Has there been a tee vee show you really loved

[Oeditpus Rex]

43. I think maybe it got low ratings

because viewers had to pay attention, since so many jokes were visual and in the background, like 1950s MAD. People are more accustomed to punch lines and other audial humor, like stuff breaking, so they can watch passively.

The movies were largely the same, but they also had scenes like Nielsen and Priscilla Presley wearing body condoms, and that guy (Drebbin's partner?) in a wheelchair bounce-rolling down the steps at Dodger Stadium and gettting catapaulted onto the field.