TV shows you can't stand.

[Andara Bledin]

~Extreme Couponing (aka Extreme Hoarding-and-Shopaholicsm)

Don't forget the fraud.

I have to say I agree with most of your list. Especially about comedies with laugh tracks. Not only are they often inappropriate, but it's the same exact laugh sound every single time. >_<

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[Ginger Tea]

Some UK sitcoms the laugh track isnt canned laughter, nor is it filmed infront of a studio audience. I guess any fluffed lines and retakes tend to kill the joke for the audiences.

Last of the summer wine would have coach loads of OAP's come in to watch special screenings and they would record their reactions, they laughed cos they thought it was funny, not cos some one pressed play on a tape deck.

it would be nice if shows that had laugh tracks had an option to watch the show without, sometimes the laughter drowns out the next few lines.

[HYHYBT]

it would be nice if shows that had laugh tracks had an option to watch the show without, sometimes the laughter drowns out the next few lines.

An advantage of using a live audience: it's possible simply to hold the next line a few seconds until the laughter dies down a bit.

(Speaking of new ThunderCats... when will they show the rest of them?)

[Andara Bledin]

Some UK sitcoms the laugh track isnt canned laughter, nor is it filmed infront of a studio audience.

There are two ways to do canned laughter: Either get some laugh samples together and hit the "play laugh" button every time the script calls for it, get an audience together and then after the show is filmed, have a session with just the audience being asked to do various responses on cue such as laughing, booing, etc, so that you can pad the end product with the live studio audience recordings. Going to a taping of one of your favorite comedy shows (Whose Line is it Anyway) can be quite an eye opener.

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[Racket_Man]

And even more annoying they dub a word that fits the mouth movements that is a non swear word instead of a word that fits the dialogue. I can handle the mouth and word not matching better than I can the word not making sense.

In Lethal Weapon 4 Riggs says, "We fucked you" and then laughs. In most dubs it is done as "We Fixed you" Really "We Screwed you" may not look right but it will at least flow with the dialogue.

When one of the 3 big networks showed the first Die Hard movie in prime time, they had to either silence or (badly) dub in "other words".

the biggest fake out dialogue overdub was near the end where John McClane (Burce Willias) when he is attempting to rescue his wife and says "Yippy Kiyay Mother Fucker" they dub in "Yippy Kiya Mr Falcon" (*not Bruce doing the dubbing) to which Haans (Alan Rickman) says (in a fake German accent) "Yippy Kihah (they dubbed some horrible line that was kind of garbled))

just sort of ruined the scene.

[Andara Bledin]

My favorite overdub piece of censorship will likely always be the changing of a Cheech and Chong movie from talking about a bag full of tied sticks to talking about a bag full of diamond chips.

I can't even figure out why they even attempted to show a C&C movie when their network wouldn't allow the more overt drug references.

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[Dreamstalker]

I've just finished watching the SF version. There is a bunch of sex in it, but most of it is actually related to moving the plot, surprisingly. I like it and am going to catch the next season when it hits Netflix.

Huh; I'll have to check it out (the most recent trailer did look kinda interesting). I guess I'm just jaded with American TV making a royal mess of British shows. I thought the UK version did a great job with the werewolf transformation sequences and TBH I'm a bit leery of seeing how the US version did it...mom also thinks it's weird that the ghost character is dressed exactly the same as her UK counterpart.

One of my 'favorite' broadcast overdubs has to be in Ghostbusters, during the scene in the mayor's office.

Original line: "It's true, this man has no dick."
Redub: "This man is some kind of rodent, I don't know which." It seems to me like they slowed down/otherwise fuzzed the visuals to get it to match as the film quality does seem to change briefly.

The studio kept the next part of the joke: "Well you can believe Mr. Pecker..." resulting in the whole thing making no sense (I actually had to explain to a few friends what happened).

[Andara Bledin]

I thought the UK version did a great job with the werewolf transformation sequences and TBH I'm a bit leery of seeing how the US version did it.

I was actually pretty impressed with the special effects; rather fancy for TV.

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[fireheart17]

One question: Why do they call it Toddlers and Tiaras when the show ends up showing kids who are no longer toddlers?

Another show that's due to come back to Australian Screens this year: Big Brother.

The old show was horrible enough as it was: sixteen-eighteen people locked in a house and there were so many twists every damn week.

[mikoyan29]

My favorite overdub piece of censorship will likely always be the changing of a Cheech and Chong movie from talking about a bag full of tied sticks to talking about a bag full of diamond chips.

I can't even figure out why they even attempted to show a C&C movie when their network wouldn't allow the more overt drug references.

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My favorite overdub is, "Yippe Kay Ye...Mr. Falcon"

[Shangri-laschild]

I loved the original (BBC) Being Human; I have no desire whatsoever to see the SyFy version. It seems to be mostly about sex and banter, and the few character revelations in the trailers have been really dumb.

I actually tried watching both and couldn't get through more than a couple of episodes of the UK version but I love the US version. A lot of that is because of the actors I think. The vampire in the US version manages to get a lot more across with facial expressions while the UK guy seems to have a lot longer dialogue. While longer dialogue isn't always a bad thing, in this case I definitely enjoy what the US actor brings to it. And while the werewolf can be fairly whiny in both, he at least seemed less 2 dimensionally whiny in the US version. And I didn't like how the UK version started things timeline wise. Seeing the ghost get to the point of actually being able to touch things (which I believe happened fairly soon in the original?) was nice among other things.

I tried to watch Nip Tuck. I was very curious and figured I'd give it a shot. I got about 5 or 10 minutes in and the hand in the butt flap managed to hit several of my weirded out buttons (the line of what bugs me is weird and wavy) and just couldn't do it.

My friend's mom watches reality shows and for the time period where I lived there I did too since we did a lot of catching up while the shows were on too. I am just not a fan though every once in a while I come across some that can be fun to watch, not for the drama but for the competitions. The Ultimate Gamer show was like that for me.

My roommate loves Arrested Development but I couldn't get into it. I get and am all for the idea of characters that you hate. Hell some of my favorite shows are ones where I've disliked all of the characters at one time or another. And I've been marathoning Prison Break lately which has people that I despise. But for me, this show seemed obnoxious and not even highly interesting to me anyway. Of course I also couldn't stand The Big Lebowski because of the one guy who kept pissing me off. I was never a fan of The Office either.

[Seifer]

I can't stand King of Queens. The show is just blatantly unfunny.

[jackfaire]

I can't stand King of Queens. The show is just blatantly unfunny.

I started watching that show and was going to stop but then my roommate would sit down and watch it with me and his reactions to it were so funny I watched the whole series.

[DrFaroohk]

I can't enjoy any sitcoms these days. Why? Mostly, it's the standout oddball Urkel character that everyone has. He's either really really smart and socially awkward, or really really stupid, or a foreigner.

They don't all suck...I loved Kramer, and Balki. But like, there's that weird guy with the lisp on That 70's Show. Over the top and not funny. The extremely psychotically nerdy guy on Big Bang Theory. I don't "buy" their character. Most plots will revolve around them doing something extremely stupid that could be explained with a simple one or two word apology, but instead they drag it out for the entire episode like it's some big deal.

They are not funny! They go to far. It's like a dude playing a guitar solo - you get the one guy who just plays soulfully and hits the right notes. He's funny, good timing, hits your funny bone.

Then there's the guy who says "Hey, if one note is good, I bet 10 notes is even better!" So he wanks off on the guitar and you're like "WTF!?" Same with the comedy. Over the top just ruins it.

[AdminAssistant]

I don't buy anything about The Big Bang Theory, frankly.