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Terre Haute gets 2 TV channels. 2 and 10. That's what Terre Hautens will tell you when you ask what channels they get. How does that help? NBC and CBS is what they should say. But anyhoo, I haven't signed myself up for cable yet (partly due to laziness and partly to budget concerns) so I get these wonderful 2 channels with my antenna. This morning my choices were some show about Indiana businesses and financial success or Veggie Tales. So I decide to put in one of the DVDs I bought at Walmart just for such an occurrance. As I'm putting in the DVD I've got the Veggie Tales on and a story starts and the characters have French accents. So then I have to watch cause it has to with French. The story was about this lady who is blue (both literally and metaphorically) cause her neighbors have more and nicer stuff than she. And then a StuffMart is built right down the road and associates from the store come to her house and tell her that if she goes to StuffMart and buys lots of their stuff she'll be happy. She has two friends/butlers who are over and advise against her going but she decides to go anyways. So they get on the elevator/pully thingy to head out (she lives in a tree house so you have to go on the thing to get in and out) and it goes to commercial! I was sitting there like, "What?! Commercial! Noooooooo!!! I have to know if happiness lies at the StuffMart! How could they do this to me?!" So, to wrap this up, she goes to StuffMart and gets oodles and oodles of stuff but it doesn't make her happy and she sees children whose parents can't get them what they really want cause it's too much money but they're still happy. So she tells the associates she wants a Happy Heart but they don't carry that. I was quite disappointed at this point. This show is full of trickery and tomfoolery. They reel you in with those French accents and then end up trying to teach you some moral lesson. Blech. The ending was somewhat funny cause her treehouse ended up falling and smashing cause it was stuffed to the gills with all her new stuff. So I think I'll call about that cable first thing on Monday.