TV Guilty Pleasures

[speciousreasoning]

Next guilty pleasures:
Family Guy - I have no idea why I turn TBS on every Monday and leave it on. This show is childish and gross, but if I see it's on, I'm sitting on my loveseat like a schmuck.

Futurama - Again, I don't remember when or why I started watching this show but dammit I have to watch it when I find it's on.

ETA - When I was a shift nurse, I used to watch Days of Our Lives occasionally. It's educational. I now know what to look for when someone's dead but they're really on an Island somewhere. I know that Evil People never really die, they just keep showing up being all evil. I know how to tell when people are possessed by Satan. And I know that when I'm standing four feet away from someone, I can have a conversation with myself about the babies I switched and the evil schemes I've done and they won't hear me. I was learning, dammit!!

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Futurama is a guilty pleasure?

[starskin]

I was going to say the same thing, EvilMinion! And I'm surprised Family Guy is a guilty pleasure too, especially since people actively lobbied to get it put back on air...and succeeded!

[jettrink]

I'm addicted to The People's Court. I want to be Judge Milian when I grow up (says the 35 year old child). I have it Season Passed on my TiVo and I have to stop myself from watching it as soon as I get home from work. I wait until Sunday (my day) and watch 5 episodes & 15 cases in a row. It's pure bliss. They air it here 3 times a day too! Though I only TiVo one of them because the other two conflict with other shows. I can't even begin to imagine the Heaven I would experience if I could watch 15 episodes and 45 cases on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

[speciousreasoning]

evilminion said:

Futurama is a guilty pleasure?

Again, it is for me. I love the old episodes of The Simpsons but dismiss all other adult "cartoons" as crap. Then I started watching both Futurama and Family Guy just recently. And they've sucked me in. And I still have no idea why.

[sleepy]

evilminion said:

Futurama is a guilty pleasure?

It is not! It's high calibre viewing, goshdarnit!

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

[starskin]

Futurama made me cry. The episode about Fry's dog? You know, how the dog waited and waited and waited him to see him again and never did? I'll admit it, I was sniffling like a little girl at the end. That's some good writing right there! So no, it's a good show, not a guilty pleasure.

[tinyshoes]

starskin said:

Futurama made me cry. The episode about Fry's dog? You know, how the dog waited and waited and waited him to see him again and never did? I'll admit it, I was sniffling like a little girl at the end.

Are you me? Because I can't watch that episode anymore. Makes me cry every time. I'm getting a little misty-eyed just typing this.

[starskin]

Between our mutual love of Mike Rowe and our emotional crisis over Fry's dog, we may well be the same person, tinyshoes!

Hmm, guilty pleasures. Oh! Man, I love love love watching the Spanish networks (Telemundo, Univision, etc) at 3 and 4 in the morning. My Spanish is terrible, so it makes everything even more nonsensical. It's like "There's a middle aged woman dressed as a baby doll! There's a guy in a jail-bird costume! Hey---is that a pirate? Oooh, Vincente Fernandez infomercials are on now. I may have to buy his greatest hits collection!"
It's a sickness, I tell you.

[mariposalabrown]

Oh I love the Spanish channels. I always stop on the game shows with adults riding tricycles through dumb obstacle courses and the random girls in bikinis dancing. There is a show called "Chicas en Bikinis" that comes on, and that's all it is. Girls in bikinis dancing and looking bored. It's mesmerizing.