Is it too much to ask that we would please just like to watch one show at a time? REALLY, FOX? We’re only a few weeks into Idol, but I’m already as sick of their "Look at cast members from shows you’re not watching!" cuts as I was of George Lopez and Eva Longoria’s persistent existence on last season’s Dancing With the Stars. Two weeks ago, it was the cast of Bones. (Ha! Bones. Do you ever just say "Bones" really loudly and in a low voice, and then laugh because that’s the title of a show? I do.) Last week, Anita was like "How much longer do I have to keep smiling, Michael Rapaport?" and he was all "Now this is the life! I love being famous!" The only reason I am not completely dead inside right now is that really excited idiot to their right. That guy kind of rocks. Okay, back to dying.
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I dunno, kind of standard fare for most tv shows of the sort. Fox’s NFL Sunday always features casts from shows they want to pimp. Example: They featured the cast of that 70’s show for a few Greenbay games back in ‘96.
But seriously, The War at Home? Is that sad immitator of Grounded for Life still on tv?
The thing that makes me die inside is that a reality show is used to bolster scripted shows. Even bad ones like The War At Home.
It’s not nice to call someone who is being enthusiastic and sincere an idiot, Annie. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
I remember watching the World Series on Fox a few years back. Now, for the average Joe, World Series tickets are expensive. I couldn’t afford it. So, when I saw that Fox had the girls from “Birds of Prey” in the crowd (obviously to plug their new show), I got a little miffed. There is no guarantee that those girls were even baseball fans – much less fans of either team playing (the team that I had been following since I was old enough to know was playing). You know damn well they didn’t pay for those tickets. It just soured me on Fox and the whole cross-promotion thing. That’s what’s wrong with corporate America.
I’m glad that stupid show got cancelled.
If they showed the cast of Birds of Prey during Fox WS coverage, it wouldn’t be cross-promotion…it would be promoting their CEO’s most-hated competition. Birds of Prey aired on The WB.
Agreed with Phanton. When celebs pay for seats on their own dime, they usually try to look as unfamous as possible, usually with ballcaps and sunglasses. When the “cross promotion” losers are about, they all but wear t-shirts that say “look at me and my dumass pretending I belong here”. Totally agreed that it makes me die inside.
Fox definitely revolutionized the “star sitting in the audience” promo. It gets annoying when said star is covered from head to toe in the home teams merchandise. Trying to convey that they are a real fan and isnt there just to get free publicity.
Well said Rey. Fox tries to pass it off like Michael Rappaport and Anita Barone hang out together all the time outside of work (instead of with their real families). And of course, these people by pure chance are in the live audience of a Fox show when the cameras “surprise” them.
The War at Home is a sad imitator of Married with Children, Ep Sato.
I thought it’s in a Fox actor’s/actress’s contract that they have to appear in the Idol audience at least once.
I thought it was a sad imitator of All in the Family. Oh well, can’t we just all admit that it’s derivative garbage and won’t be missed when it’s gone?
That guy on the left definitely rocks!
The guy from War at Home – not so much
Tim, touché. Most “family” sitcoms post-1989 take some (or all) of their cues, plots and style of humor from Married…With Children. It’s still the original and best. Much like “the Winner” is a rehashed “Get a Life”, these “intentionally un-pc” sitcoms just don’t get it.
However, I call War at Home a sadsack Grounded for Life because of the similarities of the cast (red head irish dads, teen daughters, two sons, inexplicably hot wife), and setting (the “blue collar family” parts of urban New York City that don’t have any brown or black people in them). Also, as a Donal Logue fan I had to make the reference. I am bummed out his show got replaced by this one…
I must be the only one who likes War at Home. And Winner, while I do like it, doesn’t have the non-sequitir(sp?) genius that Get A Life had…
I know that guy in the audience…YEAH HE’S AN IDIOT!!!!
Regarding Fox “cross-promotion” on Idol:
Can’t wait for “a very special ‘24′” next week, where Jack Bauer infiltrates the “Idol” broadcast to find the suitcase nukes…he tortures Simon until he admits that he’s a no-talent whiner with a thing for Ryan Seacrest. For his part, Ryan gets locked in a closet, but escapes, saying “Seacrest, out!” while coming out of said closet. Chloe then rigs the voting so that CTU’s plant, Sanjaya, stays another week. Tick-tock…tick-tock…