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* AdoredByTheNetwork: Heavily promoted by the network and its related apps, in spite (or perhaps because of) its centrist leanings. Its strong push following the 2023 Writer's Strike is theorized to be in response to Maher's willingness to side with the networks over the writers and actors and break the strike to return to work. Regardless of the motivation, the show receives an inordinate amount of promotion and is highlighted by the network's app even if new episodes don't even crack the "Top 10 Series" list.
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* AdoredByTheNetwork: Heavily promoted by the network and its related apps, in spite (or perhaps because of) its centrist (if not sometimes right-wing) leanings. Its strong push following the 2023 Writer's Strike is theorized to be in response to Maher's willingness to side with the networks over the writers and actors and break the strike to return to work. Regardless of the motivation, the show receives an inordinate amount of promotion and is highlighted by the network's app even if new episodes don't even crack the "Top 10 Series" list.
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* AdoredByTheNetwork: Heavily promoted by [=HBOMax=], in spite (or perhaps because of) its centrist leanings. Its strong push following the 2023 Writer's Strike is theorized to be in response to Maher's willingness to side with the networks over the writers and actors and break the strike to return to work. Regardless of the motivation, the show receives an inordinate amount of promotion and is highlighted by the network's app even if new episodes don't even crack the "Top 10 Series" list.
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* AdoredByTheNetwork: Heavily promoted by [=HBOMax=], the network and its related apps, in spite (or perhaps because of) its centrist leanings. Its strong push following the 2023 Writer's Strike is theorized to be in response to Maher's willingness to side with the networks over the writers and actors and break the strike to return to work. Regardless of the motivation, the show receives an inordinate amount of promotion and is highlighted by the network's app even if new episodes don't even crack the "Top 10 Series" list.
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* AdoredByTheNetwork: Heavily promoted by [=HBOMax=], in spite (or perhaps because of) its centrist leanings. Its strong push following the 2023 Writer's Strike is theorized to be in response to Maher's willingness to side with the networks over the writers and actors and break the strike to return to work. Regardless of the motivation, the show receives an inordinate amount of promotion and is highlighted by the network's app even if new episodes don't even crack the "Top 10 Series" list.
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* AdoredByTheNetwork: Heavily promoted by [=HBOMax=], in spite (or perhaps because of) its centrist leanings. Its strong push following the 2023 Writer's Strike is theorized to be in response to Maher's willingness to side with the networks over the writers and actors and break the strike to return to work.
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** Maher defended ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' for being against religion, even though the creators of ''South Park'' are not. In fact, they made a [[Recap/SouthParkS10E12GoGodGo two-part]] [[Recap/SouthParkS10E13GoGodGoXII episode]] against this kind of mindset.
** He dismissed the controversy about Apu from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' as the usual liberal sensitivity when the ''actual'' issue was South Asians like Hari Kondabolu (whose documentary kicked the controversy into high gear) tactfully explaining how the character made life hard for them despite still being fans and the show's flippant response simply being [[ValuesDissonance "It was OK years ago."]][[note]]In the documentary, Kondabolu was in fact shocked when he found out that Creator/KalPenn actually swore off from ever watching the show entirely because of Apu, with Kondabolu explained that he actually likes the show, he just doesn't like the portrayal of Apu.[[/note]]
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgInmHHO0m4&t=0s his segment]] about comic books and their fans, he claims that all superhero movies follow the same formula: "A person who doesn't have powers gets them, has to figure out how they work, and then has to find a glowy thing." His list of examples includes ''Film/IronMan1'' and ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'', neither of which could be accurately described as following this formula: Tony doesn't get powers in ''Iron Man'', he invents a suit of PoweredArmor. Also, the conflict is not about "finding a glowy thing;" Tony invents the Arc Reactor, just as he did the suit, meaning that he doesn't have to "find" it. The conflict is about stopping it from being used for nefarious purposes. Similarly, the conflict in ''Doctor Strange'' is about stopping an interdimensional being from swallowing the universe. The "glowy thing" (The Eye of Agamotto) is literally just sitting on a pedestal in Kamar-Taj within Strange's reach. The plot does not revolve around finding it. Quite a few other movies listed like ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' and ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' also don't work as in Justice League the characters all already have their powers at the start of the movie and in Captain America, the conflict of the movie is for Steve Rogers to stop HYDRA from waging war against the Allies and Steve only finds the "glowy thing", the Tesseract, at the very end of the movie. ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' is also mentioned when Peter has his powers at the start as well and has already figured out how they work and the conflict is over Peter trying to stop illegal weapons of all types, not just the Chitauri energy core pictured as the "glowy thing", from being sold.
** Maher defended ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' for being against religion, even though the creators of ''South Park'' are not. In fact, they made a [[Recap/SouthParkS10E12GoGodGo two-part]] [[Recap/SouthParkS10E13GoGodGoXII episode]] against this kind of mindset.
** He dismissed the controversy about Apu from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' as the usual liberal sensitivity when the ''actual'' issue was South Asians like Hari Kondabolu (whose documentary kicked the controversy into high gear) tactfully explaining how the character made life hard for them despite still being fans and the show's flippant response simply being [[ValuesDissonance "It was OK years ago."]][[note]]In the documentary, Kondabolu was in fact shocked when he found out that Creator/KalPenn actually swore off from ever watching the show entirely because of Apu, with Kondabolu explained that he actually likes the show, he just doesn't like the portrayal of Apu.[[/note]]
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgInmHHO0m4&t=0s his segment]] about comic books and their fans, he claims that all superhero movies follow the same formula: "A person who doesn't have powers gets them, has to figure out how they work, and then has to find a glowy thing." His list of examples includes ''Film/IronMan1'' and ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'', neither of which could be accurately described as following this formula: Tony doesn't get powers in ''Iron Man'', he invents a suit of PoweredArmor. Also, the conflict is not about "finding a glowy thing;" Tony invents the Arc Reactor, just as he did the suit, meaning that he doesn't have to "find" it. The conflict is about stopping it from being used for nefarious purposes. Similarly, the conflict in ''Doctor Strange'' is about stopping an interdimensional being from swallowing the universe. The "glowy thing" (The Eye of Agamotto) is literally just sitting on a pedestal in Kamar-Taj within Strange's reach. The plot does not revolve around finding it. Quite a few other movies listed like ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' and ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' also don't work as in Justice League the characters all already have their powers at the start of the movie and in Captain America, the conflict of the movie is for Steve Rogers to stop HYDRA from waging war against the Allies and Steve only finds the "glowy thing", the Tesseract, at the very end of the movie. ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' is also mentioned when Peter has his powers at the start as well and has already figured out how they work and the conflict is over Peter trying to stop illegal weapons of all types, not just the Chitauri energy core pictured as the "glowy thing", from being sold.
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** Maher defended ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' for being against religion, even though the creators of ''South Park'' are not. In fact, they made a [[Recap/SouthParkS10E12GoGodGo two-part]] [[Recap/SouthParkS10E13GoGodGoXII episode]] against this kind of mindset.
** He dismissed the controversy about Apu from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' as the usual liberal sensitivity when the ''actual'' issue was South Asians like Hari Kondabolu (whose documentary kicked the controversy into high gear) tactfully explaining how the character made life hard for them despite still being fans and the show's flippant response simply being [[ValuesDissonance "It was OK years ago."]][[note]]In the documentary, Kondabolu was in fact shocked when he found out that Creator/KalPenn actually swore off from ever watching the show entirely because of Apu, with Kondabolu explained that he actually likes the show, he just doesn't like the portrayal of Apu.[[/note]]
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgInmHHO0m4&t=0s his segment]] about comic books and their fans, he claims that all superhero movies follow the same formula: "A person who doesn't have powers gets them, has to figure out how they work, and then has to find a glowy thing." His list of examples includes ''Film/IronMan1'' and ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'', neither of which could be accurately described as following this formula: Tony doesn't get powers in ''Iron Man'', he invents a suit of PoweredArmor. Also, the conflict is not about "finding a glowy thing;" Tony invents the Arc Reactor, just as he did the suit, meaning that he doesn't have to "find" it. The conflict is about stopping it from being used for nefarious purposes. Similarly, the conflict in ''Doctor Strange'' is about stopping an interdimensional being from swallowing the universe. The "glowy thing" (The Eye of Agamotto) is literally just sitting on a pedestal in Kamar-Taj within Strange's reach. The plot does not revolve around finding it. Quite a few other movies listed like ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' and ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' also don't work as in Justice League the characters all already have their powers at the start of the movie and in Captain America, the conflict of the movie is for Steve Rogers to stop HYDRA from waging war against the Allies and Steve only finds the "glowy thing", the Tesseract, at the very end of the movie. ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' is also mentioned when Peter has his powers at the start as well and has already figured out how they work and the conflict is over Peter trying to stop illegal weapons of all types, not just the Chitauri energy core pictured as the "glowy thing", from being sold.
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** Parodied with "A Farewell to Douchebags", a montage of unpopular politicians and political figures who lost during election cycles.
** Parodied with "A Farewell to Douchebags", a montage of unpopular politicians and political figures who lost during election cycles.
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** Parodied with "A Farewell to Douchebags", a montage of unpopular politicians and political figures who lost during election cycles.
** Parodied with "A Farewell to Douchebags", a montage of unpopular politicians and political figures who lost during election cycles.
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* InMemoriam: Parodied with "A Farewell to Douchebags", a montage of unpopular politicians and political figures who lost during election cycles.
** Played straight with Creator/RichardJeni and Creator/ChristopherHitchens' deaths, as Bill showed montages of their previous appearances on this show and his previous show ''Politically Incorrect''.
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** Played straight with Creator/RichardJeni and Creator/ChristopherHitchens' deaths, as Bill showed montages of their previous appearances on this show and his previous show ''Politically Incorrect''.
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