THE BOOK OF THE VIP
ED
Breakthroughs in children’s entertainment
Chapter 75
I take it (said Charlie) that you’re too grown up to enjoy children’s entertainment.
2Maybe you’d prefer the real adult entertainment that will be on in the afternoons,
3Like soap operas,
4Which will fearlessly explore the kinds of trouble people can get into in real life,
5kSuch as divorce and illicit affairs and murder and illegitimate children and blackmail and abortion and all that delicious wickedness nobody has the nerve for,
6Except on shows like ‘I Love the Days of My Children,’
7And ‘I Love All My Doctors,’
8And ‘I Love the Way the World Turns Me On,’
9And ‘I Love…
10“Enough!” declared Ed.
11“It’s really true, isn’t it? There isn’t going to be anything good on for years and years.”
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