As seen at Sleeping in the Forest, its another meme but this one got me thinking about television viewing so I added a post at the end. Here are the instructions:
1. Bold the shows you watch/used to watch.
2. Italicize the shows you’ve seen at least one episode of.
3. Bold and italicize the shows you own* on DVD.
4. Post your answers.
50. Quantum Leap
49. Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars
47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
46. Sex & The City
45. Farscape
44. Cracker
43. Star Trek
42. Only Fools and Horses
41. Band of Brothers
40. Life on Mars
39. Monty Python
38. Curb Your Enthusiasm
37. Star Trek: The Next Generation
36. Father Ted
35. Alias
34. Frasier
33. CSI Las Vegas
32. Babylon 5
31. Deadwood
30. Dexter
29. ER
28. Fawlty Towers
27. Six Feet Under
26. Red Dwarf
25. Futurama (w/ Angel)
24. Twin Peaks (saw one show for the first time a few months ago)
23. The Office
22. The Shield
21. Angel
20. Blackadder
19. Scrubs (with Angel)
18. Arrested Development
17. South Park (with Angel)
16. Dr Who
15. Heroes
14. Firefly
13. Battlestar Galactica
12. Family Guy (Yeah, Angel forced this one)
11. Seinfeld
10. Spaced
09. The X-Files
08. The Wire
07. Friends
06. 24
05. Lost
04. The West Wing
03. The Sopranos
02. Buffy the Vampire Slayer01. The Simpsons (mostly with Angel)
Growing up we had a small black and white TV with the classic wire hanger antenna and pliers to change the channel. My mother had left my father, taken the four of us and went to graduate school. We were living on her teaching assistant stipend and loans.
My mother also has always hated TV. My sisters and I would gather around "the boob tube" (as my mother called it) to watch such classics as Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, and All In the Family (ok, we also watched Eight is Enough and Fantasy Island). Periodically my mother would emerge from her room, stand behind us, and start a critical analysis of whatever show we were watching. It did not add to my viewing pleasure.
I write all this as an explanation of why I think I've never been all that into TV (although my son and both my husbands feel quite differently). There are shows I definitely love (West Wing was probably the best written show ever) but I'm a reader and will almost always choose a book over a TV show. Even so, over the years I have managed to watch and follow a great many shows--with few of them represented on this list. What about M.A.S.H.? Where's Cheers? or NYPD Blue? How about Homicide: Life on the Streets? Let's not forget Good Times, Maude or Sanford & Son. Honestly I haven't heard of about a third of the shows on this list and it is making me feel very old.
1 comment:
I sound like your mother in my disdain for TV. For the most part, I despise television. PBS has great documentaries. I do love old re-runs of M.A.S.H. and Vincent D'Onofrio on Law & Order. And X-Files was cool (I'm showing my nerdliness again).
People are shocked when I tell them I never had cable. Just didn't want it. Recently, I got a new internet service provider that had a deal on one of those "bundles." Cable was part of the deal. Now it's my turn to be shocked. I flicked through the stations to see what the big deal is. I've never seen such a bunch of mindless crap in my life. The first thing I saw was a show about a bunch of middle aged women fighting each other to have sex with an aging "rock" star. Huh?
I haven't missed much.
You're awesome, Brigindo. Keep on posting.
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