By making this comment, Stevens is urging people to step away and not worry about TV during the weekend. Leaving the television off for an entire weekend gives a person the opportunity to fully digest the negative impact it has on our intelligence. When someone constantly watches television, they allow themselves to constantly hear lower-grader language, fabricated or invented words, and grammatically incorrect sentences to the point that they don't realize it goes beyond terrible grammar. After being exposed to this for hours every week, it becomes difficult for them to distinguish good language rules from bad ones. Plus, it doesn't just make things difficult