TV

Last night we were watching the Sci Fi Channel, since they were replaying the Bermuda Triangle thing and we had never seen the last part - which turned out not to be worth the trouble, in our critical opinion. At any rate, we started wondering about show time vs. commercial time and started counting and timing the commercials. (Hey, we're bored sometimes, you know?)

There were 10 different commercials, played over 5 minutes, at our first count. Then there was, literally, 5 minutes of the show. Then there were 14 commercials played over 6 minutes, followed by 5 more minutes of the show. Then back to 5 minutes of commercials...

I couldn't really believe it. Remember when there were just one or two commercials in each break? This wasn't really our dream of Cable TV, either. There were supposed to be NO commercials - that was the whole point of paying for cable!

We have some DVD's of the George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and their commercials were part of the show itself. They were sponsored by Carnation Evaporated Milk, and every once in a while George or Gracie or one of the minor characters would come out 'on stage' holding a can of Carnation and talk a little about how great it was in your coffee or something, and then they'd crack some line related to the show and get back to the business of entertaining.

We've taken some wrong turns here, I think.