Cable TV ratings are a strange thing. Often when you look at what's highly rated, you'd realize that people either have no taste or the general viewing public is mentally challenged. Highly sophisticated shows rank very low, while mind numbingly stupid stuff gets high ratings. Whatever your political affiliation, the high ratings numbers on certain "Talk News" programs has to be alarming as well. How much news does any one person need, in reality? If you're watching more than three hours of news on ANY channel per day, you have to realize you're being brainwashed.


But when looking over the highest rated Cable programs for last week, you have to smile a little when you see that the 15th highest rated show was the 1997 comedy, Good Burger. Make no mistake, I'm not saying that Good Burger is an indication that the American people are stupid. Nope, quite the contrary. I actually think Good Burger is a pretty funny movie.

I'd much rather see that 4 million people watched Good Burger than half the other stuff in the top rated shows, including the aforementioned "news" programs... But Good Burger has to be some incredible ratings anomaly. I mean, Nick running Good Burger really shouldn't be considered a big deal. The movie was never a big hit and is nearly a decade old... Yet in the year 2010, it was one of the highest rated things on Cable television. The moon and stars must have been aligned just perfectly that night.

Bravo Good Burger, bravo!