You're Minding Your Own Business - Turn On The T.V. - And Then Your Mind Is Becoming Your Own Business

I feel like I'm one of the few who seem to think we should be expecting something better, and different, from the kids of Boomers:

Both fathers have a common ancestor: Archie Bunker. David is crotchety and stubborn and just a little less racist than Crawford. Crawford shows up at the office and scuttles a business deal when he screams, before a group of Chinese investors, “The Chinese are a lovely and honorable people, but you can’t trust them! There’s a reason Shanghai is a verb!” David mistakes Warner’s wife, Camilla (Vanessa Lachey), for a maid, just because she is Latina.

For a show to pull off this kind of character, it helps to make clear that it does not share his worldview—that it wants the audience to laugh at how racist the racist is being and not just laugh racistly. Dads fails pretty catastrophically on this count because the two guys who should be rolling their eyes or, more realistically, panicking about all the dumb things their dads are saying, are too busy being racist themselves, though it’s not clear the writers know just how questionably the boys are behaving. For that business meeting with the Chinese investors, Warner and Eli have their employee Veronica (Brenda Song) dress up like a “sexy Asian” so she can tee-hee provocatively at their prospective clients, which is the same kind of fresh satire found on Pax Dickinson’s Twitter feed and ends up helping the guys’ business quite a bit. The episode ends with some family bonding: the two sons, their two dads, and Veronica joking about how small Asian men’s penises are.

All over the airwaves. With a nice healthy promotion campaign and everything. Because we've got money for that. That's what we got. That's all we got.

And - cherry on top - it stars the Scientologist, Giovanni Ribisi, which should speak to the great insights that shit delivers.

Fools:

And my apologies to "whites of good faith" (as that old saying goes) faced with their country doing this to them, too.

We're trapped, y'all,...