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you know, i can honestly say, that there are few shows from my childhood that had a profound effect on me.  i didn't get to watch a lot of tv, but what i did, was either kid friendly or later, in syndication.  this article speaks to me.

i can't tell you a lot about the brady bunch.  i've watched it.  there are a ton of shows and cartoons out there from my childhood.  but i can't tell you the life story of the characters anymore, or sing the songs, or relate to the story, or etc.

but sesame street.  wow.  a friend has a son who now watches it and it is frequently on when i am over there.  i know this show.  i still love it.  it still entertains me.  i get nostalgic.  i love watching him watch it.  cookie is my main squeeze, i am glad everyone knows snuffleupagus is real, ernie is goofy and mischevious, the count and his ba-ah-ah, oscar... i know them like i know my family.

no one needs to tell me how to get to sesame street... i know how.

one of these things just doesn't belong,

the office
meet the fockers
the shining
lost

can you tell which thing is not like the others
by the time i finish my song?

a guessing game...

i won't lie, i am a liberal.  rhetoric is one of the most fascinating things to me, on both sides.  and i am quick to laugh at the inconsistencies of any politician, etc... but i love it when one side attacks another for one thing and then does not see the GREAT BIG MONSTROUS HOLE in their own argument...

thank you daily show!

cnn is reporting this today!  i have to see it.  this was like some of the only tv i got growing up!

dear officials and people in charge of tv stations,

um.  so yeah.  this writer's strike thing.  it needs to stop.  i have resigned myself to my netflix subscription and to books for forms of entertainment, but is it really so hard to share the profit?  is it?

i have resigned myself to the idea that you have sucked me in and made me addicted to those characters on tv.  i am resigned to the fact that i consider them part of the family and am invested in their futures (even though i am more than willing for you to kill off quite a few of them).  but i need them.  please, please, please give the writers part of the internet profit.  pleeeeeaaaase!

they deserve it.  really.  really they do.  without them, without the writers, i am left with game shows and reality tv... and really, where is the clever banter and the wit?  where?  it isn't there!  i need the writers.  i need them.  where would i be without pushing daisies?  or californication?  or grey's?  or heroes?  where?!?!?

GIVE THEM THE MONEY!

sincerely,
the princess

i am afraid that i am one of those "addicted" to visual stimuli.  i like tv.  i like movies.  i like music videos.  i like photos.  i like art.  and thomas will tell you that i have a high tolerance for all things on the screen (big or little).

now, even though i will watch anything, that does not mean that i do not know what is good, quality or worth watching.  i am quite capable of discerning the crap from the quality and if i get to know you, i can even make suggestions based upon your taste.  think of me as the personal tv guide. 

one of the shows that i have recently fallen in love with is californication starring david dachovny of x-files fame.  i can explain very easily what it is about this show that i love.  dialogue.  the script of every episode is so very clever, so very witty, so very literate, and so very well done that i eat it up every time it is on.  this is the stuff that shows should be made of.  it is so clever it puts me to mind of frasier or gilmore girls.

the show is essentially character driven and the only action you are going to get from it is going to be sexual (so if you are offended easily, i don't know that this is for you) and fights (so if you are offended easily, i don't know that this is for you) and then there are the sex scenes (did i mention this and did i mention that if you offend easily...???).  but the show totally develops character, motivation and psychology oh so brilliantly.

i wish all shows were this well written.

so the national spelling bee is on.  this is way stressful and i absolutely love the spelling bee.

what is even funnier is that the two guy commentators, mike and mike (thomas listens to them apparently), talk about the kids like they are horses in a race...  i mean, i know a lot of them are homeschooled, but geez, talking about them like horses...

am i the only one creeped out about the cgi orville reddenbacher commercials?  because if i am, just let me know that you think it is cool and i will get over it. 

i mean, he was creepy when he was alive and all paper thin and old and wrinkly with his bowl of popcorn and now that his is dead and animated and creepy with his bowl of popcorn, *shudder*.