What popular, commonly referenced, culturally entrenched shows have you never once watched in your life?
I’ve never seen an episode of Friends, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Everybody Loves Raymond or 24.
Except for very end of the first-season finale, I’ve never seen an episode of Survivor. I am also entirely innocent of Big Brother and just about all other reality shows. I simply do not understand the appeal.
Until last month I’d never seen Doctor Who, which is both my own fault and its own punishment.
I’ve managed to miss Family Guy, Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, 24, Mythbusters, Sopranos, Lost, Dallas, and nearly all daytime soap operas.
I have ideas about the general plotlines of these shows, but no details.
I always fee that every part also of a series I like is in the end… wasted! I like to ask myself, did I learn something useful with it. If not… and it wasnt a real real joy… that the time was wasted
Buffy, Dr. Who, Survivor, How I Met Your Mother, and lots of shows from HBO and such.
American Idol
2 and 1/2 Men
Jersey Shores
Lost
Survivor
Whatever the bridesmaids and bachelor shows are called, Big Brother, the cooking, Kardashian, wedding dress, dancing, housewives shows, most anything ‘reality.’
I have never seen even part of any episode of Arrested Development, Six Feet Under, Gilmore Girls, Deadwood, Jersey Shore, The Shield, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Sex and the City, the Sopranos, or The Wire.
I’ve never seen an entire episode of Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, American Idol, the Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Survivor, Big Brother, or The Larry Sanders Show.
I’ve never seen an entire episode of *The Sopranos *or Sex in the City. The list of reality shows I’ve never seen is too long to post.
It looks like Medium ran for seven seasons and is still running on cable. Never seen it.
Oh, so many.
American Idol
The Sopranos
Medium
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
24
How I Met Your Mother
Lost
Survivor
Arrested Development
Gilmore Girls
Deadwood
Jersey Shore
The Shield
The Wire
LA Law
Hill Street Blues
Thirtysomething
The Good Wife
So You Think You Can Dance
Friday Night Lights
The Ghost Whisperer
Any Law & Order show
Any CSI show
Any “Housewives” show
Jersey Shore
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show
2.5 Men
The Big Bang Theory
If I looked at a schedule I could give so many more. There are some of these shows (The Wire, for example) that I think I would really have liked if I had started from the beginning, but once you miss a season, you just have lost out.
I’ve never seen an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, JAG/NCIS or Lost, nor have I seen an episode of many U.S. cable-only TV shows (e.g. Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Wire).
I’ve never watched an episode of The Simpsons.
Wow, except for a handful of Arrested Development episodes, (which I liked, but not enough to commit to the series) and 2 or 3 aborted attempts at sitting thru a re-run of The Big Bang Theory (fucking dreadful) I also haven’t ever watched any of the shows on your list either, even for a brief minute or two while switching channels.
I am a true TV wierdo, never having had cable, and I am not willing to try to watch a series in mid-run, except for a few random sit-coms that don’t feature running plotlines. Basically, if I miss the pilot episode, I never watch even a few minutes of a show. I am sure there have been many great shows I would have really enjoyed that I have missed the boat on due to my oddball viewing habits.
When I was a small kid, I somehow got the idea in my head that Star Trek was an outer space soap opera, and that you needed to have watched from the very beginning to understand what was going on; Because of this, I have never watched even 15 seconds (cumulative) of ANY Star Trek TV show, movie, spin-off, re-launch, re-imagining, or pornographic parody video…
Too many to list.
24, The Vampire Diaries, Glee.
Mad Men, The Wire, *Rome *and The Tudors.
This thread is for popular, culturally entrenched shows?
I’ve never seen:
the Bachelor/Bachelorette.
All in the Family
Friends - I don’t even know what made this popular.
Lost, 24, Dr. Who, Cougar Town, Jersey Shore and Desperate Housewives are a few that come to mind.
Seinfeld.
I’ve seen bits of episodes, never a complete one. Maybe got a few chuckles out of me, no belly-laughs.
Anything on cable
most teen soaps (saw *BH 90210 * once pre popularity)
PBS dramas
Two-and-a-Half Men is probably the most glaring one for me. Even when Charlie Sheen was at his most #winning, I had no desire to tune in. It’s not based on anything in particular except for a general move away from three-camera, “filmed live in front of a studio audience” sitcoms. (The only one we do watch is How I Met Your Mother, because we like Jason Segal, Alyson Hannigan and Neil Patrick Harris. Little known fact: It’s NOT filmed in front of a studio audience!)
I hate procedurals, so I’ve never seen a single permutation of CSI, NCIS, etc. I’ve seen maybe two episodes of the L&O franchise. The closest I get is House, but that’s because unlike most “case of the week” shows, it’s almost entirely character-driven.
I don’t watch any romance-based reality shows, nor any that are best described as “a bunch of people decide who to vote off based on who pissed them off that week.” I need either impartial judges or objective competition, which means I love me some Amazing Race and Top Chef.
But I do make a general effort to watch any show that hits the intersection of “critically acclaimed” and “in the cultural zeitgeist.” Sometimes that means playing a lot of catch-up, especially for the HBO shows. I did that with The Wire and am now watching the first season of Game of Thrones. We also watched Season 1 of Mad Men over the span of a week before the second season started, and I’m now starting Season 2 of Breaking Bad.