except we did not watch Dukes of Hazzard for some reason
Ya freak!
OK, I can't explain whey I liked that show. Maybe it was the cars. (I liked Boss Hog's Eldorado convertible especially. But that car never got to do any cool jumps.)
Glory: Lesson number one, Vampires equal impure! Spike: Damn right I'm impure, I'm as impure as the driven yellow snow!
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Oct 29, 2009 7:25:34 am PDT #15872 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
P.M. Marc - Oct 29, 2009 7:29:52 am PDT #15873 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I watched a lot of boxing.
Boxing, hockey, All in the Family, MASH, Barney Miller, Macgyver, Magnum PI, Star Trek re-runs...
(I mean, I also watched your standard assortment of Saturday Morning TeeVee, but except for Electro-Woman and Dyna Girl, they all blur.)
tommyrot - Oct 29, 2009 7:33:29 am PDT #15874 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
ION, this cracks me up: Minimalist nativity set
§ ita § - Oct 29, 2009 7:33:51 am PDT #15875 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I had one channel, in black and white, until we moved to England when I was 12. TV didn't come on air until hours after we came home from school. There really wasn't much discussion of shows at school at all, even though I remember getting fixated on the idea of watching Man From Atlantis when we finally got it. But that was just all about me and a burgeoning crush on Duffy.
Gudanov - Oct 29, 2009 7:35:09 am PDT #15876 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
The thing I remember the most are the after-school Godzilla movies.
It's so totally different for them, they sit down and can watch any episode of several versions of Scooby-Doo, any episode ever aired of Fetch! (Great show), any WordGirl, any of over a hundred Authors, any of about 80 Spongebobs, any DragonFly TV, and a few other shows. There's a big PBS bias in available media.
ChiKat - Oct 29, 2009 7:36:11 am PDT #15877 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
It is DARK outside. And RAINING. Why the hell am I not in bed?
I do not know. You totally should be.
I watched a lot of tv when I was growing up (still do!). My favorite was the Bionic Woman.
tommyrot - Oct 29, 2009 7:37:01 am PDT #15878 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It's so totally different for them, they sit down and can watch any episode of several versions of Scooby-Doo, any episode ever aired on Fetch! (Great show), any WordGirl, any of over a hundred Author's, any of about 80 Spongebobs, any DragonFly TV, and a few other shows. There's a big PBS bias in available media.
When I was a kid, we only got the Green Bay stations. Three channels, plus PBS. Once when I was five or so I dreamed that we had 40 channels of TV. I was so excited! and so bitterly disappointed when I woke up....
smonster - Oct 29, 2009 7:41:32 am PDT #15879 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
OK, I can't explain whey I liked that show.
For me it was cute boys, explosions, and Southern accents. I also wanted Daisy Duke's jeep, if not her wardrobe.
javachik - Oct 29, 2009 7:42:17 am PDT #15880 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
As an only child of an indifferent parent, I watched all of the tv I wanted, whenever I wanted. My teenaged years I memorized TV Guide cover to cover and had the listings grid memorized for every night (even for shows I didn't watch). I was obsessed with the fall preview issue. (I was the same way about movies, actually). I don't know that it did anything for me socially, in school, although everyone always counted on me to give facts about tv and movies.
Fast forward to today. I stopped getting TV Guide when it went to large format. I have no idea what time any shows are on, save for "Glee" (and even that one I was confused about because I think it aired on a couple of Fridays too?), 30 Rock and The Office (and Parks and Rec, now). That's it. Steve and I did fall into watching a repeat of the White Collar pilot on Saturday, and enjoyed it. I know there's a TON of great tv on, I just am very behind in all of the good shows. I am finally catching up with Mad Men, but on DVDs.
And I do feel out of it. I used to read TWoP religiously, and now I am always reading recaps years later (if I read them at all).
But I am not creating art or negotiating world peace in all of my newfound time. Nope. I spend it on teh interwebs.
Jesse - Oct 29, 2009 7:44:27 am PDT #15881 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Cutehead Leif. I imagine he could get into some of the tv tie-in toys without getting into the actual shows, if you'd rather go that route.
ION, I went to the post office to get my registered letter, and it turned out to be from the blood center! So I called, and apparently someone who got my blood (among others') came down with some tick-borne disease (babiosis, apparently), and they want to test me (and everyone else). I guess it can be chonic but non-symptomatic in healthy people, but not so good for sick people, like someone who would need a transfustion. I was like, yeah, that's not going to happen, and also, I can't imagine when I would have come across a tick! But kind of interesting.