TESTING! Why is it that not having a Strong Slate of Original Sitcoms is TESTING! My Patience!

I feel that a Lot of Sitcom Cultures would need a Rude and Swift and Necessary Kick in the Rear, which has sadly been missing. I feel what is TESTING! my patience in a Big Way is not having a Strong Slate of Original Series.

Network TV is in its worst shape of its life. The bar is way, way, way too low for Netflix and Others to just Swim Around in the way it has been. With the 25th Anniversary of the Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show being today, it was a genesis point within Classic Simpsons.

My Favorite Scene "The Because I'm Homer Simpson" from Homer's Enemy grew out of that season and the full on "TESTING!" Paradigm Shift which was a Rude and Swift and Uncomfortable Sonic Wave, because Springfield was so radioactive it would have been its own Sound Barrier.

In the little over a Quarter Century of the Internet, that scene is the Most Talked About not just in Simpsons History, but Television History. But, I would feel miserable even now that the Loss of Phil Hartman watered down some serious bangers of Sitcom or Television Classics.

Lionel Hutz would have been more heroic like in his last appearance in "The Joy of Sect" in the "Computer that Wore Menace Shoes" and I still say that's my favorite Simpsons Episode now, but, I swear that the Rewrites left a lot on the table.

I thought .D.L. Hughley was going to be the Next Toolman, Too.

I don't want to get into Storytime with you, but, here I am. I thought .D.L. Hughley was going to be the Next Toolman, too, and it was largely in no small hand due to ABC wanting to keep the Sitcom Pipeline from drying up. But .D.L. Hughley had other, more profane ideas.

He was livid at ABC Officials for wanting to be another Toolman and as a result, his Sitcom Future was not the same. I told you I didn't want to be in the Storytelling mood this Rocky Top of a Father's Day, for good reason.

I am writing this because of .D.L. Hughley fainting and having COVID-19. Eventually, we all knew the Sitcom Pipeline dried out later, too much where we'd needed one or two hits become Appointment Television.

I don't want to think of one incident or incidence if we had to write the story in advance, but, it would make me upset to think the helm of these sitcoms would have been done differently.

Friends and How it ended vs. Smackdown

WWE Smackdown!'s Ratings have always been a cry for help and Raw is War has always mostly been Simpsons Ratings or Higher. I would feel like since I'd stand on my High Horse in principle and not just ape Pop Culture, but, how those battles prolonged Friends.

The first year Smackdown was in business, they where pulling in better ratings than Friends and that would have been the first end of the series, knowing the All Star List of Series that called it a day and then some at the time. I am not just saying it because it wouldn't just be another near "We Lost Rick Mears!" Freakout until it was not so and it took the longest time to calm a raw cultural nerve.

Then in 2001, Smackdown! won the WWE its lone Season Championship, in spite of having to back channel results and shows, and that took a Season Championship away from Friends. I would have been happier it ending there for reasons.

But, no, the massive contract and the insistence to win the Ratings where the dynamite of the Rachel's Baby Season (Season 8). I would have felt better without having to tow diversity (Aisha Tyler) or deprive a Final Full Season.

Trust me, these are not new arguments and Rachel Green is more protected than Bugs Bunny. I doubt a Friends and Looney Tunes mash-up would work, but a 30 Year Old Harry Potter Cast and a 50 Year Old Gang of 6 would. I don't know if rehashing 2 Franchises just to put on a White Whale to get people out of the house would be worth it, but, you don't start with a White Whale.

What I would say is this is not the togetherness I'd wanted. I would still have insisted on a Final Season at least being 25 Episodes, which would have been too much to ask for, and today, we'd only be together because Natural Disasters, Babies, and No Other Choice.