Unless it's Saturday Night and you're drunk. Then go for Demon Seed.
Don't give Svengoolie any ideas!
Alas, lately it's mostly been 60's and earlier, when at one point it was a lot of 70's-90's stuff.
Sven is one of the few things I miss about living in Chicago.
When I am away from home for extended periods, I like to watch Sven to get a taste of home. It's especially nice for after I return from travel and want to unwind.
PSA: There's full broadcasts of Svengoolie up on Archive.org! Some uploaded by the man himself! ETA: A lot more than I realized; the last ~year some fellow has been recording and uploading them regularly.
Former Illinoisan, and happy that Sven is national on the MeTV network.
I've heard he's now in commercials with Howard Ankin, which seems strange since he gets thrown out of the back of the hearse in the middle of each show!
I expect there are oodles of sci-fi references to this already, but in particular I remember an audio-log from the game Horizon: Forbidden West, where a hacker is critiquing some shady corporate research he found, implying a project to weaponize domestic robots:
> There's the Moldova brain-hack of course, but also up and coming little devils like the know-it-all MEMEr, or my personal favorite, Sovereign 7482.
> Now that's an apex predator. Assuming control of them Ti-D-O bots and arming 'em with household appliances? Imagine tidying up after that! Gotta admit, it'd be fun to see 'em hunt in the wild.
With ARM Memory Tagging Extension becoming common on phones now it's getting borderline impossible to hack them.