Ziggy by Tom Wilson & Tom II for November 19, 2016

so Ziggy needs to call for a carpenter instead?

Our old black and white Zenith had a huge speaker beneath the screen and a lot of knobs

Danger! Danger! Picture Tube! The cabinet is about to BLOW! You might “Tune in, Turn on, and Drop Out!”

Picture tube? What’s that?

He’s lucky. He can get a nice new high dep for just about nothing during the Black Friday sales!!

…not unlike Trump’s…

Raise your hand if you had a new tv sitting on top of your non-working console tv!

He’s not an exterminator. He’s just a pest control problem. He only lets you know when there’s a problem. The television falls apart. There’s a problem.

I haven’t even seen a TV repairman since the 90’s, let alone one that makes house calls.

Oh no!

This is just dreadful…

The end of an era. I had a couple of tube TVs still in excellent operating condition. Took them to Goodwill, and they told me they could not take them. It’s not lawful for even Goodwill to sell them. I had to take them to the recycling center.

And in my town, there is a tiny building with “TV Repair” and a phone number written on it. There is also a small car that cruises around town with the same thing on it. I have wanted to call just to find out what a TV repairman does now.