# TV that puts you to sleep

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-that-puts-you-to-sleep/428817>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 4, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-that-puts-you-to-sleep/428817 "2007-12-04T19:33:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-that-puts-you-to-sleep/428817/41 "2007-12-07T20:21:08Z")

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[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]  
Remember that PBS painting program with the guy who had big hair and a real soft voice with a bit of a southern accent, IIRC? That show.  
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That would be [Bob “Happy Little Trees” Ross](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ross).

My own sleeping pill is the original “Iron Chef”. I can watch “Iron Chef America” all day long, but there’s something about the Japanese version that just puts me right to sleep.

Robin

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-that-puts-you-to-sleep/428817/42 "2007-12-07T20:50:50Z")

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[Battlefield](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120926/) was a brilliant series, with way too much information about every aspect of the battles discussed, so why could I never stay awake? The numbing score. It was quietly tense and could not find enough tension in the battles themselves and had to suck it all out of my body. I rarely made it more than a half hour into an episode that I have reason to believe, though I did not directly experience it, was two hours long.

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**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-that-puts-you-to-sleep/428817/43 "2007-12-07T22:11:56Z")

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Myth Busters.

I guess the premise is sort of interesting, but five minutes of that show and I’m out like a light.

Agreed on MST3K. Even though I love it, there are times when Mike and the 'bots can’t overcome the crappiness of the movie. I’ve dozed off during a lot of MST3Ks.

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