On A Claire Day by Carla Ventresca and Henry Beckett for January 13, 2013

Just mute the commercial so you don’t have to listen to it.

Better yet, take the remote away from him when it is something you really want to watch.

Or free yourself from tv completely and pick up a book.

Or watch it on the internet like normal people do.

DVR?

At home I use TiVo; here, I just watch what he wants to see, or come down here to comment on toons ;-P

I’m with Monkeyhead on this one. One of the reasons I don’t watch TV anymore is because I’m married to a channel surfer. It’s just easier to read a book.

Mute it

Record your shows; then fast forward through the commercials.

“Commercial Roulette”, reprinted in “The Mad Sampler”, played on the idea that changing the channel during the commercial would just get you another commercial, with hilarious results.