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Scoop My Eyes Out
We don't watch live television. We just don't. We're on our third TiVo, because we will not go even one day watching live television. When you try to tell us about that âfunny commercialâ you saw, we will smile and nod like pod people, because we have no freaking idea what you are talking about. It's bliss.
And that is why it is so damned painful to be in our current situation. The evildoers at network programming have moved two of our shows to the same time slot. This means that we have to watch one of our shows in real time. C'mon‚ we watch like four shows! Why why why? The most distressing part of watching these commercials is that we have discovered we are apparently in the same demographic group as people who:
- might be interested in seeing what wackiness ensues when two husbands swap wives
- might want to hear why this giant pickup is a better one than that other giant pickup truck
- might be enticed by a pizza that (this is true) is specifically designed for easier dipping into ranch dressing.
I realized something tonight, and this is not off topic: Bloglines
is TiVo for the web. This, I now understand, is why I love Bloglines. If you don't already use Bloglines, or don't understand why you should, please ask me to explain it to you.
I want you to be happy.
January 26, 2005 in Opinion, Television, Web/Tech | Permalink
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Let me get this straight: You somehow think it's -wrong- to dip pizza into ranch dressing? What about sour cream, is that okay? I'm pretty sure that God gave man free-will specifically so that he could decide one day to dip pizza into anything that could possibly be classified as a "sauce." Making this easier for me is just the right thing to do.
And, as a designer, I enjoy watching commercials. That's not to say that most aren't insulting to a child's intelligence... but some of them get it right, and do so beautifully.
Posted by: Brian Ford | Jan 27, 2005 1:33:44 PM
Actually, one of my best friends is a dipper, and we go way back, so it's not that I find dipping morally repugnant. It's the choice of "dipability" as the primary selling point of the pizza. It's weird and too specific.
I'll admit: seeing a good commercial is a nice surprise—like finding a twenty in a pair jeans you were about to toss. But they're so rare.
Posted by: Jay | Jan 27, 2005 1:59:42 PM
I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree about this. To me, this seems like an obvious thing to do, along the lines of whoever marketed hot dog buns that were the actual length of hot dogs. For those of us who like to coat our unhealthy pizza with extra unhealthy sauce, a product that caters to our vices (and advertises as such) is likely to gain my business, over a pizza that is dippinomically impaired.
Posted by: Brian Ford | Jan 27, 2005 3:55:17 PM
Hey... wait till you get to Chi-Town. Comcast has a DVR that has TWO TUNERS so you can tape two shows at once while watching something prerecorded! Take that! Tivo is the bomb diggity for sure, I've got one, but the DVR really does have Tivo beat in that department.
Posted by: Yvette | Feb 3, 2005 7:13:29 PM
