Certainly, Big Brother is long past its early-00s peak, but its hard to deny the show's weighty legacy.
Because of the show's weighty themes, Mr. Wyman said, he was also grateful to be the one who supplies some of the show's few lighter moments, like the song, "Master of the House".
In Washington, Graham, who is from South Carolina, is a member of the Armed Services Committee and spends nearly every Sunday on talk shows, discussing weighty foreign-policy issues.
The show's weightiest moments are mundane conversations about falling in love smothered in romantic signifiers helicopter shots! candlelit dinners! sparkly attire!—cribbed from the same 12 books and movies that Reader's Digest subscribers have been told depict ideal courtship.
In the same spirit, wrote Pat Kirkham, a professor at the center who assembled the show and its weighty catalog, as the turn-of-the-century feminists who favored separating women's art and design from that of men at the world's fair.
At the bar, he showed off a weighty Spanish corkscrew that looks as if it might moonlight as a gouging tool in a lumberyard.
In one cartoon, called "The Brain," Nast showed Tweed's weighty body topped by a bulging moneybag in the shape of his head.
Even when it comes to external advisers, and the case of BHS shows that a weighty array of professional services companies lent their names to support Green's actions, seemed unable to provide a counter-balance to C-level excess.
"Modern costume jewelry is light, cheaply made," she said, showing off two weighty old pieces, one stamped with the name of its late maker, Miriam Haskell.
Upon reviewing the first two episodes, Stuever notes that the show's ailment is "weighty seriousness".
