Thursday, May 2, 2013

P1: What Do I Watch on TV?


A lot of people seem to think I’m joking when I say I didn’t stop watching shows like Sesame Street, Arthur, Veggie Tales, Word Girl, and Super Why until I was in eighth grade. 

Do you see the smile that is not on my face?

Up until I was unusually old, I was not even allowed to watch PG-13 movies, and when I did, it was Star Wars Three: Revenge of the Sith, and I had to fast forward through the part where Anakin fell into the lava.
 
I used to watch the Saturday morning cartoons every Saturday with my brothers.  That was back before the Japanese Invasion, and when the shows were actually good.  You had your Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, your Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward, your Xiaolin Showdown, your Eon Kid, your Viva Piñata, and your Coconut Fred’s Fruit Salad Island.  Awesome shows.  But then it changed.  I don’t really know what happened.  All of a sudden, all of those shows that I liked got replaced with Dragonball Z-Kai, ten different versions of Yu-Gi-Oh, and those other Japanese shows where their lips are out of sync and they blast pure energy out of their hands using their soul or whatever.  It’s horrible.  Who watches that crap?

I have two televisions in my house.  Both of them are color.  The one upstairs is really boxy but the one in the basement is from the future.  The one downstairs also has Netflix, but Netflix does not let you watch Coconut Fred’s Fruit Salad Island.  I fear I have lost that show forever.

Some people think it’s weird that I’ve never formally watched Spongebob, but my TV gets around seven channels depending on the weather.  It doesn't really matter though, because Coconut Fred’s Fruit Salad Island was pretty much the Tops brand Honey Wheels to the Honey Comb cereal that is Spongebob.

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