Television hols up a mirror to the true nature of family life today. For the first time people see themselves reflected and refracted within its curved glass screen: helping them to define who the are and how they should behave. The introduction of the TV dinner and the TV tray means that families can now watch themselves while they eat. Behavior patterns start to undergo a radical alteration even as they are being affirmed
 a rescheduling of life in the suburban living room has taken place.
Ken Hollings, Welcome to Mars: Politics, Pop Culture, and Weird Science in 1950s America