# TV SHOWS You're Not Ashamed to Admit You Like **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2004, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623 "2004-03-31T22:24:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/21 "2004-04-01T16:04:15Z")
Oh, I’m also hopelessly addicted to **Starting Over**. Them bitches crazee! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/22 "2004-04-01T16:05:54Z")
I love Oprah. Hers is the only talk show I will watch. A lot of people won’t watch _any_ talk show, so I think this counts. ---
**Author:** ![capelcleggs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@capelcleggs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capelcleggs)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/23 "2004-04-01T16:33:00Z")
I have a fondness for what I call “bad sitcoms with good writing.” These include “Who’s the Boss,” “Boy Meets World,” “Growing Pains.” Shows like these are basically bland family sitcoms of the cookie-cutter type – except that within those limitations, they had strong writing that got laughs from character interactions instead of dumb jokes. As such I’ll take shows like that any day over “quality” shows with bad writing (coughSexandtheCitycough), let alone bad shows with bad writing (Full House). ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/24 "2004-04-01T18:22:57Z")
> [@Magickly Delicious](#): > > Currently, I really like _Wonderfalls_ even though every critic I’ve read who had something to say about it has said that it’s inevitably going to be canceled, and even though nobody I know IRL has heard of it yet. I love _Wonderfalls_, and I bet $10 I’m nowhere near their target demographic for the show. I hate admiting I like a show, because it always means it’ll get canceled. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Izzybella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e56c9b/32.png) [@Izzybella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Izzybella)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/25 "2004-04-01T18:29:38Z")
I’m a 32-year old who gets all kind of smack for liking BtVS and Angel. Buffy is obviously off the air but I do pick up each new season on DVD as it’s released. Although I was recently vindicated when I loaned out seasons 1-5 to my older classical-literature freak sister who has _finally_ stopped being annoyed at me for getting her good and hooked… ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/26 "2004-04-01T18:43:10Z")
**Izzybella** is being a little too positive. I actually do still curse her for getting me hooked on Buffy, usually when it’s around 11 p.m. and I haven’t done any homework because as soon as I got home from work/school, I put in a DVD and watched 4 episodes in a row. 🙂 I also like the Carol Burnett Show, although I detest the half-hour chopped up version they’re showing now. ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/27 "2004-04-01T19:24:49Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#): > > I’m not ashamed to admit I love bad sitcoms, Mama’s Family being my fave. I also love Green Acres, Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, Taxi, and anything they run on TVLand. > [@Mauvaise](#): > > 😕 , MTM, Dick Van Dyke and Taxi are in no way, shape of form “bad” sitcoms. And neither, of course, is _Green Acres_; it’s one of the most brilliant TV shows ever; if you want to really “get” what French post-structuralist critic/philosophers like Barthes and Baudrillard were saying, it’s all laid out for you in nearly any episode of _GA_: social construction of reality, the representation being more “real” than the real, self-referentiality, etc. It truly was the first post-modern sitcom. One of the few things I own on DVD, and the only TV show, is the first season of _Green Acres_. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/28 "2004-04-01T19:47:40Z")
> [@N. Sane](#): > > **Izzybella** is being a little too positive. I actually do still curse her for getting me hooked on Buffy, usually when it’s around 11 p.m. and I haven’t done any homework because as soon as I got home from work/school, I put in a DVD and watched 4 episodes in a row. 🙂 > > I also like the Carol Burnett Show, although I detest the half-hour chopped up version they’re showing now. It’s very frustrating being a relatively-new fan of Buffy who watches only on DVD… I’ve seen (and loved) all of Buffy 1-5, and Angel 1-3. But there’s so much that I haven’t seen that I feel like I can’t read any Buffy or Angel discussion for fear of spoilers. Even thread titles have given things away from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/29 "2004-04-01T20:10:20Z")
I was thrilled to find out in another CS thread that the first 2 seasons of Jem are out on DVD. I can’t help it - I think Riot was one of my first crushes. Sadly, my weakness for cartoon hotties has continued, so I watch all of the following animated series: Yu-gi-oh Teen Titans Kim Possible Justice League Batman: The Animated Series I also am/was a big fan of Xena, Buffy, La Femme Nikita, and Angel. Kickbutt women rule! Susan ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/30 "2004-04-01T20:11:44Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > It’s very frustrating being a relatively-new fan of Buffy who watches only on DVD… I’ve seen (and loved) all of Buffy 1-5, and Angel 1-3. But there’s so much that I haven’t seen that I feel like I can’t read any Buffy or Angel discussion for fear of spoilers. Even thread titles have given things away from time to time. I hear ya. Though I’m not done with Angel Season 3 yet, I’m still afraid of seeing major spoilers in thread titles here. I saw a spoiler by looking at a TV grid already! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/31 "2004-04-01T20:22:16Z")
Poke’mon is my show. I love anime. When they aren’t talking they don’t have a mouth. Then suddenly they are yelling and their mouth is bigger then their face! Oh gosh. Watching Poke’mon gets me into laughing spazams everytime. That Pikachi_sp_ is so cute! ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/32 "2004-04-01T20:27:49Z")
Show I watch that some other people think suck: WWE Buffy: The Vampire Slayer Angel Dragonball Dragonball Z Dragonball GT Batman: The Animated Series Justice League Dexter’s Laboratory Yeah, so I like my cartoons. Sue me! ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/33 "2004-04-01T21:20:12Z")
_Degrassi: The next generation_. I barely remember Degrassi Jr High and Degrassi High (though I have seen reruns the past few years) but I remember liking what I saw and I really like the new version of it! I think the original premise - the kids of the original Degrassi kids - was a great idea for a new show, especially since a lot of the original actors are in it too. I do find that the issues in the shows are resolved a little too quickly, or they disappear too much between on-topic episodes, but then, the target demographic is probably not me! And while I know a LOT of people love the West Wing, it’s a little odd that I insist on watching it every week when I barely understand what’s happening - I don’t understand american politics, I don’t know the buzzwords, and so much of the show just doesn’t make sense to me. And yet I watch every week, and thing the show is good. oh well! ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/34 "2004-04-01T21:32:42Z")
Charmed Enterprise Justice League Xena Hercules Wonder Woman Smallville Buffy Angel ---
**Author:** ![slackersavant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@slackersavant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackersavant)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/35 "2004-04-01T22:16:18Z")
The A-Team I can honestly say, without a drop of irony, that I think the A-Team is great. Mr. T is awesome and in all seriousness I wish more of my life problems could be solved by commandeering a pimp car and armor-plating it. ---
**Author:** ![Illinois\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Illinois\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illinois_Boy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/36 "2004-04-01T22:28:07Z")
Nothing beats a good episode of Boy Meets World. When that show hit it’s “prime” each character was well defined, they handled standard sitcom situations with surprising depth, and I had genuine emotion invested in each of their situations. Plus Ben Savage was very good at hammy over-the-top obsessivness (“Underpants!”). There used to be some bad X-File ish knockoffs on USA I think. One was called The Legacy (?) about a centuries old society that battled evil. Another was Forever Knight(?) about a crime fighting vampire. Both the definition of hack writing, but dammnit if they weren’t perfect for late night viewing. OK, count me in for Dawson too. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/37 "2004-04-01T22:30:21Z")
> [@slackersavant](#): > > The A-Team… That reminds me… My husband recently bought the first season of _SWAT_ (with Robert Urich, from 1975) on DVD, and it’s really good. Really! We’ve had a ball watching it. ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/38 "2004-04-01T22:30:25Z")
> [@JuanitaTech](#): > > If _Wonder Woman_ ever comes on TV Land, I’m all over it, baby. You’ll be happy to know that according to TVShowsOnDVD.com, season 1 of WW is coming to DVD soon. You can even see the cover for the set on the site. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/39 "2004-04-02T00:59:35Z")
> [@Illinois\_Boy](#): > > Another was Forever Knight(?) about a crime fighting vampire. Both the definition of hack writing, but dammnit if they weren’t perfect for late night viewing. I adored Forever Knight. Oh yes. And since someone asked a question on this board about Magnum p.i. the other day, I’ve gone back to my Magnum obsession. Mmm. Magnum. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623/40 "2004-04-02T01:12:09Z")
**Power Puff Girls** are fantastic, Bippy (Age 34 and a 1/2) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youre-not-ashamed-to-admit-you-like/237623.md?page=3)