No.
Sorry.
“Scumpup” will do. If you find that excessively formal, you may call me by my nickname: “Your Majesty.”
Scumpup it is, then!
(Sorry, I just don’t feel I know you well enough for the more casual term of “Your Majesty” to seem appropriate.)
Quite alright. It’s just that I’ve been dying to use the “Your Majesty” thing.
Camilla? Is that you?
Indeed. I’d use it myself if only I weren’t so modest.
While I admittedly don’t watch enough crap TV (read: sitcoms), I’ve seen enough of these shows to know they’re truly hate-worthy:
ELR - I was frightened when I saw the title of the thread here, I thought someone did a mind melt on me and wrote what I was thinking. Only a couple redeeming feautres to this - one episode I saw where Debra was PMS’ing, was actually hilarious in it’s dead-on depiction. And once in a while, Boyle is great. I’ve even begun spouting “holy crap” on occasion in his honor.
Will and Grace - DIE. DIE. DIE. All of them. No. Value. Whatsoever. Not funny, not 'edgy", nothing here of any interest. Suggestion for future spisode: “Will and Grace at the WTC, 9/11/01” Sorry, that was in horrible taste, but perhaps we could play it so the buildings were empty EXCEPT for the cast of this show?
According to Jim/King of Queens - Same freaking show, isn’t it? Hot wife married to a guy that in real life she’d have NOTHING to do with?
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Any of those real World/Road Rules Inferno Battlestar Beach Bonanza shows**. Yes, I know, let’s further indulge these mopes and let them belive we care about if they can dangle from a bungee and drop a ball onto a bullseye floating in the ocean so they can win an I-Pod.
That 70’s Show - Everyone raise your hand if you grew up in the 70’s and your youth was anything like that? At least be funny. In the 70’s, these kids would have been walking around imitating the Fonz.
And sign me up on the I Hate Lucy list.
All this Will and Grace hatred is fantastic! Couldn’t agree more.
Malcolm in the Middle is just awful. I can’t bear to watch that child. Ew.
A lot of programs mentioned I’ve never seen, having only recently gotten a telly after six months without. So an oldie but awful I somehow feel the need to drag up: Ally McBeal.
After reading everyone’s comments, it just shows that humor is very personal. No surprise there. It also shows that the SD crowd (at least in this thread) is not in the mainstream of tv watchers (also not surprising) since no show can survive for long (over 5 years) on tv if it really reeks to the general audience. Clearly one’s sense of humor is shaped by one’s life experiences. It’s hard to find something funny if you cannot relate it to some situation that you’ve either lived through or know about. As for me, I enjoy many (but not all) of the shows that people have said they abhor.
Just had to share this.
You know, it’s pretty much a truism that any show is “not for everyone”, and this comment sounds like a borderline insult; I don’t like it because it’s “adult”? Corrupt cops makes it “adult”? Heavily blurred lines between good and bad is “adult”? I’m not a religious conservative (I’'m not even religious), but it seems that for many years now, the more morally ambiguous a show and its characters are, the more “adult” it is. The more the lines between good and bad are blurred, the more “adult” the show. Having well delineated good and bad is considered “less adult”. Yeah right, I know, the real world is full of moral ambiguity and corrupt cops and politically ambitious leaders who climb over others on their way to the top. The real world is also full of plenty of truly good guys, too.
You’re more than welcome to like The Shield all you want, but please don’t tell me that its being “adult” has anything to do with my dislike for it.
I think you’re taking something personally that you weren’t meant to. The Shield IS a very adult show, in that it features profanity, the occasional bits of sex or nudity, and often shocking violence. It is on a cable network at 10 PM, not a network show with a prime-time slot. The fact that it features morally ambiguous antiheroes will almost definitely make it less palatable for mainstream audiences, but that alone does not make it “adult.” The fact that it’s really dark and intense and brutal makes it “adult.” Compare it to the popular 24, another violent show with a dark, disturbed antihero (shown during the “safe harbor” at 9 PM). The Shield is simply a more realistic show, and as a result, its violence can be much more stunning because it isn’t wrapped up in a “comic booky” series of fantastical plot twists. It does not feel as escapist as 24 does, and it’s certainly not as easy to watch. I’m SURE that’s all he meant.
I am soooo glad to see that I am not alone in my dislike for ELR. Everyone else in my house is heartbroken that it’s going off the air and I got stuff thrown at me for making a comment to the effect that maybe they’ll put a show worth watching in that timeslot.
Most of the “reality” shows turn me off cold. I will admit to watching the occasional episode of The Apprentice or The Amazing Race, but none of the other crap. And West Wing started to lose me after Lowe left, and really lost me after Sorkin left. I watch occasional episodes now because I lust after Allison Janney and Janel Moloney.
E. R. died when Dr. Green did.
Awwwww yeah!
Lucille Ball was a lovely woman, but the way she wore her hair and make up were horribly unflattering. It made her look far too old.
I’ve also read that she was an A-#1 Bitch and treated Vivian Vance (who I DO like) like absolute shit. That and she and Desi drank like fish and fought all the time on the set.
I like That '70s Show, although I stopped watching it a few seasons ago.
Malcolm in the Middle was funny in very small doses. Very small. But it gets old very very fast.
ER started sucking when Abby and Carter got together and then imploded. I mean, they kept building it up ever since she came on the show. Then they get together…and they SUCK. That and Luka the Manwhore.
Malcolm was actually brilliant, IMO, during the first few seasons. After that it went downhill fast.
My elderly mother lives with me, and watches ELR reruns every evening. Since it’s on right before Jeopardy!, I sometimes watch it with her.
Amidst all the crap, there are some genuinely funny moments, and a few worthwhile episodes:
- The suitcase on the stairs.
- Robert’s FBI interview.
- Paul Reuben as Amy’s brother (pre-Chris Elliot).
- Marie’s sculpture.
- Robert goes dancing with black people.
Even my mother admits that the show has lost its appeal in the more recent episodes, especially all the really nasty fights. And who on earth could believe that such a clueless jerk could get a job as a sports journalist?
The only Emmies should have gone to Doris Roberts and Peter Boyle.
1.CSI: Why yes, I like seeing splattering body organs and dead corpses while eating dinner. Yum. Even better: having to answer “Daddy, what’s that?” when your kids walk into the room and CBS is trying to impress me by showing a slow-motion special effect of a .357 hollowpoint plowing throw a skull, brains, recocheting off a water pipe behind, and hitting a little girl on the swing in the shoulder. And all at 8pm at night. Ray Davies said it Best: “Hey Man, There’s Really Something Wrong With You!!!”
- Desperate Housewives: Never seen it, don’t intend to. There no longer are such things in America. Housewives refered to a time when salaries paid enough that one parent could stay home and watch the kids. There are about 2 handfuls of those jobs left in all of America. I don’t care how much silicone you pump into it, that lie won’t fly. Tell me I’m wrong in June when I’m out of vacation and scramvling for Daycare.
3-4: American Idol Jesus, people, how pathetic are we that this crap is still on the air? I honestly believe this show and all of its talentless-spawn are a plot to force us to buy **Satelite Radio ** units.
5: CSI: Miami Hi. I’m a red-haired, lizard-faced, drama-queen people arrester. (sing that to the purple-people eater song) Fatal Flaw: no kid named Horatio ever survived public school in the US.
6: Without a Trace: A very good show…last season’s evil bitch STOBEX plot-twist was awesome. It’s a shame he and Poppy never reconciled. Next season?
7: Grey’s Anatomy: Still have nightmares about what Jennifer Grey did to her face; title gives me cold-sweat flash-backs…No, Baby, Not the Nose-job…!
8: Survivor: Consistantly choosing the 12 people I’d most like to see shot takes real talent, but I can’t get past why we should give any of them money. Better to call it Survivor: Viequez, PR, and have the navy solve our problems for us with 16-inch shells.
9: Law and Order: (Doink-Doink) Sorry, but that’s about the only thing left worth listening to. You’re better off watching the re-runs with Michael Moriarty and Chris Noth on A&E.
10:** House**: An anti-system Doctor who treats his wildly unusually diseased patients around the HMO-whore administrator… but she’s the Democrat & He’s the Republican? I’d sooner believe FOX news is ‘Fair & Balanced’.
11: Two and a Half Men: somehow this show sits in an unchalleged timeslot. It has its comedic moments…but you’ll never find yourself setting the TIVO for it.
12: Everybody Loves Raymond: HATE! HATE! HATE THE RAYMOND! Every show with his slimey husband schtick, I’d find my self looking across the dinner table and saying “I don’t do that.” And his angry, passive-aggressive abusive wife…it actually bugged me when my wife would laugh at her manipulative pathos. Statistically, I’ve found that 95% of night that we’ve ever had fights were nights when we’d watched a Raymond episode. Save your marriage: turn the channel.
Conclusion: ELR is a Taliban Plot to destroy America from within…
13: Revelations LOL. Well, we’ve got nuts spouting religion and ignoring their oath to uphold the Constitution in Florida and DC. Can the End be far?
14: NCIS No. Character. Isn’t . Stereo-typed.
15: Cold Case: Gives off a creepy necro-vibe in the promos. Can’t make myself watch a full episide.
16: Law & Order: Trial by Jury: The verdict is Death by Over-Exposure. Maybe next seasons incarnation, Law & Order: The Prison Rape will be more interesting.
17: 60 Minutes: The most centered newsbroadcast in the nation. If you want right-wing, stick with FOX. If you want Left-wing, stick with Air-America. If you want the Truth, watch 60 minutes.
18: Apprentice: Donald Trump prancing around like he’s not just a 5% owner of everything with his name on it, but actually has a clue about what he’s doing. If the board-room did a James Bond tilt and every suit & wannabe dropped through a tree-shredder (except Da Donald; no tree-shredder is a match for that Polyesther-Doo) the world would be a better place. Come to think of it, that would be a better show.
19: Amazing Race 7: Name one person who Isn’t rushing to the airport when they travel. This is entertainment? I’d rather die by a shoe-bomb.
20: Judging Amy: I’ve never met a Judge that Whines. Until now. Thank God its only TV, or she’d be the leading cause of court stenographer suicide in America today. She actually makes Mills Lane look Good. This show is God’s way of saying ‘Turn out the light and GTF to Sleep!’
MEDIUM Quirky, Off-beat, and Patricia Arquett. (Isn’t that why you bought the DVD of True Romance?) The husband is a bit whiny and nasal (Like she’d settle for That!). Sure, FOX arm-twists tha plotline into a slightly right-wing bend, but Herr Rupert’s agenda has been held at bey for the most part. I really wonder how good this show could be if it could escape the gravity the black-hole that is FOX. This would be the Crown Jewel of UPN, NBC, or CBS; perhaps they’ll bring their check-books to the next Vegas-Con.
Eh? Since when is House the Republican? He has no love for the Church, that’s for sure. Not a bleeding heart either. I think he’d be very lonely at Republican Party conventions (but maybe that’s the way he likes it!)