I was just about to submit this. I think it's just as good as the Tony Soprano one. *promote

I nostalgically *beg for the days when watching a Sopranos episode was the entertainment highlight of my week.

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LOL - Careful there, Trance. Opening a highly volatile can of worms with Swampgirl regarding the ending to the Sopranos.

Oh good lord, I couldn't disagree with you more!!! The ending to the Sopranos was the biggest TV disappointment I've ever experienced.

We were not fans from the start. Back early 2006 we started watching them on disc. We were caught up in time to watch the last season with everyone.

To have enjoyed the entire series in such a short amount of time only to have to endure that last season was madding. After the last episode, I canceled HBO.

There was no justice/karma whatever you want to call it. Tony Soprano should have died or his son should have been gunned down in front of him.

The ONLY ending Sopranos should have had is massive death. Everyone near and dear should have died. Tony should have paid for his life, period.

The writers didn't have the gonads to finish what they started.

this would have worked better as a play or better, an opera. this isn't filmic by any stretch. too dramatic.

And to swampgirl, the beautiful ending of the sopranos is that you could read into it what you will. Some believe that to get "hit" by the mafia is to never see it coming. You wouldn't even hear the gun -- just black, you're dead. And that's how it ended. truly and highly artistic.

Something like this should have happened at the end of The Sopranos.

Hmmm... this here guy is a primo gangster actor, Casino, The Sopranos... I wonder if I should add him to my goomba sift list...

I like Penn and Teller. I think they are both funny and smart. I like B*llSh*t! for the same reasons. But in this case (and in other episodes), They are just plain wrong. The airwaves are a limited public resource. And they are going to get even more limited in 2009 when we lose channels 52 through 69 to private for profit companies. At that point, we will have 49 broadcast channels available in any market for television.

If the FCC were to disappear tomorrow, the following things would happen

#1. More broadcasters would be owned be fewer larger corporations.
#2. local content would disappear
#3. PEG (Public access, Educational and local Government) channels would disappear from cable.
#4. Programs aimed at Educating or Instructing kids would disappear from all channels.
#5. Standards, like NTSC and ATSC would start to balkanize. Look at cable boxes and satellite boxes to see this. You have to run Comcast's cable box, their software, their DVR, their digital package to watch TV.
#6. Cheap products produced somewhere else would start appearing that make no guarantees of safety or that they won't interfere with your TV reception. Because there would be no body to license these devices.
#7. TV ratings would disappear. I got kids and I like that idea that TV content is rated. I wouldn't let my kids watch the Sopranos but I'm happy that it's rated and that I know what to expect. That way, I can avoid it when watching TV with my kids and other people can watch it. That's all good.

There's a place for government. I like the idea that government inspectors are making sure the meat I buy is safe. I like the idea that cops are there to protect and serve me. I like the idea that we have a military to protect us from other countries that want to do us harm.

As for the idea that FCC is currently limited to over the air broadcast, that just isn't accurate. Satellite and cable companies have FCC regulations that they are currently obligated to follow. For instance, "must carry" rules, "basic service tier" requirements, etc.

*parody
That was great, and I've never even watched the Sopranos

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most those girls on that HBO cathouse are pretty sad looking, except for Isabella Soprano

Star Trek was the first time most of us heard a theremin -- though we didn't know it!

[edit] Turns out I was wrong -- it was an Ondes Martenot the first season, and a soprano named Loulie Jean Norman in the 2nd & 3rd seasons.

[re-edit] Hmm, the Martenot thing may only be a rumor.... very mysterious!