Had free HBO this weekend from Dish and we used it to veg out and do a big bunch of nothing but snack and watch movies for Father's Day weekend. It was awesome - until we were rudely made aware of a huge generational gap. We were watching Poltergeist with the kids. We didn't even get to any dialog before we had to pause the movie and explain to the kids how "in the old days" there wasn't any 24 hour tv. At some point after midnight the 3 tv stations you had would start playing the National Anthem and then some colored blocks would come up on the screen and then there would just be static until morning. They had no idea that tv ever ended at night or that someone might only have a couple of channels to watch. I could literally feel new wrinkles forming while we told them about it.