It's the plain situation, there's no negotiation, with the fellas at the freakin ABC

Has enough time lapsed since the last post? Must get this in quick, otherwise it'll be irrelevant...

I'll tell you this for free, I don't care at all for this stupid blathering about how "controversial" Summer Heights High is. Whoever seriously thinks that Chris Lilley and the executives in charge of the ABC* are trying to use the death of some chick who died of an overdose to score a cheap laugh are clearly suffering from something much worse than Heightened Morality Complex - they've got The Stupid.

I was watching A Current Affair tonight for the first time in ages (well, it was either that or get emotionally worked up over the dreadful state of Neighbours) and their story on it was so predictable and annoying. They interviewed some lame experts, all of whom agreed that taking drugs is most definitely NOT funny, and that having a joke at the expense of a "victim" of drugs is WRONG. Um, derbrains, the joke wasn't against the girl who had the overdose; the joke was Mr G's appallingly insensitive reaction to the death.

And it WAS funny.

Plus, some of those songs he wrote were kind of catchy. So... deal with it, everyone.

That the girl in the program and the girl who died of a drug overdose had the same name is coincidence, since the program had ceased production ten days before this woman died. The ABC shouldn't be expected to edit out that entire plotline, or even change the name (I'm presuming with the use of a lot of "Mr Black" type dubbing, a la Krusty), and its managing director, Mark Scott, was being way too reactionary in apologising to the girl's family. Believe it or not, this style of mockumentary is meant to cover some of the things that most of us, for some reason or another, would really rather avoid. It's called satire, look it up.

This kind of thing is what I consider to be real political correctness - I mean, it's rated M, everyone who watched this show has to know by now that it isn't actually real, and most of the 'edgy' content isn't really all that edgy anyway. And yet people continue to bitch about it.

I cringed more during the scenes where Jonah had some mysterious stains on his shorts, and when Ja'mie was trying to hit on a little year seven boy. How much did you feel sorry for him when she stole his phone, looked through his messages, and smashed it right in front of him? Poor kid.

* B1 and B2.

PS -- a million points to whoever gets the reference in the title.

PPS -- apologies to my fellow Square Arses for being responsible for all the yucky Google hits.