"Everyone has firm beliefs about what he loves and hates about TV, whether this belief system is formed while watching that syndicated Seinfeld rerun for the twenty-ninth time or waiting to see which sad young thing some pathetic Bachelor will choose." "In Kissing Bill O'Reilly, Roasting Miss Piggy, Ken Tucker, the pop-culture critic for Entertainment Weekly and New York magazine, writes in the spirit of television itself, producing a collection of prove-me-wrong arguments, proudly vulgar tirades, and carefully reasoned mini manifestoes. If you think the high point of televised political wit was MASH, or that Johnny Carson was the true king of late night, Tucker will do his damnedest to convince you that you've been hoodwinked, duped by pixilated mists of memory and bad TV criticism."--BOOK JACKET.

Love : Edie Falco Hate : David E. Kelley Love : Jennifer Garner's wig Hate : Star trek Love : Ricky Nelson Hate : Seinfeld theme music Love : David Caruso Hate : Ed Asner/Lou Grant Love : MTV's Real world Hate : MTV's music videos Love : NewsRadio Hate : The kids in the hall Love : cops Hate : bald/macho : Kojak and The shield Love : Full house/T.G.I.F. shows Hate : The Brady bunch Love : C-SPAN Hate : Sunday morning news shows Love : Aaron Spelling shows Hate : reality TV Love : Abbott & Costello Hate : Rowan & Martin's laugh-in Love : Andy Rooney Hate : viewers for quality television Love : James Garner Hate : Paris Hilton and The simple life Love : Homicide : life on the street Hate : William and Robert Conrad Love : Buffalo Bill Hate : M*A*S*H Love : Bill O'Reilly Hate : Geraldo Rivera Love : Michael Mann's cop-show trilogy Hate : made-for-TV movies Love : Marg Helgenberger Hate : John Larroquette Love : MacGyver Hate : home makeover shows Love : Simon Cowell Hate : American idol Love : best mothers Hate : worst mothers Love : best fathers Hate : worst fathers Love : Andy Griffith show/The honeymooners Hate : Barney Miller Love : David Duchovny Hate : Six feet under Love : Freaks & Geeks Hate : The price is right

Love : informercials Hate : The tonight show Love : Roseanne Hate : the Smothers brothers Love : David Brinkley Hate : Edward R. Murrow Love : Alec Baldwin in Knots landing Hate : Vincent D'Onofrio on Law & order : criminal intent Love : The joy of painting Hate : Michael O'Donoghue & SNL Love : Jack Benny Hate : the "golden age" of drama Love : Ramona Hate : TV animals Love : The point Hate : A Charlie Brown Christmas Love : Profit and Vengeance unlimited Hate : Bochco and the "story arc" Love : Richard Hatch Hate : Queer eye/As folk Love : Johnny Rotten on American bandstand/Tom Snyder Hate : Howard Stern on TV Love : Homer Simpson Hate : Mystery science theater/The family guy Love : Pee-Wee Herman Hate : the FCC Love : Silk stalkings Hate : West wing Love : Paul Lynde Hate : Miss Piggy Love : Pardon the interruption Hate : PBS Love : Lisa Bonet on The Cosby show Hate : "tackling" issues Love : William H. Macy on SportsNight Hate : the women of Law & order Love : Laverne & Shirley Hate : Whoopi Love : the best Twilight zones Hate : the worst Twilight zones Love : Twin peaks Hate : final episodes Love : Welcome back Kotter Hate : Chuck Barris Love : The Waltons Hate : Little house on the prairie Love : Batman Hate : nostalgia Love : Pamela Anderson's breasts Hate : sex on TV.