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Limit screen time and avoid caffeine before you plan on hitting the sack.

The split screen musical number and matching dramatic wigs is absolutely gold.

And you're on screen for basically seven minutes.

I remember seeing ET on the big screen for the first time in a seat not very different than this.

And when that's not-- seems scary enough, filling an entire screen with just four words-- weeks of severe diarrhea!

Be it around a fire or in front of a cinema screen is just fundamental to what it means to be human.

Because she won an Oscar for, like, eight minutes on screen, right?

That had a massive profound effect on me and showed me how much a 2D cinema screen can make you feel so much.

And smartphones tend to be a great adult pacifier because at those moments, you turn on your screen, you swipe and you feel relaxed again.

STUFF LIKE THAT might be why so many people turned off their TVs as soon as you came on screen.

GEOFF BENNETT: Richard Russo has written ten novels, won the Pulitzer Prize for "Empire Falls," and collaborated on screen adaptations and TV series based on his work.

IF YOU THOUGHT THAT WAS GOOD TV, YOU are alone because here is an actual graph of the minute-by-minute ratings when Joe appeared on screen.