More television trauma

I went to the gym last night and briefly watched some show they had on E!, named something like "TV's 100 most outrageous moments." Hosted by Jerry Springer, it was a retrospective of, well, the ostensibly most outrageous moments on TV in the last 30 years.

Only it wasn't really. They didn't actually play very many of the moments discussed; I don't know whether this was for reasons or licensing and royalty, or if the producers assumed that the viewers already knew all of the incidents intimately. I hadn't seen any of them, so these incidents didn't exactly resonate with me. Instead of rolling footage, they had a bunch of "personalities" -- the only one whom I'd seen before was MTV's Republican chick Kennedy -- phoning in observations and reenactments. (Note: I was just clumsily using the metaphor "phoning it in"; they were actually taped in the studio.)

As Amy has said, at least we agree with the religious wingnuts that television is destroying our culture.