# TV Binge Watch (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 4, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711 "2022-10-04T16:51:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 126
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2501 "2023-07-24T20:04:07Z")
**Standout Episodes** 1. Chuckles Bites the Dust - The Mary Tyler Moore Show 2. Blink - Doctor Who 3. [Look at the Flowers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dCn7d_jDjg) - The Walking Dead 4. Once More With Feeling - Buffy the Vampire Slayer ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2502 "2023-07-24T20:27:46Z")
**Standout Episodes** 1. Chuckles Bites the Dust - The Mary Tyler Moore Show 2. Blink - Doctor Who 3. [Look at the Flowers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dCn7d_jDjg) - The Walking Dead 4. Once More With Feeling - Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide - Fringe ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2503 "2023-07-24T20:56:42Z")
**Standout Episodes** 1. Chuckles Bites the Dust - The Mary Tyler Moore Show 2. Blink - Doctor Who 3. [Look at the Flowers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dCn7d_jDjg) - The Walking Dead 4. Once More With Feeling - Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide - Fringe 6. Death Takes a Holiday – MASH This is the one where the trio tries to keep a gravely-wounded soldier alive until after midnight so “his kids won’t have to think of Christmas as the day their daddy died.” There was also a poignant side-story featuring Charles and Klinger. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2504 "2023-07-24T20:59:04Z")
> [@Bicycle\_Bill](#): > > There was also a poignant side-story featuring Charles and Klinger. Was that the one where Charles anonymously donates chocolate to an orphanage and finds out later the chocolate was sold on the black market to purchase a large quantity of rice for the children? ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2505 "2023-07-24T21:14:18Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > > [@Bicycle\_Bill](#): > > > > There was also a poignant side-story featuring Charles and Klinger… > > Was that the one where Charles anonymously donates chocolate to an orphanage and finds out later the chocolate was sold on the black market to purchase a large quantity of rice for the children? Yes. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2506 "2023-07-24T22:18:50Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > Charles anonymously donates chocolate to an orphanage and finds out later the chocolate was sold on the black market to purchase a large quantity of rice for the children That was actually the better part of the episode, I thought: when Charles comes around and says “I gave dessert to children who had not had dinner,” that was one of the most quotable lines on TV ever. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2507 "2023-07-24T22:24:09Z")
> [@](#): > > **Standout Episodes** 1. Chuckles Bites the Dust - The Mary Tyler Moore Show 2. Blink - Doctor Who 3. [Look at the Flowers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dCn7d_jDjg) - The Walking Dead 4. Once More With Feeling - Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide - Fringe 6. Death Takes a Holiday – MASH 7. Warrior… Priestess… Tramp – Xena: Warrior Princess Lucy Lawless has to play three roles as Xena encounters not one, but two lookalikes, and in a couple of scenes plays one lookalike pretending to be another. She is amazing. On top of which a potentially stupid episode is actually very funny. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2508 "2023-07-24T23:22:56Z")
**Standout Episodes** 1. Chuckles Bites the Dust - The Mary Tyler Moore Show 2. Blink - Doctor Who 3. [Look at the Flowers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dCn7d_jDjg) - The Walking Dead 4. Once More With Feeling - Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide - Fringe 6. Death Takes a Holiday – MASH 7. Warrior… Priestess… Tramp – Xena: Warrior Princess 8. City on the Edge of Forever - Star Trek TOS ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2509 "2023-07-25T00:11:04Z")
**Standout Episodes** 1. Chuckles Bites the Dust - The Mary Tyler Moore Show 2. Blink - Doctor Who 3. [Look at the Flowers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dCn7d_jDjg) - The Walking Dead 4. Once More With Feeling - Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide - Fringe 6. Death Takes a Holiday – MASH 7. Warrior… Priestess… Tramp – Xena: Warrior Princess 8. City on the Edge of Forever - Star Trek TOS 9. A Crisis of Faith and Octopus Aliens - Young Sheldon Mary Cooper experiences a crisis of faith, and Sheldon helps her regain it. I’m not a religious person, but it had me welling up. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2510 "2023-07-25T00:52:15Z")
**Standout Episodes** 1. Chuckles Bites the Dust - The Mary Tyler Moore Show 2. Blink - Doctor Who 3. [Look at the Flowers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dCn7d_jDjg) - The Walking Dead 4. Once More With Feeling - Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide - Fringe 6. Death Takes a Holiday – MASH 7. Warrior… Priestess… Tramp – Xena: Warrior Princess 8. City on the Edge of Forever - Star Trek TOS 9. A Crisis of Faith and Octopus Aliens - Young Sheldon 10. Time’s Arrow - Bojack Horseman Woah. This one just left me slack-jawed stunned. Pass. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2511 "2023-07-25T10:03:43Z")
Along the lines of the previous topic, how about **Shows You Hate, but Episodes You Like** 1. _The Facts of Life_; “Cousin Geri” Being a tween/teen in the 70s/80s, I was the target audience for this show, and all my friends liked it. I hated it, but ended up watching it a lot. This episode, however, guest-starring Geri Jewell, I thought was a fantastic way of dealing with having a disabled person in the family, and one that hadn’t been explored before. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2512 "2023-07-25T14:04:36Z")
**Shows You Hate, but Episodes You Like** 1. _The Facts of Life_; “Cousin Geri” 2. _Big Bang Theory_; The Stockholm Syndrome Sheldon acknowledges and thanks his friends for his Nobel speech; Penny reveals that she is pregnant. A nice wrap-up to a problematic but very popular show. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2513 "2023-07-25T18:17:20Z")
**Shows You Hate, but Episodes You Like** 1. _The Facts of Life_; “Cousin Geri” 2. _Big Bang Theory_; “The Stockholm Syndrome” 3. _The Office_, “Customer Survey” “Hate” is putting it much too strongly, but the show usually just isn’t that funny to me. This is the key exception: ['OUR PRICES HAVE NEVER BEEN LOWER!' - The Office US - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QQBB3cwNM0) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2514 "2023-07-25T18:37:13Z")
If I hate a show, I don’t watch it. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2515 "2023-07-25T18:42:35Z")
**Shows You Hate, but Episodes You Like** 1. _The Facts of Life_; “Cousin Geri” 2. _Big Bang Theory_; “The Stockholm Syndrome” 3. _The Office_, “Customer Survey” 4. _Spin City_, “Dead Dog Talking” ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2516 "2023-07-25T19:59:54Z")
**Shows You Hate, but Episodes You Like** 1. _The Facts of Life_; “Cousin Geri” 2. _Big Bang Theory_; “The Stockholm Syndrome” 3. _The Office_, “Customer Survey” 4. _Spin City_, “Dead Dog Talking” 5. T_he Simpsons_, Pixelated and Afraid I don’t hate the Simpsons but it’s clear that the show is not as good as it has been in years past. There are some gems in recent episodes though, including this one where Homer and Marge reconnect while getting lost on their way to a romantic retreat. “Homer is a clod and Marge kicks him out” has been done several times before so it’s neat to see Homer step up and be at least semi competent and Marge gets to show why she loves him. ---
**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2517 "2023-07-26T17:58:19Z")
**Shows You Hate, but Episodes You Like** 1. _The Facts of Life_; “Cousin Geri” 2. _Big Bang Theory_; “The Stockholm Syndrome” 3. _The Office_, “Customer Survey” 4. _Spin City_, “Dead Dog Talking” 5. T_he Simpsons_, Pixelated and Afraid 6. Roseanne - “Homeward Bound” (Dan explains masturbation to DJ) ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2023, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2518 "2023-07-26T23:57:44Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > If I hate a show, I don’t watch it. What? you don’t have friends? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2519 "2023-07-27T01:48:07Z")
Just saying, I don’t know what to put in this category, since I don’t watch shows I hate. Can’t share a sample when the sample size is nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/2520 "2023-07-27T01:56:35Z")
**Shows You Hate, but Episodes You Like** 1. _The Facts of Life_; “Cousin Geri” 2. _Big Bang Theory_; “The Stockholm Syndrome” 3. _The Office_, “Customer Survey” 4. _Spin City_, “Dead Dog Talking” 5. _The Simpsons_, Pixelated and Afraid 6. _Roseanne_ - “Homeward Bound” 7. _I Love Lucy_ - the “Vitameatavegemin” episode I don’t actually hate _I Love Lucy_, but the only way I’d willingly watch it is if I had a TV that only got one channel, and I had nothing better to do when it came on that one channel. Unless it’s the Vitameatavegemin episode, of course. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711.md?page=125) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711.md?page=127)