The Parents Television Council is a peculiarly American creature that we Europeans can’t really understand, Europe being home to Italian TV and all.
I’m sure that the Worst TV Clips Of The Week section of their website was intended as a sober warning of all things shocking (at least to easily-offended American eyes), but the net effect is something completely different.
To start with, each programme listed comes with a detailed explanation of why it’s one of the worst – “gratuitious sexual innuendo”, “gratutious teen sex”, “necrophilia” – ok, you get the idea.
Then they’ve handily provided clips of all the “worst” bits, to save you the trouble of downloading a bittorrent and hitting the fast-forward button.
And in case you really didn’t get the message, each clip appears in a pop-up window emblazoned with a warning:
WARNING: Graphic Content!!!
Do NOT push play if you don’t want to see the explicit video!!!
So rather than being the Worst TV Clips Of The Week, the site is actually a handy a guide to all that’s worth watching if you’re in the market for a bit of morally reprehensible low-level titillation.
Seems like the law of unintended consequences in action…
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