# Vent about your significant other's viewing choices **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 4, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820 "2015-02-04T18:31:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/41 "2015-02-06T16:14:53Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > No one else is subjected to **Storage Wars** in all of it’s random locales? Uh… my wife is… :o (But seriously, I watch it when she’s exercising, so it’s all good! Really!) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/42 "2015-02-06T16:16:28Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Don’t you get enough of the paint drying on the shows you mention? > Pepper Mill loves these shows, too. And the This Old House Hour on PBS. And Rehab Addict. And all the others. She and SWMBO would probably become instant BFFs. And you and I can go shoot pool or something while they are zoned out in front of the TV. ---
**Author:** ![CGav8r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CGav8r](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CGav8r)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/43 "2015-02-06T16:56:47Z")
Reading this, I feel pretty lucky as to what my wife watches. Firstly: She seldom watches teevee (which is why we got rid of our cable last year), as she is a type-A workaholic, and it’s hard for her to sit down. Secondly: When she does watch it, she watches “Monsters Inside Me”, “River Monsters” and the occasional “House Hunters International”. And “House of Cards”; can’t forget that one. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/44 "2015-02-06T17:00:08Z")
_Toddlers in Tiaras_. What? You are going to (indirectly) support the whorification of a bunch of five year olds? No. It’s not cute. It’s sick, and those mothers aren’t funny. They need _help_ (and probably sterilization.) ETA: I suppose I should point out that my wife is generally an ardent feminist and I find it bizarre that she isn’t outraged by the show (much less not entertained.) ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/45 "2015-02-06T17:01:47Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > **Nancy Grace** - OK, to be fair, he doesn’t watch this psycho. He knows how much I despise her (I was forced to endure her some years back when assigned to a night shift.) Sometimes when channel surfing, he’ll stop long enough for me to realize what’s on, but he’ll continue surfing after being hit by the nearest spit-covered dog toy that I can lay hands on. Regular viewership of Nancy Grace is grounds for divorce in 28 states and the District of Columbia. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/46 "2015-02-06T17:06:57Z")
Wife watches some horrible show were Katherine Heigl is supposed to be the CIA top gun for the President. Horrible horrible show. I tried to watch it because it had Alfre Woodward in it but Heigle keeps showing up in her scenes. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/47 "2015-02-06T18:06:03Z")
The only thing the Lovely and Talented Mrs. **Shodan** watches that I can’t stand is _Chopped_. People get booted from a cooking competition because they cannot make something creative and whimsical from a basket of mystery ingredients like sassafras, moose bladders, and cologne. I pray to God she isn’t watching it to get ideas for Sunday dinner. Fortunately, she is a compassionate woman, and if I come in during the middle she will switch to something else. After, that is, she finds out the sob stories where the cook with the horn-rimmed glasses and the purple mohawk says she will use the $10,000 to open a gourmet restaurant for cats vs. the single father who wants the money to buy his crippled daughter a pair of motorized ankles. Or something. Fortunately we both like \*Downton Abbey \*and \*The Good Wife \*and _Gotham_ and _The Flash_ and some others, so we can generally find something else to watch. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/48 "2015-02-06T18:17:36Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > The only thing the Lovely and Talented Mrs. **Shodan** watches that I can’t stand is _Chopped_. People get booted from a cooking competition because they cannot make something creative and whimsical from a basket of mystery ingredients like sassafras, moose bladders, and cologne. I pray to God she isn’t watching it to get ideas for Sunday dinner. > > Fortunately, she is a compassionate woman, and if I come in during the middle she will switch to something else. After, that is, she finds out the sob stories where the cook with the horn-rimmed glasses and the purple mohawk says she will use the $10,000 to open a gourmet restaurant for cats vs. the single father who wants the money to buy his crippled daughter a pair of motorized ankles. Or something. I agree and laughed out loud at all of this, in spite of liking the show. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/49 "2015-02-06T18:28:12Z")
My wife watches a number of things that I find annoying, but there are two that make me positively angry: Dance Moms and Toddlers & Tiaras. There’s no way in hell she’d let anyone treat our daughters like that. My dream ending for Dexter would have been if the toddler pageant system had been brought to his attention by way of a friend of Harrison’s and he took out all the leaders, effectively shutting down the whole system. Suddenly he realizes his purpose has been fulfilled, he doesn’t need to kill anymore, pretend normal life becomes real normal life, the end. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/50 "2015-02-06T18:38:36Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > _Toddlers in Tiaras_. What? You are going to (indirectly) support the whorification of a bunch of five year olds? No. It’s not cute. It’s sick, and those mothers aren’t funny. They need _help_ (and probably sterilization.) > > ETA: I suppose I should point out that my wife is generally an ardent feminist and I find it bizarre that she isn’t outraged by the show (much less not entertained.) My wife is also an ardent feminist and a dance instructor with powerful feelings about the horror that is done in real children’s dance studios, doesn’t stop her from watching **Dance Moms** though. ---
**Author:** ![BaldDudePeekskill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/51 "2015-02-07T01:30:23Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > My husband is addicted to conspiracy shows about UFOs, aliens, yetis, Bigfoots, Loch Ness monsters, etc. He doesn’t take them seriously, but I can’t even handle watching them as a joke. Oh for a moment I thought my husband had posted under a pseudonym. I LOVE those shows…can’t get enough of them. Don’t really believe in much of them, but it’s almost as much fun annoying the husband as it is to watch them. He’s into the superhero shows, which I couldn’t understand. Until I saw that each of those superheroes was ridiculously handsome and buff. Makes sense now. ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/52 "2015-02-07T03:57:45Z")
Reruns of _Knight Rider_ have been in heavy rotation on our TV lately… sigh. I offer to bring him wine & crackers to go along with all the cheese… 😃 Various flavors of ESPN are a given; I have no idea what he’s going to do with his Sunday afternoons for the next couple months. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/53 "2015-02-07T04:05:30Z")
Jeebus. SWMBO had a fit when I revolted against her watching _Frozen_ because it was time for _Grimm_. “Well, I _THOUGHT_ we’d finish the movie, then do _Grimm_.” “Problem is, you didn’t say anything, Toots.” _Frozen_ should be grounds for divorce. ---
**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/54 "2015-02-07T05:04:24Z")
Man, FUCK Kardashians. Longer version: Kim sickens me, Courtney is 70% moron…, Arrrgh! I’m mad that I even know anything about this clan of assholes, fools, and et cetera. Why are so many women so drawn to idiots and their drama? Even very intelligent/educated women often love it. Gah… ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2015, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/55 "2015-02-08T04:41:03Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Fortunately, she is a compassionate woman, and if I come in during the middle she will switch to something else. After, that is, she finds out the sob stories where the cook with the horn-rimmed glasses and the purple mohawk says she will use the $10,000 to open a gourmet restaurant for cats vs. the single father who wants the money to buy his crippled daughter a pair of motorized ankles. Or something. I emerge from my subterranean lair and report the results to my father: “widower who wants to donate the money in his wife’s memory beat guy who will use the $10K to establish his own brand. There is justice in the world” or “Arrogant chef left out an ingredient and got chopped in the first round. Serves him right.” The best was a redemption show where this very driven woman who has lost by a hair in her first show came back and in the entrée round slipped and spilled the cooking water down her legs for second-degree burns, but she saved the potatoes! She came back and went through the dessert round only lose again! The guy who won decided to share the money with her so she could go see her grandma in France. \ You can’t write this stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2015, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/56 "2015-02-08T07:36:08Z")
> [@get\_lives](#): > > Man, FUCK Kardashians. > > Longer version: Kim sickens me, Courtney is 70% moron…, Arrrgh! I’m mad that I even know anything about this clan of assholes, fools, and et cetera. > > Why are so many women so drawn to idiots and their drama? Even very intelligent/educated women often love it. Gah… I think you might hang out with the wrong women. 😉 I can’t stand the Kardashians or any of those Housewives shows, nor can any of my friends! Getting annoyed by Chopped perplexes me, however. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/57 "2015-02-08T14:50:28Z")
Mrs. Devil and I have delightfully similar taste in what we \*watch \*–SciFi, Arrested Development/Archer-like comedy, etc., and we both find sports excruciatingly boring (or pseudo-sports like driving a car). But whereas I turn to music for my background noise, her tendency is towards cop shows like L&O, CSI, Bones, etc. Fucking idiotic soap operas they are with an occasional reference to a dead body, sending out electronic waves of trite idiocy whenever played. But looking over the list in the OP, I should really be thankful. I forgot what it’s really like out there in TV-land. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/58 "2015-02-08T19:28:58Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > SWMBO absolutely loves home building shows: Property Brothers, Fixer-Upper, etc. > > Not for me, thanks. I’d rather watch mud dry. All of these shows. House hunting shows, house buying shows, house fixing shows, house flipping shows, all of them. I can’t stand any of them. And she records the ones that come on while she’s at work so she can watch them at night when she comes home. And during the day on weekends. It’s insane. And there’s always this somewhat unpleasant undercurrent of “this is the house I expect you to buy me someday. Someday soon.” ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/59 "2015-02-09T04:56:47Z")
The Engineer turns on something totally boring, like golf, and then falls asleep. When I change the channel he wakes up and claims he was watching it. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-about-your-significant-others-viewing-choices/711820/60 "2015-02-09T06:12:25Z")
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