Guess who needs life?

Slashdot, recently published, a story based on a survey titled Unhappy People Watch More TV . The story says, quote:

A new study by sociologists at the University of Maryland concludes that unhappy people watch more TV, while people who describe themselves as 'very happy' spend more time reading and socializing.

Cause-Effect notwithstanding, it got me thinking. I tried to come up with the tv series, sitcoms, I watched in 2008. The results were astonishing. I surprised myself. Before I say anything else, here are the results:

• Seinfeld - 5 seasons - 86 episodes
  
• 24 - 6 seasons + 24:Redemption - 145 episodes
  
• How I Met Your Mother - 4* seasons - 73 episodes
  
• The Big Bang Theory - 2* seasons - 26 episodes
  
• Avatar: The Last Airbender - 3 seasons - 61 episodes
  
• Scrubs - 7 seasons - 150 episodes
  
• 30 Rock - 3* seasons - 40 episodes
  
• Heroes^[1] - 1 season - 23 episodes
  
• Flight of the Conchords - 1 season - 12 episodes
  

'*' indicates currently running series.
^[1] Heroes is the only series I have decided to stop in between.

You do the math. Ok, I'll do it for you. That totals to 604 616 episodes. And I am not even counting almost daily dose of The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and Friends revisit once in a while. That averages to almost 2 episodes PER DAY. Funnily enough, this story was published on my birthday. Guess, who needs life?

You know you are watching too much 24...

You know you are watching too much 24, ...

... when you report any event with, "The following takes place between 1 pm and 2 pm ..."

... when you pick up phone, you say your name first instead of "Hello"

... when asked for your favourite super-hero, you respond with Jack Bauer.

... when somebody is not on his/her seat, you think he/she is a mole.

... when you ask for coordinates instead of address to locate your friend.

... when instead of your spelling your name as N-A-M-E, you say November-Alpha-Mike-Echo

... when you think of invoking 25th Amendment when your boss disagrees with you in the meeting.

... when you ask for immunity from the president, in return of the information that you sold out to your rivals.

... when you say "9 o' clock" instead of "to your left"

... when you'd rather be outlaw than follow order of your superior for "greater good".

... when you are jobless enough to write such a post in first place!!

UPDATE : one more,
... when you change your cell phone ringtone to that of CTU. (I and Praveen just did!)