I also have seen only one episode of Six Feet Under. I was talking with a former co-worker about different shows we liked, and he thought I would like it. He lent me the first season DVDs. I watched the first episode and thought it looked pretty good, but I realized I never would have time to watch them all and get caught up, so I returned it to him with regrets.
Seinfeld, the final episode. And then only the last 10 minutes. It made me wonder what the fuss was all about- that show sucked major ass.
The last episode of Seinfeld was one of the worst episodes of the series, if not the worst. And the last ten minutes of that episode was the worst part of that episode. I’m not saying you would have liked any other episode bettter, but you did just happen to pick the worst ten minutes of the entire series.
I’ve only ever seen one episode of Family Guy, in fact, just a little bit of that one episode. The bit I saw had the father buying a new convertible (context suggests it was a mid-life crisis purchase) with a recognizably elongated, cylindrical shape, and he drives it toward a tunnel, and he can be seen going into, and backing out of the tunnel several times.
I rolled my eyes and never cared to watch it again. Perhaps this is unfair to write off an entire series based on one little view, but it was just such a obvious and juvenile play for laughs. I enjoy South Park, so I’m not against crude humor. But somehow South Park (at least the classic episodes) seems way funnier to me.
(And no, it has nothing to do with the “manatee jokes.” (i.e., cultural references and cut-away scenes that have nothing to do with the episode’s plot) The scene I saw didn’t seem to be one of those, as such style was described in the South Park episodes that centered on the subject.)
Leaving aside TV series that were quickly canceled, I think I’ve seen one episode of The Honeymooners (which was harmless enough, like an episode of The Flintstones or I Love Lucy) and one episode of CSI (which was pretty silly).
“A grown man crying about a baby and a chicken?, I thought this was supposed to be a comedy.” That was a good episode.
I only saw one episode of CSI. I expected to like it because it was crime and science, but the episode was about a murder at a furry convention. It was so weird I was never tempted to watch another episode.
I think I only attempted one episode ever of Married, With Children. It was a long time ago, but ISTR the episode had to do with them going to a high school reunion.
I found it unfunny, crude and stupid. I might have paused on the show a couple of times after that to see if it wasn’t just that episode that I hated, but I hated it every time I watched a few seconds of it.
Six Feet is a tough show to get into. It’s up there with Twin Peaks (IMO) as being one of the best dramas ever aired, but you really have to want to watch it. Even when I’ve sat down with the intention of rewatching the series, I can only sit though about 2-3 episodes a week. For most people, they just can’t plow though a season in a weekend without wanting to hang themselves in the basement afterwards. It’s pretty dark. Sitting there watching everyone’s lives unravel is pretty difficult.
Another one for me. Law & Order Any of them. Actually, I think I’ve watched the second half of two episodes. Both times, I was flipping thought the channels and got sucked in right before the middle commercial break and even after 3 minutes it was easy enough to see what was going on I wanted to find out how it ended.
It might well be so, but still the way people carried on about it you’d swear it was written by Shakespeare and had a cast with multiple Oscars, Tonys, and Emmys under its belt.
From here:
Seinfeld won three Golden Globes in 1994. [There were 12 nominations in addition to the three wins]
Seinfeld has won 10 Primetime Emmy Awards, but has been nominated for 68 Emmys.
Seinfeld has won four Writers Guild of America Awards.
Seinfeld has won four People’s Choice Awards from 1996 - 1998. In 1999 it was tied with Frasier
Indeed, it was a great show (IMHO). But none of those awards or nominations were for that last episode, I don’t think. It was pretty bad.
No, the last episode was terrible, even regular watchers of the show agreed on that I thought. I didn’t think BobLibDem was referring to the last episode, of course, I may have read it wrong.
I also only watched one episode of Seinfeld, but not the last one.
It was an episode where everyone kept saying “yadda yadda yadda”. I am not sure what the point of the episode was - maybe that’s why I never tried watching it again.
I used to make an effort to watch a show multiple times before deciding if I liked it, but about halfway thru the first season of Everyone Loves Raymond I changed my own rule. I can decide if I don’t like a TV show based on one episode, but not if I do like it.
I don’t watch much TV, but AFAICT I’m not missing much.
Regards,
Shodan
I concur. In fact, it might be a better experience to watch it without knowing anything about the series, beyond that it’s got something to do with time travel. And I only mention the time travel so that people who have no patience with that sort of plot can give it a miss. Certainly there’s no information from the rest of the series that’s needed to understand anything basic.
It’s been too long since I watched it for me to swear that there are no in-jokes or easter eggs at all. Perhaps that means it’s time to re-watch.
Battlestar Galactica. I watched the first episode, which I think was a two-parter so more like a mini-mini-series, but I saw it all in one go on Netflix. Great show! The cliff-hanger ending was awesome! And then I never watched it again.
I had pretty much the same reaction after one (or maybe one and a half) episodes of Firefly. I just wish I could see the whole series without having to, yaknow, sit and watch the whole series - it’s so time-consuming!
I’ve never seen BSG, but looking at Netflix and it has 74 episodes while Firefly only has 14. I’ve never been a sci-fi guy, never saw anything by Joss Whedon or anything sci-fi-ish, but after I watched the pilot of Firefly I really liked it. Even trying to stretch it out it still only took me about a month to watch it.
Even worse, I own the DVD box set, that’s how sure I was that I’d love it. And I’m still sure I’d love it, but having it at my fingertips just makes it easier to figure I’ll just watch it later.