{"id":377,"date":"2005-09-17T09:43:36","date_gmt":"2005-09-17T16:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2005-09-17T09:43:43","modified_gmt":"2005-09-17T16:43:43","slug":"sg-1-makes-top-10-tv-buzzwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/sg-1-makes-top-10-tv-buzzwords\/","title":{"rendered":"SG-1 Makes Top 10 TV Buzzwords"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Stargate: SG-1 catchphrase “It’s what we do” was ranked #6 in the list of top ten TV buzzwords for the year by the California-based Global Language Monitor<\/a>. For the complete press release go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/p>\n

The Television Buzzword List (TeleWORDS) for the 2004-’05 Season is released in conjunction with the 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, to be televised live on CBS on Sunday, September 18th from the Leonard H. Goldstein Theatre in North Hollywood. The complete list, with commentary, follows.<\/p>\n

The Top TeleWORDS of the 2004-05 Television Season<\/p>\n

TeleWORDS \/ Show \/ Comment<\/p>\n

1. Refugee
\nShow: Ongoing coverage of the aftermath of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
\nComment: For millions, the word has now taken on a racial undertone and was subsequently replaced by ‘evacuee’ and others.
\nRunners-up: Evacuee, displaced persons, Katrinees?<\/p>\n

2. Desperation
\nShow: ‘Desperate Housewives’\/The Tsunami\/Hurricane Katrina
\nComment: Desperate Housewives’ began the television year in good fun, but as the year progressed the world witnessed an on-going war, a tsunami, the death of a beloved Pope, and finally unanswered death and despair on the American Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n

3. Camp Cupcake
\nShow: The On-going Martha Stewart follies
\nComment: The minimum security WV facility where Martha did her time.
\nRunner-Up: Ankle Bracelet<\/p>\n

4. Reality TV
\nShow: ‘The Real World’, ‘The Bachelor’, ‘Survivor Classic’, ‘The Simple Life’, etc.
\nComment: Real-world reality bested the manufactured kind by a long shot this television season.<\/p>\n

5. Curmudgeon
\nShow: House
\nComment: Acerbic, caustic, antisocial, & mean-spirited; those are socially redeeming qualities of this brilliant physician.<\/p>\n

6. “It’s what we do.”
\nShow: Stargate SG-1
\nComment: Stargate becomes the longest running Sci-Fi Series in the history of the medium.<\/p>\n

7. Flip Flop
\nShow: The 2004 U.S. Presidential Elections
\nComment: Formerly referred to gymnastic routines, pancakes, and dolphin acts; now transcends politics moving into pop culture.<\/p>\n

8. Backstory
\nShow: ‘Lost’
\nComment: ‘Lost’ takes ‘the story behind the story’ concept to the next level.<\/p>\n

9. Tsunami
\nShow: The News
\nComment: Before “The Tsunami” took a quarter of a million South Asian lives, most of the viewing audience had only a vague acquaintance with the word.<\/p>\n

10. Mobisodes (Not another season of the Sopranos, but one-minute TV episodes designed specifically for mobile media.)
\nShow: Every ‘hip’ show worldwide.
\nComment: Coming soon to a cell phone near you.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Elyse at Yahoo! group sg1_spoilme for the tip.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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