Is that the one with the vehicle that had to be a rock crawler, boat, and then an all out racer? Cause the Russians were nuts. But I think they could’ve taken it if they’d planned better for the rock crawler bit.
Yeah that was it. Perhaps if they had 4 wheels instead of just 3, two in back, one in front. Their contraption looked right out of the wacky races.
Dear MTV,
More Real World/Road Rules.
-Bruce_Daddy
Wordy McWord, OP.
My mother morns the loss of her “corpse shows” as I call them. She was really offended when A&E changed their programming. She is still complaining. Thankfully, since CSI became popular, there are lots of forensics shows to choose from—especially on TLC and Discovery. Now she is campaigning to have the local cable station broadcast Court TV because she heard there were corpse shows on it. The woman is obsessed and really needs Corpse TV
The short guy, if he’s the one I’m thinking of, also played the part of an absolute slacker who is the Only Human Left Alive in Red Dwarf.
No, holograms don’t count. Neither do bipedal cats. Neither do androids.
And at some points, all those learning type channels become “The Ancient Egypt Channel” or “UFO Channel”. I’d like to see a program where Hitler was abducted by UFOs along with King Tut and made a stop off at Area 51. Just throw it all together.
…and invented the wheel. Then they all swaped houses and re-decorated with the help of rebuilt motorcycles and Emeril and the crocadile hunter who were of little use after they got into a fist fight about catch phrases…
What about the “New TNN” or SpikeTV or whatever the hell they call it now? That channel certainly went to shit. What happened to the good old days of Dukes of Hazzard re-runs on TNN?
You’re thinking of Robot Wars. Listy’s shown as host for that, according to IMDb, not Junkyard Wars.
Right–Junkyard Wars is hosted by Red Dwarf’s Kryten.
My first thougts when I saw this thread:
The food channel:
Emeril
some Italian cooking show
Emeril
Jamie Oliver
Emeril
Unwrapped
Unwrapped
Good eats
Emeril
Unwrapped
Unwrapped
I used to love Unwrapped. Now it’s all starting to look the same, especially since they air 2 a night.
My favorite show is Good Eats, but I worry about it.
It was great to look forward to it. Now they play it every night and I hope that it doesn’t get over played like Emeril. I hope they don’t ruin the quality for quantity.
You know, Weird Al Yankovic predicted all this back in 1985 or so, in his song Cable TV, about how he’s gotten cable TV hooked up and now he’s a hermit in his apartment, watching it all day…
“My friends are gettin’ kind of worried
They think I’m turnin’ into some kind of freak
Oh, but they’re just jealous cuz I’ve seen Porky’s
Twenty-seven times this week
On my cable TV”
When they roll stock concentration camp footage, it’s then that you really don’t want to know what’s in Hitler’s gum.
“Chemists at I. G. Farben discovered a way to use human fats …”
CLICK! Uhh, let’s watch the evening news from Bulgaria on SCOLA.
Our moms must be related. Mom has to have her detectives and lawyers, or otherwise the day will seem seem incomplete. She wants to get digital cable, because with the extra channels, she can watch any of the CSI variants for ten or twelve solid hours a day.
Obscure cable channels aren’t immune.
TechTV: Screen Savers and various help-desk variants, followed by anime. CAHHH - NAHHH - DAHHHH!
Outdoor Channel: just rename it the Deer Hunting Network.
ESPN 2: Somewhere in the world, there’s a World’s Strongest Man competition going on at any minute.
The Arab Channel: Sunday morning-style panel discussion shows, all day, every day.
Zee TV: TUNAK TUNAK TUUUUUUUUUUN!!!
Despite this, I feel sorry for those whose primary language is Spanish; of the gazillion Spanish channels I get, the majority seem devoted to bad variety shows, bad soap operas, and soccer. Lots and lots of soccer.
Is there some kind of support group? For them or for us. 
Did I mention that the woman watches at least 3 Law and Orders (and spin-offs) a day?
I can imagine the slogan for MOMTV: “Decomposing flesh, murder, and malice. Mothers love this stuff.”
Mmmmmm…World’s Strongest Man. Big, burly, thick-bodied men, many of whom are Scandinavian. With thighs like barrels and arms like thighs and necks like posts and shoulders and backs like walls. Magnus ver Magnusson…if I had a uterus, I’d want to have his babies.
There’s a reason (besides money) that I never actually attend any of those Strongest Man events. I’d get in SO much trouble…
roadkiller: Any channel that will show ST:TNG and MXC is pretty high on my list for pure entertainment. Especially the absolutely mindless and hilarious MXC.
About TLC: I love Mythbusters. I think it’s the best of the whole class of gearheads build, then destroy, neat stuff', simply because of the disproving urban legends angle. I don't like how they sometimes *force* a result by altering the parameters of their experiment (like when they so altered the dummy on the pissing on the third rail’ segment), but I do understand that they are playing for TV and need the ratings. I think TLC would be well served by playing that to the exclusion of American Chopper and such like.
And, finally, about the CBC: I love the Ceeb. I like The National and I like Zed (late-night artsy show) and I even like The Red Green Show. I love This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and I think that is how Comedy Central’s The Daily Show should be. (Need proof? Stockwell Day to Doris Day. I nearly evacuated out my major orifices laughing.)
I will fourth or fifth that show. Anyone who would make a charcoal powered jet engine just to cook some tuna has mad props in my book.
And I missed whoever dissed it, but don’t be dissin my spike TV. Slamball rules, and any network willing to put up a Video Game Awards, ST:tNG, Highlander, and MXC on the same channel gets props in my book. I do wish they would cut back on the Baywatch and Real TV though.