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It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown (1977)
So So
***Some spoilers Below***
A well-produced short, but has some issues.
In the football game, Lucy repeatedly pulls the football away. This is the long-running gag, but the second time, she asks if she would pull the football away in a game this important. He thinks and says no, but she had just done so! Of course, it happens again; they should have called this "You're A Moron, Charlie Brown," just for this point. My main issue here is that this happens in plain sight of everyone, but they all blame Charlie Brown, booing him or making caustic comments at his expense, but no one seems upset with (Satan's daughter) Lucy. If this were real, they would turn en-mass on Lucy in a kind of mob rule kind of way here. To take this to unbelievable extremes, it happens for a total of five times, getting similar responses each time.
I have been re-watching many of these childhood specials recently, and I've been struck at how outright nasty the kids are in them. I mean, I know kids often are cruel to each other, but if any child grew up with this kind of torture, he or she would likely socially degrade to the point of becoming a columbine-style school shooter. Yet in this one, the kids have very little reason to be angry with CB. Again, these kids would be shouting for Lucy's blood. Peanuts were apparently not as heartwarming as remembered from youth.
Additionally, the little red haired girl was supposed to be the girl CB never gets. Apparently, even though he can't remember it (and we don't get to see it,) he supposedly sweeps her off her feet and is the life of the party at the ball. This kind of blows the whole point of this unapproachable girl in the story-line.
Noah (2014)
Excrement
I borrowed this title from the library. I'm glad I didn't have the money to spend going to see this excrement. It's like Satan's take on a biblical story.
This takes a story found in Genesis and pretends to present it, but it completely ignores the details found there and inserts items better found in a Lord of the Rings Movie. As long as we do this I guess the producers figured "hey, let's take Noah and turn him into a genocidal maniac willing to kill his own family to put an end to humanity."
I know more and more of society consider people with Judeo Christian views are idiots, but don't do a movie like this if you think it's not really true, it insults both of us.
Mr. Box Office (2012)
Dreadful
I was up late last night and caught the last 15 minutes of an episode of this show. I'm still stupefied about how incalculably BAD it was. I'm actually ashamed to be a member of the same species as these people.
If I were in an audience (for another, much better show) that had my laugh recorded and they used that laugh track here, I would sue them for slander and character assassination. Considering how often they used canned laughs here, many people now have that right.
This could never be an hour show,each scene was worse than the last and the show would collapse into a black hole of stupidity that would swallow it up if it went that long. Honestly, the writing on this show makes "Small Wonder" (remember that dreck?) seem like Masterpiece Theater. Gads, this is terrible. Avoid at all costs!