10:45 am - Fox continues to be self-referrential; no one cares

I've just gotten around to watching last week's House and Boston Legal. I don't know why I watch these shows. They record themselves independently of me at this point. I would edit my list of series-to-record (it's now up to 34) but I just don't have the time. My time could be much better spent... watching one of these 34 series.

Boston Legal was kind of stupid, but nothing compared to the promo for the ABC Nightly News that followed. Fat people were shown eating fast food, while a voiceover screamed threateningly that Something else in your diet may be responsible for obesity!

That outburst is wrong for a lot of reasons, including

1) it implies that everyone watching is already obese
2) it references "something else" as the "other" to a subject that was never established
3) it's true

No matter what your diet is, there will always be "something else" that may be responsible for obesity -- yours or anyone else's. You don't even have to be eating it at the time. But it definitely couldn't hurt.

The really crappy part of this promo, for me, was that I was eating my way through a giant box of Kirschbaum's tea cookies (translation: "cookies with frosting") when I heard it. I was actually so focused on the cookies that I wasn't even watching the screen. I started laughing just from hearing the words, and little crumbs (of the cold hard truth) scattered all around me in my bed. It was sexy. This was at 8 in the morning. I'd been up all night working, and now a commercial on ABC was telling me that something else in my diet -- give or take the box of cookies perched on my right knee -- may be responsible for my obesity.

This is getting morbid and sad, so moving on to House...

 

Check out Dr. House's list of previously recorded programs:

Of course he watches The O.C. He's quirky, and quick-witted, and a doctor. NEWSFLASH: DR. HOUSE IS AWESOME!

This is beginning to sound a lot like my April Fool's post.

I'm a little perplexed as to why The O.C. recorded on two Fridays instead of Thursdays on House's DVR device. These Fridays also seem to be 17 days apart. This is because House lives in a fantasy realm where he sounds like an American and has to use a cane. It's so much fun!

During the scene, zany House and his friend made fun of how many episodes of The New Yankee Workshop House had stored. They never alert us to the fact that zany House has also taped The O.C., and the screen was only shown for two seconds. Viewers with keen eyes had to discover this bounty of Fox-being-cute on our own.

I just realized that I have finally provided an actual service to readers. I watch 34 television series so you don't have to, and take low-quality photos of the screen when I think something that in all honesty is only funny to me will be of great benefit to others. Some would call that magnanimous. I would call it... Monday?