# 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:** 278
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5541 "2024-07-26T00:17:21Z")
**Daytime Dramas** (Houskeeping) 1. Dark Shadows 2. General Hospital 3. All My Children 4. The Bold and the Beautiful 5. The Days of Our Lives 6. The Young and the Restless 7. One Life to Live 8. Santa Barbara 9. As the World Turns 10. The Edge of Night Next: **Nighttime Dramas** 1. Dynasty (eta: unless, Rivkah, you want to pick since Edge of Night was technically #10.) ---
**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, 2024, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5542 "2024-07-26T00:23:09Z")
Edge of Night was #10? OK. Hmmmm I’m not crazy about nighttime soaps. How about this: **Supernatural Characters** (define that any way you want, but only one character per show) 1. Endora (_Bewitched_) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5543 "2024-07-26T00:31:31Z")
**Supernatural Characters** (define that any way you want, but only one character per show) 1. Endora - _Bewitched_ 2. Salem - _Sabrina the Teenage Witch_ ---
**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 26, 2024, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5544 "2024-07-26T00:36:50Z")
**Supernatural Characters** (define that any way you want, but only one character per show) 1. Endora - _Bewitched_ 2. Salem - _Sabrina the Teenage Witch_ 3. Bobby Singer - _Supernatural_ Not a supernatural character as such, but a _Supernatural_ character for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5545 "2024-07-26T00:41:51Z")
**Supernatural Characters** (define that any way you want, but only one character per show) 1. Endora - _Bewitched_ 2. Salem - _Sabrina the Teenage Witch_ 3. Bobby Singer - _Supernatural_ 4. Kevin Garvey - _The Leftovers_ He died, but then got better. A number of times. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5546 "2024-07-26T00:54:35Z")
**Supernatural Characters** (define that any way you want, but only one character per show) 1. Endora - _Bewitched_ 2. Salem - _Sabrina the Teenage Witch_ 3. Bobby Singer - _Supernatural_ 4. Kevin Garvey - _The Leftovers_ 5. Jeannie - _I Dream of Jeannie_ ---
**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 26, 2024, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5547 "2024-07-26T06:30:06Z")
**Supernatural Characters** (define that any way you want, but only one character per show) 1. Endora - _Bewitched_ 2. Salem - _Sabrina the Teenage Witch_ 3. Bobby Singer - _Supernatural_ 4. Kevin Garvey - _The Leftovers_ 5. Jeannie - _I Dream of Jeannie_ 6. Jonathan Smith – _Highway to Heaven_ Can’t get much more supernatural than an angel… _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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 26, 2024, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5548 "2024-07-26T07:05:51Z")
**Supernatural Characters** (define that any way you want, but only one character per show) 1. Endora - _Bewitched_ 2. Salem - _Sabrina the Teenage Witch_ 3. Bobby Singer - _Supernatural_ 4. Kevin Garvey - _The Leftovers_ 5. Jeannie - _I Dream of Jeannie_ 6. Jonathan Smith – _Highway to Heaven_ 7. Monica - _Touched by an Angel_ I agree with @Bicycle_Bill: You can’t get much more supernatural than an angel. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5549 "2024-07-26T08:57:58Z")
**Supernatural Characters** (define that any way you want, but only one character per show) 1. Endora - _Bewitched_ 2. Salem - _Sabrina the Teenage Witch_ 3. Bobby Singer - _Supernatural_ 4. Kevin Garvey - _The Leftovers_ 5. Jeannie - _I Dream of Jeannie_ 6. Jonathan Smith – _Highway to Heaven_ 7. Monica - _Touched by an Angel_ 8. The Devil (played by Ray Wise) - _Reaper_ What’s good for the angel is also good for the devil. ---
**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 26, 2024, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5550 "2024-07-26T09:12:42Z")
**Supernatural Characters** (define that any way you want, but only one character per show) 1. Endora - _Bewitched_ 2. Salem - _Sabrina the Teenage Witch_ 3. Bobby Singer - _Supernatural_ 4. Kevin Garvey - _The Leftovers_ 5. Jeannie - _I Dream of Jeannie_ 6. Jonathan Smith – _Highway to Heaven_ 7. Monica - _Touched by an Angel_ 8. The Devil (played by Ray Wise) - _Reaper_ 9. Georgia Lass - _Dead Like Me_ Georgia is dead (that’s made clear in Episode 1), but her spirit lives as if she was alive and human—she is a “grim reaper,” but her human form has to get a job and an apartment, and she moves about Seattle (actually, filming locations were Vancouver) like anybody. She and her team “reap” souls who are dead, due to weird accidents (falling pianos, anybody?) and guide them to the afterlife. ---
**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 26, 2024, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5551 "2024-07-26T15:08:48Z")
**Supernatural Characters** (define that any way you want, but only one character per show) 1. Endora - _Bewitched_ 2. Salem - _Sabrina the Teenage Witch_ 3. Bobby Singer - _Supernatural_ 4. Kevin Garvey - _The Leftovers_ 5. Jeannie - _I Dream of Jeannie_ 6. Jonathan Smith – _Highway to Heaven_ 7. Monica - _Touched by an Angel_ 8. The Devil (played by Ray Wise) - _Reaper_ 9. Georgia Lass - _Dead Like Me_ 10. Barnabas Collins - _Dark Shadows_ **Favorite Olympic Moments** 1. Scott Hamilton performing to Spike Jones’s _Cocktails For Two_. ---
**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 26, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5552 "2024-07-26T15:14:50Z")
**Favorite Olympic Moments** 1. Scott Hamilton performing to Spike Jones’s _Cocktails For Two_. 2. Simone Biles wins four gold medals in 2016. ---
**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, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5553 "2024-07-26T15:23:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Favorite Olympic Moments 1. Scott Hamilton performing to Spike Jones’s _Cocktails For Two_. 2. Simone Biles wins four gold medals in 2016. 3. 1980: Jimmy Carter announces the US boycott of the Moscow games. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5554 "2024-07-26T16:54:14Z")
**Favorite Olympic Moments** 1. Scott Hamilton performing to Spike Jones’s _Cocktails For Two_. 2. Simone Biles wins four gold medals in 2016. 3. 1980: Jimmy Carter announces the US boycott of the Moscow games. 4. 1996: Kerri Strug performs a near-perfect vault to clinch the team gymnastics gold for the U.S.A., despite having severely sprained her ankle on her previous attempt. Coach Béla Károlyi carries her to the award podium. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5555 "2024-07-26T17:10:25Z")
**Favorite Olympic Moments** 1. Scott Hamilton performing to Spike Jones’s _Cocktails For Two_. 2. Simone Biles wins four gold medals in 2016. 3. 1980: Jimmy Carter announces the US boycott of the Moscow games. 4. 1996: Kerri Strug performs a near-perfect vault to clinch the team gymnastics gold for the U.S.A., despite having severely sprained her ankle on her previous attempt. Coach Béla Károlyi carries her to the award podium. 5. When the music cut out during their routine, Soviet figure skaters Irina Rodnina and Aleksandr Zaytsev kept skating in silence, winning a standing ovation and a gold medal. ---
**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 26, 2024, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5556 "2024-07-26T17:14:34Z")
**Favorite Olympic Moments** 1. Scott Hamilton performing to Spike Jones’s _Cocktails For Two_. 2. Simone Biles wins four gold medals in 2016. 3. 1980: Jimmy Carter announces the US boycott of the Moscow games. 4. 1996: Kerri Strug performs a near-perfect vault to clinch the team gymnastics gold for the U.S.A., despite having severely sprained her ankle on her previous attempt. Coach Béla Károlyi carries her to the award podium. 5. When the music cut out during their routine, Soviet figure skaters Irina Rodnina and Aleksandr Zaytsev kept skating in silence, winning a standing ovation and a gold medal. 6. The Miracle on Ice, 1980. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5557 "2024-07-26T17:57:33Z")
**Favorite Olympic Moments** 1. Scott Hamilton performing to Spike Jones’s _Cocktails For Two_. 2. Simone Biles wins four gold medals in 2016. 3. 1980: Jimmy Carter announces the US boycott of the Moscow games. 4. 1996: Kerri Strug performs a near-perfect vault to clinch the team gymnastics gold for the U.S.A., despite having severely sprained her ankle on her previous attempt. Coach Béla Károlyi carries her to the award podium. 5. When the music cut out during their routine, Soviet figure skaters Irina Rodnina and Aleksandr Zaytsev kept skating in silence, winning a standing ovation and a gold medal. 6. The Miracle on Ice, 1980. 7. Nadia Comăneci scores a perfect 10 in 1976, at the Montreal Olympics. ---
**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 26, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5558 "2024-07-26T21:04:37Z")
**Favorite Olympic Moments** 1. Scott Hamilton performing to Spike Jones’s _Cocktails For Two_. 2. Simone Biles wins four gold medals in 2016. 3. 1980: Jimmy Carter announces the US boycott of the Moscow games. 4. 1996: Kerri Strug performs a near-perfect vault to clinch the team gymnastics gold for the U.S.A., despite having severely sprained her ankle on her previous attempt. Coach Béla Károlyi carries her to the award podium. 5. When the music cut out during their routine, Soviet figure skaters Irina Rodnina and Aleksandr Zaytsev kept skating in silence, winning a standing ovation and a gold medal. 6. Eddy the Eagle _(real name Michael David Edwards)_, the British plasterer-turned-ski jumper, who was hopelessly outclassed at the 1988 Winter Games and finished dead last in both of his events – but still… he competed and finished. _ **Citius, Altius, Fortius** _ indeed!! _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5559 "2024-07-27T04:08:54Z")
**Favorite Olympic Moments** 1. Scott Hamilton performing to Spike Jones’s _Cocktails For Two_. 2. Simone Biles wins four gold medals in 2016. 3. 1980: Jimmy Carter announces the US boycott of the Moscow games. 4. 1996: Kerri Strug performs a near-perfect vault to clinch the team gymnastics gold for the U.S.A., despite having severely sprained her ankle on her previous attempt. Coach Béla Károlyi carries her to the award podium. 5. When the music cut out during their routine, Soviet figure skaters Irina Rodnina and Aleksandr Zaytsev kept skating in silence, winning a standing ovation and a gold medal. 6. The Miracle on Ice, 1980. 7. Nadia Comăneci scores a perfect 10 in 1976, at the Montreal Olympics. 8. Eddy the Eagle _(real name Michael David Edwards)_, the British plasterer-turned-ski jumper, who was hopelessly outclassed at the 1988 Winter Games and finished dead last in both of his events – but still… he competed and finished. _ **Citius, Altius, Fortius** _ indeed!! housekeeping ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/5560 "2024-07-27T04:40:40Z")
**Favorite Olympic Moments** 1. Scott Hamilton performing to Spike Jones’s _Cocktails For Two_. 2. Simone Biles wins four gold medals in 2016. 3. 1980: Jimmy Carter announces the US boycott of the Moscow games. 4. 1996: Kerri Strug performs a near-perfect vault to clinch the team gymnastics gold for the U.S.A., despite having severely sprained her ankle on her previous attempt. Coach Béla Károlyi carries her to the award podium. 5. When the music cut out during their routine, Soviet figure skaters Irina Rodnina and Aleksandr Zaytsev kept skating in silence, winning a standing ovation and a gold medal. 6. The Miracle on Ice, 1980. 7. Nadia Comăneci scores a perfect 10 in 1976, at the Montreal Olympics. 8. Eddy the Eagle _(real name Michael David Edwards)_, the British plasterer-turned-ski jumper, who was hopelessly outclassed at the 1988 Winter Games and finished dead last in both of his events – but still… he competed and finished. _ **Citius, Altius, Fortius** _ indeed!! 9. The Jamaican Bobsled team, 1988 Winter Olympics - Despite the _Cool Runnings_ film (“about 1% accurate”), they really were quite awful and never came close to placing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711.md?page=277) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711.md?page=279)