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Television is the end product of a signal produced by a stream of electrons impacting on the phosphors of a cathode ray tube. This relatively simple device also happens to be the worst thing to have ever happened to the human race's intelligence. Well, until the Internet that is.

Television also makes you think the images are moving. Television sets contain high levels of drugs which wirelessly and invisibly enter your body orally. The "picture" on a television screen is actually simply black with nothing. This has been considered by scientists as to why many children and teenagers are addicted to watching television; there are many bright colours in children's programmes, and bright colours can cause double levels of the "teledrug" (the top secret mixture of drugs in a TV set) to feed into the children's brains, so as they are mesmerised by the drugs, more feeds into their tiny little brains. This is said to be why the number of children with autism is increasing. (Full article...)

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JJ Abrams, producer from the Guardian.

A brutal fact of life is that we all want to be producers of something. It allows us to be in the background when people play the blame game in the foreground when the kudos come a callin'. This guide tells you how to articulate your "talent" and use this guide to Being an American Television Producer.

You'll get to be the coolest person on the planet. However, the profession has become increasingly complex as those Ivy League writers seek to downplay your "ideas" (evil schemes) and brutal moneymaking plans that you have. Your only weapon is a mobile phone and the largest say on how the cash is spent. Some of your time will go towards wooing investors and verbally annihilating your studio acolytes.

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What the hell is wrong with this damn thing!?

Lancaster, PA -- My name is Wilford Pissbritches and I'm 74 years old. I've got a bone to pick with you long-haired hippy kids. I've had this TV for as long as I can remember, and now, the goddamned thing won't work worth shit! All I get is some snowy crap, these little white dots and speckles all over this black background. The hell's wrong with this thing?

I am a widowed retired 'Nam veteran and McDonald's cashier, and the shit I go through ain't nothing compared to this hippy-happy nonsense. I tried bringing in my TV to Uncle Charlie's Salvage Emporium, only to find out that old Charlie had been dead for eight years and his grandson owns the store now.

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…Neil Patrick Harris hates watching television, unless it's Grey's Anatomy or House MD?

…every time you turn on your television, your high school P.E. teacher cries?

…David Attenborough and Steve Irwin used to be very close friends?

…Tony Danza is actually the boss, but it depends on which witch from Charmed is your favorite?

…if you watch The Facts of Life backwards episode by episode, it unlocks the secrets of the universe?

…Bob Saget auditioned for the role of MacGuyver?

…William Shatner and Henry Winkler often share girlfriends?

…if your mom hadn't let you watch so much television, you'd find Wikipedia more entertaining than Uncyclopedia?

…Wade Wells isn't really a pixie, it's just her haircut?

…Now that The Big Bang Theory is over you can now say that it sucks?

…this portal needs more did you knows?

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The great black teletubby.

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Oscar at the orphanage.

Oscar, born in the early twentieth century, has become a well-known face around the popular Sesame Street. But unlike the other monsters, who have a reputation of being happy and friendly, Oscar has gathered a reputation for being grouchy. This begs the question; "Why would a man who lives on the happiest place on earth come off as grouchy?" Well, those who ask this are ignorant, and lack insight into this monster's life. A life which is more torn and twisted than this world itself. If only more people knew his story, they would come to see why he can be more or less angry at times. But sadly, this isn't the case. His life has brought him down and as he withers away from this world which has forsaken him, he leaves with the infamous nickname, Oscar the Grouch.

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Shut up and watch TV, kids!!

“Portal:Television” is part of a series on Mass Media

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Inventors and pioneers: Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton•

Alan Blumlein• Allen B. DuMont• Boris Grabovsky• Boris Rosing• Charles Francis Jenkins• Constantin Perskyi• David Sarnoff• John Logie Baird• Kálmán Tihanyi• Paul Gottlieb Nipkow• Philo Taylor Farnsworth•

Vladimir Zworykin