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| Nicole Sullivan talks about sea monkeys on Loveline. |
I actually had sea monkeys in college once, and I came home and I found my cat licking out of the sea monkey thing, and I called a vet...and he's like "There's no sea monkeys lady - it's a ripoff." - Nicole Sullivan on Loveline
The show might be loosely described as "Doctor Ruth for the MTV generation." Viewers call in with questions about sex and relationships; Adam Carolla's contribution consists of fatuous (but sometimes also humorous) remarks; Doctor Drew, of course, will give something approximating a clinical answer (after giving Carolla a chance to make fun of the caller a bit); the celebrities' contributions range from the prosaic to the sublime. Here I'd have to rank the cast of Mad TV's performance as about average; nobody really proved (including Carolla, for that matter) that they were ready to deliver improv lines, but nobody embarrassed themselves either, and in fact there were some pretty funny moments - like when Alex Borstein suggested that a female caller who had a hairy chin and chest should just "embrace it and move to a colder climate."
Like the animated series
The Simpsons, Loveline is uplifting. The Simpsons
is a show I consider to be uplifting because it makes the viewer feel
better about himself/herself: if you're not an idiot who spends the day
scarfing down doughnuts, you're better than Homer Simpson. Similarly,
Loveline makes you feel good about yourself because even though
the callers are generally very active sexually, most of them are morons.
To prove my point, here were some of the questions answered during the show
which featured Sullivan, Borstein and McDonald:
Of course, it's possible that all of these callers are lying, in which
case their main problem would not be their stupidity, but the fact that
they have nothing better to do with their time than to make prank calls.
[Not that this is necessarily a bad thing - it worked for the Jerky Boys,
after all - although their pranks are/were far more entertaining.]
Normally, I would not be interested in a show such as Loveline. Since Nicole Sullivan appeared on it, however, I was interested, and I watched. I therefore thank Ms. Sullivan for having appeared on Loveline, since watching the show has given me new insights. It provides empirical evidence of what I suspected all along: that a certain percentage of the U.S. population is comprised of morons.