Television is not a perfect medium. There are so many pet peeves that aggravate me when I watch the tube that it made writing this article a little harder than I thought.

I was sitting at my computer with the notepad, trying my best to jot down things when they came to mind, and then it donned on me! The only true way to write an article like this is t actually sit down and flip through television and find the things that actually piss me off.  So throughout the week, I sat down in front of the television and with my cheap purple notebook, I wrote down the things the  really agravated me.

And here’s what I wrote down!

  • Running commercials immediately after the opening title sequence. This gets really annoying
    when it’s one of your favorite shows and you’ve been waiting all day to watch it and the clock
    finally turns to 8pm, and you get that small taste of whats to come, you find out that you have
    to wait another 5 minutes for the show to actually start.
  • Severe sound increases when the show cuts to commercials. 
  • Pop up advertisements running on bottom of the screen during the show.
  • Seemingly neverending commercial cycles. You know the ones where it seems like an eternity has
    passed and you finally decide to change the channel and then you change back after a minute
    and the commercials are still running.
  • Paid programs-enough said!
  • On Demand services not working
  • Strange edits made to movies
  • When you have a 100+ channels and there’s nothing to watch
  • When you watch three hours of a ghosthunting show and they spend more
    time complaining about some dude in their team then they do ghosthunting.
  • Marathons- What can you say, I enjoy variety and in a time when you can buy
    your favorite show on dvd, marathons are quite pointless.
  • It’s ok to say “bitch” on television, but don’t dare put “hole” at the
    end of “ass.”
  • The fact that SciFi shows Uwe Boll movies.
  • When you sit through a show that is chock full of messages like “true beauty is on the inside” and then
    when it cuts to commercials, they cram “if you don’t use this zit remover, you’ll never get laid!”
    down our throats. 

If you’re wondering why most of it’s complaints about commercials, it’s because a good 60% of what I see when I flip through television is commercials, and they really do get on my nerves.

So commentors, I want to know, what is your list?

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