Suggested ideas in RED.
Not suggested in blue.
If you choose any of the "friend/relative" ideas send it to me!
C4.
Wait till there is a thunderstorm the short out the TV.
Break the plug and say it must of been a rodent.
Get a Wii and throw the Wii-mote at the screen.
Get "angry" at X console game and throw the controller into the TV.
If it is a CRT put magnets by it. (Unless it has a degauss function?)
Take off the wall-plug cover and disconnect just that plug, reconnect when you have gotten a new TV.
If it is LCD press really hard, not enough to crack it, on the glass and make those black spots.
Break a window, give it to a friend your wife doesn't know, and claim you were robbed? (Claim the cops already came and checked everything out?)
Cover the prongs of the plug with chrome paint so it cannot get a connection and thus will not work?
Claim the new "digital T.V." standard thing doesn't work with it?
Open up the front part and put tape behind the IR glass for the remote receiver part and break the power button.
Say a relatives TV broke and he/she would really appriciate a new one for Xmas and you want a new one anyway? (Then send it to a friend or something?)
Tell he you want to get a new TV for the family because of Xmas?
Break off the coaxial connector and say you were trying to hook up a VCR to tape a show for a friend?