(10-07-2025, 02:32 AM)Alpacx wrote: How was "Stupid TV, Be More Funny?"It's fine but it has that problem a lot of these kind of books do (including some others I posted in that same post) where it started with too big of scope and never cut down then rushed so the subtitle way overstates the thesis and the whole thing feels like a paper written at the last minute. Half the book is about the journey from the idea to the start of the second season. Then the rest of the book rushes through like eight seasons with only a handful of pages for them. Plus an entire chapter about the Monorail episode because Conan bothered to talk to the guy. Then the conclusion is basically "and The Simpsons is still around today and lots of people know it."
So you get a short book that's fairly interesting and has some new stuff, and right when you're fully sold the rest of the book is basically what you could read on Wikipedia. The Always Sunny book up there is this but worse especially because the author couldn't get any of the main people to talk to them and seemed to get like five minutes with Artemis as their big interviewee from the book. Just go watch all the podcasts and hear from the guys themselves with more detail!
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