Many years ago, a day’s episode of the World’s Second Greatest Comic Strip Ever (after “Calvin and Hobbes”) showed a few of the secondary characters from “Bloom County” stuffed into a big chair watching TV.
It mattered because if the program was, as one character said, a contemporary documentary about violence in the Middle East, then, of course, what they were seeing was horrible. They should be shocked and appalled.
But if, as another character insisted, they were watching a movie, or maybe an episode of the old World War II desert adventure “The Rat Patrol,” then it was socially acceptable to enjoy all the mayhem and make sounds like, “Yeah!