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Topic: Favorite Tv shows
Posted: February 13 2011 at 15:22

I don't watch too much tv but this one show just takes me over the edge with laughter LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ1u9Fno3jU

Once upon a time there was some writing on the wall we all ignored, until the time that there was war and feasts of famine at our door

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Posted: February 13 2011 at 15:29

I don't watch much myself. What I've seen of Curb is really great.

I love the Office and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

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Posted: February 13 2011 at 15:36

Coincidence that you live in Philadelphia?

Once upon a time there was some writing on the wall we all ignored, until the time that there was war and feasts of famine at our door

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Posted: February 14 2011 at 01:46

Yeah, Curb = 'The funny argument show.'

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Posted: February 14 2011 at 02:00

I like oldies; Twilight Zone, Honeymooners, Wild Wild West, Days & Nights of Molly Dodd, Star Trek, Fawlty Towers. For newer stuff, Slings&Arrows was good, and pretty much anything on BBC (Ramsey's F-Word, Top Gear, etc.)

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Posted: February 14 2011 at 02:36

Currently enthrawled by The Killing (a Danish crime series called Forbrydelsen in Danish) being shown on BBC4 at the moment. Apparently it's being remade in "American" by Fox - let's hope they do it justice.

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Posted: February 14 2011 at 03:30

I'm a bit of a TV geek (especially when it comes to comedy) so I shan't even attempt a comprehensive list, but in recent years I've been especially enjoying the following:

Mad Men
The IT Crowd
Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
The Venture Bros.
Limmy's Show! (A new series starts this week! Huzzah!)
Doctor Who
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe/Newswipe
Community
Life on Mars (UK version, not the sh*tty US remake)
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
Battlestar Galactica
The Trip

I've doubtless left out a load of gpod stuff but that's off the top of my head.

As for Curb... meh. I watched the entire first season but the situations seemed SO contrived. It would work if it was a heightened farcical show like Fawlty Towers but the "naturalistic" direction and acting makes it all the more unbelievable. I just couldn't get into it at all.

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Posted: February 14 2011 at 03:31

Atavachron wrote:

pretty much anything on BBC (Ramsey's F-Word, Top Gear, etc.)

I thought F-Word was a Channel 4 show? Confused

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Posted: February 14 2011 at 03:35

Trouserpress wrote:

Atavachron wrote:

pretty much anything on BBC (Ramsey's F-Word, Top Gear, etc.)

I thought F-Word was a Channel 4 show? Confused

it's just BBC America here

Trouserpress wrote:

As for Curb... meh. I watched the entire first season but the situations seemed SO contrived. It would work if it was a heightened farcical show like Fawlty Towers but the "naturalistic" direction and acting makes it all the more unbelievable. I just couldn't get into it at all.

think low-budget Italian movie

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Posted: February 14 2011 at 03:41

Atavachron wrote:

Trouserpress wrote:

Atavachron wrote:

pretty much anything on BBC (Ramsey's F-Word, Top Gear, etc.)

I thought F-Word was a Channel 4 show? Confused

it's just BBC America here

Oh yeah, I forgot that BBC America sometimes buy in non-BBC shows.

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Posted: February 14 2011 at 10:38

Season 3-8 of The Simpsons were the greatest thing to ever happen to TV.

Other great television shows include:

- Monty Python's Flying Circus

- Married With Children

- Mystery Science Theater 3000

-South Park

- Sanford & Son

- The Beverly Hillbillies

- The Shield

- Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t

- Hogan's Heroes

- Night Court

- The Norm Show

- The Drew Carey Show

- Louie

- Always Sunny

- The League

- Rocko's Modern Life

- The Critic

- The Walking Dead

- Mythbusters

- Tosh.0

- Blackadder

- The Mighty Boosh

- The Venture Brothers

- Aqua Teen Hunger Force

- Father Ted

- The Office

- Freakazoid!

- Seinfeld

- Futurama

- Deadliest Catch

- Frisky Dingo

- Metalocalypse

- Fawlty Towers

- Psych

- Newsradio

- The Man Show (the original run)

- Dinosaurs

- Invader Zim

there are more but that's more than enough

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Posted: February 14 2011 at 10:40

Trouserpress wrote:

Atavachron wrote:

Trouserpress wrote:

Atavachron wrote:

pretty much anything on BBC (Ramsey's F-Word, Top Gear, etc.)

I thought F-Word was a Channel 4 show? Confused

it's just BBC America here

Oh yeah, I forgot that BBC America sometimes buy in non-BBC shows.

If you don't like Doctor Who or Top Gear than BBC America sucks. They don't show any classic British comedies and don't even offer Monty Python on their OnDemand anymore.

Time always wins.

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Posted: February 14 2011 at 10:46

let prog reign wrote:

Coincidence that you live in Philadelphia?

It's a coincidence that I enjoy the show. However, it being set in Philly caused me to watch it initially.

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Posted: February 14 2011 at 11:03

I don't watch much TV, but when I do I try to find the following shows:

- Dr. House (love it, seen all seasons, and watching the new one)

- Burn Notice (fun action series)

- Seinfield

- Whitest Kids U Know (hillarious, though sometimes way too much)

- The Mighty Boosh

- Law & Order (SVU or normal, but the latter has already finished)

- Family Guy

Maybe I'm missing one or two, but that's mainly it.

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Posted: February 14 2011 at 11:07

Add House, Burn Notice, and An Idiot Abroad to my above list

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Posted: February 14 2011 at 11:33

The British Show Hustle. Sensational stuff, especially the first two series.

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Posted: February 14 2011 at 12:10

The last shows I watched religiously were Seinfeld and The Sopranos. Until a few months ago I watched Bill Maher until The Big Switch occured in me and I realized how annoying he is... Nowadays I watch little tv... Cry

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Posted: February 14 2011 at 12:28

House for having Jennifer Morrison. Big smile

Burn Notice for being fun even though the premise is implausible. Plus I like a chick character that loves weapons and blowing up things. I find that very sexy. My wife got me hooked on Law And Order, that and Angie Harmon being on the first series. On the funny end: Boondocks and Robot Chicken. I've been watching Bill Maher since he was on Comedy Central and still like him. Speaking of political humor I've been watching Jon Stewart since he was on this thing as a host called Short Attention Span Theater.

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Posted: February 14 2011 at 12:29

^I still enjoy his new rules though... Tongue

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Posted: February 14 2011 at 12:40

House MD, Lie To Me*, Bones, Chuck and Leverage. I try and keep up with the series's and really like to watch them in the right flippin' order, though Sky Broadcastings scheduling (some mystical process involving an Ouija board, an incomplete pack of Tarot cards, half a jar of bat's eyes, the ground-up bones of a dodo that has been blessed by the Pope and a silver nickle cast by the light of a blue moon by a one-eyed virgin wearing a pair of shoes made from the hide of a unicorn) makes that nigh-on impossible.

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