# Your Guilty Television Pleasure **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 20, 2001, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357 "2001-11-20T07:13:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/1 "2001-11-20T07:13:35Z")
So, Billy Bob Thornton announced on late night television that he enjoys watching _Saved by The Bell_. My guilty pleasure has always been shows like COPS and Wildest Police Videos. I dunno why. There’s just something about watching idiots get arrested over and over again that I find particularly amusing. They rarely show “serious” stuff on COPS, it’s almost always drunken imbeciles mouthing off to the police. Classic. ---
**Author:** ![whatmove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecc23a/32.png) [@whatmove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatmove)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/2 "2001-11-20T07:44:57Z")
Wow. Just reading the title I was going to respond with _Saved by the Bell_. On further consideration though, I think SbtB was much more popular and legit than people want to admit. Less popular, however, would be another guilty television pleasure of mine: _Saved by the Bell: The New Class_. I mean, honestly, I am _embarassed_ to admit that I enjoyed that show because I know it was so bad…but now I crave it so hard. Though it probably hasn’t aired in four or five years, it popped into my head just yesterday. It makes me feel genuinely guilty. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/3 "2001-11-20T08:45:04Z")
V.I.P. nuff’ said. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/4 "2001-11-20T11:35:59Z")
_The Looove Boat, Soon we’ll be making another run. The Loooove Boat, Promises something for everyone. Set a course for adventure your mind on a new romance…_ ---
**Author:** ![HerMajestyLorna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HerMajestyLorna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HerMajestyLorna)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/5 "2001-11-20T13:30:01Z")
\Tempatation Island\ ---
**Author:** ![arachnidlove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@arachnidlove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arachnidlove)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/6 "2001-11-20T14:31:55Z")
I love Cops too. My favorites are when the doggies are brought out. My most guilty pleasure…::sigh:: I’m so embarressed… [sub] 7th heaven[/sub] DON’T EVER TELL MY HUSBAND!! I’d never hear the end of it. ---
**Author:** ![phailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phailure)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/7 "2001-11-20T15:39:20Z")
The A-Team!! (You damn foo’s) ---
**Author:** ![Boxcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Boxcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boxcar)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/8 "2001-11-20T16:05:46Z")
**The A-Team** by miles. Thought it might be Xena, but Xena actually had some respectibility and plot variety. I think all the A-Team plots can be summed up in a couple of lines: A-Team goes to help nice guy against bad guy. A-Team finds bad guy and kicks his henchmen around. A-Team captured by bad guy. A-Team locked in garage. A-Team builds something. A-Team kicks bad guy’s butt. Somewhat like a porn flick, plot just gets in the way of the action. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/9 "2001-11-20T17:29:21Z")
America’s Funniest Home Videos. I can watch Dad get whacked in the nuts over and over again. Hee hee. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/10 "2001-11-20T17:41:05Z")
I read two newspapers every day–so don’t watch the news. The last sitcom I enjoyed was _Cheers_. Just don’t watch 'em. ER? NYPD? CSI? Nahh, too many acronyms. Movies on TV? Not when I can rent unedited, commercial free versions. If it weren’t for sports, I’d not even subscribe to cable. . . . . . . But I’ve gotten hooked on _Ally McBeal_, of all things. Very clever show, if a bit silly at times. The ironic thing is that the Ally character is the _least_ interesting part of the show. I much prefer the court cases, the other relationships that develop, and the Fishisms. Especially the Fishisms. ---
**Author:** ![greenlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@greenlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greenlady)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/11 "2001-11-20T19:17:48Z")
_Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood_. Pretty pitiful, I know. I think it fills in a missing link from childhood. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/12 "2001-11-20T19:26:44Z")
I think it only lasted one season, but for some absurd reason I was totally hooked on _Love Boat: The next wave_ or whatever the series with Robert Urich as the captain was. I was so sweet on the son, Danny, lol. ---
**Author:** ![horowitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@horowitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horowitz)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/13 "2001-11-20T19:46:02Z")
S Club 7 Don’t stop, never give up, Hold your head high and reach the top, Let the World see what you have got, Bring it all back to you Gotta love that Tina ---
**Author:** ![Agent0069](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@Agent0069](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent0069)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/14 "2001-11-20T19:49:43Z")
Blues Clues (that Steve is HOT…but don’t tell my man I said that) reruns of All in the Family and The Jeffersons reruns of Emergency, Adam-12 and Dragnet I also have a thing for The Drew Carey Show and Whose Line is it ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/15 "2001-11-20T19:54:44Z")
Oh lord. Sometimes when I come home early in the afternoons? And I find that Maury Povich is on? I watch it. I can rant to you for 45 minutes about how everything about those sort of shows represent what is wrong with America… but I get sucked in and can’t stop watching Maury sometimes. Wow. That’s humiliating to confess. Good thing I work most days. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/16 "2001-11-20T19:55:49Z")
[sub]The Golden Girls[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![lenin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3bc359/32.png) [@lenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lenin)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/17 "2001-11-20T19:56:01Z")
Watching the **A-Team** is guilty? I thought all respectable people watched it! I pity the foo too! ---
**Author:** ![Agent0069](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@Agent0069](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent0069)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/18 "2001-11-20T20:00:19Z")
Hey Attrayant…don’t feel bad…I watch that too! ---
**Author:** ![Mystery\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Mystery\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mystery_Dog)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/19 "2001-11-20T20:11:25Z")
I’m glad someone’s already mentioned _Wildest Police Videos_ so I don’t have to. I can’t change the channel if I come across a Discovery Channel or Travel Channel show about Las Vegas casinos. I’m embarrassed to admit I’m still hooked on _ER_. I know it jumped the damn shark about seven cast changes ago, but I’m still fascinated. I have to watch to see how the writers are going to top themselves. Stabbings and shootings in the ER? Mercy killings? Graphically depicted suicide attempts? Hey, why not? Just about the only thing left for them to do is set off a neutron bomb in the middle of the hospital. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357/20 "2001-11-20T20:13:35Z")
I have several: - Swamp Thing (the half-hour TV show on USA) - The Brady Bunch - Gilligan’s Island (this one and the Brady Bunch are “comfort TV” for me–something totally fluffy from my childhood that never fails to make me feel better when I’m down) - Fantasy Island - Highway to Heaven - Little House on the Prairie [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-guilty-television-pleasure/94357.md?page=2)