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BERT: OK, so we've established that Australians just aren't that good at being funny week in week out. So what about one-off specials? That's got to be an area where we can pull some magic out of the back pocket, right guys? Guys? Hello..?
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Does anyone else see the flaws in an IQ test that requires you to watch television? No? OK, let's continue: what the hell was up with the studio audience being divided into rubbish categories? Did Nine executives really think that people testing their IQs on a television show were so stupid they needed to have a dickwad dressed up as Borat constantly popping up or they'd get bored? And if so, wouldn't the actual IQ test results kind of give that away?
Oh Hamish & Andy - remember when you used to make television shows that were actual television shows and not just filmed radio segments? No? Guess we really were the only people watching Real Stories then.
If it's not bad enough that The Gruen Transfer goes out of its way to make the advertising industry seem like little more than an easily-seen-through collection of enjoyably chucklesome scruffs, now it seems like we're going to have to put up with regular doses around election time of Gruen Nation as well. Oh look, aren't politicians clumsy buggers, never quite able to get their advertising right? No, they're odious bastards who want to control every aspect of our daily lives for their own personal gain - so just like people in advertising really.
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