Confession: I am addicted to crappy teenage television shows.
Most recently its been Vampire Diaries, and before that Gossip Girl.
In fact its a good thing we don’t actually have a TV or I’d be stuck in front of it all the time. Now I have to watch whatever is recently added on Netflix. Which I of course do by watching the entire season in a weekend and then feeling depressed when it’s over.
All this TV watching has reminded me of the most fantastic TV week of my life (aside from when the original Power Rangers was on, and it was followed by Wish Bone, nothing will be better than that). But the most fantastic adult TV week of my life, happened in college, when I did have cable. There was some promotion where we were granted the greatest channel to grace television. The Game Show Network. Ah, the name of it makes me smile. It had everything from “Family Feud”, “The Newlywed Show” and “Baggage”. I’m sure I discovered it because Jeopardy started about the time that I came home from class. But after Jeopardy, there was a whole world of game shows that I didn’t know existed! If there’s something I like more than teenage vampire love drama, it’s game shows. I would race home after class to catch those shows. I would even call J after watching them at night and give him a play by play of what happened. “Can you believe she guessed that?!?” “Oh you won’t believe what was in their baggage!” (Obviously he loves me a lot because he let me relive game shows to him.)
After about a week I knew I had to share this great find with my roommates. How had they, the girls who did homework, ate supper and slept in front of the TV not know about this channel?!? But alas, as soon as I decided to enlighten their lives and give them a reason to race home too, our promotion was over. The worst part was the cost was too high for us poor college students to upgrade.
I still like to reminisce about that fantastic period of time. I was recently reminded of it while in a BBQ restaurant in downtown Birmingham… with bars on the windows… and bullet holes in the walls… I mean the food was delicious… Anyway, I miss TGSN. But I also miss Moo Mesa, and no one seems to remember them at all. So I’ll just settle for some vampires.