Life’s Crazy Revisited 2012
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.
Christmas Day TV.
It’s a whose who of what the hell are they airing?
Christmas TV to the three major networks has all the creativity of a plastic NERF ball for granny.
Don’t the suits realize millions of families have scratched and clawed their way to get to grandma’s house. We’ve battled delays and snow storms and sniper’s bullets to arrive. Don’t they know Granny only has one TV with rabbit ears and everyone eventually will be drunk and gathered around this boob tube hoping to lose themselves for a while.
Over on ABC If you don’t like basketball, then you are screwed. After the 2 hour infomercial for Disney World, this morning, ABC rolled out basketball. Not just one game, but three games. It’s a hoops-a-thon. It’s the Knicks at the Lakers followed by the OKC Thunder at Miam Heat.
I guess if you are 65 years old, you might enjoy turning to NBC which is countering with Days of Our Lives. Oh My God. A soap opera? who still watches this crap?
CBS has all but given up. They are airing The Talk with Julie Chen. I don’t even know what that is. That is followed by Let’s make a deal with Wayne Brady. The guide is aluring in its description “Costumed contestants compete for cash and prices.”
Sounds yummy doesn’t it?
At 5:30 the news is offered up on 2 stations not fast breaking down the court.
I wonder what they will tell me? There’s a winter storm? There are great deals in the mall? People n Newtown are still sad? The Mayans miscalculated their calendar.
At 7:30 things really heat up just as Aunt Betty is getting sauced and Uncle Bob is into his third Wild turkey of the evening.
Jim Carrey’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas is on ABC. Timeless right? NBC will counter with the Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who. Interesting how Dr. Seuss will compete against himself.
CBS has no creativity at all, running NCIS. These episodes like CSI grow like weeds at the CBS think tank and if you don’t air them as fast as they are produced, they will fester and become moldy.
So there you have it. Christmas TV. Old. Tired. Recycled.
And that is crazy.