So last night was the Super Bowl. Incredibly enough, I managed to miss an entire football season without experiencing cardiac arrest. Nevertheless, I decided that if I missed the championship game, I might as well revoke my American citizenship the next day. When faced with the prospect however of watching the game with all of my Year Course kids at Mike's Place, I opted to watch it at my friend Ari's place. Unfortunately, I dropped the ball: this Super Bowl bash was void of caffeine, salt, or hops. I haven't been that ill-prepared since Erev Y2K. (Two hours before kickoff, I called a local pizza place to place an order. I hung up approximately 1.3 seconds after they told me they only had one size, extra large. If you're the owner of this establishment, isn't it in your best interests to just call it "regular?")
"Yeah, gimme three smalls, a venti, and five supergadols. YA'ALAH!!!"After getting about an hour of sleep, I woke up for the 1:25 AM kickoff and tuned into METV, Middle East Television, pumped up for not only the big game, but the annual coming-out party for the year's biggest commercials. Umm, I don't want to offend the program directors over at METV, but what in G-d's name is WITH that channel? Do the people running METV know that it's 2007? They're choosing their shows as if they're the only frequency in town. As I wrote before, the first time they aired the black and white commercial for "Lassie", I kept waiting for the punchline, like for Diddy to run out with a bottle of Pepsi. WHERE ARE THE REAL COMMERICALS??? If the Bears scored a point for every time METV showed Bill Cosby getting punched in the chest, they would have won. Please tell me that one of my loyal readers caught that. What the hell was THAT clip from???
This Yom Shishi..."The Mary Tyler Moore Show"...IT'S SWEEPS WEEK IN THE MIDDLE EAST!!!
If anyone in the government wants my opinion, you know where to find me. Meanwhile, please excuse me while I return to the TV. Tootie's on in five.
5 comments:
My favorite part about METV is how they make everything a little bit foggy, like you're watching it through mist or something. And let's not neglect that it's the only station I know of that broadcasts "Head of the Class." Move over, Nick at Night.
Hey, Welcome Back Kotter was one of my favorite shows when I was growing up! I even have the theme song in my mp3 collection (and still remember all the words, thank you very much).
So, the YC kids hang out at Mike's Place these days, eh? When I was on YC (exactly 20 years ago - shudder), the place to be was Lalo's Pub in Jerusalem.
Come on now Benji, what's wrong with Welcome Back Kotter? I mean who could beat Vinnie Barbarino, Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington, Horschack, and Juan Epstein - the self-proclaimed 'only Puerto Rican Jew alive'.
Throw that in with the great theme song, and it has to be one of the top 5 shows of all time.
Don't get me wrong, guys-Kotter is the man. I'm just asking for METV to update their programming a little. You know, like to "Family Ties."
I BET WE'VE BEEN TOGETHER...
FOR A MILLION YEEEEEEEEEEEARS!
I won't have a word said against METV- back in the early 80's day, it was the only English-language TV to be found. Muppet Babies and the Flying House... ah me. Also, it's nice to be told that someone loves you- even if it is only Jesus- with such clockwork regularity.
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