You Know You've Been Watching
Too Much New Series When . . .

Your account has been hacked and your first thought is "Megabyte... &%*@*%"

You don't hand your paper in for class and when asked for an excuse you almost say ,"It got all wet when I broke out and landed in the ocean," but refrain from it, not because it would by lying and it make you look like a nut, but because if your paper gets ruined for that reason for real you won't be able to use the excuse again.

Somebody says, "Well Adam told me not to worry. He said there was nothing going on with him," on the bus and you immediately get very interested. Until they say "Well that's what Chris said that he said."

Your best friend keeps hearing someone call her name and there's nobody there, and you insist that she is breaking out. When she gets a headache, you tell her she'd better let Adam know.

You go to see the movie Titanic, and while the whole theatre is crying at how horrible it is to see the floating bodies, you're giggling at how appropriate Kevin's line "Help! I'm drowning!" is.

One of your spelling words is "extraordinary", and you begin mumbling the new series bumper.

The only thing you pick up out of the entire chapter of your history book chapter is the sentence "Colonel Cobb, another Choctaw chief, expressed similar feelings."

You're taking a personality test and the first question says "You're walking in the woods. Who are you with?", you write down Kristian Schmid and later you come to find out that whoever you wrote down is supposed to be the most important person in your life.

The one thing that you can remember from 6th grade history class is that when you started to learn about Tutankhamun, you had just watched part 1 of the Rameses Connection for the first time.

You freak out after you see a new kid on the street that you live on, and you try to convince your parents that he's a TP because you've never seen him before and he does not live in your city. (The kid had red hair, like Megabyte's. I thought it was him. I later found out that his name is Josh and that he lived in Pennsylvania. (I live really close to the state line)).

Your neighbors are inflicting loud gunshot movie noises at 1 am (I had to ask them to turn it down *twice*-- this is supposed to be a quiet floor- hah!) and when plotting your revenge, you debate putting on "Monsoon Man" and turning it up all the way before you head to your three hour biochem final the next day.

You have to leave your tape overnight at the shop for it to be converted, and you call the shop to "check on it", since it might be getting homesick.

You consider asking the shopkeeper if you can speak with your tape, but decide against it.

You're watching "Monsoon Man" part 4, and your VCR is making weird, helicopter-like sounds. Your younger brother comes in and says, "Ooh, a helicopter...has Lady Mulvaney invaded this adventure too?"

You're going over a class list for the Yearbook, and you find a girl named Loralie Damon. You smile and think how funny it would be if that was her middle name, and her first name was really Millicent. You look on the chart again...and see that her first initial really is M. So you start to wonder...

When you have to train the new hires at work, and as you are looking over their paperwork, you see the initials KS and immediately think "Kristian Schmid." (Luckily, reality kicked in and I realized it was the new girl, Kelley!)

Everyone in your hall has to make and post a wish list to give your "Little Angels" ideas on holiday gifts, and the top two things on your list are KS (or Christian Tessier, Naomie Harris, Kristen Ariza, depending on who can relate to this) and to finally break out!

You take a TP tape in PAL format to the store to be converted to NTSC and the guy who does the conversion puts it up on the screen and attempts to asks you if this is in fact the tape you want converted, but you're too busy shrieking, "It's Christian Tessier! I can't believe it!"

You get accused of watching The Tomorrow People when you should be doing your homework, and you complain that you were simply taking your "pet" Culex Experiment tape for a walk.

Your name's Amy, and instead of spelling it Amy, you spell it Ami.

For some reason, while in typing class, the names Adam, Ami, Megabyte and Jade show up on the screen, and you have no clue how they got there.

You get an e-mail from an 'Adam Newman' and your computer notifies you of it specifically because you have the name in your notify box.

Your sister starts being really annoying. You tell her she is doing a Megabyte, or when your mum is waving her arms around as she talks you tell her she is doing an Ami with an i.

Walking across campus, you hear someone yell, "SNAKE SKIN GIVES WAY TOO MUCH HOMEWORK. HE NEVER READS IT, THOUGH. I'VE HANDED IN THE SAME ESSAY THREE TIMES THIS YEAR!" and turn around, surprised to find no one there.

You name your first 'Catz' Alex, then your second 'Catz' Jade, then you realise what you have done weeks after.

You're surfing around a bulletin board and you see a message from an Alex Milman - and you wonder whether you risk embarrassing yourself by sending an e-mail to that address.

You draw the new series symbol on all your windows with dry-erase markers - and get your mother mad at you because one "can't see out".

You have to decide if you really, really, really want to do this work and pass your course in order to get a good job and have a decent life. Or would you rather just sit down and watch the Culex Experiment one more time.

You do a report on the life of Tutankhamen and it takes all you've got not to put in any TP references.

You're afraid of white cats.

Your notes on the Egypt unit in school are covered with bits of dialog from The Rameses Connection.

You find an old pair of pants identical to those worn by Jade in The Culex Experiment, and recognize them as such.

You regularly drink large quantities of orange juice, even though you don't really like it.

For some reason, you're discussing in class possible casting for a part in "The Merchant of Venice," and you're so tired you suggest Kristian Schmid.

You get blank stares until a friend from your hall jumps up and yells, "Oh, yeah! It's the guy on her door!" People passing your hall in that class check your door the rest of the day.

Your parents take you site seeing, and the only thing you can remember from the whole thing (it was only three hours ago) was a sign that said "exit Clearwater".

You have a dream where they're showing new episodes of the TP and you're not in them, so you consider it a nightmare.

You get a kick out of going into random AOL chat rooms and saying "You can't mess around with the laws of the universe. We live and we die! Those are the rules!" just to see what people do.

You spend your Saturday calling every video store in the area asking if there's really an "Attack of the Killer Cucumbers".

When someone is talking about a shirt that says "Kill K*S" and you immediately think they mean Kill Kristian Schmid, and you get *really* angry at them. (The shirt actually was a Kiss shirt.)

After one too many watchings, your Monsoon Man tape gets stuck in the VCR. After screaming "noooo" several times and crying, you take the VCR to the repair shop. They tell you they can either save the tape or the VCR - and although you have several copies of Monsoon Man, you can't stand to see it destroyed. Instead, you talk your mother into buying a new VCR.

You have a dream where they're showing new episodes of TP and you're not taping them, so you consider it a nightmare (OK, there was also large members of the cat family-- lions or something-- trying to fight or claw me or something, but guess which part worries me more?!)

You start drinking your coffee like Megabyte, just to see if one cream, no sugar is the cause of breaking out.

You're in Political Science class and your professor asks, "Now, if you wanted to become the #1 grower of popcorn, and you wanted to get rid of all the other people growing popcorn, what would you do?" and all you can think is, "Weather machine."

You see a weird piece of equipment in your school's auditorium and you yell, "Origin Story!"

Your friend sleeps over at your house, and in the morning, she complains that you were babbling about moving stones and shining stars during the night. You ask if it was, "The stones shall move, the stars shall shine, and a shadow long shall fall upon the earth" and she says, "Yes, how did you know?". You want to say, "Ooo, gossip, gossip, like raspberry jam and lemon curd - it spreads!" but you decide against it.

You're on your way to ER and keep on thinking "Adam, I'm wwwwwaaaaaaaiiiittttiiiiinnnngggg!!!"

While babysitting, you're only allowed to watch TV when your sibling is home, so you bake chocolate brownies to try and get them to come back.

You name your virtual pet Megabyte, and only realize the non-TP connection hours later.

If you've wondered what Megabyte was doing over coffee.

If you buy clothes that you like even if they don't fit so Jade won't get to them. :)

You have printed out photos of KS on your wall and are constantly explaining who the heck he is to your friends.

If you dread going back to school and wish Kevin was there with you so maybe you'd have a bit more fun sending telepathic messages in class. The algebra teacher would never know.

You wish Adam had an authentic Australian accent. (It sure doesn't sound real.)

You wish you had an authentic Australian accent.

You find out your dorm's new resident director's name is Lucy Allen and you think, So that's what happened to her. (BTW, I found out that's her last name, Lucy-Allen, much to my dismay.)

When somebody is following you on the street you automatically think, "Worldex should know about this."

Everytime your mouse locked you wish you had Megabyte around.

Everytime you stub your toe on something like a door you wish you had Adam around

If you wish had Adam around even if you didn't stub your toe. ;)

Somebody is talking about computers and they say "This model had four hundred Megabytes" and you think, "Somebody got really clone happy."

Some one calls and you think, "Please let it be Adam. Please let it be Adam."

If somebody says, "I need a hug." And your first thought is "Adam."

If you go to bake sales for the purpose of finding out who made the brownies.

If you know an Adam, a Jade, a Lisa, an Ami and a Kevin and think, "Where is Megabyte?!"

You have a morbid fear of cornflakes and Frosted Flakes reasoning, "He'll use Frosted Flakes this time."

You see a blonde with and English accent and you think, "That was Jade!" and look like a total idiot when you insist her name is Jade.

The song "Gloria" makes you nervously look around for statuesque blondes with sunglasses on.

You're in Bermuda and you trace circles in the pink sand expecting them to open up and suck you into a spaceship.

You hear the name "Adam" or "Kevin" said behind you, and you look to see if it's the TP.

You make sure not to think too loud. You wouldn't want to wake Adam up.

If there's a boy that rides your school bus and he looks like Megabyte even slightly and you think, "So that's where he went to."

Some one says I thought I saw Mulder (X-files) and you think they said Mulvaney and you scream, "Somebody warn the Tomorrow People!"

Rainstorms make you wonder.

Every time you see a mosquito you scream, "She's at it again. Run for your lives!"

You tell someone you need to be somewhere at 6, and that it's 25 to 7 (when it's really 6:35), and they wonder why you're so calm, and then once you realise what you said you start laughing hysterically, and have to explain why.

Mosquitos are your number one enemy and Off! sends you Christmas cards.

If you've ever had a test on Australia and been confidant that you'd pass because hey, you've got an Australian on hand.

Your mother asks for some Q-tips and you think she says 'Culex' and you run and hide under the bed in fear.

You can never look at brownies the same again.

You capitalize 'Megabyte' as not to make Marmaduke mad.

You see bright lights and think "They're here. Better go make some brownies."

You call a friend and hear that they "just popped out" and you begin to wonder. . .

You're stuck at a boring graduation pool party in 50 degree weather with only 6 people there. You decide to leave, but when your hostess asks why, you come up with an on-the-spot fib that you have to meet your friends Adam, Megabyte, and Ami by eleven.

Your mother scares the living hell out of you when she wakes you up ready for work--and is wearing a pendant that looks suspiciously like the one from Rameses Connection.

you get REALLY excited when your Classics professor describes how Caligula had a large obelisk transported from Heliopolis to Rome

You buy a tall, square, clear glass just to drink your orange juice in (and it's just like the one from the Origin Story).

You're watching a really dark HBO comedy while trying to write your English essay due tomorrow, and drop everything when you think you see Naomie Harris for a millisecond.

You're working on a crossover which has nothing to do with the TP and yet you bug TPDIS like crazy for a line so you can stick in an in-joke to The Culex Experiment."

Similarly, you must resist the urge to laugh when a civil engineering prof. describes the Washington Monument as an "obelisk".

You find a flower in your mailbox and the card says ", Happy (belated) 25th TP anniversary, All the Best, Adam"-- in your roommate's handwriting.

Your college's dining hall is serving Mexican food for Cinco de Mayo, and the first thing that comes to your mind when looking at a greenish shell marked "Sun-dried tomato something" (yeah right!) is a bunch of certain pods and people with glowing green eyes.

Your phonology professor writes the form "--huska" on the board and asks what the first part should be, and your immediate response is "ba'na".

While in Wal-Mart, you hear Lisa Davies being paged and you think, "Ahh... so that's what she's been up to since she left the show."

You see a statue of Rameses in the British Museum, and your first thought is, "But that doesn't look a thing like Christopher Lee".

You think all scientists are mad.

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