Cory’s Show List:
I’m not too sure on how accurate this list will be since television watching is a very on and off thing for me but here it is: (some of these lists may be extremely short)
1. Shows I’m watching these days: Franklin and Bash is about the only show I’m currently following this summer.
2. Peripheral Shows: I’m currently living back home with my parents for this summer so I no longer have complete control over what I want... Unfortunately… Mom loves to watch HGTV, shows like DesignStar, House Hunters, Hidden Potential, and Selling New York. The only reason I tolerate these shows is because I’m either eating and I need something to watch or because I’m trying to fall asleep. I help my dad on his farm so we tend to watch Bloomberg to keep an eye on crop prices on the stock market so we know the best times to sell.
3. Guilty No-Gos: I guess Family Guy could fall under this category, I’ve seen this show before but only a few times and it’s only been at friends’ houses. Every time I’ve seen it I’ve enjoyed it but I’ve never really attempted to follow it myself. Dexter is one I’ve heard a lot about. I absolutely love It’s Always Sunny but I can never work my schedule around to watching… Plus I don’t even know if my family’s TV plan gets FX…
4. Guilty Pleasures: Honestly there are a few shows that I still watch on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. Some of the shows on there such as Wizards of Waverly Place, Victorious, and Penguins of Madagascar can be legitimately funny without being raunchy.
5. All-Time Favorites: That 70’s Show is BY FAR my favorite show of all time. Some others would be My Wife and Kids, Castle, and Supernatural.
6. Shows I used to like, but not anymore: The CSI series, The Closer, basically any forensic crime investigation shows. I used to like them all until I realized they were all basically the same with a few minor detail changes here and there. Castle is the crime show I still watch and enjoy.
7. Pretty much any show from Disney Channel or Nickelodeon fall into this category. I always thought shows on these channels were full of nothing but childish humor. It wasn’t until I was forced to watch them while taking care of my niece and nephew that I realized they actually had a lot of potential.
8. Shows I refuse to watch: American Idol! I DO NOT understand how this show still exists!!! Any reality show falls under this category actually. Some other examples would be Jersey Shore, My Sweet 16, and the Bachelor or Bachelorette…
9. Non-TV related shows I watch: I love to watch anything by Julian Smith, Ray William Johnson, and Rhet and Link. Those three youtube stars are hilarious to watch.
I still watch Disney Chanel and Nickelodeon too because I like SpongeBob! I think all characters in Spongebob are unique and cute! I I used to feel these Chanel only broadcast childish humor and boring too but I changed my mind after I started to learn how to critic the Television shows. Also, I don't like American Idol either. I am also so confused why there are so many fans of this show. I really hate reality shows now but they always have extremely high rate every season. I hate them I need to agree they are so success on commercial.
ReplyDeleteYeah, American Idol is way to strung out. I don't know why most of our prime time network television nowadays is competitive shows focused on talent. Remember how people used to get famous by playing awesome at random clubs then opening for awesome bands that they ended up being bigger then? I don't because I wasn't born yet, but I will like those bands so much more then any one who will ever be on American Idol, Ever.
ReplyDeleteI'd agree more with your Disney and Nick watching habits if it were 10-15 years ago. Who remembers when they had cartoons on the Disney channel? I grew up on that stuff! Who remembers Rocko's Modern life and Angry Beavers? Sponge bob is pretty funny though.
Wow--crop prices. I remember those kind of reports coming on when I was growing up in central Illinois. Yay for web-based stuff! BTW, I really don't think I can stomach any more AI ever, but I will tell you that for the last 3 seasons, I only watch the show so I can go to TV Without Pity the next day and read Jacob's snarky hypertextual Wee-Cap. As the show increasingly bared its corporate-formula-zombified skeleton underbelly, Jacob was doing these absolutely surreal recaps that perfectly captured the whole tone. So I don't even need to watch AI anymore; I just read Jacob. Well, actually, reading Jacob makes the watching of AI extremely interesting; like you're tripping. (Ahem. Well, I'll work on articulating that better in the future!)
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