QotD: Tune In, Turn On

How many TVs do you have in your house?

DROP OUT?

Are they seriously (mis)quoting Timothy motherfucking Leary in the title?  Dude.

Anyway, I'm not entirely sure how many TVs there are now.  People keep giving them to us, and I think there are three.  Assuming that is an accurate count, two of them have never been plugged in or used by us in any way.  They just sit, one in the basement and one in the garage.  The other TV, the big one (although not as big as the one I had in Japan, a TV called the "Bazooka" and sized appropriately, that I got for a mere 7000 yen at a used shop near my house) is in the living room.  It is plugged in, and we do use it.  There is no cable out here, and we do not get satellite.  This means we get two channels--I think they're PBS and whatever channel Grey's Anatomy comes on.  We don't watch either channel (I would watch Grey's, except it comes on at the kid's bath/bedtime, so I never get to see more than snippets anyway). 

We do use the TV to watch DVDs, though.  Lately, this almost always means watching Chicken Run, as my son apparently can no longer tolerate any other movie.  When we suggest to him that we try a different movie--even an entirely kid-friendly DVD like Bob the Builder--he yells, "No!!  Only watch Chicken Run!!" in the most distressed way.  So, we have recently gained an intimate familiarity with Ginger and Rocky and their cohort.

We have also recently watched:  Rear Window, Royal Space Force:  The Wings of Honneamise (twice--thanks Zack), The Grave of the Fireflies (aka, the most unrelentingly sad animated film ever made), and The Man who Knew Too Much.  Sin City is sitting there waiting to be watched as well.