Skippy... Skippy...

Tonight the ABC had a doco on. It was about that old classic TV show, Skippy.

Heheheh. Who didn't love Skippy as a kid? I sure as hell did. The helicopter was the coolest. Even though the show hasn't been on free-to-air for like 15 years, all the little kiddies love Skippy even today. Hooray!

The doco did what doco's about classic TV programs do -- showed some old clips, got a bunch of original cast and crew together, plus some other moguls, recounted some cool memories and amusing anecdotes, and had a few laughs. They even had a surprise interview with Skippy herself, although she looked distressingly stuffed. The whole thing was hosted by Magda Szubanksi, who is living proof that not all jolly people are fat :P

But then, in true ABC style, they had to go and ruin it. *tsktsktsk* What's that, Skip? *tsktsktsk* They've gone and interviewed Germaine Greer and put her on the show? *tsktsktsk* Oh, no!

That's right, folks, Germaine Greer. That dried up old prune. That mirthless old witch. There she sat, with sand in her vagina, ready to spew all kinds of androphobic vitriol we'd expect from her. What the hell were the producers thinking, putting the likes of Greer on a doco about an old TV show? How does the opinion of a man-hating humanities professor count for three-eighths of a pinch of sh*t? Answer: It doesn't.

Let me spell it out: Germaine Greer is not witty. Germaine Greer is not erudite. Germaine Greer is a tool. She has made a career of bashing anything male, which is ironic considering it is the male tax-paying majority which keeps her bony ass in tenure and from starving to death.

I think I know why the producers put Greer on the show. Because the cast of Skippy were nearly all male. Perhaps they were hoping for a juicily scathing comment or misandrist observation courtesy of Mizz Bobbitt.

Be that as it may, to my cardiac-arrest-inducing surprise, Greer kept her comments relatively tame. Or more likely, her more inflammatory opinions were left on the cutting room floor where they belong. Her chief criticism of a 40 year-old children's show featuring a kangaroo lie with the lead child actor: Greer felt it did the kid's upbringing no good to be hanging around grown-up men all day. Interesting... they did tell Greer that Sonny was a boy, didn't they?

Way to f**k up an otherwise good doco, and smear the memory of a really great old show. Bloody idiots.