# Discovery + streaming is just an SNL pitch meeting
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovery-streaming-is-just-an-snl-pitch-meeting/942978
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted
**Created:** [May 26, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovery-streaming-is-just-an-snl-pitch-meeting/942978 "2021-05-26T20:15:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovery-streaming-is-just-an-snl-pitch-meeting/942978/1 "2021-05-26T20:15:46Z")
Being an old lady, I watch a lot of Discovery network channels and over the last year or so they’ve been shilling their streaming service, Discover +, with an almost malevolent vengeance. I thought once it launched the constant promos would slow down, but no. They seem to have increased in both number and urgency and now my cable provider has joined in the act and is offering me the service for free. The thing is, so many of their original programming looks like SNL parody rejects.
The Laundry Guy
Cutthroat Topiary
Muppet Babies Cooking for Children
Everything Gaines!
Does any one subscribe and is it worth the price (free for me)?
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### Author:  [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovery-streaming-is-just-an-snl-pitch-meeting/942978/2 "2021-05-26T20:54:26Z")
We have a free year from my Verizon plan and after about a week we decided this is a service we are definitely subscribing to. Basically my wife watches a LOT of Food Network and Discovery+ allows us not to really care much about cable replacements (and it’s got a much better interface than SlingTV).
Oh, and it had the new Good Eats (another original programming show), so win win.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2021, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovery-streaming-is-just-an-snl-pitch-meeting/942978/3 "2021-05-26T22:05:42Z")
Hmmm. There are two steaming only shows I want to watch. David Schwimmer on Mysterious Planet and Mike Rowe’s show that looks very much like James Burke’s Connections, a series I watched as a child and have found memories of.
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### Author:  [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2021, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovery-streaming-is-just-an-snl-pitch-meeting/942978/4 "2021-05-26T23:48:11Z")
I’m not their target audience. Still, I’ve seen promos for “The Laundry Guy” so I know it’s real. Is “Muppet Babies” real? I can’t tell.
I’m also assuming that there are several, several sister wives, many couples with hordes of children, and a bunch of 90-day fiance spinoffs.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovery-streaming-is-just-an-snl-pitch-meeting/942978/5 "2021-05-26T23:58:48Z")
You would be correct on the weird marriage and too many children shows. The Muppet Babies is actually named Duff’s Happy Fun Bake Time and I am not kidding.
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### Author:  [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovery-streaming-is-just-an-snl-pitch-meeting/942978/6 "2021-05-27T00:01:45Z")
Mrs. L says she could watch it all day. IIRC we pay $7 for the commercial free version. I think the “standard” lineup is just re-running old episodes but the + version gets the new content.
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### Author:  [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2021, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovery-streaming-is-just-an-snl-pitch-meeting/942978/7 "2021-05-27T01:30:16Z")
> [@Biggirl](#):
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> Hmmm. There are two steaming only shows I want to watch. David Schwimmer on Mysterious Planet and Mike Rowe’s show that looks very much like James Burke’s Connections, a series I watched as a child and have found memories of.
My wife watches no streaming only shows, iirc. She watches the shows airing on Discovery channels which she may otherwise watch On Demand on our streaming cable service (a lot of food reality shows). Discovery+ allows us to get rid of SlingTV during sports off-seasons if we so choose.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2021, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovery-streaming-is-just-an-snl-pitch-meeting/942978/8 "2021-05-27T01:39:57Z")
I would like to point out that those memories aren’t found as they were never lost. They were fond, though.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2021, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discovery-streaming-is-just-an-snl-pitch-meeting/942978/9 "2021-05-27T12:17:26Z")
Wait! Wait! Did I just see a promo for a show where Tom Arnold brags about his drug queenpin sister? For real?