Our normal television viewing includes Angel, Queer Eye, the odd science fiction TV movie, an occasional SNL, and Nova. We're both nutty animal people, so we sometimes watch nature programs and dog shows on Animal Planet. Notice there is nothing remotely related to babies here.
A few months ago, it quietly started recording Birth Day. Curious as to why the show continually showed up in our Tivo suggestions list, I finally watched an episode. It was interesting, but then again, I'm one of five kids and the child of a doula.
That, however, was all the encouragement Tivo needed.
Adoption Stories started showing up. Then, in case my maternal instinct wasn't sufficiently stoked, Adoption Tales. Against my better judgment, I finally watched an episode of both. Adoption Tales is actually about finding new homes for animals, not babies. They were weirdly similar, however, down to the preternaturally calm female narrator.
It recorded public television specials on reproduction, what appeared to be a Very Special Episode of Birth Day, and a Canadian birthing show. I deleted them as soon as they showed up on the list, for fear that Tivo would soon be all babies, all the time.
Tivo is unsatisfied. We have not yet produced sufficient evidence of offspring, such as a season pass to Sesame Street.
So yesterday, Tivo escalated. It recorded an episode of Baby Animals and Their Fuzzy Friends. Truly. I am not lying to you about the title. Against my better judgment I watched a little of it. The entire show consisted of shots of baby animals cavorting to classical music. That's it. No dialogue, no plot. Just baby animals. I had no idea such a TV show existed.
It has never once recorded a show that has anything remotely to do with law.
6 comments:
This is why I don't let my TiVo suggest things to me, because given our predilection for random recordings I fear what it would pick for us to watch. The machine is watching you when you sleep!
My husband suggests that maybe we start watching a lot of manly television, like a bunch of NASCAR races and maybe four days of pro football. :) I'm scared as to what that combination would bring. :)
It records Angel, doesn't it? ;)
True. I guess I never think of Angel as being about law, but I'm wrong. It IS about a law firm.
Maybe Tivo is giving me editorial comments about my life choices. "Cute babies? Or blood sucking, vampire lawyers?"
My friend is a Biochem PhD student. A group of students in her program live together. They never watched science TV shows, ever. Somehow, the TiVo recorded <i>Mr. Wizard</i>. It just knew.
It's watching you, I tell you!
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