Lowest Common Denominator/Quotes
"Never underestimate your audience. They're generally sensitive, intelligent people who respond positively to quality entertainment." —Cameron Mitchell, Stargate SG-1, episode 200
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"It's not our job to appeal to the lowest common denominator, Doug - it's our job to raise it." —President Jed Bartlet, The West Wing
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"Listen. The yucks who look at television don't know the difference between Ernest Hemingway and Huntz Hall. What do they care about important writers? What they want is shows where one guy kicks another guy in the belly while a dame leans over 'em with her cakes falling out of her negligee. Or domestic comedies where the whole family gets together to screw gruff old Dad. Or quiz shows where people get put in isolation booths and develop coronary occlusion before your very eyes ... Important writers! Remember when NBC tried to beef up their Sunday nights with important writers? Plays by Robert Sherwood--Thornton Wilder--Ferenc Molnar. Important enough for you? ... So what happened? I'll tell you what: forty million people nearly broke off their dials turning back to Ed Sullivan to watch a dog fart 'The Star-Spangled Banner!'" —Oscar Hoffa, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!
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No mountain of theoretical lucubrations can compensate for the absence of an outstanding fictional work as a lofty model. The criticism of experts in historiography did not undermine the status of Sienkiewicz's Trilogy, for there was no Polish Leo Tolstoy to devote a War and Peace to the period of the Cossack and Swedish wars. In short, inter caecos luscus rex - where there is nothing first-rate, its role will be taken over by mediocrity, which sets itself facile goals and achieves them by facile means. —Stanislaw Lem, Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans
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"Hey guys, PIEGUYRULZ here, and Teen Titans Go is stupid. Did anyone get offended by that? Well, you shouldn't be, because it's pretty much Word of God at this point."
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A “mainstream shonen” is a shonen that is DESIGNED to become mainstream. It’s built and filled with a series of elements that have the intention of making the anime wildly popular with any kind of person at the expense of quality. —Mainstream shonens are bad by default by Kukuruyo
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