Wednesday, October 22, 2008

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

by teresa


We love our dvr.
What did we do before we could "tape" all our shows?
Now we watch what we want, when we want.
There is only one problem I can think of.
Our dvr can only handle so much at one time and with five people wanting to record five different things at the same time, sometimes you have to get creative.
So what I do is scan through the guide and see when shows are repeating. I bet you didn't know that most shows re-air from like 1:00am to 4:00am? So I record things real time and other things over night. Here's the dilemma. Prime time shows have commercials like Visit Disneyland, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, Skittles...Taste the Rainbow and Ford.
Not the same at 2:00am.
So when your son sits down to watch the MythBusters you recorded for him, you may want to be nearby to answer his questions about why that pretty girl Jenny has her phone number on tv (1-800-floozy) for you to call and be her friend. Or why his school doesn't teach "the healing art of touch" massage techniques. And then he knocks ten years off your life by asking,"mom, do most girls get their *blank* pierced?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's just wrong for them to have those kind of commersials on the Discovery Channel! Life sure was simpler when their world was Disney Channel and Sponge Bob!

christincherie said...

All I have to say is....if Obama is elected, he'll surely add an hour to each school day and if McCain is elected, he will rid all commercials of scantily clad women who have their "blanks" peirced. Really....look it up!

Anonymous said...

Just unplug the TV.