When ill in bed, I like to watch ‘Deal or no Deal?’ :o
Note that this is the UK version, where boring prospective players open the boxes.
I understand that the US version has stunning models performing the opening…
I would have to say South Park* and 80’s comedies like Porky’s, Revenge of the Nerds & Airplane. (All the originals).
I’ll watch Scooby Doo with my kids. The original and the Newest series. But they are off the air again.
For Books: I still occasionally read Piers Anthony. Pure crap but very readable.
For music I love Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen, does that count?
Jim
Sounds like you might not count South Park or the Simpsons as they mix Low Brow and High Brow. I don’t watch much TV outside of Baseball & Football. No reality TV at all. Baseball is my Reality TV show.
Didn’t Beverly Hills Cop II show the superglue fingerprinting trick first?
Ok, perhaps it’s a bit harsh to call CSI ‘lowbrow’ but for some reason I’d hesitate to tell people that I own the first three series on DVD and plan to get more. Being a computer scientist it does pain me for them to ‘enhance’ grainy, black and white CCTV image into Hi-Def quality footage with their ‘special algorithms’ but I can put up with that for a handful of shows per season. I can appreciate the writers speeding up things like trace analysis and DNA tests for time constraints, but sometimes the science gets too ridiculous.
Still, I do love the show, if not for the crimes themselves then for the characters and their chemistry (the interaction kind, not the test-tube kind). I love it when the writers get into non-occupational issues (Warrick’s gambling, Grissom’s hearing, Sara’s lack of a life etc.) although IMO they could do this more often. And anything that isn’t reality TV and gets people interested in science is definitely A Good Thing ™.
That said, my inner snob still classifies my CSI viewing as a ‘guilty pleasure’
I’m a sucker for all make over shows whether they’re making over a person or a kitchen or both I just love to watch these. What Not to Wear, How Do I Look, Ambush Makeover, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Kitchen Makeover, Clean Sweep, While You Were Out…I’ll watch them all day long.
And Groundhog Day. I can just watch that movie again and again. I have no idea why, I just never get sick of it.
And America’s Funniest Videos. I don’t go out of my way to watch it but if my daughter has it on I’m usually right there with her laughing my ass off. (she watches Cops too but I’m not such a fan)
And count me among the CSI fans though I don’t really consider that low-brow so much.
Twister. The movie, not the game. I will watch it anytime and everytime it’s on. Sometimes TNT shows it 3 times in a weekend and I watch it all 3 times.
MTV reality shows. I am addicted to the Real World/ Road Rules and their spawn. I worship the Miz, and hope to be able to bitchslap Trishelle someday.
Connie and Carla. Nia Vardalos’ follow up to My Big Fat Greek Wedding is all that and more. David Duchovny, drag queens, Debbie Reynolds, and the Victor/Victoria thing (a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman) times two. I think I would follow Toni Collette into film purgatory. I love this movie.
Honestly, if it is cheezy and campy, I am so there. BTW Sampiro , a local theater group is doing the Sordid Lives stage play. Jayjay and I will definitely be there.
Elvira Mistress of the Dark
Charmed
Smallville
Bacon
Neil Diamond
Spice Girls Songs (though not all), but especially the Spice World theme song
Cheesy Horror and Sci-Fi movies (the kind of things even Count Floyd wouldn’t show)
Plotless movies with violence, explosions, and hot womens
The Three Stooges Meet Hercules
An old Edison Cylinder a friend had called “De Preacher and de Bear” (no, I can’t justify it)
Jell-o
Instant Chocolate Pudding
Nancy
Henry
Gasoline Alley
Bobcat Goldthwait but especially “Shakes the Clown”
Downtown Julie Brown
Earth Girls are Easy
The Surreal Life
William Shatner (I’m really now the biggest fan and can’t believe it)
Wayne Newton (Really!)
Harvey Comics (Little Lotta, Dot, Hot Stuff, Casper, and Wendy the good little witch)
Melissa Joan Hart (and consequentally Sabrina the Teenaged Witch)
Hanna Barbera super-hero cartoons from the 60’s
Alvin and the Chipmunks
All those terrible compilation songs with fake interviews and song snippets
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Paul Lynde
Traci Lords (haven’t seen any of her porn work, and still enjoy watching her)
21 Jump Street (makes NCIS look like Dragnet)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Touched by an Angel
Hallmark Movies – some good, some bad, mostly all schmaltz
All of course, when I’m “in the mood”
I don’t think this is exhaustive, but I think it covers most of them.
Last night I set TiVo to record next week’s movie Fatal Contact: Avian Flu in America on ABC. The preview makes it look hilariously stupid; I hope it’s the epidemiological equivalent of 10.5. If it’s half as funny as Outbreak it’ll be worth watching.
I just don’t want it to be, y’know, earnest, and bad in a pedestrian way. It needs to be stupid. The preview gives me high hopes; the quiet hysteria of that blonde woman saying “there is no escape” gave me giggle fits for minutes. And if I had a cell phone, I would want Stacy Keach’s line “The avian flu… is here” as my ring tone.
I just hope the movie lives down to these expectations. If it’s plain typical-bad, I’ll turn it off after 20 minutes.
(And then I hope my mother calls me the next day. “So, this avian flu thing… Do you know anything about it? Is it really that serious?” …so I can respond, “Yes, mom, it’s very serious. The government is covering it up, and it’s going to be really bad. One of the early symptoms is dry skin on the back of your hands. Look at your hands. Is there any dryness on the skin on the back? Also, has your employer made any announcements about changes in your benefits plans recently? They probably know about it too…”)
So yeah, I have a weakness for crap disaster movies. I have Dante’s Peak and Volcano on VHS. Pure comedy.