TV shows you still love. And those you don't anymore
 

There are three shows I was and still am a fan:
Friends
The Nanny
The Munsters
The Flinstones
I don't get tired of watching them

But there are shows I loved to watch, I was a die hard fan. And now when I see them again, the magic is gone. Sometimes I even get bored and change for anything else:
Moonlighting
Wonder Years
Cybill

What about you

Let's see...
 

3 I still Love:

Addams Family (Love the series & Charles Addams animated drawings that appearred in the New Yorker magazine)

The Munsters (Herman rules!!!)

Inu Yasha (Never get tired of this classic Anime)

3 I now Hate:

Star Trek (Used to care...But now I find all the Trek series annoying)

The Simpsons (Used to be a MAJOR diehard fan...Now I pray for the FOX mercy killing because IMO it ran out of ideas!)

Late Night with David Letterman/The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (I find neither as funny as they used to be...Thank GOD for Conan O'Brien!!!)

Brian j.

I still love All in the Family, I Love Lucy, Family Feud. Maybe the Wonder Years too. And Sex and the City reruns.

Almost every other show I can think of that i used to like would bore me now!


-Lis

I still love:

Bewitched
Cagney and Lacey
Sex and the City
ER re-runs
Friends

I used to love Soap but caught it on Paramount recently... eek!

[QUOTE=estranged4life]The Simpsons (Used to be a MAJOR diehard fan...Now I pray for the FOX mercy killing because IMO it ran out of ideas!)
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Dude...no....no.... :( the season premier was soooooooo funny. And still, to me, one episode has way more jokes in it than almost any other sitcom..

I still like:
Heart to Heart, Perry Mason, original Buggs Bunny, Profiler reruns

Three's company lost a bit of magic, compared to what i thought at age 8.

That's my problem with the Simpsons now... it's TOO joke-y, and they've turned the characters into such farces of what they used to be. Homer used to have a heart, and was so much more than what he is now- a one-dimensional idiot. I haven't watched the Simpsons in years, I feel dumber when I do.

TV shows I still love and watch on TV, DVD, and video:

• Golden Girls- Just as funny today as it was then. Though the jokes about "The Bonfire of the Vanities" are a bit dated. :laugh:
• Mork and Mindy: I am not a big Robin Willaims fan, but I have to give this show props. Love Pam Dawber.
• American Gothic: One of my all-time favorites, I can't believe it was cancelled after one season. One of the best shows ever created and I <3333 Jake Weber.
• Picket Fences: Another one fo the best. My favorite episode was when the mayor of Rome had a cow impregnated with her egg and gave birth to her baby. :lol:
• The Practice: Best law show ever.
• Melrose Place: HUGE Melrose fan. I know every episode by heart and have fond memories of the old Melrose viewing parties.
• Farscape: This show is addictive. Funny, thrilling, and SMART.
• Whoopi: I love Whoopi, folks.

I used to love The Nanny, but them damned Lifetime reruns made me sick of it. I can only take that voice for so long. And it bugs me to no end that the kid who played Brighton started going bald as he got older on the show.

In a recent interview...
 

Harry Shearer and another voice actor (I cannot remember the other person but I believe it is the woman who talks for Marge) said that the show has ran out of ideas over 4 years ago (About the same time I quit watching) and is just surviving because of "Fox's/Matt Groening's greed"!

Brian j.

Can't relate. But, as long as ****s funny, i don't care whether it has a heart or not. In fact, I like when sappiness is kept out of my shows. :D More jokes, keep em comin. Also, the simpsons is very clever with making jokes about society still, and i can't get enough. But then, i would never, ever watch gilmore girls, so, we probably have different tastes... :D

OMG, yes!
 

Ha. The voice actors are just as greedy. They get a pay raise every year. If they didn't like the direction the show was going in, they could have left when they're contracts were over instead of pushing for another contract that doubled their salary. :laugh:

The last thing I have to say...
 

about the Simpson's is this:

South Park is yer Daddy and your South Park's bitch :lol: :laugh: :lol:

Brian "Om my God...They Killed the Simpson's...Thank you bastards" j.

I will always be a fan of Friends. I used to watch That '70s Show and Less Than Perfect faithfully everyweek, but lately it seems that the shows are stagnent. I love That '70s Show for seasons 1-5, but once Laurie (Lisa Robin Kelly) left again, it's become really boring and trite. I can tell Eric is wearing a wig and what's up with Donna being a blonde? :distress: She was better as a foxy redhead! ABC moved Less Than Perfect to a Friday night...which doesn't work for me (and I'm too lazy to remember to tape it anymore). I'm also still a bit miffed at Sara Rue for dissin' Stevie :mad:

Thank goodness I get Comedy Central included in my free basic TV! Yay for Dave Chappelle, Reno 911! and South Park! :nod:

See...
 

if I was a digruntled voice actor on a show I feel that ran out of ideas I wouldnt ask for a contract renewal :nod: But I agree with ya about the voice actor's greediness...They should have to see how much Anime voice actors are paid, But "Anime is below them."

Brian j.

Amen!
 

CBS said they cancelled it because it was too dark and didn't fit in their line-up. :rolleyes: First they kill off Picket Fences and replace it with American Gothic, only to kill that one a year later. And now they're airing Dr. Vegas in that time slot. :laugh:

American Gothic SO needs to be put on DVD, all 22 episodes. There were actually four episodes that never aired, much to my surprise, and they were aired on Sci-Fi Channel a couple of years ago. My, I loved that show. Every actor was greatness on it; Sarah Paulson, Paige Turco, Gary Cole, Lucas Black, and especially Jake Weber. I want the freakin' DVD so badly, my tapes are literally worn out.

I still do and will always love Little House on the Prairie...:laugh: Seriously. I have seasons 1-6 on DVD and am not-so-patiently awaiting seasons 7-9....I LOVE that show so much - even more now that my favorite episode have made it to DVD (the ones where Laura meets and falls in love with Almanzo :) )

Anyway others I still love:

-I Love Lucy
-The Golden Girls - I agree, diss about some of the dated references but damned if that show isn't still one of the funniest ever....
-The Cosby Show
-My So Called Life

don't like so much anymore:

-Three's Company -I agree with Amber - not as great as I found it at 8 :)
-Roseanne - got a bit tired of it...

Wow, I love South Park, but i think Simpsons is pretty fresh, comparatively :shrug: And since they can't do things that are as gross, the writing has extra good jokes in it. But anyway.
I would say, the Simpsons invented South Park!

See, I thought Roseanne was one of the most realistic shows ever made (up until it got stupid with them winning the lottery). It's just so real and funny at the same time. I loved it then and I still love it now! My favorite one was when Becky farted in class. :lol:

Too dark...ppfftt...
 

American Gothic was awesome. A friend of mine has a great Lucas Black imitation and knows that whenever he says "Someone's at the door" that I get all creeped out. Did anyone see Friday Night Lights? Lucas Black is all grown up, it's very weird.

I want it on DVD!!

If I just wanted to watch something that was "funny," I'd watch Everybody Loves Raymond or something awful like that. The Simpsons was always more than a comedy to me, and to a lot of people. I'm just really dissatisfied with the way it's been the last four or five years. It just feels like a lot of cheap laughs. As for Gilmore Girls- it makes me laugh more than pretty much any other show on TV, aside from maybe Scrubs. I always figured it was awful- a show about a mom and daughter on the WB who talk like Dawson's Creek? But it's incredibly intelligent. The creator was actually one of the head writers for Roseanne. Eh. Different strokes for different folks.

Dr. Vegas got cancelled, too.

Nope...
 

the basis for South Park was around since the mid 80's (Pre-dating the Simpson's) when Trey Parker/Matt Stone created similar characters to the modern South Park characters during their school years trying to find a niche that would/could get 'em noticed...

Personally "Love Is Hell" (Matt Groening's Original comic strip) invented the Simpson's...And was MUCH funnier in how inventive it could be with the problems of modern society.

Brian j.

I don't even know who owns the rights to it, I'll have to get one of my tapes out and look during the credits. I believe it's Warners and they suck when it comes to shows on DVD.

If Laverne and Shirley gets a DVD, why can't American Gothic?! :laugh:

Good, karma's a bitch. :laugh:

Dr. Vegas is SO bad, but I'm a little disappointed that it was cancelled. I Tivo-ed it every Friday, because my mom LOVES Rob Lowe and was getting me to watch it with her so she could gush about how hot he is with someone.

SUCH a bad show. I wish Joe Pantaliano would go away.

Well, not only was "Laverne and Shirley" a classic, but I am sure it helped that Penny and indeed Gary Marshall are HUGE hitters in Hollywood. Conversely, Cindy Williams is just plain huge :eek: :laugh: :lol:

I still like:
Friends
Will and Grace (but guest spots are annoying me)
Everybody Loves Raymond

No longer like:
Three's Company - my brother and I watched it every night as kids and when we were hanging out recently I thought it might be fun to watch it, but it's unwatchable.
That 70s Show (I also LOVE the earlier shows)
Bewitched - dated, looking forward to the movie though

New shows I like:
Joan of Arcadia, although the level of drama is crazy.
The Apprentice, some of these people do the dumbest things and it makes you wonder how they were picked for the show!

I totally disagree. :wavey:

No, we need him for the long-rumoured Goonies sequel. :laugh:

A few more shows...
 

that are great:

Mystery Science Theater 2000 (Crow T.Robot & Tom Cervo are funnier than ANY of the crap on all the Networks.)

Xena-Warrior Princess

Hercules

HAA!

Then after that he can go away. So his head was in a bowling bag. Big F-ing deal. You know he's overexposed and annoying when even my MOTHER calls him "Joey Pants."

Yeah, but I can't imagine the demand for L&S on DVD was very high. :laugh:

If they put American Gothic on DVD, they could rob us fans blind like they did to the Farscape fans by charging hundreds to make a healthy profit without moving a ton of units. I'd gladly pay whatever they charged. :thumbsup:

as I sheepishly raise my hand and own up to being a Farscape fan who bought it :eek:

You know, Farscape is such a cult-favorite, and I hear so much about it from some of my friends, but I really have no idea what it is or why it's so great. Maybe I should finally break down and check it out.

I have enough obsessions. My most recent is re-watching every episode of Alias with Sark in it... over, and over, and over.

Still: :thumbsup:

X-Files
Queer Eye For The Straight Guy
Northern Exposure
Twin Peaks
Alf
My So-Called Life
South Park
Reno 911
CSI (the original) (the spin-offs aren't nearly as good...Gary Sinise is wasting his time)
Third Watch
Friends
Frasier
Dick Van Dyke Show
Harry O
77 Sunset Strip
Surfside 6
Hawaiian Eye
Twilight Zone

Not so much: :shocked:
Will & Grace
Seinfeld
Mad About You
ER (the show that is, itself, on life support)
Star Trek (the whole franchise)
Malcom In The Middle (only because something else came up on its same time slot)

Where are the re-runs of: :shrug:
Ally McBeal
Third Rock From The Sun
Stark Raving Mad

Go to ebay...
 

because I am sure someone overseas (ie-China) has bootlegged versions of American Gothic on DVD.

Brian j.

I only liked him in Bound (Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly...ohmigod) and The Goonies. Can't stand him otherwise. He seems like a weasel.

Actually...
 

"Third Rock..." is on TV here all the time due to syndication.

Brian j.