Instant Gratification

Dear David Chase,
Now that the Sopranos is back on air, I am reminded how much I hate waiting seven days for new episodes of TV shows. I much rather rent an entire box set of a series and watch all of the episodes in sequential order. I did it with the Office (British Version), Freaks and Geeks and seasons 1-4 of the Sopranos. These have become some of my favorite TV shows of all time.

The Cast of the next Surreal Life.

I like the instant gratification that DVDs give me. An episode ends with a big cliff hanger and instead of waiting seven days to find out what happens next, I just click a button to watch the next episode on the DVD. Instant gratification is a very fulfilling thing.

The Original Legend of Zelda is one of my favorite games of all time. When you start the game, the first thing you do is go into a cave and find a sword. I don’t even know what the buttons do yet but when I hold that sword in my hand, I feel as if I have achieved something magnificent. That is instant gratification.

Old Man - “I’ve never told anyone this before but (starts crying) I want to kill myself. All I do is grow this ridiculous beard and moustache combination, give random things to people then mysteriously disapear. Nobody even knows my name. Well Link, you know what…It’s Albert… my name…is Albert!” (Wipes away tears, neatens robe) “So (beat) It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this.”

The internet is the home for instant gratification (enter porn joke here). If I want to know how many points the Knicks lost by boom instant gratification. If I want to know if that was really Lewis Black in the movie Jacob’s Ladder, boom instant gratification. If I want to see a ridiculous video of a bodybuilder doing the robot during competition, boom instant gratification.

So please Mr. Chase, release the rest of the Sopranos episodes on one magnificent DVD box set tonight so I can find out what happens without waiting another day. Thank you.
Sincerely,

George Washington