Showing One's Age

So, Alex started reminiscing about her favorite old TV shows, and of course, she asked pretty much everyone what theirs were. Man, great way to make someone feel ancient, when you have to preface it with "Well, nobody had a color set then." Sheesh.

When I was a kid, I didn't watch a lot of tv. What with circumstances at home, and the fact that I played outside a LOT because of that meant that I wasn't really exposed to the set. Not comparitively, anyway. A LOT of guys my age really glued to the tube. I guess I watched my fair share, though.
For some reason, I was addicted to Car 54, Where Are You? a comedy about cops in the Bronx Go figure, huh?
That might have been the reason I ended up liking The Munsters so much, since Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis were starring in that one, too. Plus, as we all know, vampires are pretty cool to a kid. I could never figure out what kind of monsters The Addams Family were supposed to be, so I really never got into that one.

As I got older, I watched The Monkees, much to my shame, but only if my parents wouldn't catch me, since they were a little too hippie for them. There were a bunch of good things on, like Batman, and Get Smart, and The Wild Wild West - I'm not much for cowboys, but James West and Artemis Clyde were just that cool. The really formative show, I have to say, was Hogan's Heroes. I wanted to be just like Hogan when I grew up, except, you know, not in a POW camp.

And you know, the less said about my fond memories of my college time spent on the couch with some, uh, refreshments, and Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, the better. I swear, the guys in the house used to tease the hell out of me for saying "Duuuude. Oscar. Whoa. What's up with him? He needs to chill." Also, there was the Snuffleupagus hunt. That ended pretty badly....


Man, now I want to watch TV! I really don't have time anymore, although I like to catch Monk and tease Alex about Goren's weird cousin in San Francisco. Unfortunately, that makes her rib me about my second cousin in Reno who's on that dumb reality show, which I catch from time to time and cringe every time I see it. I also watch Cold Case, because...well, um, I like the stories? That's it. Yes. There's also a weird buncha shows based on cops in New York that I see from time to time, but it's not like my life revolves around that one. It's been on forever, or something, and it's on, what, 24 hours a day? Alex watches it more often than not, but I can take it or leave it. Maybe I'll try to see it tonight or something, though.