Monday, August 15, 2005

TV shows

I consider myself somewhat of a trivia buff. I remember playing Trivial Pursuit back in the day, and being amazed at how little my parents knew about Ozzie and Harriet or Leave It To Beaver. I figured they watched all of the classic television shows, and not in rerunse, either. I also enjoy TV show theme songs (I have CDs full of them), and I'm surprised by who recognizes which.

Then, the other day, I had a "duh" moment.

It occurred to me that there are shows on TV today that I simpy don't watch. Either I think they suck, or they're in a time slot opposite a show I currently watch. So I know nothing about My Wife And Kids, What I Like About You, or Veronica Mars. My parents obviously didn' t have VCRs or Tivo, so there were by necessity shows they couldn't watch. And, as we saw in Back To The Future, folks back then didn't have reruns.
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