The comical prodigal

I spent seven years trying to get the Prodigal Son to watch either Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel with me. He would have none of it because they obviously had to be something he wouldn't be interested in because I was. This aside from the fact he and I watched the various incarnations of Star Trek together since the day he was born. Anyway, yesterday morning I was flipping channels between BBC America and whichever syndication network is showing the Buffy episodes at the crack of dawn. I was about to flip back to BBCA when the Prodigal Son had me stop. 'Superstar' was the Buffy episode that was on and I remarked that it was one of my favorites. I explained what the episode was about and Prodigal commented that Jonathan was the kid who wasn't really a regular but who showed up every so often and was the kid with the gun in that one episode. I turned one of my infamous mom looks on the Prodigal Son who broke down and confessed to watching Buffy every morning after dropping me off at work. Not only does he watch Buffy in the morning, he also watches The Practice which comes on right after Buffy.

Children. What did we do to deserve them?