Pluggers by Rick McKee for December 21, 2019

I wouldn’t know. I rely primarily on my large DVD collection and my four streaming services (Hulu, Disney+, Amazon and Netflix).;-D

All signs of a society on the verge of collapse.

The only programs we which on smart TVs (even in a rural area) are cartoons, game shows, and the news. To us, that’s all you need.

I remember when The Learning Channel was piped into school classrooms to assist in education. These days… good grief! All that junk should carry a TVMA rating.

Television stars used to thank us for letting them into our homes. Now, we have people who we wouldn’t want to see moving in next door.

I love the geek channels but even those aren’t as clever as they once were. By the way, watched 5 minutes of The Masked Singer when they took the head of the costume off. The audience got all excited and cheered and clapped and OMGed. I thought, “who is that?”

I don’t mind looking at the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, but yesterday, my wife was watching a reality show about them and I had trouble getting out of the room fast enough! Talk about the bottom of the barrel in programming!

Thus the reason for not watching to much TV :-)

Haven’t had a TV in over 30 years. And I don’t watch the nonsensical stuff on YouTube, either. I do like the History Guy. He makes history fascinating, enough to prompt me to read books on history.

I think the smartest TVs are the ones that stay off. Lately, there is one show we watch. The rest is DVDs and even that sometimes seems to be hard to find good ones.

Not enough large carnivorous animals to cull the herd.

Do yourself a favor and throw you TV out the window. I did over a decade ago and have never looked back.

It is truly a discovery moment for a Plugger to discover that their fingers are no longer on the pulse of what is going on in the entertainment world! I used to know every song on the radio and what the latest shows were on tv. I stopped trying to keep up and have absolutely no interest in the “reality” shows.

I am getting old! Now I understand why my mom only liked to watch reruns on the tv. (To this day I still can’t watch I Love Lucy or Andy Griffith shows because I know them too well!!)

I remember when my TV had an easy-to-access “brightness” control. The power button.

There’s still Turner Classic Movies and Animal Planet.

2007 writers strike. “Reality” took over. TV networks need to put something on. And the fallout from that was the rise of Netflix and other streaming stuff.

If it weren’t for the rerun channels and the movie channels we wouldn’t be watching anything. Of course, we’d also save the pot of money it takes to GET those things….

Whatever you may call it, an idiot box is always an idiot box.