TV For You and Me

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Did you know THIS about Tootsie Roll’s HOW MANY LICKS Commercial (1969)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiwyOeTPCik

Strange New Worlds started as a promising series. The problem is that every episode of Season 4 was either a gimmick or a parody of something. This includes an episode in which all the characters were portrayed as puppets.

If I am being honest, Season 4 was mostly entertaining, but the series lost the thread of what Star Trek should be about. They chose to lean toward comedy, but the show is called Strange New Worlds, and that is not what they gave us. When an entire season is full of gimmicks, the series has lost its way.

What makes Star Trek great is the sense that we are exploring the future and encountering things we have never seen before. At the start of the 2009 Star Trek reboot movie, it opened with a few classic Star Trek beeps, along with a view that flipped orientation. The sounds and visuals gave the impression that we were on a spaceship and something outer space was about to happen, which it did.

Some people think that Star Trek is about issues, diplomacy, or problem-solving, but the core of this classic sci-fi space franchise should be about exploration and a sense of wonder.

Sunday, October 18, 2026

Underdog Cartoon theme song

Saturday, October 17, 2026

8K TVs Are Stupid

When 4K TVs came out, some people complained that you can't see that level of detail...

You Don't See in 4K

Much depends upon how big your screen is, how far you sit from it, and whether you are John Coffey. My eyesight has never been 20/20, but even with the corrective lens I got during my cataract surgery, which was a huge improvement, I see more like 20/25. So when 4K first came out, I had a hard time telling the difference between 4K (which is just a marketing name for 2160p) and 1080p.

Although surgery vastly improved my distance vision, it made it harder for me to see up close. I can't see anything up close without reading glasses, and getting the right focus for playing chess has been tricky. I liked my old vision because I needed glasses just for distance, but now I need strong reading glasses to see my phone.

For a large-screen TV, a 4K display makes sense. However, I have two 27-inch monitors, and for these, I feel that 1440p is ideal. On a 27-inch monitor, 1080p is not as good because you can see individual pixels when sitting close, but 4K makes all the Windows and Mac icons look small, so you have to artificially enlarge them to be able to see anything comfortably.

I don't think that a person is going to gain anything by having 4K on a 27-inch monitor. There is a limit to what our eyes can see. Although it doesn't make much difference, 4K requires more overhead from the graphics hardware when playing games, so you can get a better frame rate with 1440p. Although you could run a game in 1440p on a 4K monitor, it is less than ideal because the video output doesn't match the pixels on the screen, requiring the computer or monitor to scale the images.

My iMac is 5K, but I run it at half resolution, which is 1440p, and I am more comfortable with it that way. For people who do video or photo editing, 4K and 5K are better.

On a smaller computer monitor, such as one measuring 19 or 20 inches, I think that 1080p might be fine. Most laptops have displays with resolutions higher than 1080p, but because of their size, I don't think that they need to.

Because of the small screen and keyboard, I don't recommend using a laptop as your main computer, but I have used a laptop with an external screen and keyboard.

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

William Shatner on AI

William Shatner is 95 years old.

BTW, Mel Brooks is 100 years old and is doing a sequel to Spaceballs that will come out when he is 101.

Sunday, October 4, 2026

The Women Behind South Park's Female Voices

They were not even phased

Monday, September 28, 2026

Star Trek Just KILLED Another Series...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Niz3dDkmw

It very much appeared that the show Strange New Worlds was leading up to a possible reboot of the original Star Trek series, because it recast actors for Kirk, Kirk's brother, Uhura, Spock, Scotty, and Doctor Boyce who was in the very first Star Trek pilot.

This would have been great.

Friday, September 25, 2026

Strange New Worlds season 4 episode 8 Orders of Magnitude

Strange New Worlds season 4, episode 8, Orders of Magnitude is an amazing episode. It is a standalone episode.

It is the 4th highest rated episde of the entire series on IMDB. The preceding and following episodes are extremely low-rated.

Thursday, September 17, 2026

My residuals from my time on Seinfeld.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIt7M7ROISA

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Carol Burnett discusses Vicki Lawrence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUULsSP5CHc

Friday, September 11, 2026

Modern TV Has a Massive Problem

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Majel Barrett Roddenberry: Lwaxana Troi is Auntie Mame of Star Trek, a mother from hell!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKhTCFXQpC0

Monday, September 7, 2026

The $10,000 Trinitron

No matter how good this TV was in 1981, the technology was still limited to 480i. I'm not sure if 480p was even possible at the time. When DVDs were introduced in 1996, they were still 480i.

No matter how high-tech the TV claimed to be, it still had the same fundamental limitations.

The computers that existed in the early 1980s generally output a 240p signal, although a few machines had options for higher resolutions.

In the 1990s, a friend of my mother's was showing off her 33-inch CRT TV. She asked me how much I thought it cost. I correctly guessed $3,000. Soon, however, that expensive TV would become obsolete as HDTV came along. Some of the final CRT televisions could accept an HD signal before flat-screen TVs became common.

In my final years in Utah, I saw someone giving away a 33-inch TV on the curb. I thought maybe I could use it as a video game display. It was so heavy—probably around 150 pounds—that a friend and I nearly killed ourselves trying to lift it together. I eventually had to give it away before I moved.

Shortly after arriving in Indiana, I saw another 33-inch TV sitting on a curb. I convinced the owner to haul it to my house. Again, I wanted to use it as a video game display, but I eventually gave it away. A young couple wanted it for their son's video game system.

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

How Hollywood Sells Kids Stories Parents Don’t Want

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEiZ1YTy7so

Why Everything You Watch Sucks After Season One

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqoniQcpm04&t=41s

This video is spot on describing how political agendas destroyed Resident Alien.

Other shows have suffered similar fates. It has been a really bad trend.

The first season was a blast. The alien is very intelligent, but socially awkward, so he tries his best to blend in.

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

The one thing ‘Breaking Bad’ couldn’t show you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUxDyPEck7g

Monday, August 31, 2026

Eli Wallach was a MUCH better Mr. Freeze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwKvIV8NsvI

It is hard to imagine Eli Wallach from The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly being on Batman.

Monday, August 17, 2026

The queen decided to toll the bell in mourning for Kennedy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2aCX4s1gR4

"The Crown" is a great show.

Hayden Panettiere, star of 'Heroes' and 'Nashville,' dies at 36

https://abcnews.com/US/hayden-panettiere-dies-36/story?id=135698473

She was very good in 'Heroes'. The series was great in the first season, but the second season faltered quite a bit. It lost any momentum that it had. The show recovered in later seasons, but was still cancelled.