Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 04, 1989
Transcript:
Calvin: These television programs sure are rotten. There isn't an ounce of imagination in the whole bunch. What bilge. Who do they think is stupid enough to sit and watch this trash? Hobbes: You. Calvin: IF there was anything better on, I'd watch that.
And this was in the late ’80s, when there were still a few OK shows on. Before the networks discovered “non-scripted dramas.”