Thanks to technology, we’ve become an on-demand society. Need information? Internet! Hello! Send a message? E-mail it! Not fast enough? Instant message! Text message ‘em on their cell phones! Watch your favorite movie? Videos! DVDs (skip to your favorite parts)! Too lazy for that? Cable! Satellite! Videos on demand! Want to watch your favorite TV show, but can’t stand to wait until it comes on? Buy entire seasons on DVD. Want to hear your favorite song? Don’t wait until it comes on the radio! Pop in the CD! Download the song off the Internet! Carry it in your portable MP3 player wherever you go, along with your entire music collection. Bored? Tired of just sitting around? Instead of taking a walk or riding a bicycle, play a video game! Yes! It counts as physical activity if you beat the snot out of some digital opponent, doesn’t it? Well, no. Progress means taking less time to do things we want to do, rather than have to. Want popcorn? Forget pulling out a pan and some oil, or even the air popper. For years, the home-standard has been a few minutes in the microwave.
I’m intrigued, and not all that surprised, that the past few years have brought us boxed sets of TV shows so that we may watch whatever we want, whenever, without having to wade through random reruns to see our favorite episodes. My, that was a long sentence. Anyhow, I wonder how long it will take for the more obscure shows to receive such treatment. When are fans of Too Close for Comfort going to have their day?
I’m waiting for season 1 of Bosom Buddies to be released. The subsequent seasons weren’t nearly as fresh, because Kip gets the girl and he and the other guy start their own ad agency. I’m surprised one of the stars of that show didn’t make it big as a movie star or something. That Tom Hanks, he really cracks me up.
What TV-show purchases have you succumbed to lately?
Of course, when the have all six season in one box for Sex in the City I'll surely succumb to that enticement. I also really enjoy family guy and those are fun to have around to watch whenever.
Dead Like Me from HBO, Spongebob Squarepants Season 1 and Fat Albert season 1 cartoon series. I want to get Quantum Leap and Sliders. I loved those shows.
Little House on the Prairie...4 seasons
Dead Like Me, Seas 1
I just watched the whole complete 1st season of the Wire too.
I love me some good HBO.
Yep.
Sex & the City for me. My hubby has Dukes of Hazzard.
The last television purchase I made was season 1 of Arrested Development. That show makes me laugh very, very hard.
I love both of those two shows! :) That would be cool...if I saw them on Nick at Nite...which is my first weekness.
And, I'll have to admit it...I subscribe to Soap Net...so I can watch all the ABC soaps at night. It comes from growing up watching them from age 7. It's sick and I need help. What can I say?
Nip/Tuck -- Season One... It's an amazing show, really... Great acting, editing, etc. It *is* rather adult though, so skip it if easily offended by "adult themes"...
Bought Seinfeld seasons 1-3....
Ooh, and Family Guy seasons 1-3 for my brother...
ok so i am the odd ball... NONE. Even with my trading spaces addiction, I still do not want to buy it, now I will admit i have recorded some of the episodes.
Little House on the Prairie, and Law and Order. Yeah, baby!!
I haven't bought any television shows, but I'm waiting for Moonlighting to be released later this spring. I'll be all over that.
Ohh, I am catching up on missed posts. As for being oddball, I can't say a WORD. I have Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 3-7, and I am saving for season 1 and 2. Take THAT! So I adore Buffy, I admit it. And Spike, too ;)