When I was that age, 8:00 meant that either Topo Gigio or the Muppets were on Ed Sullivan (they were always, for some reason, scheduled for the second half-hour). I&#x27;m not sure I needed the extra half-hour that going to bed at 7:30 gave me, but I&#x27;m pretty sure that my parents needed the recovery time before their two hours of grown-up television.