Instead of “Must See” Tv It’s “Did You See” Tv
I am looking forward to seeing the first episodes of Black Gold, but in my research, I have found out that there is such a thing as the the truTV effect. Instead of just sitting there and complacently having the television on in the background, the network is devoted to grabbing your attention with true life stores. I call it the phone call effect. I have a brother who has to call you when something real cool just happened on television. He has to describe the blow by blow, distracting you from actually turning it on and seeing it for yourself. Once, I received a phone call at 3:00 A.M. That is the time I would usually just get horrific news, especially since my brother lived 1200 miles away at the time.
To be honest, it WAS horrific news. It didn’t involve a relative dying, but involved someone on television falling into a rapids, and then having to eat bugs to survive. It probably could have waited, right? But he’s THAT GUY, the guy that needs to share all the exciting details in the moment. It was akin to the time he called me at 2:00 A.M. from a bar to let me know that “my” team won. I really had to think for a minute about who was on the other end in my groggy state of affairs. Now that we live close to each other, he gets in the car, bursts through the door and tells me to “hurry up and change the channel” as I might be missing the most “awesome thing” ever.
Of course, I am a bit impervious to such things. I will admit to being a jumper when it comes to a sudden and shocking crescendo in mood music, followed by a sudden lunge by some falling structure at the screen. You didn’t hear that from me, though.
I wonder what will happen once my brother sees Man vs Cartoon. It’s the show where they test things that happened on the Road Runner cartoons and others to see if they would really work. Grandpa, who is a big fan going back to the 1940s, probably can’t wait for the phone call urging him to turn it on.
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Ha! Providing the blow by blow? My boyfriend does that. Once when he was in the middle of describing an entire feature length movie, one of our friends leaned over to quietly ask, “He does realize his isn’t the ONLY copy of the movie, right?” HA!
Are you dating my brother?? You must be. It’s nice to finally meet you. ha ha.
You should see him describe “Transformers” or anything that has “Ninja” in the title (i.e. American Ninja 2) “…and then this guy goes (explosion noise made with mouth and he also takes a step backwards), and then the other guy goes (hits fist with hand, making another noise)…it was awesome!”