Post by Forever Xena on Dec 14, 2005 10:33:20 GMT -6
OBSCENE ON TV!
NBC's 'Medium' pushes decency limit
Husband asks wife if she'd like 'thicker, longer' organ
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Posted: December 6, 2005
2:22 p.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
NBC's popular prime-time program "Medium" shocked viewers last night as the main male character asks his wife if she's searching for a "thicker, longer penis."
The exchange came 19 minutes into yesterday's show as the married couple – played by Patricia Arquette and Jake Weber – talked in their bedroom, a typical setting for the two characters in the program.
During last night's episode, entitled "I Married a Mind Reader," Joe Dubois walks into the bedroom late at night as his wife, Allison, a medium who helps law enforcement solve crimes, is sitting at a computer.
Joe: Whatcha lookin' for at this hour of the night? Drugs from Canada? A fast and convenient way out of credit card debt? A thicker, longer penis?
Allison: Oh! (she chuckles)
Allison is searching for information on the Internet about an actor in an old TV program about whom she had had a dream. The penis comment was not relevant to the plot of the show.
"I literally fell off my chair when I heard it," said a WND reader who TiVo'd the program. "I've never heard anything like it on television."
Airing Mondays at 10 p.m., "Medium" combines the crime-fighting Dubois character, who is based on a real-life woman of the same name, with the up-and-down realities of an American family with both parents working. The TV family has three young daughters.
The show, created by Emmy-winning executive producer and director Glenn Gordon Caron, has been hailed by fans and critics alike. Arquette won an Emmy as best actress in a drama for her work on the show, and a recent issue of "TV Guide" features the show on its cover.
One fan on a message board for the show says she watches it with her family: "Best show on television today! Our family watches it together. We laugh and enjoy the relationship of the family. In our opinion, the most realistic show of a working couple with kids and their life ... although I think the husband does more child caring than most these days!"
Washington Post critic Tom Shales hailed the show, calling it an "especially impressive achievement."
Wrote Shales: "You may groan at the premise – a young woman helps the police solve crimes through use of her psychic intuition – but it's brought off with so much storytelling skill and so few voguish gimmicks that it might as well be the first show of its kind. It's white-knuckle television, and you may want to reinforce the arms of easy chairs and couches so they can withstand rigorous gripping."
Last week, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin told a congressional committee producers of indecent television, especially cable and satellite channels, should provide parents more tools to shield children from adult fare. "Medium," of course, aired on NBC, a regular broadcast network.
"Parents need better and more tools to help them navigate the entertainment waters, particularly on cable and satellite TV," Martin said.
NBC's 'Medium' pushes decency limit
Husband asks wife if she'd like 'thicker, longer' organ
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Posted: December 6, 2005
2:22 p.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
NBC's popular prime-time program "Medium" shocked viewers last night as the main male character asks his wife if she's searching for a "thicker, longer penis."
The exchange came 19 minutes into yesterday's show as the married couple – played by Patricia Arquette and Jake Weber – talked in their bedroom, a typical setting for the two characters in the program.
During last night's episode, entitled "I Married a Mind Reader," Joe Dubois walks into the bedroom late at night as his wife, Allison, a medium who helps law enforcement solve crimes, is sitting at a computer.
Joe: Whatcha lookin' for at this hour of the night? Drugs from Canada? A fast and convenient way out of credit card debt? A thicker, longer penis?
Allison: Oh! (she chuckles)
Allison is searching for information on the Internet about an actor in an old TV program about whom she had had a dream. The penis comment was not relevant to the plot of the show.
"I literally fell off my chair when I heard it," said a WND reader who TiVo'd the program. "I've never heard anything like it on television."
Airing Mondays at 10 p.m., "Medium" combines the crime-fighting Dubois character, who is based on a real-life woman of the same name, with the up-and-down realities of an American family with both parents working. The TV family has three young daughters.
The show, created by Emmy-winning executive producer and director Glenn Gordon Caron, has been hailed by fans and critics alike. Arquette won an Emmy as best actress in a drama for her work on the show, and a recent issue of "TV Guide" features the show on its cover.
One fan on a message board for the show says she watches it with her family: "Best show on television today! Our family watches it together. We laugh and enjoy the relationship of the family. In our opinion, the most realistic show of a working couple with kids and their life ... although I think the husband does more child caring than most these days!"
Washington Post critic Tom Shales hailed the show, calling it an "especially impressive achievement."
Wrote Shales: "You may groan at the premise – a young woman helps the police solve crimes through use of her psychic intuition – but it's brought off with so much storytelling skill and so few voguish gimmicks that it might as well be the first show of its kind. It's white-knuckle television, and you may want to reinforce the arms of easy chairs and couches so they can withstand rigorous gripping."
Last week, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin told a congressional committee producers of indecent television, especially cable and satellite channels, should provide parents more tools to shield children from adult fare. "Medium," of course, aired on NBC, a regular broadcast network.
"Parents need better and more tools to help them navigate the entertainment waters, particularly on cable and satellite TV," Martin said.
