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 Once upon a time, if you
missed a show on television, it was gone forever.
As technology matures, viewing all the television you could ever dream of has become almost effortless. There are exactly three things which I regret missing on television, and all of them are from the 80s. 1. In 1981, my family was on a camping trip in Mendocino, California, and we missed the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Di. I'm sure I would have been bored to tears, but people talked about it for YEARS afterward, and insisted nothing like it would ever happen again. |
 2. The Macintosh
commercial from Super Bowl 18.
This commercial was shown ONE TIME, and I missed it. Again, people talked about it forever. Friends of my sister even re-enacted it for me. It is still considered the best commercial ever made. I think it was 1999 before I actually saw it. |
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3. I regret missing the premiere of Weird Al Yankovic's Eat it on Friday Night Videos in 1984. There was a school function early the next morning, so I listened to the angel on my shoulder and turned off the tv early on Friday night. I missed it.
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 Of course, the next morning,
everyone who was cool at school couldn't stop talking about it, and I was
kicking myself. In this case, I did get to see the video within a couple of
weeks, but by then, the hype had cooled, and there wasn't anyone to share
the experience with.
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None of these three examples are "shows" exactly, but you get the idea. Do you regret missing anything on television?
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