Do you merely put up with Lawyer Cop, MD because it’s on after Fat Guy With A Hot Wife or do you tune early, and begrudgingly sit through Fat Guy With A Hot Wife in order to not miss a second of Lawyer Cop, MD?
Wow, I feel like I’m in the 1990s.
Well, back when I had to do it the old fashioned way, if I wasn’t watching something beforehand, I would usually tune to the channel a minute early, mute it, and read a magazine or something on my couch until the show I actually wanted to watch started.
Once ABC started pulling that shit where they would have shows purposely run an extra couple of minutes into the hour, it became a factor in shows I chose to watch or not watch.
I start with the first one but if I cannot find anything I want to watch right now fall into the second one.
Basically I find something to watch and then don’t change the channel unless something completely unwatchable comes on. But if I can’t find something to watch right now I’ll find something that’s on in half an hour to an hour and click onto that channel and put up with what ever is there. But then I don’t really sit there and watch TV so much as I have it on while playing video games or browsing the internet or working or whatever. If it’s a show that genuinely requires paying attention to know what’s going on I’m more likely to wait till it’s out on DVD and watch the whole season/series over a couple days.
I check schedules and watch shows regularly and exclusively, flipping from channel to channel in anticipation of them. If I’m not watching, but waiting or otherwise occupied, the TV is on mute and I don’t pay much attention to it at all.
When the schedule is empty or I have watched everything for the night, I’ll leave it on the channel it was last on, unless something offensively awful comes on and I flip just to remove it from my peripheral vision. On rare occasions using this method, there are happy accidents of stumbling on a decent new show to watch.
Having said that, I get most of my TV from non-live-broadcast means.
Change… channels? What are these channels you speak of? I haven’t had channels for at least two years.
The worst case these days for the opposite effect for me is Jeopardy! which comes on at 6:00 PM here and is followed now by that stupid “don’t forget the lyrics” (or whatever it is) show and before that it was even the more stupid “are you as dumb as a fifth grader?” In both cases, I immediately hit mute and change to anything else as fast as I can. Even the theme music is offensive.
As a general rule, the shows we like are set to be DVR’ed, mostly as a reminder to watch them. The biggest choice we have is which of the two at the same hour we watch “live” and which we wait until later to see.
Changing channels is really a lazy operation here since it’s just a punch of a button. It’s rare to have two shows we like to watch on the same channel. Fox is the biggest exception and even they have gone to screwing with the shows of theirs we like. Bones and Fringe are the main ones that are back-to-back. House and Lie to Me just started being like that once they shitcanned Lone Star.
I DVR everything I watch. Some shows I only watch a few minutes. Extreme example; the last 10 minutes or so of Rachael Ray and the first 10 minutes or so of Chelsea Handler. Most late night talk shows I only watch the monologue. ABC early morning news I watch most of the first hour and a half.
I simply record what I want to watch. If I’m hating a show, I fast forward past it.
I love Fat Guy With A Hot Wife. It kills me everytime Fat Guy makes a fatso joke then clumsily makes the moves on Hot Wife.
Is there a single Fat Guy With A Hot Wife show on a broadcast network? Or are we just bashing stereotypes that used to exist?
King of Queens, I believe.
I watch the shows I want to watch on Hulu or Netflix on my own timeframe.
Yeah, that was cancelled years ago.
Well, Family Guy. Lois is kind of hot!
This thread made me momentarily frightened that According to Jim was still on television, but then I remembered that dude has a Lawyer Cop MD show now.
The closest we get to a fat guy with a hot wife show nowadays is the no “No Ordinary Family” with Michael Chiklis paired with Julie Benz. But he’s a fat guy who’s impervious to any and all harm, so not your typical sitcom shlub.
I started watching JAG because I liked the show before it and after it. Figured I’d make it a clean CBS sweep.
I just DVR what I want to watch and then watch it later, don’t care what’s on before or after.
I’d totally watch Lawyer Cop, MD, tho. Bonus points if it’s a musical set on a spaceship, with vampires.
We’re still living in a time warp in this household. No DVR and basic cable only. I’ll admit that half the reason we watch Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune on some days is because that’s what comes on directly after the local news, which I do like watching.
As for actual episodic TV, I watch everything via the Internet or Netflix. Back when Lost was on, I did watch that on TV when it actually aired, and occasionally watched the first few minutes of whatever crap came on immediately afterward, but it was never interesting enough to make me keep the TV on.
If I want to watch a show then I DVR it. I don’t sit through the show before it and I don’t watch the commercials.
And the Cleveland show! And the Simpsons. It’s a recurring theme in animation, frankly, starting all the way back with the Flintstones.