Watching TV With My Family

[blas87]

Oh yay, a preview for when I move back home!

I swear, if Mom keeps her threat of getting rid of cable, my brother and I are going to have to pay for it ourselves, and rig a splitter for my TV upstairs, and I'm only watching TV in my room. Seriously.

Maybe I've lived alone too long, but it's so annoying when people constantly butt in and ask "What did he say?" "Who is that?" "Whose voice is that?" "Wait, isn't she dead?" especially when that person was NEVER paying that close of attention to the show to begin with.

That's my mom. Lord, is she a treat to watch TV with. I'm sure if she's alone, she's fine. But, she'll be on her computer or in the other room cleaning up the kitchen, and hear bits and pieces of the show, and keep hollering "What?!" or "Who is that?!"

She wasn't very interested in The Walking Dead up until the very end of this season. I had to go home and watch the second run of the season finale because my mom talking and asking questions ruined the first time around. Seriously. Don't watch all season, wait until the premiere of the last episode to start asking questions, making remarks, asking if that's physically possible, whatever. That was one of the more recent times where my brother and I were about tearing our hair out because mom kept making remarks, asking questions about the characters, and randomly shouting "Ooooh!" "Ewww!"

Back when I was younger, my Dad and we kids used to get on her about interrupting the shows with her questions and remarks (especially when she wasn't watching or caring that much before), and she'd scream that faaaaamilllyyyy is more important than "that idiot box" and that it's perfectly fine to have questions about the show.

Really, I do love my mom for all that she's doing for me to help me save money in the upcoming months, but I am certainly watching TV ALONE in my room.

[telecom_goddess]

I hear ya...I hate watching tv with my boyfriend for several reasons.

The shows / movies he's interested in are stupid and don't interest me at all.

when we are watching something interesting he's one of those types that keeps saying "what?" all the fucking time. I just do a general "I don't know" response cause I'm sick of it. Pay attention.

I really prefer watching alone so I can enjoy what I want to watch without worrying about him being bored by it or whatever.

[DrFaroohk]

If it's going to be a "talk fest" during the TV, it'd better be a show that EVERYONE has seen and is willing to talk over it.

Otherwise, there are commercials during the show. "But that's when I pee!" "That's when I get a snack!" Tough shit. Prioritize. Either pay attention or don't watch it.

And if it's a show you've never seen, and you just walked in and started watching season 5 of lost with me, don't suddenly be like "Ooooh who's that? What's his name? Why are they here!?"

I have a friend who will come over with the specific intent of watching like the newest supernatural or something, and five seconds into it, he's like "So what'd you do today? Did you see the rain? Hey what do you think about the simpsons..."

Most annoying TV habit? My dad:

You're watching a show. It's the season finale of Ultimate Cop Show! OMG! It's going to solve the big mystery. "We've solved it!" says the detective on the screen. "the murder. The killer we've been searching for for the past 12 years. His name is -"
<CLICK>

"Smith has the ball, 5 seconds left, ravens down by 2, he passes off to johnson, 2 seconds, he shoots -"

<CLICK>

"We the jury, find the defendant, Orenthal James Simpson, "

<CLICK>

"I'm ready to tell you my secret now. I...see....de"

<CLICK>

Seriously. Not exaggerating.

[guywithashovel]

When I lived at home, if we watching something and Dad came into the room, he'd start obsessing about who a certain actor was, and it wouldn't stop until we clicked the info button on the remote to see the main actors.

[gremcint]

netflx, 8 dollars a month can run on an android tablet or netbook...

and on a related note my sister's first ever time seeing anything from lost was when *SPOILER* just up and shot *SPOILER* and she had just walked into the room and saw that. Then she got to see me flip my shit in only the way lost can inspire.

[Andara Bledin]

We've been watching HBO through a widget on our 360. Same with Netflix and Hulu.

I haven't been beholden to the whims of broadcast TV for years.

^-.-^

[DGoddess]

In my house, everybody likes different stuff - so as a general rule we all watch tv in our rooms.

It's well worth paying for Dish each month to be able to watch what I want, when I want to - and have peace and quiet.

My brother will run his mouth or at times, Mom will be on the phone - don't put the three of us in a house with only one tv - otherwise I'd be serving a life sentence for double homicide!

[blas87]

Yeah, we have that problem at home, and it was always that way growing up, because of my uber-traditional parents, thinking TV was an "idiot box", and we didn't need to be "one of those families" with TVs in multiple rooms. Well, it led to all kinds of disasters, mostly because the one TV we had was only 13 inches, and everyone having different tastes in TV.

I got my own when I was a teenager for playing video games, though I didn't really play much, and when it became apparent I needed noise to sleep at night, I didn't have a cable going into my room, I just had a VCR/DVD combo and I would just fall asleep watching a movie every night.

I'm keeping my TV, as there is nothing wrong with it and I'm happy with it, and I will be happy to stay in my room and watch it alone when I please.

[drunkenwildmage]

My Wife's grandma had this thing, that she would only talk to you while the actually TV program is running and it was normally about something that

1) Has nothing to do with the show your watching
2) Can normally wait until either the commercial or after the show was over
and/or


If you respond or didn't talk to her, she would get pissed off, and act like it the end of the world, then do something out of the blue, like slam dishes in the kitchen, or start the washing machine or something,t hat she knew would drown out the TV.



Iif you did start to talk to her, as soon as a commercial did come on, she would stop talking...

[LadyBarbossa]

This is why none of us can stand watching TV with my Dad, too. Firstly, he'll read the opening credits out loud, and if he sees a name he thinks is familiar, he spends the next five minutes trying to figure out who the person is and going "Oh, oh, oh! Oh! That's the same guy/lady that was in . . . AWW. What were they in?" *snaps fingers over and over and over*Same if an actor or actress looks familiar, and he almost always comes to the conclusion they were a person in some shitty western he saw once.

Or he'll go off on a rabbit trail that has nothing to do with anything when the rest of us are obviously trying to listen.

Or, as another person mentioned, wait until the end or middle of a show and then try to figure out what's going on with the plot and asks all kinds of questions. Seriously, you can't pick a Lost episode in the middle of the season and try to figure out what everyone is doing.

[telecom_goddess]

This is why none of us can stand watching TV with my Dad, too. Firstly, he'll read the opening credits out loud, and if he sees a name he thinks is familiar, he spends the next five minutes trying to figure out who the person is and going "Oh, oh, oh! Oh! That's the same guy/lady that was in . . . AWW. What were they in?" *snaps fingers over and over and over*

And that is why they created imdb.com. You can look that shit UP now. Based on the film/show you're watching right at that minute, everything is cross referenced. Next time send him there

[blas87]

Am I the only person who has a mother who will, if she hears a song she remembers from childhood or likes in general, will come running into the livingroom and, in front of all the open large windows (that's another "rule" at my parents' house, no shades ever) will start shaking her hips and butt and singing loudly and obnoxiously?

[telecom_goddess]

Am I the only person who has a mother who will, if she hears a song she remembers from childhood or likes in general, will come running into the livingroom and, in front of all the open large windows (that's another "rule" at my parents' house, no shades ever) will start shaking her hips and butt and singing loudly and obnoxiously?

Umm I would never do that myself. Hell no. You SURE you want to move back there? And I can kinda see the no shades thing...I keep my blinds open all the time because I need to have what little bit of light does come into my half sucken apartment. It's like a cave in there as it is.

[blas87]

Had to bring this thread back.

I could have throttled my mother today.

I've been at home for a couple of years now, I have my own TV upstairs.

I have but one thing about this time of year..........football on Sunday is my religion. Leave me to watch my damn game. Ok?

Plus, my mom made it rule (well, her rule towards us, not her herself) that there is to be no shouting from room to room.

She and dad got home close to 1:00, so a little bit before halftime during the Packer game. I have told them time and time again what radio stations play the Packer games so they can listen in the car. They both have smart phones, they can google search the current score, or they can download the NFL app for free. They can check like anyone else when the game comes on.

Some people could go "But it's jusssst a gaaaaame!" or "But it's just a question, why be so rude?"

Have you ever just had your own thing you like to do (for instance, watching a football game, and had someone keep screaming at you from downstairs wanting game/score updates?

From the minute she got home...,...screaming upstairs at me "WHO HAS THE BALL?!" "WHAT'S THE SCORE!!!?" "WHO IS WINNING?"

After a few cold, terse answers, I told her she could look it up online and refresh it every few minutes. She screamed back "I'M TOO BUSY FOR THAT!"

Then the new Season of The Walking Dead came on tonight.

That woman is completely incapable of going one scene without asking a question. Well, of course. She didn't start watching till season 3, even barely paying attention then. So why not just blurt out any question she wants or start with the "Wait, wait, WHO is that actor?!" stuff, and if you try to ask her to be quiet or ask questions during commercial breaks, she gets defensive.

[gremcint]

lie about the score?