The State of Daytime Television

I have been under the weather for the past few days and after completing the tasks that were "numero uno!!!" on the list, I decided that I had probably better head home from work before I was found by someone walking by passed out on my desk. So, I sat myself down on the couch, fired up the ol' work laptop and started channel surfing. Man oh man, I found a gold mine. The first program I found was Days of Our Lives. I haven't watched that show since I was in seventh grade with Alicia Kenley and Stephanie Swallow. Every summer day we would pop popcorn, get in our swimming suits and drag the TV outside to watch while we slowly baked to perfection. Well, interestingly enough, I haven't seemed to have missed much in the story line in the past oh 13 years. Sure enough, there was Marlena, she wasn't possessed anymore, but still a doctor. Then, there was John, obviously no longer a priest and somehow the only individual who was immune to the noxious gases pouring out of the Salem hospital's radiators. There was even Samantha, she was as despicable as always. She somehow managed to throw a man down the stairs and after he was knocked out yelled, "that's right, I hope you die you son of a b****." Yep, great television. I did miss out on Austin and Jack, but I think that Jack died somewhere along the way....even Stefano was there. My question about the whole thing is, I have aged, in fact I am double the age I was when I used to watch that show, but somehow NONE of those people have aged and that is amazing especially since Stefano looked like he was on the edge of the grave 13 years ago. I deem this show a "watcher." I'm going to have to start DVR'ing it so I can get as good of a laugh every night when I get home from work as I just did.

On to more serious items......the next show I happened upon was Dr. Phil. I have never had a beef with the guy, but today I decided that he's a loon. I'm sorry in advance in case anyone thinks that he's the guru of psychiatry that Oprah obviously thinks/though he is/was. He's a bully! All I had to see was the previews to realize that. The first few scenes were obviously to shock the audience, it showed a babysitter doing drugs and then ranting on a videotape about how that's not her life, then a quick screen change to show ol' Phil himself screaming at the babysitter and her mother....obviously the mother is doing drugs as well. I was hypnotized by how large the pupils in his eyes got while he was screaming and tried to dodge the spit that I was sure could burn its way through the screen. All in all, he's drivel. Its more educational to watch Days of Our Lives!!!