I hate to say it but…I think one of my former favorite time-wasters, Television Without Pity is getting kind of lame.

I started to get a Bad Feeling™ about it when it was acquired by some cable network that I know nothing about. Now, it seems to be owned by NBC in some way. I find that 30 Rock can be humorous about this uncomfortable situation, but it seems TWOP can’t.

I knew the situation was dire when I was trying to watch one of their little video offerings, and my mind kept wandering back to the work I was supposed to be doing instead of watching TWOP.

Now, it’s possible that I’m just getting too old to Get It, but on the other hand, I’m about the same age as the people who do TWOP. So maybe they’re getting too old. In which case we should understand each other pretty well, something like this:

TWOP: Hey, remember Trapper Keepers?

AT: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Alas, how things change. Maybe now creating class activities centered on original historic documents will become my time-waster, and reading about television will somehow become my job. And the transformation will be complete.