Family...nine members gathered around television making small talk. Only station that remains mostly neutral in this mixed group is the Food Channel. It has been on most of the day as various members go in and out of the room. During pauses in the conversation a couple of them start discussing whether the channel is intended to nurture food addicts. There seems to be some basis for this. Later, a related conversation takes place on the family patio where DC and TC, the brothers, are relaxing.
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What about food?!
None of these apply to television Vern. |
TC; "So we have a food channel right? Maybe we should take an entrepreneurial approach and start a tobacco channel? Then perhaps a dedicated gun channel, alcohol channel and a drug channel?"
DC; "There's already a gun channel."
TC: "Well that leaves the other three then."
DC; "Maybe we could combine the gun, drug and alchohol chan...no wait, that is regular television."
TC; "Yeah, there are a lot of channels like that."
(Uneasy laughter follows...topic changes)
A later question; "Would Bruce Springsteen have written '57 Channels (And Nothing On) if the Food Channel had been available back then?"
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