Gregor Samsa - ThreeYOU CAN'T DO THAT ON TELEVISIONNothing in the world can quite approximate the feeling of arational dread that this show could elicit. To wit: the main set was composed of a short wall or counter in the middle of a hermetically sealed geodesic dome, where the child stars would interact. Whenever anyone said "I don’t know," they were ‘slimed’ with a green, muculent (poison) substance. Any request for water was quenched by a pressurized blast of aqua to the head. The kids who starred on YCDTOTV had no idea that they were prisoners, held captive in some sort of Cartesian mindfuck. Considering that any profession of ignorance or thirst was met with extremely negative reinforcement, one would think that the kids would be conditioned over time into becoming arrogant know-it-alls who hydrated by drinking each other’s bitter, nervous sweat. The only visible adult character on the show was an archetypal sexual predator who wore his hair parted, his lip mustached, and his torso swaddled in plaid. YCDTOTV was originally aired in Canada, and it’s as if the producers channeled the accreted toil and wintry misery of every inhabitant and poured it into this show.[Buy the 27:36 EP]