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TOP CAT - 1961-1962

This cartoon came out in the early 60s just after The Flintstones proved that a prime time cartoon could work. Top Cat was funnier-a wisecracking Sgt. Bilko-like cat who ran con games in a NY back alley with the help of 5 buddies under the watchful eye of Officer Dibble of the NYPD.

How could it miss?

But it did because TV only needed one prime time cartoon and The Flintstones came first. Ask the geniuses in TV land-this was a brilliant show. Yeah we still miss those funny cats.

CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU? - 1961-1963

A New York cop show from the early 60s. This was a sitcom that should have lived a long, happy life-how could you possibly miss with Herman and Grandpa Munster playing NYPD cops with room temperature IQs? It was an early retirement from the force-ratings were lukewarm after the first season. That took Car 54 over a big cliff into a fiery landing because funny network TV cop shows have a short shelf life even in 2010.

Goodbye Herman, goodbye Grandpa-see you a few years later in The Munsters.

F TROOP - 1965-1967

This 60s Western comedy took an arrow in the throat after only a few seasons. It was pricey to film and going to color in the second season caused the bean counters to take it down hard and fast. Better than average ratings wasn't enough of a Calvary charge to save this Western comedy classic.

Too bad - it was a great show, but the geniuses in charge of finances refused to circle the wagons for Corporal Agarn, Sgt. O'Rourke and Roaring Chicken.

NIGHT GALLERY - 1970-1973

Rod Serling said goodbye to television in the early 70s with this horror anthology-they treated Rod like crap but he still brought his A-game. That wasn't enough. Rod Serling could read a grocery list and scare the liver out of you but as usual...the chuckleheads that run TV knew better. They took away any real power behind the scenes and, in a real life horror story; he became a pale imitation of the power guy Rod Serling from the classic TV era so...they sent him to the real Twilight Zone after only a few seasons.

KOLCHAK NIGHT STALKER - 1974-1975

We're not talking about the last 21st Century version of this show. We're talking about the classic Darren McGavin early 70s version. The one where he played the chicken hearted big city reporter who drove a piece of crap car. McGavin liked the basic premise behind Kolchak, but he bucked at the "monster of the week" format. That, and lukewarm ratings gave both network and actor common ground to drive a stake through the heart of this highly underrated TV series. This show was fantastic but once it died, they shouldn't have made it undead in that horrible 2005 version. That was true terror.

BUFFALO BILL - 1983-1984

This mid 70s show had Dabney Coleman playing arguably the most obnoxious TV personality in the history of TV. The problem was that people were actively turning the channel on Bob because they weren't smart enough to see the obvious...he was just a TV character. TV execs folded the tent and Buffalo Bob ended up looking for work. Yet another black day in television history and a sad comment on the IQ of the average viewer-Buffalo Bill was just too good for mainstream TV.

THE JOB - 2001-2002

The Job shared a very similar pattern to Buffalo Bill with a negative lead character and viewers that were a little dim. Dennis Leary played a cynical, burned out NYPD police detective with substance abuse problems-this kind of role seems to come far too easy for Dennis. Could be that he's a great method actor or he's had a lot of on the "job" training. Either way they cancelled the crap out of this show way too soon. As Leary would say, "those @#$%ing morons". The Job was a great show but anti-hero lead guys don't seem to click with the average TV sit-com fan. People with room temperature IQs just don't get it.

GREG THE BUNNY 2002

They canceled this show and yet they allowed evil crap like Gilmore Girls to choke off intelligent thought. This proves one thing- there is no God. This "Muppets in the dirty world of show biz" was just not PC enough, maybe the TV guys cater to the lowest form of life, maybe the new owners (Disney) wanted more wholesome kiddy fare-whatever the reason, we lost the funniest puppets since Kermit the Frog got drunk at the Emmys.

ACTION - 1999-2000

This was about a failed Hollywood producer trying to get back in the game who acted like a Hollywood producer-loud, obnoxious and egocentric while trying to survive in a bloody game. Action pulled no punches in its treatment of Hollywood. It was funny, insightful and accurate, but it never got great ratings-it didn't work, but a few years later Entourage did. Go figure.

ANDY RICHTER CONTROLS THE UNIVERSE - 2002-2003

This show shouldn't have been as funny as it was for one reason- Andy Richter. But it was because it offered a look inside and out of a man's mind. Everything he said, did or thought was shown as part of the storyline. Something like this can crash and burn pretty fast if it's badly handled. The woods are full of TV shows that suck at subtle, but this show was really well written and truly funny-a death sentence in network TV. And... unfortunately Mr. Richter didn't control the universe-unfunny TV execs did.

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We also like to take on non-car issues on a regular basis on our daily blog because it makes us look a lot smarter than we really are. Plus you can insult a car guy about his taste in music or movies but never hack on his car-those guys always have tire irons handy. It's fun, it's occasionally controversial and it draws women into the site-we're like an automotive beer commercial. We need the women in the picture to make it interesting. But we're still going to talk about 57 Chevys and vintage Mustangs.

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Gianni Truvianni’s Inspiration for Writing “what Should not Matter”

I would like to acknowledge that the personality of Rosa; the fictional character from my 3rd book “What Should Not Matter†is based upon several “Latinas†(this word meaning ladies from Latin America) I met during my time in South America; who like Rosa have a passion for life that shows in everything they do but most of all in the way they act. These ways include manners of speech and hand gestures common to them in expressing themselves which is sort of like Italians but different in its being South or Central American. Where the idea for the character of Rosa Diaz O’Leary came to me from many Latinas, her physical appearance or what I pictured her looking like while writing the story is a Mexican singer/actress whose name is Bibi Gaytan. Many outside Mexico may not know who Bibi Gaytan is but those that do can imagine the look I had in mind for Rosa and to those who don’t know who Bibi Gaytan is I suggest they check her out on YouTube. They can catch her in music videos from when she was a member of a group called “Munecos De Papelâ€. Regarding the character and the look of Britta Swen, (the second main character in my book) she is a creation of my imagination based on my perception of the Nordic female which came about during my trips to Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. However if it be her religious concepts which play a large part of this story; they are based on my observations on how I believe some Christian’s perceive God and heaven in connection to life on earth which in my opinion they fear. It being their desire to seek eternal life in another world that makes them dread the traps of this one which they consider to be dangers to be avoided if one wishes to seek a place in God’s eternal kingdom which the bible says will arrive once the world has come to an end. Actually with regards to this concept it was a Polish catholic who reveled to me that her biggest fear was not that of dying but living on. Given what I knew of this person’s religious believes which like most catholic believes differed from the bible I deducted for myself though she never confirmed or denied my theories which in truth I never exposed to her that her trepidation was one of sinning which in her mind might have put her out of God’s favor and since sin can only be committed by the living henceforth came her fear of living on. I even gathered that what kept her from taking manners in her own hand as well as her own life was knowledge that such an act would be regarded as a sin that surely would have cast her out of all consideration for entering God’s kingdom. It was based on this person’s believes (and many others like her) that I created the character of Britta Swen. Those who read “What Should Not Matter†will also discover for themselves that Rosa has a brother and in fact this character was named after a Puerto Rican high school friend of mine. It actually was from the Manuel Diaz I went to school with and his being a great boxing fan that I got the idea of making the Manuel Diaz in “What Should Not Matter†a boxer from Panama. This in part because of Roberto Duran (manos de piedra) and all the great culture I was introduced to once by a friend of my sister from Panama. However if truth be told the character in my book Manuel Diaz gets a lot of his personality from a certain Dominican by name of Eduardo Perez who worked in the same mutual funds department at John Hancock Clearing Corporation as I did. As for Eduardo Perez, he had a way of speaking which was interesting in its directness; all of which made him not only a nice person to know but to work with as well and though we were not really friends, I could say we had a friendly relationship. The remaining characters in “What Should Not Matter†are also fictitious but unlike Rosa, Britta and Manual are not inspired by any one person or group of people.
About the Author

My name is Gianni Truvianni, I am an author who writes with the simple aim of sharing his ideas, thoughts and so much more of what I am with those who are interested in perhaps reading something new. As for the details regarding my life I would say that there is nothing that lifts them above the ordinary. I was born in New York City in 1967 on May 21st and am presently living in Warsaw, Poland where I wrote my first book “New York’s Opera Society†now Available on Amazon.

Denis Leary...Why does HE suck? ?

As an actor, he is one dimensional and has no range. As a comedian he obnoxious. Like a poor man's Andrew Clay.

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