Take heed all writers everywhere; there is a new cliché. Now, when teenage girls get pregnant and make a teary-eyed, self-deprecating joke about how they're a statistic, it is no longer funny. If every maudlin TV drama has thrown that line at bored viewers eating Cheerios, it is not original anymore.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
New Cliches
Take heed all writers everywhere; there is a new cliché. Now, when teenage girls get pregnant and make a teary-eyed, self-deprecating joke about how they're a statistic, it is no longer funny. If every maudlin TV drama has thrown that line at bored viewers eating Cheerios, it is not original anymore.
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