Suddenly Susan..Just me or does anyone else get NBC's ploy here?

	Has anyone else figured out the clever little ploy that NBC has used
on us here.  I mean there's this disposable character named SUSAN on a
very popular sitcom.  On the last episode of the season, you have her
die, SUDDENLY.  Then, the next season, when the popular show's pilot
airs, you have everyone who thinks the show has gotten too mean (all
the people who are pissed Blossom went off the air) nervously
anticipating the answer to whether that cruel part about SUSAN
SUDDENLY dying was real or whether the writers were just pulling our
collective rubber chicken.
	But after seeing the pilot, the slapstick crowd is feeling REALLY
uncomfortable.  They still can't believe Susan could've been killed
off.  No way.  That kind of stuff never happens on Home Improvement or
Roseanne.   Those were top rated shows, and that's all these folks
watch.  Now that Seinfeld is acceptable for Cosby Show lovers to
watch,  now that it's a mainstream mainstay,  these boomers need to
feel good again,  need to be reassured that a sitcom couldn't really
let this happen.
	And wham-o!!! They get their wish!  The answer comes in the form of
its own sitcom, complete with yesteryear's washed up actors.  Who
cares if the show sucks almost in entirety,  we're going to find out
whether SUSAN actually died SUDDENLY on Seinfeld!!!
	Bingo, just the thing to send this dud to number 3 in the Nielsen
ratings.   After a while, whether SUSAN died SUDDENLY or not on
Sienfeld is not even pondered.  There's a new Susan in town, and this
one's funnier than The Fresh Prince of Belair!

In article , [email] wrote:

Much snipped...

I have to say that while I don't have anything personally against Brooke I really think that a test pattern would get good ratings if sandwitched between Seinfeld and ER.

And I think Heidi (Susan) and her relationship with George and the gang was one of the funnier things about the series in the past few years. I was sorry to see her character killed but it was a very daring move, not at all typical of what one usually sees in sitcoms.

I really think that when SS is moved to another time slot it will stop being watched by anyone.

Ron

I think the only reason that anyone would even want to watch SS is because it follow Seinfeld... I recall reading somewhere that anything would do well after Seinfeld... even a test pattern. I agree that once SS is moved to another time slot, it will be cancelled shortly after.

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