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.

Comments

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

LOL! That's just so ironic. You've managed to marry a woman who is addicted to the very tv shows that you used to mock, rip to pieces, and declare profound hatred for. But what the hey, it's just tv. TV is well tv.

Criminal Minds and Numbers - are the best of the bunch. You should check out Numbers. Tried both.
They bore me, but that's just because I'm burnt out on the genre and have learned that the characters never evolve, never change. Basically they are just boiler-plate murder mysteries. The only one I like is The Closer - which seems more character driven and reminds me of Prime Suspect.

And you are, unfortunately right about both Smallville and Lost. Am getting very close to giving up on Lost. Except I sort of find the insane social psychology experiment aspect of it oddly intriguing.
That said - no clue how long I'm going to be able to tolerate a bunch of bored surburban social psychologists torturing a plane crash survivors on a bizarre island, even if the plane crash survivors in question have questionable morals. Last episode, I thought, ah, finally, a character who has not inadvertently or intentionally killed anyone in their past. Cool. Gave up on Smallville a long time ago, although will admit - I did watch bits and pieces of it last season to catch Marsters as Brainiac. And ended up feeling sorry the actor. Smallville was that bad.

[cjlasky.livejournal.com]

LOL! That's just so ironic. You've managed to marry a woman who is addicted to the very tv shows that you used to mock, rip to pieces, and declare profound hatred for.

Hee. Well, we both knew what we were getting into. Besides, I have sooooo much fun with my Caruso imitation.

CJL: Paula? [Stands straight, arms akimbo, tilts head, not looking directly at her; long, weighty pause] Did you walk the dogs?
PAULA: Cut it out.

I've watched Numbers on and off for a few years now, mainly because of David Krumholz's Charlie Epps and Judd Hirsch as the senior Epps. The "different brothers" dynamic between Krumholz and Rob Morrow is pretty good, but I find the egghead eccentrics more interesting than the Feds. Ravi Nawat, who was amazingly good in "Damage" (Angel S5) is wasted here...

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Had more or less the same reaction to Numbers - I liked the eggheads better than the Feds and the figuring out of the mathematical equations. Which may be what distinguishs the show from all the other ones. The rest...sigh, you've seen one CSI/Law & Order - you've seen them all.

Paula's lucky in her tv tastes. Because - The plus side of having conventional tastes in TV (ie. loving procedurals, tv game shows, reality shows, and talk shows which everyone else loves) - is you NEVER have to worry about your tv show being cancelled. You don't even really have to bother taping the things - they are all repeated. Was discussing this with a friend over dinner last night - stating how my difficulty with TV is I tend to have unconventional tasts, it's rare that a show I adore is not cancelled. I'm always surprised when they aren't.

Case in point: Seinfield - was almost cancelled in its first two seasons, you had to hunt for it.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - it's status was always up in the air. Angel? Ditto. American Gothic - made it one season. Now and Again - one season. Hill Street - it kept jumping nights and was in the ratings basement. St. Elsewhere - ditto. Homicide Life on The Streets - ditto. Cheers- ditto.
When Seinfield, Cheers, and Homicide got popular? I lost interest. Then there's Wonderfalls, Firefly, Joan of Arcadia, Action, the Others, Space Above and Beyond, Earth 2, Battlestar Galatica (the first version), Bablyon 5 (got cancelled, came back), La Femme Nikita ( cancelled pulled back at the last possible moment). Fame. The list is endless.

My friend, who dislikes Studio 60, looked at me in compassion and said..."You're probably surprised it even made it on the air."

Yep.

LOL! on your David Caruso. Poor Paula.