Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 16, 2013

they say you not ever have a TV in the bedroom but everyone I know has one, I can’t tell you the number of times I have fallen asleep with the TV on and woke up in the middle of some goofy 2am show. lol

Nope, not TV in our bedroom, just an old monster in the living room and no cable. We don’t even have that decoder box when they made the switch to digital broadcasting back in, what, 2007? When they call TV a vast wasteland, they’re half right.

I must be slow this morning, because I still don’t get It???

I think she was expecting Arlo to do something a little more active than sleep.

This is a great strip; Jimmy is wise because I’m guessing he has thrown off the pressure of trying to uproariously funny every day.

These subtle glimpses into their lives are nice. If Jimmy felt he had to be hilarious every day, the strip might last five years, and he would burn out. This is much better; maybe we’ll see Arlo and Janis really go gray together this way.

We don’t have a TV in our room. One time when I was in the hospital, they broughti n a new patient at 2 AM. As soon as she was settled, she turned on her TV – and went to sleep. I had to call to have somebody come in to turn it off.

I have three TVs but none in my bedroom. Even if I am sick, any TV I watch is in the living room from the comfort of my couch.

I also only have one TV… located in the living room and connected only to a VCR. The few times it is turned on are to watch DVD movies.

my take on this is she was referring to the timer to wake up with and he used the one to turn the TV off with

Ha! I wondered who that was in the other bed.

He left the timer set at 45 minutes and is already asleep again while she has to listen to it.

I don’t get it, but I’m not going to work on it.

No TV in any bedroom I own ever.

Rarely turn on one in a hotel or motel room,

Almost never turn on “mine” in a hospital room, but almost always get a room-mate that turns on something with then highest flicker rate and most unpleasant sound track (loud) and goes to sleep.

Attendant would not turn it down or off. She did get me drugs for the next night.

That all seems wrong when you are confined for heart trouble.

And don’t get me started on them getting me out of bed to be weighed at 0400 and the incompetent phlebotomist at 0530 that yelled at me because she couldn’t do the stick. I am an easy stick—get a draw about every two weeks and it is not possible to spend less time with the needle.

And that would be funny how?

The only time I’ve have ever had a TV in a bedroom is when my Dr. had me on bed rest (not couch rest) and my hubby brought in an old portable to play games on it for me.

This is one of those scenarios that is true enough to life to be either hilariously funny or not funny at all, depending on (a) how close to home it hits and (b) what your sense of humor is like. Some people (I will not venture to guess how common it is; I just know it does happen) use the TV to lull themselves off to sleep but don’t want it on all night, so use the built-in sleep timer. The sequence of events here is:1. Janis notices that Arlo is either asleep or going to sleep but the TV is still on, and she doesn’t know whether it will be turning itself off.2. Rather than remove the remote from his hand and check things out for herself, she asks him whether it is on the timer.3. Since he is not wide enough awake to think through the sensible course of action, which is to simply turn it off since it has already accomplished its lullaby function, he then puts it on the timer and sets the remote aside.4. The remote is now no longer within easy reach for Janis. to use, so she has to wait out the 45 minutes or make the extra effort to retrieve the remote from Arlo’s bedside stand!