I had one channel, in black and white, until we moved to England when I was 12. TV didn't come on air until hours after we came home from school. There really wasn't much discussion of shows at school at all, even though I remember getting fixated on the idea of watching Man From Atlantis when we finally got it. But that was just all about me and a burgeoning crush on Duffy.

The thing I remember the most are the after-school Godzilla movies.

It's so totally different for them, they sit down and can watch any episode of several versions of Scooby-Doo, any episode ever aired of Fetch! (Great show), any WordGirl, any of over a hundred Authors, any of about 80 Spongebobs, any DragonFly TV, and a few other shows. There's a big PBS bias in available media.

It is DARK outside. And RAINING. Why the hell am I not in bed?

I do not know. You totally should be.

I watched a lot of tv when I was growing up (still do!). My favorite was the Bionic Woman.

It's so totally different for them, they sit down and can watch any episode of several versions of Scooby-Doo, any episode ever aired on Fetch! (Great show), any WordGirl, any of over a hundred Author's, any of about 80 Spongebobs, any DragonFly TV, and a few other shows. There's a big PBS bias in available media.

When I was a kid, we only got the Green Bay stations. Three channels, plus PBS. Once when I was five or so I dreamed that we had 40 channels of TV. I was so excited! and so bitterly disappointed when I woke up....

OK, I can't explain whey I liked that show.

For me it was cute boys, explosions, and Southern accents. I also wanted Daisy Duke's jeep, if not her wardrobe.

As an only child of an indifferent parent, I watched all of the tv I wanted, whenever I wanted. My teenaged years I memorized TV Guide cover to cover and had the listings grid memorized for every night (even for shows I didn't watch). I was obsessed with the fall preview issue. (I was the same way about movies, actually). I don't know that it did anything for me socially, in school, although everyone always counted on me to give facts about tv and movies.

Fast forward to today. I stopped getting TV Guide when it went to large format. I have no idea what time any shows are on, save for "Glee" (and even that one I was confused about because I think it aired on a couple of Fridays too?), 30 Rock and The Office (and Parks and Rec, now). That's it. Steve and I did fall into watching a repeat of the White Collar pilot on Saturday, and enjoyed it. I know there's a TON of great tv on, I just am very behind in all of the good shows. I am finally catching up with Mad Men, but on DVDs.

And I do feel out of it. I used to read TWoP religiously, and now I am always reading recaps years later (if I read them at all).

But I am not creating art or negotiating world peace in all of my newfound time. Nope. I spend it on teh interwebs.

Cutehead Leif. I imagine he could get into some of the tv tie-in toys without getting into the actual shows, if you'd rather go that route.

ION, I went to the post office to get my registered letter, and it turned out to be from the blood center! So I called, and apparently someone who got my blood (among others') came down with some tick-borne disease (babiosis, apparently), and they want to test me (and everyone else). I guess it can be chonic but non-symptomatic in healthy people, but not so good for sick people, like someone who would need a transfustion. I was like, yeah, that's not going to happen, and also, I can't imagine when I would have come across a tick! But kind of interesting.

even though I remember getting fixated on the idea of watching Man From Atlantis

You heard that's out on DVD? Or coming out soon, I forget which.

Boxing, hockey, All in the Family, MASH, Barney Miller, Macgyver, Magnum PI, Star Trek re-runs...

Substitute baseball for hockey and Plei and I might as well be the same person.

TDS is the only show I watch regularly now. I do watch a smattering of stuff for treadmilling, but it's been pretty random lately. Not because I'm anti-TV or think everything is crap, I just don't have time.