We have so many weekly threads about tv shows, both here at the SDMB and on other message boards all over the internet. We have wikipedia and online episode guides and the imdb. We have so many more resources to make watching TV more fun these days than we used to, with the internet.
What shows do you wish you could have had these things for, back in the days before the internet existed (or before it was as widely used/accessible)?
I wish I’d had access to the kind of things we have today back when I was watching Twin Peaks when it was originally on, for example.
On the other hand, it did get us out of the house. My wife and I were members of a Twin Peaks discussion group that met at an independent book shop that got together every week to discuss what the fuck we just saw.
We can do that on the Net, but gestures and incredulous expressions on faces add so much.
“Dink the Little Dinosaur.” A kiddie Saturday morning cartoon on CBS when I was a kid.
For the sole reason that, while I wasn’t really a fan, I could not remember the name of a pitiful little amphibian-thing that showed up in one episode—or, more accurately, couldn’t quite remember it’s name. Drove me nuts. For a long time.
P.S.: It turns out it was “Dippo.” I knew it started with a “D.”
The early seasons of X-files were pre-internet for most people, myself included. It would have been nice to have it on a larger level than it existed then. Bulletin Boards was all I had back then.
Maybe some of you had internet when this was first run, but I didn’t. Had to join the Nitpickers Guild via snail mail.
Twins Peaks and Quantum Leap, too. Good calls, above.
It’s still on the air, but I wish I’d had the internet back when I was still watching SNL. I’d have loved to figure out what some of the jokes were that I didn’t get back when I was 8 or 9 and watching the show.