View Poll Results: What profession are you sick of seeing in TV shows?
Lawyers
41
38.32%
Doctors
33
30.84%
Cops
22
20.56%
Federal Agents (FBI, CIA)
9
8.41%
Firemen
1
0.93%
Military
1
0.93%
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What profession are you sick of seeing in TV shows?
09-24-06 | 10:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Red Dog
Oh I think I know what the overwhelming response will be.
Just as I suspected - the lawyers.
But much like how carbon blobs bitch about lawyers and keep voting them into office, the carbon blobs bitch about the lawyers on tv and keep watching legal shows.
09-25-06 | 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Tscott
Internet Predators
09-25-06 | 12:41 PM
#31
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Warp drive engineers
09-25-06 | 12:51 PM
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I'm not sick of the professions so much as I am the stories which seem to be on a 5 year recycling timeline. It says a lot that of all the medical shows on TV, Scrubs is far and away the closest to reality. Especially ironic since they have so many "unrealistic" sequences. The other shows try SO hard to put manufactured drama into their reality that they miss out on all the drama that's already there if they were to look a little harder at the underlying drama (comedic and tragic) of real life. If that makes any sense.
09-25-06 | 01:58 PM
#36
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Originally Posted by Jimmy James
There are plenty of stories to be told involving doctors, lawyers, and cops. The problem is that we seem to get the same stories over and over again. Why not have a show about a legal aid lawyer that isn't preachy? A podiatrist? A traffic cop? There are stories to be told about each if the right people are involved.
09-25-06 | 02:33 PM
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Doctor for me. Mainly because I work in a hospital with doctors all day. I have never met anyone who reminds me of a doctor from TV. They don't work 72 hours at a time, they don't sleep while on the job, they don't think they are better than anyone else. Just my opinion from the doctors I see daily.
09-25-06 | 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by bunkaroo
How about a half-hour comedy about an awkward podiatrist called Foot In Mouth? FOX here I come.....
09-25-06 | 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by girlnextdoor
Doctor for me. Mainly because I work in a hospital with doctors all day. I have never met anyone who reminds me of a doctor from TV. They don't work 72 hours at a time, they don't sleep while on the job, they don't think they are better than anyone else. Just my opinion from the doctors I see daily.
