# 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:  [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/21 "2002-12-19T03:05:07Z")
Most things I watch don’t get threads. But then I find myself mostly watching home improvement and cooking shows when I’m not watching sports.
_This Old House, The New Yankee Workshop, Home Time, Curb Appeal_ etc.
Plus a lot of Discovery Channel type stuff. Just watched something on wildebeasts tonight. I don’t even know why.
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### Author:  [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/22 "2002-12-19T03:30:11Z")
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> \*Originally posted by ivylass \*
> \*\*Boomtown and Scrubs. ER pops up every once in a while, as does CSI and West Wing. \*\*
\*\*Ivylass and I have our butts parked on the sofa at the same time, apparently. Except for West Wing.
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### Author:  [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/23 "2002-12-19T03:43:01Z")
Alot of these shows you all mention don’t really generate enough discussion for a thread. There’s not much to a 30-minute comedy, for instance. The prime targets are one-hour shows with continuing storylines, since they have the most people who want/need to discuss/clarify the events taking place and their fit into the story. Notice that popular threads are on ER, Buffy, all the HBO Sunday shows, they all sort of fit that category.
Of course, you could always just launch a thread on your favorite show. Maybe you’ll be surprised.
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### Author:  [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/24 "2002-12-19T03:53:25Z")
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> \*Originally posted by RexDart \*
> The prime targets are one-hour shows with continuing storylines, since they have the most people who want/need to discuss/clarify the events taking place and their fit into the story.
Ahem. I repeat. Stargate SG-1.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/25 "2002-12-19T03:58:14Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Doghouse Reilly \*
> \*\*Ahem. I repeat. Stargate SG-1. \*\*
[Homer’s threatening voice]
**Do it…**
[/Homer’s threatening voice]
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### Author:  [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/26 "2002-12-19T04:25:14Z")
Do what?
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### Author:  [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/27 "2002-12-19T05:01:44Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Doghouse Reilly \*
> \*\*Ahem. I repeat. Stargate SG-1. \*\*
Nobody’s stopping you **DR**. I used to watch that one when it was replayed on the local channel Thursday nights, but I didn’t even know it was still on. Maybe it has less fans because it’s in an obscure time/channel now.
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### Author:  [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/28 "2002-12-19T08:14:46Z")
_Oblivious_ on “The National Network”. Granted, there’s not much to say about it, seeing as how it’s a game show, but I watch it regularly and it never gets a thread.
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### Author:  [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/29 "2002-12-19T09:00:53Z")
Doghouse. Start the Stargate thread. I got hooked on it this last season. I’d like to learn more about it. And Richard Dean Anderson is always dreamy.
I don’t watch that many shows anymore, other than “24”. “Stargate”, “Farscape” and sometimes “Dead Zone”, because it comes on before the other two. (And yes, I have not reconciled myself with the reality that “Farscape” has been cancelled.)
I am fond of old shows, especially Westerns. (I got hooked on old '50s and '60s re-runs when I was a kid.) Wagon Train, Maverick, The Virginian…start a thread about these shows, and I’m _so_ there.
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### Author:  [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/30 "2002-12-19T09:16:49Z")
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> \*Originally posted by yosemitebabe \*
> Doghouse. Start the Stargate thread.
[OK](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=151420).
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### Author:  [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/31 "2002-12-19T15:02:35Z")
Gilmore Girls. What a show!
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### Author:  [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/32 "2002-12-19T15:13:51Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever seen one about **Junkyard Wars**.
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### Author:  [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/33 "2002-12-19T16:59:29Z")
Over at the Cliffy household we never miss “Life With Bonnie.” It’s so hit or miss during the “family” segments, but the interview segs are so damn funny (especially when Jonathan Winters was on) that it regularly brings me to tears. Even the less funny family bits are starting to get kind of a comfortable feel to them; even when they’re not funny, it’s pleasant to watch this adorable little family go about their adorable little lives.
–Cliffy
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/34 "2002-12-19T17:12:35Z")
Everybody Loves Raymond and Girlfriends.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see on for Raymond, but I doubt they’ll be any for Girlfriends besides the one I started (actually about the viewing habits of blacks and whites which mentioned GF) that died a rapid death.
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### Author:  [@booklover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booklover)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/35 "2002-12-19T17:20:43Z")
I have to confess that I’m probably the only human being who is addicted to Law & Order: SVU. I’ve yet to meet someone else who watches it religiously.
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### Author:  [@Wordy\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wordy_One)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/36 "2002-12-19T17:40:14Z")
I second Gilmore Girls.
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### Author:  [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/37 "2002-12-19T17:52:08Z")
I second Charmed. It’s my guilty pleasure.
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### Author:  [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/38 "2002-12-19T18:42:47Z")
**We Are Now Ending Our Broadcast Day**
Saw every episode in college.
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### Author:  [@jlsmith57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jlsmith57)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/39 "2002-12-19T22:25:08Z")
booklover: I watch SVU all the time. (I love all the Law & Order shows.)
American Dreams is the one I thought of first, also Ed. Both are uncomplicated shows that let me turn off for an hour. That’s probably why they don’t get much discussion either.
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### Author:  [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-do-you-watch-that-dont-get-threads/143657/40 "2002-12-19T22:44:52Z")
PTI.
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