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What Were You Watching in 1997?

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (89)

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Last week, apropos of nothing, we looked back 21 years at the 1987-88 network primetime schedule, to take some of our geriatric readers (those over 30) on a trip down memory lane before they actually lose their memory. Today, apropos of nothing, let’s take a gander at the 1997-98 primetime network television schedule for the benefit of our under-30 readers.

And if you were under 30 and a teenager in 1997, man: Your television options sucked. We don’t have an image this week, so in order to see the entire schedule, you’ll have to click here. It’s amazing the difference a decade makes: While I watched a ton of television in 1987, a few of the shows in 1997 don’t even ring bells: “Over the Top,” “Hiller and Diller,” “George and Leo,” “Cracker,” and “Promised Land”? And those were on the Big three networks. How did NBC manage Must-See Thursdays? It had “Friends” and “Seinfeld,” but I don’t remember ever watching “Union Square,” and I may have accidentally watched one episode of “Veronica’s Closet.”

Of course, there was “Buffy” and “The X-Files,” and “Mad About You” was still on, as was “Spin City.” I believe “Ally McBeal” was the huge break-out hit that year. But otherwise: Wow. TV really sucked in 1997. Did anyone actually watch “Michael Hayes” or “Delaventura”?

I’m glad that by 1997, I was drinking.

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Comments

Ah... 1997. A glorious year for the Donut in many respects, but I guess not so much on the TV front. If I recall, I mainly watched movies for the most part. And hockey.

I watched "Simpsons", "X-Files" and the Must-See Thursday line-up. If I recall "Union Square" was about some goofy dude from the south who followed his sister to Harvard (or some school in Boston) and became like a RA or something. If that's the show, then I've seen more episodes than I'd care to admit, though most were in syndication. I was in law school between 1997-2000, so that provided a lot of time to watch syndicated TV (Union Square, Newsradio, Seinfled, DeGrassi Junior High, among many, many others).

I didn't start watching "Buffy" until the summer of 1998.

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at April 10, 2009 10:10 AM

I remember watching that whole NBC line-up that started with Mad About You (my God) yet I can't for the life of me remember what Just Shoot Me was about or who was on it. Newsradio was good though especially the Khandi Alexander/Phil Hartman years, although it seemed NBC had no clue what to do with that show.
As far as FoX goes, they really pulled a bitch move when they sent X-Files to Sundays considering they had a SOLID Friday night Sci-Fi block when X-Files and Millennium ran back-to-back.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 10, 2009 10:11 AM

I was 11 and hadn't gotten to the quality shows I later discovered through reruns (Seinfeld, Buffy, Newsradio, Melrose Place). So it was Home Improvement, Sister Sister, Clueless, SaBrina the Teenage Witch, Boy Meets World, Family Matters, Step by Step, Moesha (MO to the! E to the!), and a little bit of Smart Guy (which had completely disappeared from my memory). I watched a lot of TV back then. Fortunately I was too young to realize much of it was crap.

And yeah, I don't recognize a lot of the shows either.

Posted by: SaBrina at April 10, 2009 10:14 AM

How come I'm seeing Family Matters on CBS Friday's (how much have I had to drink?) wasn't it part of ABC's TGIF juggernaut?

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 10, 2009 10:18 AM

My dad died in '97, and I honestly don't really remember any details of any part of my life until about '99. I have no idea what I was watching then, but it wasn't any of those shows, that's for sure. I stopped watching X-Files because that was the show I watched with my dad.

Posted by: Snath at April 10, 2009 10:18 AM

Where were the shows with African Americans? I’m almost positive that there were black actors and actresses in 1997.

Posted by: Pookie at April 10, 2009 10:21 AM

And if you were under 30 and a teenager in 1997, man: Your television options sucked.

It's almost as if the networks knew it as well, seeing as so many resorted to showing movies at the time.

Posted by: branded at April 10, 2009 10:21 AM

Hey Forbiddendonut, that show that you are thinking of was called Boston Common and it starred Anthony Clark. It was kind of charming and I totally fucking watched it.

This was the year that I graduated from high school and it was Buffy all the way.

Posted by: courtney 2 at April 10, 2009 10:28 AM

Where were the shows with African Americans?

You need to look at the UPN and WB lines, Pooks. And BSlim I think your right. I remember watching Family Matters but I remember barely knowing that CBS existed.

Posted by: jM at April 10, 2009 10:30 AM

And Pookie, are you pretending that the WB and UPN didn't exist? Or do you just not admit that Malcolm and Eddie ever happened?

Posted by: courtney 2 at April 10, 2009 10:30 AM

I was a devoted Ally fan in high school. I still think that's a great show, even if nobody agrees with me!

I was also an X-Files fan back then.

Wasn't Dawson's Creek on in 1997? And Felicity? I watched those.

Posted by: tt_marie at April 10, 2009 10:32 AM

cee... bee... ese? never heard of it.

Posted by: gp at April 10, 2009 10:33 AM

Oh, and I HATED Moesha and Dharma and Greg. H-A-T-E-D, hated.

Posted by: tt_marie at April 10, 2009 10:33 AM

walker texas ranger... aha...

all i can remember is there was a cowboy wannabe with an ugly goatie running around in his truck.. who walked into bars at times with a shotgun and tried to cockblock drunken dudes...

Posted by: nayen at April 10, 2009 10:34 AM

I had a two year old. I honestly don't remember much about that year beyond messes, toilet training, cleaning messes, convincing a two year old to take a nap, going to work, going to work some more, trying to pay attention to my marriage every now and then, and uh...I've got nothing.

I think I could probably tell you all the big TV shows for the preschool set, though. Ooooo what was that Big Comfy Couch show? She loved that one! And I THINK the husband might have been really into the X-Files?

Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at April 10, 2009 10:36 AM

That was the year I graduated from college and I don't remember watching much TV besides the X-Files, Millennium, and the Simpsons. I didn't start watching Buffy until post-college.
Oh, and that schedule reminds me how much I hated Caroline in the City. Isn't that the show where they decided to ignore the fact that her friend was clearly gay and made him her love interest instead? HATED.

Posted by: Stella at April 10, 2009 10:43 AM

George & Leo teamed up Judd Hirsch and Bob Newhart as dad-in law and normal dad respectively to Jason Bateman.
I remember it being quite all right before it got canned.

Posted by: Adere at April 10, 2009 10:45 AM

Thanks everyone, but I’m talking about the goddamn big three networks, ABC-CBS-NBC. Fuck UPN and WB, those are second rate networks at best, hell, UPN and WB don’t even exist anymore. And then you son’s of bitches cry about Tyler Perry’s show on TBS, niggas please!

Posted by: Pookie at April 10, 2009 10:48 AM

was cracker a yankee version of the robbie coltrane show?

Posted by: jim of the lower case at April 10, 2009 10:50 AM

It's hard to find a show that I loathed quite as much as I loathed "Ally McBeal."

Posted by: TK at April 10, 2009 10:50 AM

X-Files, Seinfeld and Ally McBeal were all I was really following, though I did still watch Friends and Union Square (which was an okay show but didn't last very long).

Just had to remind me of the time when it all started to go WRONG, huh?

Posted by: Jay at April 10, 2009 10:52 AM

97?

I dunno, I was 8 at the time... All I remember was Poke'mon and Dragonball Z... and of course M*A*S*H re-runs

Posted by: RonnyK at April 10, 2009 10:52 AM

So much television I did NOT watch!
I limited myself to the X-files, Buffy and occasionally Mad About You (I thought the dog was cool). But I spent more time reading and panicking about exams.

Posted by: Four Eyes at April 10, 2009 10:56 AM

they had pokemons back then? i thought this whole pikachu craze started in the mid 00's

Posted by: nayen at April 10, 2009 10:57 AM

courtney, thanks! That's right, Boston Common was indeed the show. And it was very charming. I liked it.

As for Union Square, I have no fucking clue what that show was or who was in it.

Was Veronica's Closet the Brooke Shields show?

I get confused with the various sitcoms they tried to add into the rotation. The only ones I kind of remember were Single Guy and that Tea Leoni show and that's only because Tea Leoni is delightful.

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at April 10, 2009 10:59 AM

Sabrina, you kinda summed it all up for me. Wasn't that all on ABC? Some kind of family night line up. And they always had one "Wonderful World of Disney" movie night. I have no idea why I would be excited for something like that.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at April 10, 2009 10:59 AM

NewsRadio is the best show on that list.

I really like Fred Savage's Working, too, but I'm sure no one else did. Dana Gould was the voice of GEX, forgodsake.

Posted by: Bucko at April 10, 2009 11:00 AM

Ah, Living Single. Loved that show, even though I was 13 and didn't understand all the sex jokes. They tried to remake that magic with Girlfriends but that's just a steaming pile.

I was a sucker for the TGIF lineup, once Full House ended. Yes, that included Teen Angel.

I distinctly remember a lot of people hating Dharma & Greg, myself included.

Posted by: Brie at April 10, 2009 11:01 AM

Nope nayen, Pokemon started airing in '98 in the U.S. I had to check to make sure.

Posted by: Snath at April 10, 2009 11:03 AM

Veronica's closet was the Kirstie-Alley-runs-Victoria's-secret show featuring Dan BK Cortez and I think the black guy from John Larroquette that got crippled.

Brooke Shield's Show was Suddenly Susan, with that guy that killed himself becasue he had to work with Brooke Shields, and Eyeliner Man from Lost, and Judd Roddimus Nelson was replaced by Eric Idle.

I too loved to watch Boston Common, but I did so at noon on USA on summer vacation.

Posted by: Bucko at April 10, 2009 11:04 AM

Maybe if all of you focused your hate on those fucking pirates out in the ocean fucking up shit, instead of Tyler Perry, maybe I wouldn’t have to carry the mantle for justice around here. Fuck Notre Dame and Arizona State University, maybe if Obama was a young boy and needed rearing in the church Notre Dame I’m sure would welcome him with open arms.

Posted by: Pookie at April 10, 2009 11:04 AM

Pookie you're saying you... fight.. pirates? Is this a metaphor or are you some kind of privateer?

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at April 10, 2009 11:06 AM

I distinctly remember a lot of people hating Dharma & Greg, myself included.

Posted by: Brie at April 10, 2009 11:01 AM

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Family Guy (I know you hipsters hate it but still)slammed it right. It was just a little TOO cute and precious with the whole free "spirit" bullshit.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 10, 2009 11:08 AM

humm,duly noted.

Posted by: nayen at April 10, 2009 11:12 AM

Dude...that schedule is dead fucking wrong on Fridays. Family Matters and Step By Step were part of TGIF on ABC. Who did this? Get me the president of things past!!!

Posted by: PissBoy at April 10, 2009 11:14 AM

Pookie....2 words...Family Matters. Most realistic black family ever to live in Chicago.

Posted by: PissBoy at April 10, 2009 11:18 AM

Hah! Fucking Family Matters.

No one's mentioned Drew Carey, y'all. I loved that shit, watched it with my dadoo constantly. Anyone remember the episode where the opening was looped? They started off with one person doing something at Drew's office, and put that on a loop, and then another person came in and did another thing, and *they* were also on loop, etc, etc...? My family taped that shit and went loopy over it for days.

Posted by: Sapphiar at April 10, 2009 11:23 AM

Oh really PissBoy, the most realistic family you’ve ever seen? You should get out more, I hate to inform you but we’re doctors, lawyers, scientist, we own companies and all kinds of shit. Believe it or not, but one day there is going to be a black president.

Posted by: Pookie at April 10, 2009 11:26 AM

Hrmm...

I am beginning to realize why I am having so much trouble with all of these shows. This must have been taken from the 1997 Fall line-up, no?

That was my first semester of law school. I didn't really watch any TV then. Gklad to see I didn't miss too much.

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at April 10, 2009 11:31 AM

I did actually watch Ally McBeal when it was on. But that was it. I didn't discover Buffy until it was almost over, and then I just Netflixed the entire batch and watched them without commericial or weekly interruptions. I think the rest of the time I was weaving.

Posted by: BWeaves at April 10, 2009 11:32 AM

Wow Pookie, you sure did show my ignorant ass! Or maybe you don't get sarcasm... ...ever.
Let's see, Suburban Chicago, 6 bedroom house (if Richie slept in with his mom), 2 car detactehd garage....on a city cop's salary? Yeah...REALLY fucking realistic.

I'm pretty surprised you can't take it as easily as you sling it and apparently you were aching to go with the "Oh...PissBoy must mean it's cuz they were black..." angle.

(And CBS bought Family Matter and Step-by-Step for the 97-98 season it seems.)

Posted by: PissBoy at April 10, 2009 11:34 AM

Calista will always be Ally to me, just as Keri will always be Felicity. (Actually, she was better in that Pie movie, but even then, it was "Felicity, starring in..."
I do not go back to those shows, as I know they won't have held up well, but man, do I miss the angst and silliness.

Posted by: Sweetie Dahling at April 10, 2009 11:34 AM

Ferris Bueller's family lived in suburban Chicago. It took mom and dad being a lawyer and a real estate agent to pay the bills...and mom still drove a fucking Plymouth Reliant Wagon. Just saying...suburban Chicago is fucking expensive and a patrol seargant's salary just wouldn't pay da bills.

Posted by: PissBoy at April 10, 2009 11:39 AM

My family never got the WB, and we didn't get FOX until after 2000. So...I wasn't watching much.

Drew Carrey Show, Just Shoot Me. I have no idea how I spent the rest of my time. Slowly dying indide, probably.

Posted by: frumpiefox at April 10, 2009 11:41 AM

Oh, and let me just say that Thomas Gibson aka "Greg" from Dharma & Greg is, and shall always remain a fucking joke for being on that turd. I laughed my ass off every time I saw him trying to act all "hard" as a supposed FBI agent on that awful Criminal Minds bullshit.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 10, 2009 11:43 AM

Drew Carey was an inventive, fairly well written show. I loved those novelty episodes it would have. When can we get Drew on DVD?

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at April 10, 2009 11:47 AM

What's funnier is if you'd seen Thomas Gibson in "Love and Human Remains" before Dharma & Greg.

Posted by: Jay at April 10, 2009 11:56 AM

Babylon 5

It's was the best Sci-Fi show of the last 15 years that no one on the site talks about. Seasons 2-4 anyway.

Posted by: anderbot at April 10, 2009 12:00 PM

I was officially out by 1997. I was 22 years old and the bar was about 500 feet away from my apartment door. As an aside, these blissful years are why I now appreciate How I Met Your Mother so much. The Mr. and I were totally Lilly and Marshall.

But this is noteworthy for the few remaining stalwarts that were still around, like Sunday night movies and a decent NBC line up on Tuesday nights. And hey, Murphy Brown was still on!

Posted by: katy at April 10, 2009 12:03 PM

Well, no wonder I was making decent grades in high school; the only tv shows I remember watching was Simpsons, Buffy, and Drew Carey.

I had to watch Buffy on the shitty 12 inch tv out in the garage because my dad would not shut up with the mockery while it was on; "What the fuck is this, kid? She's in love with the vampire but she's supposed to kill him? Oh, for fuck's sake, can't we watch something decent?" And yet, he adored the movie Clueless.

Posted by: Brook at April 10, 2009 12:04 PM

BarbadoSlim -Just shoot Me - david spade and wendy malick work for a Cosmo type magazine

For the Chicago/racial debate - cops have to live within the city limits and that house probably is affordable to a cop south of Comiskey.

Posted by: Jeremy at April 10, 2009 12:11 PM

Now those goddamn pirates are threatening to kill the captain of the ship if they don’t get their ransom money. I’m so pissed, just blow their asses up. I don’t wish to fight with you PissBoy, I was just commenting that back in the day African Americans were hard to find on any of the big three networks, save for “Family Matters.”

Posted by: Pookie at April 10, 2009 12:15 PM

Please don’t get me started on the cops that are sworn to protect and to serve, unless you are a suspicious looking black person.

Posted by: Pookie at April 10, 2009 12:20 PM

I'm sure I was being blown away by Andre Braugher .

And fluffernutting through Melrose Place of the off-nights.

Posted by: Cindy at April 10, 2009 12:26 PM

Voyager, 3rd Rock, Drew Carey, Friends, Just Shoot Me, Frasier, Home Improvement, Ally McBeal, X-Files, Family Matters, Sabrina and Boy Meets World.

I think you are going a little far in your pretentiousness if you say that the entire 97-98 lineup sucked. I'm in your under 30 crowd, and I look back fondly on all those shows.

Posted by: alphawhiskey at April 10, 2009 12:43 PM

Oh smack me in the head. Of course Homicide was still on. Mea culpa, murder police.

I can't reconcile "22 in 1997" and "blissful". How was that possible?

It was my major, wasn't it. I knew it!

Posted by: Jay at April 10, 2009 1:01 PM

I watched Sunday night Fox, Thursday night NBC, and in between News Radio and Buffy. Sort of close to my current tv watching habits.

Speaking of, The Simpsons has been better lately. The humor has gotten decidedly weirder and they are really taking advantage of the new widescreen format, either for elaborate set pieces or just to make it all look bigger.

Posted by: TylerDFC at April 10, 2009 1:03 PM

Um, I think I only watched TGIF and Nickelodeon in 1997 with a random episode of Buffy or The X-files here and there. Really, it was all about The Secret World of Alex Mack for me.

Posted by: kelsy at April 10, 2009 1:07 PM

Oh! And Sister, Sister. Twins are always comedy gold.

Posted by: kelsy at April 10, 2009 1:07 PM

Much love Pooks. Much love. Glad we could resolve peacefully.

As for our Captain. Don't we have some canned special forces guys somewhere who can just pay them a little nighttime visit, cut cut, stab stab, little snap oh the neck, slap of the silencer...bang! Captain's home safely? If I'm not mistaken, most of these "pirates" are poor farmers working for drug lords or thievery groups. They should be, militarily speaking....fucking pussies. We're the USA dammit. I'm not 7 trillion dollers in debt because the government designed a new coffee pot. It's all military. Use infrared, nightvision, and laser guidance to find these 12 guys with muskets, show them a digital watch that beeps so they'll think you're an all-powerful sorcerer, and bring our guys home. Or send 3PO...he's pretty impressive to look at according to the Ewoks.

Posted by: PissBoy at April 10, 2009 1:09 PM

I forgot about Drew Carey. I wish I had watched it during it's popular years, but I only caught it on WGN. But the Rocky Horror vs Priscilla episode was one of their best.

Slim, I remember that Family Guy episode, and it did nail that stupid D&G show. That was back when Family Guy was actually funny.

I think you are going a little far in your pretentiousness if you say that the entire 97-98 lineup sucked. I'm in your under 30 crowd, and I look back fondly on all those shows.

You're not the only one, Alphawhiskey. But pretentiousness is common here, you'll get used to it.

Posted by: Brie at April 10, 2009 1:12 PM

For anyone who care, according to Wikipedia (which is always right) Family Matters aired from September 22, 1989, to September 19, 1997, on ABC, and moved to CBS from September 19, 1997, to July 17, 1998. So yeah...

Posted by: griffimx at April 10, 2009 1:19 PM

Man I just noticed the Pretender is on there, that's an example of strong premise, AWESOME first season, and then everything went to FUCK.

PS: the broad that was chasing was hotter than hell.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 10, 2009 1:19 PM

I apologize for being rude Pissboy, but I just can’t get the thought out of my head that a bunch of third world goat farmers have our navy at a stand still, that shit is beyond belief. This is American, we don’t play that shit.

Posted by: Pookie at April 10, 2009 1:22 PM

I watched Buffy and I think Ally McBeal (this may have been in 1998 though). I didn't watch much TV that year...I was a sophomore in college. Every once in awhile caught The Simpsons and King of the Hill, I believe. Didn't have a TV really and just watched movies most of the time.

Posted by: ph at April 10, 2009 1:25 PM

My best friend and I would watch X-Files, Buffy and Voyager and MST3K them. Good times. Clearly, Voyager was made for that sort of thing.

Posted by: Jeni at April 10, 2009 1:29 PM

Exactly Pookie. Somalia was impoverished last time I checked. Couldn't someone just walk up and hurl a block of Velveeta past them and while they're busy killing eachother for some processed cheesefood....SNATCH! We have our Captain back.

Posted by: PissBoy at April 10, 2009 1:58 PM

Andrea Parker? Yeah, pretty much.

Turned out my dad loved The Pretender. It was summer so the Space Mountain line was moving slow and he gave me this whole breakdown on the show and why he liked it so much. Upon his death I found all these Highlander videos in his house, along with a licensed katana. As much as he wanted to be an urban cowboy I guess he was totally a geek.

Posted by: Jay at April 10, 2009 2:07 PM

Cheese PissBoy? I mean really, you want to throw government cheese at the Somalians?

Posted by: Pookie at April 10, 2009 2:09 PM

anderbot:

No, Babylon 5 sucked ass. They got the worst possible line-up of actors (Andreas Katsulas and Peter Jurasik are exceptions), and most of the time their stories were absolutely ridiculous. The only thing the series had going was that overarching backstory, which was something new back then. And I hate to admit it, but it hooked even me.

Space: Above and Beyond was way better. Other series consumed: Ally McBeal, The X-Files, Millenium, DS9, Voyager (Bad, I know, but I'm a trekkie), Spin City, a little gem called Action!, F/X, The Pretender, Profiler, Stargate, Earth: Final Conflict (yeah, I know...), and First Wave. That's all I remember.

Posted by: FabMax at April 10, 2009 2:38 PM

"Babylon 5's a big pile o' shit!"

Posted by: Jay at April 10, 2009 2:40 PM

Posted by: FabMax at April 10, 2009 2:38 PM

Posted by: Jay at April 10, 2009 2:40 PM

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You two clowns just forfeited your lives.

How DARE you mess with Bruce Boxleitner and his crew?

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 10, 2009 2:46 PM

Oh and "Hawk the Slayer"'s rubbish!

Posted by: Jay at April 10, 2009 3:18 PM

I was in grad school, my father died, I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and put on Valium . . . yeah, all I remember is a lot of reruns of Highlander.

Posted by: minorblue at April 10, 2009 4:19 PM

I saw that "Cosby" show listed on Mondays on CBS, and thought it was a mistake. Then I remembered he played an airport baggage handler-type (I'm too lazy to look it up) and was married to Phylicia Rashad in this show, too.

I watched a lot of Ally McBeal, The Practice(Bobby Donnell was so pretty), Voyager, X-Files, Spin City and NewsRadio.

Posted by: rlr260 at April 10, 2009 4:35 PM

i only remember watching TGIF simpsons home improvement cartoons. guiness book of world records cops and america's most wanted.

Posted by: utah dynamo at April 10, 2009 5:36 PM

Whatever happened to The Pretender? Is it available on DVD yet?

Posted by: alphawhiskey at April 10, 2009 5:47 PM

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 10, 2009 2:46 PM

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Bruce Boxleitner, whos only memorable acting credit other than B5 consist of Tron and that abomination Scarecrow and Mrs. King? You got to be kidding me. Even his predecessor in the series - Michael O'Hare - was better.

Although the worst actress was Mira Furlann. She was so unbearable, that I had to switch the channel everytime she had more than a few seconds screentime.

Posted by: FabMax at April 10, 2009 6:02 PM

Boxleitner was and always be a consummate pro and his portrayals are more than adequate, sir.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 10, 2009 6:19 PM

Do any of you remember a show on, I think, in the 90's that featured the older flying brother from Heores as some lawyer-type guy who was high-profile by day, and then totally fucking wacked by night? I mean he'd come home and undress and sleep in a little cardboard box he had. This has to exist. Its to fucking stupid and weird to be anything but real. And probably on Fox. I think it had a 4 episode run before they euthanised it.

Posted by: Eric at April 10, 2009 9:30 PM

Eric, I must be mildly dyslexic today; I thought you said the guy from "Whores."

Posted by: Brie at April 10, 2009 9:36 PM

That was "Profit"

Posted by: Jay at April 10, 2009 10:18 PM

I remember fondly when my parents would have all of their geek friends over for dinner on Sunday nights and we'd all watch The X-Files. I was 10 at the time. Why yes, I speak nerd fluently, why do you ask?

Posted by: Quincy at April 10, 2009 11:03 PM

Drew Carey, Frasier, NYPD Blue, Chicago Hope and News Radio were the favorites. I watched others, but not too much. I was 27, single and worked a lot so TV wasn't high on the attention list.

Cracker was a BBC ripoff that I wouldn't watch. Robbie Coltrane was the shit and I wasn't going to watch Eldon from Murphy Brown fuck it up, it's like watching Joe Mantegna do Spenser for Hire, these guys were too small for the role.

I have an Ally McBeal story. I had been dating a girl for a couple weeks and she came over for a little dinner and some TV watching. We had some pizza and she had some wine and things were looking good. However, she took the remote from my hand at 9:00 and put on Ally McBeal. I have and will maintain a hatred for Calista Flockhart, but her smarminess was at Heiglesque levels at the time. While my guest watched the show, I spent the hour glaring at her for not only taking my remote out of my hands in my house, but for making us watch this crap. After the show, when she tried to get amorous, I said no sir...it's time for you to go. And I was giving up not only a sure thing that night, but definite kinky things to follow as she had told me before what she wanted to do to me. Damn you Calista Flockhart, burn in hell.

Posted by: Rubble44 at April 10, 2009 11:15 PM

Well, if you already know you're not gonna want to talk to her afterwards... Cognitive reasoning, man.

Posted by: Jay at April 11, 2009 6:55 AM

I was in high school at the time, and I spent most of high school watching Comedy Central or movies (spent a LOT of money on the Request channel)

Posted by: Barabajagalla at April 11, 2009 1:55 PM

Brie, I must've been momentarily struck by alcohol-induced dyslexia when I wrote that, because I sure as hell didnt spell Heroes right. When I read your comment I looked at what I wrote and for a second I thought [b]I[/b] wrote Whores. Haha.

Beer is good.

Posted by: Eric at April 11, 2009 10:28 PM

Jay,

Sometimes a man has to pass on sexual favors for principle....i can't risk spilling my seed into a Calista Flockhart fan....

Posted by: Rubble44 at April 12, 2009 2:16 AM

3rd Rock from the Sun was fantastic. I still watch the reruns all the time and laugh frequently. And I have a soft spot for Cosby, since Madeline Kahn was in it. I want THAT on DVD.

Posted by: Gabs at April 12, 2009 9:21 AM


















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