Public Tv Advocate Gifts

"Funding for 'Nova' is provided by Merck and Lockheed, by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and by annual financial support from viewers like you."

'It's 10:00. Do you know where your kids are?'

Corruption, Apathy, & Mediocrity...

'I'm not sure if it's the programs or the commercials, but one is supposed to be a lot worse than the other.'

New symbol for Public TV: 'The tin cup' (PBS)

Good morning and welcome to National Public Radio, you bloated capitalist swine!

'Happy 50th PBS.'

'PBS is weird -- they just ran an eight-hour commercial about how they never have commercials.'

"We ought to send PBS some money so it can afford better pledge-break specials."

Donald Trump cuts PBS funding.

'Yes, we're having another fund raiser but, please don't give! Who cares if honest intelligent radio goes silent forever?'

Broom Operators Deserve Better

The Masterpiece Theatre Gang

'Sometimes I wonder about PBS -- they're counting down the top 100 Gregorian chants.'

"The preceding PBS program was funded by do-gooders...not by freeloaders like yourself."

'Please! -- if you don't send a generous contribution to this Public Television station right away, we'll all have to go out and get real jobs!'

"You might have seen Judy's uterus on a recent PBS special."

'Your new identity will be of a public TV fundraiser.. nobody pays any attention to them.'

"Not a phone call in days, and just LOOK at the pledge board! If we don't start hearing from some of you, dinosaurs might very well become a thing of the past!"

"Good Lord! PBS is having a telethon marathon."

'It's not PBS, it's a pledge driver for the US government.'

Mary Whitehouse

The following program was made possible by a grant from someone who obviously has way too much money.

This PBS program is made possible by funding from viewers like you. This part always makes him feel awkward.

"Your late relative left you his PBS tote bags."

If Public Television is so sophisticated and high-minded, why is the McLaughlin Group discussing Kato Kaelin?

Current events quiz...which well-known kids character do Trump and the Republicans want to stop funding?

'PBS has such sophisticated comedies -- that guy just got hit in the face with a crème brulée.'

'Major funding, for this public television show, was not provided so we are signing off.'

"Ordinarily, we'd love to come, but we don't want to miss a single minute of tonight's pledge drive."

'PBS has such sophisticated comedies -- that guy just got hit in the face with a crème brulée.'

Kill your TV, not yourself.

"Hi, I'd like to talk about the great future for digital TV" "Two digits to you, mate"

'It says her that you watched PBS for twenty years, and never pledged a contribution.'

Victim of cutbacks at PBS.