Disconnected cable about five years ago (cost too much, service out in the boondocks seriously sucked, etc) but kept the old TV set around to allow the grandkids to play DVD’s when they come visit. All this time, I’ve kept thinking that we’re going to have to replace that old set someday.
Only problem is it seems every time Grandma and I get started seriously talking about running into town and getting that new flatscreen we’ve looked at for the last year, we go visit friends just in time to catch some of the current excuse for programming or read something like this story.
Tina Fey?
SNL?
I’m supposed to spend my hard-earned cash to drag some piece of electronic hardware into my home so I can inflict drivel like that on myself and my family?
I’d rather just go out in the shop and pound my thumb with a hammer.
Then go spend the price of that flatscreen on ammunition.
I enjoy my flatscreen because of FOX and Netflix, Turner movie channel and Food Network.
I've pretty much been TV and cable-free since fresh-out-of-high-school nearly 35 years ago, though I watched enough of other people's TVs to know I wasn't missing anything. Thank God I married a man who is as indifferent to TV as I am. For the past 20 years or so, we've had just TV with air reception, watched 24, Fox News Sunday for awhile, and local news in the mornings with coffee for 20 minutes or so. That was pretty much the extent of our TV experience; the ads were either the funniest/best things, or they were the most shocking and revealing things, about network TV.
Digital changed our exposure -- our "box" won't function and we're both too lazy to try to troubleshoot it enough to work right. So now our "TV" is just a venue for videos and DVDs.
But Eddie Murphy is one of the funniest guys ever born, especially in SNL's Golden Years. His "Gumby" ("I'm Gumby, dammit!") puts me in fits every time. If he ever did an honest spoof of Obama ... yipes, it would be hilarious. I'd love to hear of a conservative comedy troupe on cable ... I'd get the DVDs when they came out! And would glory in seeing all the advertisers who sponsored the cable channel and comedy troupe prosper and blossom!