Fourteen shows I wasted my life watching.dayofthelocustJuly 13 2007, 16:46:00 UTC
This list needs a few things:
1.) Undeclared - Judd Apatow's post-Freaks & Geeks sitcom about college freshmen, featuring Seth Rogen. 2.) The Wire - My favorite HBO series hands-down. 3.) Eerie, Indiana - Kind of like a supernatural Pete & Pete, a Saturday morning favorite from the early nineties... which brings me to... 4.) The Adventures of Pete & Pete - This wasn't already on this list?! 5.) Ren & Stimpy - Everything until John K. got canned is solid gold. 6.) Hill Street Blues - The father of all modern cop shows. 7.) Night Gallery - Rod Serling's follow-up to The Twilight Zone... not as good, but it's still Serling. 8.) Millenium - The X-Files spinoff about FBI profiler Frank Black, not the one from The Pixies. 9.) On The Air - David Lynch and Mark Frost's surreal post-Twin Peaks sitcom, cancelled VERY quickly by ABC. 10.) The Young Ones - Your Punk Card is hereby revoked if you don't know what this is. 11.) Hey Dude! - I only add this because Salute Your Shorts made the cut. So this piece of crap deserves to be there too. 12.) Weeds - Drug dealing single moms finally get a sitcom of their very own. Two thumbs up. 13.) Sleeper Cell - Maybe nobody watched it, but it attempted to do terrorism in a more realistic way than say, 24, and for that, I salute it. 14.) Doug - God, I hated Doug.
Re: Fourteen shows I wasted my life watching.dayofthelocustJuly 13 2007, 18:18:55 UTC
This list seems not so interested in "reality" television, but in the past year I've also been really fond of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations and the occassional Dog: The Bounty Hunter. Anthony Bourdain has the best job in the world.
Reality television is very fond of employing colons in its titling practices.
Re: Fourteen shows I wasted my life watching.dayofthelocustJuly 13 2007, 21:00:56 UTC
I felt- and still feel - that Doug was for kids who were too square for Ren & Stimpy and the wiggier Klasky/Csupo animations like Aah! Real Monsters!. It is probably is the blandest cartoon ever broadcast on Nickelodeon.
Is your icon supposed to be my roommate? You-know-who Gazin?
Re: Fourteen shows I wasted my life watching.jennydevildollJuly 14 2007, 17:05:57 UTC
I'm guessing you probably caught Doug waiting for Ren&Stimpy to come on, cuz that's how I saw it even though I hated it.
Doug brings up a minor TV pet peeve for me: I hate when the "bad" kid or the bully is designated by having them wear a black leather jacket or a band t-shirt, esp. when most of the biullies in real life were more of the jocky kids.
Young Ones--this is the best! One of my all time favorite tv shows.
1.) Undeclared - Judd Apatow's post-Freaks & Geeks sitcom about college freshmen, featuring Seth Rogen.
2.) The Wire - My favorite HBO series hands-down.
3.) Eerie, Indiana - Kind of like a supernatural Pete & Pete, a Saturday morning favorite from the early nineties... which brings me to...
4.) The Adventures of Pete & Pete - This wasn't already on this list?!
5.) Ren & Stimpy - Everything until John K. got canned is solid gold.
6.) Hill Street Blues - The father of all modern cop shows.
7.) Night Gallery - Rod Serling's follow-up to The Twilight Zone... not as good, but it's still Serling.
8.) Millenium - The X-Files spinoff about FBI profiler Frank Black, not the one from The Pixies.
9.) On The Air - David Lynch and Mark Frost's surreal post-Twin Peaks sitcom, cancelled VERY quickly by ABC.
10.) The Young Ones - Your Punk Card is hereby revoked if you don't know what this is.
11.) Hey Dude! - I only add this because Salute Your Shorts made the cut. So this piece of crap deserves to be there too.
12.) Weeds - Drug dealing single moms finally get a sitcom of their very own. Two thumbs up.
13.) Sleeper Cell - Maybe nobody watched it, but it attempted to do terrorism in a more realistic way than say, 24, and for that, I salute it.
14.) Doug - God, I hated Doug.
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The Young Ones too... I *just* watched a bunch of episodes about two weeks ago!
More proof I have a terrible memory.
I hated Doug too. But I also watched a ton of it for some reason. Oh, and Roundhouse. Remember that one? What a shitty show.
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Reality television is very fond of employing colons in its titling practices.
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Is your icon supposed to be my roommate? You-know-who Gazin?
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Doug brings up a minor TV pet peeve for me: I hate when the "bad" kid or the bully is designated by having them wear a black leather jacket or a band t-shirt, esp. when most of the biullies in real life were more of the jocky kids.
Young Ones--this is the best! One of my all time favorite tv shows.
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