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Series · NBC · 1989

Seinfeld

Seinfeld

30Leave it.

The selfishness is the joke and the confession. Famous, and not a model. Adults.

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The review

The finale years of this show were a national appointment, and the appointment was to watch four people fail every test of neighborliness and be applauded for the wording. The wording is often brilliant. A small social truth — the double dip, the close talker, the reserved car — is seen clearly.

Clarity about pettiness is not the same as a life. Adults can love a line and still refuse to live in the apartment. Do not let a young person take it as a personality. The show's own last judgment, that they were terrible, is the one it earned.

Journal

Keep Seinfeld in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 30. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 3Industry
  2. 2Household
  3. 1Piety
  4. 2Courage
  5. 3Republic
  6. 4Temperance
  7. 7Truth
  8. 2Stewardship

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Happy Days

41 instead of 30

Happy Days is still a comedy show, and it scores 41 instead of 30. What you gain is household: The Cunninghams are a kind house, with Richie decent and the parents still home.

The eight

  1. 3
    Industry

    They have jobs they do not respect. The show respects the bit.

  2. 2
    Household

    No marriage, no child, no one they are willing to be answerable to.

  3. 1
    Piety

    Nothing is revered. Reverence is the setup.

  4. 2
    Courage

    The brave act would be a kindness, and they decline it.

  5. 3
    Republic

    A city of diners and lobbies. The public is a person to be avoided.

  6. 4
    Temperance

    It is precise about small social lies. The precision is its craft.

  7. 7
    Truth

    It tells the truth that these people are petty. It does not ask you to reform them.

  8. 2
    Stewardship

    What it hands on is a style of refusal.

Live historically

Enjoy a line if you must. Do not bring the refusal of the neighbor home.

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Series · CBS · 1964

Gilligan's Island

Gilligan's Island

30Leave it.

A hit, and a loop. Nobody changes, and the island is not a life.

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The review

A boat tour goes wrong and seven people are stuck. Each week someone invents a way off the island and the first mate ruins it. The country watched in large numbers for three seasons. The watchability is the theme song and the certainty that nothing will stick. Nobody learns the ruinous habit. Nobody is in real danger. The millionaire keeps his money as a personality, and the women keep their costumes as personalities.

I will not call a harmless loop a good evening. Harmless is not the same as worth the hour. A small child will not be wounded. A small child will also not be given anyone to become. If it is on in the background, let it be background. Do not defend it as a classic of the decade because the song is still in your head. The song is an advertisement for staying the same.

Journal

Keep Gilligan's Island in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 30. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 2Industry
  2. 4Household
  3. 2Piety
  4. 3Courage
  5. 3Republic
  6. 4Temperance
  7. 3Truth
  8. 3Stewardship

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Happy Days

41 instead of 30

Happy Days is still a comedy show, and it scores 41 instead of 30. What you gain is household: The Cunninghams are a kind house, with Richie decent and the parents still home.

The eight

  1. 2
    Industry

    The professor builds things. The things never do the one job, which is leaving.

  2. 4
    Household

    Seven strangers become a kind of house, and the show is too thin to mean it.

  3. 2
    Piety

    No reverence. A skipper's temper is the highest authority on the sand.

  4. 3
    Courage

    The risks are slapstick. Nobody is brave because nothing is quite real.

  5. 3
    Republic

    They owe each other rescue. The show owes them a joke instead, every week.

  6. 4
    Temperance

    The appetite is comfort and a coconut. It neither grows nor is judged.

  7. 3
    Truth

    The lie is that they are trying to escape. The show needs them not to.

  8. 3
    Stewardship

    A child inherits a loop: try, fail, laugh, never leave, never learn.

Live historically

If the theme song is the defense, the defense is not good enough. Turn it off after one.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

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For this house

Keep going

The next title is the one nearest what this house keeps, then the measure where it is thin. Nothing here is a crowd. It does not leave this device.

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