# Guilty Non-pleasures or Why do I watch this show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-non-pleasures-or-why-do-i-watch-this-show/752688 "2016-04-20T00:36:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-non-pleasures-or-why-do-i-watch-this-show/752688/61 "2016-04-25T18:42:33Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > I’m a sucker for any reality show set in Alaska, even though every last one of them is permacrap. Try Alone. Ok, it’s not really in Alaska, but kinda sorta close. ---
**Author:** ![Smitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Smitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smitty)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-non-pleasures-or-why-do-i-watch-this-show/752688/62 "2016-04-25T18:44:07Z")
I just can’t stop watching re-runs of **Hee Haw** every Sunday. And I don’t, for the life of me, understand why. Jokes that were bottom of the barrel corn-ball even 40 years ago. I grew up in a small rural town and this was what we feared people in the city thought of us! What attracts me to this, I will never know. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-non-pleasures-or-why-do-i-watch-this-show/752688/63 "2016-04-25T18:45:41Z")
> [@Smitty](#): > > I just can’t stop watching re-runs of **Hee Haw** every Sunday. And I don’t, for the life of me, understand why. Jokes that were bottom of the barrel corn-ball even 40 years ago. I grew up in a small rural town and this was what we feared people in the city thought of us! What attracts me to this, I will never know. The music is decent and the girls are wowza. (My Dad used to watch it.) But yeah, the jokes are beyond corn. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-non-pleasures-or-why-do-i-watch-this-show/752688/64 "2016-04-25T19:40:37Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > The music is decent and the girls are wowza. > > (My Dad used to watch it.) > > But yeah, the jokes are beyond corn. Terribly corny but so was Laugh-In. If you like the running gag type of humor it’s good. You know they will sing the “Where, oh where, are you tonight?” song and somebody will probably get PFFFT!ed on. “Hey Grandpa, what’s for supper?” is an old reliable, as are the Junior Samples car lot bits on the older episodes. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-non-pleasures-or-why-do-i-watch-this-show/752688/65 "2016-04-25T19:41:39Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I watch infomercials for Time-Life CD music collections. They really do make it seem like those music collections will somehow complete your life somehow. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-non-pleasures-or-why-do-i-watch-this-show/752688/66 "2016-04-25T20:11:27Z")
> [@Smitty](#): > > I just can’t stop watching re-runs of **Hee Haw** every Sunday. And I don’t, for the life of me, understand why. Jokes that were bottom of the barrel corn-ball even 40 years ago. I grew up in a small rural town and this was what we feared people in the city thought of us! What attracts me to this, I will never know. > [@DrDeth](#): > > The music is decent and the girls are wowza. > > (My Dad used to watch it.) > > But yeah, the jokes are beyond corn. I caught my wife in bed with my best friend. You bitter? Yep, bit him, too. Announcer: YUK-YUK-YUK! (total deadpan) Here’s Lurleen. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-non-pleasures-or-why-do-i-watch-this-show/752688/67 "2016-04-25T20:20:16Z")
**Bridezillas**. I cured myself and have no idea if it’s on anymore, but I can only hope that it destroyed many marriages before they happened. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-non-pleasures-or-why-do-i-watch-this-show/752688/68 "2016-04-25T20:32:18Z")
The most recent show I decided I needed to give up on is _Rizzoli and Isles_. It has flat out lost all the personal as well as technical stuff from the early seasons. The story arcs just flail about. But … the next half season is going to be the end of it as it turns out. So I have to watch those. I think. Gonna need some of those _Clockwork Orange_ eyelid holders. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-non-pleasures-or-why-do-i-watch-this-show/752688/69 "2016-04-26T03:59:23Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > **Bridezillas**. I cured myself and have no idea if it’s on anymore, but I can only hope that it destroyed many marriages before they happened. I may or may not have watched a few episodes of “Say Yes To The Dress” - I admit nothing! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guilty-non-pleasures-or-why-do-i-watch-this-show/752688.md?page=3)