We're going to do it. Get rid of cable. The digital TV antenna will be here tomorrow. We have about two thousand channels now on Comcast and it's all crap. There's pretty much nothing to see on network TV anymore so the antenna won't do us that much good, but I'll fire up the Roku and everything will be fine.
I remember the old days. Even with cable, we only had about six channels and they all went off the air by one AM, but not only was there more to watch, but I think there was more nudity on TV back then. PBS had all kinds of stuff. One time, my father was watching some sports thing. They were showing an auto rally in Europe and there was a brief shot of a sinewy French driver naked on a massage table after a long day of driving. And it wasn't just Frenchmen. There was I, Claudius. One evening, PBS showed what French TV was like and it included an indecent French bra commercial. The ad jingle went, "Whose breasts are those...whose breasts are those..." over and over.
There was far more violence and some shows were surprisingly lurid. The Adventures of Johnny Quest was on every Saturday morning and was essentially an R-rated action film for children. Every episode attacked a different ethnic or racial group. What on earth did they have against Pygmies?
They don't have Saturday morning cartoons at all anymore. What do children do now?
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