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Guilty TV Pleasures

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RicoGregg

We all have them, admit it. These are some of mine:

After over 45 years on the air, I just very recently got hooked on "The Beverly Hillbillies". Now I'm seeing what I missed. The humor is so stupid that it's funny, and I'm practically cracking up each episode. Hooo doggies.

Lawrence Welk re-runs. I cringe at some of the hokiness, but that's the fun in watching.

Any high speed pursuit.

It hasn't been on locally lately, but I can't watch an entire episode of "The Teletubbies" without losing it. And I don't drink or use drugs. I guess I want to see how long I can last before the laughter takes over.

If Roller Derby was on somewhere, I'd watch it.

The History Channel when they feature Nazis.

Locally, in the L.A. area, the Superior Nissan informercials that run weekends with the cute blond and the cute way she hawks used cars. They don't identify her, otherwise I'd name her.

Certain bad movies that are fun to watch. Too many to name, but a few examples:

Bernardine (1957), with Pat Boone, Dick Sargent, and Terry Moore.

The Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961), with Ron Randall and Debra Paget.

Fireman Save My Child, with Hugh O' Brian and Buddy Hackett in roles intended for Abbott & Costello. Also features Spike Jones & His City Slickers.

Fess up. What are you watching?
 
Personally, these days, it's "Deal or No Deal". The stunts and reunions may be tiresome (and I can often spot them from a mile away), but the gameplay is still fun, as long as you stay away from the promos and teasers.
 
Any high speed pursuit.
Especially those featuring the lispy but macho voice of authority known as Sheriff John Bunnell. Anyone else find themselves screaming, "Show It Again! I Didn't See It Clearly The First 4 Times!"
 
Match Game!

Grade Z celebs from the 70's, all drunk off their asses, and Charles Nelson Reilly trying not to flame too much.


Where are Bart Braverman, Scoey Mitchell and Gary Burghoff when you need them?
 
Legend City said:
Match Game!

and Charles Nelson Reilly trying not to flame too much.
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Very sad that Charles, Brett Somers, and Gene Rayburn have all passed away now. :'(
 
I've had several, but I think the one I felt most guilty about was following Days of Our Lives on a regular basis from about '93 to '96 or so. Granted most of that time I was working at NBC station, and it was concurrent with my other guilty pleasure at the time, Melrose Place.
 
Mine was Nickelodeon's "You Can't Do That On Television"..Though it was geared to young teenagers (and younger), I was laughing at the admittedly dumb jokes when I was past 30..Way beyond their "target demo"..
 
WMC2006 said:
Legend City said:
Match Game!

and Charles Nelson Reilly trying not to flame too much.
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Very sad that Charles, Brett Somers, and Gene Rayburn have all passed away now. :'(
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Add to that, McLean Stevenson, Debralee Scott, Richard Deacon, Jack Carter (still can't stand him), Dan Rowan, Skip Stevenson, Avery Schreiber...
 
Legend City said:
WMC2006 said:
Legend City said:
Match Game!

and Charles Nelson Reilly trying not to flame too much.
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Very sad that Charles, Brett Somers, and Gene Rayburn have all passed away now. :'(
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Add to that, McLean Stevenson, Debralee Scott, Richard Deacon, Jack Carter (still can't stand him), Dan Rowan, Skip Stevenson, Avery Schreiber...
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...sorry, Lege, but Jack Carter ain't dead. In fact, he's still working (was on a couple of episodes of "ER" in 2005-06)...
 
...I hereby admit to purchasing the first season of "SheSpies" on DVD. The first season had some howlingly funny send-ups of action series in general. The second season got retooled and made "ViP" look like Shakespeare...
 
Match Game and Press Your Luck on GSN

The Red Green Show when I can catch it on my local PBS station.

Any old horror or sci-fi movies from the 50's or earlier.
 
Geez, The Match Game studio must have been built from some cancer causing materials. {though a few died from other things besides the Big "C"} Also kaput: Johnny Olson, Gene Woods (announcers), Eva Gabor, Richard Paul, Steve Allen, Larry Hovis, Bert Convy, Michael Landon, Shelly Winters, Morey Amsterdam, Mary Wickes, Nipsey Russell, Greg Morris, David Doyle....I'm sure there are a few more. :'(
 
The Beverly Hillbillies without a doubt. Beyond stupid into the realm of "genius". Even if you know the joke is coming, its still funny.
Anyone remember "The Adventures of Pete and Pete" from Nick. I was way out of the demo for that show when it was on in the 90s, but one season was filmed in my home town so I had to watch it, and got hooked on it. Do they ever show that anymore?
Please dont flame me, but I watch O'Rielly just to see how long it takes me to start yelling at the tv.
 
"Cops"...'nuff said about that one.

Until it was removed from my cable, I'd be watching "American Life TV" most nights for 77 Sunset Strip/Hawaiian Eye/Surfside 6 and on Sunday, Lawman.

I also watch "Lawrence Welk" from time-to-time...it's a great period piece.
 
Yep, Lawrence Welk is one. It actually has impeccable camera work and direction -- when a certain performer or section pick up, the camera's right there. Plus, yes, the period is great -- I saw Jack Benny do what must have been a Las Vegas routine, about 10 minutes long, a couple weeks ago, from about 1973 -- Jack Benny on color videotape is a rarity! That was only a couple years before he died.

The Red Green show -- one of PBS's best-kept secrets. They probably want it that way!

I actually started to dig up my old VCR tapes this winter, regular TV got so boring. Found an SNL music special from February '93 hosted by Wayne & Garth. Before that, an NBC special from same month on "Lucy & Ricky's home movies" -- a very good biography of the couple, hosted by Lucy Arnaz. Good stuff.
 
sack said:
The Beverly Hillbillies without a doubt. Beyond stupid into the realm of "genius". Even if you know the joke is coming, its still funny.
Anyone remember "The Adventures of Pete and Pete" from Nick. I was way out of the demo for that show when it was on in the 90s, but one season was filmed in my home town so I had to watch it, and got hooked on it. Do they ever show that anymore?
Please dont flame me, but I watch O'Rielly just to see how long it takes me to start yelling at the tv.
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Man,when my kids were little I loved watching "The Adventures of Pete and Pete" with them.

They don't show it anymore but I think they have the episodes for sale via their DVD division. I've got "Come Back Little Viking" on video tape. IMO,Pete and Pete was the best show of any kind in the 90's.

I've been watching the Hillbillies since they debuted the show on CBS. It never gets old. Jethro Bodine was one of my role models. It was still solidly in the Neilsen Top-10 when the canceled it for demographic reasons.

Green Acres is my favorite from that era. Pure surrealism on CBS once a week. It was brilliant.
 
I don't know why, and should probably not admit it....but any sort of mindless reality clip show (When Animals Attack, Greatest Police Chases, World's Stupidest Video's, etc.) will usually grab me. Most of the clips are
available on the internet, and there are usually perhaps 2 that I find memorable in the course of a 30 minute program....not sure why my channel-surfing keeps coming to rest there.
 
Mine is a more recent show, but still in a 'retro' vein, 'That '70s Show'. I never watched it til I caught the early reruns about 5 years ago. I briefly watched it in first-run, but gave up in 2005, figuring it had run its course. I'm now catching up with the final(05-06) season (minus Ashton Kutcher and Topher Grace) on FX. Just this week, they ran the episodes guest-starring Mary Tyler Moore.
That show really compares with 'Happy Days'...the last year is comparable to that of the older show, when the actors ahd obviously been at it for too long.
But even that last year had its moments, mostly due to numerous cameos by '70s sitcom actors(including what was probably the final appearance of Don Knotts, spoofing his 'Furley' character.)
 
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