Also don’t forget to rub your palm across the screen to collect the fuzzies that built up.

Ah, I can feel it from just reading your comment! That’s a feeling I haven’t felt in a while!

How about the smell?

You gotta give it a few slaps too, when the image isn't very clear.

Pre-Gameboy, when I was a child, my grandfather had a television— the kind that was furniture. Sometimes it would eschew modern trappings like colour and v-sync, and I would employ my Classical Vaudevillian training to set it straight with a wallop.

I always had to rap my knuckle on the screen. It has that nice, thick hollow resonance

Good ol' percussive maintenance.

Put a magnet by the screen as well.