I choose to believe he’s been given fake codes.
(I know I would have, especially if I had made an entire career out maintaining the status quo.)
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MacFarlane certainly wasn’t as bold or brave with his Weinstein joke as Buress was with his Cosby joke. But, definitely the sad story here isn’t the Seth MacFarlane made a joke about Weinstein, it’s that most of the room clearly got the joke. The Weinstein story is news to me (I wouldn’t have been able to tell you who Harvey Weinstein was) but it wasn’t news to many people who actually knew him.
Why did the facade crack just now instead of years ago? It’s like predicting earthquakes. But I do think that MacFarlane was pushing it in the right direction with that joke.
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The Cosmos reboot thing to me is one of those “giving back to the public” sort of things. MacFarlane would never make a mint off of it and had such a limited appeal for network television. But it was something of value, worth doing.
I still stand by my Mel Gibson pass. Yes, he’s an embarrassment, but he had talent as an actor and is still a decent director in his own right. Just keep him out of public and away from social media.
Given his propensity for dating co-stars, that is a distinct possibility.
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I watched the first five Shows during a long car ride. It’s a mixture of TOS and TNG with TNG esthetics and TOS sensibilities insofar as the characters are more relaxed than the TNG stick figures. Also some cheap humor. From the trailer I thought I would tire of it after two episodes, but between Orville and DuckTales I couldn’t bring up enough interest to even watch the new Trek show. Though admittedly starting with DD9 after season 5 I dropped the Trek Shows pretty fast anyway.
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And when they don’t work perhaps he’ll go on the real fake news to complain about the fake fake news reporting on it?
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Well, in the first scene of tonight’s episode, the bridge crew are sharing a meal. When Bortus, one of the alien Moclans, mentions that his species can gain nutrients from a variety of foodstuffs, his shipmates dare him to eat a napkin, a cactus, and a glass before they get called to the bridge. It does make the Starfleet officers seem kinda stuffy in comparison. 
In small doses, it works for me. But the show likes to extend their jokes way too far sometimes, like tonight’s inept infiltration of the enemy Krill (think Klingon) ship. For example, the Krill society is highly religious, worshiping a deity called Avis. This, of course, results in multiple puns referencing Avis car rentals… one would have been enough for me. It’s frustrating sometimes. The core concept of the episode was solid, but the jokey execution made it less than it could have been. My father watched it with me, and he said, “They act like teenagers, then they turn around and save the world.”
But we’ll both be watching next week. 
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I will not go to twitter to find out to protect my fragile self-control, but could you do me a favour and sum up reactions to this statement? Especially in regard to humour and the function of jokes (see above)? That would be really interesting to me.
Disclaimer: I quit twitter due to toxicity. I swapped it for a slight addiction to the more civil BB BBS.
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