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.

I didn't get into "proper" TV watching until I was in my 20s. Up until then I'd had 3rd world TV, or English TV (which I love, but did nothing except add snobbery to my pop culture credentials when starting university). It wasn't until some time after I'd graduated and started working that I got a television (before that TV was a group thing where we'd travel to someone's house for appointment TV, but I realised that there were late night showings of Footloose that I was missing out on that way).

And then...I ended up here, and for a while TV was a hobby. I knew when everything was on and what the ratings were, and I watched one episode of everything each new season on network TV...

And then came TiVo. Different kind of crack. Different kind of addiction. But it's not a hobby anymore, even though I probably pay more attention than the average person not posting here or at TWOP.

I watched almost no TV as a kid and way too much now. I blame the interwebs for giving me people to talk about TV with.

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.

I almost wish he did want some tie-in stuff. He is so impossible to get toys for, he just doesn't play with them. It makes gifts tricky, especially for Grandparents and other relatives.

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

Did it suck? It probably sucked, didn't it? I have to Netflix it. Oh, and get a working DVD player. There's only so much I can watch on my computer. Someone please help me in 'Tech. I can't make the decision on my own.