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DeadDiscoDildo 12.05.2008 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
junkies and their enablers are BORING






 


unless they kick it glam junkie style!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




 



afterthefact 12.05.2008 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
WKRP In Cincinnatti - re-runs air at 6:00PM and 6:30PM every sunday on WGN. my favorite sitcom of all time. No kids!

Survivor - been watching since the first one. My favorite reality show. I like when it gets down to 6-7 people and they are all hungry and paranoid and disheveled.

Inside The NFL - used to be on HBO, now on Showtime. Uses only NFL Films footage for the highlights of the week's games. the best.

Top Chef - catching up to this season's new ones.

How It's Made - I always want to know how everything is made.

Dirty Jobs - the guy cracks me up and he really gets down into the dirt. quite the gross show. responsible for three of the grossest things I have ever ever seen. (the leather tannery, the solid waste (shit/piss) disposal building, and the leather tannery again)


Survivorman is definately the best of it's kind; totally blows Man vs. Wild out of the water.

How it's made is awesome too, although sometimes it seems like they are stretching it, with stuff that isn't really interesting. Exact same thing for Dirty Jobs too.

Rob Instigator 12.05.2008 03:05 PM

dirty jobs relies on viewers to send them places, and sometimes either the place or the people at the place are not the most TV friendly.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous 12.05.2008 03:06 PM

I have watched re-runs of married.. with children, probably every SINGLE day since 1997. It is as much a part of my daily routine as prayer and food.

 


That is the only commercial television I still watch. Other than that I am a PBS junky.

NOVA
FRONTLINE
INDEPENDENT LENS
BBC WORLD
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
GLOBAL VOICES

these are what I watch when I indulge in TV, so that at least I can learn while also not being exposed to the brainwashing and classical conditioning of advertising

afterthefact 12.05.2008 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
these are what I watch when I indulge in TV, so that at least I can learn while also not being exposed to the brainwashing and classical conditioning of advertising


Haha.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous 12.05.2008 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by DeadDiscoDildo


old school!
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Originally Posted by afterthefact
Haha.


I can't stand commercials, they literally offend my soul! I have to change them instantly, and I will put on the worst crap PBS has to offer, even boring things like Scientific American with Alan Alda or some kind of low-budget documentary about the development of Cleveland's sanitation system just to avoid them.

Rob Instigator 12.05.2008 03:49 PM

i love love love scientific american frontiers with alan alda.....

uhler 12.05.2008 04:06 PM

30 rock
arrested development
sarah silverman program
stella
the state
freaks and geeks

umm that's all i can think of at the moment. i don't have or watch much tv.

afterthefact 12.05.2008 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
I can't stand commercials, they literally offend my soul! I have to change them instantly, and I will put on the worst crap PBS has to offer, even boring things like Scientific American with Alan Alda or some kind of low-budget documentary about the development of Cleveland's sanitation system just to avoid them.


Commercials used to not bother me so much, but now that I have a kid and can see their effect, I hate them.

Fortunately we don't have cable, so the only channel that would have anything on for here during the day is PBS. (Although I think even they stretch the definition of "educational television" sometimes. Maybe kids should do something else OTHER than watch TV? haha :) )

SuchFriendsAreDangerous 12.05.2008 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by afterthefact
Commercials used to not bother me so much, but now that I have a kid and can see their effect, I hate them.

Fortunately we don't have cable, so the only channel that would have anything on for here during the day is PBS. (Although I think even they stretch the definition of "educational television" sometimes. Maybe kids should do something else OTHER than watch TV? haha :) )


not just kids. the news and global perspective puts me in front of my TV much more often than I would like, and consoling myself with the fact that it is positive still leaves a bad taste in my mouth sometimes.. but like most americans, I am rather addicted to visual stimulation, and you can't read a book and smoke a joint, and further, I read a pile of books a week as it is, sometimes you need to take a break from active viewing with reading to passive with watching TV...

compromises compromises..

afterthefact 12.05.2008 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
not just kids. the news and global perspective puts me in front of my TV much more often than I would like, and consoling myself with the fact that it is positive still leaves a bad taste in my mouth sometimes.. but like most americans, I am rather addicted to visual stimulation, and you can't read a book and smoke a joint, and further, I read a pile of books a week as it is, sometimes you need to take a break from active viewing with reading to passive with watching TV...

compromises compromises..


I agree, I just meant that I notice it more with a kid...

gmku 12.05.2008 04:46 PM

Of current/recent series:

Dexter (holy crap, it's good this season!)
True Blood (I'm a convert)
Burn Notice (when's it coming back???)

LifeDistortion 12.05.2008 04:54 PM

The promos say Burn Notice is coming back in January, I think they might be doing what they do with Monk or what Battlestar Galactica is doing, showing like 8-10 episodes then take a break then comes back early next year with another 8-10 episodes and they say its from the same season.

gmku 12.05.2008 04:55 PM

Damn, I miss Burn Notice. I really got into it over the summer.

DeadDiscoDildo 12.05.2008 05:17 PM

I also don't care if you judge me. I like Lost.

Though it's gone downhill, the first 2-3 seasons were so fucking good that it has kept me hooked and I'm still waiting for the upcoming season.

EyeballGrowth 12.05.2008 09:34 PM

 


 


My two all time favorites

Not much else:

Saturday Night Live
Monty Python's Flying Circus

EyeballGrowth 12.05.2008 09:36 PM

 


Anyone remember the Avengers? They were like the original X-files. My parents used to watch those reruns everyday at dinner when I was a kid. Great stuff

LifeDistortion 12.06.2008 03:26 AM

 

LifeDistortion 12.06.2008 03:26 AM

R.I.P.

PAULYBEE2656 12.06.2008 05:03 AM

i dont give a shit.. my favs are
top gear
 


family guy
 


match of the day
 


the universe on the history channel
 


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