AFA takes credit for Playboy's demise.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

After three truly lousy episodes, a bad idea made worse by poor plots, vapid scripts, shallow acting, and really pathetic "soap" based ideas, NBC finally placed a very welcome dagger into the heart of a show so bad that it won't even make it on cable for the late night stoner crowd.

There are some ideas so bad that they achieve cult status and have this bizarre way of becoming entertaining, just because they are so bad. Apparently, this is worse.

But, despite the reality of the situation, the American Family ASSociation, a corrupt, self-absorbed, demented, and quite probably dangerous group of extremely conservative christian bigots and misogynists, proudly congratulated themselves on be the reason why NBC cancelled Playboy. Which is akin to AFA proudly announcing that the sun will rise tomorrow, that water has suddenly become wet, that cloudless nights allow starlight to become visible, and that prayer fully cured the entire population of extreme southern island dwelling, one eyed, aboriginal, Maori, whose next of kin were syphilitic lepers, of their apparent spinal stenosis, simply because they converted to AFA's version of some christian fairy tale.

[Blue Owl]

1. Playboy's demise has nothing to do with the internet, only the AFA

Yep, only the AFA...

:sarcasm:

[Boojatta]

5. The AFA invented internet porn as part of a long-range pre-emptive strike against NBC's Playboy.

[liberal N proud]

2. These uptight assholes had nothing to do with its demise

The show was banking on people being attracted to Mad Men set in the Playboy Club with a little never ending murder mystery to boot.


There simply wasn't enough story line for this show to go on.

[fascisthunter]

3. uptight dweebs.....

[libodem]

4. AFA

Probably has 3 members of the same extended family. All bluster and no substance.

[JVS]

6. The Playboy name can explain the demise of the show.

It's a dying empire headed by its ancient monarch. Nothing against Heff, but it isn't 1953 anymore and his attempt to straddle the line between the tasteful and soft-core porn just doesn't work. I get that the magazine was for the person who wanted to read a blend of Esquire and soft-core, but the MSM has pretty much adopted that and what they haven't adopted is irrelevant to a couple generations of men who have easy access (and tastes for) hard core porn. Playboy was already out of date by the 70s, which is why his clubs failed. Every once in a while he puts the playboy name on cigars, or cognac, and now a TV show. Each time it fails. Because few identify with the image he's trying to sell.

[eilen]

9. I think it failed mostly because the real life Playboy club

was likely more fabulous than the pretend retread fictional one on tv. The fantasy of the idea was targeted to men and just does not capture the other 50% of the tv viewing market. The difference with Pan Am is that at least the young women could see the world and not have to wear a bunny costume.

[RKP5637]

7. AFA? = American Federation of Assholes! n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. one must know their enemy, so I suffer thru their

mailings.

[rurallib]

10. more likely they drove what few people that watched to the show

thinking there would be at least a little T&A. So AFA probably got them 3 shows instead of 1