works you are watching fox. we are watching fox. they re telling you don t trust us either. eat my shorts. all right. i ll eat eat your shorts? the simpsons is like shakespeare in the sense that we quote the simpsons all the time, very often without even knowing it. excellent! i wish i could create something that culturally indelible. twin peaks showed up out of nowhere at the beginning of the decade. the pilot episode of that was one of the strangest and most exciting things i ve ever seen. what s her name? laura palmer. it was incredible. i mean, just how slowly in the beginning the news spread around this little town that this young
we re about to flip it for you to one of this years most talked about tv shows. it is, as they say, on another network. fox. you can do what you want to do in living color ladies and gentlemen, keenan ivory wayans. in living color was the first show that was created by, written by, directed by, starring an african american. all of those things in one. this is more celebration of culture and an exchange. you know, us sort of opening the doors to allowing america to come on inside. yo, yo, yo, all you bad bargain hunters out there, welcome to the homeboys shopping network. a lot of what they did on in living color was trying to take the stereotypes or the misperceptions about what black men are and turn them upside down. not only will you get all the cable stations out there, but you ll be able to talk directly to the astronauts.
there s no charge. this one s on us. then you had a trial. he s badgering, your honor. sit down and shut up. overruled. you will address the court from now on, mr. mccoy. so every time you watched you got what you came for. tell me, doctor. all those women you ran through your examination rooms, do you remember their faces or did you not even bother to look up? you had in law & order the kinds of characters that people take to heart. i ll let you take me to lunch. one-time offer. and if you re an actor and you say, well, gee, maybe it s not really such a bad medium after all. miranda, the supreme court s mimic decision. the whole thing s illegally obtained. they were both represented by counsel. you just get hooked in. it s life and death and stuff. we know what you did. counsel! you hear me, ryan? counsel! do you hear me? look at me! law & order was like crack. you d have to sit and watch me for 50 minutes just like, not
the works about it. you make money off sex. you make money off death. you make money off crime. the press calls the case the beverly hills mansion murders. and the story reads like one of the unsold scripts that circulate here in hollywood. we enter into the world of the television news soap opera. a story of basic instincts, anger and fear. i was scared, and i just wanted him to leave me alone. and so, broadcast journalism loses its purity and becomes much more shoddy, sensationalistic. then it all comes together with o.j. simpson. i m larry carrol in los angeles. the los angeles county doern has just filed murder charges against orenthal james simpson i have to interrupt this call. i understand we re going to go to a live picture in los angeles. police believe that o.j. simpson is in that car? the o.j. simpson story starts with the chase and then goes on to his arrest and then
moving, barely breathing. there s times i have almost passed out watching law & order. dun dun you ve got to get over here, i need your help! e.r. had originally been written as a movie, forced steven spielberg to direct. and so we had this two-hour piece which was a reflection of michael s experiences as a medical student. use an angio kath with a 16 needle. you need a larger one in case they re bleeding and you need to transfuse them. do you know how to start an i.v.? actually, no. e.r. is a hospital show, but it s really an action movie. three walking wounded. red urgent, yellow critical and black a gurney. got it. a gurney comes in, people are shouting instructions, climbing on the body and doing cpr and suddenly they re racing off to the surgical suite. get that gurney out of there! someone wanders in. they re tossing around medical jargon. they don t stop to explain what it is. prep for a peritoneal lavage!