There is something to be said about the "Everybody's Extra-Luminescent Equines- Arch-Enemies Are Tragic" show and its audience demographics...but I'm at a loss for words.

My local cable tv line-up does have the HUB channel where the actual series that inspired this drawing is currently airing at the posting of this drawing but it is on an upgradable digital channel tier that I can not afford. I've seen snippets of episodes on Youtube...it's pleasant and witty enough...but not exactly something I care to "pony" up extra each month as "must-see" tv.

Those pastels...eh.

I can say I don't feel too guilty about the stuff I draw given this phenomenon.

"Guilty Pleasure TV" can be described as tv shows that aren't critically acclaimed, consistantly high-rated, award-winning, and/or meriting long discussions in the office or online the next day. The best descriptions might be tv shows with a very high tackiness or kitsch factor, reaching an unintended audience demographic, low-rated, critically lambasted or ignored, never winning an award for excellence, and/or never meriting a discussion among one's co-workers or friends without one's face blushing bright red in sheepish embarassment...yet particularly endearing.

My own tv guilty pleasures are 60s-80s game shows, 60s-80s Saturday AM cartoons, "America's Most Wanted" (catch crooks), and Irwin Allen's 60s sci-fi shows "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", "Lost in Space", "The Time Tunnel", and especially "Land of the Giants" (cheesy special effects, reused props and costumes, not much deep thinking...but good action and good non-CGI special effects).




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