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Old 06-25-2012, 12:16 PM   #1 (permalink)
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What are you favorite TV shows, past and present? I'll start.

I do not watch tv during the day because I have too much chores and homework to do and the programs are AWFUL.

I love to watch Teen Mom, Celebrity Apprentice and Family Guy.

Teen Mom is a social commentary on mothers who are too young and immature to be parents. They have started to use this show in sex ed classes and I think "Teen Mom" is a bunch of cautionary tales for teens to watch. I don't like the way the young women are treated like celebrities for doing something which is not a good idea.

Celebrity Apprentice is a show that my husband got me into. Now we both watch it every season. It is interesting to see celebrities from when I was a young child again and how they have aged. I also love the focus on raising money for charity.

Family Guy is gloriously tongue-in-cheek and offensive. The characters are archetypes with original attributes added. Some of the humor is very lowbrow and slapstick, but that is just part of the fun. I get a huge kick out of people who think all animated shows are for children-Family Guy is certainly an adult cartoon.

As a kid growing up in the late eighties and nineties, I was into many of the campy cartoons from my grade school days. I loved She-ra, My Little Pony and the Care Bears. You couldn't tear me away from Jem or Sesame Street either.
Mr.Belvedere and Who's The Boss were hilarious shows about hired help and The Cosby Show was every upper middle class black family's template where I lived.

I copied the outfits on Dawson's Creek as a teenager. There were also some Canadian shows that few here will recognize: Ready or Not and Degrassi Junior High anyone?
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Mind Your Language, though at that time I could barely make out what anyone was saying and then there was yes minister
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Great question!

I also love a lot of Canadian shows -- most of all a weird little series called Twitch City, anyone else see it?

I'm a big fan of the Whedonverse (Buffy, Angel, Firefly -- but I hated Dollhouse).

Right now I'm obsessed with The Wire. I really like smart TV that doesn't spoonfeed you.

And Wilfred! Love Wilfred!
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Louie, Peep Show, Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey, Dr G Medical Examiner, Rocko's Modern Life, Archer, Always Sunny, Arrested Development, Better Off Ted, Minister Takes Questions, CSPAN Book TV, Luther, Boondocks, Bridezilla, Bad Girls
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Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister are probably my favourite British comedy shows
But I also love Blackadder, Alan Partridge, Porridge and The Thick of It
Top Gear, Cracker, The Killing (Danish version), Peep Show, League of Gentlemen, West Wing, The Wire, The Sopranos

Guilty pleasures are Miami Ink (oh Chris Nunez I love you!), Man vs Food, Air Crash Investigators, The Vicar of Dibley

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oh I forgot Question Time for shouting at the TV, This Week for laughing at Andrew Neil's hair and RLD reminded me of LUTHER
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I'm Sfi-fi with some HBO series thrown in.

Game of Thrones
Spartucus
Dr Who
BSG (new one)
Sons of Anarchy
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Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister are probably my favourite British comedy shows
But I also love Blackadder, Alan Partridge, Porridge and The Thick of It
Top Gear, Cracker, The Killing (Danish version), Peep Show, League of Gentlemen, West Wing, The Wire, The Sopranos

Guilty pleasures are Miami Ink (oh Chris Nunez I love you!), Man vs Food, Air Crash Investigators, The Vicar of Dibley

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oh I forgot Question Time for shouting at the TV, This Week for laughing at Andrew Neil's hair and RLD reminded me of LUTHER
Nothing tops Sherlock.
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I really miss Trigger Happy TV
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I'm Sfi-fi with some HBO series thrown in.

Game of Thrones
Spartucus
Dr Who
BSG (new one)
Sons of Anarchy
You are a Sci-Fi nut who didn't write MST3000?!
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can't believe I forgot GoT, True Blood and Spartacus!! doh!

I loved Trigger Happy TV too comp, Dom Joly has disappeared off the face of the earth

Sherlock was excellent, but getting Moriarty wrong really disappointed me

I used to watch Greys Anatomy and ER was fab in the early days
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Geez,after years I still miss John Thaw in The Sweeney,my all time favorite.Also really liked Water Rats from Australia with Colin Friels and Catherine McClements.
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You are a Sci-Fi nut who didn't write MST3000?!
Haven't seen it in years.

My wife and I used to watch it every Saturday morning before we got up.
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I don't watch too much Tv, I like to catch Lifetime movies, Hallmark movies & we do Netflix....more than anything else.

If flicking channels, we always stop for "1000 ways to die" - We find it completely halarious, grotesquely sick..... we howl, I scream & I cover my eyes it is so gross -but it is educational after all. Love stuff like that.

I enjoy anything TRUE, I enjoy Documentaries alot, Biographys, I enjoy Reality shows... if it has anything to do with Romance, even more so... probably mindless but I love the Bachelor and The Bachelorette (of course) and Survivor.

Haven't watched South Park in ages, but for a cartoon, that is my favorite. Was a huge Monty Python fan in my youth.

I enjoy catching Primetimes, 20/20's, I have never watched one episode of Desperate Housewives - even though that would be right up my alley.... So many programs I would likely LOVE but never took the time to lay my eyes upon....Dawsons' Creek is likely one of them.

Most of the stuff mentioned on this very thread... I have NO IDEA what those shows even are, not a clue.
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I forgot Psych. Best show ever.
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