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So, what shows are your guys' guilty pleasures?  Come on, we all know you got 'em!  You know, shows that everbody else seems to hate (or that the people on this site seem to hate) but that you still love.

For me:
How I Met Your Mother - Everyone I know hates this show.  The characters are somewhat dull (except for Neil Patrick Harris), the plots are cliche, and it's pretty repetitive.  I just can't get enough of it for some reason. :tongueout:
Friends - While, I do know some people who like this show, it seems to be a general agreement to hate its guts.  I don't know why, but it's somewhat calming to me.  And I never watched it until this year when I found a DVD set at a thrift store for cheap.  I've started becoming a fan a decade and a bit too late.
Glee - *Dodges shoes*  Okay, I like show tunes.  Is that a crime? :teddyr:

So, what do you guys got?

I really like Two and a Half Men.

My favourite character is Evelyn, Charlie and Alan's mother.  She is an absolute cracker.  My mum used to be exactly the same as her (minus the posh job and all the money).  But the thinly veiled personal insults, the perfect clothes, hair and makeup, the disdain for her kids, the withering looks, the arrogance and self absorbtion and her ultimate confidence in reducing men to blubbering rubble are exactly the same.

Mum is 63 now and mellowed a lot.  She even wears jeans!  :teddyr:  But my sister and I sit there and howl with laughter at Evelyn's antics and we say to mum, "OMG she's just like you".

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers-
When my kids were little,they watched this stuff constantly-and I got hooked. Yeah-pretty sad....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgQhyquS9Ms

Neighbours

Bridezillas

Cartoons. I love 'em but it can be a little embarassing when you're an adult.

* THE BRADY BUNCH - The blueprint for 1970s TV cheese.

* HAPPY DAYS - Season 1, when it was a pretty good nostalgic look at the 1950s.  Subsequent seasons were nothing more than increasingly lame sitcoms that could have taken place in any era and generally were not specifically related to the 1950s.

* COPS - I can watch those weird people getting dragged out from under crack house porches over and over again and never get tired of it.

* LAND OF THE GIANTS - I have the whole series (one season) on DVD.  You gotta love those giant rubber hands!

She-Spies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZrM5VboGvY

I enjoy Hell's Kitchen. Why? I enjoy watching people who are not me under pressure.

The Big Bang Theory - know it's not well-liked here but I love it! It makes me laugh and is full of genre and comics references.
Wife Swap (UK & US versions)- I find myself drawn into this show whenever it comes on.
Hoarding: Buried Alive- like it better than Hoarders but I find myself drawn and fascinated by this show.
Mary Tyler Moore & Rhoda- bit unusual for a guy like me to like these shows but yeah I do.

Just what I was thinking.  Some of the dumb ones (with canned laugh tracks sometimes) I'll sit through just for nostalgia purposes, like Jabberjaw, Hong Kong Phooey, Captain Caveman, Laff-A-Lympics, Dynomutt, etc.  Another reason for watching is my appreciation for the famous voice actors having to slog through this garbage and still sounding as great as ever (Frank Welker, Daws Butler, Pete Cullen, Don Messick, etc).

I've gotten strange looks when I've told people I'd rather watch old superhero cartoons than any of today's TV shows...but hey it's the truth, I really would.

Adventure Time and Regular Show- I watch both even when isabela is gone...

I must admit I watch a fair amount of Nick-Jr with my son as it distracts him from his longings for warm human flesh. In any case I have actually found myself enjoying this show called "Backyardagins" mostly because the musical score is amazingly well done. Gets me a few stares the next day when I'm humming it around the lab.

No shame, I had to watch for the pink ranger. 

Most of Adult Swim and 1000 Ways to Die (Yes, I am morbidly curious about things such as this and Darwin Awards.)

Isabela use to watch Backyardigans. I had the song 'cowboys, cowgirls' stuck in my head for about three years. After reading your post i'm sure it will lodged back in my brain again hahah.

The reason the music is so good is due in part to it being done by Evan Lurie. He is the pianist for the very great and quirky avant-garge jazz band The Lounge Lizards. That's why you hear a lot of Latin jazz, Carribean, and Cajun elements to the music.

Not to mention giving us all the illusion that family problems can be solved in a half hour or less. And, if most of us guys back then daid we weren't waiting for an upskirt shot from Marcia, OR a shot down her blouse when she bent over, we'd be lying thru our teeth  :wink:


True, but I think the main point of that was to show that all manner of problems existed within any family unit regardless of the time that family existed. But there was much more going on in the real 50's than the show let on, I agree.


Any time our police can get more of that poison off the streets, and have greater penalties for those who have and sell it to our kids, more power to them.


One of Irwin Allen's higher budget shows, which I think killed it.  There again, it wasn't like Lost In Space where many props from his other shows could be effectively used to portray a proper size proportionate to normal sized actors, thereby saving money in the process. 

LOTG specifically needed larger props and greater camerawork to portray the size of the situation (to put it mildly, lol)  and I think the show's budget became impossible to maintain because of it.

Lastly, I was 7 in 1971 when it went off TV and remember it fondly.  Great post!  :cheers:

The Joy of Painting w/ Bob Ross. (I could watch and listen to this man all day.)

Bill Nye the Science Guy. (I love science!)

Gilligan's Island. (I'm not joking, I know all the lines from every episode.)

Aqua Teen Hunger Force. (This is a show that fits my taste, I love the humor!)

Shin Chan. (Best cartoon ever, the humor is sick.)

The Three Stooges. (I could watch them all day lol.)

Agreed, this TV show is a real hoot when the sh*t starts hitting the fan and everyone goes to town to satisfy their selfish needs.  It's always funny from start to finish.

Oh, a wiseguy, huh?  Spread out, applehead!  :bouncegiggle:

Star Wars The Clone Wars...I find it a lot more entertaining than all the prequels combined and certain parts of ROTJ.

Julia Child

Mister Rogers Neighborhood

Reading Rainbow

Sesame Street

Various Nature Shows

Spongebob - I liked it when it first came out, and then I stopped watching it for many years and claimed I didn't like it, but since my daughter has started to watch it I f'n LOVE it!  It's SO funny!  My friends still think it's stupid but I'm sure it's because they haven't sat and watched it.  Adam West and Ernest Borgnine do voices for Mermaid Man!  And Dauber from Coach is Patrick!

iCarly - I don't really feel guilty about it, I really like it!  It's just a little embarrassing to tell my friends that it's on because I like it, not because I didn't change the channel after Spongebob.

Hot in Cleveland - My husband started DVRing this for me as a joke because I love The Golden Girls, and then I started watching it thinking I wouldn't like it because I'm not really into most sitcoms.. but it's pretty funny!  So I never stopped it from recording.

I really don't like reality TV, but I did watch a couple seasons of Flavor of Love and The Girls Next Door (the ones with Holly, not the ones with the twins).  I have no excuse for these, except maybe that I have a girl crush on Bridget.

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I saw wayyy too many shows like this when I was a kid ~ one of the ones I most remember was the Australian series The Lost Islands with its' creepy purple masked villain named Q.  :buggedout:

I'll occasionally watch women's gymnastics.  Like most guys I suppose  :teddyr:

I watch a lot of shows centered around auctions/collectibles/antique stores/pawn shops. 

That show was wicked.  I used to love it when I was a kid! Good choice, Trevor.  :smile:

For some stupid reason, it is only available on DVD in France and Israel.  :question:

KB: do you remember The Rovers?

The rovers, the rovers, follow the wandering star, the rovers, the rovers, wherever the four winds run...... great theme. I remember Dad having to tell me what the guy was looking through in the credits ~ it was a 16mm camera  :lookingup: ~ and why the bird was pooping on the Captain's shoulder and why was there a koala bear on board the ship?  :teddyr:

 :buggedout:  WE got that one, Trev!  I had forgotten all about it until I read this.

My wife and I went to the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics (mens and womens) show when they were on tour after the last olympics.  It was basically a bunch of gymnastic and dance routines set to pop music. 

Guilty.

And womens tennis too.


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Don't forget ESPN back in the day... Body Shaping, Kiana's Flex Appeal, Yoga. :thumbup:

Also guilty.

Judge Judy.  She doesn't always explain her legal reasoning.  She frequently asks legally irrelevant, embarrassing questions because of the entertainment value, and she's deliberately rude, again for entertainment value.  But I find it entertaining to decide the cases. 

The brawls. The fights. The cast. The characters. The dialogue. The humour. The music. The tears. The fears. The villains. That's what makes a guilty pleasure for me. Thus, here are my guilty TV pleasures in alphabetical order.

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Batman (1966)
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
Burke's Law (1963)
Covington Cross
C.P.O. Sharky
Desperate Housewives
Doctor Who
The Doctors (1963)
Friday the 13th (1987)
Hercules: the Legendary Journeys
Hull High
The Lost World (1999)
The Love Boat: the Next Wave
New Avengers
Prisoner (1979)
Second Noah
Shirley Temple Theatre
The Tribe
The Untouchables (1959)
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
War of the Worlds (1988)
The Wild, Wild West
Xena: Warrior Princess
The Yellow Rose

Summary: as I said in a previous post, I haven't watched much TV in the past three years, but I watched alot of TV in the previous five decades before that, and this is the result. I was surprised at how much respect many of these shows get now, even the real obscure ones that were on less than an year. To keep things imaginable, I didn't post my guilty pleasures among the cartoon shows on TV that I saw. Those I'll post later. Thus, to be continued . . .

A few years back, it was on the news that her grandson was beaten up on a playground somewhere.  According to the story, he was acting the same way as his grandmother when it happened, that insulting, condescending and instigational manner. 

No suprise as to why that happened......

Spongebob?  I'm divided on the show. It is funny to be sure, but Spongebob is a very grating character-that constant chattering, and that starry-eyed ADHD "kid in a candy store" attitude. Then, he has this constant insistence and imposition upon the other characters as he acts with endless optimism.  It's enough to make you crazy somedays.

However, the show does have it's genuinely funny moments centered around other character's reactions to Spongebob, and there's some good music, like the " Spongeob Tore His Pants" song.  Very reminiscent of the old 60's beach-era music.

Just asking too, but wasn't it Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway that do Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy?  BTW-those two are funny as all hell.

"Quick Barnacle Boy, to the Invisible Boat-Mobile! "   :bouncegiggle:

Yep, it is!  And in one episode Adam West played a young Mermaid Man and Burt Ward played a young Barnacle Boy! :teddyr:

The Bubble Bowl song was the best!  There's an episode called Ear Worm where this Musical Doodle song gets stuck in Spongebob's head and ruins his life.  After I heard that song I couldn't get it out of my head either!  But it didn't ruin my life... I just think they have to have some talented people there that can write a song that does that.

Oh wow, how cool is that?  :bouncegiggle:

It's amazing what Batman and Robin did for superheroes. The old Batman TV show is still one of the greatest and funniest shows, ever.  To the day they go to that big stately Wayne Manor in the sky, Mr, West and Mr. Ward will forever be Batman and Robin.

Some say that Bob Kane's creation of Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse was the inspiration for Batman and Robin, with the "Cat Gun" and the "Cat Cave" and all. I'd say it's a good bet.

True. I remember the Ear Worm episode too  :smile:

And yeah, some very talented song writers. I liked the one where the all became a heavy metal band and Squidward had huge muscles and a black t-shirt. 

And then there's the "Fun" song...right up there with "Don't Worry, Be Happy."

In terms of good Spongebob episodes, I remember one where the Krust Krab is bought up by a corporation.  The corporation changes it into a cheesy family restaurant, and then when Mr. Krabs loses all the money he got from selling the place, they hire him back as a waiter.  There's quite a bit of social commentary in this and other episodes.  I especially remember with this one, after the corporation bought the place, they started using synthetic patties, in a scene reminiscent of Soylent Greens. :thumbup:

Actually I like a lot of the other shows named here (see below)...funny thing is I never felt guilty for liking them before.

Gilligan's Island
The Three Stooges
The New Avengers
Batman (1960s)
Doctor Who
Friday the 13th
Hercules & Xena
The Wild Wild West

Nor did I feel guilty for liking:

Battlestar Galactica (1970s)
Buck Rogers (1970s)
Star Trek (Original Series)
Forever Knight
RoboCop: the Series
M.A.N.T.I.S.
Three's Company
The Ropers
DeGrassi (the classic shows)

The show right? I remember that. How about that episode with the tree house/club house in the backyard teleporting and trapping kids into some creepy dimension...

40 years later I still scratch my head at this show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL5c7vLuzJw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSCbjpIpjd4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-nY60lYqxM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt33MOBSIbY

I watch movies on Lifetime and Oxygen when I need a good cry.

Here are my guilty pleasures among the animated TV series I saw on TV. They're my guilty pleasures for much the same reason that the live action TV series posted above were. But, instead of being posted in alphabetical order by title, I've posted these in chronological order by which I saw 'em on TV.

The Mighty Mouse Playhouse (1955)
Beany and Cecil (1959)
Hoppity Hooper (1964)
Jonny Quest (1964)
The Lone Ranger (1966)
The Mighty Heroes (1966)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1967)
The Pink Panther Show (1969)
Star Blazers (1979)
The Real Ghost Busters (1986)
Count Duckula (1988)
The Further Adventures of Super Ted (1989)
The Wizard of Oz (1990)

Summary. If it surprised me how much respect my guilty pleasures among the live action TV series got, then it surprised me how little respect these got, even though many of them are due as much respect as the live action TV series. I'm also surprised at how many of these are foreign TV productions, even more so the live action TV productions.

Danger Mouse.

Dungeons & Dragons - Animated Series 80's

Smurfs.

PACMAN Animated Series

Fat Albert.

Well, back when I still had tv:

Ace of Cakes
Project Runway
America's Next Top Model
Miami Ink
LA Ink
Iron Chef
Viva La Bam
Rob & Big
The "I love X Decade" shows they ran on VH1
Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares
Hell's Kitchen
Pawn Stars

I guess it's a good thing that I don't have tv anymore

I love that show.  I haven't seen it in a while though.

I got a few, particularly anime.  Feel free to look up them up on YouTube since most of them are not safe for work: Shuffle, 009-1, Midori Days, Girls Bravo, and most recently Sekieri.

One of them, which is safe for work, is called Princess Tutu.  Yeah...  watch the show before you judge!  It is incredible!

1000 ways to Die- Some of it's just plain out funny as hell, other times, it's just a head scratcher.
Jersey Shore-NOT! That show can kiss my ass :teddyr:
Car Science- Imma car freak!

TMZ --- it makes for great background noise while I'm eating dinner.

Yes I admit it, I watch iCarly. It's pretty funny. I wish there had been a show like that when I was a kid. I also watch the CW soaps, "One Tree Hill", etc. I can't help it, the CW have a habit of casting the hottest women in the world for their shows. I have no shame in watching sci-fi shows, I figure on this site I won't get judged for that.

  I don't think I would ever admit this to anyone in person but  I really like The Nanny. Fran is pretty easy on the eyes, despite the Voice, and you also had her wacky family, the wise-arse butler and occassional cool guest stars. I like it most though because is has a spirit of fun. This show never takes itself too seriously and is really just concerned with having a good time. Sure it's total fluff, but it's really good at being fluff. When you call off work because you're actually sick, this is a fantastic show to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VVhROZSTh0&feature=related

I agree, you gotta have fluff. Mindless fun. That's what a sitcom should be. It all got ruined in the 80's by the "very special episode." I love stuff like "Gilligan's Island," "Married with Children," and "Sanford and Son." I wanna laugh my ass off, and not be hit over the head by a heavy message. I always hated un-realistic upper class families like the Cosby's and the Cleavers. I like flawed characters like the Bundy's, Larry Darrell and Darrell and Kramer. Oddball loosers are an endless source of comedy.

  I agree on the sitcoms. I watch them for entertainment. There was a good episode of Scrubs that put forth the idea that sitcoms have their purpose in the tv eco-system. They can provide mindless laughs and even a level of comfort because of their familiarity.  Peronally I like a little high brow stuff, a little low brow stuff, and some stuff that;s in between. I guess I like variety. (And variety shows, where are those anymore?)

Yeah I hated that crap too. I hate shows where everything is solved in 30 minutes. I'll take Roseanne over that anyday.

There is no shame in this.  :teddyr:


A guilty pleasure for me is Come Dine With Me.
Its addictive.

My Life as a Teenage Robot (in case you didn't figure that out). I like it more for what it could've been more than for what it is, but I still have an unhealthy obsession with it.
Tales from the Crypt. It's not very funny, nor is it very scary...But I still love it for some bizarre reason.

I like both of those also, iCarly is damn funny I think, on the other hand DO feel guilty.

Do you like Fairly Odd Parents? That's one of my favorites.

Wonder Showzen. It was only on one season, I loved it, but it seem like it could rot away a person's soul. It was just so offensive and disgusting, but funny.

I tend to watch a lot of Slice and TLC when there's nothing else on, you know, s**t like Newlywed, Nearly Dead, X-Weighted (I have a big crush on Nadeen Bowman), Rich Bride, Poor Bride, etc. (hangs head in shame)

I do kind of like America's Next Top Model, although I prefer to let my wife think I'm putting up with it because she wants to watch it.

Also a number of dumb kids' shows. The great thing is when you have a kid of the right age to watch them with, you're allowed to like them. Actually, I almost like the really bad ones the best. Dora, Caillou, etc. are freaking hilarious if you watch them in the right frame of mind. And that seems to be rubbing off on the kid, since I can't help riffing on the shows. Now, when Dora and Boots hear Swiper and stop what they're doing to worry about him stealing the object they need at that moment, Ro is the one to say "Just use the thing and it won't matter!" That's my girl.

I'm glad she's getting old enough to move up to some more sophisticated kids' shows. I've been introducing her to Spongebob Squarepants, and I've been meaning to check out Fairly Oddparents because I think it looks funny. She still finds Grossology a bit scary at times. Actually, now that I mention it, I would consider Grossology to be a guilty pleasure of mine.

I love your take on kids shows. My son's good and addicted to Diego of course it doesn't help that my wife and I make fun of some of the stuff they do (like rocks are falling on top of them so they stop and turn around to talk to the kids to ask for their help).

What channel is grossology on? it sounds interesting.

I believe Grossology is a Nickelodeon show, although it's been aired on YTV in Canada up to now.

The thing I love about Diego is the way wild animals always need human assistance, sometimes to do simple things they're supposed to do instinctively. We also make fun of the fact that both Dora and Diego introduce Spanish words without speaking them clearly or making sure kids understand how to say them. And they only seem to teach kids to use one Spanish word at a time, and never how to put the words together, which is great if you want to learn how to speak like a Mexican Frankenstein monster.

Mounted In Alaska...hey, I love taxidermy.