goodbye television

Up until now, the only TV I've owned is a 13-inch Sony Trinitron WEGA I picked up after college. The screen on my laptop is bigger than my television screen. As of this weekend, I am retiring my TV in preparing to move on up to my deluxe apartment in the sky. Ok, it's not a deluxe apartment and it's not in the sky, but I will be joining the one percent of American households that do not own at least one television. This should be an interesting experiment -- I really wonder how long I can go without it. This coming from me, who is referencing the opening theme to the Jeffersons.

Before I bid farewell to television and blogging about corny TV shows, I wanted to share a clip of the opening titles for one of the pilot episodes of Three's Company.



Hard to believe the show made it on the air with an opening like this. What's up with the doobie-doo in the theme music? There's no one singing to us "come and knock on our door"! Where are the the curly letters M and Y on the show title? Did the actors not have any direction on what to do other than to stare awkwardly into the camera? And why do the Ropers look so annoyed?



Ah...much better! Next time I am in Los Angeles, I'm totally going to the Los Angeles Zoo to get a picture of the white wall in the opening shot. By the way, did you ever notice that Jack, Janet, and {Chrissy, Cindy, Terry} didn't have a television in apartment 201?