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Wednesday, april 26, 1978 daily nebraskan page 13 Kids initiated into the 'drek9 with morning cartoons By Pete Mason Entertainment editor There is no such word as "drek." I looked it up in every dictionary in the office. There just is no such animal. television. I must. have made the word up but I'm going to stick with it, no matter what Web ster says. I use "drek" to describe a fat percentage of the shows beamed at us daily over the magic box. Drek must be a combination of "dregs", the most worthless part of anything, and 'gack", which I believe means clutter. I couldn't find that in the dictionary either. So "drek" must mean "the most worthless clutter." That's about as low as you can go. The major networks, in the spirit of competition in the ratings race, have become drek experts. The best way to ac climate the viewer to drek is to hit him while he's young, hence, the Saturday morning cartoons. Our impressionable, V"f l -1' ivm Quality Adult Theater Rated XXX THE HOTTEST, WETTEST, WILDEST YOUNG GIRLS I VE EVER SEEN!' Lincoln i PORN STARS ABE MADC NOT BORN" Starnnq Tetn Hall Wade Nichols PLUS an all star cast Rated XXX Candy Lips Late shows fn Sat Continuous shows from 1 1am Must he 18 Have I D mo o s oi mj Ircth &'p''t- 477-1234 5:45-7:30-9:15 " It's my own fault. I didn't take the pill." JOAN RIVERS AVCOIMBttVT PKTUMS 5:15-7:30-9:45 nichT FEVEU . OHN TRAVOLTA 5:00-7:15-9:30 3 ACADEMY AWARDS Jane Fonda Vanessa Redgrave rpg Based on a true story JTJ 5:30 7:45-10.00 Hi ENDS TOMORROW An experience in terror THE FURY immiii 1UJ O I. 46-W niioiM 5:30-7:30-9:30 DOCTOR DELIVERS LAUGH IN . . . I 4820 RENTWORTH (1 Block South of 48th & Hwy. 2) I Lincoln, Nebr. I 423-1241 1 Special student rates for dorms, greeks, teams. T-shirts, jackets, athletic shirts. i i 4 Cilibntii William Shakespear's Birthday Play around with 45' cans. Tonight, Wed. April 26th i TONIGHT ONLY DOUBLE DOUGH FREE With Any Pizza Upon Request There's Nothing Like it. malleable little friends are assualted by Hong Kong Phooey, Siperfricnds, The Three Robonic Stooges, Scooby's Laff-A Olympics, BatmanTarzan, Baggy Pants, Krofft Supershow, Space Sentinels, Land of the Lost and Space Academy. In between the shows (cartoon shows have set the art of animation back 20 years) the toddlers are screamed at to buy everything from Kung-Fu killer dolls to chickens that make ice cream. Yessir, folks. Get 'em while kids and they'll never ask for anything better. Of course PBS offers some alternatives. We can only hope there are enough parents out there who care enough about their kids' brains to change the channel occasionally. There is drek for everyone. If the ratings are any indication, the country is full of "drekkies," not to be confused with "Trek kies," strange but totally innocuous people who believe an ancient, long-cancelled sci fi show will rise again on a sort of Judgment Day. It's easy to spot a drekkie. A drekkie hangs Charlie's Angels posters on his wall. A drekkie wears a Fonzie T-shirt. A drekkie wears his hair like Shaun Cassidy and says things like, "Up your nose with a rubber hose." A drekkie is a person who is 16 and still buys clothes for Ken and Barbie. A drekkie buys Suzanne Sommers baby-doll pajamas. A drekkie thinks the Gong Show is a re ligious experience. There is a formula for drek. If you know the formula, even you can write a hit show. You need a combination of three or more of the following to create good drek. 1. One or more beautiful, long-legged but slightly retarded girls who look great in wet T-shirts. 2. A wise-cracking, middle-aged, female Falstaff who has the hots for everything but the family dachshund. 3. A cop who thinks all judges are fairies and all crininals should be drawn, quartered and fed to the pigs. 4. A mother who looks younger than her two daughters. 5. A man whose pet bear has a higher IQ than his own. 6. A loveable high school teacher whose classes last an average of four and a half minutes. 7. A handsome young chemist who changes into a monster every St. Swithin's Day. 8. A couple of teenagers who can play rock instruments and solve murders with the same ease. 9. A dwarf who spends his time looking under tall women's dresses. 10. An impoverished family whose members spend a good part of 'their lives saying goodnight to each other. All you have to do is to take a few of these factors in the drek equation, combine them, and voila. . .pure drek, Sexual innuendo has become the key word in a lot of the drek lately, particular ly in the sit-coms. The biggest offender is of course "Three's Company, my choice for "Drek King of the Decade." Suzanne Somers, America's new poster queen, spends most of her time in hot pants or an extraordinarily short nightie and John Ritter and a good chunk of male America spend the whole half hour trying to get a couple of bun shots. Mrs. Roper seems to be interested only in getting her tired and reluctant hus band into the sack and uses every ploy short of shackling him to the bedpost and showing dirty movies on the wallpaper. A wise man once said, "sex is the best fun two people can have without laughing." The people responsible for Three's Com pany seem to think talking and laughing about it is even better than doing it. I'm not opposed to sex on television. Sometimes I think I'd rather see good honest porno than this sophomoric excuse for a comedy show. The writers of Three's Company seem to have taken sex back to behind the barn where they think it belongs. They've made it dirty again. But that's the nature of drek. The pro portion of good television to drek tele vision is getting smaller all the time. And if certain producers and network program mers have their way, it's going to get worse. Next week, we'll voyage into tele vision's uncertain future. At Cornhusker Bank, we have 5,0(0) VJX Jim Mastera Executive Vice President ' Cornhusker Bank Alice Dittman President Cornhusker Bank F Sl Roger Berg 21? v,ca ) l 3L J (Very Important Customers) Each Cornhusker Bank customer is a V.I.C. Someone with special importance. A per son with special prestige. We like to treat our customers as V.I.C. s because they make our bank successful. We like to know who they are. what they do. and what we can do to help them reach their goals. Do you know what it's like to be a V.I.C? Stop by. We're ready to work for you Cornhusker Wc may not be the biggest bank, but we just might be the best-for you. 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