Television showrunners and writers are used to receiving feedback, however much they may complain about it, from the network executives that make their shows possible. Pleasing advertisers, audiences and network execs is just part of the job and an important part of remaining competitive in a television age that’s saturated with increasingly outlandish programming fighting to capture audiences on any number of viewing platforms

While it isn’t news to television writers that network execs, with their data gathering and focus groups, think they know what’s best for a show, viewers are getting a kick out of an anonymous Twitter account that’s giving industry outsiders a glimpse behind the curtain. And apparently the Twitter feed’s author wants to remain strictly anonymous: No response was received even after several emails were sent to the account.

Since February 2011, Twitter’s Network Notes or @TVNetworkNotes has been posting hilarious network commentary sans context. Each criticism is attributed to a channel, but not a show, so part of the account’s fun may be in trying to guess which MTV show was asked to give it’s character a cool job, “like Netflix delivery guy”.

Tweets range from hilarious and bizarre to totally contradictory, unnecessary or just plain sad. Check out some of Brief’s favorites:

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