# Movies that always seem to be on tv **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-always-seem-to-be-on-tv/514320 "2009-10-19T13:13:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-always-seem-to-be-on-tv/514320/21 "2009-10-19T17:21:18Z")
Sometimes I think TNT should be called the “Men in Black” network. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-always-seem-to-be-on-tv/514320/22 "2009-10-19T17:43:52Z")
Die Hard comes on at least 3 times a month. A good movie, but way too many repeats. Two Weeks Notice (comedy with Hugh Grant, Sandra Bullock) runs several times a month. I saw it last Spring and noticed it was running last week. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-always-seem-to-be-on-tv/514320/23 "2009-10-19T17:46:26Z")
Steel Magnolias is on almost every time I scroll through random channels. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-always-seem-to-be-on-tv/514320/24 "2009-10-19T18:26:32Z")
Blues Brothers seems to be on a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-always-seem-to-be-on-tv/514320/25 "2009-10-19T18:27:14Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Isn’t there a James Bond movie always playing somewhere at some time? A character in the film PCU (which, by the way, is another film that fits the thread) wrote his senior thesis on the “Caine–Hackman Theory”. The idea is that at any moment Michael Caine or Gene Hackman is in a movie showing on television. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-always-seem-to-be-on-tv/514320/26 "2009-10-19T18:29:21Z")
Con Air is on all the time. Oddly, The nearly identical in may mind The Rock is hardly ever shown. Independence Day is sure to be on some channel every weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-always-seem-to-be-on-tv/514320/27 "2009-10-19T18:31:46Z")
The Incredibles. Which suits me just fine. IMO, it’s the everlasting gobstopper of movies. ---
**Author:** ![Countrypolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/858c86/32.png) [@Countrypolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Countrypolitan)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-always-seem-to-be-on-tv/514320/28 "2009-10-20T01:32:06Z")
_Quigley Down Under_–it comes on just about every movie oriented channel (non HBO, Showtime, etc). ---
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-always-seem-to-be-on-tv/514320/29 "2009-10-20T02:55:13Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > In Australia, expect to see _Love, Actually_, _About A Boy_, and _Miss Congeniality_ several times a year. What about Billy Madison/Happy Gilmore? I think in the last promo I saw they even had a dig at themselves for playing it/them so often. ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-always-seem-to-be-on-tv/514320/30 "2009-10-20T04:41:09Z")
For the first ten years of my life, I lived out in the boonies where I distinctly remember Driving Ms. Daisy being on almost every weekend. Then when I got cable, it was Shawshank Redemption. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-always-seem-to-be-on-tv/514320/31 "2009-10-20T04:48:10Z")
Napolean Dynamite on Comedy Central. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-always-seem-to-be-on-tv/514320/32 "2009-10-20T05:04:58Z")
Roadhouse is on all the time, so are Bring it On and Save the Last Dance ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-always-seem-to-be-on-tv/514320/33 "2009-10-20T06:28:06Z")
Godfather I and II seemed to be on every other day for a while. Never in order, and never III. Just II and I. ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-always-seem-to-be-on-tv/514320/34 "2009-10-21T01:22:51Z")
TV Land is now showing what I like to call “movies that WGN got tired of showing 10 years ago”. Airplane, Top Gun, Officer and a Gentleman, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Coalcracker0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b38774/32.png) [@Coalcracker0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coalcracker0)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-always-seem-to-be-on-tv/514320/35 "2009-10-21T01:43:51Z")
Jaws (Da dunt, da dunt, da dunt…) ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-always-seem-to-be-on-tv/514320/36 "2009-10-21T02:02:48Z")
Yeah, I would second that about White Girls. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-always-seem-to-be-on-tv/514320.md?page=1)