I'm the only one I know who watches...

Cafe Society
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So tell us what shows you never miss, that nobody else you know watches.

Sure, lots of people watch The Simpsons, The Sopranos, or whatever, but what shows do you think are absolutely great while all your friends won’t even watch one episode.

I love The Screen Savers and Call for Help on TechTV. I think more people would watch it if they got TechTV.

I never miss Good Eats on Food TV. Alton Brown is so cool, he combines cooking and science with just a touch of humor.

Lately I’ve started watching Iron Chef. People just give me weird looks when they walk past the TV and see what’s on.

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Well, I am the only person (other than my husband, who turned me onto it) I know that never, ever misses a single episode of “The Shield”. I just started watching this past season, however. Great show. I absolutely love it.

Tuesday nights have a whole new outlook for me now! Other than washing dishes or cleaning catboxes, of course.

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on Food TV: “Ultimate Kitchens” and “Cooking Light”

I know for a fact I was the only person EVER who watched that Love Boat remake when it was on a couple of years back (that starred Robert Urich.) What can I say, I had a crush on the kid who played his son, lol. It really wasn’t that bad. Kinda miss it, actually.

I’m sure there’s dozens more I can’t think of now.

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Not so much now, nowadays I tend to watch the usual stuff that everyone watches, but when I was younger I was the only person I knew who watched the cartoon ‘Cities of Gold’.

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Girlfriends and Red Hot Red Carpet.

All sitcoms, actually. I love sitcoms, even bad ones and I admit it.

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“Murder in Mind”, “Jonathan Creek” and “Waking the Dead” on BBC America. I think I’ve seen every episode of each at least once.

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Speaking of the Food Network----

40 Dollars A Day
Paula’s Home Cooking
Barefoot Contessa
Sweet Dreams
Food 911
Good Eats

Hi, my name is insomnia4am and I am a Food Network junkie.

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For me it was Dawson’s Creek. I also never missed an episode of Roswell. What can I say? I was all about teen angst back then. :slight_smile:

And that’s the bottom line

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I like this little show called Bunny the Vampire Killer or something like that
and it’s spin-off Cherub
runs!

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On January 1st, the local PBS station ran a marathon of an Australian mockumentary called The Games, all 25 episodes. I hope they do it again next year so I can tape it.

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If you add “Cracker” to that list, I think we’re both disqualified from this thread.

I don’t know if these count, but I watch reruns of old “Ally McBeal” episodes in the afternoon on FX. I missed it entirely the first time around and I don’t even know if it’s still on the air.

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Whenever people have the “great modern cartoons not for kids” chat, I always feel like nobody else watched The Critic (or catches it in reruns). I find that surprising and a little sad.

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All those nature/space documentaries on Discovery. It’s not something I’d desperately go out of my way to watch, but I do enjoy them when they’re on.

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I am a huge fan of The Critic as well. Do you know if it is available on DVD yet? And if not, are there any plans to release it on DVD?

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Not that you know me, but I wish at times the simpsons had been cancelled by now and 6 of it’s seasons given to the critic to play with.

It wouldn’t really be the same now, considering the woman who played Doris Died. But I catch it every monday morning.

“Oh, sure, Blame the guy with the bucket of grease”.

“You have no idea how hard it was to teach the bunnies to hug”.

Though in the shockwave cartoons, they imply that he married(and divorced) Alice sometime after the show ended.

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I watched that when I was a kid. Did they ever find the cities of gold? It’s been a long time. Great theme song.

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I think I’m one of the 4-5 people in America who watch Stargate SG-1.

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Um… no. Not in America, not here either. I went to a couple of Stargate conventions last year, and some of the guests had been to Gatecon - the American (well, Canadian, but mostly frequented by Americans) convention. The ticket numbers were up in the thousands. A lot of fun, and very popular show.

Whoever mentioned Jonathan Creek - I love that show, but IMHO it’s been getting worse since Caroline Quentin left. She was the perfect foil, and the episodes involving her always seemed to also involve some sort of bizarre subplot, also involving her - for example, one of the episodes has an entirely unrelated subplot about she accidentally agrees to host a nudists’ meeting. It’s brilliant.

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I’m the only one I know who watches Judge Mathis. I think it’s hilarious the way he mocks and makes fun of people when he thinks they’re BSing him.

There was one show where two guys got into a fight. First guy sues second guy for hitting him from behind and breaking his tooth. Second guy countersues, saying the first guy bruised his bicep.

Mathis lays into the first guy, shouting “HOW did this guy HIT YOU FROM BEHIND and BREAK YO TOOTH? Were his arms MADE OUTTA RUBBER?” First guy tells him it can be done, he’s a black belt in Tai Chi and knows things like that can happen. Mathis responds, “Don’t tell me that! Don’t tell me that! You mean you a BLACK BELT in TAE BO and this guy BEAT YOU UP? YOU JUST DESTROYED YO COMPANY!”

Second guy describes how the first guy bruised his bicep and provides a picture of the bruise. “YOU MEAN TO TELL ME YOU TWO STARTED JUKIN’ AND JIVIN’ AND HAD YO FISTS UP and then he…(plip) GRABS YO ARM?” He had both guys looking like idiots. I love the way he just cuts through the BS and gets to the crux of the matter.

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Fox News Watch - the weekend journalism analysis show on FNC. One of the few rational, and relatively level headed panel discussion shows on cable news. If more of the programming on FNC was like this instead of the nighttime “news commentary” shows, Geraldo ego trip/facetime sessions, or that Fox & Friends morning trainwreck I could come closer to respecting the channel.