46% of all television violence identified by the study took place in children's cartons. Children's programs were least likely to depict the long-term consequences of violence (5%) and they portray violence in a humorous fashion 67% of the time. Leonard Eron, PhD at the university of Illinoi, has conducted a close study of television viewing from age 5 to 30. The results hurt our television loving brains: the more hours of television violence viewed, the more the tendency for aggressive behavior in teenage years becomes as does the likelihood of criminal acts and arrests in later years. Nick workman's (7 years old) favorite program is The X-men, a carton featuring mutant superheroes with names like wolverine - a misanthropic man beast whose razor sharp claws have a hair like trigger. " I like the action."" Nick says. " I like it when they use their powers."" He also likes The Simpsons - especially homer, father to the animated show's dysfunctional family. By the time a child is eighteen years old, he or she would probably have witnessed on television 200,000 acts of violence including 40,000 murders. The average child spends approximately 28 hours a week watching television, which is twice as much time as they spend in school. Imitation and austere reality which we are forced to accept, can be seen everywhere. The glory blood bath at Luby's cafeteria, which left 21 dead, was rooted in the killer's passion for the movie The Fisher King as was the impact of Stephan kings works that gave inspiration for a 17 year old boy to shoot his teacher and hold the class hostage. In Nevada one teenaged boy was killed and two others seriously injured while lying down along the centerline of a highway. The boys admitted that they were imitating a scene from the movie " The program-. In another incident, a five-year-old boy set his house on fire, killing his two-year-old sister. The boy's mother blamed his actions on the MTV show " Beavis & Butthead-.