TV Meme
Saw this on starhawk's journal and thought it sounded like fun.
TV Meme
Back in the Day: 5 TV Shows You Loved As A Kid
1.Legends of the Hidden Temple
2.Animaniacs - I didn't understand it, but I loved it
3.Pinky and the Brain
4.The Muppet Show - again, didn't understand it, but I loved it
5.GUTS
Who Would You Do?: 5 TV Characters You Would...Well, It's Self-Explanatory
1.Benton Frasier (Due South)
2.Josh Lyman (West Wing)
3.Doug Ross (ER)
4.Ezra Standish (The Magnificent Seven)
5.Methos (Highlander)
What? No, No, I Don't Watch That...: 5 Guilty Pleasure TV Shows
1.American Gladiators
2.No Reservations
3.Survivor
4.VH1's 100 Greatest Countdowns - I don't even care what they're counting, I'll watch anyway
5.Iron Chef America
Wow: 5 TV Moments You Still Remember (And Probably Won't Forget)
1.West Wing season 1 finale - the assassination attempt
2.Forever Knight finale - what a screwed up ending THAT was
3.24, Day 1 - Nina shoots Teri
4.Rome - Caesar's assassination
5.MI:5 - Tom running into the ocean, end of Series 2
"Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs": 5 TV Theme Songs You Know (and Love) By Heart
1. CSI
2. House
3. Friends
4. Charmed
5. not a theme song, but the promo music from MI:5 (When I'm Gone by 3 Doors Down)
Eh: 5 Shows You Just Can't Get Into
1.Pushing Daisies
2.Battlestar Galactica
3.Family Guy
4.Seinfeld
5.CSI: NY. I like the other 2 just fine. NY, not so much.
The Starting Line-Up: 5 Channels You Go To First When You Sit Down to Watch TV
1.Food Network
2.Travel Channel
3.VH1/VH1 Classic
4.Bravo
5.BBC America
This Is An Environment of Welcoming, and You Should Just Get the Hell Out Of Here: 5 TV Characters You Could Do Without
1. Maya and Alejandro (Heroes)
2. Tracy Vetter (Forever Knight)
3. Thirteen (House)
4. Octavia (Rome)
5. Mr. Lyle (The Pretender)
That's What She Said: 5 Quotes That Still Resonate
1.Josh: No. You're listening to me, but you're not understanding me.
Toby: No, I'm disagreeing with you. That doesn't mean I'm not listening to you or understanding what you're saying - I'm doing all three at the same time.
West Wing, Season 1
2.Bartlet's verbal beatdown of Dr. Jenna Jacobs (who is Dr. Laura Schlessenger) in West Wing Season 2:
Bartlet: Good. I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an abomination.
Jacobs: I don't say homosexuality is an abomination, Mr. President. The Bible does.
Bartlet: Yes it does. Leviticus.
Jacobs: 18:22.
Bartlet: Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I have you here. I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be? While thinking about that, can I ask another? My Chief of Staff Leo McGarry insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself or is it okay to call the police? Here's one that's really important because we've got a lot of sports fans in this town: touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point? Does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother John for planting different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads? Think about those questions, would you? One last thing: while you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the Ignorant Tight-Ass Club, in this building, when the President stands, nobody sits.
3.Ray Vecchio: Please tell me this doesn't involve sub-zero temperatures or Inuit legend.
Benton Frasier: No, it does not.
Ray Vecchio: Of course it does, it always does.
Due South
4.House: Ah, the Socratic Method. The best way we have of teaching everything - apart from juggling chainsaws.
5.House: But as the philosopher Jagger once said "You can't always get what you want."
Gimme More: 5 Shows You Can Never Get Enough Of
1. Lost
2. Heroes
3. Deadliest Catch (yes, the crab fishing guys)
4. 100 Greatest Countdowns
5. Project Runway/Top Chef
Waaaaa!: 5 Shows You Still Mourn Losing Prematurely
1. Due South
2. Sports Night
3. The West Wing
4. The Magnificent Seven
5. Queen of Swords
Yes, strictly speaking, I realize that West Wing ran for 7 seasons and Sports Night and Due South both ran for 3, but there was still a ton of storytelling potention in SN and DS when they were canceled. And West Wing was SO GOOD! They could have kept going with the Santos administration and had a totally different perspective on the presidency.
Headdesk!: 5 Shows You Wish They'd Killed (or at least ended) While They Were Still Good
1. House
2. ER. Disaster of the week. Once they crashed a helicopter into the hospital, they were done.
3. The Pretender. Never should have made the movies.
4. The X-Files. It collapsed under the weight of its own mythology and got too hard to follow.
5. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. The pilot had a ton of potential, but Sorkin could never really decide what kind of show he wanted it to be. And it was never funny, which is bad when it's a show set at a sketch comedy show. By episode 3 you could tell he was lost. So basically, it was a series that should never have gone past the pilot...so it never should have been made?
TV Meme
Back in the Day: 5 TV Shows You Loved As A Kid
1.Legends of the Hidden Temple
2.Animaniacs - I didn't understand it, but I loved it
3.Pinky and the Brain
4.The Muppet Show - again, didn't understand it, but I loved it
5.GUTS
Who Would You Do?: 5 TV Characters You Would...Well, It's Self-Explanatory
1.Benton Frasier (Due South)
2.Josh Lyman (West Wing)
3.Doug Ross (ER)
4.Ezra Standish (The Magnificent Seven)
5.Methos (Highlander)
What? No, No, I Don't Watch That...: 5 Guilty Pleasure TV Shows
1.American Gladiators
2.No Reservations
3.Survivor
4.VH1's 100 Greatest Countdowns - I don't even care what they're counting, I'll watch anyway
5.Iron Chef America
Wow: 5 TV Moments You Still Remember (And Probably Won't Forget)
1.West Wing season 1 finale - the assassination attempt
2.Forever Knight finale - what a screwed up ending THAT was
3.24, Day 1 - Nina shoots Teri
4.Rome - Caesar's assassination
5.MI:5 - Tom running into the ocean, end of Series 2
"Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs": 5 TV Theme Songs You Know (and Love) By Heart
1. CSI
2. House
3. Friends
4. Charmed
5. not a theme song, but the promo music from MI:5 (When I'm Gone by 3 Doors Down)
Eh: 5 Shows You Just Can't Get Into
1.Pushing Daisies
2.Battlestar Galactica
3.Family Guy
4.Seinfeld
5.CSI: NY. I like the other 2 just fine. NY, not so much.
The Starting Line-Up: 5 Channels You Go To First When You Sit Down to Watch TV
1.Food Network
2.Travel Channel
3.VH1/VH1 Classic
4.Bravo
5.BBC America
This Is An Environment of Welcoming, and You Should Just Get the Hell Out Of Here: 5 TV Characters You Could Do Without
1. Maya and Alejandro (Heroes)
2. Tracy Vetter (Forever Knight)
3. Thirteen (House)
4. Octavia (Rome)
5. Mr. Lyle (The Pretender)
That's What She Said: 5 Quotes That Still Resonate
1.Josh: No. You're listening to me, but you're not understanding me.
Toby: No, I'm disagreeing with you. That doesn't mean I'm not listening to you or understanding what you're saying - I'm doing all three at the same time.
West Wing, Season 1
2.Bartlet's verbal beatdown of Dr. Jenna Jacobs (who is Dr. Laura Schlessenger) in West Wing Season 2:
Bartlet: Good. I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an abomination.
Jacobs: I don't say homosexuality is an abomination, Mr. President. The Bible does.
Bartlet: Yes it does. Leviticus.
Jacobs: 18:22.
Bartlet: Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I have you here. I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be? While thinking about that, can I ask another? My Chief of Staff Leo McGarry insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself or is it okay to call the police? Here's one that's really important because we've got a lot of sports fans in this town: touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point? Does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother John for planting different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads? Think about those questions, would you? One last thing: while you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the Ignorant Tight-Ass Club, in this building, when the President stands, nobody sits.
3.Ray Vecchio: Please tell me this doesn't involve sub-zero temperatures or Inuit legend.
Benton Frasier: No, it does not.
Ray Vecchio: Of course it does, it always does.
Due South
4.House: Ah, the Socratic Method. The best way we have of teaching everything - apart from juggling chainsaws.
5.House: But as the philosopher Jagger once said "You can't always get what you want."
Gimme More: 5 Shows You Can Never Get Enough Of
1. Lost
2. Heroes
3. Deadliest Catch (yes, the crab fishing guys)
4. 100 Greatest Countdowns
5. Project Runway/Top Chef
Waaaaa!: 5 Shows You Still Mourn Losing Prematurely
1. Due South
2. Sports Night
3. The West Wing
4. The Magnificent Seven
5. Queen of Swords
Yes, strictly speaking, I realize that West Wing ran for 7 seasons and Sports Night and Due South both ran for 3, but there was still a ton of storytelling potention in SN and DS when they were canceled. And West Wing was SO GOOD! They could have kept going with the Santos administration and had a totally different perspective on the presidency.
Headdesk!: 5 Shows You Wish They'd Killed (or at least ended) While They Were Still Good
1. House
2. ER. Disaster of the week. Once they crashed a helicopter into the hospital, they were done.
3. The Pretender. Never should have made the movies.
4. The X-Files. It collapsed under the weight of its own mythology and got too hard to follow.
5. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. The pilot had a ton of potential, but Sorkin could never really decide what kind of show he wanted it to be. And it was never funny, which is bad when it's a show set at a sketch comedy show. By episode 3 you could tell he was lost. So basically, it was a series that should never have gone past the pilot...so it never should have been made?