# Shows you always watched for one reason **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 7, 2013, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322 "2013-01-07T05:58:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/1 "2013-01-07T05:58:14Z")
I recently caught a rerun of “The Rifleman” and that reminded of when I watched the show regularly as a teenager–but only the first minute. Why? Because of this [awesome intro.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtbdfypVy38) Then I’d switch to another channel. Did you ever watch a show (or part of a show) just for one element? ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/2 "2013-01-07T06:05:07Z")
I’ve watched the dojo scene in the Matrix over 100 times in the theater. I was working in a theater when it was released and would stop in to watch it while I was doing my rounds. Inadvertently, I usually watch the intro of CSI to listen to the song, then change the channel because I’ve seen all the episodes in syndication already. I also like the opening montage for Law and Order SVU. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/3 "2013-01-07T18:32:12Z")
After a fashion, I watched The Equalizer just for the title/theme music. I was a little kid, and never really paid any attention to the show… but I’d always watch the intro before/while going to bed. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/4 "2013-01-07T18:36:48Z")
I used to watch the _Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman_ series in the 90’s just to stare at Dean Cain ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/5 "2013-01-07T18:38:07Z")
If the CSI Miami trailer comes on I’ll watch just long enough to hear the corney as crap proclamation David Caruso gives, then I’ll change it. I have never, ever watched the actual show. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/6 "2013-01-07T18:46:59Z")
Let’s just say I never watched Sabado Gigante to brush up on my Spanish. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/7 "2013-01-07T18:57:12Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > I recently caught a rerun of “The Rifleman” and that reminded of when I watched the show regularly as a teenager–but only the first minute. Why? Because of this [awesome intro.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtbdfypVy38) Then I’d switch to another channel. Did you ever watch a show (or part of a show) just for one element? All the time, usually along the lines of “that’s what my wife wants to watch.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/8 "2013-01-07T19:49:24Z")
I used to watch the rather lame “jiggle” comedy “Too Close For Comfort” in the early 80s because the actress playing one of the daughters ([Lydia Cornell](http://images.zap2it.com/images/celeb-353471/lydia-cornell-0.jpg)) was, to my 16-year-old eyes, hot. Hmm, maybe that’s technically two reasons. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/9 "2013-01-07T20:01:47Z")
I (and thousands of other Canadian children, no doubt) used to watch [The Mighty Hercules](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mighty_Hercules) and [Rocket Robin Hood](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Robin_Hood) on Saturday mornings because: (1) Saturday mornings are for watching cartoons, and (2) we only got two channels and there were no cartoons on the other channel (just the farm report or some bullshit) I guess that’s two reasons, technically. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/10 "2013-01-07T20:14:03Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > I used to watch the _Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman_ series in the 90’s just to stare at Dean Cain Heh, I used to watch it to see Terri Hatcher. Very hot. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/11 "2013-01-07T20:15:09Z")
I think Barbara Eden counts as two reasons. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/12 "2013-01-07T20:20:50Z")
I used to watch _Without a Trace_ only because that Hispanic chick (can’t remember her name) was just about the hottest thing on TV at the time. She hit all the right buttons! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/13 "2013-01-07T21:53:10Z")
I watch Survivor when I can because I enjoy watching scantily-clad, reasonably attractive people get dragged through the mud or have other humilating things done to them, all while acting like a bunch of idiots, with no plot to get in the way. I watched Ultra-Man to see if he would ever OPEN a fight with his big, main gun, rather than wrestle the bad guy until he was almost out of power, and THEN shoot him. He did. Once. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/14 "2013-01-07T21:59:05Z")
When I was a kid my parents let me stay up a couple of minutes late to watch the main title of Petticoat Junction. I was nuts about trains. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/15 "2013-01-07T22:01:19Z")
I only tune in to **The Bachelor** for the first couple of episodes, where ridiculous women get booted and blubber about loving the guy they spent three minutes with. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/16 "2013-01-07T22:06:13Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I (and thousands of other Canadian children, no doubt) used to watch [The Mighty Hercules](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mighty_Hercules) and [Rocket Robin Hood](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Robin_Hood) on Saturday mornings because: > (1) Saturday mornings are for watching cartoons, and > (2) we only got two channels and there were no cartoons on the other channel (just the farm report or some bullshit) > > I guess that’s two reasons, technically. Well, that reminded me of another one… When I was a little kid, living in suburban Chicago in the early 1970s (i.e., Before Cable), I loved to watch [Ray Rayner and His Friends](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Rayner#Ray_Rayner_and_His_Friends) on WGN in the morning, before I’d go to school. Ray’s show started at 7 a.m., but I was often awake before then. Back in those days, there were very few TV stations which carried programming 24 hours a day, and no Chicago station did. At 6 a.m., the only station which was on the air was WGN, and they were carrying a farm-news show called “Top o’ the Morning”, hosted by their longtime farm reporter, [Orion Samuelson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Samuelson). With nothing else on the air, I’d watch the farm report while I ate cereal and waited for Ray Rayner to show up with cartoons. 30 years later, I had the opportunity to work with Mr. Samuelson. I told him the above story, and he laughed: “You have no idea how many people have told me that they grew up watching me while they waited for cartoons!” ---
**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/17 "2013-01-07T22:40:13Z")
I DVR essentially all of the shows I watch. I also fast-forward through the theme songs, except for 2 old examples: Joan of Arcadia: I really loved that Joan Osborne song they used – named, I think, One of Us. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: For some reason that screeching guitar intro was always fun to listen to. J. ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/18 "2013-01-07T23:01:51Z")
The only reason why I watch Malibu Country, The Last Man Standing, and Blue Bloods is because of their main characters: Reba, Tim Allen, and Donnie Wahlberg (I love his character’s no nonsense style!) 🙂 🙂 🙂 God bless you and them always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Holly ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/19 "2013-01-07T23:05:36Z")
“KITT, turbo boost!” ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322/20 "2013-01-07T23:48:23Z")
This probably doesn’t count because I think ‘House’ is one of the best TV shows ever made, but even if I hated it I would have watched just to stare at Dr. Chase! The early years, before he lost his looks: I found him just enchanting! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-always-watched-for-one-reason/646322.md?page=2)