You know what I really need?

See, my nieces want to watch more TV. This is dubiously okay with me because it's about the only way my grandmother wants to spend time with them, and I think spending time with her is more important than worrying about thirty minutes to an hour of television.

I'm... not a fan of what's on TV for their age group, really, so it's all Backyardigans all the time if I can help it. Or Franklin.

But you know, the real problem with modern TV is that it's just not... well...

Okay, let's fess up. I'm fishing for an excuse to purchase a few DVDs for, um, them. Fraggle Rock, Darkwing Duck, Avonlea... you know, what I watched as a kid.

Is this wrong?

I mean, TV was much cooler when I was young anyway, right? (Excepting Backyardigans. That show is just awesome all over.)

In other questions, when people exhort one to "talk about" TV shows with their children, they, uh, do mean "by addicting them to TVTropes", right? I'm not sure if I'm prouder that Ana, upon a chance viewing of an ad, confidently informed her Nanen that "they're just saying that to get us to buy their things" or that Evangeline, upon reading Elephant and Piggie with me, was able to go "Look, she's winking at us, she's breaking the fourth wall!"