Thanks to DVDs and online streaming services, we have discovered you can binge watch your favorite shows or discover news ones. The phenomenon has become so popular that it has now become a entry in Guinness Book of World Records. The first title holder did it for 92 hours in March, but their record only lasted a month. A week ago, Alejandro “AJ” Fragoso and Molly Ennis started watching back to back episodes of Battlestar Galactica, Twilight Zone, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bob’s Burgers and more for 94 straight hours according to TechInsider. WPIX adds that the Brooklynites were allowed take 5 minute breaks each hour to use the bathroom, eat, nap, change or do whatever. The other 55 minutes, they had to keep their eyes on the television set. Sadly, Ennis was disqualified, but AJ finished the binge watch extravaganza on Tuesday. Does he remember all 94 hours of television? Nope, and he even started seeing things that weren’t there on day 2. But on Day 4 he was was $2,000 richer thanks to Cyberlink.
As much as I love love love television, there is no way you could pay me just $2,000 to watch TV for 94 hours straight. But if I did it, I would take it back old school and watch Taxi, The Golden Girls, Soap, Benson, Mork & Mindy, Emergency, Quincy, Marcus Welby, Cop Rock and Boston Legal.
Could you do it? And what would you watch?
