For the next few weeks, basketball fans will be forced to tune into truTV to catch the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament games not being aired on CBS, TNT, or TBS. Basketball fans are cracking jokes about the network on Twitter, and truTV doesn’t appreciate it. They even replied to one of my tweets:
@HookTSB Aaand almost immediately after reading your tweet, we’re reminded why we don’t follow you. ever. unreadable. #truTVisAThing
— truTV (@truTV) March 16, 2016
This isn’t a random occurrence. Whoever is running the @truTV twitter is firing back at any and all smack talkers on the internet:
@jsneedles No, our aim was to get you to tweet our handle to your 3,000 followers. Money well spent. #truTVisAThing
— truTV (@truTV) March 16, 2016
Ahhh, March! The month where we get an ton of tweets from people with profile pictures of themselves bowhunting. #truTVisAThing
— truTV (@truTV) March 16, 2016
@sethtoups Sorry, we were too busy laughing at your goatee to send you a reminder. #truTVisAThing
— truTV (@truTV) March 16, 2016
Nice to get some thoughtful commentary from the 523rd guy on Twitter to name himself DEEZNUTS. #truTVisAThinghttps://t.co/2Cl0n36vLA
— truTV (@truTV) March 16, 2016
In a weird way, I respect truTV for taking this angle. As lame as the #truTVisAThing hashtag may be, they’re standing up for their channel. If you’re curious what’s on truTV before NCAA Basketball, this is their lineup today:
3 hours of paid programming
An hour of Those Who Can’t (I wonder if the ‘Oof, Nut City’ episode was any good)
2 and a half hours of Impractical Jokers
4 and a half hours of The Carbonaro Effect
and then basketball. Seriously. That’s the Wednesday lineup. I’m not making this shit up. Granted, The Carbonaro Effect may be the one decent show on truTV, but 4 and a half hours? There’s only so much “magic” one can watch.
Last night I made the mistake of leaving the channel tuned in to truTV after the basketball coverage was over. The show Almost Genius came on, and if there ever was a show with a misnomer, this is it. It’s unwatchable. I think I got 30 seconds into it before I had to shut the TV off and fine a quiet place to clear my mind of the drivel that had just poisoned my ears.
Yes, truTV may be a thing, but it’s a very, very bad thing. So when you’re watching college basketball for the next few weeks, make sure you don’t lose the remote.
