Daytime TV Musings

I worked for more than 20 years during the day. That being the case, I've missed out on the "pleasures" of daytime t.v. Now that I am a student who, for the most part, is home during the day, and since I often have the t.v. on, if only for company, I have gotten a large dose of daytime t.v. My observations:

1. Most of the commercials are for technical or trade schools for the people "who aren't doing anything but laying on the couch." One nauseous technical school actually says this in their commercials that are repeated back-to-back during the same commercial break. Others feature mainly minority young adults who say things like, "I have seven children and didn't even graduate high school." One of these schools has a grammatical error in their commercial that has irritated me for more than a year: "We can train you to be a nurse's aid." (The correct word should be aide.)
2. There are a lot of women out there who have so much sex with so many men that Maury Povich constantly finds women who are testing more than 10 men to determine who is the father of their baby. One woman was on her 25 "possible" father. (It wasn't him either.)
   
3. Oprah has some kind of fixation on Dr. Oz. If I hear her mention "poop" one more time, I'm going to puke. Watch for him to get his own show soon.
4. Oprah needs to shut up and let her experts talk. I'm noticing now, though, that more and more she doesn't have an expert, she just gives her expert thinking on guest problems.
   
5. People are willing to tell the world their most intimate business on court shows. I guess they do it to get a free trip to and hotel stay in New York, Chicago or Miami. Oh, and every woman should know by now not to get a cellphone, furniture, car or apartment in their name for a man. It doesn't matter if "he had bad credit." That's why he can't get those items and that's why he's not going to pay you back and will mess up your credit.
   
6. No particular ethnicity corners the market on trashy behavior. The court shows, Jerry Springer and Maury Povich all prove this.
   
7. Now that the new year has come, the rest of the commercials are for weight loss products, quit smoking products, so-called healthy eating products, payday loans, title loans and Wal-Mart. I guess people are fat and broke and want cheap stuff after the holidays.
8. Lifetime TV repeats the same movies over and over and when they finally quit, the same movies are moved to The Lifetime Movie Network.
9. Judge Mathis plays bid whist and knows how to do all the latest line dances.

My t.v. is now mostly off during the day. Late night t.v. is not much better. What man truly believes there is a product that will make him grow four inches? Or, what man wants to use a product that "might" cause an erection that lasts for more than four hours? Who knew that on certain nights, after a certain hour, Oxygen becomes an Erotic QVC?

Ok, I'll quit.

T