I love Home Movies, including a scene that starts in the middle of Brendon having dinner with his mom and sister.
Brendon’s Mom: Wait, what did you just say?
Brendon: “This meat loaf is dry.”
Mom: Before that.
Brendon: “This is meat loaf?”
Mom: Before that.
Brendon: “This fish is dry.”
Kills me every time.
My eyes! Augh, my eyes!
SSG Schwartz
I watched it while on Vicodin after I had my wisdom teeth taken out. I didn’t gain anything from it, but I remain convinced that it was the best thing available on TV at that time of day.
Damn, I was gonna mention Heil Honey I’m Home. Although at least that has the novelty thing going for it.
Most Haunted, definitely.
The Jeremy Kyle Show.
Any DIY/home buying garbage.
Moomins. Those satanic hippo fuckers haunted my dreams as a kid.
My Super Sweet 16, which I believe is used primarily in Al Qaeda recruitment vids.
What else we got, I’m usually more hateful than this…
Lost in space. I once cut the antenna wire going to the TV so no one could watch it. Of course I screwed myself, we couldn’t get any other channels either.
I vote for:
-Friends
-Growing Up Gotti
-Judge Judy
-Jerry Springer
-Texas Justice
Reading ‘Andy Williams’ in a post put me in mind of the Big Happy Family Christmas . The King Family; Andy Williams; Kathy Lee Gifford; Dolly Parton. Sadly, they don’t seem to show that kind of thing any more (I would LOVE to see A Jennifer Lopez Family Christmas).
All conspicuous consumption, the ‘love’ just flowing like a river, with cornball dialogue and musical interludes, cute kids, everyone singing carols by the fireplace…what celebrities are there left who could pull that kind of thing off any more?
HA-ha! That’s a Dr. Smith-worthy self-boning.
Steven Colbert?
Anything with Keith Olberman in it.
Home Movies was a great show. The three main kids were wonderfully quirky and funny and Coach McGuirk was awesome.
My favorite McGuirk moment was the episode where Brendon and his friends were attending a birthday party for a classmate by the name of Fenton and Coach was there as a chaperon. This kid was one of the nastiest, most obnoxious characters I’ve ever seen and he had his mother wrapped around his finger. He starts verbally abusing the other kids and blaming her for ruining his party, McGuirk’s had enough and ends up going off on him.
McGuirk: Shut up Fenton! You shut up and stop your snivelly little whining! And apologize to your Mother and everyone else here!
Fenton: What?
McGuirk: NOW!
Not his funniest moment, but that was when I really started liking McGuirk.
The first season of Home Movies was in the Squiggle-vision which is hard to get used to. When they stopped doing that it was easier to enjoy the show itself. I love the show, myself.
Oh, Brendon did not do McGuirk, that was H. Jon Benjamin.
I agree 100%. I once caught a glimpse of this show and I swear, I thought it was a parody of bad sitcoms. When I realized that it was actually trying to claim that the material itself was funny in a non-ironic fashion, I was stunned.
Condo. McClean Stevenson’s post-MASH vehicle. A terrible show!
In the interest of full disclosure, I was a TV whore. Automan? Loved it! But when we first moved to Canada for a bit, there was a kids’ show called The Polka Dot Door. Part-way through an episode, my dad got off the couch, turned off the TV and said to me: “That show is too stupid, even for you.”
Anybody remember Carter Country?
I do! What about “He’s the Mayor”?
Anybody watch “Scarred.” Is is a half hour show that shows skate boarders and BMW bikers getting hurt in accidents. For some reason they film themselves getting compound fractures etc. One guy was trying to ride a rail and slipped and landed on his butt crack. He had to have it stitched.
I never miss it. It must be the car crash syndrome at work. But you might be able to argue it is not great TV.
“Handle it! Handle it!”
Dad always said that if they did a movie where Jerry Falwell was a character, the actor playing the Mayor needed to play him. When NBC did the “Jim & Tammy” movie & Woody Harrelson did “The People Vs. Larry Flynt”, guess who played Falwell?
I third the notion that Home Movies was terrific.
Maybe we could split this up into crap shows that knew they were crap (late night fodder, syndication etc.) and shows that tried to be decent.