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Guy · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2002 1:31 am

well ok. there has been lame shows on t.v. for quite a while, but man is it ever getting worse. i was hoping to watch some family guy tonight, but no. fox has come up with yet another lame "gameshow" type thing called the "glutton bowl". hopefully that was the last we'll ever see of it. it was an eating compition and personaly i found it quite gross. they had to eat things like whole blocks of butter or cow tongues and all that sort of stuff. it was just gross watching these people stuff there faces, then of course they all look like slobs with the food all over themselves. anyone else think this is just stupid? anyone else watch it? i could only stand a few minutes of it.

anyway i just had to rant about it.

roundeye · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2002 9:58 am

i loved it! 7 pounds of butter hahaha! you dont have to like everything on tv, guy. thats why theres so many channels to pick from.

jome · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2002 10:04 am

Hey that means we will be getting the same format over here real soon too. I LOVE the US for their valued cultural export!
The off-button on the remote needs reassessment, and I'm getting very good at that.

Svanur · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2002 10:54 am

I stopped watching TV ages ago. If I want to see something I rent it or download it or in some cases buy it.

Guy · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2002 11:11 am

roundeye: thats true. i know i don't have to like everything, but i was a little pissed that they cancled family guy lastnight, for that.

Dr. Bang · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2002 11:55 am

TLC is the only channel worth watching on TV. It hass everything police chases, female nudity, robots, crazy machines, stuff that you actually learn from....etc

The of the TV channel are just full of failed sitcom and old gameshow.

Any 1 here watch "Junkyard Wars" ?

Dr.Squirley · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2002 1:00 pm

I like the olympics, but thats only on late where i live.

Guy · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2002 1:01 pm

Dr. Bang: yes! TLC is the best channel. if i ever do watch t.v. it's usualy something on there and junkyard wars is the best. you hear about the new show they are working on? (the same people who made junkyard wars that is). here's the link http://www.ultimatemachinecombat.com/

The Magic Pen: haha you make a good point. i guess that just shows everyone likes differnt things.

RenaissanceGirl · member Member # Joined: 21 Nov 2001 Posts: 61

I can't believe they would cancel The Family Guy for that?? Along the same lines: what's with stupid game shows anyway? "The Chair" and now this "Glutton Bowl" thing? WTF???

the_monkey · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2002 2:17 pm

i like the powerpuff girls.

Guy · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2002 3:37 pm

RenaissanceGirl: family guy will be back next week, so don't worry too much.

Nilwort · member Member # Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Posts: 319

TV sucks...

Coaster · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2002 3:57 pm

My opinion:
Thats what the FOX channel is for!!
Mindless tv shows, and they only get more and more mindless. Today I don't have school and wanted to watch the alfred hitchcock show, I went to watch it and all they have now is Sally and Maury! Instead of Family Guy (which was pretty low, but had its moments) they have Glutton Bowl, which disgusts me even more. I'm guessing that TV is degrading at a factor of 10 everyday. Then there was the chair and the chamber... now thats even worse...

Exept for PBS... its increasing (they canceled Red Dwarf for a show about Feng Shui?! Now my week doesn't amount up to anything anymore!)

~Jeff

Rat · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2002 4:12 pm

Well, there is the occasional moment when you catch the end of MadTV on Fox, but other than that...I've never seen anything worth watching on there.

There are some more local channels that have some good shows, and on weekdays (I think) George Carlin's on Bravo at 9:00. Very few shows I watch besides CSI. I usually surf the 'net.

Bishop_Six · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2002 6:05 pm

I watch almost no TV nowadays. I watch Cartoon Network(wooo, adult swim!), the History Channel, 24, the simpsons(sometimes), Combat Missions, and I DID watch The Tick but they cancelled it!!! For the most part, TV is utter crap.

Dr. Bang: When is there female nudity on TLC?

Dr. Bang · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2002 6:16 pm

Its on sometimes, I usually watch the commercial they play and figure out which one have and which one dont.

I remmebered "The history of the lingerie" was pretty cool hehe.

Hey! At least i'm learning something!!!!!!!1

edible snowman · member Member # Joined: 12 Sep 2000 Posts: 998

comedy central owns you. sometimes...

12345 · member Member # Joined: 25 Nov 2001 Posts: 127

hey, talk about Mad Tv, do u guys think its getting less and less funny? Remmeber "Lowered Expectation" ? "When Babies Attack"? "My fat white moma"?

Oh man, now its just getting lamer and lamer. Ms.Swan and Stuard tired the hell out of me.

aquamire · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2002 11:05 pm

I think the worst thing FOX has ever aired was the Moon Landing Hoax show, where they brought a bunch of "experts" on stage to preach that the moon landing never happened.

I actually know people who believed the people on that show..

"Duhayy, why arent there stars in the film and photo footage??" Anyone who knows anything about photography knows the answer to that..

The Magic Pen · member Member # Joined: 05 Dec 2001 Posts: 321

Hrmm I think it's funny that your mad over missing family guy since I think that show is unterlly mindless and stupid but hey if you think that's good TV ..hmmm...

Biseor · member Member # Joined: 10 Nov 2001 Posts: 62 Location: US

TNN with 500hours of ST:TNG a day.

Best channel ever.

Christian + · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2002 8:31 am

I'm a bit like Svanur, TV is history for me.
The reason why I stopped watching almost all programs, is a very funny story; here goes: few months ago we had a huge storm, and heavy snow cut off all cable and telephone lines for a week. First tow days without tv was horrible, the third day, I felt like reading books again. And paff!.... tv was back again, I tried watching again, the first movie I saw was "Planet of the Apes", man what a shitty movie!!!
Now I spend my time drawing, skiing and reading.
TV is crap that's true. If out of 100 channels you get one good one, it's not even worth zapping to find it.
Reading is so relaxing and educational.

aquamire · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2002 3:17 pm

Depends on the area you live in. Every city has different channels that are available for free. The most popular are ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and FOX..

Dr. Bang · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2002 3:50 pm

quote:
Originally posted by Snorkles:
How many channels are there exactly in the U.S? Here in Sweden we just have three(that you get from the beginning, you can get more channels if you can pay for it)

Around 100 i think.

social drone · member Member # Joined: 12 Mar 2001 Posts: 120

network tv is a joke, its not that quality shows are not being made...because they are.

its just that they never make it to air. i swear to god i have boxes upon boxes of promos that leave some of the best movies out there looking like shit.

cbs is a prime example of this evil, they pull quality shows all the time for the most mind numbing of reasons: a sponser doesnt like one of the plotlines in a single episode, a clueless ceo doesnt like a single storyboard presentation so they scrap the entire thing?!
and if they dont pull it, they force mediocrity upon it by drowning it with christian morality...

anything made by fox or faux or cocks is absolute shit especially when it comes to movies...cause they rush them as fast as possible (sacrificing its quality) so they can air worthless "behind the scene" or "making of" fucking crap. and their news reporting is worse than hitlers mien kampf. they only thing worth while on fox is the simpsons.

abc=shit
nbc=shit
upn=shit

even movie channels are fucking gay...you would think being hbo you get to see the whole movie...but fuck no! they edit it for time.

t.v. is fucking gay

tlc is ok only because or their ER shows. but then again you never get to see any of the good stuff. id rather pull a 12 or 24 hour shift and see it for myself in an ER, than sit infront of the tube straining my eyes to see some dudes open femur fracture.

Snorkles · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2002 12:44 am

How many channels are there exactly in the U.S? Here in Sweden we just have three(that you get from the beginning, you can get more channels if you can pay for it)

Sukhoi · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2002 7:26 am

Discovery re-runs all the way, baby!!

Sukhoi

Iyidin_Kyeimo · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2002 2:09 pm

In the immortal words of Terry Wogan "There's nothin' on the telly..."

I have the best solution: I DO NOT OWN A TV!!!

To the complete disbelief of the licensing ppl

Duckman2 · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2002 2:00 pm

My parents just got a new flat screen, Toshiba, good picture quality, too bad I don't have any use for the damn thing. Every once and a while I'll sit down and watch Duckman, or Ren and Stimpy if they are ever on. Now the TV in my house is used to keep my sister anchored to the couch eating some snack food for hours at a time. I also watch the BBC news on channel 21 some nights, On sunday nights I'll watch Nature on PBS. Oh yeah, I'll watch rally racing on the Speedvision network, at my dads house since he has about 500 channels. I get my news off the net, or NPR radio

Chris · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2002 7:27 am

Glutton bowl was halarious! I loved the suschi competition hahaha, when they hit that 1ft of wasabi, they were all about to give up

But man, the championship rnd (cow brains), I can't believe that 130lb or whatever guy won. I guess it is all mind over matter, because the 440lb guy didn't come close.

I think he must have had 40-45 cow brains.