No patience

I wanted to see what two new shows would be like that were on at the same time last night. I figured I'd be doing some channel swithcing, but that doesn't quite describe what happened.

I turned on the TV maybe ten minutes early. The station the TV was on had a sit-com running. Don't know what it was and don't want to know. It was appalling. I switched the station to Big Bang Theory. I've seen an episode or two of that before and didn't find it, too bad. The episode last night was awful, and thus a definite step up from the first show. So I watched that the few minutes to the end.

Next up was one of the shows I wanted to try, the Robin Williams vehicle (co-starring SMG) Crazy People, about an ad agency. It started out okey-dokey. Then within scant minutes of the opening credits, RW switched from his standard goofiness to his sentimental mode. It turns out, one thing I can't abide about Robin Williams is when he gets cloyingly sentimental. I'd hoped that wouldn't happen till a few episodes down the road. What caused him to get embarrassingly gushy? An in-show McDonald's commercial, not a commercial for a made-up Burger Doodle, a real live McDonald's commercial from the 1970s. Scratch Crazy People from my list of shows.

Switching to the new Michael J Fox show, I found MJF in the midst of jokes about his Parkinson's Disease. It's not like I didn't expect it, not like I wasn't warned. I have no problem laughing with or at Michael J Fox. But it turns out I really don't like laughing at his disease. After a couple minutes the set went off for the night.

I have no patience.