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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 5330248, member: 833"] One other thing I will add: Try watching a workplace comedy, or really any workplace show, with someone under 35. I re-watched the Big Short with my kids and several of their friends. I was only there to explain what was happening at different points in the movie because they liked Ryan Gossling but they couldn't figure out what the movie was about. All the young people laughed uncomfortably at the scenes where Ryan Gossling is verbally abusing his staff. My first employer was horribly unprofessional, with constant verbal abuse, degrading and demeaning behavior, and bullying towards subordinates. Truly bad stuff, and I had friends where it was worse (one friend of mine worked on a trading floor and had multiple phones thrown at him during his time there). That is what workplaces were like in the 90's. People don't behave like that as much anymore, and it is certainly not a source of humor, so young people don't like it. The Big Short was written by a bunch of Gen Xers about events that occurred in the 2000's. They were just going for laughs with Gossling. Compare The Pitt with ER. These shows are basically the same show, just in Pittsburgh instead of Chicago, with one important difference. The junior doctors were constantly humiliated by the senior doctors in ER, where that doesn't happen in The Pitt. Times have changed. [/QUOTE]