{"id":363,"date":"2008-10-28T15:04:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T20:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zephyrusanemoi.com\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2020-02-06T20:19:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T02:19:23","slug":"oh-how-the-mighty-have-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/oh-how-the-mighty-have-fallen\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, how the mighty have fallen\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just watched last night’s episode of Chuck<\/a> \"Chuck\"<\/a>. For a show that I just got done praising as “the best show on television”, it has certainly fallen far from the tree with one glaringly ridiculous episode. ATARI FOUNDED BY A JAPANESE MAN?! Are you kidding me?!!<\/p>\n

What self-respecting American nerd makes that mistake? Did this show suddenly get taken over by morons? The Big Bang Theory<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\"Big<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0is now my only hope for a show about nerds, for nerds, by nerds.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, I still love Chuck. I just wish they’d stop falling into the same damned Hollywood trap that so many shows have in the past: if your core demographic is going to be people that like nerds, make sure you have a nerd on staff to fact-check everything<\/em>. Believe me, they can even fix your ridiculous plot hole wherein you hide a code in the “kill screen” of an arcade game that is timed to a song by Rush. Seriously? Who thinks of this?<\/p>\n

I gotta give ’em credit for one thing. Best. Trash talk. Against Zune. EVER.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just watched last night’s episode of Chuck . For a show that I just got done praising as “the best show on television”, it has certainly fallen far from the tree with one glaringly ridiculous episode. ATARI FOUNDED BY A JAPANESE MAN?! Are you kidding me?!! What self-respecting American nerd makes that mistake? 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