back in the straddle again
Mar. 23rd, 2022 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
somedayseattleIt’s no secret that I normally zone out and do not pay attention to commercials. I find most of them tiring and insipid and I have more important things to worry about. How is my cryptocurrency doing? Is that guy who throws the fish at Pike Place working today? Do I need to go to the grocery store before the bad weather hits? All of those things are more important than listening to commercials. I was sort of spacing out last night but caught the tail end of a commercial for a new show on Discovery Plus. I didn’t catch the whole name but it was about super expensive cars. I think it was called Fuck You For Driving A Toyota Cressida. The show is based around some asshole car dealer who caters to obscenely rich people who want to purchase obscenely expensive automobiles. Yet another show that glorifies the revolting behavior of people who undeservedly have more money than any human needs (Picture the Krap-dashians. A group of women whose claim was that their father was famous. Kim clawed her way into the public consciousness by posting videos online of herself getting railed by random jocks. Not exactly the role model this country needs). We have a disgusting habit of making stupid people famous. This show glorifies the shitty attitudes of people who have to wait an extra day for their million dollar car. It makes me sick to my stomach.
I have a TV show idea I’m going to pitch to Discovery TV. It’s called "The Russell’s”. Chad and Janet Russell are raising their family on the southside of Richmond, Virginia. Watch every week as Chad serves his corporate masters with a shockingly low hourly pay rate as his overlords reap millions of dollars from the breaking of his back. See Janet bring home only 20% of her weeks pay as the other 80% goes to childcare. Watch the couple stress out every week trying to figure out how to feed their family and get their bills paid in a timely fashion. See them struggle with the thought of having to send their children go to a criminally underfunded school that gets only a fraction of the subsidies as the private schools in the rich white neighborhoods. Hilarity ensues when Janet has a car accident and the family loses their only mode oftransportation.
In today’s world that sounds like a more relatable than a show featuring some rich dickhat making sure the car dealer installs an aquarium and turntable in the dashboard of their million dollar Bugatti.
I have a TV show idea I’m going to pitch to Discovery TV. It’s called "The Russell’s”. Chad and Janet Russell are raising their family on the southside of Richmond, Virginia. Watch every week as Chad serves his corporate masters with a shockingly low hourly pay rate as his overlords reap millions of dollars from the breaking of his back. See Janet bring home only 20% of her weeks pay as the other 80% goes to childcare. Watch the couple stress out every week trying to figure out how to feed their family and get their bills paid in a timely fashion. See them struggle with the thought of having to send their children go to a criminally underfunded school that gets only a fraction of the subsidies as the private schools in the rich white neighborhoods. Hilarity ensues when Janet has a car accident and the family loses their only mode oftransportation.
In today’s world that sounds like a more relatable than a show featuring some rich dickhat making sure the car dealer installs an aquarium and turntable in the dashboard of their million dollar Bugatti.