None of the Seven Dirty Words are worse than what was airing on TruTV after the Syracuse/Indiana St. game on Friday night. I had padded the end of the recording on my TiVo in case the game went long, but forgot to switch to something else after the final buzzer sounded. So, there I am in the wine cellar deciding between a Rothschild '81 Bordeaux and another box of Franzia Rose 2011 when I hear the most godawful noises coming out of my 6000 Watt home theater system. After sprinting back upstairs to break up the death match between a banshee and a howler monkey, it turned out to just be a promo for a show on Tru called "Most Shocking" featuring a screaming host and people debasing themselves just to get on basic cable shows. This promo featured a woman who is trying to gain enough weight to tip the scales at 1000 lbs. That's half a ton. Before I could gouge out my own eyes and puncture my eardrums with the corkscrew I held in my left hand, they returned to the regularly scheduled program joined in progress. That one was called "World's Dumbest Brawlers" and was showing women fighting in bars Jersey Shore style. Thank you TruTV. We are all dumber because of your existence.
Guess who owns TruTV? That's right, it's Turner Broadcasting, which is a subsidiary of Time Warner. I wonder how much of my cable bill goes to support that dreck?
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