In the passage, it is portrayed that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun.
She aimed the gun at the musicians and told them they had ten seconds to get their handicaps back on. It was then that the Bergeron's' television tube burned out.
Therefore, it can be said that Vonnegut used television to reinforce the theme within the text.
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