Stubbs’s Corollary

The principle of eternal reruns:

Time is infinite. Television is not. Thus there are reruns.

This principle (which I just invented) is a corollary of Friedrich Nietzsche’s principle of eternal return. I call it Stubbs’s Corollary, after Freddy “Rerun” Stubbs of What’s Happening!!

[The words “what’s happening” themselves nicely capture the idea of eternal return. I invented Stubbs’s Corollary after thinking about Me-TV, which is nothing but reruns. Time for each of us is finite: don’t spend too much of it in front of a television.]