Have you ever seen the George Lopez show? Not funny.

I have nothing against TV portrayals of dopey, overweight comedians paired with hot wives, as it's a dream I am fortunate enough to live personally.

I'm pretty sure this blog doesn't have any thin blondes writing for it, which I guess you'd claim as some kind of virtue, but I'm also not aware of it having any/many non-whites.

Do you ever get tired of your own knee-jerk, boilerplate identity politics crap?

I don't know what relationship this will have to do with the show but the caveman show but the comercials always seemed to be about race and racism. Although I wasn't always sure if they were trying to use humor to point out the racism in society or trying to make fun of percieved oversensitivity (like with their phrase "Cavemen are people too")to semi-racist statements .

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That's funny - I just wrote about this last night in relation to the demise of The King of Queens.

I'd echo the poster above - the spin on this would be cleaner if the George Lopez show were any good; but it was really one of those old school sitcoms. And all of them are just dying from overexposure: middle-of- every-road crap that just has no reason for being except to run a gentle third in every demo. Coach was this show. King of Quuens was this show. That Damon Wayans show was this show. Girlfriends, arguably, was also that show.

And that in the end is the problem - the casual acceptance of some atrocious mediocrity (and also, as my friend Red pointed out to me, Ezra's point about fat shlubs and babes that just reinforces all sorts of traditionalist fantasies) and letting it pass for progress. Lopez is right that their should be more reflection on the Hispanic American experience. I'd pay money to see that show. You're just going to have a hard time convincing that the best examplar of egtting there was The George Lopez Show.

the spin on this would be cleaner if the George Lopez show were any good

Or if it hadn't run for, what, five or six years? That's quite a bit longer than most shows get, good or bad.

the spin on this would be cleaner if the George Lopez show were any good

Or if it hadn't run for, what, five or six years? That's quite a bit longer than most shows get, good or bad.
Posted by: Aaron S. Veenstra

Or if it hadn't needed Sandra Bullock's pull to get on the air in the first place.

This argument might make sense but for that fact that the George Lopez show WAS PRECISELY a show about a dopey, overweight comedian married to a model-hot wife.

Mari,

This has come up in previous discussions here, and you are correct: There are no non-white contributors to TAPPED. I'm not sure, though, if this means that their concern with representation of minorities in the media is "identity politics crap," or if it just means they should try harder to live up to their own standards.

Isn't GFR a thin brunette writer for TAPPED? She could dye her hair I guess...

...that said while George Lopez had it's moments it wasn't horrendously funny and had a solid run. By the GEICO cavemen? That joke is great for the short bits, but any longer and I can't imagine it becoming anything but annoying. Not even if they cast the Gecko as the friend-next-door.

I'll grant you it's better than Grounded For Life or King of Queens (which is what I assume you mean) no matter HOW attractive I thought Leah Remini, Megyn Price and Lynsey Bartilson were at one point.

This thread is not complete without throwing a couple of rotten tomatoes at According to Jim, surely the most execrable sitcom starring the most execrable excuse for an actor in television history. Jim Belushi makes Kevin James look like Charlie Chaplin in comparison.

Lemuel,

If TAPPED contributors are concerned about the underrepresentation of minorities in the media then yes, they should certainly try to live up to their own standards.

I refer to such a concern as "identity politics crap," though, because it is illegitimate: There's no reason to think most minorities share their concern (which is to say there's reason to think they do _not_ share it*), which reduces the TAPPED folks' concern to presumptuous paternalism.

* Anecdotally -- and yes, I'm aware of the at most minor interest anecdotes should command -- every Latino I've ever worked for in the restaurant business has sure as hell eaten up the sight of the thin blonde girlfriends/wives of the schlubs on those sit-coms. Much of the world endorses the contemporary American definition of female beauty, however arbitrary it is and however ephemeral it may prove to be; that definition (along with the deeper fact that "female beauty" is such an enormously important thing in homo sapien culture) is, I suspect, more what really bothers Steiger et al.

Whoops, while it is true I've worked _for_ a Latino or two in the restaurant business, I've mostly worked _with_ them. Don't want to give the odd impression that I'm referring to some battalion of Latino restaurateurs I've for some reason been employed by over the years.

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