TV

Lately my family has taken to watching the shows Pickers, and Pawn Stars. I also really like these two shows, (Pawn Stars is better) but I realized that they are basically the "new/ cool" version of another show everyone used to like, Antiques Roadshow. They are definitely very similar, but here are my top three reasons why #1. Random people bring in random things. #2. Everyone wants to know how much it's worth and #3. All the stuff is old, or valuable or it's a fake and it just looks it. That's basically what happens on both of these shows. Except on Pickers they go out to find the "antique items".


Along with the subject of TV, something that really bothered me the other day was a commercial about a whitening toothpaste. It went like this "Young lady goes in for a casting call (or something like it) and the older lady tells her she looks/ is great but she needs to whiten her teeth. The older lady then goes on to say "no coffee, blueberries, soda etc all that junk that makes your teeth nasty for the next 2 weeks. So then it shows the younger lady going off and doing everything she was told not to. When she goes back to the office for her second interview or whatever the older lady is like "wow your teeth look great, those rules really work huh?" (or some thing to that effect). Now is it just me or is that like the worst commercial ever?? I felt so irritated afterwards, and I totally could care less about the whitening tooth paste! All that commercial says is "you can do whatever you want and take the easy way out." And really how difficult is it to avoid certain foods for 2 weeks? I don't know maybe it is just me but when the commercial was over I was all in a tizzy. But I guess that just goes to show what our world is today, "do whatever you want whenever you want, lie, be dishonest, don't follow rules, take the easy way out."

This is why I never watch TV I hate commercials and I dislike most celebrities, but also I don't want to see anymore then EXACTLY what I want to watch, thank goodness for the 30 sec commercials on Hulu and commercial free viewing on Netflix.