But, mom, I need to stay home to watch TV!

I don't mean to talk about myself too much in this blog, but I'm going to be a little self-indulgent for a bit.

For the past five days, I have been incredibly sick. Instead or working on the increasingly large amount of homework I have, I watched far too much television (please note that this is not much different from my life on a regular basis, but at least this time, I had a semi-relevant excuse for watching TV!). Of course, there have been numerous instances over my lifetime where I had to miss school as a means to recover from illness, and television has always been a way to forget about how miserable I've felt.

I have to ask, though, does anyone else have any go-to shows that they watch when they're sick? For me, it's The Price Is Right. Due to its 11:00 AM time slot, throughout elementary and high school, I rarely had the chance to watch the program, and therefore, it was such a treat to be able to watch it, even if the circumstances that allowed me to do so were less than fantastic. Of course, it was far more fun when Bob Barker was hosting the show (as an Ohioan, I always enjoyed the Drew Carey Show when I was younger, mainly due to its numerous Cleveland references, but honestly? Carey hosting TPIR is just nowhere near as fun as Barker; he may have been a womanizer, but it's hard to hate him. Plus, he beat up Adam Sandler, that's an automatic A+ in my book), but I'll still watch it when I'm sick, like I did on Monday and Tuesday of this week, just for old time's sake. And on those rare days that you watch, and you get to watch a contestant play Plinko? It's like all of your troubles melt away!

Let's ignore the fact that based on my current schedule, I could watch TPIR nearly every day. That's just not fun! It's one of those that is just more special when you're breaking the rules, when you feel like such a rebel for "skipping" school, even if you have a valid excuse - your illness (on that note, wasn't it so much more fun to be home sick when you were younger, because it meant that you succeeded in convincing your parents that you were sick enough to stay home?), and I plan on keeping it that way.

So, does anyone else have any television shows that they would turn to when they were sick? Other game shows? Cartoons? Old sitcoms? The rare hour or two a day when MTV and VH1 air music?