What's On TV Tonight?

  • by Trish Berg
  • April 16, 2014
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Struggling with loads of laundry, clutter in the kitchen and chaos in your life? Stress can easily steal our joy. Trish Berg reminds us to simplify the small stuff and find Joy in the Journey. That is a question that can sometimes make my day even brighter. I know that sounds lame, and I am sorry if you are losing respect for me at this point. But the honest truth (as if there could be dishonest truth) is that I am a TV watcher. I look forward to good shows, bad shows, and everything in between. I get caught up in TV shows, and want to know what happens next. They get me hooked and I am suddenly in it for the long haul. When I was a kid myself, I watched The Great Space Coaster in the mornings as I ate my Lucky Charms before school. I grew up looking forward to The Muppet Show, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley to name a few. I laughed when Tattoo said “Da plane…da plane…” and loved seeing Mr. Roarke make his guests’ fantasies play themselves out, always seeing some life lesson learned in the end. When my children were young, I loved watching Arthur with them in the mornings. I loved the humor and storylines in that little PBS cartoon. Our children grew up watching Little House on the Prairie on DVD every Sunday evening while they ate pizza and grew up with Veggie Tales, The Jungle Book and Finding Nemo. Today, I watch a diverse playlist of TV shows, some of which I am quite embarrassed to admit publically. My husband, Mike, is not quite the TV watcher I am, and he has fun mocking what I watch. To his defense, he is probably right. In fact, he has renamed all of my favorite shows. Here’s the rundown. I enjoy watching What Not to Wear (aka What Not to Watch), Say Yes to the Dress (aka Say No to the Show), Love It or List It (aka Hate It and Sell It), Friends (aka Enemies), Criminal Minds (aka Criminal Mimes). I am a new fan of The Walking Dead (aka Good Morning Teenagers) and have been talked into watching Pretty Little Liars (aka Ugly Fat Truth Tellers) by my teenage daughters. We also love watching Duck Dynasty, 24, and on the news side, The Five and The O’Reilly Factor. But those shows have yet to be renamed by said husband, but I am sure he is working on that. As for watching bad TV, the only excuse I can make is that it is a time out for my brain, an escape from reality to live in a world where I can imagine things, feel sad for people, scared sometimes, solve mysteries or see the bad guys get punished. And I can do all of that from the comfort of my own family-room couch, snuggled under a quilt with sweet tea and popcorn in hand. Sometimes life is just too complicated for me to handle. Maybe it’s that I am not as smart as I may look. Does watching dumb TV make me dumb? I am not sure. Maybe, just maybe, I am just like you, a tired, busy mom in search of an escape hatch from the chaos of the everyday. Oh, wait, the escape hatch won’t pop up until the next cliff-hanging episode of 24. I just hope Jack Bauer is there to catch me at the end of the line and that there are no terrorists waiting for me there.


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