Jack Sprat
Jack Sprat could eat no fat
His wife could eat no lean
So the government stepped in with mandatory dietary guidelines
And the two starved to death.…
Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down
And broke his crown
And Jill rushed him to the hospital before Obamacare ruined the greatest health-care system in the world.- In an online-only Shouts & Murmurs, Tom McNichol shares conservative bedtime stories. For The Tortoise and the Hare, London Bridge, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Three Little Pigs, and The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Version: http://nyr.kr/HFdf0f
“Community” Had Low Ratings: So What?
Like a lot of ambitious TV, it has been a magnet for a small, oddball cadre of viewers, the ones who analyze comic beats in the manner of Talmudic scholars, wear T-shirts with slogans that only the elect will understand, and criticize tiny flaws in a thread that goes a thousand comments deep. The show succeeded. It found us. There just weren’t a lot of us.
- Our new TV critic, Emily Nussbaum, on NBC pulling “Community”