Brooklyn Man Sets New World Record For TV Binge-Watching

Here's something that might make you feel a little less guilty about those weekend binge-watching sessions every time Netflix releases a new season of a show. Variety reports that a 25-year-old Brooklyn resident has set a new Guinness World Record for TV binge-watching, clocking in at a staggering 94 hours.

Over the course of five days, Alejandro “AJ” Fragoso watched back-to-back episodes of shows including “Game of Thrones,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “Twilight Zone,” “Bob’s Burgers” and “Adventure Time” in a stunt sponsored by multimedia software company CyberLink. The viewing event, held at a midtown Manhattan apartment, began Friday, April 8, and the 94-hour mark was passed Tuesday just after 5 a.m. Eastern.

Apparently it started out as a group of three people trying to break the record, but Fragoso was the only one to make it to the end. He beat the previous world record by two hours, which was only set last month when a group of five Austrians watched TV for 92 hours straight. How pissed off would you be if you were those people? Holding the world record for about a month before someone came along and beat you?

This is my favorite part, though. Fragoso called the process "quite physically taxing," and the data bears that out:

After his epic binge, Fragoso had an elevated heart rate and suffered neurological side effects, including an increased frequency of involuntary open-eyed micronaps and acute hallucinations, according to the company.

I think we've all probably been tired enough at one point or another to experience open-eyed micronaps, but acute hallucinations? That's intense!