That gave way to shows like Hill Street Blues that claimed to be showing the ‘real’ story from the streets themselves, followed by the legal melodramas that are Law and Order, crime for the discerning taste and the latte set.

Now of course we have CSI to rival the past unrealistic shows. Sure the science is interesting but the writing unfortunatey hasn’t improved that much.

My vote for realism is The First 48. It certainly beats Cops, you know, that show that’s basically a cross between Funniest Home Videos, World’s Most Dangerous Morons on Video and the latest reality show. It used to be edgy, now it’s just sad. Why don’t we see real crimes in it any more? Perhaps the Rodney King incident scared the crap out of the Cops too much.

Columbo? Yeah he’s quite odd really, like that pervy old uncle we all have. Maybe it’s the raincoat thing. I think TV execs need to take a long hard look at television back-catalogs and finally consign some of them to the furnace. Maybe you Voodoo Boyz could do a spiel on what you think needs to be tossed.

I’d start with Hogan’s Heroes, Murder She Wrote and The Dukes of Hazzard. For craps sake everyone knows a Boss Hog is a really cool Harley.

Oh, and “Yo Mamma!” as well.

I’m not quite sure what your peculiar take on plagiarism is but there is no doubt that you are very seriously mistaken on this occasion as a very open and transparent citation of the source content was clearly made.

Knuckle.

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Homework for Midnight:

Plagiarism is the practice of claiming, or implying, original authorship, or incorporating material from someone else’s written or creative work in whole or in part, into ones own, without adequate acknowledgment.

The written or creative work which is plagiarized may be a book, article, musical score, film script, or other work. Unlike cases of forgery, in which the authenticity of the writing, document, or some other kind of object, itself is in question, plagiarism is concerned with the issue of FALSE attribution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism

A citation or bibliographic citation is a reference to a book, article, web page, or other published item with sufficient details uniquely to identify the item. Unpublished writings or speech, such as working papers or personal communications, are also sometimes cited.

Citations may be made in the body of text as parenthetical citations, in footnotes at the bottom of pages, or in endnotes at the end of the document.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation

Glad to see you dropped by Voodoo Logic, and also that you’re enjoying what you’ve encountered thus far!

Hopefully Voodoo Logic will be updated much more frequently than PlanetThoughtful has been for many months. Well, it will be if Darren Saturday receives any more emails he can plagiarise.

Much warmth,

Murray