TV Shows You're Ashamed To Admit You Watched/Still Watch.

[Arkana]

Come on, fess up. Everyone's got 'em. The old-school Power Rangers, any Americanized anime...you've all watched them, and hated yourself for doing so.

I've got quite a few.

Pokemon: Go ahead, laugh. But there was just something about the cutesy atmosphere, shitty dialogue, and monster battles that broke every rule in the book that made me watch it.

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Yeah, I watched it--in the same manner that one watches a trainwreck. I just couldn't look away. Even when the WB moved it to the early timeslot (8am), I would set my alarm. OH GOD WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING

Fairly Oddparents: The humor in this show still makes me giggle like an idiot.

Teen Titans: I'm so, so, sorry...but again, it has Trainwreck Quality (tm).

[Hosnon]

1. What I Like About You

:yoiks:

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

2. Dawson's Creek

Never watched it and scoffed at it when it was a big deal. Now it's on when I fall asleep.

[Left Is Write]

3. Ashamed? No. Embarrassed? A little.

Saved By The Bell.

:blush:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

4. Oh. My. God.

:rofl: :hi:

[kmla]

33. I agree. You should only be ashamed if you watched it...

...'cause you had a crush on Screech.

:P

[Left Is Write]

36. Whew.

I definitely did not!

[Mad_Dem_X]

38. Me too

...But only the high-school ones with Kelly and Jessie. I hate the ones with Tori. :P

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. some people just don't know quality TV

The Original Jeopardy with Art Fleming.

HEE HAW ...dueling Gatemouth Brown/Roy Clark was awesome!!! John Henry Faulk was pretty cool too (He was one of Joe McCarthy's victims...sued CBS and won. For details, read FEAR ON TRIAL)

and the best silly game show ever!!! LET'S MAKE A DEAL, with America's top trader, TV's Big Dealer........MONTY HALL!!!

Batman
Laugh-In

[Deja Q]

26. No, Match Game is the best game show ever!

:D

After all, Mary said to John "Would you put your ((BLANK)) on my shoulder?"

[gemdem]

78. Love Match Game

We get Game Show Network, and the missus and I love to sit and watch. Just the right level of naughtiness without being nasty. It was (and in reruns still is) great fun.

[last_texas_dem]

6. _Saved by the Bell_ for sure

Yeah, it's bad, but it wasn't pretending not to be so I can't really be too hard on it as a show. But I used to watch the hour-long block on TBS almost every day after school when I was in fourth and fifth grade. I probably saw that episode where "Jessie" gets hooked on the caffeine pills seven or eight times. (TBS seemed particularly fond of showing that one.) I'm pretty sure there isn't an episode I haven't seen! (I can say the same for "The Brady Bunch", but I still like watching it, so I'm not ashamed of that one.) When I think about the hours of my life I wasted during the prime of my childhood watching that show; let's see, that's an hour a day for 175 school days a year times two school years.... ugh, it's better I don't keep thinking about it.

Oh yeah, and if I ever start watching "Full House" now I wonder how I used to enjoy watching it so much. It's just so, so, very cheesy. And I have quite the high cheese tolerance...

In terms of more recent shows, it's tough 'cause there's very little TV I watch. But I watched the WB's short-lived Related series last year, 'cause I thought the youngest sister, played by Laura Breckenridge, was really pretty. And it was fairly entertaining. But now I'm a little ashamed... haha

ON EDIT: Here's a pic of Ms. Breckenridge, since I did use her as my justification for watching that cheesy show. (And I just think she's really pretty. It's the giant Bambi eyes, I guess...)

[PassingFair]

7. Flavor of Love

Couldn't help it.

Both Seasons.

No excuses.

[Broken_Hero]

12. My wife enjoys the same show...

and I called who would he would pick in Season II...honest injun...:) My wife is fascinated with the show...and by proxy, I watch it too...

[Left Is Write]

37. You DO know about the upcoming "Flavorette" do you not?

[Debbi801]

65. Just not sure I can take 12 weeks of New York going off the deep end...

and even worse, watching her mother again. :rofl:

[Left Is Write]

66. Yes, her mother is a piece of work.

I'm just wondering where they are going to find the men willing to sign up to be tortured!

[jmm]

115. Here's a preview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw6SZ-6tjtQ

edited to add another preview-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbSnwLsWwXk

[Debbi801]

63. me too, and My Fair Brady (both seasons).

[texas1928]

8. I am not ashamed, I watch my shows and like them.

I will readily admit it.

[BarenakedLady]

9. If been know to watch

Degrassi. Both the original and the new version :blush:

[MrCoffee]

45. Degrassi is nothing to be ashamed of...

i loved the original Degrassi (Junior and High) back in the day.

Spike was the shit!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

52. I was a big fan of the original DeGrassi series, too, and

I was in my thirties when it was shown on PBS!

[ghostsofgiants]

53. Degrassi Junior High/High were awesome!

[ruiner4u]

10. Buffy the Vampire Slayer...

when FX <I think?> was showing 4 episodes a day for 2 years I taped every day and watched em.. I remember going through all the seasons about 3 times...


And if they show em again, ill tape em... I love me some slayage... :) Oh yeah,im a dork..

[twilight_sailing]

14. Buffy rocks!

And I am not ashamed to say it.

[driver8]

29. That is a great show!! I still watch it!!

Maybe it's because I have a huge crush on Charisma Carpenter...but that's beside the point.

Buffy kicks ass!

[barb162]

54. Hey, great show, no need to be embarrassed

[Skittles]

11. no, everyone does not got 'em

if I would be ashamed to admit it I don't watch it....although I will confess I simply am not a big TV fan - now MOVIES, oh, I won't even start with the crud I've willingly gone to see :)

[hsher]

13. Sesame Street and The Electric Company

[begin_within]

28. I watched both of those. The original Electric Company had a great cast!

Rita Moreno, Bill Cosby and Morgan Freeman were regulars, and the show used the voices of Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder and Joan Rivers, songs by Tom Lehrer and claymation by Will Vinton - what more could you ask for? It was the best children's educational show ever, I think.

[peekaloo]

43. I loved 'The Electric Company'. Add 70's era 'Zoom' and you have my

3 favorite PBS shows while growing up.

:-)

[GenDem]

71. Zoom, The Electric Co, & Mr. Rogers Neighborhood

Don't forget Mr. McFeeley.

[Sequoia]

74. I still like Sesame Street too.

I liked it when it first came on although I was in Jr. High. Don't watch now that my child is older, but now and again I like to catch Mr. Noodle.

[Giant Robot]

15. Yu-Gi-Oh

I can't even tell you anything about it, but I can't turn the channel when it is on. I feel so dirty inside.

[Fleshdancer]

16. I LOVE Fairly Oddparents

and I like Teen Titan too. Avatar is pretty interesting.

I guess I'm embarrassed about watching All My Children. I blame my mom...she watched it from the beginning and she got me hooked early in life. Now I watch it even when it sucks.

[Archae]

17. These two 70's SF classics...

Buck Rogers and the original Battlestat Galactica.

The new BG sucks!

[Deja Q]

25. I'm in your camp

I've the BR DVD set. Some of it is cheesy, but other episodes are downright fun.

The original BG was good until they lost the Cylons, and then it turned into maudlin soap opera. Ahead of its time, in some ways... (and their 'Ship Disaster' episode was obviously the prototype for Star Trek TNG's even worse version...)

[everythingsxen]

18. What is there to be embarrassed or ashamed of?

All the shows you listed are awesome, sort of. OddParents is hit or miss. YuGi/Poke get boring fast though. I used to watch them more.

Teen Titans is cool. I still like DBZ/GT.

Do I hate myself for it or feel ashamed? No way. I like what I like and could care less of others opinions.

The only thing I did feel a bit ashamed of was getting hooked on celebrity poker. I still like watching it. I generally hate all vapid celebrity shows, but thats a little different because its about poker, not celebs.

[Arkana]

35. It's a tad embarrassing when you have to quickly change the channel

when someone walks into the room.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. I like "Frasier" and "Everybody Loves Raymond."

I hate that they were cancelled, and still watch them in syndication. But I'm most sad that "Joan of Arcadia" bit the dust. I loved that show and I'm an agnostic... :shrug:

These days, I just watch news...:-(

[QMPMom]

21. Everybody Loves Raymond is my all time favorite show.

FYI: It wasn't cancelled. They all decided to quit while they were on top. I can watch that show every time it is on and not get tired of it - and it's on a *lot* these days in syndication.

[Rhiannon12866]

87. Yes, they pulled it. I know, since I used to work with CBS.

They just ran out of stories, but I loved that show. I watch it it syndication, as well. My favorite characters are Raymond's mother and brother. They alway make me laugh...:D

[SPKrazy]

84. Frasier and EBLR Are Great Shows

Frasier especially, I've seen every episode at least 3 times, just hilarious.

Raymond is good too

I don't even watch the news much anymore as I get news online more than TV

I only saw Joan of Arcadia a couple of times, somehow I missed it usually?

:-)

[Rhiannon12866]

88. I still watch Frasier and Raymond in syndication,

and Frasier is brilliant, both acting and writing. BTW, I went to Church School with David Pierce. My mother was his teacher, LOL. She writes to him... :D

But "Joan of Arcadia" is lost to me. I was very apprehensive about watching the last episode, since she went up against the devil and thought it would be really scary, but it was just a precursor to the season premiere, which never aired...:-(

And you're sure right about TV news. You have to view it with a jaundiced eye.:-(

[SPKrazy]

98. Hey Rhiannon12866!

You went to school with David Pierce, was he funny then too?

He cracks me up!

TV news is jaundiced, yellow and biased towards the right

my opinion anyway

:hi:

[Rhiannon12866]

104. I went to Sunday School with David Pierce, LOL. Big Difference!

He wasn't funny at church, but was very smart, back then...:D

And he is very funny, even now, comes home to participate in Alzheimer's charity events, since he lost his Dad to that...:-(

As for TV news, bias is one of the biggest problems we have, IMHO...;(

[RoyGBiv]

106. I liked him as Niles ...

And then I saw him in Spamalot as "Brave Sir Robin" and various assorted parts. Now *that* showed his talent. Brilliant and funny.

[Rhiannon12866]

108. He's very talented, no question.

He was my favorite character on "Frasier," which I still enjoy. But I knew David Pierce when he was five, in my mother's kindergarten class. I wasn't much older. :-)

[spillthebeans]

20. I watched Space above and Beyond

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112173/

and kinda liked it

Star Trek TNG, of course


as a kid, I'm ashamed of "The A-Team","The Bionic Woman"
or "Misfits of Science" but it had Courteney Cox in it http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088568/

[MonkeyFunk]

22. House of Carters....

I'm so ashamed.

[Lady Freedom]

23. The Yu-Gi-Oh series

And if any of you want to make something of it you better have your game on!!!

[Arkana]

75. It's "Get your game on," dammit!

:grr:

[caty]

24. Alright---I'll admit it.

I'm hooked on "Dead Like Me".

http://www.deadlikeme.tv/index.php

[dropkickpa]

118. I freakin' LOVE that show

I was sooo pissed when they cancelled it!! They left so much unsaid!

[itsmesgd]

27. ok here goes

CHiPs, Magnum PI, Rockford Files, A-team, Andy Griffith, and the rest of the 80's cop-PI shows. I watched too many of these with my best friend from school. Now he's a cop and I am a private investigator. That goes to show you how bad television can be. I wish that I had watched more Perry Mason or Quincy, then I might make more money.
I also watched too much Muppets (season 1 on dvd), and my ex-wife reminded many of ms. piggy (with her snoty attitude *cough-and appearance-cough*

[Christa]

30. The bachelor, American Idols, Big Brother

I am mortally ashamed :blush: :dilemma:

[miss_american_pie]

31. Oy

Jimmy Neutron

:blush:

[youthere]

32. QVC. I like some of the Susan Graver stuff.

[Divameow77]

34. Paradise Hotel

gosh that show was bad.

I don't really tell people I love The O.C... or that I watch reruns of 90210.

[Orsino]

39. Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0131176/

My wife got into it during my last year in the Army, and we've been going through the DVDs. It's terribly overwrought, I guess, but well acted, and the characters, almost all of whom are ruthless f-cks, have astonishing depth. Everything is dirty. I have little use for Westerns, usually, but this is a good one.

I'm having a blast imitating the accents in hypothetical slashfic.

[DrDan]

40. Semi-Homemade

with Sandra Lee

[Left Is Write]

64. Here's an extra asbestos suit...

You might need it. :)

[DrDan]

80. yeah - I was expecting the worse

but - I think she is sooooo good looking

[likesmountains 52]

41. I watched Texas Cheer Moms the other day...like a train wreck...so

awful I could not look away..a "reality" show of a Waco HS Cheer squad and their overbearing mothers....

[Phillycat]

42. The O,C.

Oh, delicious cheese.

[graywarrior]

44. What Not To Wear

How Do I Look
America's Top Model
MTV

Like I said, I'm 12.

[NewJeffCT]

46. I love to watch those bad Saturday night Sci-Fi movies

Last week, it was something like "Basilisk: King of the Serpents"

Like a train wreck, I'm drawn to watch. It's like a gathering of washed up Sci-Fi actors - Basilisk had Cleavant Derricks (Rembrandt from "Sliders") and Yancy Butler ("Witchblade", I think) I think Dean Cain & Coolio have been in a few, and I remember seeing the guy who played Chakotay from Star Trek Voyager.

[RubyDuby in GA]

47. I am totally loving Higglytown Heroes right now

I turn it on in the morning because my 6 month old likes to watch the colors move around on a TV (takes after his daddy who refers to the TV as "the sacred box".



I'm not embarrassed about watching it. However, I am deeply disturbed that I know the hero song...

[NewJeffCT]

49. I know the song, too

My daughter watches it sometimes.

You're a Higgleytown Hero brave & true, help the town with the things I do...

[RubyDuby in GA]

51. Oh Pickles!

I'm glad I'm not the only one :)

[Puglover]

48. Survivor

Have loved it from the 1st season. I know. I'm a loser.

[crim son]

50. Then I'm a loser too.

The only shows I watch regularly on t.v. now: Survivor and CSI, the original. Sometimes I watch Masterpiece Theatre on PBS but not regularly. Other than that, I did watch the entire Buffy the Vampire Slayer series over the summer to keep me sane. None of these facts embarrass me! Well, not much.

[trogdor]

60. 48 posts before somebody admits watching reality TV?

[Demoiselle]

55. JAG reruns. They're on every weekday morning here in Philly.

It's the uniforms. It reminds me of the old Steve Canyon comic strip. There. I am REALLY old.

[NewJeffCT]

56. Other shows I used to watch that I'm a bit ashamed about

The A-Team (I heard a commercial with Mr. T over this past summer and the theme to that show was going through my head for days!)

Wonder Woman
Battlestar Galactica (the original)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
The 6 Million Dollar Man
The Bionic Woman
Three's Company
The Dungeons & Dragons cartoon
Superfriends
The Spider-Man cartoon (the one with the Spider-man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can song)
The Incredible Hulk show with Bill Bixby
The Spider-Man show with Nicholas Hammond, even though it sucked.

I'm sure others will spring to mind.

[THUNDER HANDS]

57. WWF Monday Night RAW

Back 6, 7 years ago it was my favorite show. I've stopped watching once Rock and Stone Cold left and/or got dumb.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

109. Same here. n/t

[Zavulon]

58. Taxi

It's sort of a "car wreck" thing. I remember thinking it was an above-average comedy. Now I see that it fucking sucked.

[MorningGlow]

59. Charles in Charge

I KNOW I KNOW--oh GOD do I know. But I have my excuse at the ready: It was the first thing on when I got home in the afternoon during my one and only year teaching high school English. I was so wiped that the only thing I could do for the first couple of hours in the evening was lie on the couch and watch bad TV. I didn't even have the energy to change the channel. And when I had partially recovered I would make a giant tub of popcorn for dinner.

What a crappy year that was...

[malmapus]

61. Battlestar Galactica *cough*1980*cough*

Ok, it had that one good Starbuck episode though! Plus it was just soooooo bad, it's like a train wreck if it's on.

[Bum Whisperer]

62. Sex and the City...

...and I'm a happily married guy.:shrug:

[Throd]

67. Cops

My wife totally hates it and leaves the room

[MrCoffee]

69. i've been known to tune into World's Wildest Police Chases Caught on Tape

oh the shame, it burns.

[quiet.american]

68. McMillan & Wife

Some of the worst story ideas, writing, directing and acting in television history and I love every episode and won't watch anything else if it's on.

[Kashka-Kat]

70. America's Next Top Model - it's on tonight

Actually its pretty good, was surprised at what a likeable person Tyra Banks is. Stuff about confidence and believing in yourself. Yah I know, I know... hokey. Thankfully the girls don't look particularly anorexic.

[tigereye]

72. The OC

I liked whatzisnames parents. Seriously.

[Sequoia]

73. Little House on the Pararie

Up until Laura got married.

And...The Walton's...up until they get bigger and start getting married.

[NMMNG]

111. Glad to see I'm not the only one

I had a thing for Melissa Sue Anderson (that's not the only reason I liked the show, though I liked it less once she left). It did "jump the shark" once they added the Cooper children and especially once it became "Little House, A New Beginning".

[Radical Activist]

76. I like the Dukes of Hazzard but I'm no longer ashamed.

I have come to embrace it.

[Radical Activist]

77. Elimidate

Perhaps the most evil show on Television and I absolutely love it.

[Kashka-Kat]

79. I used to like it & the batchelor before they became so damn formulaic

used to be youd get quirky personalities on Elimidate incl some smart funny girls. Now they just go straight for the catfights and boob fests which is fine if you like em but I just get bored.

I've decided I'm never going to watch the batchelor again-- I never want to hear the line "every girl dreams of being a princess" EVER AGAIN!!!! And what's with these guys-- they always choose the one with the most vapid personalities.

[Porcupine]

90. I LOVE dating shows. God I'm lame.

.

[Arugula Latte]

81. America's Funniest Home Videos

Watching brides fall down and guys get hit in the crotch by a baseball bat swung by a four-year-old just never gets old, I guess. :blush:

[terrya]

82. "The King of Queens"

Don't ask me why, but I still catch the reruns.

[Rhiannon12866]

92. Hey, I like that one, too...

It's pretty funny, especially Jerry Stiller...:D

Rhiannon:hi:

[terrya]

93. If Jerry Stiller left the show, I wouldn't watch it.

Actually, I'm not sure if it's still on the air...

Jerry Stiller is a treasure. :-)

:hi:

[Rhiannon12866]

96. It's going to be on for an hour, 8-9 EST, this coming Wednesday.

I saw a commercial for it during "60 Minutes." :-)

And I agree about Jerry Stiller...:hi:

[Zookeeper]

83. Animal Planet...

When Good Pets Go Bad (!). Also, Animal Cops.

:blush:

[YDogg]

85. Scarborough

[Dastard Stepchild]

86. Bones

It really is not a good show, but I simply cannot help watching it. That said, it feels really strange to refer to my self as a Bones fan, but I am. Sadly, so sadly, I am.

[Mythsaje]

112. Bones is great!

Why do you say it's not a good show?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

89. Dating Game

Loved Dating Game...once saw a match between Josephine the Plumber (Jane Withers) and Gordon McLendon (Texas radio/media tycoon, owned KLIF and KILT).

Couldn't stand Newlywed Game.

Loved Batman!!!!

[njdemocrat106]

91. American Idol

I feel like I have to take a shower after watching American Idol. And even sadder, I'm looking forward to the next season!

[dajoki]

94. Married With Children...

I love Al Bundy and his antics.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

100. Nothing wrong with Married with Children.

:hi:

[GenDem]

95. Andy Griffith & I Love Lucy

[Rhiannon12866]

103. I still think "Andy Griffith" is one of the best shows on television...:-)

As for "I Love Lucy," this was the precursor to the modern sitcom, and broke many barriers. :-)

[RoyGBiv]

107. Two of my favorite shows ...

Not ashamed of them at all.

I thirsted for the day various legal issues got resolved so that I could buy TAGS on DVD. Whenever I'm in a bad mood, I just put in one of the DVDs from the first 5 seasons, and I am lifted.

Their one and only Christmas special is my favorite Christmas special of any television show ever. I'm sorta glad they didn't do others. It makes that one special.

[borlis]

97. The Brady Bunch

I think everyone wanted their family to be just like them. Hell, I just want an "Alice" for myself.

[evirus]

99. two...

anime: sailor moon
racy: sexual healing(actualy their were some vary cute and vary sad momenst in some of the episodes)

[Strawman]

101. Sat through a few episodes of Small Wonder in my day

And I'm not sure how it ended up on the TV or why. I attribute it to pure laziness. I was probably laying on the couch and unwilling to get up and grab the remote.

[cwydro]

102. MTV's

Real World. Am I the only one who watches this crap?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

114. No because I am watching this crap right now.

In fact I am typing while looking at the tv behind me at the same time.

And this show is serious crap . damn it went down from the 10-12 years since it started.

[chknltl]

105. America's Top Model

Shandi should have won a couple a years back!

[NMMNG]

110. Little House on the Prarie

What can I say? I always had a thing for Melissa Sue Anderson. :shrug:

[arewenotdemo]

113. Cheaters

that was before i gave away my tv

[undeterred]

116. All My Children, American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Blind Date

[Jade Fox]

117. Those home video shows.....

Tho much of what they show is crap (with the emphasis on men getting hit in the crotch), I never fail to be reduced to hysterical laughter at least once per show.

[Dervill Crow]

119. Charmed and Hex.

Not something a proper witch should be watching.