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Originally posted by DarkJester:
Because Fox is run by trained apes, without the training.

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Originally posted by Professor:
OK, the real question is how did Firefly get cancelled after 1/2 season but "The Simple Life" is starting season 3.

That's what I want to know.

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Originally posted by TenthCrewMember:
Single-line, fictional response as to why Firefly was cancelled...

"In response to why we, at FOX, cancel quality programming, we can only point out that if people watched only good TV, there would be millions of dollars wasted on all the programming they didn't watch, so if we prevent good TV from perpetuating, we can keep thousands of poor actors, carpenters, caterers, set workers, executive secretarties, etcetera, gainfully employed and the audiences will eventually find that 'good TV' is just that TV which is less bad, such as the reality TV, thereby allowing us to continue to put millions of dollars into programming, that isn't worth the film it is printed on, thus preventing an economic backslide, caused by the failure of the television entertainment industry, which would inevitably lead to the downfall of mankind as people desperately try to fill the void of television with random violence, self-mutilation, and geese juggling, none of which has any social merit in the advancement of our species, hereby proving that, we at FOX, are simply trying to preserve humanity at our own expense." -- Public Relations Memo, FOX Headquarters for Product Development and Termination

(originally suppressed before Firefly aired, but inevitably released upon the airing of the lost 15th episode...you did see the 15th episode, didn't you?)

Cilantro!
TCM

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Single-line, fictional response as to why Firefly was cancelled...

"In response to why we, at FOX, cancel quality programming, we can only point out that if people watched only good TV, there would be millions of dollars wasted on all the programming they didn't watch, so if we prevent good TV from perpetuating, we can keep thousands of poor actors, carpenters, caterers, set workers, executive secretarties, etcetera, gainfully employed and the audiences will eventually find that 'good TV' is just that TV which is less bad, such as the reality TV, thereby allowing us to continue to put millions of dollars into programming, that isn't worth the film it is printed on, thus preventing an economic backslide, caused by the failure of the television entertainment industry, which would inevitably lead to the downfall of mankind as people desperately try to fill the void of television with random violence, self-mutilation, and geese juggling, none of which has any social merit in the advancement of our species, hereby proving that, we at FOX, are simply trying to preserve humanity at our own expense." -- Public Relations Memo, FOX Headquarters for Product Development and Termination

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Originally posted by Professor:
OK, the real question is how did Firefly get cancelled after 1/2 season but "The Simple Life" is starting season 3.

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Originally posted by Moose:

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Originally posted by Professor:
OK, the real question is how did Firefly get cancelled after 1/2 season but "The Simple Life" is starting season 3.

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Please tell me that's a joke....

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Originally posted by Stillshiny:
Book - "Back to hell you vile demon!!" (takes Vera from Jayne and makes a bloody spectacle of the gungan)

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