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I don't watch ANY of the shows on that first list. Not a single damn one. And I am a better person for it. Not even Fillion can make me sit through another episode of Castle.

There needs to be an NCIS case involving Spongebob Squarepants caught in an accidental murder on WWE.

And for the love of everything holy, someone explain to me HOW 'Two and a Half Men' is still on? What sad excuse of a human being watches that turd?

Terrible show, but good for Nathan Fillion.

And thankfully, the only show on that list I watch.

Well la de da.

That shit is in the top 20 and I lose Life on Mars next week? Fuck American tv viewers.

Pooks, you threatened by a man who can cook, or specifically a man who can cook and watch TV at the same time?

I ain't threatened by no salad eater. Him and his goat cheese, and his wine selection.

Ladies and gentlemen, I know my audience.

I was going to have a beer with my steak, but now, just for Pookie, I'm going to uncork a nice chianti. And yes, I do have goat cheese in the fridge. Chocolate goat cheese.

Take what back, it is valid. Life on Mars gets 15 episodes and Grey's Anatomy is on what, year 5? Geez something ground breaking like Soap would have never made it today.

Healthy? There's more blue cheese dressing and croutons on it than lettuce. But there's something green at the bottom, so it counts.

Cool, last person I want to step out of line with is you Pookie.

I do love criminal intent.

My little sister started off our last coversation with, "so last night on Two and a Half Men".....I haven't spoken to her since.

Jim she's lying, she can take more than three fingers. Don't fall for that shit homie.

And yeah, Kayanne, every character on that show is just so repulsive. Just completely disgusting human beings. I can see people laughing at the lame, predictable lines, but everything else? Don't get it.

And for the love of everything holy, someone explain to me HOW 'Two and a Half Men' is still on? What sad excuse of a human being watches that turd?

Sooo...that would be me, then. I love a smutty comedy and they deliver every week.

Now talk to me about how much I HATE "American Idol".

Paula Abdul is the LEAST offensive aspect of AI. The auditions are a horrible abuse of barely-sentient humanity. The singers are the blandest and most whitebread (yes, Fantasia, too.) performers in popular entertainment history. (Yes, including Lawrence Welk.) The structure of the show forces them to eliminate anyone who is unique and interesting, so that the biggest tool always wins.

Note that only ONE winner of AI has EVER has a successful recording career - it's usually the runners-up that achieve some kind of success.

Oh, and my ex, who suffers under the delusion that I'm her friend, insists on calling me up to tell me about it, despite my protests.

But, you know, YourMileageMayVary.

Really, Meander? Really?

We're from the same city...but I feel like I don't even know you. I wouldn't go so far as to call you a turd, but really. If you want smutty comedy, go find something else and let Charlie Sheen get back to the psych ward where he belongs.

In other news...I predict that the kid from Two and a Half Men will rise up and murder Sheen and Jon Cryer...to the betterment of the world.

"House." Yep, that's it for me. Nothing else to see there. Nothing. Nothing at all, I tell you. Go on, go on back to your homes, people, that's it, show's over, nothing to see here, good night, go on, gooooooood night peeeeeople ...
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and "60 Minutes."

Jeebus, look at all the commas up there, Fig. I didn't even do that consciously to arouse your desires, they just ... splurted out.

Oh, and I've tried to watch "The Amazing Race" because it seems like at least semi-educational "reality" TV, but the frenetic editing gives me a headache. I don't hear so well and so have to try to follow on closed captioning, and even that moves too damn fast to follow. Really, could we stay with one set of contestants for more than three seconds at a time?

Really, Meander? Really?

We're from the same city...but I feel like I don't even know you. I wouldn't go so far as to call you a turd, but really. If you want smutty comedy, go find something else and let Charlie Sheen get back to the psych ward where he belongs.

He's not quite sane, is he? And lets face it, not a lot of comedies out there, and I do enjoy this one.

Yeah, okay, on that first list I watch exactly one show: House.

Second list: (I still watch House,) The Office, How I Met Your Mother, aaaaand that appears to be it.

And I am a TV whorefeind. So...yes.

On that second list, add The Office and NCAA basketball to the list.

My mom spoiled me on HBO series like Oz, Rome, Sopranos, the Wire, etc. So basic cable seems like such a downgrade.

Ahhh, L.O.V.E., the bane of my existence. I have a name for my pain, and it is not batman, it is L.O.V.E.

I watched Two and a Half Men a couple of times to see what all the fuss was about. And now I know: nothing. Nothing at all. It is entirely without humor, without wit, and without intelligence. It is likely brought to you by the same tards who wrote the brilliance that was Everybody Loves Raymond or According the Jim. These shows really pander to the most shallow end of the gene pool in the Nielsen family tree, and the necessary addition of a laugh track is a testament to just how UNfunny some of today's sitcoms remain. If you can't make me laugh without TELLING me to laugh, your shit isn't funny.

But then, this is all coming from a guy who really enjoyed "White Chicks," so what the fuck do I know?

Oh thank God I'm not the only one who found "Raymond" spectacularly unfunny. Ray Romano I don't give a fuck about, but what a waste of Peter Boyle.

The popularity of shows like this makes me question my own sanity. Is it me ...? But then, you know what they say about a billion flies ...

Fuck Australia, stop trying to fuck our broads you goddamn blooming onion eatin’ homo. And help out with the war, we need more than a crate of bottled water you son of a bitch. Yes you all have some tasty waves down under.

I don't watch any of the shows on any of these lists. I've never even heard of a bunch of these shows. I watch shit like "Little House on the (Motherfucking) Prairie" and "The Golden Girls". I also sometimes watch "Murder, She Wrote".

Despite all evidence to the contrary, I am not actually 93 years old.

What was "60 Minutes" about last week that it climbed from #10 to #4?

GA is one of those shows where when they do an episode well, they do it really well, and it always happens just when I'm about to give up for good, but then I get all hooked again and MY GOD JUST MAKE IT STOP.
Posted by: Mimi at March 27, 2009 2:45

Ditto...I know EXACTLY what you're going through...(Like last week as a matter of fact)...I'm really trying to wean myself off of it, but it's just not working.

don't curse me please. Cha Cha, have you ever had gas pain in your sides?

Who in hell are the weirdos watching NCIS? I...I haven't met any real life person who does.

I've seen exactly two shoes on these lists more than once: "60 Minutes" and "Spongebob Squarepants." Oh, and "The Office," but I dropped that after they had Jim and Pam get together and wrote Rashida Jones out of the show. Fuck that bullshit. I watched "How I Met Your Mother" for the first time this week and it was alright. Really, NPH should get his own show as Barney and Allyson Hannigan should get her own show where the camera just follows her around. In fact, she should get an entire channel of that.

Who in hell are the weirdos watching NCIS? I...I haven't met any real life person who does.

Ha! I remember coming across NCIS flair on Facebook and letting out the longest REEEEAAAALLLLYYYY??? in recorded history.

Yup, don't watch anything in the top list with any regularity (a House episode every now and then, but that's it). I don't understand HOW Two and Half Men is still on--that show is the definition of craptastic.

"Really, NPH should get his own show as Barney and Allyson Hannigan should get her own show where the camera just follows her around. In fact, she should get an entire channel of that."

If those things happened, I would watch both of them. That would probably bring my TV-viewing age down to, like, 58 at most!

Please don't let there ever be a whole Neil Patrick Harris channel, though. I'd become a total shut-in. He is just so charming and adorable, and I want to keep him in my pocket. I'm fairly certain that he's the better part of a foot taller than me, but if he starts doing yoga now and works really hard, I'm pretty sure he'll get bendy enough to wedge into the pocket of one of those kangaroo smocks.

Yeah, I'd be willing to rock a kangaroo smock if it had NPH in the pocket.

This list doesn't bum me out too much. Big Love was awesome. Flight of the Chonchords maintained it's funny and upped the musical numbers. United States of Tara is really interesting. 30 Rock still kills it every Thursday (though I do think the very funny Tina Fey cannot keep carving up Liz Lemon's dignity every single show. Whatevs, it hasn't stopped working yet.) I still find Bill Maher's Real Time relevant. South Park always has the chance of knocking one out of the park. Travel Channel, PBS, the Food Network. Colbert is funnier than Carlin and possibly Richard Pryor by the time he's done. Good Television is still being made though the wilderness be dark and varmit.

And to put a spear through my post here, I actually do watch American Idol every year. If you think of it as a game show, it does not matter that Kelly Clarkson is the only star-talent to ever come out of the show's run. (Who knows what she's doing now?) The regular season is too boring and painful to watch. However, I watch the first two episodes of American Idol every season. Watching dopey adults cry tickles me Elmo.

I should mention that I work nights, Tues-Sat, and don't tape or TiVo, so there's no way I could/should watch much of this crap anyway. The only night I wish I could is Thursday (NBC).

However, I know a guy who switched from a night shift to daytime, and when I asked him how he adjusted to the culture change he immediately said, "TV sucks."

Well what a coincidence. The same day something about Twilight comes up, something about Two and a Half Men also appears. The guy I ended things with, in addition to not hating Twilight, mentioned on Tuesday that he caught a few episodes of 2.5 by accident and thought it was surprisingly funny and well-done. This is a guy who works with actual comedians. Yet another reason I don't feel too bad it's over.

Out of the first list, I only watch House, and that's only out of habit. If my roommate didn't save the episodes on our DVR, I probably wouldn't have seen more than one or two this season.

The second list: The Office and HIMYM. Family Guy and SVU only if I catch a rerun.

I gave up American Idol a couple of years ago. Not because I realised that the auditions were the modern equivalent of going to Bedlam to laugh at the loonies (though, of course they are). But because I got bored with laughing at the loonies. When you know they're hand-picked, it takes all the fun out of it...

I have never seen 2.5 Men, and I'm not going to if I can help it. Charlie Sheen creeps me out. But from those lists, I do watch House, Castle, The Mentalist, Grey's, and Lost. If I like a show, I like it, I don't care if it's considered naff by others. It's my time to waste, right?

My viewing habits don't count though, as I download everything. Now, those viewing figures would be interesting. I did see some dl stats once, but the comments all said they weren't accurate, so who knows.

yeah Tarn, but I try to stay grounded by watching at least a couple eps of regular tv. I don't watch any of the rest of that shit. I have caught a Family Guy on Cartoon Network late night but, only because I was trying to watch something else. Have you seen David Wain's Superjail? It is the most demented cartoon. It's evil in a pill form. Not like the jocularly crazed Squidbillies.

The best thing about Two and Half Men is the little vanity card at the end that you have to pause on TiVo to read. Some of those are freakin' hilarious.

Or you can just read them here...

Can I reference myself?

I don't even know what NCIS is. And all I watch on any of those lists is The Office.

maybe I just haven't been paying enough attention, but I'm surprised at all the HIMYM love around here. I mean, I find it deeply endearing and endlessly watchable, but I had always assumed that it was staggeringly uncool; it isn't the festering pustule that is Two and a Half Men, but I still thought it was frowned upon in these parts. Glad to hear it isn't, because now I can freely admit that I like How I Met Your Mother.
But that, Lost, and the Office are the only things I watch on the second list, and I watch nothing on the first one. That makes me happy.

I've never seen, NCIS, How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, The Office, 30 Rock, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, 24, American Idol or any of the shows listed in the Top 20 with the exception of one, The Mentalist.

Yes I know the supporting cast is DOA and the lead character is a little TOO quirky but I love Simon Baker. I will continue to watch if only because CBS screwed him so badly in his last endeavor The Guardian, that show might not have been the best but his performance as Nick Fallon was Emmy worthy.

Other shows I watch on basic cable and network TV (my DVR is working overtime), Burn Notice, Sons of Anarchy, Damages, Bones, Fringe, Life and Doll House. I am also watching Kings, verdict is out on that one and though I love Nathan Fillion Castle is. . .well I already watch Bones, so I've got the whole bantering, barely repressed sexual attraction thing covered.