Shows you'd watch... with a gun pointed at your head.

Including but not limited to:

  1. dog the white trash bounty hunter
  2. Gerry shallow genepool Springer
  3. The Gottis: a study in disfunction
  4. American Idol of mediocrity
  5. <fill in blank> reality show
  6. <fill in blank> court show

To paraphrase Pink Floyd, “We’ve got 50 channels of shit on the TV to choose from”

Hey…I like Jerry Springer. Sometimes. :o

The Golden Girls
Oprah
Dr. Phil
Small Wonder
Lifetime movie “Her struggle to break free from her cheating husband and find inner strength” or whatever

Any reality TV 'cept Survivor

Awards shows

Angel and later seasons of BTVS

Seasons II - IV of ST: DS9

CSI Miami/New York

ER

Jay Leno’s crap

Telethons

Daytime soaps

Anything on the Lifetime Channel

Orpah or Phil

Most current sitcoms. Retreads, almost all of them.
I could go on…

I might be willing to watch According to Jim if there were a gun pointed at my head.

It would have to be a large-caliber gun, and I’d have to believe that the person pointing it is a very good shot.

Fear Factor

I’ve never seen it – the promos with bugs are quite enough, thank you.

Don’t people know that cockroaches and other large bugs carry mites? Probably takes years to get them out of body crevices. If then. ::shudder::

Oh, and auto racing.

I’ll believe it takes skill to drive around in circles going really fast when one of the drivers is an old fart in a 78 Dodge doing 45 mph with his left turn signal on and his foot on the brake every five seconds, and everyone has to get out of his way. Two laps, tops.

Big Brother

Where do I start???
[ul]
[li]Boy Meets World (only good thing was Bill Daniels’ Mr. Feeny) [/li][li]Mama’s Family (unbelievably it was on the air for seven years!)[/li][li]The View (like sticking needles into my eyeballs)[/li][li]Teletubbies (just want to strangle those annoying critters)[/li][li]What’s Happening (not much)[/li][li]Will and Grace (gave it a try, just NOT funny)[/li][/ul]

Same here. I can’t even watch the commercials.

My top pick would be Everybody Loves Raymond.

Star Trek.

I would say Full House, but my daughter has discovered this littel gem from before her time, and manages to not need a gun.

As the fans like to point out, it’s an oval, not a circle.

I prefer to say, “Whywould I want to watch a bunch of guys make laft-hand turns all afternoon? Now if they had oncoming traffic, I’d watch that.”

Were I in fear of my life, I might consider watching:

Survivor
American Idol
Arrested Development
Major League Baseball
MI-5
Veronica Mars

I think I’d rather take a bullet than watch Big Brother or Real World XIV, though.

Dr. pompous-ass-can’t-stand-the-condescending-cadence-of-his-voice Phil. Plus, his eyes are too close together for his baldness.

I think I’d rather take the bullet if I was given the choice.

Law & Order

Montel

Springer

Pretty much any show where people make an ass of themselves by pretending to be surprised that their son/daughter is a foul mouth prostitute dressed in bad clothing and the best thing for them is a boot camp and a fashion makeover.

Hey! Watch where you say that on these boards. :wink:
Uh, if I actually had a gun pointed at me I’d probably do just about anything. But that answer’s no fun, so let’s go with:

… um …

I got nothin’. Seriously, with some notable exceptions (like House, the Simpsons, Family Guy, some of the stuff on the science channels, when they actually do new stuff, and reruns of shows like Star Trek and classic cartoons like Invader Zim and Animaniacs) everything on TV is crap now. EVERYTHING.

It’s thirteen. :o

Anyway, mine are:

Everybody Loves Raymond
Fear Factor
Maury “I wonna find out who mah baby dadday” Povich
Newer Simpsons episodes

My son has recently discovered it, too. Boy, it really was baaaad.

As I’ve said before, it would be a lot more interesting if half the drivers went the opposite direction. That, I’d watch. :cool: (My husband likes NASCAR)

As for the OP:
Fear Factor (I like the stunts, I can’t stand the bugs and gross eating parts)
Any of the Jerry Springer/Maury Povich type shows
Anything with Paris Hilton
Anything on MTV
Any kind of Find-true-love-from-these-12-people-we’ve-picked-for-you show (The Bachelor, Who Wants To Marry My Dad, etc.)
Most reality shows (with the exception of Survivor and The Amazing Race. I like those two.)

I figure I’d get my revenge on the gun wielder by barfing on his shoes.

HaHA!

Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

I am so TVs bitch…there’s nothing I won’t watch. I’ll even watch infomercials or televangelists. I don’t like everything I see, but am unable to remove myself from the soothing warming warming glow. I used to be smart, but my brain has turned to swiss cheese making it easier to watch the insipid adventures of abrasive people on unscripted shows in exotic locales performing far-fetched rituals and stunts vieing for a large sum of money to be paid out as a 30-year annuity. Fortunately my addled mind has not been damaged enough to care about them.

Oh, wait…Full House, I stay away from Full House…

Gaaah! It must be an epidemic–my 10 year old daughter has discovered it also. She has a near-obsession with the show.

There’s shows on MTV that I don’t think I’d be able to watch even with a gun pointed to my head. I’ve only seen the commercials for this new crop of summer shows-Stankervision, I think is the names of one of the shows. Of course, I think I’ve outgrown MTV’s target demographic by about 15 years so maybe that’s why.

Also, those godawful countdown shows on E channel that are blatant and poorly constructed ripoffs of the slightly more entertaining shows on VH1, like I love the 70s, 80s, and 90s.