Hopefully, the writer's strike ends soon--our family is starting to lose it without anything "real" on tv. Seriously, you can only take so much of Hulk Hogan and his ilk before your mind starts to grow mold and rot from the inside out. In our attempt to prevent such terrible things this evening we started our nightly ritual of channel surfing in search of quality programming. As we perused Time Warner's offerings, we stumbled upon the American Life channel and found the pilot episode of WKRP in Cincinnati. Our hearts brimmed with joy as we watched an oldie but goodie...even the kids were laughing. It felt good to be entertained.
As we were taking in the forgotten treasure of old, Billy and I discovered something shocking: Apparently--unconsciously- we named our youngest child, Travis Andrew, after the character, Andy Travis, from WKRP. Now I know you probably think we're losing our grip on reality with all of reality of television we've been viewing. But on WKRP the characters were calling him "Andrew" at one point and interchanging it with "Andy" and "Travis". Considering the fact that this show was one of the few that both Billy and I were allowed to watch as kids it's totally possible that we always had that name in the back of our mind. We knew that we wanted to name our Travis after Blair, with Andrew, but we wanted a "T' name to match Tamila. "Travis" kinda popped when we heard it the first time in conjunction with "Andrew" and knew that was it.
Therefore, the current familial consensus is that our 4th child was named after a fictional radio station manager on WKRP. (As well as Andrew Blair Farley and Travis Hafner.)
Seriously...I need "real" programming to come back. You know your mind is fragile when it starts creating conspiracy theories about decades old television and your 3 year old son.
Laurel
3 comments:
I guess it is just good that you went with Andy Travis and not Venus Flytrap. No bias here but I have always that the T. Andrew Baker has a great name!
Maybe not Venus Flytrap, but if El Cucuy, a popular latin DJ had been in Cincinnati it may have been a totally different story.
Could you imagine "Cucuy Baker".
Sounds kind of good doesn't it.
Actually I was thinking about the fact that your parents let you watch this show... did they think that because the show was about Cincinnati that it had something to do with Standard Publishing?
Maybe you could just start calling Travis Cucuy as a nickname. It might stick... he is pretty young.
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