Wednesday, June 20, 2012
First Assignment
1.) Shows I'm watching these days: I haven't been watching too much television lately but I have been watching shows like Modern Family, Taboo (on Nat Geo) and the basketball playoffs.
2.) Peripheral shows: Reds Baseball, the news, Lockdown and It's always sunny in Philadelphia. For some reason, my friend thinks 'Its always sunny in Philadelphia' is the funniest show on television. I just don't get it.
3.) Guilty No-Gos: Mad Men, Breaking Bad, all the CSI shows and Game of thrones. I really don't get why everybody likes all of these CSI shows. For me they're just too dramatic and sometimes just plain unrealistic. If I was going to watch a show about somebody trying to solving a mystery, I think I'll stick to Scooby-Doo thank you very much.
4.) Guilty pleasures: Teen Mom and Pawn Stars. Please don't tell anyone.
5.) All time favorites: The Office, The Simpsons, and Futurama. I don't care what anybody says, I still love these shows. I get why people say that these shows aren't what they used to be and I would agree but for me, I still find them entertaining.
6.) Shows I used to like: House and American Idol. I used to watch these all the time in high school but now its just getting old.
7.) Shows I resisted: 30 Rock, Hoarders, and Dexter.
8.) Shows I'd rather eat charcoal than watch: The Jersey Shore and all of their spin off shows, and toddlers and tiaras. These shows are killing our society and I feel like I just lost some IQ points just typing their names.
9.) Shows that I liked as a kid: Doug, Hey Arnold, All That, Rugrats, Kenan and Kel, Rocko's Modern Life, and of course Spongebob Squarepants. I can still remember first watching Spongebob on the very first day it aired.
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For number 5, about The Simpsons anyway, I'd like to point people who think it "isn't what it used to be" to these two videos right here:
ReplyDeletePart one: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/5140-The-Simpsons-Is-Still-Funny-Pt-1
Part two: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/5166-The-Simpsons-Is-Still-Funny-Part-2
The short version of the vids is that The Simpsons didn't get worse, but it's audience, along with the world around it, got older, which forced the show to change with them. And that, apparently, upset a large chunk of it's established fan-base.