TV Guilty Pleasure
As I perused the main screen today, I see the same thing as I did last Friday. Arguing and name-calling and refusal to come together. So I thought I would do something fun, at least for my own sake.
Do you have a TV guilty pleasure? Is there some show you watch that you would be totally embarrassed to tell your co-workers you watch?
Mine is Days of Our Lives. I have watched for decades. I have watched different writers ruin great characters and create other good characters.
My favorite character on the soap is Hope Williams Brady (she may have married Rafe, but I refuse to acknowledge that blunder). Supercouple Bo & Hope forever.... Rafe was such a bad husband his first wife went back to the man that raped her. (Personally I hate that soap theme where sexual assault survivors fall in love wit their rapists - in my mind it diminishes the true impact of rape).
Any one have any they want to admit to?
"Do you have a TV guilty pleasure?"
Cartoons !
Sponge Bob!
and
South Park !
What is it that draws you to them?
Sponge Bob = Simplicity
South Park = Sarcasm
I get that.
Patrick and Cartman….two OPPOSITE extreme's....are my favorites !
I am a Kenny fan. And give me Gary!!!!
LOL !
Kenny = "Mysterion" !
Gary = "Common Sense Character" !
Shabladoo…."Mintberry Crunch" Veronica ! (thumbs up) !
I can't help it.
Puh-lease. Scooby Doo runs circles around Sponge Bob. After Scooby Doo it's definitely the Magic School Bus
Ruh Roh, a spat....
Oh Sure !!!!!
Like a Dog can really talk...…………………...
more plausible than a bacteria drenched sponge
No waaaaaaaay !!!!!!!!!!!
We don't get that anymore. They took away Comedy Central from our tv lineup. Along with MTV and VH1.
That sucks.
What Veronica said !
sheeeeesh !
Dr. Pimple Popper......
Other people here also seem to enjoy that. I am reluctant to watch it. Not sure I want to see all that pus.
Ick !
I've tried to watch that show a few times.
I'd rather watch "Freddie" movies over that one. ))))shudder((((…..blah !
I'm with you. Speaking of Freddy - I like seeing him guest starring on shows like Bones & Criminal Minds where he isn't the bad guy, but still a little creepy.
Pimple popper is waaaaaaay to real !
"I like seeing him guest starring on shows like Bones & Criminal Minds where he isn't the bad guy, but still a little creepy."
My wife thinks he's cute....in a child like way ! It must be the "Baby Face" of his ! (LOL face)
EWWWWWWW - that is something I do not need to see.
Heck…..I can't look at it !
I didn't know there was a male Pimple Popper. The show I watch is a female Pimple Popper When is the one you watch on? I would like to try to catch that show.
I'm not really embarrassed to admit - but I really enjoy Love After Lockup.
Interesting.
I think everyone deserves a second chance but I cannot believe what some of these women and men do when they hook up with these convicts/ex-convicts.
I cannot stand Liz - she is really using Scott. He is broke now - but he shouldn't have sent her his money.
Clint married that girl a day out of prison and she is crack addict. He just gives her his credit card.
I wonder if the show is reimbursing these people?
I don't get how they can marry people that they haven't spent any time with. It's like that other show Wedding at first sight. They have to pay these people.
I have never heard of this show. I guess it's a reality show type of program? What channel is it on?
I guess it is a reality show. It's on WE
I see the promos for it when I am binging Criminal Minds.
I'm hooked on it! They show new episodes on Friday nights at 9:00.
Yea, that happens.
Intervention and Dateline
I do watch them.
The Andy Griffith Show, on twice in a row on ME TV early evenings.
I have watched every episode of the new series FBI on CBS since September. The plots arent rocket science, but the actors are pretty good and the production values are excellent.
Never got into Andy Griffith - I think it is because I never cared for Don Knotts.
I just saw the promo for FBI - I think I may be checking it out.
I'm not really a big Don Knotts fan either, but to me Andy Griffith is a perfect show. It is funny, it shows small town life in the early 60's (for those of us who have never lived in a small town) , and it has a moral to most of the stories.
The Andy Griffith Show - Wikipedia
The Andy Griffith Show . On separate occasions, it has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best and 13th-best show in American television history, respectively.
I grew up in a small town. I wish it had been more like Mayberry.
Can't say I feel guilty about it but I do like watching Dr Pimple Popper. Obviously it's about pimples, cysts, blackheads, ketoids, lipomas, etc and is pretty explicit and gross but I can't look away, lol.
Thanks for the change up, imo we can use more seeds like this
Dr. Pimple Popper is a great show to watch while enjoying a scab sandwich and a glass of pus.
Lol I've never had either of those, but am open to new things. Are they tasty?
I like watching those, too.
Definitely not my cup of tea... or pimple pus.
Glad you stopped by.
"Hoarders". It makes me feel like a great housekeeper.
I used to watch Hoarders all the time. Then all I could find was reruns.
Historical Documentaries are my guilty pleasure.
Crime Drama is the second. Starting with the FBI. (the 60's-70's version) Adam 12, Dragnet, Mod Squad was a fav, Ironside, but then I'm dating myself also.....
Slapstick Comedy series come next....... Social justice comedy not so much.....
There is no great plethora of good television today.... most of it is trash.....
I did not start enjoying crime drama until I was older. With historical documentaries I prefer the ones going way back, but do watch the WWI & WWII ones with my hubby.
I think comedies were forever ruined with the invention of the laff track.
Since I am not a big fan of "reality" TV I do find it hard to find shows to entertain me.
Yeah the whole Genre started with "Victory at Sea" there were a few minor efforts at it then there was the blockbuster that put them on the map for good...
"The Ten Thousand Day War". Michael Maclears classic..
And then the greatest one ever made, Ken Burns "The Civil War"
I have all of them, maybe I'll post them someday.... (and thousands of others)
That would be great. Do it.
"ruined with the invention of the laff track."
I hate laff track, it's phony
So fake.
Oh I loved the Carol Burnett Show. Especially when Tim Conway would ad lib & send the others into gales of laughter.
I read somewhere that if a TV show (new) has a laff track, it's from the 50's.
Need to get some things of a technical variety cleared with the Site Mom first.....
But it is on my wish list...
The Laff track is, usually from the late '50's early 60's.... in fact they actually pace the shows to fit the track sometimes depending on how sophisticated the techs are behind the show....
I've seen that clip so many times, and I still laugh until I cry.
Yeah you got Carol, Vicky and Dick sitting there, all great comedians themselves barely being able to keep it in....
Tim was the best....
I guess they have to find somebody to laugh at that travesty. Even if it is a 50 year old recording.
Forged in Fire, Highway through Hell and Diners, Drive Ins & Dives most of time that TV is on it is for background
There are times in my house when that happens, too.
I do that too. Just turn it on for background noise.
Me too. Since I live alone, it's like company. I was lost when my TV died on me at Christmas time. Until I downloaded everything on my phone. I couldn't connect to my home wifi for some reason until one of my best friends helped me figure out how. I used up 6 gigs of data
PS, I sleep with the Golden Girls every night. I fall asleep to them
I know what you needed as a Christmas gift.
That is a lot of data. My plan has up to 10 gigs. I usually only use about 1.25.
Well that was taken care of by my best friend and his husband. When I texted them that my TV died, they said Santa would take care of that.
He used to head computer security at Amtrak before he retired and he was the one who figured out why I wasn't connecting to my home wifi
Aww. That was nice of them.
I have gone through two flat screens. The one I have now has a dark spot on the left side of the screen. Irritating. At least they are not as expensive as they use to be.
Funny thing, I have an old big box tv in the bedroom. I don't want to get rid of it because I've never had a problem with it. Thing will probably last another 20 years.
They're my best friends in the world. Very kind and warm and generous
Funny you should say that. The first time they had it delivered to their house. When Frank got it out of the box and plugged it in, the screen was shattered. Bummer!
Luckily he was able to take it right back to Costco and replaced and he came back the next day to set it up
Lol I know what you mean I haven't even had to buy a flatscreen yet, my 15 and 20yo CRTs are still doing fine.
I still have a huge old Sony CRT and it works fine. I feel cheap for not replacing it with a bigger flat screen but I watch so little TV that its not something that is a high priority. If it happens it will be because my BF wants a bigger screen for sports.
My son has broken 2 flat screen TVs. The first was when he was 3. He was trying to kill a fly.
The second was when he was playing on his Xbox and his controller slipped out of his hand when he got worked up.
He now only connects his Xbox to the TV he bought with his own money. If he breaks that, no Xbox.
I hope he at least got the fly. : )
I can't remember. He was using a foam baseball bat - one of his favorite toys. I had no idea until then that those screens were so fragile.
My sister (when she stays with us) falls asleep to Hallmark Murder & Mysteries.
Lol I don't feel cheap, I know I'm cheap. Although I do feel sorry for movers that have to lift those beasts whenever I move.
When I replace it I pity the poor saps that have to move that beast. It's all that I can do to pick up one side so I can dust/vacuum under it occasionally.
I would say Big Brother, Survivor and The Challenge from MTV. Sometimes The Amazing Race.
I always thought it would be fun to participate in the challenges they are up against. To try the comps.
I love BB, Survivor and Amazing Race.
I actually participate in a forum about BB and Survivor. It is a trip. People joke about the contestants and what they are going through. Almost as entertaining as the shows themselves.
I use to go on Big Brother Updates but only for Big Brother, but stuff happened on that site and many of the familiar faces left the site and not many people post on it so I do not post on there anymore, so some of us from that site created our own fb chat page.
Something bad happen there? I remember last season a person had her twitter account suspended for giving out leaks or something.
I have always used BBN (Big Brother Network).
The long and short of it was a certain poster was getting away with certain things that when other posters did the same thing they got in trouble for it and had their accounts suspended so many people left the site due to the unfairness over it, the chief moderator relented and asked people to come back but the damage had been done.
What was once a thriving site now has very few people posting comments and transcribing the feeds.
Ah, thanks. I think I have only checked them out once or twice. I know a lot of people use Jokers too.
It was a good site, they didn't tolerate any bs, but again after the incident it went down hill, I do use Jokers and Morty's just to read up on the live feeds transcription.
I have never gotten to any of those, but I know some people just love it.
Not on TV but I like to watch urban explorers, (they explore abandon houses, farms, schools, etc) on Youtube.
I haven't seen that but it looks interesting.
I did see this one vid where some young men decided to check out an abandoned camp, like an old summer camp, during the night. While they were checking out some of the out buildings they looked and saw a man standing by one building. Just standing there by himself in the middle of the night.
It freaked them out and they left.
I like to watch these urban explorer youtubers - JPVideos, Farmhunter, Exploring with Rick & Bekah and Urban Exploring with Kappy.
I love that kind of stuff - will have to check it out.
The Young And The Restless - It has the best eye candy of all of the soaps.
Rugrats - I AM Angelica
Most all of the cooking competitions, especially Cake Wars
Tiny House Nation
Tree House Masters
Perry Mason - Paul Drake is crazy sexy
Hoarders - I am a total neat freak so I like to see if a total transformation happens
Live PD - Sean "Sticks" Larson....nuff said
Night Gallery - prefer it to The Twilight Zone for the most part
Swengoulie - 12 on the Wierd-O-Meter reading but great old B horror movies and occasionally the infamous worse of the directors, so bad he is addicting.........Ed Wood.
I really like to watch hoarders also. I find it fascinating, not just to see the before and after but also to learn what prompted the behavior.
I have always been a Days fan.
Worst Cooks of America & Kids Baking Championship (sometimes those kids do better than I do).
Will have to check out Swengoulie. What network is that on?
Here it is on ME TV on Saturday night.
Thanks - I will check it out.
Dear Friend Veronica: Not sure Netflix programming is relevant tot his article.
If not, please delete this post.
Every Saturday night that Mrs. E. and I are home alone we watch a movie on Netflix.
This is our time together during the week.
Just us.
We also binge watch Israeli, German and Spanish language TV series on Netflix.
They are not available on general television.
One we presently watch the Shteisel.
It is an Israeli TV series about Haredi (Ultra Orthodox) generations family in Jerusalem and B'nai B'rack.
I taught at Rabbinical Semanary's in both communities, including Ultra-Orthdox ones.
When Mrs. E. and I first met and got to know one another we were both in Jerusalem.
The series is in the Hebrew and Yiddish languages.
Subtitles are available.
Neither of us need them.
Very accurate.
It shows no matter what communities in the world a series is about, people are people are people.
Universal themes, heights and depths, triumphs and problems abound.
Good series that.
Mrs. E. and I are favorably disposed toward well written and acted programming that challenges the mind and touches the heart strings.
E.
I might check that out - as long as there are subtitles.
PS - I would never delete you.
Dear Friend Veronica: Thanks.
There are subtitles available in English for programming in any language in the world with Netflix.
Hope the winter goes well for you and yours.
In February when the weather clears up lets see if the four of us can't get together and meet in person.
Maybe do some Valentine's Day sun bathing at Hamlin Beach.
E.
I've found some shows that I would like to watch but they're either in German, Russian, or Hebrew. They have subtitles but I like to "listen" to my TV not "read" it.
Maybe I'll get one of those foreign language programs and learn German
February & sunshine do not mix in Western NY. But it would also be nice to meet you & the Mrs.
I do not mind subtitles, my daughter hates them.
Watch Lawrence Welk most Saturday nights, love big bands and we use to watch it as a family when growing up.
Molly B Polka Party, yes, I like polka music.
Big Bands - Glenn Miller - Love that smooth sound
Ancient Aliens is my guilty pleasure
I have watched that.
I like that one
Do you ever watch it and talk back to the "scientists"?
I'm constantly laughing at them or arguing with them.
Still, my favorite is the orange Greek guy with the crazy hair. I can never remember his name
I talk to the screen on so many shows.
What is that guy's name? Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
Mysteries at the Museum. Although I guess that doesn't need to be a guilty pleasure. Unless one spends one's entire Sunday watching it and eating.
That was a good show, certainly nothing to be guilty of. Only bad thing I can say is there weren't enough episodes.
I watch MoM. I love seeing all that old stuff & hearing the stories behind all the relics.
Storage Wars, they find the craziest damn things