I felt like it was a part of American pop culture, so I recorded it while I was busy at work and watched it when I got home. The whole service was was nicely done.

i started online then switched to tv...then it rained and rain kills satellite signal towards the end. I quickly switch back online just in time for Paris' speech.

Where's the option for I have no plans to watch it at all. While he may have had some talent he was a creepy, weird mess and I don't have any time in my life for that.

I tried to watch live but it was terrible. Obviously the word "dignity" is missing from the Jackson family dictionary. I wish I'd just skipped it altogether, as embarrassing as that display was.

"Not a dry eye in the house?" More like vacillating between cringing and throwing up in my mouth.

I watched the last quarter of it. It was decent, but repetitive. However, there were tears when his daughter came up to talk about her dad; it just makes you think about your own dad...and that made me all sorts of teary eyed

I didn't watch it, have no interest in it, have been trying to avoid it ever since. you should have had an extra option for folks who 'didn't see it and don't want to'

No vote, 'cause you didn't allow for my option: "didn't see it, and didn't want to." Sorry, but dying isn't enough reason for me to suddenly gain respect for someone when I didn't really have any for them beforehand. What pandering glorification of him I have caught by "leakage" is more than enough to irritate me.

not interested... sounds like it was a fittingly freaky freakshow tho

Michael Jackson's dead??
Why the hell didn't somebody say something???

i saw it on tv. it was very beautiful. they definitely made him proud with such a respectful, well-put-together memorial.

why would any one watch something that made them puke? weird...
and you're right, geek, there wasn't a dry eye at my house either.

Wow some people here are being so rude. If you didn't want to watch it, this poll obviously doesn't apply to you. One word: scroll.

I watched it on TV...I wish it moved along at a better pace. Brooke Shields and his daughter Paris gave the most moving testimonies. To all the people who said 'he was messed up'....try putting yourself in his shoes and try understanding the life outside of performing that he had.
He gave his all, I see him as an a-sexual person & I really think that the child molestation cases were just done by oportunistic people who didn't mind shattering his life for their own selfish gain. the fact that MJ paid the first sponges off to 'make it go away' in no way is any type of admission of guilt...have you any idea how hard it would be to be under that kind of scrunity and pressure and if he was innocent...that kind of frustration...and still try to be an artist...sometimes, it's just easier to let it go...like when you can file a lawsuit against someone, but you don't, just because of the hassle it involves...especially if you don't have a lawyer...maybe he just made the choice to pay them off to get them off his back so he could be able to move on with ihs life...all the internet scams who get your credit card # for Free Trials, know that a lot of people will just take the bullet, and pay an unauthorized charge...just to move on...and I think that was the case with Michael Jackson...he paid them off, just to be able to close the door on that situation and just move on. And then, once he paid them off, another famility tried to get money form him. No wonder he needed
something strong to help him sleep at night with the packs of wolves nipping at his heels!

We're as entitled to our opinions as you are, eckeltricity. The world isn't only comprised of starry eyed Michael Jackson apologists. I came in this post solely to express my disappointment that there wasn't a "didn't watch it, didn't want to" option.

I didn't say you weren't entitled to your opinions, I said I thought people were being rude. And I know not everyone is a "starry eyed Michael Jackson apologist". People are upset that someone died and if you didn't want to watch that person's life being celebrated then this poll didn't apply to you.

Besides, this post is about what you used to watch it, not if you wanted to watch it.

I won tickets to the memorial and saw it live at the Staples Center! It was a beautiful service, RIP Michael Jackson.