Laughing at TV

[shadowkat]

Can't tell from reading flist, but did the first, oh ten to fifteen minutes of Heroes make anyone else laugh hysterically for fifteen minutes? Or am I the only person who found the introductory sequence with the Cheerleader absurdly amusing? In a Snakes on The Plane sort of way?

Made me laugh long and hard. ROFL. Was pointing at TV and giggling hysterically. Can't explain it.
Just hit my funny bone.

Other things that made me laugh - Studio 60 on The Sunset Strips - baby sketch (which they didn't think was funny enough) and Nancy Grace (you'd have to see Nancy Grace to understand). Oh and the bit about the reality show - which was an excellent satire on true reality shows. Studio 60's biting satire on the tv biz continues to amuse and comfort me.

I think NBC may own me on Monday nights. Two favorite Television Nights are Mondays and Fridays.
Mondays: Heroes and Studio 60
Fridays: Grey's Anatomy (yes, it's on Thursdays too, but if I miss Thurs, can watch the repeat on Fridays at the moment), and BattleStar Galatica.

Oh other shows watching : Veronica Mars, Lost, Ugly Betty, Nip/Tuck, and Desperate Housewives.
Although Nip/Tuck and Housewives are on notice. I am very close to skipping these two entirely and do not feel an overwhelming need to watch either. I'm only watching Housewives for Orson/Bree and Edie. Only watching Nip...don't really know why I'm still watching Nip when Boston Legal has just added Craig Bierko - yet another actor I've followed about ever since he played a villian in The Long Kiss Goodnight. Oh that's right, the "legal" part of Boston. Lost is also on notice, the current storyline with Sawyer/Jack and Kate is annoying the heck out of me. And, it may just be me, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to over psychoanalyze your characters or other people for that matter - that just ends badly. Sometimes you have to just sit back and let a cigar be a cigar. Do like Veronica Mars and Ugly Betty though - nice comfort shows.

Keep trying to like Doctor Who, not sure why - didn't like the original Doctor Who so odds are would not like this one, but everyone else appears to adore it. So keep trying. May just not be my thing. To be honest - Dr. Who is the type of sci-fi that I'm not fond of. Which is why I've never been given the sci-fi membership card. To get it - you have to like Dr. Who and Red Drawf. Don't. Also you should be a die-hard fan of the original Star Trek. Not. And Star Gate. Ditto. Sigh. But I like STNG, Voyager, BSG, Bablyon 5, Farscape, Star Wars, Bladerunner... Yes, I admit I have wildly unconventional tastes.

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[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Well I had laughed hysterically last week when we first saw her, and her "Oh, sh_t" attitude toward her situation...so this week I was prepared for the opening and watching in fascination as she pulled herself together (so to speak). So funny!
I am really enjoying 'Heroes', I'm even enjoying those more disturbing (to me, I wrote about it at my lj) elements of power corupting.

I'd have to say that Tuesday is even bigger than Monday for me, since I've been enjoying Oprah's road trip (I don't enjoy her show normally, but this road trip has been wonderful), Jeeves & Wooster, taping Dead Like Me, watching AND taping Veronica Mars, enjoying Boston Public, and rounding off the evening with Jon Stewart! It is too much TV for one day, but a lot of fun.

I'm sorry you aren't getting into Doctor Who, personally it reminds me a lot of Buffy's first season: cheesey special effects and some great writing. But, like you, I've never gotten into Red Dwarf.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

It occurred to me today that I never really enjoyed the first Season of Buffy - found it sort of silly and campy and was only really watching for ASH. Terribly disappointed in what I saw. And it reminded me a great deal of the movie. Didn't bother suggesting it to friends or family - because of the "camp" factor.

Buffy did not take off for me as a series until Innocence. Prior to that? I did not tape episodes, just caught what I could live.
Just not a fan of campy sci-fi or fantasy any more.

May explain why I own seasons 4-7 on DVD and not the first three.
And why I can't get into Doctor Who or Supernatural or Smallville.

[fresne.livejournal.com]

No, you're not the only one. The cheerleader's situation is really...that was amusing in a completly horrible way. And huh, interesting way to get...revenge...justice...a new lab coat.

Hmmm, for me in Buffy it was really the moment Xander did the Morrison of Jackel evil that did me in. But yeah, the end of the season really was the point that the group of people I was watching it with went, oh, well, we were going to watch Ally McBeal, but instead, lets go get frogurt and talk about that.

Although, what's funny in your list, I enjoyed the orginal Doctor Who (looks around to hear if anyone is listening and whispers) but I could never stand Red Dwarf. It was silly in a way that grated on me.

I was talking recently with a friend of mine that one of the nicer things about tv now is that there is such a range of Sci Fi/Fantasy/Whatever options that instead of feeling like, as sci fi fans, we had to watch everything and like it (teeth grit optional), there can now be some pick and choose.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, for me in Buffy it was really the moment Xander did the Morrison of Jackel evil that did me in. But yeah, the end of the season really was the point that the group of people I was watching it with went, oh, well, we were going to watch Ally McBeal, but instead, lets go get frogurt and talk about that.

Yep. Me too. Don't know what it says about me, but when Xander did Morrison of Jackel evil, I started to pay attention.

Although, what's funny in your list, I enjoyed the orginal Doctor Who (looks around to hear if anyone is listening and whispers) but I could never stand Red Dwarf. It was silly in a way that grated on me.

Actually most people I've met who like sci-fi did. Have a friend who adored the original Doctor Who - or rather Doctor Who in the 1970s and 1980s. There's apparently been 10.
I think I saw 7, but can't be certain. I liked the actor - he had blondish brown hair and reminded me of Sherlock Holmes with his brown cloak. But the Monsters scared me or the episodes I saw did. Scared *really* easily back then. Am a little better now, but still easier than most people. And I was only 8 at the time...so there's that. Couldn't watch Space 1999 either.

Agree on Red Dwarf - a friend loaned me the first two seasons on DVD, positive I'd fall in love with them the way he did, uhm, no. Watching it reminded me of watching the comedy of The Three Stooges and it grated on my nerves in the same way that humor does. Couldn't make it through the first DVD, let alone the second. So returned both and kept my mouth shut about the series.

I was talking recently with a friend of mine that one of the nicer things about tv now is that there is such a range of Sci Fi/Fantasy/Whatever options that instead of feeling like, as sci fi fans, we had to watch everything and like it (teeth grit optional), there can now be some pick and choose.

I'd agree in the last ten years, Sci-Fi has broadened its options on film and TV. I credit George Lucas and Ridely Scott a great deal for this. Also Peter Jackson. But mostly Lucas' ability to come up with cool special effects enabling the medium to evolve. I like my new options.