TV Binge Watch (Part 3)

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Shows you can’t believe you actually watched

  1. Pink Lady & Jeff
  2. Donny & Marie
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Shows you can’t believe you actually watched

  1. Pink Lady & Jeff
  2. Donny & Marie
  3. The Jerry Springer Show

It was like a train wreck: You know it’s a tragedy, but you cannot stop looking.

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Shows you can’t believe you actually watched

  1. Pink Lady & Jeff
  2. Donny & Marie
  3. The Jerry Springer Show
  4. Too Close for Comfort

In my defense, I was 15 years old, and there was a pretty blonde woman in tight outfits.

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Shows you can’t believe you actually watched

  1. Pink Lady & Jeff
  2. Donny & Marie
  3. The Jerry Springer Show
  4. Too Close for Comfort
  5. The Facts of Life

I loved it (and Molly) when I was 12. Mrs. H watches it on reruns now, and OMG the acting is just atrocious. So is the directing.

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Shows you can’t believe you actually watched

  1. Pink Lady & Jeff
  2. Donny & Marie
  3. The Jerry Springer Show
  4. Too Close for Comfort
  5. The Facts of Life
  6. The Inhumans

It had been getting horrid reviews, but I really wanted to see it. They start out with “Well how about that, the Inhumans have been hiding underground on the Moon all this time.” OK, not like the comics at all, but this is fine. Then Medusa gets her hair cut off so they don’t have to use any more CGI. “OK, I can live with that.” Then they show Lockjaw bouncing around like a cute puppy, and Crystal’s two-toned hair in a really bad dye job, “OK, well, at least they nailed Maximus by casting Ramsay Bolton.” No, he turns out to have just showed up for the paycheck. Then they close with “Hi, I’m the magic portal. Let me transport you all from the Moon to the Earth. Which I could have done years ago.”

Now I continually reflect on how much I hated it. Not everything Marvel puts out strikes gold.

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Shows you can’t believe you actually watched

  1. Pink Lady & Jeff
  2. Donny & Marie
  3. The Jerry Springer Show
  4. Too Close for Comfort
  5. The Facts of Life
  6. The Inhumans
  7. Kids Super Power Hour With Shazam

I dug deep for this one but I remember this show being on before Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends on Saturday mornings and it was a terrible, terrible show featuring lame live-action skits and dopey cartoons. I wanted to watch Spider-Man but I knew if I turned off the TV then it would be off for the morning and I’d have to go do something else. Usually my dad made me turn it off after watching this show and I really can’t blame him.

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Shows you can’t believe you actually watched

  1. Pink Lady & Jeff
  2. Donny & Marie
  3. The Jerry Springer Show
  4. Too Close for Comfort
  5. The Facts of Life
  6. The Inhumans
  7. Kids Super Power Hour With Shazam
  8. Dr. Who

As a 5- or 6-year-old in the 1980s, I tried to watch this show on TV Ontario in the evening after the last kids’ show ended. I completely did not understand what it was about, but I guess I was too inert to turn off the TV. To be honest, I don’t know how many episodes I bothered to watch from beginning to end, if any.

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Shows you can’t believe you actually watched

  1. Pink Lady & Jeff
  2. Donny & Marie
  3. The Jerry Springer Show
  4. Too Close for Comfort
  5. The Facts of Life
  6. The Inhumans
  7. Kids Super Power Hour With Shazam
  8. Dr. Who
  9. The Morton Downey Jr. Show

Before there was Jerry Springer, there was Morton…

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Shows you can’t believe you actually watched

  1. Pink Lady & Jeff
  2. Donny & Marie
  3. The Jerry Springer Show
  4. Too Close for Comfort
  5. The Facts of Life
  6. The Inhumans
  7. Kids Super Power Hour With Shazam
  8. Dr. Who
  9. The Morton Downey Jr. Show
  10. Succession

They were all such despicable people, but I kept coming back to it.

Next up:

Your hate-watches

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Your hate-watches

  1. Orange is the New Black
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  1. Orange is the New Black
  2. TBN’s Praise the Lord! with Jan and Paul Crouch
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OUT OF PLAY: I’m confused on two levels here. First, I guess I don’t understand what “hate-watch” means. You hate yourself for watching it? You watch it specifically to get your Irish up?

And second, @RivkahChaya , a yenta such as yourself watches Christian programming because…? Recreational outrage? (Not judging, just asking)

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Pretty much. And, it was hilarious.

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Your hate-watches

  1. Orange is the New Black
  2. TBN’s Praise the Lord! with Jan and Paul Crouch
  3. The O’Reilly Factor

It’s been off the air for a while, but I would catch it while channel surfing and sometimes pause, until I became so enraged I’d throw a cushion at the TV. (My first RO moments.)

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Your hate-watches

  1. Orange is the New Black
  2. TBN’s Praise the Lord! with Jan and Paul Crouch
  3. The O’Reilly Factor
  4. Any sporting event with Joe Buck announcing.

During the 2016 World Series, as the FSM is my witness, I got to a point where I was going to throw my TV through the fucking window if he said “Bartman Ball,” “billy goat,” or “black cat” one more time.

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Your hate-watches

  1. Orange is the New Black
  2. TBN’s Praise the Lord! with Jan and Paul Crouch
  3. The O’Reilly Factor
  4. Any sporting event with Joe Buck announcing.
  5. Any sporting event with Kirk Herbstreit announcing.

His lengthy analyses say a whole bunch of nothing. For a color analyst, his color is lead gray.

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May he Rest in Peace, but Ron Santo, the Cubs’ former Color Guy, was also atrocious.

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Your hate-watches

  1. Orange is the New Black
  2. TBN’s Praise the Lord! with Jan and Paul Crouch
  3. The O’Reilly Factor
  4. Any sporting event with Joe Buck announcing.
  5. Any sporting event with Kirk Herbstreit announcing.
  6. Big Bang Theory