Day three-hundred-thirty-four

I'm having a little trouble getting started this afternoon. My brother and I are talking the abusrdities of really bad movies and TV. I suppose the best thing to take away from it is that if one is in the right frame of mind (that is, you can poke fun at bad acting, lazy writing, etc.), even bad programming can yield some entertainment. 

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Right now, my brother and I are watching El Chavo del Ocho on Univision. There's a tragic undercurrent to what is ostensibly a comedy. The show is about an orphan who lives in a poor neighborhood (vecindad) whose has no one to take care of him. His friends (and enemies, really) are two kids who each come from a home missing a parent. Everyone in the vecindad struggles to get by, being essentially working poor.

I would like to say for the record that I don't think the show is dumb. It is very farcical, as the characters all play the same roles in the same repetitive group of situations. It's not really any better or worse than any other shows of its kind. 

They say everyone laughs at different things, but if I've learned anything, it's that people will always laugh at what they know. If people know what it's like to have to struggle to get by, as in El Chavo, then they find humor in seeing the same thing, because they can relate.