Its classic slapstick stuff and I got a good laugh out of it.
Perhaps that reveals something about my intellectual depth.
Anyway…as I've mentioned before, Peanut watches YouTube way
more than what I’d call conventional television.
But what is conventional television anymore?
In the most recent issue of Wired, Willa Paskin points out that streaming video has not only enabled
us to watch our favorite shows on any computer with a WiFi connection, it has
also changed the very nature of how we watch TV. We are now able to "binge watch” our favorite shows.
“Whatever our televisual drug of choice—Battlestar
Galactica, The Wire, Homeland— we've all put off
errands and bedtime to watch just one more, a thrilling, draining, dream-influencing
immersion experience that has become the standard way to consume certain TV
programs. We've all had the hit of pleasure after an installment ends on some
particularly insane cliff-hanger and we remember that we can watch the next
episode right now. It’s a relatively recent addition to the pantheon of
slightly illicit yet mostly harmless adult pleasures, residing next to eating
ice cream for dinner, drinking a beer with lunch, and having sex with someone
you probably shouldn't.”
Guilty. Just last Friday we binge watched two episodes of
Homeland after we got home from dinner.
