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A Television Show Disorder
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The Love of My Life!
| A Television Show Disorder |
| 07.01.04 (11:50 am) [edit] |
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I’m must be possessed by some fatal character flaw, one I’m aware of, but something which is elusively grounded in a root source not of my understanding. With some exception, I have a natural aversion for watching SITCOMS. Maybe my inner child is just too suppressed; maybe it is just my tendency to take life to seriously and analyze things too deeply, humor seems to be something that shouldn’t be analyzed, it should just come spontaneously, but mostly my sense of humor is a dry one - a product of analytical comparison. It is not that I don’t have a sense of humor, because that is just not the case. I lament the day the [i]Muppet Show [/i]and [i]Benny Hill [/i]went off the air; those shows offered me a bit of human insight through humor and they were important enough that they were part of life’s schedule. [i]Laugh-In [/i]is another show that I appreciate, but none of these examples are SITCOMS. It seems I’m one of the few people in North America that has not watched an episode of [i]Friends[/i] or [i]Steinfeld[/i]; well there is the Amish community to consider, but I’m guessing there is a cult among them that secretly crawls into a hay loft to watch [i]Stienfeld[/i] on a small forbidden battery powered television which is normally stashed in a corner of the barn behind a bail of hay. I’m convinced the Amish could find humor in the plight of a married man that can’t grow a beard; they might even find humor in an adolescent youth that thinks it is funny to stash power tools in papa’s tool-crib or an electric mixer in mama’s kitchen. Probably most of the Amish are more attuned to situation drama though. Only four SITCOMS come to mind that I definitively can state have received more than an occasional chance viewing; there is no doubt I’ve seen all the episodes of [i]All In the Family[/i], as well as most episodes of Barney Miller; my father loved those shows and I loved sharing time with my father. Most recently I can lay claim to having seen most episodes of [i]That 70’s Show[/i]; the source of motivation for this is not too different from the other shows. The wife is very close to her sister and Sis frequently extolled about how much she likes that show, it was inevitable that the wife would check it out, so the two of them can share common ground. A year back we bought a very practical bed, it is a Sleep Number Bed with a frame that can be contorted to a wide range of configurations, it vibrates in numerous different patterns as well; before this device came into the house the wife’s firm position was that a TV had no place in the bedroom… there are better things to do in bed. With six years and five major surgeries between us, the practicalities of a bed shifted with time; with the introduction of the new bed a year ago, the wife soon discovered that pleasure and comfort could come from the bed itself, that I am but an option in her evening comfort. The new bed was in place only a matter of days when the words are uttered from her mouth, “I think we should move one of the TV’s into the bedroom.” The wife beats me in bed most of the time thus gaining the edge in remote control domination; [i]That 70’s Show[/i] is replayed each night at her bedtime making this a prime sister to sister bonding opportunity, so taking my own opportunity to simply spend some time with the wife has given me cause to catch up on however many seasons of that show are in replay. It sure isn’t my intent to be critical of anyone that does enjoy a SITCOM, I recognize the humor, irony and satire they contain, but the thing that motivates other people to watch them just doesn’t seem to be engrained in my nature. My guess is that most people don’t always like too take their lives too seriously and they find it enjoyable to see someone else’s life be played out as a tragic comedy. When I see a SITCOM my impulse is to check out what is on [b]The Learning Channel, National Geographic, Discovery[/b]; even the [i]Iron Chef [/i]or an old movie is a much preferable option; failing to find any of that, I’m prone to just getting up to find something productive to do, or to squander time on the internet. I’m no better when it comes to so called Reality Shows. I’ve never watched an episode of [i]Survivor, Joe Millionaire [/i]or any of that other stuff. I will admit to watching all three seasons of [i]Tough Enough [/i]though; that is a major confession too, because in general I despise [b]MTV[/b] and I have just admitted I’m subject to giving in to my principle; however, I’m drawing the line on [i]Friends[/i] and [i]Steinfeld[/i] - they have escaped my view all these years so now it is a contest to ensure one of their episodes never gets the best of me. |
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