I agree with you, Charmin. If you intend to remain reasonable and not refer to the posters on this thread as assholes or whatever, then there is a place to start.

I stopped watching TV decades ago because it bores the hell outta me. All of it. If I watch shows on television, I fall asleep within ten minutes. I do not own a TV nor will I ever again in my life.

I find TV and the ads to be insulting. I once watched a Seinfeld show and in the course of one hour (if it was a one hour show I watched one, and if it was a half hour show I watched two back to back) and the whole hour (which we know is only about 45 minutes because the commercial shit takes up something like 1 in 4 minutes) provided one out-loud laugh and one chuckle for me. The laugh track on the TV was 'telling' me that I should have had about 40 belly laughs in that time.

I have a sense of humour, contrary to what some people on Mudcat thing, and I got a hot flash: The show was NOT funny. Either that or I am very hard to 'condition'. (I lived with a mountain lion for three years and she never did get used to me, thanks Will.) TV is responsible, IMO, for the 'dumbing down' of North America. But then, corporations do tend to run a few things.