Freaks and Geeks

[sistermagpie]

 > Susan:
> > I asked (again) that it be turned off. The manager 
responded "well, 
> > it's on television." And an obviously impaired teenager 
said "yeah, 
> > it's on tv."
> 
> Kemper now:
> It's unfortunate that 'it's on television' was the response.  S/He
> should have been excited to talk to you about such an awesome show 
and
> attempted to persuade you in renting it sometime.  I know you are 
very
> passionate in with GLBT issues.  GLAAD Media Awards nominated the
> episode, 'The Little Things', for Outstanding TV Individual Episode
> (In a Series Without a Regular Gay Character)
> 

Magpie:
The store probably has a policy about what they can show. At least 
that would be my guess. Network TV has limited profanity (words like 
stupid of course would not be considered such), so the store is 
probably allowed by policy to show that in ways they wouldn't be 
allowed to run an R-rated movie or The Sopranos. 

My roommate worked in a laid-back store and their policy was they 
couldn't play anything R-rated and were iffy on PG-13--and they 
usually chose things based on soundtrack because they couldn't really 
see the screens themselves--F&G probably has a pretty good soundtrack 
(did it only recently come out on DVD? That could be another reason 
to show that one). 

She also said they had to start being careful because they were in a 
shopping center and people would just park their kids in the store in 
front of their TVs as a babysitter!

So yeah, I'm sure the store has a policy of nothing R-rated at least, 
and quite possibly nothing PG-13 rated, but they're not going to be 
cutting out something like Freaks and Geeks because it includes 
teenagers fighting within network TV guidelines. Which was maybe what 
the inarticulate "Yeah, it's on television!" meant, that since it 
wasn't even a cable show or a movie, it was okay by what they 
considered reasonable standards.

I really should check out this show. Everybody always tells me it's 
great--plus I think it covers years when I was in school so it's kind 
of crazy for me to not even check it out. I wouldn't have 4-year-olds 
watching it, of course--they'd probably be bored with it anyway.

-m