TV and Movie Classifications and Their Warnings

I don't know about you, but I find some of the TV program classifications and their warnings ridiculous. Some of the warnings are so obvious that I have to wonder just how intellingent the people behind them think other people are. Then, there's some of the ratings themselves!

There's actually classifications under G!

Yeah, there's P and C classifications.

I don't understand the classifications under G ... well, actually, I assume that the P classification is to let parents know that there's no chance of hidden jokes for adults and that the program offers Play School level of entertainment. But really, a program is either child friendly or it isn't. And classifying something below G is just informing parents that the program is going to be horrible for them and that they shouldn't buy it.

But enough of that. There is a very good reason why there's going to be more and more classifications that will just get even more ridiculous with each new one; political correctness and the irrational desire to wrap children up in a suffocating amount of cotton wool so that they can't handle anything as adults.

That's probably the reason why warnings at the beginning of TV programs and movies are getting even more ridiculous and specific with each passing day. That, and people's desire to pander to the stupid and/or incrediably sensitive people who really shouldn't be pandered to.

I mean, if I'm watching some fantasy show that's rated MA15+, I don't need to be warned of the "supernatural themes." And if I've already been warned about the sex scenes, the violence, the drug use and the strong coarse language, I'm pretty sure I don't need to be warned about the "mature themes" as well. The "mature themes" has already been covered by the MA15+ classification as well as the rest of the warnings. If anyone is shocked by the "mature themes" after all of that, then that person is an idiot and just looking for something to complain about and should just be ignored!

The way this is going, people will soon be so dumbed down that they won't be able to think for themselves. They'll need other people to tell them if the movie or TV program is to their liking based on every single "mature theme" that has been pointed out for them. Heaven forbid that the nudity isn't mentioned even though the sex scenes have been mentioned!

I mean, who needs to be warned about nudity when they've already been warned about the sex scenes?

Morons, that's who.

And who needs to be warned about "mature themes" after being warned about just about every single mature theme has already been listed?

Actually, who needs to be warned about "mature themes" when watching something classified M or higher?

That M stands for "mature."

There really isn't any need for "mature themes" to be listed. If people aren't smart enough to realise that the M classification stands for "mature," then they're too stupid to have an opinion on this. What they've got to say really doesn't count if they're just going to land us with warnings like "mature themes."

But there's plenty more stupid content warnings besides "mature themes." For a list of them just follow this link, http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ContentWarnings

On the plus side, these content warnings can't get anymore specific and stupid person friendly, right?

Somehow, I think this is only just the beginning of the Pandering to the Stupid era.

Insurance Ads

I remember when insurance ads were just the domain of late night TV. Now, unless it's prime time or a children's channel, you can't have an ad break without some kind of insurance ad coming up at least once.

But what's worse is that when these ads were just late night ads, you could forgive the extremely bad acting in them, because, well, it was late night TV. There's nothing good on, so why should the ads be an better?

So you'd think that with the rise in the number of insurance ads, the people behind them would want to make sure that the acting is much better. But no. Apparently they don't care about this. They're just happy to let the acting in them get worse and worse until you're left wondering who would actually believe that the insurance is any good, since there's no effort in actually trying to sell it.

Although I am curious as to why insurance ads have suddenly surged onto our TVs all of a sudden.

It's almost as though the insurance companies are trying to cash in on people's fear of the world ending next year. Doesn't surprise me. After all, big companies are completely heartless and only focus on the bottom dollar.

What does surprise me is that there's probably is a huge number of people who are thinking about the end of the world next year and have decided that they should probably cover themselves and their families just in case something happens to them. Then, at least their families don't have to worry financially after the end of the world.

That's really the only reason I can think of why there are suddenly so many insurance ads on TV.

The Cat is Really an Alien Spy

Sometimes I really have to wonder if Shego (pictured left) really is a cat. She

does some very uncat like things most of the time, like playing in water. Not to mention her intense curiosity about everything.

And I mean everything.

I know that cat's are curious critters (curiosity killed the cat, after all). But Shego's curiosity seems to go way beyond normal cat curiosity.

Then there's her obssession with pushing things off the edge of things just to see what will happen to them when they land. Seriously, she just watches them fall, and seems to get a thrill when they break upon landing. What kind of cat does that?

But this leads to the question if Shego's not a cat, then what is she?

There's a whole host of possibilities as to what she could be. But I think she's an alien spy, sent to Earth to learn our ways.

I can hear you muttering that I'm jumping to conclusions. But I've watched the cat closely and it all seems to fit;

I've never seen a cat get so much enjoyment watching things break.

And then there's the TV watching factor.

Watching TV isn't all that weird for cats, I know. I've had cats that have watched TV in the past, and my current cat sometimes watches TV. But the difference between those cats and Shego is that they would watch just about anything if there was enough movement on screen. Shego is different. She only pays attention to the TV when I'm watching the news or documentaries (and sometimes even when I'm using Wii Fit to work out). She looks as though she's trying to learn as much about us and the planet as she can.

That is very suspicious. And definitely screams alien spy.

I mean, she was a real cat when we got her as a kitten. But while she was still growing, she was taken and replaced with an alien in her body, which explains her small stature.

But now she's nothing more than an alien spy in a cats body. It's the perfect disguise for alien spies!