The main thing I realized on my two days off from work, laying in front of the television with a crippling fever, is that daytime television really sucks these days.
Take for instance the amazing amount of court shows there are nowadays. Judge Alex, a fake The People’s Court, several people doing their best Judge Judy impression, a new Divorce Court. Jeez. Isn’t there a whole channel now devoted to nothing but real court cases? Isn’t that enough? If you need to see that much court, then commit a crime or go to law school. Chances are, if you are parked in front of a television when these shows are on, you haven’t the motivation to do either.
The proliferation of court shows must end. You heard it here first.
And even The PIR, or Price is Right to you laymen, is terrible now. Drew Carey is so soft spoken and about as charismatic as my remote is. He couldn’t hold Bob Barker’s microphone.
What happened to the good old days, where you could watch the Family Feud with Ray Combs, TPIR with Bob Barker and The People’s Court with Judge Wapner, Rusty the Bailiff and Doug Llewelyn?
Ray committed suicide, Bob retired and Doug, well, only God knows where Doug is.
Sadly, daytime television isn’t even worth skipping school for anymore. Hey, maybe that was the point?
