Obligatory Thanksgiving Post

Can you imagine living in a house with only one television? Better yet, one T.V. and no VCR, TiVo or DVR? Seems unthinkable. Imagine Thanksgiving morning as Dad insists on watching college football on the T.V. he paid for as the kids whine about watching some parade in New York, Chicago...wherever. By the way, the intellectual entertainment equivalent of a parade is now on television five days a week; it's called Teletubbys. Why on Earth did they make more than one episode of that show? The target audience of Teletubbys can't tell one episode from another... come to think of it, neither can I. They might as well keep showing the same episode day after day -save a litte money.
By far though, the best T.V. on Thanksgiving day was always the Twilight Zone Marathon. Wally Cox, Art Carney, Burgess Meredith... a classic. Too bad the hottest ticket these days seems to be 7/24 news. Another show I miss is Beverly Hillbillies. Jed and Jethro taking their shotguns out to "shoot some golfs" (all they could ever find was their eggs, which even Granny couldn't find a way to cook), or who could forget Jethro's Hollywood persona "Beef Jerky".
Wally, Burgess, Art, Jed and Granny are all gone now. Oh yeah, Mom and Dad too. Thanksgiving just isn't the same without college football so I'll try to catch some on the T.V. I paid for, even if I don't especially care about the game. It has a kind of seance quality that seems to bring my father's spirit into the room. If the food is good, It'll feel like Mom is there too.

-Steve