Remember back in the day when the television network TBS used to start programs at 5 minutes and 35 minutes past the hour? I always thought that was annoying. Why did they do that? When and why did they stop?
Actually, they did it deliberately to annoy you. Somebody told them you weren't paying attention any more and Ted said "Screw it, don't bother any more."
More seriously they did it to promote lock in--if your show finished at 05, you were likely to stay with them AND to get channel surfers as they gave up on other shows.
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