I wrote a few days back that I inherited a stomach virus from my son.. It’s beginning to wane a bit, but not without a week of fever, and all the rest of the gunk and junk that goes with a stomach bug. Today was a recovery day.. took a day off to sleep. But sadly, I’m sleepless.
So I figured.. let’s flip some channels on the boob tube.
How sorry I was.
Jodi Arias reigned supreme on some channels. The other news networks had lots of information about the IRS.
I was able to catch the last hour of the 1990s movie MAFIA!, which I recommend for those who either don’t remember it or never saw it.
But.. the most horrendous part of TV, in my humble opinion, comes to us from the Drew Carey hosted PRICE IS RIGHT.
A little back story.. from an early child, way back in the early days of the Reagan Administration, I fondly recall watching Bob Barker’s PRICE IS RIGHT.. It was a summer staple in my life for years.
And I rarely watched it since having a day job for over a decade..
I did today. And regretted it.
First off, no one ever wins. The games are almost impossible to win, and even worse for Drew Carey to try to explain to contestants how to play.. at one point, there appeared to be a malfunction with a game in which little ‘rats’ race .. the yellow rat didn’t move until after the game had completed. And of course the unlucky contestant lost his new car. The game seems stale now. Bob Barkerless.. it should have been canceled with Barker’s retirement.
And why is Drew Carey skinny now? That doesn’t seem right, either. What has happened to this world!?
Luckily for my viewing pleasure now, though, two hours of Jerry Springer is airing on my local FOX affiliate. Some scorned woman just pushed green jello into her ex girlfriend’s face. Now they are crying.
Which reminds me: Have your pets spayed and neutered.
