My friends and I do that when we’re watching movies. It gets really bad when it’s been less than a couple of weeks since any of us have seen the last Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode.
Guilty as charged. I just like the good guys to know what they’re getting into, you know? However, they obviously have selective hearing problems, because they never listen to me. How rude.
I’ve noticed that they also don’t seem to notice that scary and dangerous events are usually presaged by ominous music. If those dummies would just listen to the music cues, they could stay out of a lot of trouble.
You nailed my answer perfectly. My wife has two general comments: “Get on that damn show already, would you?” and “Honey? I don’t think your direct line to Tom Coughlin is working.”
I do. And I talk to the cat, which is usually equally effective.
I’m always shouting to the TV: “Watch the freakin road or y’all are all going to die!” I particularly remember an episode of ER where that foreign guy that’s dating the one that looks like a 14 year old (sorry, I don’t watch it enough to remember the character’s names) carried on what in real life would have been about a five minute conversation WITHOUT ONCE LOOKING AT THE ROAD!
Constantly. I’m not going to take any lip from an appliance.
I catch myself laughing and saying how funny something was more than anything. I’ve really cut down on ‘angry talk’ towards stupid stuff said on TV programs and politics / crime discussion shows. If it ticks me off enough, I turn the channel or hit the mute button.
I do the same on the internet more or less.
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Me too!
I live alone, so I have few inhibitions about what I talk to. Of course, I forget at work sometimes, and start to chat with my e-mail. Usually I catch myself pretty quickly, but sometimes it earns amused comments.
GT
I talk to the tv, to this board, and to a lot of things. It seems that inanimate objects listen better than people do.
Dogs are good listeners too.
Yes, but I don’t have a dog. 
Not sure if it counts as “talking to the TV,” but I will yell at it if someone says or does something particularly head-slappingly stupid.
This is part of the reason I don’t watch Fox News. 
I used to shout at the TV, before Big Brother finally provoked me into getting rid of the thing.
Now I shout at the corner.
Yup , sure do . Not like I have anyone else to talk to, I am home alone 99% of the time . I sometimes go days where the only human voice I hear is the TV , and the only living creatures to touch me are the critters. I talk to a lot of things that don’t respond.
While watching The 700 Club last Tuesday, I distinctly recall telling Pat Robertson “Uh oh! You did it now!”
Did he listen? Of course not! Pat, you :wally !
TV, no. Radio, yes.
Sometimes. It’s usually some kind of joke or snide comment. This pays off other times when there’s actually someone else there with me since I’m told that my comments are generally amusing. (Not that you can tell from my writing on the board; I come across as kind of stiff in writing).
I do, but only in a few specific situations.
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When I watch the news and they say something stupid – which is 100% of the time. I usually start to argue.
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When a character on a show is about to embrace someone who is really bad for them, I yell “RUN! RUN!!” This happens a lot with Six Feet Under, both because those characters frequently make bad romantic decisions and also because the pacing is such that at thomse scenes, there’s usually a three second pause while the character decides what to do.
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When something really surprising happens, I yell profanitites. Occasionally I stand up, too.
–Cliffy
I don’t talk to the TV, but I do play “MST3K” with it for the benefit of whoever else is in the room. Especially with commercials.
Example 1: The luxury car ad (Lexus?) that shows trees attaxcking the car as it drives through the forest. You watch this for a while then dryly say:
“Treebeard hated Saruman’s new Lexus.”
Example 2: Busch Gardens has an ad with a (CGI?) giraffe walking out of the ocean towards a family on the beach. You wait until the giraffe almost reaches the family and say:
“Few people realize that Marine Giraffes are Carnivorous.”
Try it! It makes even commercial-watching an interesting participatory event.