Level 86 Television

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Level-based RPGs (yes, non-level-based RPGs exist) go something like this:

• You just killed the band of marauding Orcs and their leader that (burned your village and slew your parents). Level up! Now how to celebrate?
• Kill the entire tribe of maruading Orcs! Level up!
• Kill the evil Wizard that controlled the tribe of marauding Orcs. Level up!
• Kill. Level up!
• Mass genocide. Level up!
• ...
• Have tea with the evil diety started all of this before slaying him or her, thus becoming a diety yourself.

Over the top television is the same way; the show has to out-do itself every time it does something out-rageous.

• Doctors drive their cars through people's Houses.
• Doctors swap placebos for drugs in a medical trials for the sake of Greying old friends and still keep their jobs when discovered.

Television has turned into a Level 86 monster that skips rope over shark pools for fun. Time to kill it.