| Our husband watches a lot of TV, and there are a few shows that we really don't want to miss, like The Simpsons, The Daily Show, Gilmore Girls, Scrubs, Monk, Queer as Folk, Queer Eye (not so much this season), Joey, Reba, Wheel of Fortune, Survivor, Amazing Race, Airline, Celebrity Poker Showdown, Live with Regis and Kelly, The View, and anything featuring Suzanne Somers or Don Knotts or, preferably, both. We used to really look forward to Star Trek and Smallville too, but they conflicted with other shows and their story lines were getting way too stupid. So we finally broke down and got us a TiVo. We wish we had TiVo back when X-Files was still on and when Six Feet Under was still good. And why doesn't Murphy Brown run in syndication anywhere? The funny thing is since we got TiVo we actually watch less TV. Since you can pause it, we do. And then we get talking, and then the Ketel One gets talking and before you know it its time for bed or sex or an argument or a crying jag. It varies.
But we're fighting with our TiVo.
You see, TiVo has this 'cool' season pass thing where you tell it to record every episode of a show you like. Sounds pretty cool, huh? Well, we have a season pass to The Simpsons and it didn't record the final episode. The FINAL EPISODE. There were two Simpsons, back to back, a repeat first and then the season finale thereafter. The season f-ing finale. Uh, did anyone out there see it? There was a crisis in our building that night, and we ended up spending most of the night in the emergency room. And we even remember thinking at the time, "Well, once we get through this crisis, at least we can go home and watch two episodes of The Simpsons, thanks to TiVo. Thank god we got that TiVo." And another thing---when the State of the Union preempted Will and Grace, Joey and Scrubs did it automatically record them when they re-played? No! It told us when they would be on and we had to manually set them to record at the new times. Who's got that kind of time?
And another thing. Why is TiVo so stupid that it doesn't know when a show starts early or runs over its regularly scheduled end time? We've been working late a lot lately, and one reason we wanted TiVo was so we wouldn't have to work with that anxiety of wondering whether our husband would tape the right shows, or if the VCR would fuck up or whatever. On Tuesday, May 17th, we blissfully worked until 8:30, knowing we could look forward to the Gilmore Girls finale at our leisure when we got home. What a great episode...until it abruptly stopped and flashed: "Delete this recording now?" FIVE MINUTES BEFORE THE END!!!
Please! Help! Can anybody tell us what happened after Lorelei put the milk back in the fridge?!?
Wolphin
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