When we didn't have cable and our television still a fine tune dial, to get rid of the fuzzy on the screen, we were bound by our choices in Television. Our Tv did not pick up every basic channel. We had PBS, i station in Spanish, NBC, UPN and depending on where we were standing we sometimes got KCAL. I was able to watch Days of our lives during the day and even one or two talk shows and some cartoons during the weekend, but the highlight of our Television viewing came in the form of a show on UPN, Platypus man.
Platypus man was a show about a man on a cooking show and how he equated cooking to life. We would tell people about how much we loved the show and we were often faced with blank stares. We didn't have many choices on shows so perhaps with our choices this was the lesser of two evils. We found it witty and smart. The first season had ended and we were looking forward to now having cable TV we would be able to watch it with a much clearer picture. We waited and it didn't make the fall line up, maybe it would be a mid show replacement. Never happened. Little did we know it had been cancelled because it was a stupid show and people with more choices chose something better.
Goodbye platypus Man the first show to teach me not to get too attached to shows because not everyone has my same great taste in media.
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