Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for February 25, 2023

I grew up on Banquet Fried chicken and Turkey dinners.

“Won’t that mess up the screen?”

“No, and in fact the X-rays from these new color sets will mutate those dinners into creatures much more entertaining than Johnny Carson!”

TV dinners have so much salt to preserve them that they are inedible.

These dinners have all the nutrients your TV needs, but don’t feed them after midnight.

The super duper nerf gun..

When TV dinners want to fight back…

That thing you do, selling’ those TVs…

“Slap my @$$ and call me Susie again, and you’ll be eating both tv dinners alone!!”

And in the immortal words of Howard Borden, as played by Bill Daily: “Cook ’em?”

I don’t want to eat a TV.

FLASHBACK!

MEMORIES! National Anthem! Old Glory flying!

Test pattern, snowy screen….lights out!

WARNING, WILL ROBINSON, WARNING!

How about a set of metal TV tables and you got a deal?

What? People today would never survive with TUBULAR TVS! They way they flip through the channels, they d be dead by now! ☺️☺️☺️

Typical bait and switch. He will actually throw in two RADIO dinners, that have been rebranded as TV dinners.

TV will kill the shadow.

Please stand buy…

It’s hard to look at color television when the world is really in black & white.

When colour tv was being introduced RCA was looking for all sorts of ways to boost sales. The higher price, sometimes more than 2x, of a comparable model kept sales low. They looked for all sorts of ways to push sales. Except for one. They found it in a small store in Nebraska that sold and repaired televisions. It turns out the store would lend out a colour tv to those who had to have their b & w taken in to the shop for repairs. The customers did not want the old b & w back and the store offered good payment terms for those colour sets.

Does it come with rabbit ears and dessert?

This all looks vewy, vewy familiar to me … Deja Lame …?

( née Lamé )

i liked the big one with the top that lifted up to reveal the hi-fi record player so when nothing was on tv you could listen to paul anka.

Around 1980 we were shopping for a TV. There was an older couple doing the same thing. They asked the salesperson, “Do you have any that are made in America?” I think Zenith was still around but the store didn’t carry it.

Free TV Dinners Delivery or not.? Throw me a half gallon of Old Crow Whiskey, Alfred Hitchcock’s Birds is playing, and Yard Birds in Quad Sterio!

If you want a remote control, you will have to either hire one, or give birth to one and raise it and train it yourself.

Ahh, the Good Old Days. Yes, certain programs demanded to be watched at dinner time, and since the big old CRT TV was in the living room, TV dinners were a convenience along with the metal folding TV tables….

And, as a sales promo, a couple of cheap, $1.98 packaged frozen dinners as an incentive to buy the several-hundred-bucks TV was a smart ploy by a slick salesman….

…what!?!…

…meatloaf, again?!?…