Uniquely Singapore! TV

I cannot resist making cross-nation comparisons when its comes to TV Dramas and when comparing Singaporean “dramas” with those of…basically, every other nation, one “Uniquely Singaporean” characteristic inevitably surfaces. It’s that the characters spontaneously break out into horrifically arbitrary and criminally stilted, incongruous conversations about Central Provident Funds and Baby Bonuses and other such Government Initiatives with unnatural and uncharacteristic precision of details and wealth of knowledge on the subject. I want to say that I’m being biased and subjective and anti-Singaporean but this is all true okay. I was surfing channels just the other day and stopped at some Channel 8 drama which was all blah until the characters had the following conversation, I kid you not…and then it just got friggin’ hilarious – not in a good, intentionally hilarious kind of way.