What does 'throwing up its hands at its own audience' mean?
Hello everyone. I'm reading a book about the Simpsons. Could you please help me understand the last part of the sentence or make its more clear? I read the sentence a million times, but I just don't get it. Have you any idea?
For all its great moments, “The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show” is about nothing so much as the show throwing up its hands at its own audience.
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riverbottom the show throwing up its hands at its own audience. org/wiki/throw_up_one%27s_hands It means that the show gives up trying to please or entertain the viewers, or make them laugh. It is a criticism that the show is not very satisfactory.
- riverbottom the show throwing up its hands at its own audience.
- org/wiki/throw_up_one%27s_hands It means that the show gives up trying to please or entertain the viewers, or make them laugh.
- It is a criticism that the show is not very satisfactory.
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riverbottomthe show throwing up its hands at its own audience.
There is an idiom, "throw up one's hands"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/throw_up_one%27s_hands
It means that the show gives up trying to please or entertain the viewers, or make t
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