Constant questions when watching TV

[CommanderAdama]

Whenever I sit and watch TV with my husband, which is most evenings, no matter what programme is on he will bombard me with questions;

Who is that actor?/actress What's the name of that film? Who sang that song? What film was he/she in? Hasn't that person died in real life? What year was that film made? Etc....

He also has the worst memory and is generally crap with names/faces/dates

AIBU to find this maddening? I just lost my temper with him because he asked me a really stupid question about Gary Barlow. He finds it funny and says he is just trying to make conversation! Is he? Am I a miserable shit? To me it's not exactly conversation when I'm the one responsible for filling in all of the fucking blanks.....

My brother always used to ask me questions during tv. I replied "I'm only watching the same thing as you. I don't know"

We just sat and watched Carpool Karaoke Special so you can imagine how that went.

I had to explain who every single fucking singer was, the name of the songs, when the songs came out....

DP does this. Immensely irritating. I deal with it by COMPLETELY ignoring him, & it eventually stops. Or I give him a very sharp “shush!”
It’s really weird and abnormal. Only odd behaviour of his, so I put up with it.

YANBU - I think it's a form of attention-seeking. The other person wants you to divert your attention from the TV to them.

Interesting, I'd never thought of it as attention seeking.

Another thing I find really annoying is that we'll be watching a film and say the actress is Julia Roberts, you know, someone incredibly well known who 99% of the population could identify and he will say oh yeah, that's Angelina Jolie

Makes me fucking mad!!

Just trying to make conversation?? Have you tried turning off the TV, turning to him and saying ‘ok, what do you want to talk about?’

Mine will ask questions as though I’m the fount of all knowledge. I’ve started repetitively saying ‘I don’t know’. Stops any follow up. He finds it hilarious!

My DH has this thing of, if any Scottish actor appears, he remarks that it's Ewan McGregor - even if it's nothing like him

My teen does this drives me mental. I tell him i am not psychic and i dont know what happens next, who they are, what they are doing etc ad i am watching it at the same time as he is!

Or he will sit at pc and keep turning round to ask whats happening. Does he do this? Did she do that?

If he doesn't stop i tell him to shut up or sod off.
Arghhh. Whats wrong with just watching a programme and seeing what happens?

Do you have a smart tv? If so, pause the programme every time he asks a question, gives him your full attention for however long he needs and then put your programme back on, having rewound the last few seconds for clarity. I'm pretty sure that will annoy him. It will annoy you too, probably, but still, it might be worth trying it as an experiment.

You need an Amazon Echo for him to ask

No to amazon echo, that's just another voice to drown out the TV.
Tell him To go Google in the kitchen

Make stuff up... like really obvious and try not to laugh.

Tv talkers are infuriating. I was about ready to stick pencils in my ear holes yesterday with my mother during moana.
Ma: so who's he then?
Me: maui
Ma: oh, I thought you said he was dwayne Johnson.
Me: yes that's the actors name
Ma: so he's not maui then?
Me: HE IS MAUI
Ma: oh. So which one is dwayne Johnson then?

My DH does this but only when it’s not a TV programme he’s interested in. You could hear a pin drop during fucking Breaking Bad or Narcos but as soon as Grey’s Anatomy starts he gets all “chatty”...

Why in god's name would he need to make conversation while watching television?! If you wa t to talk then turn the television off. If you want to watch then don't talk. I am convinced that there is something seriously wrong with people who talk while watching television.

Have you noticed though, men like programmes that have commentators? I wonder if they think all programs should have them and he's trying to be helpful

I do what the PP said - pause turn ask them to repeat the question - answer the question - rewind - repeat - drives them mad!

Might also be a way of Turing your 'crap off' as you give up and her can watch something else

Some people do this because they're irritating, attention-seeking plonkers.

Others do it because they have prosopagnosia. This means that they cannot remember faces, which makes it very difficult to follow the plot. Sometimes they can remember the face, but not connect the right name to it.

This is one reason why I watch fewer and fewer films. It is an embarrassing and frustrating condition to have.

What annoys me is that if I am focused on the TV and he asks me something which I don't catch he Implies I am rude/ignorant for not paying attention to him - well make sure you get my attention before speaking!!

I do the pausing and rewinding thing a fair bit to make it clear I am wanting to focus on the TV

My DH does this too. Insanely annoying.

He sometimes puts some shit programme on that HE wants on, and so i sit there and put the internet on (or something on netflix on my computer,) and he still fucking talks!

I say 'I thought you were watching this!'

Yeah but I still wanna talk' he says.

So I am meant to just sit there staring blankly at the walls whilst he watches some shit I am not interested in, waiting patiently doing nothing, in case he wants to talk to me.

A lot of men do this. I get friends complaining about it, and many people on message forums. Why is this? Is it some kind of attention seeking? Look at meeee, listen to meeeee.......

Whenever I sit and watch TV with my husband, which is most evenings, no matter what programme is on he will bombard me with questions
I do the same sort of thing but when I am on my own watching TV.

Not a single question enters my mind that I do not need to find out the answer to.

Sometimes a 45 minute TV show can take a couple of hours to watch because I pause it and then go on the Internet to find the answers.

I call it "interactive TV watching".

Also as I have a good memory, I remember all of the answers so I never need to look them up again.

I can imagine that it would be very annoying to constantly be asked questions though.

I stopped going to a cinema with a friend who does this. It would irritate me if it was in television but I am not paying a fucking fortune to watch a film to be asked questions about a film I haven't seen or inane witterings "That's a nice chair she's sitting in, would love that for my place".

STFU!!

Mission STFU works in our house

gogglebox would be disappointing though ah!

TheWernethWife

I fear I'd be the receiver of the grumbles and turns in our direction if I yelled that out in a cinema and knowing my luck it would be at a quiet moment where a second before the characters would be talking!

This is one of my aunts to a tee. ‘Ooo what’s happening’ at ten second intervals. If I lose all control and say I have no idea shall we watch and see lots of passive aggressive sighing and muttering about how rude I am. I have known her sulk for a week because I couldn’t tell her what was going to happen in Eastenders, I am known for my powers of telepathy obviously.