CHAPTER 741 My my my. We are getting snooty, aren't we (replied Charlie)?
2 But that's okay because TV will also make enormous breakthroughs in children's entertainment,
3 aSo that kids will grow up in front of the set watching marvelous shows like 'I Love Giant Mice,' which will be all about a bclub where children wear mouse ears and sing songs about how much fun it is to watch TV every day,
4 cAnd 'I Love Huck Hound,' which will be all about a cartoon dog who gets into trouble a lot with his friend Yogi Bore, a cartoon bear who eats everybody's picnic basket at a state park, and keeps making the forest ranger fall out of a tree,
5 dAnd 'I Love Tooty Bird,' which will be all about a cartoon cat's unquenchable thirst for the blood of an obnoxious little cartoon canary, who keeps hitting the cat on the head with a emallet ten times bigger than he is,
6 fAnd 'I Love Superman,' which will be all about a hero from another planet who wears a cape and is completely ginvulnerable, so that the outlaw's bullets always bounce off his chest,
7 hAnd 'I Love Motor Mouse,' which will be all about a cartoon rodent from another planet who wears a cape and is completely invulnerable, so that the bad cat's bullets always bounce off his chest, and he always saves the day for American mice everywhere,
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8 And 'I Love Batman,' which will be all about a cartoon character played by a iman with a pot-belly, who wears a cape and bat's ears and rides around in a car with a bat's nose, and lives in a Bat cave with a boy named jRobin,
9 And 'I Love…
10 "Stop it," said Ed.
11 "Surely, there has to be something worthwhile on TV someday…"
CHAPTER 751 I take it (said Charlie) that you're too grown up to enjoy children's entertainment.
2 Maybe you'd prefer the real adult entertainment that will be on in the afternoons,
3 Like soap operas,
4 Which will fearlessly explore the kinds of trouble people can get into in real life,
5 kSuch as divorce and illicit affairs and murder and illegitimate children and blackmail and abortion and all that delicious wickedness nobody has the nerve for,
6 Except on shows like 'I Love the Days of My Children,'
7 And 'I Love All My Doctors,'
8 And 'I Love the Way the World Turns Me On,'
9 And 'I Love…
10 "Enough!" declared Ed.
11 "It's really true, isn't it? There isn't going to be anything good on for years and years."
CHAPTER 761 Well (said Charlie), I haven't even mentioned one of the best parts of all,
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