Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for October 06, 2019
October 05, 2019
October 07, 2019
Transcript:
Cathy + Irving: No TV! Turn off the TV! Dad + Mom: How refreshing! Cathy + Irving: We can't see a "Mad Men" episode from this season until we watch all the episodes from last season! Irving: We're only 16 episodes behind! There's still time to catch up! Cathy: We're only up to season 8, episode 12 of "C.S.I."... Irving: Episode 3 of disc 2 of season 4 of "The Office"... Irving + Cathy: Episode 19 of "30 Rock"... season 2 of "Heroes"... disc 4 of "Two and a Half Men"... show 289 of "ER"... for once we want to catch up and experience something the day it comes out like the rest of the country!! Mom: ... sigh... remember when people used to feel that way about books? Cathy + Irving: "Books"??? We missed "Books"?? What channel is that on??!!
As the comedian Ernie Kovacs remarked, “They call television a medium because it is neither well done nor rare.”
(Suspect that some of my reader colleagues are asking, “Ernie Kovacs? Who was he?”)