TV Binge Watch (Part 1)

Shows with an animal that could talk, and talked with at least one human character, as opposed to thinking out loud; (shows populated ONLY by animals who talked amongst themselves don’t count).

  1. Sesame Street – Kermit the Frog, et al.
  2. Family Guy - Brian
  3. Mister Ed - Mister Ed
  4. Scooby-Doo - Scooby-Doo
  5. The Cleveland Show - Tim the Bear
  6. Sabrina the Teenage Witch - Salem

Shows with an animal that could talk, and talked with at least one human character, as opposed to thinking out loud; (shows populated ONLY by animals who talked amongst themselves don’t count).

  1. Sesame Street – Kermit the Frog, et al.
  2. Family Guy - Brian
  3. Mister Ed - Mister Ed
  4. Scooby-Doo - Scooby-Doo
  5. The Cleveland Show - Tim the Bear
  6. Sabrina the Teenage Witch - Salem
  7. Mister Rogers Neighborhood - Daniel Tiger, X the Owl

Shows with an animal that could talk, and talked with at least one human character, as opposed to thinking out loud; (shows populated ONLY by animals who talked amongst themselves don’t count).

  1. Sesame Street – Kermit the Frog, et al.
  2. Family Guy - Brian
  3. Mister Ed - Mister Ed
  4. Scooby-Doo - Scooby-Doo
  5. The Cleveland Show - Tim the Bear
  6. Sabrina the Teenage Witch - Salem
  7. Mister Rogers Neighborhood - Daniel Tiger, X the Owl
  8. Martha Speaks - Martha

Shows with an animal that could talk, and talked with at least one human character, as opposed to thinking out loud; (shows populated ONLY by animals who talked amongst themselves don’t count).

  1. Sesame Street – Kermit the Frog, et al.
  2. Family Guy - Brian
  3. Mister Ed - Mister Ed
  4. Scooby-Doo - Scooby-Doo
  5. The Cleveland Show - Tim the Bear
  6. Sabrina the Teenage Witch - Salem
  7. Mister Rogers Neighborhood - Daniel Tiger, X the Owl
  8. Martha Speaks - Martha
  9. Mr. Smith - Mr. Smith

No, not the Jimmy Stewart or Brad Pitt or Hugo Weaving one. This Mr. Smith was a talking orangutan who got a job as a political advisor.

Shows with an animal that could talk, and talked with at least one human character, as opposed to thinking out loud; (shows populated ONLY by animals who talked amongst themselves don’t count).

  1. Sesame Street – Kermit the Frog, et al.
  2. Family Guy - Brian
  3. Mister Ed - Mister Ed
  4. Scooby-Doo - Scooby-Doo
  5. The Cleveland Show - Tim the Bear
  6. Sabrina the Teenage Witch - Salem
  7. Mister Rogers Neighborhood - Daniel Tiger, X the Owl
  8. Martha Speaks - Martha
  9. Mr. Smith - Mr. Smith
  10. Ren and Stimpy - Ren, Stimpy

Food Shows

  1. Chopped

Food Shows

  1. Chopped
  2. The Great British Bake Off

Food Shows

  1. Chopped
  2. The Great British Bake Off
  3. The French Chef

Food Shows

  1. Chopped
  2. The Great British Bake Off
  3. The French Chef
  4. The Frugal Gourmet

Food Shows

  1. Chopped
  2. The Great British Bake Off
  3. The French Chef
  4. The Frugal Gourmet
  5. The Galloping Gourmet

Food Shows

  1. Chopped
  2. The Great British Bake Off
  3. The French Chef
  4. The Frugal Gourmet
  5. The Galloping Gourmet
  6. Yan Can Cook

Food Shows

  1. Chopped
  2. The Great British Bake Off
  3. The French Chef
  4. The Frugal Gourmet
  5. The Galloping Gourmet
  6. Yan Can Cook
  7. Worst Cook in America

Food Shows

  1. Chopped
  2. The Great British Bake Off
  3. The French Chef
  4. The Frugal Gourmet
  5. The Galloping Gourmet
  6. Yan Can Cook
  7. Worst Cook in America
  8. Iron Chef

Food Shows

  1. Chopped
  2. The Great British Bake Off
  3. The French Chef
  4. The Frugal Gourmet
  5. The Galloping Gourmet
  6. Yan Can Cook
  7. Worst Cook in America
  8. Iron Chef
  9. Louisiana Cookin’

The reruns are now called Justin Wilson’s Easy Cookin’

Food Shows

  1. Chopped
  2. The Great British Bake Off
  3. The French Chef
  4. The Frugal Gourmet
  5. The Galloping Gourmet
  6. Yan Can Cook
  7. Worst Cook in America
  8. Iron Chef
  9. Louisiana Cookin’
  10. The Pioneer Woman

pass

Shows you can’t stand

  1. Curb Your Enthusiasm

They got Seinfeld, took out all the funny and left the mean-spiritedness.

Shows you can’t stand

  1. Curb Your Enthusiasm
  2. Married, With Children

No one in the show was in the least bit clever; they were all despicable human beings. Humor through stereotype. Pass.

Shows you can’t stand

  1. Curb Your Enthusiasm
  2. Married, With Children
  3. Any Reality-based show

It’s all scripted for assholes who were judged to be obnoxious enough to attract nationwide attention. One of them became our president.

Shows you can’t stand

  1. Curb Your Enthusiasm
  2. Married, With Children
  3. Any Reality-based show
  4. Green Acres

Or any of the other “country”-themed TV sitcoms of that era.

Shows you can’t stand

  1. Curb Your Enthusiasm
  2. Married, With Children
  3. Any Reality-based show
  4. Green Acres
  5. The Big Bang Theory

Every character is a caricature, the jokes and situations are often sexist, racist, or emasculating without being funny, and nerd culture is laughed at instead of celebrated.

Shows you can’t stand

  1. Curb Your Enthusiasm
  2. Married, With Children
  3. Any Reality-based show
  4. Green Acres
  5. The Big Bang Theory
  6. Bones

At first I thought I hated this show for the aggressively dumbed-down way it depicts police investigation. Then I realize I really hate it for its especially ham-fisted use of the trope of the Broken Genius, the technocrat who’s all logic and has no understanding of emotion (so the normies watching the show won’t feel inferior to her). There’s probably other things I hate about it too.