I'd get irate, too. "All sales final." There are some restaurants, where there is exactly one thing on the menu I will eat. They should have refunded her money, as it is, it's stealing. I'd vote, "innocent", or at least, "justifiable homicide".
I don't know if we knew that things slipped both ways, though, did we? ("Friends help friends" went from the blank slate to the program state this time, and the salute went from the program to the blank slate in ep 2.)
Or maybe the point was just that it's getting worse.
I don't know -- maybe I should stop trying to be an apologist, and just say that I am enjoying the show as is, unapologetically.
QFW. That's funny, because when I had access to Tivo, I actually did watch less TV, because I watched what I wanted to watch and was therefore more satisfied.
That said, I completely understand the crack comment, because when I was at my worst, I had 3 VCR's running.