TV shows you can't stand.

[AdminAssistant]

No, I'm thinking of Mythbusters. I'm just over it.

[Iseeyouthere]

Good News World.

They killed Good News Week. WHY!

-cries in a corner-

[DrFaroohk]

I wouldn't say any of the simpsons/guy/dad/show cartoons are ripoffs of one another except on the surface. It's like saying Gladiator and Spartacus are the same movie. Both about gladiators. That's about where it ends. Same with the cartoons. They're all cartoons aimed at adults. That's about where the similarities really end.

Some of the ones I hate are the ones that just don't "get it" as far as the humor goes. It's such a fine line to walk, I'll admit, but there's a difference between a funny show like family guy with it's timing and references and whatnot...and then other shows like Robot Chicken, that might as well be Seth Greene just saying "Shit. Pigfucker. Dirty Vagina. FART!"

Reminds me of a lot of Canadian and British humor. Some of its funny, but like the monty python stuff, some of it is just "THIS IS FUNNY. LAUGH AT IT." Yeah I get it, you're holding your newspaper upside down muahahahahahahahahaha!

[Panacea]

I can't think of anything on TLC I watch anymore.

History Channel is getting old, too with shows like "Ancient Aliens" that treat UFO nut theories like real history, or all the Nostradamus/prophecy shows that act as if these ideas are actually proven (they're not).

More and more I am finding less and less to watch. I spent the past few days at my Mom's. There's no TV in the house anymore (we took it to the assisted living place she's in now), so I had to use Hulu to watch TV. Got caught up on Terra Nova (some interesting ideas, but lots and lots of plot holes) and realized . . . this isn't such a bad way to watch TV.

I'm seriously thinking about getting rid of my DirectTV as the price keeps going up and up. Why pay that much when most of what I "watch" ends up being background noise anyway because I'm too busy on the computer?

[DrFaroohk]

History Channel is getting old, too with shows like "Ancient Aliens" that treat UFO nut theories like real history, or all the Nostradamus/prophecy shows that act as if these ideas are actually proven (they're not).

I get a kick out of those shows when they're like "We have solved the mystery of the JFK assassination!" Oh cool, so you watch it...only to find out that it was DEFINITELY someone who A) had a gun and B) didn't like JFK. OMG you solved it!

[Dreamstalker]

Regarding the Mythbusters, their rule has ALWAYS and I mean ALWAYS been "Replicate the myth, then replicate the results" i.e. if the myth can't be done, then they'll try and work out what needs to be done to get the result.

For some reason, that's why mom hates the show now (why do you hate it all of a sudden after 6 seasons?)...I keep trying to explain that the result has to be replicated to show how ridiculous the myth is. Better they do it safely than some idiot in his backyard.

[Gravekeeper]

To be fair, you really need to be a child of the 80s to fully appreciate Robot Chicken. -.-

[Andara Bledin]

I'm a child of the '80s. Robot Chicken tends to have a hard time keeping to this side of the line of funny|stupid. Also, I imagine it tends to appeal more to those who also find the Three Stooges funny as opposed those who don't.

^-.-^

[AdminAssistant]

I absolutely love Robot Chicken. Some of the sketches are pretty stupid, but then you get Voltron Dance-Off to make up for it.

[HYHYBT]

I get a kick out of those shows when they're like "We have solved the mystery of the JFK assassination!" Oh cool, so you watch it...only to find out that it was DEFINITELY someone who A) had a gun and B) didn't like JFK. OMG you solved it!

And here all this time I thought he had his throat slit by his best friend...

[Gravekeeper]

I absolutely love Robot Chicken. Some of the sketches are pretty stupid, but then you get Voltron Dance-Off to make up for it.

Yes, it has its share of stupid sketches, but some are utterly brilliant. Like Luke running into the one armed Wompa at a gas station.

[LadyBarbossa]

I like the Robot Chicken Star Wars. The rest is just one big "What the fuuuuuck? These people are demented!" After a few Jagerbombs it was downright hysterical, but even then after a few eps I started to feel disturbed.

[blas87]

I'm a 90s child but I love Robot Chicken. Unfortunately, I get chastized for watching it, instead of reading or watching "intelligent" people shows.

Well hey, better to be thought of as stupid than to be trying to convince everyone how smart and refined you are because you don't watch TV or only watch "quality" tv shows.

[HYHYBT]

"Quality" depends on how you define it anyway.

The shows I most often watch are of a type that's been considered trash for almost as long as there's been television. (Perhaps longer.) But they're what they were meant to be: fun. And I think they're well-made. (But then, they ought to be. For example, the current run of The Price is Right is in its 40th year. If they haven't got the bugs worked out yet, they never will.)

[Rageaholic]

I'm a 90s child but I love Robot Chicken. Unfortunately, I get chastized for watching it, instead of reading or watching "intelligent" people shows.

Well hey, better to be thought of as stupid than to be trying to convince everyone how smart and refined you are because you don't watch TV or only watch "quality" tv shows.

Don't get me started on those people.