The Saved By The Bell Factor

In the spirit of the 'season finale', i thought it would be appropriate to take the mask off and give some honest opinions about what people are really watching on TV, including myself. We all put on our 'manly' costume's when the topic of TV is being served to the conversation table, but deep down many of us are in denial of our true TV passions. You know who you are, it's tuesday night and some guys wanna go out--but you make up an appropriate excuse to stay home and watch that show that keeps you going. It's embarrasing to admit, but you love it and look forward to it each week...in fact, if you miss it-you race to the internet to find out what happened. It's a vicarious life you live through fantasy TV characters--Yet when someone asks you what you thought about 'so and so' getting cut from american idol, you play it off like "I don't watch that". It's an internal struggle, wanting to be unmasked and respond with a "I'm stunned Chris got cutt, i voted for him 5x!!" Yet you restrain yourself for sake of your 'manhood' and deny your involvement. Ever been busted?? Your watching one of your shows and your friend walks in...you either quickly change the channel and pretend to be channel surfing, or fake a nap and pretend you never even knew the TV was on. I confess years of addiction in college to the drama "Dawson's Creek". I privately watched in seclusion and ellogantly navigated my way through 2.5 years before being busted, coming clean was relieving. My roommates and I then indulged together.
I call this the 'Saved by the Bell' factor. All of us from this generation at one time or another watched that show obsessively in junior high. We were all in love with Kelly Kipowski and thought Zach Morris was a hero worth immulating. This show was so great, we shared it together. No one denied it, but all coorporately partook and cried at the day of graduation. These are the roots of our TV passions. It is because of this show that I quickly made the connection with shows like 'Dawson's Creek', 'Friends', and others. The realness of Zach, Slater, Screech, and Kelly gave way to reality TV (one of my theories, debatable).
So i know your out there, and were all on the edge of your seat at the season finale's of american idol, desperate housewives,lost, greys anatomy, gilmore girls, ect...Don't live in shame anymore, we understand what 'saved by the bell' did to you -- it did the same to me. I say, let us be open and share our thoughts and passions over how the season went on our favorite show!! I hope you were cheering for Taylor Hicks, and that all the stories came together for you in your drama--here's to a summer of rest and movies.


p.s.....still, all who watch American Idol are gay and should be utterly ashamed of themselves