TV meme...which I snagged and edited

[shadowkat]

Snagged from petzipellepingo and edited heavily, because some of the questions I couldn't answer. Quotes? I can't remember quotes. Surely you've figured that out by now?

Doing this because just got home from work and grocery shopping, and really don't feel like cooking dinner just yet - hot and sweaty (most likely from walking the equivalent of two miles and lugging home groceries.)



Back in the Day - 5 TV Shows You Loved as a Kid:

1. The Wonderful World of Disney

2. H & R Puff n'Stuff - featuring Jack Wild

3. Kimba - an animated cartoon with a White Lion that over 20 years later, Disney turned into The Lion King.

4. The Monkeys

5. Battle of The Planets


Five Male Character Crushes or Five Male Characters You Love

1. Well, Spike of course.

2. John Crichton - Farscape

3. Remingon Steele

4. Davy Jones - The Monkeys

5. Marc in Battle of the Planets (yes, I had crushes on cartoon characters).

Five Female Characters You Loved or Five Female Character Crushes

1. Aeryn Sun - Farscape
2. Kalinda - The Good Wife
3. Dr. River Song - Doctor Who
4. Buffy - Buffy the Vampire Slayer
5. Shakima Greggs - The Wire


Wow - 5 TV Moments You Still Remember (and Probably Won't Forget):

1. Spike and Buffy's fight/sex scene that brought a building down in Smashed.

2. Davy Jones on the Brady Bunch - scary I know.

3. The first episode of Twin Peaks.

4. The final scene of the season finale of St. Elsewhere, where we learn the entire series took place in an Autistic boy's head.

5. The least scene of MASH - where BJ Hunnicut writes in stones Good-Bye and Hawkeye Pierce sees it from his helicopter.


"Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs" - 5 TV Theme Songs You Know (and Love) by Heart:

1. True Blood - "I wanna do bad things to you"

2. MASH - Suicide is Painless, you go through so many changes...don't you know..

3. The Wire - Keep the Devil Right Down in the Hole - Tom Waits

4. Veronica Mars - When We Used to Be Friends...the Dandy Warholes

5. Cheers - Where Everybody Knows Your Name..


Eh - 5 TV Shows You Just Can't Get Into:

1. Boardwalk Empire - I tried and it put me to sleep. I honestly think I have problems with historical
sagas particularly during certain time periods, unless they either have a supernatural component or
are Westerns (a la Lonseome Dove). Had the same problem with The Tudors. I thought I'd love it, but I was so bored by it. This isn't always true - I liked Dowton Abbey. And Loved The Thorn Birds.

2. Episodic tv shows - specifically legal procedurals. (Found out recently that both my brother and I are serial junkies, neither of us like episodic tv shows very much. CSI, Bones, Law & Order, etc...tend to bore us. There are exceptions - anything that is heavily character oriented will intrigue me - as long as the characters evolve and I can't predict what will happen to them next. Example - The Closer and In Plain Sight and House seem to entertain me, Leverage, Burn Notice,
and Bones, bore me - too episodic - ie. they do the same thing each week.)

3. Very dark, nihilistic, anti-hero tv shows that show people at their absolute irredeemable and graphically violent worst - Breaking Bad, The Shield, Damages, Rescue Me (basically just about everything on FX but the wonderful Terriers which is the only one that got canceled damn their eyes!), The Sopranoes, Sons of Anarchy...which is odd, because I love Dexter and Mad Men. Also have no issues with House. But I need a bit of humor or some redeemable quality or hopeful quality, also it probably helps if I don't HATE the characters or at the very least care if they live or die - and well, I've discovered I'm a bit squeamish in regards to torture and certain types of violence.

4. Reality Shows - includes talk shows, game shows, talent shows like American Idol, and informational magazine shows. Find them grating and highly annoying. (For a while Project Runway was an exception - but after last year, I can't watch it any more.)

5. Situation Comedies like I Love Lucy, The Office, Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock, Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy, Friends, Two and a Half Men, Saturday Night Live Sketch Comedy, The Middle, Modern Family, Cougar Town etc...American Comedy really doesn't quite work for me - its too based on slap-stick or physical embarrassment/gutter humor. I prefer witty, sly subtle comedy, like Jon Stewart, Colbert, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, occasionally Glee (although it tends to get a bit too angry at times), Veronica Mars, As Time Goes By...MASH, Cheers, Seinfield, Taxi, Soap, Benson, Night Court, Big Bang Theory, or even Raising Hope, Community and Arrested Development (which sort of skirt the fence between the two).

The Starting Line-Up - 5 Channels You Go To First When You Sit Down to Watch TV:

1. NY1 - it goes there first and gives me all the days news

2. DVR - to check if there is anything I haven't watched and need to.

4. The DVR Guide to see what's on

5. HBO or one of the TCM movie channels...


Gimme More - 5 Shows You Just Can't Get Enough Of

1. Stephen Moffat's Doctor Who - I want more, dang it!
2. The Good Wife - love, love this show.
3. Game of Thrones - surprisingly feel head over heels in love with it too
4. Vamp Diaries - campy fun - I think I like making fun of both of them more than anything else, much to flist's considerable chagrin, I'm certain.
5. True Blood - see Vamp Diaries

5 Shows that You Miss?

1. Buffy (although after reading the comics, I thinking Gellar was right to move on.)
2. Angel
3. Terriers
4. Soon...The Wire
5. Caprica - would have liked to see what they did with it - if it hadn't been so rushed.

Comments

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

3. The first episode of Twin Peaks.


Oh yes, great answer.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I may not do this meme but I loved a lot of your choices (I have a lot of the same TV theme songs stuck permanently in my head)....
Of course I'm a lot older than you so Davy Jones didn't impress me as much as Richard Chamberlain as Dr. Killdare, or Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. did in 77 Sunset Strip (I have a lot of those Warner Bros theme songs in my head too! LOL).