As We Are Doing Star Trek..... S T N G...
Film, Media & TV1 min ago
I do it all the time. Watching 'Millionaire' - the contestant dithering over a wrong answer - me ... 'Noooo! Pick 'B', pick 'B'! Any quiz and I'm telling the television the answers. A drama or mystery or thriller and someone is heading for disaster - me 'Nooo - don't go there - switch the lights on - look behind you - quick - hurry up - runnnn - he's lying, don't believe him! Oh good grief!
Is it just me?
Of course I do; it's only polite because they talk to us. When we got our first TV in the 50s my elderly grandmother was convinced the people on there could see us and I'm beginning to think she was right. After all at the end of say, the news, they always say "I'll SEE you tomorrow" and if you shout out an answer to a quiz they give that answer a few moments later - sometimes they even give the wrong one that you gave them. The only conclusion is that the people on TV CAN see and hear you, so be careful what you get up to whilst the box is on.
Funny you should say that, Retro. I absolutely adore panto. I'm up there yelling with all the kids - on one gloriously memorable occasion lobbing some of the hundreds of foam bricks that had fallen upon the audience from nets in the roof at the dastardly cad that was Captain Hook - also known as David Hasselhoff. Love it!