TV Binge Watch (Part 2)

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Have you ever been over at friends and the TV is on and it happens to be a show you never watch? But you get sucked into watching it, and you find yourself enjoying it?

That happened to me. My friends were watching the Festivus episode on Seinfeld. I’d seen the show before and didn’t think it was funny, until I saw that episode. After that I watched all the episodes; some weren’t funny, and some were, and some made me laugh myself silly.

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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
  8. Seinfeld - the “Festivus” episode
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I had a client who loved Touched by an Angel, which I hated with the heat of a 1,000 suns.

That said, there was an episode I enjoyed for the wrong reasons. After Valerie Bertinelli joined the show, her character ends up at a rave, high on ecstasy; the whole thing is hilarious, but the best part is when she explains x to the other angels: “This is how humans see God.” I wanted to roll on the floor laughing, but not in front of the client, so it was badly suppressed giggling for about 5 full minutes.

It was the Plan 9 from Outer Space of TV episodes. Not putting it on the list, because I like it for the wrong reasons.

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The only time I remember that happening was years ago when they watched American’s Funniest Home Videos, which isn’t my cuppa tea. I don’t remember anything about it. “Well, there was that video I kind of snickered at, but I don’t remember what it was” isn’t really a valid entry.

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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
  8. Seinfeld - the “Festivus” episode
  9. Storage Wars - Rene’s best locker

He makes approximately $50k! My husband watches this show, and it’s so formulaic I can’t stand it.

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All right. I’ll just finish this off, and let someone else take the wheel.

  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
  8. Seinfeld - the “Festivus” episode
  9. Storage Wars - Rene’s best locker
  10. Touched by an Angel; Angels go to a rave (no idea the title)

PASS

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Failed Talk Shows

  1. The Pat Sajak Show
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  1. The Pat Sajak Show
  2. Thicke of the Night
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  1. The Pat Sajak Show
  2. Thicke of the Night
  3. The Chevy Chase Show
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Failed Talk Shows

  1. The Pat Sajak Show
  2. Thicke of the Night
  3. The Chevy Chase Show
  4. The Charles Grodin Show

A very talented character actor who should never have been given a talk show.

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Yeah, I wouldn’t tune in to that either.

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There is such a thing as being too quick. :wink:

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I swear to you, that’s how it came up on my screen!

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Failed Talk Shows

  1. The Pat Sajak Show
  2. Thicke of the Night
  3. The Chevy Chase Show
  4. The Charles Grodin Show
  5. The Magic Hour

He was a great athlete but a terrible host. His best show was also his worst: inviting Howard Stern on the show.

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Failed Talk Shows

  1. The Pat Sajak Show
  2. Thicke of the Night
  3. The Chevy Chase Show
  4. The Charles Grodin Show
  5. The Magic Hour
  6. The Morton Downey Jr. Show

Set the stage for all the mouthy hosts that would follow. Also, an early adopter of spectacle TV.

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Failed Talk Shows

  1. The Pat Sajak Show
  2. Thicke of the Night
  3. The Chevy Chase Show
  4. The Charles Grodin Show
  5. The Magic Hour
  6. The Morton Downey Jr. Show
  7. McEnroe
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Failed Talk Shows

  1. The Pat Sajak Show
  2. Thicke of the Night
  3. The Chevy Chase Show
  4. The Charles Grodin Show
  5. The Magic Hour
  6. The Morton Downey Jr. Show
  7. McEnroe
  8. The David Letterman Show

A morning talk show that lasted only four months in 1980.

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Failed Talk Shows

  1. The Pat Sajak Show
  2. Thicke of the Night
  3. The Chevy Chase Show
  4. The Charles Grodin Show
  5. The Magic Hour
  6. The Morton Downey Jr. Show
  7. McEnroe
  8. The David Letterman Show
  9. The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien

Oh what could have been.

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Failed Talk Shows

  1. The Pat Sajak Show
  2. Thicke of the Night
  3. The Chevy Chase Show
  4. The Charles Grodin Show
  5. The Magic Hour
  6. The Morton Downey Jr. Show
  7. McEnroe
  8. The David Letterman Show
  9. The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien
  10. The Martin Short Show

Next: TV Characters with food-based names.

  1. Detective Fish - Barney Miller
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Next: TV Characters with food-based names.

  1. Detective Fish - Barney Miller
  2. Cinnamon Carter - Mission: Impossible