Right now, my husband is upstairs watching Time Bandits. Because we live in a tri-level, and I haven’t shut any doors, I can hear him doing the running commentary on the movie. It goes something like this:
“No Way. . .” “That guy did the Changeling art. Holy shit.” “Hey, that’s _____.”
. . .and so on and so forth. This is made funny when you realize that there is no one in the room with him. Also, his cell phone is sitting in the charger, and we don’t have a land line. There is no way that he could be verbally communicating with anyone. He’s just watching TV by himself.
Now, when I watch TV (or, as is far more common, watch a movie) by myself, I am generally quiet. I might laugh aloud, but, otherwise, I’m silent. If I’m watching with someone else, I’ll talk with them, but, on my own. . .nothing. I’ve also noticed that he does this during movie in the theater (thank God I taught him how to whisper).
I’ve never met anyone else who does this. Do any dopers out there talk to the TV? If so, what do you say? What are you thinking? Is it just thinking aloud, or is it genuine communication? And what makes you stop doing it?
Well, when my mom use to watch “Family Fued”, she would remark how stupid the contestants answers were.
I talk to the TV, especially commercials. " “You Can Do It - We Can Help!” my ASS!" My inherited the condition from my mother, who would turn off a TV show she didn’t like eeven if she wasn’t watching it, because she “didn’t want them to even think she was watching it.”
I am particularly prone to it during sporting events. Shots of opposing fans chanting “in your face” type cheers after something bad happens to my team cause me to scream as if these evil people were in the room with me. And I use really bad words, too.
Heh. If you were a bug on the wall during the last Super Bowl, you’d have heard Philly fans talking, yelling, screaming at the top of their lungs at the TV during the fourth quarter.
NO HUDDLE! MOVE YOUR F**KING ASSES! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? CHRIST ALMIGHTY! TODAY WILLYA! 
Yep, you make my point. I am a Philly sports fan. That’s how I got this facial twitch.
I talk to the TV. I also talk to this message board.
I yell at game show contestants when they’re being morons.
“You don’t need to buy all the vowels to fill in the word, stupid! You know there are only A’s left! You bought all the others! SOLVE, damn you!”
No kidding. I just said out loud “I do that too”.
My husband and I often talk to the TV when we watch together. Mostly we make smartass remarks to amuse each other. I don’t do this when I am watching TV alone, though. It’s not nearly as much fun to make smartass remarks to amuse one’s self.
The habit of talking during television shows has spilled over into movie theaters to an alarming degree. I suspect this is one reason for the decline in attendance at theaters.
I don’t do it often, but I do do it! I will talk to the characters on the screen when I seem them about to do something monumentally stupid; I remember some years ago, on NYPD Blue when Sipowicz was about to knock back a few shots of whiskey, and I was yelling at him. And it didn’t even stop him! :mad:
I yell the answers at Jeopardy. And I coach my football team while I’m watching. It often seems like they can’t hear me at all. 
I don’t talk to the TV. I just talk to myself.
The only comments I make to the TV are cheers when my team or a player does something extraordinay. However, my wife will constantly talk to the characters on shows…she also talks to other drivers on the road…sort of like Mrs Bucket in the British comedy “Keeping up Appearances”…but not in an unkind manner. I, on the other hand, comment on other drivers, especially on their mental capacities, sexual kinks, and general driving abilities. Good thing those other drivers can’t hear me (or that I can’t hear them!) Grin.
umm. sometimes.
i am less likely to do it if there’s someone else in the room. even if it’s my cat.
I talk to my computer… typically using a variety of mild expletives.
Interestingly enough, this mostly happens when I’m using Microsoft products.
“Me, too!”
Monitors/computer screens in general, actually, but mostly at work: I’ve been known to talk back to MS Word, e-mails, and IMs. Luckily for both of us, my officemate usually has her headphones on and doesn’t have to hear my mumblings.
Please yell in the form of a question.
Yeah, I do it, too. Even if there are other people in the room. I don’t really care, sometimes people on TV really need to be yelled at.