In those days, the TV still had a cabinet with doors you could lock up. Mom and Dad would prod the children transfixed in front of the set--who should have been doing their homework--by using the excuse, "Too much TV and you'll burn out the tube."
那個年代啊，電視機還有拉門可以上鎖；爸媽催促依戀在電視機前該作功課的孩子，理由常是：看太久會燒壞啦！