When I Am Emperor, I will punish...

Prime Timers

When I am emperor, I will throw in jail everyone who uses the phrase "not ready for prime time" as if it meant anything. While they are in jail, the guards will force them to watch prime time television shows — adding laugh-tracks, if necessary — twenty four hours a day, to prove that prime time television is no mark of quality. They will have two options to leave.

First, if they write a genuinely funny or entertaining script for a sitcom without using a single cliche (whether dramatic, structural, or verbal) and promise never ever to use that phrase again, they can leave. Second, there is a secret passageway out of the room that leads to the cannon firing range, where the guards will shoot them out of cannons into the barren remains of Hollywood, where they will have to fend for themselves.

That's a television show I would watch.