Your TV Watching Rituals?

[Retro4Life]

Does or did anybody have rituals you do whenever you watch certain shows? Food, time, place, clothing, etc.?

When I was VERY young, the wonderful Friday Night ABC lineup of Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Odd Couple, Room 222 and Love, American Style always saw me eating Cheetos and drinking iced Dr. Pepper out of one of my mom's fancy drinking glasses (I thought I was so sophisticated, lol).

About the same time, I would get up early on Saturday morning (around 7) and flop out onto the couch in the living room with a big green electric (non working) blanket on top of me, and drink iced Tang, with either Oreos or Pop Tarts.

Now I always pop homemade popcorn while I watch Saturday Night Live. I actually get hungry for it as the show approaches; creature of habit, I guess.

Anybody else?

[tiredmike59]

I was a little kid when Combat first aired on tv. I used to point my toy gun at the screen and help Saunder's squad shoot the " Krauts ".

[Mr. Television]

Originally Posted by tiredmike59

I was a little kid when Combat first aired on tv. I used to point my toy gun at the screen and help Saunder's squad shoot the " Krauts ".

I remember watching My 3 Sons in primetime and every time the theme song would start i"d move my feet like they did on tv. I was real young when I was doing that but I still remember it. lol

[Mr. Television]

Originally Posted by Retro4Life

Does or did anybody have rituals you do whenever you watch certain shows? Food, time, place, clothing, etc.?

When I was VERY young, the wonderful Friday Night ABC lineup of Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Odd Couple, Room 222 and Love, American Style always saw me eating Cheetos and drinking iced Dr. Pepper out of one of my mom's fancy drinking glasses (I thought I was so sophisticated, lol).

About the same time, I would get up early on Saturday morning (around 7) and flop out onto the couch in the living room with a big green electric (non working) blanket on top of me, and drink iced Tang, with either Oreos or Pop Tarts.

Now I always pop homemade popcorn while I watch Saturday Night Live. I actually get hungry for it as the show approaches; creature of habit, I guess.

Anybody else?

Oh man, I used to have Tang and also cereal on Saturday mornings. I'd get up about 5:00 in the morning. My locals had cartoons before the networks even came on. Those were good times. It's so sad what has happened to Saturday television for kids anymore. I guess they have Disney and Nickelodeon though.

[Retro4Life]

Originally Posted by Stuck In The '70's

Oh man, I used to have Tang and also cereal on Saturday mornings. I'd get up about 5:00 in the morning. My locals had cartoons before the networks even came on. Those were good times. It's so sad what has happened to Saturday television for kids anymore. I guess they have Disney and Nickelodeon though.

Yeah, we had those 'early bird' cartoons, too. Sometimes I'd get up a little early and something like Clue Club would be on at 6:30, or a more local kids' show.

Saturday morning TV is one of the strong memories of our generation, I think. Everybody seems to have had a ritual while watching it; I remember sibling friends fighting over which show to watch, lol. And everybody was in their PJs until 11:00 AM or so.

Good times. In that day and age you didn't have the luxury of taping or Tivoing or watching a show later. You had to be at a certain place at a certain time or you missed it, and looking back, there was something appealing about that, like you'd worked for the right to see the show.

[biffbronson]

While The Beverly Hillbillies was still airing primetime episodes, I was watching the syndicated reruns from the color seasons every weekday morning, along with color eps from The Lucy Show (which had ended a couple of years earlier) -- as a preschooler. Shortly, I presumed that my parents put me in afternoon kindergarten so I wouldn't miss my shows, but that wasn't why (I'm still not sure why...?).

On Saturday mornings, sometimes my mom would fix me some pancakes while I was watching cartoons, starting no later than 7 a.m. I used to watch several hours of animation, with about the only live action being at times reruns of Fury, Gentle Ben, or Lost in Space.

Later, when I was in high school, it seemed like I was almost always doing homework in primetime during Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley. And later yet, I never missed Stefanie Powers in Hart to Hart -- letting the schoolwork go so I'd be sure to get a good look at her...! (lol)