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

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

First, though the moon landing showed just how unifying television can be, Peggy paints the good ol’ idiot box as something of a threat to family bonding at the dinner table.

From Time • May 26, 2014

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