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NFT: What's your TV guilty pleasure?

Greg from LI : 5/15/2015 9:07 am
Most people have one - a show they hate to admit they enjoy. For me, it's Naked and Afraid. I generally despise dumbass reality shows but this one is so loony-tune that I can't help but find it entertaining. 75% of the episodes drop these people in a place loaded with alligators or crocodiles. Most of them try really hard to make deadfall traps or weave a sort of fishing basket, neither of which ever work. And some of the chicks have terrific cabooses.

So what do you avoid telling people you watch?
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Oh, and Headhunter  
Don in DC : 5/15/2015 11:27 am : link
I love Wicked Tuna too. Only "reality" show that I watch. Love it, mostly because I love fishing.
RE: Big Bang Theory.  
Jon : 5/15/2015 11:36 am : link
In comment 12287951 Don in DC said:
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I love that show. Watch it all the time on re-runs. Even DVR them. My wife hates it.


How is Big Bang Theory a guilty pleasure?

Let me guess, your other guilty pleasure is Game of Thrones?

also the aren't on any more except for re-runs- ICarly/Victorious  
Stu11 : 5/15/2015 11:37 am : link
have to admit I watched with my daughter a lot. of course as a dad Victorious was all about the plot!
the only reality show  
pjcas18 : 5/15/2015 11:39 am : link
I used to like was cops.

it was great. not it's so formulaic like every other reality show. the entire 30 minutes there are like two arrest scenes.

and every show has some domestic violence case with a guy in a wife beater and a drunk overweight wife. and a kid sitting on a curb while they check his car for drugs - and do they ever NOT find drugs or paraphernalia during these searches?

so now it's no reality shows for me.
RE: yeah the last frontier  
Randy in CT : 5/15/2015 11:47 am : link
In comment 12287807 pjcas18 said:
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atz and otto and the singer Jewell's family, it's fake.

manufactured plots, almost like recreations.

they aren't as bad as the bush people who weren't even real alaskans and were sued for fraud.

buying alaska is kind of cool, there was one with former broncos kicker jason elam - he got a sweet place.
What are you basing this on? I could see that weird family in the woods as being the fake show but Last Frontier comes across as genuine.
internet  
pjcas18 : 5/15/2015 11:54 am : link
reddit, and other sites. It's not as over the top as some, and I love seeing them install outhouses or catch rabbits, or move a herd of cattle to their summer range, but it's not what it's made out to be. I think it's good TV and in some cases I learn something. I loved seeing how they built the thing to store their food high up so the bears couldn't get it. but a lot of it is fiction.

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The biggest complaint I hear about the show is that the narrator frequently comments on how if the family doesn't kill a fish, deer or moose they'll basically go hungry. This is obviously false, since they live just outside Homer and near several grocery stores and restaurants. I don't blame the Kilcher family for their TV edits. This is the plot that some team of writers came up with in California, and they've edited the Kilchers to fit a storyline.

Alaska the last frontier is hardly a frontier - ( New Window )
RE: I could never get into Hell's Kitchen  
GMAN4LIFE : 5/15/2015 11:54 am : link
In comment 12287882 Greg from LI said:
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Kitchen Nightmares, on the other hand, I watched the hell out of.


how about that episode with the crazy lady who was a chef and the first nightmare that they couldnt help
ah yes, the infamous Amy's Baking Company episode  
Greg from LI : 5/15/2015 12:00 pm : link
RE: River Mike  
River Mike : 5/15/2015 12:04 pm : link
In comment 12287867 Klaatu said:
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An aircraft carrier may be nuclear powered and go for I don't know how long before refueling, but the aircraft it carries aren't.


I stand corrected :)
for now  
RasputinPrime : 5/15/2015 12:07 pm : link
Supernatural and Avengers Assemble.
I watched Hell's Kitchen up until that Amy's Bakery episode  
aimrocky : 5/15/2015 12:07 pm : link
That episode was so ridiculous, I couldn't watch anymore.

I like Restaurant Impossible because it comes off as real, and not staged like the other Restaurant makeover shows (Hell's Kitchen, Bar Rescue, etc.)
RE: and History used to be about History  
Chef : 5/15/2015 12:10 pm : link
In comment 12287893 Greg from LI said:
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That still pisses me off after all these years.


You dint get H2 on your cable?.. that is my favorite channel...
sure Kitchen Nightmares was staged  
Greg from LI : 5/15/2015 12:11 pm : link
But that woman is legitimately insane. The Kitchen Nightmares episode was only the final bit of her lunacy - she'd been on the local news in Phoneix because of her crazy diatribes against people who gave them bad reviews on Yelp before she went on KN.
nope  
Greg from LI : 5/15/2015 12:11 pm : link
No H2, no Military History. Have to get the top DTV package for that, and I'm not paying that much.
RE: internet  
Randy in CT : 5/15/2015 12:14 pm : link
In comment 12287986 pjcas18 said:
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reddit, and other sites. It's not as over the top as some, and I love seeing them install outhouses or catch rabbits, or move a herd of cattle to their summer range, but it's not what it's made out to be. I think it's good TV and in some cases I learn something. I loved seeing how they built the thing to store their food high up so the bears couldn't get it. but a lot of it is fiction.

just one quote:



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The biggest complaint I hear about the show is that the narrator frequently comments on how if the family doesn't kill a fish, deer or moose they'll basically go hungry. This is obviously false, since they live just outside Homer and near several grocery stores and restaurants. I don't blame the Kilcher family for their TV edits. This is the plot that some team of writers came up with in California, and they've edited the Kilchers to fit a storyline.

Alaska the last frontier is hardly a frontier - ( New Window )
Yeah, I always assumed they had more access to food than they let on. I always figured they meant it as "This is how we live and you stock up when the weather's good so you live off that food all winter" as opposed to the entire family starving. plus, push comes to shove you go hunt/fish in the fucking winter.
Agree Randy  
pjcas18 : 5/15/2015 12:17 pm : link
but the people on the show play it up too, they'll say things like our friend took us to this island to go deer hunting and this will be our last chance for deer meat this winter...

and then you read this:

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Discovery’s “Alaska: The Last Frontier,” plays up the survival and isolation of the Kilcher family on a homestead, she says. But lots of Alaskans know the homestead is a short drive from the town of Homer, she says.

“They can just drive to Safeway and get some fried chicken,” she says. “They are OK.”


RE: nope  
Chef : 5/15/2015 12:18 pm : link
In comment 12288015 Greg from LI said:
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No H2, no Military History. Have to get the top DTV package for that, and I'm not paying that much.


I understand.. my Wife pays that bill...Well.. that is where the History is on the History channels..
Storage Wars, Sanford and Son  
MaineGiantFan : 5/15/2015 12:49 pm : link
Deadliest Catch
I've been binge watching  
GiantsLaw : 5/15/2015 1:01 pm : link
Star Wars "Clone Wars". Fuggin luv it.
Nashville  
santacruzom : 5/15/2015 1:18 pm : link
In between the occasional two minutes of good music and some pretty authentic portrayals of musicians playing/talking music is a hurricane of dramatic bullshit.
shitty sy fy movies  
terz22 : 5/15/2015 1:47 pm : link
Good for some late night laughs
RE: RE: and History used to be about History  
terz22 : 5/15/2015 1:50 pm : link
In comment 12288010 Chef said:
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That still pisses me off after all these years.


Unfortunately h2 will be gone by the end of the year being rebranded as Vice network



You dint get H2 on your cable?.. that is my favorite channel...
why would Sanford and Son be a guilty pleasure?  
Greg from LI : 5/15/2015 1:52 pm : link
It's a classic!
hah...well, this sounds like it will be an enormous pile of shit  
Greg from LI : 5/15/2015 1:54 pm : link
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The following April, it was announced that H2 will be rebranded as Vice,[4] a lifestyle channel aimed at millennials.


I'm getting very close to the point that I want to punch anyone who even says the word "millenials" right in the motherfucking mouth.
I started watching Billy Crystal's new show The Comedians  
steve in ky : 5/15/2015 1:58 pm : link
Not really a guilty pleasure though.

RE: hah...well, this sounds like it will be an enormous pile of shit  
terz22 : 5/15/2015 1:59 pm : link
In comment 12288138 Greg from LI said:
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The following April, it was announced that H2 will be rebranded as Vice,[4] a lifestyle channel aimed at millennials.



I'm getting very close to the point that I want to punch anyone who even says the word "millenials" right in the motherfucking mouth.


Oops messed my previous quote up hahs but I couldn't agree more.
My wife watches Outlander on Starz and I usually watch with her  
steve in ky : 5/15/2015 2:01 pm : link
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millenials  
Cam in MO : 5/15/2015 2:05 pm : link
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Chopped  
Curtis in VA : 5/15/2015 2:13 pm : link
Property Brothers
Love It or List It
Flip or Flop (whatever - Christina el Moussa is hot)
RE: why would Sanford and Son be a guilty pleasure?  
Stu11 : 5/15/2015 2:16 pm : link
In comment 12288134 Greg from LI said:
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It's a classic!

"lamont you a dummy!"... "Elizabeth I'm comin too ya, this is the big one!"
keep crackin' wise, Cam  
Greg from LI : 5/15/2015 2:18 pm : link
RE: The Good Witch.  
Mike in Philly : 5/15/2015 2:19 pm : link
In comment 12287846 Klaatu said:
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Yeah, I said it.

Right with you, brother.
RE: RE: why would Sanford and Son be a guilty pleasure?  
Greg from LI : 5/15/2015 2:19 pm : link
In comment 12288168 Stu11 said:
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It's a classic!


"lamont you a dummy!"... "Elizabeth I'm comin too ya, this is the big one!"


My wife was more than a bit annoyed at me when my daughter, copying me, started saying "You big dummy!" all the time.
RE: keep crackin' wise, Cam  
YAJ2112 : 5/15/2015 2:21 pm : link
In comment 12288170 Greg from LI said:
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Funny you post that, that who I always picture when I read your posts.
Francis?  
Greg from LI : 5/15/2015 2:24 pm : link
Eh....could be worse
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SoZKillA : 5/15/2015 2:31 pm : link
Big Mommas House
Girl Meets World  
Anakim : 5/15/2015 2:31 pm : link
But I watch it for the BMW memories
RE: also the aren't on any more except for re-runs- ICarly/Victorious  
Anakim : 5/15/2015 2:32 pm : link
In comment 12287971 Stu11 said:
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have to admit I watched with my daughter a lot. of course as a dad Victorious was all about the plot!


And because Victoria Justice is fucking hot
I'm actually starting to enjoy new Odd Couple  
kinard : 5/15/2015 2:35 pm : link
I'm a Randall/Klugman purist but guy playing Felix is very good. Matthew Perry not so much
Drunk History  
JerseyCityJoe : 5/15/2015 2:35 pm : link
Somehow I just can't pass these up.
RE: Drunk History  
santacruzom : 5/15/2015 4:06 pm : link
In comment 12288200 JerseyCityJoe said:
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Somehow I just can't pass these up.


Guilty pleasure?!? No way in hell! I don't feel an ounce of shame watching or touting that show.
RE: My wife watches Outlander on Starz and I usually watch with her  
santacruzom : 5/15/2015 4:08 pm : link
In comment 12288150 steve in ky said:
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I can see how some episodes of that qualify as guilty, and really the entire premise is one that requires a lot of suspension to buy into (particularly, how someone from the 1940's would actually want to stay in the early 1700's when given a chance to return to her time). But Claire is freaking hot.
RE: RE: My wife watches Outlander on Starz and I usually watch with her  
Bill L : 5/15/2015 4:16 pm : link
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I can see how some episodes of that qualify as guilty, and really the entire premise is one that requires a lot of suspension to buy into (particularly, how someone from the 1940's would actually want to stay in the early 1700's when given a chance to return to her time). But Claire is freaking hot.


I watch it. Its pretty dumb and definitely a chick film but for the boobs. But hey...boobs.
RE: RE: RE: My wife watches Outlander on Starz and I usually watch with her  
santacruzom : 5/15/2015 4:21 pm : link
In comment 12288359 Bill L said:
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I can see how some episodes of that qualify as guilty, and really the entire premise is one that requires a lot of suspension to buy into (particularly, how someone from the 1940's would actually want to stay in the early 1700's when given a chance to return to her time). But Claire is freaking hot.



I watch it. Its pretty dumb and definitely a chick film but for the boobs. But hey...boobs.


It's also got some genuinely erotic sex scenes. That actress fakes an orgasm so well you actually wonder if she might not be faking...
RE: RE: RE: I watch The Octonauts with my daughter, who's obsessed with it  
santacruzom : 5/15/2015 4:24 pm : link
In comment 12287899 YAJ2112 said:
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We watched those 3 for a while as well. Peppa Pig is another one that we watched for a bit, I think it's on Nick Toons or something like that.


Peppa Pig kicks ass. You can watch most of it on Youtube. My 20 month old son loves it, and we don't feel like we're suffering watching it with him.

The episode on Whistling is hilarious.
the weird thing with the remake Odd Couple is the casting  
Greg from LI : 5/15/2015 4:25 pm : link
Matthew Perry might work as Felix but I can't see him as Oscar at all. They pretty much have two Felixes.
Eh  
crick n NC : 5/15/2015 10:24 pm : link
Teen Mom2 Old 90210 re-runs....and go!
Mob Wives  
Berrylish : 5/16/2015 8:28 am : link
I don't watch any 'reality' shows or contest type shows. But Mob wives cracks me up. It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Ang and those boob/lips/that voice and her little Louie. Rene is an amazing train wreck. The Natalies from last season are the DUMBEST girls around. The one girl looks like who did it and ran. (but i love Drita) Oh and Karen Gravano... riding on daddy's coattails. She's a nightmare. But they are sooo amazingly funny. Why anyone would ever want to represent themselves they way they do is beyond me.
Ridiculousness,  
baadbill : 5/16/2015 8:05 pm : link
Naked and Afraid, and Dual Survivor
Castle.  
Big Blue Blogger : 5/16/2015 9:28 pm : link
Basically the same show as Bones and the mother of the genre, Moonlighting; but capably done and Stana Katic is yummy.
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