It ties in with the show. The narrator represents the show's eponymous young hero, Malcolm Wilkerson, who is the middle child. I've only seen the show a couple of times, but my assumption is, the parents probably had to sell their TV or something or their TV broke, and with all those kids to raise, they may not have had money for a new one, and Our Hero is sent to the room where the TV used to be to "think" about a minor or imagined misdeed, and he's having the sulks about it
It ties in with the show. The narrator represents the show's eponymous young hero, Malcolm Wilkerson, who is the middle child. I've only seen the show a couple of times, but my assumption is, the parents probably had to sell their TV or something or their TV broke, and with all those kids to raise, they may not have had money for a new one, and Our Hero is sent to the room where the TV used to be to "think" about a minor or imagined misdeed, and he's having the sulks about it