
Bogus. Fixed.
Can’t vote in such a poll……
Not that my opinion matters outside these padded walls.....
BCnU!