Because I was gone for nearly a week, I had a lot of shows queued up on the TiVo waiting for my viewing pleasure. How TV watchers get by without a TiVo I’ll never understand (no, DVRs do not count as any non-TiVo units I have used suck).
I don’t watch much TV myself but I do have several shows that I have been either watching for years or are into because they are new, interesting, smart, and edgy.
FX has really been impressing me lately. I got turned on to FX when they were showing the second season of Nip/Tuck. I only watched that season (I just couldn’t get into the third) but paying attention to their programming since I have been sucked into several other shows of theirs’.
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Currently I am into “The Riches”. This show is about a family of modern day gypsies that take over a dead family’s home in a rich suburban neighborhood while trying to con their way through “normal life”.
While it’s not quite as great as I expected (both being an FX production and getting rave reviews from numerous critics) it does have it’s place on my Season Pass list and I have been enjoying it so far.
Kim had to duck when the lead character bullshitted his way through his first day of work as a “lawyer” in a real estate firm. Hell, “duck” is too loose. She actually turned it off and said she couldn’t take it that day. I had to finish the show today. If only I could do that to her when that douchebag Sanjaya Malakar showed up on stage with a huge fucking rooster plume on his head.
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Family Guy has been a staple for me since college. During the “off-time” when Fox decided that the humorless Christian Right was more important than its main viewership I pirated all the episodes over the net and would watch them frequently.
Once they came out on DVD I swiped all of those up and would watch them a little less often but still when I needed to see what a really funny show was.
Now that they are back on TV (although a bit more tame) I am watching them weekly via the TiVo. Kim purchased half of season 4 for me on DVD and I have been going through those before bed as we don’t have a receiver in the bedroom.
For my ACS 250 (American Culture Studies) class in college, I presented a paper on Family Guy’s Season 2 episode “I Never Met the Dead Man” and how they were accepted in popular culture while still being inappropriate, uncouth, and vulgar (completely up my alley). I deserved an A but she gave me a B because the video was “inappropriate and included racial bias without warning.”
Being that was the entire point of my discussion, I just shook my head and walked away.
Just because this is a lot of text without any photos, here’s a deleted scene that never appeared in this episode but should have:
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The Simpsons. I don’t have much to say about this other than it’s a bad habit that I can’t seem to break. The seasons keep getting worse and worse but at least there are some parts that continue to be funny.
It’s not nearly as edgy and excellent as Family Guy but it’s still enjoyable. How you hate something that’s been on TV almost as long as you’ve been alive?
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King of the Hill. This just goes along with the two shows above. How can you survive Sunday nights without watching three completely different families interact in cartoon heaven?
Beer drinking, proud rednecks, Peggy Hill and Propane. What more could you ask for?
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Law and Order Special Victims Unit (SVU). I have been a huge Law and Order fan for years. It’s a staple of rerun TV and one that I never tire of. I have probably seen just about ever episode ever but it’s always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling hearing that ding ding — especially when the first scene opens up with a dead, raped, woman and someone cracking a bad joke.
I don’t know why we watch SVU, sometimes it’s so sick and twisted with too many poorly interpreted and forced current events, but it’s what’s on the Season Pass.
Don’t argue w/the Season Pass ;)
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Monk. I love Monk. He’s funny, it reminds me of Wings which was the rerun staple before Law and Order, and it gives me something to look forward to on Friday night.
We have 6 episodes on the TiVo so that we can record it for Kim’s parents who don’t have cable anymore. I have to get around to a VHS recording solution that isn’t as cumbersome as it currently is.
I was actually embarrassed purchasing VHS tapes. The woman at the counter said to me (mind you, she said she was under 40 but looked 60) “we don’t even have a VCR anymore.”
I was owned.
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Six episodes of Voltron. Dynatherms connected. Nuff said.
I told Kim that Dancing with the Stars and The Real World rots her brain. She told me that Voltron is worse.
She just doesn’t understand.
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And finally, six episodes of Man vs. Wild. While I was informed that this guy is a pussy compared to some weirdo that they have on the Military Channel (Man vs. Wild brings a camera crew, the one on the MC does his own taping apparently), I do enjoy watching what he does.
It makes me feel safe knowing that I could save myself MacGuyver-style if I fell out of a helicopter in the Andes with only a parachute and a pocket knife.
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