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Examples
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I say just let the politicians and military experts do their jobs instead of the nut-jobs in arm-chairs in front of the boob-tube who think they know best.
Biden: Too soon to say if more troops needed in Afghanistan 2009
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By then productions featuring expensively and beautifully-photographed looks at the English past got to the point where they were regarded as nostalgic, safe, representative of boob-tube fare no longer considered nearly adventurous enough for discerning audiences.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Upstairs Downstairs Makes Sparkling PBS Return David Finkle 2011
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She's landed a role in Smash, which is about -- if you haven't seen the boob-tube promos plugging its Feb. 6 kick-off the day after the Super Bowl XLVI kick-off -- a group of B'way vets and newbies readying a tuner based on Marilyn Monroe's life.
David Finkle: First Nighter: NBC's Smash Is No Such Thing, Leading-Lady Katharine McPhee Is David Finkle 2012
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She's landed a role in Smash, which is about -- if you haven't seen the boob-tube promos plugging its Feb. 6 kick-off the day after the Super Bowl XLVI kick-off -- a group of B'way vets and newbies readying a tuner based on Marilyn Monroe's life.
David Finkle: First Nighter: NBC's Smash Is No Such Thing, Leading-Lady Katharine McPhee Is David Finkle 2012
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I purposely don't have tv or cable at my house because I wasted a whole lot of my youth in front of the boob-tube.
The Zombie Plague 2009
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The television networks are trying to figure out how to survive in a world where there are hundreds of channels subdividing an audience which spends more time watching YouTube than the boob-tube (archaic reference courtesy of my father).
Archive 2010-03-01 Ulysses 2010
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Since there is basically nothing on TV except the Olympics, I am going to turn off the boob-tube and pamper myself.
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It seems to me that the best recipe someone could cook up to guarantee a pissed off day, is one that would include turning on the boob-tube to see what some gas bag or other has to say.
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The television networks are trying to figure out how to survive in a world where there are hundreds of channels subdividing an audience which spends more time watching YouTube than the boob-tube (archaic reference courtesy of my father).
Let Me Tell You a Story... Ulysses 2010
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I purposely don't have tv or cable at my house because I wasted a whole lot of my youth in front of the boob-tube.
The Zombie Plague 2009
bilby commented on the word boob-tube
See boob tube.
October 5, 2008