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LOL.. I love the chicken fight scenes, especially the one where they stop mid fight and ask what they were originally fighting about. Classic!StephenKingman wrote:^ I know, it never seems to age and the show is so off-the-wall in the way the plots can go off on a wild tangent of Peter fighting a chicken or God having an argument with Jesus, you never know what to expect, and they delight in showing up the celebrities..
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Isn't it a wonder, how we survived without helmets and knee/elbow pads and airbags and carseats? In a few years, we'll just cover kids in bubble wrap.Tip the Bottle wrote:My dear I believe we are kindred spirits I remember Battle of the Network stars and the 1.98 beauty pagent as well. Battle always had Gil Gerard from Buck Rogers on it and people from Falcon Crest. The funniest thing about those shows were the hot pants the men would wear on that show. Wow I was just hit with the nostalgia brick.Tralala wrote: I think I've got Early Onset Nostalgia Syndrome, or something. I keep remembering all this useless (and usually dumb) stuff from when I was a kid. Like Battle of the Network Stars and the $1.98 Beauty Show and heshers and New Coke and Lidsville and how everyone knew somebody whose cousin's friend had ridden on a bike that way and cracked their head open....
On Family Guy...my ex lets our son watch that show. In his (my son's) first year of confirmation class (when he was 12), he was supposed to write about something for which he was grateful. He said he was grateful that he wasn't a prom night dumpster baby. Yeah. In his confirmation journal.
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That is too funny!Tralala wrote:Isn't it a wonder, how we survived without helmets and knee/elbow pads and airbags and carseats? In a few years, we'll just cover kids in bubble wrap.Tip the Bottle wrote:My dear I believe we are kindred spirits I remember Battle of the Network stars and the 1.98 beauty pagent as well. Battle always had Gil Gerard from Buck Rogers on it and people from Falcon Crest. The funniest thing about those shows were the hot pants the men would wear on that show. Wow I was just hit with the nostalgia brick.Tralala wrote: I think I've got Early Onset Nostalgia Syndrome, or something. I keep remembering all this useless (and usually dumb) stuff from when I was a kid. Like Battle of the Network Stars and the $1.98 Beauty Show and heshers and New Coke and Lidsville and how everyone knew somebody whose cousin's friend had ridden on a bike that way and cracked their head open....
On Family Guy...my ex lets our son watch that show. In his (my son's) first year of confirmation class (when he was 12), he was supposed to write about something for which he was grateful. He said he was grateful that he wasn't a prom night dumpster baby. Yeah. In his confirmation journal.

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Bet the PTA meeting was interesting!Mairin wrote:That is too funny!Tralala wrote:Isn't it a wonder, how we survived without helmets and knee/elbow pads and airbags and carseats? In a few years, we'll just cover kids in bubble wrap.Tip the Bottle wrote: My dear I believe we are kindred spirits I remember Battle of the Network stars and the 1.98 beauty pagent as well. Battle always had Gil Gerard from Buck Rogers on it and people from Falcon Crest. The funniest thing about those shows were the hot pants the men would wear on that show. Wow I was just hit with the nostalgia brick.
On Family Guy...my ex lets our son watch that show. In his (my son's) first year of confirmation class (when he was 12), he was supposed to write about something for which he was grateful. He said he was grateful that he wasn't a prom night dumpster baby. Yeah. In his confirmation journal.
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I can't laugh at it, though I probably would if it was somebody else's kid. I can't imagine what the pastor thought...Mairin wrote:
That is too funny!
'Course, I was one of the only single mothers in the church, so I got the fish eye all the time, anyway.
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On cable I watch Weeds, Big Love, and Dexter.
I thought Tudors was ok but I loved Rome and wished it was never cancelled.
I'm looking forward to The Borgias (I think its called) and The Game of Thrones.
I can't stand those "reality shows".
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The Cable companies are making some of the best television shows now. I'm really anticipating A Game of Thrones I've read the book and they were quite good. Also looking forward to a new season of Breaking Bad.Christina2 wrote:I follow House, Lie To Me, Harry's Law, NCIS, The Middle, My Dad Said @#$%, Supernatural and Rescue Me when it returns.
On cable I watch Weeds, Big Love, and Dexter.
I thought Tudors was ok but I loved Rome and wished it was never cancelled.
I'm looking forward to The Borgias (I think its called) and The Game of Thrones.
I can't stand those "reality shows".
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Yeah, I don't get it. Is this supposed to be funny? I just....I don't get it. So if you're a stupid spoiled brat you get to be famous? Is that the message here? And how old is The Situation? 50?
Is this a voyeurism thing? Or...I dunno. Does it get better? 'Cause I only watched the first two.
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You mean you didnt like it, you are, like, SO not cool and a total douche. I also cant stand those Jersey Shore, The Hills etc shows, they seem to be nothing more than a platform for deluded, highly unpleasant and spoilt rich kids to bleat about...well, nothing really. As apolitical and apathetic as they come, these tanned morons spend their days checking themselves out in the mirror, having plastic surgery done on every part of their bodies and generally taking complete nonsense about the latest mundane happenings in the relationships of their mate Heidi/Spencer/Kooky/Situation etc (delete as applicable) or the best nightclub to have their 21st birthday party.Tralala wrote:Okay. I did it. I watched Jersey Shore. And OMG! It's, like, so AWESOME!!!!! Will Snooki take her clothes off, like, again? Will JWoww and Pauly D really (like, really) hook up?? Did whatserface really leave???
Yeah, I don't get it. Is this supposed to be funny? I just....I don't get it. So if you're a stupid spoiled brat you get to be famous? Is that the message here? And how old is The Situation? 50?
Is this a voyeurism thing? Or...I dunno. Does it get better? 'Cause I only watched the first two.
None of them seem to have jobs and they genuinely consider themselves famous and celebrated by mere fact of their existence and not any achievements or talents! And the sad fact is that someone out there must like and watch these shows or else they would not be greenlighted so thats a whole generation of young people who tune in to and look up to a bunch of nobodies as their role models, thats actually quite sad really..
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Thank goodness, my kids hate those shows (whew!)(knock wood). My daughter loves SNL, though, and every time she sees Bobby Moynihan as Snooki, she has to eat an orange. That sounds like a joke, but it's true. She gets a craving.StephenKingman wrote:You mean you didnt like it, you are, like, SO not cool and a total douche. I also cant stand those Jersey Shore, The Hills etc shows, they seem to be nothing more than a platform for deluded, highly unpleasant and spoilt rich kids to bleat about...well, nothing really. As apolitical and apathetic as they come, these tanned morons spend their days checking themselves out in the mirror, having plastic surgery done on every part of their bodies and generally taking complete nonsense about the latest mundane happenings in the relationships of their mate Heidi/Spencer/Kooky/Situation etc (delete as applicable) or the best nightclub to have their 21st birthday party.Tralala wrote:Okay. I did it. I watched Jersey Shore. And OMG! It's, like, so AWESOME!!!!! Will Snooki take her clothes off, like, again? Will JWoww and Pauly D really (like, really) hook up?? Did whatserface really leave???
Yeah, I don't get it. Is this supposed to be funny? I just....I don't get it. So if you're a stupid spoiled brat you get to be famous? Is that the message here? And how old is The Situation? 50?
Is this a voyeurism thing? Or...I dunno. Does it get better? 'Cause I only watched the first two.
None of them seem to have jobs and they genuinely consider themselves famous and celebrated by mere fact of their existence and not any achievements or talents! And the sad fact is that someone out there must like and watch these shows or else they would not be greenlighted so thats a whole generation of young people who tune in to and look up to a bunch of nobodies as their role models, thats actually quite sad really..
I dunno, don't they serve more as "don't do this stupid crap" examples?