The TV that we have here at the apartment has a variety of problems, the most obvious being that the picture tube rattles in a manner that sounds like an aquarium. Today I turned on the TV and I could hear the sound but the picture didn't come on at all. After waiting for awhile to see if it would awaken on its own accord, I hearkened back to my knowledge gleaned from cartoons and smacked the top of the TV with the palm of my hand. Sure enough the picture came on. This raises a number of important questions about what other cartoon facts also apply in real life. If someone could run off the edge of a gorge and see whether you fall immediately or only when you look down and report it back to me, I'd be eternally grateful.