I’m WLHA self-appointed editorial director Grumpy Old Dan Smith and here’s what makes me grumpy: Fake fans. Fake fan noise today is what canned laughter was to sitcoms a few years ago. Oh, I get it. You knew it was fake then and you know it’s fake now. All I can figure is that the television producers think we’re complete idiots. Why stop with fake fans? How about fake announcers? Fake refs and dare I say fake computer-generated players? Oh wait, we have that. They’re called video games. Sports offers the greatest reality television ever. Always has. Always will. Maybe I shouldn’t be so grumpy about fake fan noise. We do, after all, live in an era of fake news, fake hair and fake, self-appointed editorial directors—oh wait, that’s me. I’m Grumpy Old Dan Smith and you won’t have to fake any fun if you listen to WLHA, the Big 64.
Fake Fans
Scripts November 17, 2020