So, I'm a proud papa.
Background: I've broken our "no TV" rule for Miriam on three occasions. First occasion was the NCAA Tournament last year. Second occasion was to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2 weeks ago (not that she was interested). Third was tonight: ABC's season airing of "Merry Christmas Charlie Brown".
This is the ONLY Christmas "special" I watch. I suspect I'm not the only person who has drawn the line here. Not that animated clay Yeti aren't classy, but there's something great about a 40-year-old cartoon that makes fun of commercialized Christmas.
We stopped EVERYTHING at 7pm tonight and plopped down in front of the rabbit ears. Mimi was mildly interested at first - she thought that crazy dog was funny, and she debuted a new dance to Guaraldi's classic jazzy tunes (some kind of a right-footed stomp she invented just for this occasion). But during the show she bounced back and forth from brushing her teeth, playing with the camera tripod, playing with waded up post-it-notes, and occasionally sitting in my lap to watch the show. But when Charlie Brown had his melt down, threw up his hands and said, "Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?", Mimi walked over and sat in my lap and listened as Linus recited Luke 2. She didn't move a muscle as Linus spoke. Then, when he was done, she climbed up and popped over to her little barn, picked up a plastic chicken and went "cluck cluck!" I teared up.
We'll probably let her watch TV again the when they announce the brackets in March.
4 comments:
You're like us with the rabbit ears. Those days are coming to an end though.
What are we going to do?
we have our converter box - it picks up everything except 33/40 so Krys found us an old-school roof-top antenna on freecycle.com - not sure if we'll get better reception with that or not.
brooke and I don't even have rabbit ears. we have a coat hanger stuck into the back of our tv.
and I told brooke the only way we are getting a converter box is if she figures out how to get one and hook it up. if all goes to plan, we'll never get one.
I really dig this story, brian.
I removed my Official Brian Brocato Approved Design Coathanger + Paperclip Antenna Device when we hooked up the new digital thing. It marked the end of an era of broadcast roulette...
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