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Things you like which you wish you didn't.

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00:42 / 23.07.01

Yet another cotton-candy thread from the girl with no depth, and probably one that we've done before.

Your secret, or not so secret TV/film shames- post them for support or mockery. Stuff you watch but quickly change the channel when someone else comes in the room (trying of course to get them to leave as subtly and quickly as possible) or the stuff you watch which is probably a bad influence on you or society at large.

I love Jackass with a devotion that scares me. I feel like these people do these things so that the rest of us don't have to. That, and my ties with the state of Tennessee make me quite fond. I am this close to buying one of those I <heart> Johnny Knoxville t-shirts.

In films, every time I see that Comedy Central is showing Earth Girls Are Easy, I'm there. Why? The muscial numbers.

00:45 / 23.07.01

Jackass?

01:02 / 23.07.01

Jackass: MTV fare. A group of young men (and a girl I think) led by Johnny Knoxville. They do really stupid things. They tie dead fish parts to their legs and go swimming with sharks. They allow people to shoot them in the crotch (wearing a cup) with a paintball gun, among many other things. Knoxville once had his chin covered in leeches and started reciting what he knew of the Gettysburg Address. Mothers complain because their kids imitate this stuff.

01:05 / 23.07.01

Sounds great.

(Paintball referee once shot me in the back of my knee because he found me picking up unexploded pellets and reusing them. They were charging £1.50 for 10, and I was 16. Hurt like [insert swear word of choice here])

Sorry - nothing really to add to this thread - I live with people who have the same taste in TV as me! (Although I have to check the Lottery numbers off the Net, otherwise I get another lecture.)

Oh - anyone in the UK remember the Young Hopefulls from The Word? "I'd snog a granny to get on TV, "I'd eat a pube sandwich...," "I'd get in a bath of maggots..." *sigh* Those were the days...

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Ellis

05:42 / 23.07.01

Two guys, a girl and a Pizza place.

It just makes me laugh.

Oh, Big Brother too.

The Return Of Rothkoid

08:58 / 23.07.01

The Secret Life of Us. It is, as one critic pointed out, Neighbours with more money thrown at it, but I can't look away. Why? Melbourne and Deborah Mailman, that's why. I go through periods of what I call the Daryl Somers Syndrome - where you want to put your foot through the TV in the hope that whoever is on it at that point would actually feel it - but always end up watching. I'm so weak.

And Banzai. It's so wrong. And yet, so very right...

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:58 / 23.07.01

Oh God. I have to admit, I like TSLOU as well... I had that horrible Ally McBeal experience where I started watching it and dissing it vocally all the way through, then tuned in to see what happened next time...

Speaking of the mingingly thin one, I'm disturbed by the fact that the trailers for the new series make me go "ooh! great!". It's the ensemble cast, I tell you, but that probably don't make it no better...

Also, Zoe. And... hmm, not sure how I ought to feel about Will & Grace, but I liked the first episode of that a lot.

11:45 / 23.07.01

'The Piglet Files', TV series with Nicholas Lyndhurst, finished years ago.

I used to love 'On Safari' the kids game show presented by Christopher Biggins. They had to clamber over a tv studio jungle adventure playground thing collecting coconuts. I used to think it was cool....

'Countdown' nuff said.

12:01 / 23.07.01

Then there's my love of Zoobamafoo, a children's show on public television about animals. I suppose it could be considered educational, but giggling at a lemur puppet and extreme close-ups of various and sundry cute animals is probably not dignified behavior for a twenty-one year old.

12:38 / 23.07.01

My names mr y, and I left the pub early on Friday to catch the wrestling.
I love it, but I occasionally fear my neighbours [who naturally listen through the walls to what I do because I'm so interesting] are listening to my tv squealing 'Oh my god, he's broken in half' and tittering.
I'm becoming a bit more aggessive about defending my Pokemon watching now, though. I've also 'come out' regarding the Good Life, and have a t-shirt made up entirely of pictures of Margot. Mmmmmm!

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

17:12 / 23.07.01

Any of the Behind the Music specials on VH-1. They're silly, they focus on whatever tragedy the muscial act in question had and milk it for all it's worth, but it's all so addictive. I can't believe I just watched the one about Notorious B.I.G. with a straight face this morning.

I used to be addicted to the Real World, but I lost interest in it a long time ago.

Oh yeah, and for some reason, I find myself enjoying the Drew Carey show every now and again. Sheesh.

17:19 / 23.07.01

I have a serious addiction to "Behind the Music." I missed the B.I.G., but I thought the Snoop Dogg one was really good. Truthfully though I'll watch any artist on Behind the Music regardless of what I think of their music.

I, too used to be addicted to the Real World, though, no longer. I'll always have a crush on that Neil guy from the London house, though. And speaking of Real World, their new house is right by my apartment and I have to say there's some major backlash going on. Like shopkeepers have put up signs that say "Real World Stay out of My Store!" and the like. Also some guy got shot gangland style about a block away from their apartment the day they were all moving in. Welcome to Chicago, kiddies!!!

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ynh

17:31 / 23.07.01

I'm secretly holding out for a Real World Sims Online season.

Locust No longer

18:25 / 23.07.01

quote:Originally posted by Mazarine:
Then there's my love of Zoobamafoo, a children's show on public television about animals. I suppose it could be considered educational, but giggling at a lemur puppet and extreme close-ups of various and sundry cute animals is probably not dignified behavior for a twenty-one year old.

Any time this show is on, which is usually around the time I wake up, I watch it. It's like some sort of tragic car wreck that I can't turn away from. "OOOH, a baby Lemur!" Any toughness I once had has now gone.

19:31 / 23.07.01

I love the Sabrina - teenage witch series. In fact (embarrassing as it is) I've got the 70 or so first parts on video.

Not kidding.

19:41 / 23.07.01

And I'm currently getting worked up about the fact that we still don't have the new series in the UK. Just repeats...

19:50 / 23.07.01

I've heard the new series is not as good. With Sabrina living in a flat of her own. WHAT? No aunties? No cat?

And Harvey is gone, too.

20:24 / 23.07.01

Yeah, I read the script for the first one because I was going to send some scripts in.

Sabrina goes to university, Harvey decides that he can't cope with her being a witch, etc. I think they might have seen Buffy S4....

Ganesh

20:27 / 23.07.01

I'm desolate if I miss a single one of Channel 5's 'The House Doctor'...

09:57 / 24.07.01

I truley do have a soft spot for the teen films of the eighties mostly by john hughes, dunno why i guess i discovered them when i was most receptive towards that sort of stuff

its genrally known im a big brother addict although im tiring of it now

Ghostbusters is my favourite film of all time but i dont care who knows that but
i may delete this post if no one argees about the john hughes thing in a coulpe of days

09:57 / 24.07.01

quote:Originally posted by Mazarine:
Then there's my love of Zoobamafoo

I don't usually say this... but the interplay between the two eager young male leads seemed rather... close.
found it strange too that they would cut between the puppet and the real lemur as if we couldn't tell... if I remember correctly.

I find it embarassing that I watched
Babylon 5 avidly before I gave up my tv. to a degree even after I gave up my tv.

09:57 / 24.07.01

I've got 2 words for you, sister: Blind Date. Man, I am such a rubbernecker for that damn show. I feel the most delicious kind of Schadenfreude watching lunkheaded guys insist on singing their luv songs to their dates. Or yodeling. Or riding mechanical bulls. All without regard of whether the date is going well or not. It's like the Gong Show for the broken hearted.

Speaking of the Gong Show, I used to watch the Game Show Network almost exclusively when I had cable. No Whammy..... No Whammy......... STOP!!

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09:57 / 24.07.01

quote:Originally posted by Kriztalyne:

I don't usually say this... but the interplay between the two eager young male leads seemed rather... close.

Yes, they are rather the ambiguously incestous duo, aren't they? I've come to both love and fear the phrase, "This reminds me of one time back in Zaaaaaaboo land."

I too enjoy the Drew Carey show from time to time, along with Spin City- they show them round here late at night. Worth it for Lewis and Oswald alone with their "dumb cop, weird cop routine."

And I've watched with great interest the first few episodes of that MTV show where they're all trying to get WWF contracts. I feel pretty unclean about that one.

15:12 / 24.07.01

quote:Originally posted by Mazarine:

Yes, they are rather the ambiguously incestous duo, aren't they?

what... do you mean they play relatives on the show?

quote:Worth it for Lewis and Oswald alone with their "dumb cop, weird cop routine."

so they've updated "good cop, bad cop" for the current age...?

15:44 / 24.07.01

quote:Originally posted by Mazarine:
Yes, they are rather the ambiguously incestous duo, aren't they?

quote: Originally posted by Kriztalyne: what... do you mean they play relatives on the show?

yes, i believe they play 'brothers'. Zaboo is the best! my favorite episode was when Zaboo tried to answer their fan mail. the brothers devoted a lot of time illustrating how animals leave their signatures in the wild which culminated (if i remember this correctly - it could have been a sick case of wishful thinking) with Zaboo urinating on a letter that he was going to send to an eight year old girl. i kept thinking, "how brilliant is that?" can you imagine the look on her mother's face when she pulls a lemur piss sodden letter out of her mailbox? now that's entertainment!

16:55 / 24.07.01

Hammer Films. I love them. I am a total nut about Hammer Films, and none of my friends understand this. The cheesier they are, the more I love them.

18:39 / 25.07.01

quote:Originally posted by Kriztalyne:
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so they've updated "good cop, bad cop" for the current age...?

So to speak. It was a quote from the show itself- bascially Lewis is a creepy freak and Oswald is a lovable dolt. They were interrogating a drunken off-season store santa who hadn't brought one of them a pony or something and he broke, saying he couldn't take their dumb cop weird cop routine anymore. I have yet to try this routine, but I suspect it has merit.

19:18 / 28.07.01

I watch all sorts of crap, I love Friends, I love Drew Carey Show, I love Behind the Music, Third Rock From the Sun, Will & Grace, there's more, I just can't think of it right now.
John Hughes is a movie genius, bar none.

My favorite movie of last year was Dude Where's My Car?

17:24 / 12.01.05

When will 15-1 return?

When will there be a sequal to Adventures of Ford Fairlane?

21:12 / 12.01.05

Seems this is a major thread resurrection. Ahh well, my two cents:

Since when was Two Guys and a Girl something to be ashamed of? Well, I guess that's true... is it a sin to watch the reruns every day on the Women's Entertainment channel, even though I am, er, a *ahem* manly man?

Another guilty pleasure is the occasional episode of The Real World. Sigh. And then there's I Love the [Insert Decade Here].

My current one, however, is Desperate Housewives. So bad it's good.

23:41 / 12.01.05

The Joe Schmoe Show.

I don't think this has made into terrestrial TV in the UK yet, but I watched four hours back to back on E4 ( ? ) the other week, and could hardly tear my eyes away.

Basically, it's a reality show with a twist, this being that only one of the contestants is actually *for real,* and all the others are actors. So absurdity piles on absurdity ( in one of the tasks, they're all asked to eat a plate of something exotic - sheep's eyes, pig's testicles, the standard reality show fare, until Joe Schmoe himself is confronted with a bowl of what's purporedtly dog shit, and has to have it removed from in front of him because he's apparently about to get stuck in, not wanting to let the rest of the house down, ) until on the one hand you're sitting there unable to believe that the guy hasn't seen through it yet, and the other, not all sure if put in his position you wouldn't have been suckered in just as easily yourself.

Terrible, degrading and unmissable stuff...

21:42 / 14.01.05

Oh Dragon, the Joe Schmoe Show gets so good as it goes on, really. The over the top aspects of the reality show in the reality show is really what made it worth watching. Just the fact that when you get kicked out of the house they say "You're dead to us" made me laugh every time.

For some reason i can't stop watching reruns of Roseanne, and that makes me feel quite dirty. I'm also drawn to the reruns of the Family Guy on Cartoon Network, never mind that i've seen them all a bunch of times and own the DVDs, i'll still watch the damn thing.

02:35 / 15.01.05

15 to 1?? Benny, you're a fucking genius, man...

XXII:X:II = XXX

21:15 / 19.01.05

COPS! Whuchu waaan, whuchu ganna dooo, when Sherriff John Brown comes for youuu...

I'm in the same camp as Bill Hicks on COPS: it's like playing with a loose tooth, as it hurts but it's also oddly fun. On the one hand, you want to hate the heavy-handed assholes in blue, who all seem to have the same moustache, even the lady cops; on the other, you've got the barely upright results of fetal alcohol syndrome that you're never sure if you should want to scrape off or kick in the eye. Bless 'em, they deserve one another. Of course, every once in a while I see pot farmers taken down and my allegiances are clear, but most of the rest of the time I'm an equal opportunity hater.

CSI: MIAMI is also on that list. I think suffixless CSI is good, and I don't watch CSI: NY, but for whatever reason, even though David Caruso is such a one-note actor, I still watch MIAMI when it's on. Maybe it's his hottie Cubana partner.

I also get off on the local news, less for any great quality but because I love screaming vile shit at it. It's especially fun when their local-level quality peeks through the professional veneer and utterly flummoxes them. It's also far easier to see the methods of viewer control via media when there's little filter on the tactics.

And sometimes the anchors are sexy, too. Which just makes me scream viler shit.

/+,

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

14:54 / 20.01.05

There is nothing to be ashamed of in liking 80's John Hughes stuff, what people seem to forget was that there was little else around at the time.

I also watch CSI Miami, I've never seen any of the others. I suspect I watch it because I miss Miami Vice and it gives me something to talk to my Gran about. Actually on seconds thought the most recent repeat in Britan had a bit on it where penis skin was scraped from a retainer, I can't talk to my gran about that!

I could go on at great length about the crap I like which I know I shouldn't but I think the worst one is Bad Boys 2. There just really isn't any excuse, I know it's wrong and I don't even like the first one. The only reason I can give is the outrageous invasion of Cuba plot twist that seems to come straight out of left field, well possibly right field.

Also the film of Scooby Doo, again no excuses, it may stem from the bizarre scene were a cartoon Scrappy Doo urinates on Sarah Michelle Gellar, to get water sports into what is ostensibly a childrens film strikes me as somewhat subversive.

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