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Television is a vertebrae in society's backbone. Jokes, allusions, and those weird comparison pictures you see on twitter all resonate references to TV shows and series. If, somehow, someone was to live under a rock for their entire lives and never catch even a few seconds of TV, they would be at a huge social disadvantage when it came to understanding references and making sense of conversational jokes. But is it good entertainment? That is an incredible relative question both to the consumer and the material consumed. For example, to a 6 year old kid, Spongebob Squarepants is excellent entertainment and there are rarely objections to that, however, a 68 year old retired patent office worker may not think the same. In summary, television can be good entertainment if you can align all the factors (age, interests, time, comprehension, etc.) but even when it is bad entertainment, it is still necessary to have a basic grasp of in order to successfully compete in modern society.