TV shows

[End Master]

I thought South Park was funny even without the shock value actually. I prefer the fact that they actually have a storyline and an attempt at continuous character development.

That's pretty much why I find Family Guy to be highly overrated. Sure it's funny, but it's basically a bunch of randomness trying to shock people. The characters aren't even really likable. I'm probably in the minority, but I prefer American Dad to Family Guy since it doesn't rely on random clips every 2 seconds. The characters are better in it as well (At least to me they are)

[Locke]

It's not really my thing.

[Leblanc4prez]

I thought South Park was funny even without the shock value actually. I prefer the fact that they actually have a storyline and an attempt at continuous character development.

That's pretty much why I find Family Guy to be highly overrated. Sure it's funny, but it's basically a bunch of randomness trying to shock people. The characters aren't even really likable. I'm probably in the minority, but I prefer American Dad to Family Guy since it doesn't rely on random clips every 2 seconds. The characters are better in it as well (At least to me they are)

I bet you loved the South park Epp where they ripped out on Family Guy. heh heh... manatees...

[ChubbyTeletubby]

Family Guy is much loved and much hated.

There are two characters I love: Brian & Stewie.

Brian the dog especially. MOST shows, not just Famil Guy, are hit and miss and overrated and WHATEVER. My favorite episode is Road to Rhode Island.

I don't follow the bandwagon. I watch Family Guy...I watch fucking stupid asshole O'Reilly. I watch Colbert. I watch Dobbs. I watch Bill Maher. I watch South Park and John Adams and Mythbusters and History channels the Universe and Public Access and Chimp Eden on Animal Planet.

I even watch How Its Made and Deadliest Catch on Discovery.

Don't forget Seinfeld on TBS.

[Dragavan]

I even watch How Its Made ... on Discovery.

I love how It's Made and a lot of things on Discovery Channel... Boom-de-aughta Boom-de-aughta Boom-de-aughta Boom-de-aughta ...

Don't forget Seinfeld on TBS.

Talk about overrated. That show was funny for about three or four seasons and then became the Whiny Jew Show that just repeated themes over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over... ad nauseum. One or two quality episodes a year does not a good show make.

[Locke]

I'm not big on comedy series in general. I really liked Frasier and Becker, though, and I have a sort of love/hate relationship with Boston Legal, even though it's let me down often since the first season. I remember liking Arrested Development awhile back.

[End Master]

Becker was underrated and funny.

Fraiser was generally funny, but it got annoying when they had tons of episodes concentrating on his brother and the British chick.

[Usoki]

Arrested Developement is surprisingly funny, but it's definitely a smarter humor, and was therefore taken off reasonably quickly. At least there's still The Office.

Robot Chicken is hit or miss. You either love or hate the style- you'll know where you stand after two-three episodes. It's not a show that can grow on anybody. There are no shades of grey with Robot Chicken.

Though, it's on Adult Swim, which means you have to watch the 95% shit filler that's on with it. Robot Chicken and The Boondocks. That's it. Any Family Guy on AS is better on other networks.

[Locke]

Actually, I really liked the Niles/Daphne relationship. It's true it moved at a glacial pace for a good portion of the show before suddenly blossoming, but there were a lot of genuinely sweet moments in there. Put another way, I'd rather have a story told, in multi-episode arcs if not over the entire course of a show, and I'd rather see some development in the overall plot than a half-hour of comparatively empty-calorie laughs; when the relationship failed to advance the show in that respect it at least provided an essential sobering effect, a relief from the comedy. I like what I see to mean something, and therein I often found my meaning.

It's a big reason I liked Frasier; it could be powerful and bittersweet and romantic when it was finished making me laugh. Few other comedies seem to do that with as much success. It helped, I suppose, that I actually liked the situations, the contexts in which the humor happened, and that the show rarely resorted to really low-brow humor, which I nearly always detest.

The promise of continuity and the sheer scale of the plot made me want to fall in love with Andromeda. It never happened; the show was more episodic in some ways than I liked from the beginning anyway, and by the time Kevin Sorbo got around to cobbling small pieces of civilization back together, he'd also gotten rid of the writer and taken a firmer hand with the show. Inconsistencies in the overarching plot grew; the series became more episodic and even more Sorbo-centric. Well, the last season was a little better in that respect, but compensated by eliminating most of the other stuff I actually liked. Funnily enough, I usually find myself disliking, for one reason or another, shows that do try to be less episodic; Battlestar and (forgive me for even mentioning it) Lost are among them.

[End Master]

Andromeda had a lot of potential. The premise of a chaotic galactic dark age was cool, in a way it reminded me of Star Trek (Not surprising I suppose given that it was a Roddenberry concept) , but taking place during a time long after the Federation had fallen. The Nietzscheans even reminded me of "The Eugenics Wars" taken to outer space.

But yeah they started screwing it up when they stopped focusing on rebuilding the Commonwealth. The rebuilding process was WAY too short for something that collapsed so long ago and I always felt like they should've been focusing mostly on that aspect, because they made it a major theme for the first part of the show, but then later they just sort of threw it out the window and said "Oh yeah, the Commonwealth is reunited and the Magog still eat everyone anyway, let's focus on Sorbo some more instead."

They also they had some crappy cast changes. I pretty much stopped watching when Tyr left.

[Vesnic]

I've resurrected another long-dead thread! I am a necromancer! A threadomancer! A...aw fuck it, I'm not feeling particularly clever today. Anyhoo, if you're wanting for some procrastination or maybe you just haven't yet lost the allure of 23-hour navel-gazing, then this quiz is for you! There are lots of ASoIaF quizzes floating around, but this one was a bit higher quality than most, and I'm quite certain everyone here has been watching the show (If you haven't been, and have also not read the books, then you probably don't actually exist. You should go to the House of the Two-Faced God or whatever that weird shit is and find out if you're actually here or not. Not participating in Cultural Phenomena is pretty much on a par with Being Dead these days. I had a friend who went to Waldorf School and she wasn't allowed to wear blue jeans because they were a "cultural phenomenon". How long does something have to exist before it's unphenomenally banal and therefore, apparently, OK?).

So I'm a Lannister. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I tried jiggering a couple of my answers and still came up the same, so I must be pretty thoroughly Lannister. Apparently, I've grown more calculating with age, even in very recent years and months, because all those quizzes at the beginning of my obsession told me I was either a Stark or a Tully. I think this might have something to do with my growing materialism and obsession with aesthetics. I'll step on any number of heads in order to obtain some PRETTY PINK SHIT. But don't be like me, kids. T'will be your damnation.

Which house do you belong to? Any random anecdotes to associate with your placement?
Which House In Westeros Do You Belong To?

My Results:


House Lannister!

A Lannister always pays his debts! This can be as negative as it is positive. On the one hand, every kindness is repaid...but so is every injury done to yourself. Vengeance is one with you. You conceive yourself to be smart, witty, and much better than everyone else--and you might be right, depending on yourself. Whether you're like Tyrion, who is intelligent and charming, or Cersei, backstabbing and not half as clever as you think you are, it's undeniably true that all Lannisters have something magnificent about themselves. It could be your wit, your beauty, or your sword arm. But whatever your strength is, you flaunt it! You are so flavorful that your personality overpowers and confounds other people around you. Some people hate you for being so direct and so charming, but most people will adore you will wish to be near you--which makes it easier to befriend or betray them, depending on what kind of Lannister you are! Lannisters tend to have golden blonde hair and green eyes.

[End Master]

Got House Lannister, but I thought I might get House Bolton (assuming they were even a possibility in this quiz)

[Vesnic]

LOL, maybe the test is rigged. I'm not sure I'm quite ready to be related to YOU, Endmaster, especially in a family like the Lannisters. I mean, YIKES. The only consolation here is that we both fail sadly in the looks department, you being a grimy wetback and me being a slimy gyppo. They'd never let us in the front door. Or the postern gate. Or even the privy hole.

Ur MOM's a privy hole. Heh. How am I doing on my dudeliness?

Anyway, it seems like it's sort of a two-man act these days, doesn't it? So in the interest of keeping the conversation rolling (you know you all brought the "Abotcalypse" upon yourselves by Sinning with Silence, right?), so...uh...what are YOU having for dinner tonight? I don't think I'm having anything, seeing as I also had lunch, but um...maybe some of that left-over freeze-dried soup in the fridge, although it does get all curdled and yucky when I leave it in there for too long and, uh...how about them Red Sox?

Yes, really not feeling clever today but so very desperate to FILL THE VOID with something. Jesus Christ where is everybody? Oh god, they're dead. DEAD! Oh god. NoooOOOOoOooOOooo!!!!

(I went to drama school.)

Anyway, er...yeah. Lima beans.

[End Master]

I'm not that tall, so I could probably pass for Tyrion since he's generally considered hideous in appearance.

Food? Oh noes! That's what it's come to? I remember you making fun of a girl you knew since she was always going on about what she ate on some blog. (Or showing pics of stuffing her fucking face as you put it)

Anyway yeah it's a slow lazy day today so I just got done mixing a bunch of beef, vegetables, and spices in a crock pot for the beef stew we'll eat later tonight.

It's like I'm LARPING as my Skyrim character when I cook.

Uh anyway I guess to stay on the TV Show topic, I've been watching that cartoon show Archer. Never watched it before and it turned out to be funnier than I expected.

[dreamshell]

Archer's pretty great, though I haven't watched much of it this season. Though I'd probably place it second to Venture Bros.