# What shows do you watch that don't get threads?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 18, 2002, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657 "2002-12-18T21:35:30Z")
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/1 "2002-12-18T21:35:30Z")
Every week there’s umpteen threads for Buffy and The Simpsons, but what shows do you watch that just don’t seem to make the Cafe Society cut? For me there’s: Crossing Jordan; The Real World; Tough Enough; She Spies; Changing Rooms; While You Were Out; House Invaders. Many of these have had the periodic scattered thread that quickly died (so please don’t exhaust the hamsters dredging them up) but they just don’t seem to catch on. What’s your list and why do you think they aren’t threadworthy?
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### Author:  [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/2 "2002-12-18T21:47:37Z")
**]Otto**, anytime you want to start up a Real World thread I’ll be there with bells on, and I’m pretty sure there are others out there like us. I may have to part ways with you on Tough Enough, though, as much as I like Triple H. The other shows I watch regularly (Angel, Buffy, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, ER, CSI, Survivor, and Simpsons–I’m an hour-long-drama kind of girl) all tend to get threads started, whether it’s for discussion or just clarification. I think RW is threadworthy in more of a gossipy sense; there’s no large issues raised like in Buffy, Sopranos, or SFU, and no competitive interest like in Survivor or Amazing Race, but there is the fact that RW makes me feel like a completely normal person because everyone on it is so messed up.
Anyone up for an OZ thread when the new–and final–season starts in January?
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### Author:  [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/3 "2002-12-18T22:03:38Z")
For me Smallville, though, honestly any thread I start would be about how the show is failing to live up to the promise I showed in its first season. Of course, I already have my own message boards to gripe about that with my old college roommate, so I don’t really mind the lack of interest over here.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/4 "2002-12-18T22:16:00Z")
Boomtown and Scrubs. ER pops up every once in a while, as does CSI and West Wing.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/5 "2002-12-18T22:18:45Z")
_Sabado Gigante_, but it’s more for the camp value of Don Francisco than anything else.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/6 "2002-12-18T22:29:57Z")
Um, none, actually. Guess I’m just too hip and trendy for my own good.
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### Author:  [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/7 "2002-12-18T22:30:10Z")
Haunted, where ever it went. ☹
Animal Psychic (I’ll consider this my guilty pleasure), The New Detectives, CSI, Unsolved History.
Okay, okay… and Crossing Over w/ John Edwards. _sigh_
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### Author:  [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/8 "2002-12-18T23:03:12Z")
Most quiz shows. When was the last _University Challenge_ thread?
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### Author:  [@loinburger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loinburger)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2002, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/9 "2002-12-18T23:32:21Z")
The only programs I really watch on a regular basis are the Daily Show on Comedy Central and Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. There’s usually not a whole lot to be said about either program after the fact – if they were showing _Lain_ or _Boogiebop Phantom_ or something along those lines then I wouldn’t be _too_ surprised if a thread popped up on it, but there’s really not much to be said about _Space Ghost Coast To Coast_.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/10 "2002-12-19T00:03:32Z")
_Law & Order_ franchise
\*This Old House
New Yankee Workshop
Jeopardy!
Enterprise\*
…oh wait…
forget the last one…
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### Author:  [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/11 "2002-12-19T00:08:54Z")
NYPD Blue. Surely I’m not the only Doper who has realized how totally HOT Henry Simmons is!
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### Author:  [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/12 "2002-12-19T00:14:14Z")
The Mrs. and I watch **American Dreams** for our weekly treacle-fix. Any thread about it would be about as deep as a “Saved By the Bell” discussion group though, so none is needed. 🙂
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### Author:  [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/13 "2002-12-19T01:10:43Z")
60 Minutes - and I have **no** idea why I’ve never seen a thread on it.
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/14 "2002-12-19T01:55:07Z")
**The Twilight Zone**. And I don’t remember seeing many **Outer Limits** threads either. Or the late, great **Night Visions** (from last year).
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/15 "2002-12-19T02:03:25Z")
Oh, and **JAG.** I think the last time I saw a thread about that one was back in the spring.
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/16 "2002-12-19T02:17:14Z")
Sea Lab
Justice League
Batman Beyond
Futurama (though this one does get occasional attention)
I’ll never outgrow cartoons 😃
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/17 "2002-12-19T02:28:01Z")
\*\* Dawson’s Creek\*\*. Yep, I’m 25 years old and I’m willing to admit that not only have I never missed an episode, I have all but two on tape. No one ever wants to talk about **Charmed** either.
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> Haunted, where ever it went.
Hey that proves at least two of us were watching it! Isn’t that good for UPN? The sad thing was though the series was so-so I was blown away by the last episode their aired. I’ve never seen anything remotely like ghost story they used that week.
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### Author:  [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/18 "2002-12-19T02:35:19Z")
Stargate SG-1
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/19 "2002-12-19T02:41:53Z")
_The New Red Green Show_
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/20 "2002-12-19T02:42:02Z")
Based on the lack of responses every time I bring it up, I must have been the only Doper that watched _The Job_. I also must have been the only person that watched it, since it got cancelled too quickly. Damn, that show was hysterical.
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