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17 August 2006

Things you are sick of seeing on TV... →[More:]
mine:

1. Some dumbass falling, and right after, he says "I'm okay". If it was ever funny, it's not anymore.

2. Some dumbass driving his bicycle to the great outdoors. Dick.

3. Dumbass people being over-protective of their snacks, often followed by something like "get your own". Fuck you.

4. Everybody Loves Raymond.

I had another one, but I've forgotten it because TV has tought me to not pay attention to anything for more than 10 seconds.

post by: Hellbient at: 11:35 | 34 comments

Those awful, awful "Head On" commercials.

Those awful, awful "Head On" commercials.

Those awful, awful "Head On" commercials.

posted by tommasz 17 August | 11:37

Pseudonudity. You know, scenes and ads where it's implied the subject is naked but none of the good parts are showing, like a closeup of panties around ankles or bare backs from the waist up. Why not just shoot a picture of a pile of clothes by a bed, implying that people are fucking in it, and we'll get all agitated.

posted by jonmc 17 August | 11:39

Emeril.

(BAM!)

posted by Pips 17 August | 11:40

White people.

posted by Hugh Janus 17 August | 11:43

Those "Don't drive drunk" ads in which the cars of drunk drivers are inexplicably filled with liquids that spill out of the car when it's stopped by cops, so that the "beer" guy looks like he's got a car full of urine and the last dude, who's maybe been drinking red wine or god knows what, has gross food-dyed water splash out of his car that makes him look like he's been sharing an automobile with pirahnas.

The overall impression is less "don't drive drunk" and more "don't drive in a car filled with bodily fluids."

posted by occhiblu 17 August | 11:44

"don't drive in a car filled with bodily fluids."

Unless of course it's a Bloodmobile.

posted by jonmc 17 August | 11:46

Damn, I haven't missed much. For the last year or so, my TV's been pretty much exclusively married to the DVD player. For everything else, there's youtube.

posted by pieisexactlythree 17 August | 11:48

John Basedow. I hope I spelled that incorrectly!

posted by getoffmylawn 17 August | 11:50

Giant Purple Dongs shopping for sandals in Filene's Basement.

posted by Divine_Wino 17 August | 11:51

Oh, yeah, 'Fitness Celebrity' John Basedow. With the blonde highlights and little tiny head. He seems to pop up every 5 fucking minutes.

posted by jonmc 17 August | 11:52

Ha ha ha, TV.

posted by Eideteker 17 August | 12:04

The way newscasters, (or if you prefer: commenters), accentuate their words with head movements, hand movements, and unconvincing facial expressions. However Jackie Guerrido, the real-life Lola Hotchacha, can do no wrong.

posted by tetsuo 17 August | 12:18

That iced coffee commercial where the guy in the car sings "STICKIN' TO THE PLEATHER!"

posted by Joe Famous 17 August | 12:21

1. Little channel logos in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. I get especially annoyed when they get in the way of the opera subtitles on PBS.

2. Dumb little "ad movies" or whatever you want to call them, where you're watching one show and all of the sudden there are some dancing people and graphics at the bottom of the screen advertising what's coming up.

3. Old sitcom reruns where the sitcom has been shortened to allow for more commercials.

posted by JanetLand 17 August | 12:23

Any show that offers interactivity by getting you to vote for a person, or express your opinion on the boards, or etc. Especially the ones that offer a bribe to do so, like cash money or an iPod or some shit. I'm watching A SHOW. I have an attention span longer than a child's. I want to watch MY SHOW and I'll interact with people during the stupid commercials or after it's over.

posted by TrishaLynn 17 August | 12:29

Does the world really need more unrealistic forensic science dramas? I mean, c'mon now. We need less CSI:Toledo, and more shows where the objective is to blow shit up in real life, or a show where people push cars off a pier using only a forklift and some dynamite they found in a shed, or a show about demolition clowns who make the world smile while destroying the abominations that the last 40 years of modern architecture has foisted upon us.

posted by cmonkey 17 August | 12:33

I guess what I'm saying is that I don't know what I'm talking about, but like every good American, I'm going to have an opinion about it, dammit, even if it's based on false assumptions and cotton candy.

posted by cmonkey 17 August | 12:34

oh, I remembered the other one - dumbass white guys doing the robot dance. Maybe I shouldn't have remembered, because now I want to kill. If I had a robot, I'd program it to kill all of the people involved, yes, even the grips and lighting guys.

posted by Hellbient 17 August | 12:44

Giant cars driving through nature.

posted by matildaben 17 August | 12:46

I'm sick of pretty much everything except Deadwood and Jon Stewart... tho I suffer greatly at the extreme amount of totally inane commercials that suffocate the Daily Show... it's like 5 minutes of show, then 10 minutes of commercials... hate that!

posted by recovering iowan 17 August | 12:54

cmonkey, Discovery has the show for you!

posted by pieisexactlythree 17 August | 12:58

...but since I'm on the subject of Discovery, I'm sick of people building motorcycles and hotrods. When did discovery become the all biker network?

posted by pieisexactlythree 17 August | 13:00

I started three sentences before realizing that the things I hate about TV are the same things we all hate about TV.

So, in lieu of that, I bring you Sarika. She is kind of a fill in news person on CBC Newsworld, and not well known, if the web is any indication. But, to me, she is one of the most beautiful, and seemingly cool people I have seen on TV.

posted by richat 17 August | 13:06

Neocon deathworship propaganda and Boobah. Not necessarily in that order.

posted by danostuporstar 17 August | 13:11

Laugh tracks. They make me want to kill.

posted by Specklet 17 August | 13:20

They make me want to kill.
so we re-program the robot when I'm done, eh?

posted by Hellbient 17 August | 13:43

I never thought I'd say this but- decorating shows, except for Changing Rooms. Also clean-sweep-type and all those real estate flipping shows.

posted by auntbunny 17 August | 14:17

Oh, I know, pie. The problem is that Mythbusters is one of the very few shows that caters to the "build things and then blow them up" demographic.

posted by cmonkey 17 August | 14:25

That fucking Quizno's brisket commercial with the jingle that's a rip-off of "Making Whoopie" and gets stuck in my head for DAYS ON END.

posted by mudpuppie 17 August | 14:29

The way they make commercial breaks in the wrong time. Like, mid-sentence. Or twenty seconds after the place where the producers of the show had made a cut for a commercial break.

Reality shows. There's just too damn many of them.

posted by Daniel Charms 17 August | 14:53

1. Rachel Ray
2. Pundits
3. War coverage
4. Reality shows (I never actually see these on TV, because I do not watch them)
5. Bush
6. All other politicians
7....

I could go on, but I won't. It's stuff like this that has pretty much made me avoid almost all TV for the past several years.

posted by King of Prontopia 17 August | 15:29

mudpuppie - not to mention the talking baby they use for those commercials. Ka-reepy! Cue the robot!

posted by Hellbient 17 August | 15:30

posted by jason's_planet 17 August | 22:11

Anything except House, The Amazing Race (waiting anxiously for the next series), Top Gear and Mythbusters.

posted by dg 17 August | 22:19

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