Comment Re:Been 20+ years now... (Score 1) 70
then skimp out on decent directing and acting, not to mention scripts
Its the advertisers, how many sitcoms were ruined by putting a kid and an animal where the didn't belong? Some brain dead exec wanted more familys to watch so more kids is what you got, I remember Newhart being told he had to have a kid added, and he said "Great, who's gonna play Bob?" Advertisers just want the minimum shit, so you get shit. Gotta sell cornflakes, no wait cars, maybe cyanide (smokes). I quit when the dead and dying puppy commercials started, maybe 2010.
Oh. and remember when 70's Battlestar added the cute kid and that shitstain robot dog? Wonder what deadbrain thought that was a good idea, it wasn't the writers.