Who says TV rots your brain? I say it can be highly educational. Case in point, just look at all the life lessons I’ve learned from my latest couch potato foray…
Life lesson: It’s morally wrong to pigeon-hole poor high school star athletes. Sure they may be wildly popular and able to get out of detention, but what if they want to be the best at other things too… like singing?
The Pursuit of Happyness
Life lesson #1: Anyone can go from down and out, living on the streets and barely able to feed their son to wildly successful stock broker…. as long as you’re a math genius.
Life lesson #2: If you can do a Rubik’s Cube, you can do anything.
Life lesson #1: Don’t get married when you’re 14. You might end up with a husband who you’re not compatible with.
Life lesson #2: Women through the ages have been suckers for a sassy pair of new shoes.
**there may be another life lesson in there, but I missed it. I fell asleep half-way through… which brings me to this;
Movie-making lesson: Even when your movie stars Kirsten Dunst, it’s helpful to have a plot that kicks in somewhere in the first half.
No, I haven’t seen this yet. But the facts as they lay…
1) the rating (PG-13),
2) the preview,
3) the topic (a TOY), and
4) the fact that every man I know is ga-ga to see it…
… all lead me to the following conclusion;
Life Lesson: Men are really just kids, only bigger.
Life Lesson #1: Farts ARE funny. So are burps.
Life Lesson #2: Ugly people can be nice; while pretty people are usually mean.
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June 24, 2007 at 7:47 pm
You make a good point with each of these, especially under Shrek. My friends and I used to have fart contests that made us crack up. Now my husband and I do (gross, I know).
June 24, 2007 at 9:44 pm
These are so funny.
I was trying to explain to my 6 year old what a moral is.
Now I can just read your examples.
Fantastic.
I am borrowing your brain.
June 24, 2007 at 10:04 pm
As someone who is quite sure she will have to endure The Transformers, I couldn’t agree more!
June 25, 2007 at 12:38 am
Forget French history classes and just watch Marie Antoinette to learn that apparently all of France fell because she was a shoe fiend alcoholic. You may have missed that if you fell asleep.
June 25, 2007 at 12:39 am
Oh and I forgot, High School Musical was filmed at MY high school and Sach Efron wore my friend’s boyfriends jersey in the movie. There are no words for how much I love this movie.
June 25, 2007 at 1:02 am
Wow. You have indeed learned some very deep lessons here. Now, put down the remote and step away from the TiVo…
June 25, 2007 at 1:32 am
You were an excellent student of those after school specials in the 70s, weren’t you??? You have target audience written all over your face!!
June 25, 2007 at 1:36 am
I heart your blog! Just discovered it. Added it to our blogroll. Maybe I’ll meet you at BlogHer!
Susan at Working Moms Against Guilt
June 25, 2007 at 2:31 am
See, and who says sitting on the couch in front of the tube is a waste of time?
Obviously so untrue!
June 25, 2007 at 2:36 am
Umm….I wanna see Transformers too….does that make me a man, or a kid? Or maybe just a child of the 80′s…??? ;-)
June 25, 2007 at 3:22 am
You kind of blow your own Shrek based theory out of the water. You’re pretty -and- nice.
June 25, 2007 at 5:22 am
This is hilarious and dead on. I love the High School musical comment. I learned a lot from that movie too, not the least of which was some wicked sweet dance moves.
June 25, 2007 at 6:00 am
My favorite lesson from High School Musical was that people who perform in musicals are usually gay. That was the lesson, right?
June 25, 2007 at 9:50 pm
hahaha… Pretty people are mean. Thanks Shrek.
June 26, 2007 at 12:42 pm
I feel so out of the loop. I haven’t seen any of those. I do know Shrek 1 & 2 though…farts and burps ARE funny!