“No TV and no beer make Homer something, something.”

by chuckofish

Well, this week in Jefferson City, the big news was the opening of our very own Macadoodles, my favorite liquor store. I know I make my mother proud. I haven’t been yet because I don’t need any wine at the moment, but the “coming soon” has been on the building for at least all of 2022. So it is not a surprise that a) it made it in the local paper and b) the parking lot was full when I drove by yesterday.

In other news, I saw these at Wal Mart the other day and assumed my favorite YouTuber Matt Mitchell would be excited.

Yes, the Christmas Little Debbie’s were across the aisle from the Halloween candy. Times are weird. Last week, I mentioned that there’s nothing to watch on TV. I would like to reiterate that point but add that back in the day, TV was free, commercials paid for it, and TV networks created content that people wanted to watch.

Can you believe that over 100 million Americans watched the MASH finale or that 80 million tuned in to find out who shot JR on Dallas? In the past ten years, the highest rated programs on television were Sunday Night Football. World News Tonight was the highest rated program in all of television for a week in June. Do you know how many people watched? 7.3 million. NBC has considered giving back the 10 p.m. hour to the affiliates rather than pay to fill the time. How the mighty have fallen. Although, we’re the ones paying to watch reruns of NBC shows on Peacock, so maybe we are the mighty who have fallen.

Sure, we had fewer options before streaming, but at least we didn’t have to pay multiple streaming platforms to watch TV and then pay more to watch without commercials, and then have nothing to watch. I’m currently watching reruns of NCIS with commercials on Sundance TV. No wonder everyone is depressed. And anxious. Trying to decide what to watch is not easy, especially if you’re picking whatever will be least bad. Sigh. Maybe I’ll check out the new Macadoodles this weekend. Just kidding.