# I'm being surveyed on my television viewing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-surveyed-on-my-television-viewing/328126 "2005-10-27T05:17:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bob\_Loblaw\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@Bob\_Loblaw\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Loblaw_1)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-surveyed-on-my-television-viewing/328126/1 "2005-10-27T05:17:52Z")
That’s right, Bob Loblaw, attorney at law, has received a survey on television viewing habits. Ya don’t speak gibberish to Bob Loblaw. Don’t you dare! Anyway, I’m going to wait until there is a new episode of Arrested Development. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-surveyed-on-my-television-viewing/328126/2 "2005-10-27T05:26:15Z")
Please watch more porn. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-surveyed-on-my-television-viewing/328126/3 "2005-10-27T05:34:01Z")
The fate of American entertainment is in your hands. We were a Nielsen family when I was a kid. My sister and I take full responsibilty for _The Dukes of Hazzard_ ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-surveyed-on-my-television-viewing/328126/4 "2005-10-27T05:45:15Z")
> [@saoirse](#): > > The fate of American entertainment is in your hands. We were a Nielsen family when I was a kid. My sister and I take full responsibilty for _The Dukes of Hazzard_ You BASTARDS!!! Wait…reponsibility for it staying on, or being cancelled? Eh, either way…you BASTARDS!!! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-surveyed-on-my-television-viewing/328126/5 "2005-10-27T16:32:23Z")
Oh yes, do wait for _AD_’s return. Then have 100 of your closest friends over to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-surveyed-on-my-television-viewing/328126/6 "2005-10-27T16:42:14Z")
Tell them that you spend all day watching the Magic Bullet infomercial. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-surveyed-on-my-television-viewing/328126/7 "2005-10-27T17:28:15Z")
_Please_ don’t watch any “reality” TV. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-surveyed-on-my-television-viewing/328126/8 "2005-10-27T17:41:05Z")
Woohoo! With a name like that I knew we could count on you to put in a good word for Arrested Development. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Loblaw\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@Bob\_Loblaw\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Loblaw_1)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-surveyed-on-my-television-viewing/328126/9 "2005-10-27T18:53:18Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > _Please_ don’t watch any “reality” TV. Never have, except for “Drawn Together” on Comedy Central, but I don’t watch that anymore. Kinda stuff I watch: Daily Show, and South Park. Colbear Rapport Any documentary of any kind Comedies: Arrested Development funniest tv ever. 2.5 men, Law and Order (1) Sam Watterson’s eyebrows, (2) Mariska Hargitay Unit, (3) Ham and D’Onofrio sandwich. Sometimes I watch CSI Miami because it combines the worst TV writing ever with the worst TV actor ever, David Caruso and has her hotness, Emily Proctor. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-surveyed-on-my-television-viewing/328126/10 "2005-10-27T19:14:32Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > You BASTARDS!!! > > Wait…reponsibility for it staying on, or being cancelled? Eh, either way…you BASTARDS!!! No we kept it alive, and this was long after the first season. We felt ashamed at the time, too. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-surveyed-on-my-television-viewing/328126/11 "2005-10-27T19:53:42Z")
ACNielsen wants to hook up the televisions in the elmwood household with their famous black boxes. With a Dish Network DVR, though, it’s impossible - for now. The ACNielsen rep has been visiting every couple of months to see if I still have the DVR; she says they’re working on a box that can be used with it, but it’s still several months away. Anyone here have an actual Neilsen black box in their house? ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-surveyed-on-my-television-viewing/328126/12 "2005-10-27T20:00:21Z")
[Just found this SDMB article](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030221.html). I’d have one of the 5,000 Paople Meters. It should be fun when the 2006 Northeast Ohio Dopefest rolls around. 😃