On Nov. 9, CW's "Gossip Girl" featured a threesome, which included the not-so-Disney-anymore Hilary Duff. The show depicted threesomes as a normal, expected event in a college student's life. But that wasn't crass enough for Entertainment Weekly's Tim Stack, who said that the threesome was too "chaste."
"It was basically no more risqué than a game of spin the bottle," Stack lamented.
After this week's episode, though, which featured graphic flashbacks of the threesome, Stack has declared that "Gossip Girl" is "back up the quality ladder."
"The flashbacks to the threesome were waaaay more hot than anything in last week's much-hyped episode," he said. "I wonder if the Parents Television Council tuned in last night."
Stack went on to say that "Gossip Girl not only entertains, it teaches."
"We also learned a much repeated rule of threesomes," he said. "The third person is always supposed to be a stranger!"
In that same episode, "Gossip Girl" also taught teenagers how to deal drugs and have an affair with a married man.
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We now live in a much better world
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 10:45 ET by nolotrippenRemember when you just couldn't get soft porn during the Family Hour? Sigh. So much better is life without God and the Bible. Congratulations on all the destroyed families.
Bitter about it? Yup.
“It is almost impossible to distinguish a politician from a gangster.” (Will Durant, 1931)
I predicted tea parties would return. Now I'm predicting dueling will return.
If your family is going to
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 10:52 ET by balboaIf your family is going to be destroyed by a show on the CW, it's not very strong.
There are quite a few
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:08 ET by sherylsimsThere are quite a few teenagers (in families) out there who aren't all that strong. It is just one more pull toward a Godless society. My teenagers have to grow up alongside those teenagers who are getting their morals from a show on the CW and that does bother me a little.
How do you know they're
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:11 ET by balboaHow do you know they're getting their morals from the CW?
I know that in the
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:21 ET by sherylsimsI know that in the absence of any other values being taught, they will copy what they see on TV and in movies as what is acceptable social behavior. Television has changed quite a bit in the last generation. And so have teenagers. The formerly forbidden stuff is not just ok, it is now celebrated as "normal" or "necessary" for kids to try. But I don't think the CW is the only place they get their values... probably also The Kardashians and South Park.
EW
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:45 ET by AgentAmericanEW was written off my list when the compared Bill O'Reilly and Keith Obsoletermann in a graphic depicting them as Rock Sockem robots, and declared Keith the winner. The entertainment industry is so left wing, you can't watch them anymore, hardly.
Awake the sleeping giant...and that giant is WE THE PEOPLE!
Cr@p on the CW!
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:06 ET by DaMamaIf anyone thinks that TV does not influence teens, then you have the ostrich syndrome - your head is buried in the sand.
Tim Stack obviously does not have children. To the comment that this sorry excuse for a TV show not only entertains, but it teaches, is the height of ignorance and stupidity.
If he does have children, I'd like to see Mr. Stack sit down with his teenage daughter and watch the show and explain to her just what a 3-some teaches her.
I'm so glad that I monitored everything my kids watched when they were younger. Now that they are adults, they look at commercials for shows like this and turn of the TV. They will read a book, play a musical instrument, crochet, put on a money, play a game.....they choose to do something that will enrich themselves rather than exposing themselves to cr@p disguised as "entertainment".
I think Stack was being
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:08 ET by balboaI think Stack was being sarcastic when he claimed the episode "teaches."
I'm pretty sure he
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:16 ET by sherylsimsI'm pretty sure he wasn't.
You're wrong.
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 14:04 ET by balboaYou're wrong.
Don't you just love it when
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 18:02 ET by msh1973Don't you just love it when liberals give one another the benefit of the doubt, but they never extend that to anyone they disagree with....huh.
It's hard to argue with a
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 13:27 ET by TenebrousIt's hard to argue with a man who thinks that threesomes are indicative of quality. Seriously? And then to peddle this on television? Uhm, k. But you can always count on the usual brain-dead folks to come out and support anything that takes potshots at the truth that they're hiding from inside.
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