TV Guilty Pleasures

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Kamen Rider Black RX dijo:
This is going to sound weird, but the opening to Gundam Wing. Not Gundam Wing itself, since it couldn't keep my interest for long as a child and as an adult I see it's flaws more. But man, that opening. It was so different from anything else on at the time. The singing was in Japanese along with a bunch of writing left untouched. Just Communication is an awesome song and the animation is top notch for the time.
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Somehow I never saw it that way, but having already been an adult when I first saw the show, I saw it as typical of J-pop style openings anime always uses (gets the kids to buy the records).
 
Kamen Rider Black RX dijo:
This is going to sound weird, but the opening to Gundam Wing. Not Gundam Wing itself, since it couldn't keep my interest for long as a child and as an adult I see it's flaws more. But man, that opening. It was so different from anything else on at the time. The singing was in Japanese along with a bunch of writing left untouched. Just Communication is an awesome song and the animation is top notch for the time.
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I certainly understand what you're saying on the "Like the theme but not the show itself" thing.

For a couple of years, I found myself obsessed with Tv theme songs and wanted to know each and every one of them. I once made a CD of about 32 theme songs with classics like the Love Boat, Family Ties and Who's the Boss?

The whole thing of "Tv Themes" never even ended for me. I am freaking emotionally attached to the Guiding Light theme song used in the mid-80s but I am otherwise not a fan of Guiding Light, but the theme song just strikes too many emotional chords for me.

Trilby dijo:
These days, I don't really have a guilty pleasure anymore (having stopped watching TV regularly a decade back), though as a kid, one of those obnoxious things I had was tuning to channels that did nothing but display text messages, news, and other junk over "Beautiful Music".

Cable TV was a different beast in those days. Nothing mainstreamed, channels would scrap at the bottom of the barrel for content to show. Nickelodeon in those days didn't use to be the powerhouse they are today, and often relied on a lot of outside/foreign programs and cartons to fill up it's schedule in those days. One such program I remember TOO well was Pinwheel, not so much for the low-rent Sesame Street knockoff puppetry but for the bizarre foreign crap they use to stick on there from all over (especially Europe). These days I find it sad not to see any of it anymore outside YouTube (of course the internet supplanted all of this). Here's one such screwed-up cartoon I loved seeing when I was 4...
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I cannot stand modern Television anymore. It has just become so monotonous and retarded. The commercials just keep repeating themselves and I cannot even watch the mainstream media anymore because it creeps me out to hear people read off teleprompters.

I literally get all my Tv pleasure by watching clear and crisp 80s commercials and programming I've video recorded straight off of Youtube using my Wii. It is functionally the same as if you taped it during the 80s, because there is no junk floating around the screen. The possibilities with this method are virtually endless, and any Youtube video can be tape recorded this way, and a lot of people have uploaded many commercials from that decade, and a lot of Game Shows which included original broadcast commercials.

I swear, I've been in heaven the past 1.5 years.
 
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TrippinKahlua dijo:
I certainly understand what you're saying on the "Like the theme but not the show itself" thing.

For a couple of years, I found myself obsessed with Tv theme songs and wanted to know each and every one of them. I once made a CD of about 32 theme songs with classics like the Love Boat, Family Ties and Who's the Boss?

The whole thing of "Tv Themes" never even ended for me. I am freaking emotionally attached to the Guiding Light theme song used in the mid-80s but I am otherwise not a fan of Guiding Light, but the theme song just strikes too many emotional chords for me.
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We all grow out of these things eventually. I use to be in to anime theme songs in the 90's and in those das you either had to know someone to get it for you, buy pirated CDs that come out of Taiwan (Sonmay was a typical label) or download them off the net. I'm glad I'm past all that.

I cannot stand modern Television anymore. It has just become so monotonous and retarded. The commercials just keep repeating themselves and I cannot even watch the mainstream media anymore because it creeps me out to hear people read off teleprompters.
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I usually don't think of teleprompted news readers at all but I'm sure that's been a time-honored tradition going back at least 30 years.

I literally get all my Tv pleasure by watching clear and crisp 80s commercials and programming I've video recorded straight off of Youtube using my Wii. It is functionally the same as if you taped it during the 80s, because there is no junk floating around the screen.
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Because I use a PC, I have other means! Of course I go back to the days of tape-trading and being excited the first time I got my hands on the Star Wars Holiday Special back in 1998! Waiting for things to come in the mail was just as much fun as having to waste hours of your life taping things off two VCR's.

I swear, I've been in heaven the past 1.5 years.
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A decade for me actually.
 
I never cared much for Two and a Half Men, How I Met Your Mother or True Blood, but man dem theme songs are catchy as hell.
 
The Jerry Springer Show is a guilty pleasure of mine. As fake as can be, the show can be absolutely hilarious if you imagine it as a glorified wrestling promo.
 
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I watched and liked the first season of "The Joe Schmo Show". :oops:
 
I enjoy watching alot of things from Discovery Kids and PBS, as opposed to watching things on the Discovery and History channel. There used to be a ton of good (albeit goofy) educational kids shows on them like Ghostwriter, Liberty's Kids and Mystery Hunters. It's very different from what I usually watch nowadays but I like them no less.

Plus I'm pretty sure any of us could watch Bob Ross or Mr. Rodgers any day.
 
Hallo, hallo!

As we know, there are good TV shows, bad TV shows, and outright stupid TV shows.
Kiwis, what are the TV shows you know that are idiotic, tasteless or just strange that you however enjoy watching?
Confess your sins.
 
Ancient Aliens. I know it's crazy talk, but I can't get enough of it. Like in one episode they said that the Nazis worked with aliens to help them in the war and then the next episode the aliens helped us in the war to fight the Nazis.

And anything that's interesting that was built long ago was built by aliens, and ant people live in the center of the earth fighting the lizard people, and we have intergalactic gate ways in the desert. The Egyptians are half alien, South America was built by aliens, it's not a dragon it's a space ship. No one can have imagination, it's all aliens!
 
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nuff said, I am trash tho I like shit that is just nonsensical melodramas like star.
 
For me it's Mystery Diners.
We always watch it during dinner, and although I know it's all fake, it's so over the top and ridiculous that it's entertaining.
As a side effect is the celebrity crush on Charles Stiles.
 
My god. Anything almost on Bravo.
Vanderpump Rules
Real housewives
Under Deck
Shahs of Sunset.
I know it's all horrible trash, but I can't look away. I even got my Old Man into Vanderpump Rules. It is a glorious train wreck of bad sexual decisions and partying adults wkr,ing at a dead end job. Love that shit.
 
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