The original method of motionless picture film invented in 1668. But these early TV's were not without drawbacks, being initially named the "poop soup killer" as when the Cholera TV first came out people were so shocked they literally shit themselves to death en masse. The people left behind were so preoccupied with their motionless picture Cholera TV's they hardly had time to dig mass graves for their friends and comrades.

The random nature of Cholera TV poisoning is also where the phrase "shit out of luck" came from.

Here is an example of a cholera TV in use in dungeons and dragons:
Cholera TV: infect target host with 2d6 visual damage per round to bowels/anus until dead or cleansed
"ever since these new Cholera TV's came out, people been shitting themselves over them"
by Wypipo whisperer August 22, 2020
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