What Would Constitute Your Personal TV Hell?

News Type: Other — Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:50 PM EDT

I've mentioned before how much I hate certain tv shows. It usually comes up because, due to work
situations, I get stuck in a situation where I have to watch what someone else wants to watch and it's all too often a show I'd consider cruel and unusual punishment if it was forced on others. But then I work with people who are, for the most part, illiterate and so I can't just suggest they go read books.

Thus I thought I'd share my own personal tv hell and I'm asking you to do the same. As the moderator I reserve the right to ask you to explain your choices.

I'll get the ball rolling below.

It's my personal belief that about 95 percent of tv is crap. The other five percent includes shows I do like, from Lost and Heroes to the Daily Show and Colbert Report to Dexter to The Office to the Reaper to House. Incidentally, House returns this week and I'll resume attempting to recap it. It's this five person I was referring to when I wrote this Defense of TV

I also watch some of the crappy shows - be it American Idol or the Moment of Truth - before concluding that, yes, it is crap but as something so popular maybe I can learn something about our nation and society by watching it. I call that my sociological rationalization/cop-out.

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{"commentId":1737243,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

Scott (Scoop) Butki

For me, hell would be a tv with six channels, no remote, no mute option:

Channels:
1) This would be advertising pay per view programs but, of course, there would be no cell phone access thus no way to call to request the programs. Every two minutes you'd see a variation of the "Can you hear me now?" ads only he'd say, "Guess you can't because you're in HELL."

2) Home Shopping Network - Is there anything worse than watching this show when broke? The house I worked at last nite, the guy was watching this for hours. When I asked why he watches it - he's even more broke than I - he said he likes to watch the demonstration of the products.

3) This channel would alternate between older programs (tv shows and movies) from Chuck Norris, Steven Segal, Wesley Snipes and Van Damme as well as new programs that drive me crazy including Dr. Phil, Jerry Springer and Access Hollywood.

4) This channel would show a listing and schedule for all the programs available on earth and heaven, with a focus on the ones I like the most.

5) This channel would show mysteries (movies and tv series) with huge chunks skipped over so you never know what exactly happened.

6) Fox News. Do I really need to explain why? I will, if pressed

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3 votes

#1 - Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:49 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Can I just repeat my pet peeve about Steven Segal movies? Why? Well, this piece was prompted by working with one particular individual who always seemed to put on those programs I most despised (Segal, Van Damme, etc)… and I worked with him for the first time in a month and while I was charmed that he insisted in buying me dinner he later turned on a Segal movie then left the room to go to sleep. He doesn't I hate Segal movies but what are the odds?
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#1.1 - Sun May 25, 2008 3:32 PM EDT

{"commentId":1847758,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

Scott (Scoop) Butki

Two more additions to my tv hell list - and both shows watched by a guy I work with - Saved By the Bell and Full House.

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#1.2 - Wed May 28, 2008 10:35 AM EDT

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Jeremiah Johnson

My personal TV HELL will consist of four more years of watching comics re-enact the Bush Presidency with forays into the lives of Sarah Palin and Joe the Un-Plumber

I am Jeremiah Johnson and I hope the nightmares begin to fade on January 21st ... ptsd sux

try and beat that

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2 votes

#1.3 - Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:18 PM EST

{"commentId":4085685,"authorDomain":"ladyblue999"}

ladyblue999

We should be so lucky!

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#1.4 - Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:46 AM EST

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hhabilis

TV hell would be demons with pitchforks forcing me to watch nothing but so-called "reality" shows. In fact, it would take a demon with a pitchfork to force me to watch even one of them.

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6 votes

#2 - Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:44 PM EDT

{"commentId":1737623,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

Scott (Scoop) Butki

(Scott calls a demon to remind him to bring pitchforks before visiting you. He'd taken the pitchspoon instead, silly demon.)

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4 votes

#2.1 - Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:43 PM EDT

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Killfile

My TV hell is a combination of reality-TV and daytime soaps. I'd honestly rather watch infomercials.

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5 votes

#3 - Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:33 PM EDT

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Division by Zero

I can feel my IQ dropping with just about every reality show except Top Chef. I haven't seen more than 2 minutes of a daytime soap since college. I had a roommate who actually scheduled his classes around Days of Our Lives so I scheduled mine to be gone while he was watching it. My tv hell would be endless reruns of reality shows interspersed with obscenely-long commercial breaks that were always the same commercials in the same order.

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4 votes

#3.1 - Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:11 PM EST

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spreadex

My life on the D list.

Commercials on Cable. Wasn't that the reason for cable in the first place no commercials. Fooled again! Darn

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2 votes

#3.2 - Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:02 AM EST

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

I was flipping through the channels the other nite and E was doing 100 funniest things on Saturday nite live. I taped it and went to bed.... but when I went to watch it they dragged it out - like ten moments per hour and I'd accidently also taped that Chelsea show and she was funny for 10 seconds and @!$%#y for five minutes (probably more but I turned it off)

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1 vote

#3.3 - Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:10 PM EST

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Emily

Hmm....first thing that springs to mind are those wrestling shows (WWF?) and that one where they're in the cage and there are no rules. Another pet peeve of mine is people who watch Cooking Shows at the gym.

I agree with KF, daytime soaps are pretty bad - but they can serve as a comedy if you're in the right frame of mine.

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4 votes

#4 - Sun Apr 27, 2008 2:33 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

What scares me - and sometimes blows my mind - are that some of these programs (both professional wrestling and infomercials) are believed to be totally honest and accurate by some of the special needs adults I work with.

Part of it is that power of suggestion I've talked about (if everyone on the program treats it as the gospel than they will treat it that way too) and part is that they take their social cues from others. For example I've noticed they will laugh more at comedies with a laugh track than those without, not to mention complaining about the weather and gas prices - logical things to do since everyone seems to pick those topics - except that they don't drive.

Imagine having to convince someone that no the Total Gym will not solve all of their problems even if Chuck Norris and Wesley Snipes say they wil.

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4 votes

#4.1 - Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:29 PM EDT

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Emily

I love the ads for exercise machines where huge, big, buff guys are walking or slowly stair-stepping and people believe if they buy that machine it will make them big and buff (when really the guy probably spends 6 hours in they gym pumping iron).

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4 votes

#4.2 - Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:46 PM EDT

{"commentId":1750629,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

Scott (Scoop) Butki

people believe if they buy that machine it will make them big and buff (when really the guy probably spends 6 hours in they gym pumping iron).

Welcome to my personal hell circa 2007, working with a big strong guy with add and explosive anger disorder who was convinced that this was true.

Add in that i'm a skinny white man and this guy was black and so he'd accuse me of racism all the time (I WAS the man keeping the brother down)

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2 votes

#4.3 - Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:28 PM EDT

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Uncle Nick

[canceling order for the gym equipment, damn]

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2 votes

#4.4 - Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:17 PM EST

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ombra

(Un) Reality shows!!

I'd rather watch a soap.... and I hate those...

Special mention to Jerry Springer, Flavor of Love, anything with Paris Hilton and any of the other "dating" shows.

They make "My Mother, the Car" look like classic TV...

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4 votes

#5 - Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:43 PM EDT

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Carole R

Golly Scott, I am hoping that by never watching any of those put up shows like idol, that housemate thing, in fact any of those reality shows that have people laughing in an unkind way at the participants, maybe the producers will give up. No wonder our actors are finding it hard to work and make a living.

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3 votes

#6 - Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:45 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Golly Scott, I am hoping that by never watching any of those put up shows like idol, that housemate thing, in fact any of those reality shows that have people laughing in an unkind way at the participants, maybe the producers will give up. No wonder our actors are finding it hard to work and make a living.

The real winners of the writers strike, as I predicted, were the reality show producers - it costs less to make (no need for expensive actors and while there are writers they are not recognized as such) and the ratings were indeed high.

I think it's inevitable that eventually death penalty executions will be televised and as a death penalty opponent i waver on whether that'd be a good thing - it might shock (sorry, couldn't resist) some into rethinking their positions.

I also wonder if people realize just how much manipulation is going on in there shows, be it American Idol or Man Vs Wild or whatever.

My fear is that people enjoy watching other people suffer, which to me seems to be the appeal of shows like Moment of Truth or the first few weeks of American Idol when some seem to love watching those getting rejected for sucking. It reminds me of people slowing down to look at people in a car accident - what is really gained by looking? I used to say it was just a matter of time until someone came along and made a channel of just car accidents and now we have Tru TV.

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4 votes

#6.1 - Sun Apr 27, 2008 10:53 PM EDT

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Carole R

Sad times ahead.

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3 votes

#6.2 - Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:07 AM EDT

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Tamh

I really can't stand CSI, Law and Order and so on. People seem to live in fear of crime but are simultaneously seduced by it and its dramatisation. At one point here in Tasmania, there were 3 CSI shows a week!

I really don't like reality TV shows either. In the 2 years since I joined Newsvine, I think my TV watching has declined considerably!

So I don't watch TV very much these days and we only have 4 channels at home. We don't have a digital connection or cable or satellite. Although the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) now have ABC2 which is a digital service, so we might get a set top box. OMG, I hear you say! No cable!!

The more I watch TV, the less time I have to do anything constructive. There are probably 3 or 4 shows that I watch regularly. and I do like watching films.

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2 votes

#7 - Mon Apr 28, 2008 6:08 AM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

People seem to live in fear of crime but are simultaneously seduced by it and its dramatisation.

You raise an interesting question. One of the oddities in recent years is that people think violent crime has gone up when it has actually gone down. This statistic is often blamed on tv media always hyping violent crime acts thus sparking people to think violence is everywhere. But I wonder if the popularity of shows like CSI, Law and Order, etc are also a factor?

There has also been the so-called CSI effect on juries where they expect super duper special dna results - like on the show - and are less likely to convict unless they have that.

have to do anything constructive. There are probably 3 or 4 shows that I watch regularly. and I do like watching films.

Which are those 3 or 4 shows?

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2 votes

#7.1 - Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:59 AM EDT

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Tamh

They are often Australian ones! Lately:

A music/ comedy quiz show called Spicks and Specks, a current Sunday night drama called East of Everything, which has a gorgeous soundtrack btw!

A cooking program, The Cook and the Chef, and there was a good Rick Stein show called French Odyssey in which he travelled the canals of southern France on a house boat, eating and drinking continuously!

Then there's the news each night and some shows our kids love such as Mythbusters and Top Gear.

The independent channel, SBS, has great programs as well on a wide range of subjects. Two of my favourites of late were UK productions, one called Shameless and the other called Skins. And I love to watch the Tour de France each year!

Actually, now you've got me remembering that I used to love watching Next Gen. and also Farscape, and of course Firefly- we missed it on TV so got the film Serenity and then the TV series on DVD and had a festival which was fab! Nothing much on the sci-fi front here right now except old Stargate at 11.30pm....

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3 votes

#7.2 - Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:01 AM EDT

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1SGFitzsWife4ID

I can't even remember the last time our TV was on the kids sometimes watch the typical kid stuff drake and josh, iCarly, etc..... we have satellite for only ONE reason and that's the NFL ticket, during football season the tv's always on espn, nfl channel. When we do try and watch tv any other time I noticed that we spend more time trying to find something to watch rather than actually watching it

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1 vote

#8 - Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:56 PM EDT

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AmazingSDJ

I can't stand reality shows!

My favorites are the kind of thing that would have had me labelled as a full-on geek in years past...LOST, Chuck, Reaper and Spanish-language soap operas. I know the Spanish novelas are cheesy, but I love them anyway! I like dramas like Bones, House, Grey's Anatomy and Brothers and Sisters, but don't have the "can't live without 'em" connection to them like I do with LOST.

I don't really watch an actual TV set that much anymore. All of my favorite shows are available online these days, so I watch what I want, when I want, where I want. As a result, my TV hell would be a world where the only shows available online were reality shows or CSPAN and LOST didn't exist.

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4 votes

#9 - Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:01 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

As a result, my TV hell would be a world where the only shows available online were reality shows or CSPAN and LOST didn't exist

You just gave me nightmares!
That would be awful

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2 votes

#9.1 - Sat May 10, 2008 2:04 PM EDT

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vacelts

I can stand shows that encourage people to act like idiots, most reality shows and anything with David Caruso in it.

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4 votes

#10 - Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:09 AM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

So if there was a reality show hosted by David Caruso where people try to be more annoying than he is... you'd watch that, right?

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4 votes

#10.1 - Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:27 PM EDT

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vacelts

Ooops, that was suppose to be can't stand.

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3 votes

#10.2 - Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:20 PM EDT

{"commentId":1789368,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

Scott (Scoop) Butki

That's what I figured but I'm (right now) too polite to mention errors I spotted. Speaking of errors, though, did you guys see Vincent's great piece on that topic?

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#10.3 - Sun May 11, 2008 6:54 PM EDT

{"commentId":4062698,"authorDomain":"spreadex"}

spreadex

TV hell would be watching a week of political ads back to back to back

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#10.4 - Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:08 AM EST

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Sandie Seward

I know that "Lost" is very popular.......but it "lost" me midway through the Second Series.

As you probably know, I like my Soaps, British ones, that is. I enjoy Doctor Who, any "Startrek", (my favourite being "Deep Space Nine". )

I enjoy a good British Drama. My favourite two American series were "Twin Peaks", and "M.A.S.H.

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1 vote

#11 - Sat May 10, 2008 3:17 PM EDT

{"commentId":1787101,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

Scott (Scoop) Butki

My favourite two American series were "Twin Peaks", and "M.A.S.H.

Now there's two shows not often mentioned in the same sentence.

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2 votes

#11.1 - Sat May 10, 2008 8:17 PM EDT

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AmazingSDJ

I love BBC miniseries. They are always good. My Nana, who grew up in Kent before marrying an American, got me hooked on those early. Any BBC production of a Jane Austen novel will do, but the 1995 version of Pride and Predjudice with Colin Firth is my all-time favorite.

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3 votes

#11.2 - Mon May 12, 2008 10:32 AM EDT

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Angel_C

I'm with you, AmazingSDJ! My husband will watch them once with me, but I can watch them several times.

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1 vote

#11.3 - Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:24 PM EST

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Division by Zero

Lost lost me around Episode 4 of the 2nd season. We had moved and our satellite dish installation got botched 3 times in a row over a span of about 2 months. By the time we finally got everything up and running I had no interest in the show. Even with it airing on SciFi now, I haven't bothered to catch up.

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1 vote

#11.4 - Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:14 PM EST

{"commentId":4066521,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

Scott (Scoop) Butki

I caught up to Lost and Heroes via watching dvds of the earlier seasons and this season is/was the first watching it "live" but in both cases I'm not sure if I'll be around it for next season.

However i'm hooked now on shows like Fringe and Chuck.

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#11.5 - Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:17 PM EST

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Roy Batty

My TV Hell?

"Dukes of Hazzard" on every channel, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Except for church services all day every Sunday.

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2 votes

#12 - Sun May 11, 2008 4:21 PM EDT

{"commentId":1789371,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

Scott (Scoop) Butki

I worked a house one weekned where two of the special needs adults "watch" tv all day and nite. They get mad if you change the channel and so I left it where they wanted it: CMT. It was all country music - i'm not a fan of most modern country music (I prefer alt country from the johnny cash school of country to, say, shania twain) - with some Dukes of Hazzard in between.

It was hell. And one of the two guys is deaf and partially blind!

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1 vote

#12.1 - Sun May 11, 2008 6:55 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

The house I was at this week the guy watched - all day - cartoon network (some of it isn't bad) and Disney (oy!)

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#12.2 - Thu Nov 13, 2008 12:57 PM EST

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Division by Zero

It was all country music - i'm not a fan of most modern country music (I prefer alt country from the johnny cash school of country to, say, shania twain)

Same here. This "new country" that sounds to me more like rock with a twang just doesn't appeal to me. It's like country rock has taken over country music. Give me some old school country if I'm going to have to listen to it.

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1 vote

#12.3 - Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:17 PM EST

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

But for some reason most of the guys I work with listen to new country so it's growing on me.

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#12.4 - Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:51 PM EST

{"commentId":1845268,"authorDomain":"Andimia"}

Andimia

My personal TV hell would be having to watch Laguna beach and the hills over and over and over. I'd rather be dead then watching that garbage. Seventh Heaven too, damn did I hate that show with a passion.

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1 vote

#13 - Tue May 27, 2008 4:28 PM EDT

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Henry VII

Two and a Half Men.

You knew it was coming.

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2 votes

#14 - Tue May 27, 2008 5:14 PM EDT

{"commentId":1847944,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

Scott (Scoop) Butki

Is that the Charlie Sheen show?
Has any tv show in which two men live together been good since MASH and the Odd Couple? And no, friends was not good.

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1 vote

#14.1 - Wed May 28, 2008 11:35 AM EDT

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Henry VII

Yes, it is. Yes, I hate it with every fiber of my being.

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2 votes

#14.2 - Wed May 28, 2008 4:37 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

(copies down that information for future blackmail potential.)

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#14.3 - Tue Jun 3, 2008 1:16 PM EDT

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alkimija

Daytime tv. Reruns of Three's Company. Any teen-oriented or "reality" show. CSI Miami.

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3 votes

#15 - Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:01 PM EST

{"commentId":4050947,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

Scott (Scoop) Butki

Definitely agree with that last one. I so hate David Caruso that I even started this story once to get him killed.

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2 votes

#15.1 - Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:27 PM EST

{"commentId":4051051,"authorDomain":"darkdingo"}

Uncle Nick

[mental note: Don't piss off the Scoop (or on the Scoop, for that matter)]

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2 votes

#15.2 - Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:35 PM EST

{"commentId":4051117,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

Scott (Scoop) Butki

mental note: keep an eye on pappa nick and his "mental notes")

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2 votes

#15.3 - Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:39 PM EST

{"commentId":4054327,"authorDomain":"divbyzero"}

Division by Zero

The funny thing about Three's Company is that I was in elementary school when it was originally on the air and I didn't "get" a lot of the jokes and double entendres. As an adult I have a different appreciation for it. Also interesting was that as a child I always thought the blondes was hot. As an adult, I'd pick Janet over any of them, no doubt about it.

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1 vote

#15.4 - Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:22 PM EST

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nohandouts

Dislike Football and Reality shows, like the Biggest Loser. These people get themselves fat and then are idolized for losing the weight. Come on, I can think of a lot of other accomplishments we could spend an hour praising.

I usually have on CNN or FOX because everything else is a lot of garbage except the History Channel, or that Animal Channel, or PBS, or the Weather Channel, or Discover. Well ok, I guess there a few good channels.

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2 votes

#16 - Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:00 PM EST

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fancyshopgirl

Practically all tv is my tv "hell"...I'm not much for anything but the Travel Channel, Food Network, and a few Fox shows on Tuesday nights (House and Fringe)...But if I had to come up with a few " I CAN'T STAND IT" times they would be as followed: ANY Seigal movie....ANY Van Damme movie...ANY Schwartzenager movie...ANY Norris movie...any Stallon movie....that Nick~at~Night channel...anything citchy or yeehaw~ish...NO judge shows (Judge Judy brings out the worst side of me possible)...all those "reality" shows like Survivor or Big~brother or Wife~Swap or Biggest Loser etc...are just down right dumb in my book...all the stupid spin~offs like CSI...CSI New York..CSI Miami...or Law & Order (all 15 bazillion of them)...call it a traumatic child~hood with two older siblings...but TV~land would be my TOP hated channel of all time...Any old rerun makes my eye twitch...and not in a good way lol...I don't care if its Beverly Hillbillies or reruns of Friends n Seinfeld...that channel is on my blocked list on my cable box..lol

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#17 - Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:03 PM EST

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Angel_C

TV is HELL most of the time...I click through and 90% of the channels are on commercials! ACK. I'm so glad for Netflix and online streaming of my favorite shows!

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2 votes

#18 - Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:26 PM EST

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

I used to argue all tv was crap. Now I've adjusted that to 99 percent is crap but some of that one percent - shows like Dexter, Fringe, House and Chuck - are better than many movies.

I and others vented and journalled over here at a Writing Down the Bones exercise on tv.

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1 vote

#18.1 - Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:30 PM EST

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Miss_Diagnosed

Being stuck in perpetual Tim&Eric Awesome Job Great Show ... Oh my God, is murder still illegal if you are making people smarter by killing?

Any sitcom show where the family is perfect.

Any sitcom with a one liner character who is supposed to represent some sort of minority.

Anything "Remastered" by George Lucas - Leave it the @!$%# alone George!

Anything where reality is supposedly consisting of a bunch of bombshell blondes in their early twenties and a bunch of model boy males in their mid twenty to early thirties.

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3 votes

#19 - Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:52 PM EST

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3kyw4law

My TV hell:

1. Reality shows 24/7

2. The shows that come on MTV or VH1 (except the trivia ones - I like trivia)

3. Soap Operas - daytime and nighttime, old and new (no Dallas please, once was bad enough)

4. Stupid movies 24/7 - movies like School of Rock, Austin Powers, etc.

5. a 24/7/365 of the kiddie shows - like Hanna Montana, The Suite Life of Zach and Cody

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3 votes

#20 - Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:51 AM EST

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

5. a 24/7/365 of the kiddie shows - like Hanna Montana, The Suite Life of Zach and Cody

ding ding ding - we have a winner. I saw at least 4 hours of those two shows every day this week.

It pompted a dilemme - if someone - be it a child or in this case special needs adult, falls asleep while watching a show like that is it permissable to change the show? upside - you wont feel your brain turn to mush, downside they may/will wake up less happy and as most of my recent clients are bipolar that's bad.

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1 vote

#20.1 - Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:23 PM EST

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spreadex

How about 24 hours of the little fat guy who eats anything and then trys to make you think the wiggling worm he just ate tastes good.

Also that lady on the food network that thinks a little flour helps the two pounds of butter make a better cake. If you ate her diet fro a week you would end up in the hospital.

Best on is a week of FOX news pundits telling you how to think.

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2 votes

#21 - Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:17 AM EST

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Dan Hallo, aka, Zoilus

The "700 Club" or anything of the sort.

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2 votes

#22 - Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:25 PM EST

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AdipicAcid

Two words:

Broken TiVO.

And I've had to live through it.

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2 votes

#23 - Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:41 PM EST

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JaRagga

I really don't watch much tv but I'll give it a go. 900 channels with nothing that interests me is tv hell.

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#24 - Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:02 PM EST

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Gwenny

Watching tv at all. We turned off the cable and unplugged the tv 2 years ago. Except for an occassional episode of Bones while I'm waiting for something to happen, I have not watched anything since.

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2 votes

#25 - Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:53 PM EST

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