Hey, you can’t prove that it’s not true.

Step One: Getting Power
The first step to learning how television works is getting power to the unit. If you look behind the television set ( not the shiny glass side), you will see a long cord that ends in two “prongs.” Now then, find the nearest wall outlet, which will look like two prong-shaped holes, and insert the plug into it. Your unit should now have power.

Step Two: Cathode Ray Tube
Inside the box you refer to as the television is the Cathode Ray Tube. This is the heart of the set. Cathodes are little gnomish creatures, several times smaller than bacteria, that occur naturally in green, blue, and red skinned varieties. The tube is where they live and breed. The Ray is just another Cathode, but a much larger one, who acts a shaman. He is in control of the Tube, and will be vital to the process of displaying the picture. By providing power to the set, you give them the ability to create the light (via Light Emitting Diodes, or LEDs) that is required for them to live, and also backlight the screen.

Step Three: The Picture
For the sake of brevity, how a television signal gets to you will be covered in another article at a later date (How Analog and Digital Data Transmissions Work). Now, the Ray shaman reads the information provided in this transmission, and proceeds to translate it onto the screen. To do this, he has the Cathode horde at his disposal. By ritually sacrificing the correct amount of Cathodes in each colour, he has the pigments necessary to paint the inside of your television screen. The backlight powered by the plug in the wall shines behind these pigments, resulting in the picture you see. The Cathodes do not mind this, as this is the major event of their life. Now, many of you are wondering at this point how this could all possibly get done. Fluid motion doesn’t occur unless at least 24 still frames are displayed a second, and thirty is preferable. Luckily for all, not only does the Ray shaman move at incredible speed, but the Cathodes live their lives in a mere fraction of an instant. To further reduce his workload, television pictures are projected in interlaced format, meaning that the shaman only has to draw half the picture at a time.

Step Four: The Rest
Once the picture is displayed, the rest all relies on you watching the screen. The rapid series of still images fools the brain into thinking there is fluid motion, and you get to enjoy your show!