>>No, we just know from the time we are young that tv ISN'T REAL.
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>Please, Tracy, this is the kind of confusion we should come to expect from people who wear wooden shoes and live in windmills and are so sexually perverse as to praise little boys for putting their fingers in dykes.

And think it's somehow a big deal to have two lips. ;)

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>>>Well then, if Americans don't mind that their audiences are manipulated to behave like little children, then they also shouldn't mind being perceived as childish people.
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>>>>They are selected. They are also guided as how and when to react (applause, get up, etc.)
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>>>>>But more seriously, actors and guests are one thing. An audience is a different thing. I hope they are not selected too. I know there are people out of sight of the camera, who raise a hand when the audience is supposed to clap hands. But I hope they do not instruct the audience to behave childishly.