# TV shows you've never seen. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 14, 2006, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299 "2006-03-14T11:37:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/21 "2006-03-14T15:26:48Z")
CSI: Anything 24 The Apprentice The West Wing The Amazing Race The O.C. Desperate Housewives Medium or any other in that genre ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/22 "2006-03-14T15:38:26Z")
It’s easier for me to list the shows I do watch: TDS The Colbert Report Rarely, I will watch a Raymond rerun(is it still on the air) and I also will catch Will and Grace in reruns. The last sitcom I watched with any regularity was Frazier. IMO, network TV today sucks. I don’t care who survives, who wins some jacked up talent show/Gong show wannabe, who is messing around with whose husband. South Park is juvenile, the Simpson’s brilliance eludes me (but then I’ve never paid any attention to it). I did rent and loved Six Feet Under. I need HBO and BBC America, but never seem to get off my duff to change my cable service. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/23 "2006-03-14T16:07:43Z")
I have never seen a single episode of **Saved By The Bell** , and when I tell people this they don’t believe me! Why is this so difficult to believe? FTR, I am a male in my early 30’s. I do remember lots of people watching the show when I lived in the dorms at college, but I never saw it. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/24 "2006-03-14T17:50:50Z")
> [@August West](#): > > I have never seen a single episode of **Saved By The Bell** , and when I tell people this they don’t believe me! Why is this so difficult to believe? > > FTR, I am a male in my early 30’s. I do remember lots of people watching the show when I lived in the dorms at college, but I never saw it. It was popular at the time. But relax, you didn’t miss out on anything. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/25 "2006-03-14T19:23:22Z")
Family Guy South Park Saw one episode. 24 Lost Survivor Firefly Lost House (saw one episode, looked good but too lazy to keep watching) Big Brother CSI Law and Order American Idol Everybody loves Raymond (parts of it) Gray’s Anatomy Seventh Heaven One Tree Hill Everwood Sopranos Sex in the City CSI: Anything 24 The Apprentice The West Wing The Amazing Race The O.C. Desperate Housewives Any other “reality” show. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/26 "2006-03-14T19:26:24Z")
Not more than a snippet of any show premiering in the last 5 years. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/27 "2006-03-14T19:50:09Z")
Some of the more popular shows I’ve never seen: Friends American Idol Most reality shows except for a couple seasons of Survivor Ally McBeal Law & Order (pick your spinoff) Everybody Loves Raymond (don’t tell me who I love) Desparate Houswives CSI (saw one ep but the presentation annoyed me.) ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/28 "2006-03-14T21:35:00Z")
Everybody Loves Raymond Cheers Moonlighting Big Brother One Tree Hill The O.C. Roswell Sex and the City The West Wing The Apprentice The Biggest Loser The Amazing Race Smallville Colbert (I would like to rent the DVDs of Roswell and Smallville. ) ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/29 "2006-03-14T22:24:57Z")
Most of these I’ve seen an ep or two, but didn’t like. 24 The West Wing Law & Order Survivor The Amazing Race House Desperate Housewives Will & Grace (can’t stand that annoying chick’s voice) The Apprentice All other reality shows except American Idol Anything on the WB or UPN (and I do get both, though didn’t they combine now or something?) ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/30 "2006-03-14T22:38:32Z")
Lots of them. Any cop show other than Monk. All lawyer shows except one ep of Boston Legal. E. L. Raymond E. H. Chris 24 Sopranos Sex In The City, or is it And The City? Every stinkin’ one of the “reality” shows Since Ron Artest melted down in Detroit, I have not seen a single NBA game. Accordian To Jim No Dallas. Not even once. Desperate Houseflies Deal Or No Deal Whatever Martha Stewart is up to now. Oprah, Ellen, Montel, Maury, Tyra, and all of their ilk. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/31 "2006-03-14T22:38:28Z")
Let’s see… Sopranos 24 Will & Grace Sex in the City (or Sex \*and \* the City, whatever it is or was) Deadwood Never saw Seinfeld in prime time, but have since seen all reruns several times over. ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/32 "2006-03-14T22:39:48Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > So, everything else you can put me down as “never watched.” Hell, I’ve never even seen \*\*Friends \*\* or **Seinfield**. Yah! I’m not alone. Neither of those shows caught my attention; if I want to see whiny pampered people, I’ll go to my university’s student union. I also haven’t seen any “reality TV” shows, or any of the popular cable shows (Sex in the City, that mob program, etc.) I am kinda interested in the polygamy show that started on HBO, just because of the uproar its caused. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/33 "2006-03-14T22:53:23Z")
I’ve never seen: Six Feet Under Oz Queer as Folk (american version, I saw a few ep’s. of the original british version) the “L” Word Battlestar: Galactica (the new one, I have seen the shlocky old show) Lexx Queer Eye for the Straight Guy Survivor Big Brother American Idol the Family Guy ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/34 "2006-03-14T23:31:06Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > **Oprah** , Ellen, Montel, Maury, Tyra, and all of their ilk. Oh, jeez. I should cross-post this to the “Insane Parents” thread. I don’t watch any of those shows, either, though I will admit to stopping on Ellen if I’m home at that time. She’s pretty funny. Anyway, nearly every day at 4:10 or so, my mom calls and asks if I’m watching Oprah. She’s just breathless with excitement about the topic, and how I _need_ to watch it. Nope, I never watch it. We go through this routine all the freaking time. She get terribly insulted when I get exasperated by her doing this several days in a row. Yesterday she called at about 4:25 and said I “had” to turn it on since it was about teen girls and sex (I have a 17-year-old), and we should watch it together. I said, “It’s almost 4:30, it’s half over! Besides, she’s doing homework, and I’m getting dinner ready. We have somewhere to go tonight.” She insisted it had just started, and then looked at a clock before conceding that it was indeed half over. We hung up, and she called back not a minute later. Now the topic was weight loss and wasn’t I just dying to watch it? It was all I could do not to fling the phone across the room. ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/35 "2006-03-17T06:59:15Z")
> [@August West](#): > > I have never seen a single episode of **Saved By The Bell** , and when I tell people this they don’t believe me! Why is this so difficult to believe? I never saw it either! Nor **Full House** , or **Family Ties** or **Blossom** or **Punky Brewster** or any of those late-'80s/early-'90s sitcoms. Between the **Dallas** years (when I was a kid) and **Twin Peaks** (when I was in college), I guess nothing really interested me (except boys!). I also never saw **Cheers** , not once, which really freaks people out. For the last couple of years I was working ridiculous hours and didn’t see _anything_, but now you can’t get me away from **American Idol** and **Lost**. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/36 "2006-03-17T07:44:42Z")
Buffy Angel 90210 Dawson’s Creek Melrose Place Third Watch The new Battlestar Galactica Farscape Invasion My Name is Earl Veronica Mars American Dad The Sopranos Oz Sex and the City Six Feet Under American Idol Survivor Just about every other “reality” show ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/37 "2006-03-17T14:43:04Z")
In no particular order (and having seen teeny bits and pieces of all while channel surfing but never having watched a full episode): _24 Desperate Housewives Amazing Race Dharma & Greg Gilmore Girls Dawson’s Creek Party of Five Star Trek: Enterprise Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Star Trek: Voyager Dynasty Dancing With the Stars Skating With the Stars Skeet Shooting With the Stars Joey House Gray’s Anatomy Serenity_ (which I perhaps should because I loved Buffy) ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/38 "2006-03-17T15:48:49Z")
24 The Amazing Race American Idol Battlestar Gallactica The OC Prison Break Smallville Dr. Who Star Trek (any of them) Twin Peaks Gilmore Girls There are many more, but I’m tired. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/39 "2006-03-18T11:19:27Z")
Party of Five Prison Break The OC Lexx Seventh Heaven Everwood Roswell One Tree Hill (this is a real show?) ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/40 "2006-03-18T16:26:25Z")
Ghost Whisperer Medium CSI CSI: NY Law and Order Without a Trace Twin Peaks MST3000 The Twilight Zone Star Trek Voyager Star Trek Deep Space 9 Star Trek Enterprise Dancing/Skating with the Stars Sex and the City - I saw half of one and hated it. Veronica Mars OZ Deadwood - I might buy it and watch it. I want to see it but haven’t had the chance. There are tons of shows before my parents allowed me to watch TV (1982) that I haven’t seen (although I have seen a great deal on the old TV networks) so if I went back to the fifties, sixties and, and Seventies and listed all the TV shows I haven’t seen we’d be here all day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299.md?page=3)