Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

Oh Chris Elliot has a new show? Huh!

After watching previews for The Virgin Diaries last night I am pretty excited about that too. Seriously. Skippy and his "wing mom".

http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/tv/virgin-diaries/videos/skippy-and-wing-mom.htm

SYTCD
Deadman Wonderland
Eagleheart
Childrens Hospital
Eric Andre Show
Adventure Time
Family Guy
American Dad
NTSF:SD::SUV:::
Young Justice

... okay looking at that list, I am a fucking absurd person; how are you going to be almost 40 and have almost all of your favorite shows being on Cartoon Network

Sounds sensible to me!

it's really the only reasonable way to go
dan, if you like adventure time, i find regular show to be a much smarter version of same with more, like, teenage motivations

what are you going to like instead, mad men? zzzzzzz

oh Regular Show is great too, it's in my top 20 (along with Green Lantern, Ben 10, ATHF, Black Dynamite, Boondocks, etc etc basically this summer I've only watched Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, SYTYCD and tennis)

looking forward to this fall with new episodes of the critical darling NBC sitcoms and the Wed night ABC juggernaut

also it's sort of terrible but I really like Grimm? and looking forward to Mob Doctor and all of its Rapaporticy

I second Pillbox's list from upthread, except to subin Community for basically anything else.

New Additions: Eagleheart,Comedy Bang Bang, Small Town Security, reruns of Hard Knocks on NFL network
I may start Sunday Best again.

― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:57 PM (1 hour ago)

nooooooo these 2 shows are some of the worst things on television

i wouldn't ride or die for bang bang, but it's fun and i love reggie
explain your beef w/STSecurity

hate reality tv, hate reality tv that prods and pokes at people who are weird, if im going to watch that shit i might as well just roll with my big fat gypsy wedding or w/e

Love that one too.

bobs burgers
happy endings
louie
mad mans
sytycd
proyecto runway
himym
Friday night dinners
snl
parks and rec

xp to jjj: i entered the show with that philosophy, figured i'd watch it once and then turn off.
i have an abiding hate for "har har look at the freak tv" and i assumed it would be reno 911 THE REALITY SHOW
that show started oddly, twisted a bit and then suddenly got very very inclusive. there's no poking of fun by the end of the first episode and most of the standard reality tropes are quickly subverted. there's a no-judgment, hanging with the crew feel that makes it seem almost like a straight up scripted drama. the characters are likable, human and basically kind at heart and so is the direction.
if you didn't get all the way through the first episode, you should try it.

and i say this as someone who finds even fucking TOP CHEF inhumane

like the big reveal at the end of episode one seemed pretty wrongheaded and creepy considering the obv setup for the whole show was "look at these bumpkin morons" so instead of being an interesting insight it felt a lot more like they were using the transgendered officer as a "whoa check out the freak" signpost which i found stomach turning.

xposts

hate reality tv that prods and pokes at people who are weird

This is the only kind I like tbh. People fascinate me. idk. Not all shows like that are making fun of the people though some totally are, yes. I know it's mostly shitty tv but I'd rather watch that than all the "funny" sitcoms people love round here. *cough* community *cough*

I've never seen the show you're talking about though. I'm just realizing that the things I do watch (Hoarders, Gypsy Wedding etc.) fall into that category.

Oh I like Girls and Louie too. Those are good.

xp we got different things from that reveal. having grown up in the bible belt, i didn't think they seemed like bumpkin morons, they felt like very familiar types to me.

also the gentleness of that reveal, the obvious courage it took for diesel to do it and the weird mix of frustration, love, derision and pride that the chief took in forcing it forward was kind of amazing

the second ep explores a kind of fluid and nearly abstract sexuality among the characters without guilt or jealousy in a way that i've never seen on television. there's no freakshow elements far as i can see, a lot of exhibitionism but everyone appears to me to be accepting and grateful for the opportunity. the direction is treading lightly and doesn't rubberneck at obvious points; i also like the cartoon backstory bits.

What channel is this show on?

AMC
NOT ON DISH
i dunno, i think it's got the potential to be special tv.

i might be treading some of my loathing for the reality stuff i am talking about into the show, so i am def not making pronouncements on high abt it, i just have a super hair trigger abt all those sorts of shows. because i hate them.

re: Community, if you don't laugh at Allison Brie macing herself, you are looking for very different things out of your television entertainment than I am

I've tried a couple times but can never get more than 5 minutes or so in. idk. I realize that nearly everyone else I know does and that this is probably my issue but I just don't like it. :/

I like s1 and part of s2 Community, but the "cleverer" it gets the more indufferable I find it.

er insufferable.

E, I definitely felt that way about the pilot so I understand the reaction; I just really liked the original paintball episode and the show basically stuck with me from that point on, and with extra investment in the characters the first season becomes really great (including the pilot, which I now can't believe I hated). I will also admit that I kind of forced myself to get into the show because I really wanted Yvette Nicole Brown to be on hit and that I'm even more interested in following the show now because I found out Joel McHale is high school buddies with a singing friend of mine from college who recently went viral in a video of a speech he gave to WA state representatives explaining why, as a Christian, he felt morally obligated to vote in favor of legalizing gay marriage.

but I do also think the show is funny, I mean the zombie episode was classic

i was hooked from Chang and Jeff's class presentation.

sorry, Pierce and Jeff in Chang's class

How do you people have enough time to watch ten or more shows on a regular basis?

(Joel McHale is actually making an appearance at one of my friend's campaign events, which I think is massively cool)

xp: no kids

(he posted to ILX) xp

How do you people have enough time to watch ten or more shows on a regular basis?

DVR helps

in no order, and if any of these hits a certain point of suckitude I will drop it in a heartbeat

30 Rock
Bachelor Pad
The Glee Project
Community
Happy Endings
Suburgatory
Unsung
Don't Trust The B In Apartment 23
Breaking Bad (though I'm only like 1/3 of the way in to Season 1 on Netflix)
Justified (though I've only seen the first two seasons on DVD)

only show I know I watch that I left off is The Soup, which I still watch for the clips even though the jokes in between feel lazier every week

hahaha here's hoping Bachelor Pad can keep up its current standard of quality

i was just thinking I should have said certain point of boringness or something like that

that show is amazing though

oh it looks amazing, if I was more invested in the Bachelor franchise that would totally be my shit

Breaking Bad
Bobs Burgers
Venture Bros
Louie
Parks and Rec
The League
Eric Andre Show
Childrens Hospital
Luther (assuming this is still rolling on)
American Horror Story

wait Peep Show has more coming right? that should be in there somewhere

I feel like I watch a lot of television, and I could easily name 10 shows that I really like, but at any given time of the year I can watch as little as 90 minutes a week to as much as maybe 6 hours a week, and three of hours will probably be on Sunday night. It seems like a lot of time commitment, but it's really not that much when half the shows are only 30 minute sitcoms and with DVR you can kind of squeeze those in whenever.

At the moment I watch 3 and a half hours, though maybe it's more accurate to say 2 and a half since the hour I spend with the Newsroom usually involves me gasping, agog, into some black hole of bizarre awfulness.

just started watching Damages on Netflix streaming and if that is still a going concern and it doesnt shit itself up after the first season, that would be a worthy nom too

oh yeah i just finished season one of that, probably didn't include it just because the guest stars this upcoming season are Jenna Elfman and Ryan Phillippe...ooooh

Dharma and teen Valmont, together at last

Oh I like Breaking Bad too.

Ryan Phillipe has an amazingly hot voice.

trying to think what my actual faves right now are, probably:

Doctor Who
Game of Thrones
Community
30 Rock
Parks & Rec
American Dad
Young Justice
Don't Trust the B**** in Apt 23
New Girl
Happy Endings

honorable mention to Bleach, Deadman Wonderland, Eric Andre Show, Big Bang Theory, Suburgator, Modern Family, The Middle, Grimm, Venture Brothers, Up All Night, Law & Order: SVU, Family Guy, South Park