# Give a TV show you love (or used to) a much-needed kick in the ass. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 28, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-a-tv-show-you-love-or-used-to-a-much-needed-kick-in-the-ass/569314 "2011-01-28T17:13:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-a-tv-show-you-love-or-used-to-a-much-needed-kick-in-the-ass/569314/41 "2011-01-31T21:04:14Z")
The Dresden Files. Stick a little closer to Butcher’s Dresden character description and let rip. Bob ruled! ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_First_Time)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-a-tv-show-you-love-or-used-to-a-much-needed-kick-in-the-ass/569314/42 "2011-02-01T15:53:48Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Just my own personal preference, but - Dirty Jobs aren’t so much ‘dirty’ any more. Kind of stretching the concept, some of them… And more animal dirty jobs! There’s nothing so hilarious as Mike Rowe doing something terrible to an animal for its own good! (Maybe it should be a spinoff show, with veterinarians…oh, maybe not) I want to see him catch race horse pee. That would make a great dirty job episode. After every horse race, the winner and selected others are taken to the test barn so that their blood and urine can be collected for drug testing. Just like you can lead a horse to water but not make him drink…you can put a horse in a stall and give it every enticement in the world, but they pee when they are good and ready. Which means that somebody (know in the trade as a pee catcher) has to get locked in a 12X12 stall with a crazy ramped-up race horse armed with only a little cup on the end of a stick, wait for nature to take its course, catch it in the little cup and exit in one piece and no spillage. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-a-tv-show-you-love-or-used-to-a-much-needed-kick-in-the-ass/569314/43 "2011-02-01T17:31:27Z")
> [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](#): > > I want to see him catch race horse pee. Already done, sort of. There was a recent episode where he had to drain and clean a horse “nappy” that was designed to catch urine and feces for testing. Now that was a dirty job worthy of the name. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-a-tv-show-you-love-or-used-to-a-much-needed-kick-in-the-ass/569314/44 "2011-02-01T19:30:12Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Law & Order: Bring back the original series, dump most of the spinoffs. If we absolutely MUST have SVU, get rid of the female detective. I’m tired of watching her Empathize with the victims. I don’t object to her because she’s female, and I’d be happy to see another female detective. But I want to watch a cop who is a COP, not a nanny. I think they tried that twice and it didn’t work. First with…umm…I don’t know her name, but she had longer, dark-blond curly hair. And then again with Sharron Stone. > [@Chimera](#): > > **The Venture Bros** needs to go back to doing some one-off ADVENTURES. You know, the Johnny Quest style single episode unlikely adventures they did a lot of in the first two seasons, which are what the show was supposed to be a parody of. Just because the show superficially resembled it, doesn’t mean it was ever intended to _just_ be a parody of 60’s/70’s adventure cartoons. Publick and Hammer basically only started it off as a much lighter ‘parody-style’ cartoon to get their foot in the door. They knew that if, from the start, it was very plot-heavy like seasons 3+4 (Hell, even the end of season 1 and lots of season 2 are plot-heavy) it would have been harder for people to get into it. In a way, it’s like drugs. Most people don’t jump feet-first into shooting heroin or smoking meth, they start with something easier, like coke or pills. Once you get a taste for that, you’re ready for something stronger. VB was the same way. The pushers (Publick and Hammer) wanted to get us to buy the meth, but they had to start off by giving us small amounts of coke to get us all revved up and enticed for something bigger and better. Personally, I like the direction the show went, and even with all the interconnected plots, minute details that require re-0watching, it still manages to be funny and pull out the “ok, this is a very complicated set up, but the resolution will take five-seconds in the form of a punchline.” See: The ORB resolution Season 4 finale [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-a-tv-show-you-love-or-used-to-a-much-needed-kick-in-the-ass/569314.md?page=2)