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From: mem@sii.UUCP (Mark Mallett)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Cartoon credits and Hill Street and...
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Date: Fri, 9-Dec-83 02:55:19 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  9 02:55:19 1983
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I was watching a TV show with my son today (the advantage of having
a child is that you can pretend to keep him company while he is
watching cartoons)- this was something called "Inspector Gadget".
I was trying to read the credits as they flashed by at about a
screenfull every second or so, watching the letters get smaller
and smaller each screen; it got to a point where the letters were
far smaller than the resolution of my television.  While I have seen
rushing credits before, I have never seen them so small that they
are impossible to project much less read.  I think both practices
are ridiculous and I wish they'd stop it.

Also, I'd like to congratulate some net.tv submitter whose name I
didn't catch for the correct speculation about Larue putting blanks
in Hunter's gun (Hill Street); I'm glad to have quoted this speculation
widely, makes me look smart.  No credits were given, of course.

Oh, and I suppose while I'm criticizing tv and talking about
Hill Street--- given the amount of garbage on tv, why do competing
networks put their good shows opposite each other?  I would think
that they'd pick almost any other slot and pit good show against
garbage.  It would all balance out and more people would get to
see more shows.  (Although actually I don't know why I am complaining;
I currently only tune in one network tv show a week (Cheers, which
slides into Hill Street which isn't quite bad enough to turn off).)

Mark E. Mallett
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