tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post8337890541766245355..comments2024-01-17T19:11:06.286-08:00Comments on Orange and Silver: Changing the ChannelTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665343970056841693noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-31081844364946079112019-04-29T02:38:39.886-07:002019-04-29T02:38:39.886-07:00Your article is very helpful for me. I will follow...Your article is very helpful for me. I will follow your instruction. Thank you. this websitehttps://bookmyreviews.com/best-portable-tvs/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-70897475960386687272014-09-15T12:48:58.003-07:002014-09-15T12:48:58.003-07:00Totally with you that we would ditch TV so fast if...Totally with you that we would ditch TV so fast if it wouldn't mean a visit to the divorce lawyers.<br /><br />I will say that when we can get out of our satellite contract, we will go to all on-demand. At least then they have to think of something to watch, not just turn it on and go blank.<br /><br />Our kids take TV for granted the way we take radio for granted. My dad used to tell stories about listening to the radio, and how it was very special for them. To us radio just is. That's how our kids view TV. It's not special, it's just something that's always there. Now an iPad, or Kindle or something--that's special. Not everyone has those. Our grandchildren are going to be like, "Yeah, Kindle, whatever." They'll be issued to them at school and stuff.<br /><br />You're right about the programming. Once they get past Peppa Pig and Caillou, it goes right to stuff for tweens. One of my 9 year olds made some comment about "breaking up by text message." I know it was on some Disney Channel show, and he heard it.<br /><br />Kids don't get excited about stuff the same way, it doesn't seem. Wait, let me amend that--it depends on what it is. I will say that it gratifies me that my kids bring me their e-readers and ask me to pre-purchase those Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. But when it comes to special programming, yeah, no such thing.<br /><br />As for knowing Clara Peller's name, even if I hadn't remembered it (which, for some weird reason I did--I have a trivia brain, I can't tell you where my car keys are, but I can tell you who played random characters on TV shows from 30 years ago), I could always have Googled it :)Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-14877897257574066382014-09-15T12:15:20.607-07:002014-09-15T12:15:20.607-07:00I feel the same damn way. About all of it.
"...I feel the same damn way. About all of it.<br /><br />"Just another dementedly jabbering block of plastic that takes up space in our homes." I beg your pardon but my kids are not plastic! (Joking). I wrote about my disgust for the television a long time ago, & if I could I'd throw it out, but my husband would divorce me. So I keep it & pray my kids turn out alright. <br /><br />It is so different (& much harder) to parent today. Our parents didn't have to monitor us b/c for 1, they didn't give a shit and for 2, children's shows were actually appropriate for children. Parents didn't have to worry over Love Boat or Fantasy Island. (How the hell do you know the name of the old lady in the Where's the Beef commercial btw?!?! ) Today after the age of 8 & they age out of public television, there is nothing appropriate on for kids so they blindly watch whatever garbage is being served up purportedly for kids. I actually gave in to the irritating Sponge b/c he was the best of the lot. <br /><br />I remember when the multi-colored "special" sign used to spin around on the TV screen & we got so excited. B/c it actually was special. I feel like a lot of special things are ruined today. I can't tell if it's me being curmudgeony or romaticizing the past, but to me things seem worse. And, incidentally, kids seem worse. They don't seem to get excited about anything or want to do anything - but why should they when they have so much & have 20 million channels at their fingertips? <br /><br />But I also think maybe our parents thought the same things about us. Who knows? Maybe the kids do find certain things special, but they don't articulate that so we'll never know. Maybe they'll have fond memories of silly stuff from their childhood like we do only a bit different? <br /><br />Here's what I had to say: http://onefunnymotha.com/2012/08/24/do-you-lie-to-your-kid/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09587376475449542545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-5946274898620084442014-09-04T18:51:25.545-07:002014-09-04T18:51:25.545-07:00Yep, no anticipation at all. I wish I could just g...Yep, no anticipation at all. I wish I could just get rid of all the viewing devices in our house, but I'd be cutting off my nose to spite my face if I did. :p I DO like to watch a few things now and then myself.Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-65323751136238640472014-09-04T18:46:39.201-07:002014-09-04T18:46:39.201-07:00Totally agree with the magic being gone for my kid...Totally agree with the magic being gone for my kids. Netflix, DVDs, streaming videos -- they an watch whatever they want whenever. No concept of live TV or having to watch commercials or waiting until a certain day and time to catch a show. They're missing out, man. Missing out big time. (Also, I hate Sponge Bob.)SammichesPsychMedshttp://sammichespsychmeds.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-87157378593626595062014-09-04T11:13:24.911-07:002014-09-04T11:13:24.911-07:00We watched AITF too. I still love that show and wi...We watched AITF too. I still love that show and will watch it on something like Hulu when I have time (which is almost never).<br /><br />We have Amazon Prime (Netflix and I had an ugly breakup around the time of that price increase) and I'm just as bad. I think I've watched Seasons 1-4 of Downton Abbey five times each (and am going in for round five shortly). However, we do have the satellite (because god forbid my children miss a new episode of "Girl Meets World" right? Can you imagine? I mean, I don't want CPS all up in my grill) so I get to see new seasons of stuff that's on those channels, if I'm so inclined. Unfortunately, with four kids, I'm inclined way more often than I actually have time :pTracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-61084440499135529792014-09-04T10:36:13.378-07:002014-09-04T10:36:13.378-07:00I only got into the TV when I was allowed as a kid...I only got into the TV when I was allowed as a kid and I blame that on my dad. It was the "cool technology" thing in the house and he was the "only one who knew how to work it right" so we weren't allowed to touch it for a while so we mostly got exposed to what he liked. I got exposed to a lot of "All In The Family" because Archie Bunker was a complete and total asshole and clearly someone my father could relate to.<br /><br />Now Netflix has ruined me. They give me all the seasons of a show I have missed out on . . . except for the LAST season just to drive me mad (Dexter and Breaking Bad did this for a while but they finally caught up) or they give me a new show that I get totally addicted to and then they give me an entire season at once, which I promptly marathon watch over a weekend and then nothing for 9 months (Orange is the New Black).<br /><br />I haven't scheduled myself to sit down to watch a show in I don't know how long, but Sons of Anarchy will have me firmly planted on the couch at 10pm next Tuesday. (Patience is not a virtue for me, it is something I can't pick up at WalMart and therefore, I don't have any.)<br /><br />I can't remember where I put my glasses this morning but I can remember all the words to the theme songs . . . Happy Days, The Love Boat, Laverne and Shirley.<br /><br />And a couple weeks ago when Robin Williams passed away, my first thought was "Mork is DEAD"?!Opticynicismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09059382464905100473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-74256342570326537832014-09-04T07:59:23.282-07:002014-09-04T07:59:23.282-07:00Thanks! We had five, actually--NBC, ABC, CBS, and ...Thanks! We had five, actually--NBC, ABC, CBS, and PBS, but also Metromedia, which became the Fox network. Metromedia was never anything like Fox. In fact, before I was born, my dad was a reporter for Metromedia, covering Capitol Hill. I don't actually think having the TV remote saves us anything in expended energy. Instead of getting up to change the channel 17 times an hour, I spend 20 minutes hunting under every piece of furniture in a three room radius of the TV set looking for the goddamned remote! :)Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-89868432616470282014-09-04T07:40:32.273-07:002014-09-04T07:40:32.273-07:00Loved this! We had four channels when I was a kid...Loved this! We had four channels when I was a kid - ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS. Take your pick. I got a fair amount of exercise getting up to change the channel. Maybe that's why I still can't sit still when I'm watching TV.rockygracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14457010488015617811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-91201255589060334732014-09-04T06:22:55.733-07:002014-09-04T06:22:55.733-07:00She's no spring chicken anymore, but I haven&#...She's no spring chicken anymore, but I haven't heard what she's up to in years, either. Glad you enjoyed it! Sorry about the ear worm. I feel that pain deeply :)Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-39228527984501040532014-09-03T22:49:30.324-07:002014-09-03T22:49:30.324-07:00I haven't heard Barbi Benton's name in for...I haven't heard Barbi Benton's name in forever. What's up with that chick nowadays? This post was really a treat to read and made me yearn for technology to become special again. But "you can't go back home." Thanks for the memories and now the earworm has implanted Herve Villechaize shrieking, "Da Plane, Da Plane!" into my mind. Thanks for that, too! ;-)Little Miss Menopausehttp://thequotegal.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-2096656634586045412014-09-03T22:01:54.277-07:002014-09-03T22:01:54.277-07:00For a long time that's all I watched was PBS. ...For a long time that's all I watched was PBS. Do you know that if you go to buy the first X seasons of Sesame Street (not sure how many), it actually has a warning label that the content is not for children? WTF? "I'm An Aardvark" is now considered inappropriate for children under 12???Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-22907282248700002002014-09-03T21:33:55.957-07:002014-09-03T21:33:55.957-07:00OMG -- this makes me feel so OLD! I remember all o...OMG -- this makes me feel so OLD! I remember all of this! For the longest time, we only got one station -- the local PBS station through the university. Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street, Electric Company, and Zoom were the shows we watched. That's why I'm so damn smart ;)<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04706402916568545956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-68553466037713800052014-09-03T16:01:15.125-07:002014-09-03T16:01:15.125-07:00Thanks! Yes, once a year or it would just be ruine...Thanks! Yes, once a year or it would just be ruined through overexposure. And they'd do that. Not intentionally, but still.Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-43040657652509958592014-09-03T14:42:52.724-07:002014-09-03T14:42:52.724-07:00Yep, yep, I agree with it all. But mostly, I agre...Yep, yep, I agree with it all. But mostly, I agree with this - "Once per season, the way God and Charles Schultz intended." Best line EVER! And the truest.Gigihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05467164195744234746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-36690114605450452572014-09-03T12:08:01.935-07:002014-09-03T12:08:01.935-07:00Exactly. They were acting like dicks to each other...Exactly. They were acting like dicks to each other and to me. Plus I fucking hate that thing's voice. And the plots are SO STUPID. So: banned.Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-63868104544035848992014-09-03T11:37:01.776-07:002014-09-03T11:37:01.776-07:00We didn't ban Spongebob for a long time. And t...We didn't ban Spongebob for a long time. And then... We had to. It was starting to make my kid act like a little asshole. And by little I mean humongous.Sarah (est. 1975)http://established1975.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-10988857206293127462014-09-03T10:13:26.233-07:002014-09-03T10:13:26.233-07:00Captain 20! I wanted so badly to watch him, but th...Captain 20! I wanted so badly to watch him, but there was a building on Connecticut Ave that was just too tall to allow it. I spent my childhood mourning the absence of Kimba and Speed Racer in my life (I was the poster child for First World problems).Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-32654952996439504312014-09-03T10:10:56.364-07:002014-09-03T10:10:56.364-07:00I remember "Captain 20" well. And I cri...I remember "Captain 20" well. And I cried the day they took "Kimba" off the air. Sad, but true.Cassandrahttp://www.thenextdelusion.comnoreply@blogger.com