jiggle TV

English

Noun

jiggle TV (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of jiggle television
   • 1993, Michael B. Kassel, Ray Broadus Browne, America's Favorite Radio Station: WKRP in Cincinnati, →ISBN, page 55:

     Although Anderson brought her intelligence and sophistication to the role, given the climate of jiggle TV, critics found themselves equating Anderson with the other jiggling, giggling females.

   • 2014, Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, Gender & Pop Culture: A Text-Reader, →ISBN, page 110:

     Hence the rise of jiggle TV in the late 1970s. As a reaction to the social consciousness that dominated television in the early-to-mid-1970s, jiggle TV emerged as an escapist alternative, with uncomplicated plots and amped-up sex appeal.

   • 2015, Stuart Hylton, The Little Book of the 1970s, →ISBN:

     A jiggle TV programme consists of the following essential elements: (1) leading roles played by glamorous and improbably pneumatic young women (some of whom were surgically enhanced for the purpose); (2) scanty costumes, which allow the jiggling to be appreciated to its greatest advantage; and (3) a plot which necessitates jiggling, and may be far-fetched but not so complicated as to distract the audience from (1) or (2).