joe, i'm tellin' ya, throw out that damned idiot box before the missus and ya chillun waste away before it
a term developed by people who would have been horified if they'd known that the television would become relatively tame compared to all the other shitty electronic boxes developed since
"joe, i'm tellin' ya, throw out that damned idiot box before the missus and ya chillun waste away before it" What is the definition of "idiot box"?