idiot box
Example Sentences
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All those services — all those shows — and when we plop down in front of the idiot box it still takes us 20 minutes to decide what to watch.
From Washington Post • Sep. 11, 2022
If you don’t know the namesake of Levine’s center, Cooney was the groundbreaking producer who came up with the idea in the ’60s that preschoolers could actually learn to think from the idiot box.
From Time • Mar. 3, 2016
The idiot box gained heft and intellectual credibility to the point where you seem dumb if you are not watching it.”
From Salon • Oct. 12, 2015
Network television needs pilot season because without it the necessary content that fuels the idiot box we all love would never get made.
From Forbes • Aug. 10, 2015
The sign of hope for the medium is that only a decade ago, a medium like television was considered an idiot box and a vast wasteland.
From Slate • Dec. 17, 2009
