I grew up in a time where there were only three TV channels and even as a kid, when Little House on the Prairie came on, you'd watch the news instead
For some of my friends in college, watching Little House and getting high was a ritual, because it came on at 4.
When I was growing up, my two sisters and I decided what to watch on TV pretty much by pure, brutal democracy. They formed a bloc against me and I always got outvoted, so it was Little House on the Prairie (and The Waltons) every day after school.
Tangentially related but I remember thinking Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman could get it when I was a kid lol.
Hammerhead syndrome is just too much as an adult though.