Which Reminds Me

During high school, classes ended at 3:30 p.m. and usually by the time we get to the bus and ride around town and get off the bus and walk home it is about 4:30 p.m., just in time for the only half hour of English language programming on television all day long. If I should choose to flip on the little black-and-white television set that we have in the family room, there will be maybe fifteen minutes of cartoons, two or three of those really old cartoons from the 1940s or 1950s that are so full of cultural and political commentary that maybe goes over the heads of the little kids, and then after the cartoons, maybe two or three episodes of the "Three Stooges," featuring Mo, Larry and Curly. I never really liked the "Three Stooges" show but there they are, inescapable unless the TV can be turned off, the bumbling idiots of English language television prodding and poking each other's eyes out for the world to see. Everything else on TV the rest of the evening is dubbed into Spanish but apparently translation was not considered necessary for the "Three Stooges" as it is mostly sight gags that everyone can understand without wording.