Glued To The TV

Picture this. It's a Sunday afternoon, and you've got very important Sunday afternoon business to attend to: the laundry needs doing; you want to make it to the gym; the cat needs to be fed. But first, why not watch a little bit of TV? A half hour couldn't hurt.

But then you're flipping channels, and you come across That Movie. You know the one. The one that means you won't be flipping any further, because you can't help but watch this film even though you've seen it so many times before. 1000 Awesome Things calls them "glue movies." I call them time sucks.

My friend Sara and I were talking about these kinds of movies the other day, and agreed that as females, we simply can't help but watch everytime the Amanda Bynes classic, 'What A Girl Wants,' is shown on Oxygen or USA or whatever channel shows sort of lame girly movies. I don't think we're alone in this boat-- I know I've seen friends' statuses on Facebook before about watching this movie, and they surely didn't seek it out. It was on, and we're contractually obligated to watch it. We just settle in for the next couple hours and feel thankful it's not an America's Next Top Model marathon. We could lose a whole day on that one.

On a less girly note, I find myself utterly incapable of changing the channel whenever any of the Mighty Ducks movies are on. And that includes the third one-- that's how deep this river runs. Maybe it's Joshua Jackson's dreamy influence, but regardless, I have no control. The laundry remains dirty. The gym remains empty. The cat goes hungry (but I don't have a cat, so that's not, in fact, cruelty to animals, and is, in fact, proof that I'm not insane, because how crazy would it be to feed an imaginary cat? I mean, really).

What movie is like this for you? I bet it's something lame; these kinds of films aren't usually works of cinematic genius. But it's okay to admit it. After all, I've spent multiple hours of my life watching Amanda Bynes fall down a lot. There's no shame here.