How Can You Boycott Something You Have Never Seen?

Look, I think most of the readers here would agree that the only thing we care about in the new 90210 are the old 90210 people. Let the old 90210 people do their thing and have the camera cut to the new people having sex or working or going to school just so we know they are alive, and move back to the old cast.


But, we don't really know what the show will be like. Hell, we all might love it or hate it or wish that Donna would be forced to work at The Peach Pit because she has eight kids to raise by herself. Of course since Tori Spelling can't get along with the people in charge, this is unlikely to happen and she will watch from the sidelines and then go sell some more jewelry on HSN, and try and convince the world that Dean really does love her and not just the money.


Anyway, no one has seen the show. No one. No critics, no one. So, how in the hell does the Parent's Television Council get it in their head that advertisers should boycott the show? How can you call for a boycott if you don't know what the hell you are going to see? For all they know, the new 90210 could take place in a church and they all devote themselves to good works and ridding the world of Spencer Pratt.


I think what happens is the group looks for potential boycott announcements, because it is the only way they get attention. Someone picked 90210, and they called for a boycott. Then whoops. The press showed up and asked them how they had seen the show when no one else in the world had, and they realized they might have a teensy problem.


Instead of just taking a wait and see attitude, they just said it was the network and it is evil and that it should be punished for the sins of Gossip Girl. Uh huh.


Good luck on that. How many people actually belong to that Council anyway, and what do you get for joining? Do they have a monthly newsletter? I love newsletters. I have a feeling they sell their mailing list though, and, I'm guessing they are not selling it to Emily's List. Do you get a sticker that says, I don't watch television that people put in their cars so people can laugh at them and their kids can be humiliated in school because they have no idea what exactly a Fairly Odd Parent is?


I actually think they are worried because they noticed there is one black guy, but no black girl and that he will have his way with Lori Loughlin. Maybe not.