Things I Love Thursday: 13 TiVo-able Shows
May 18, 2006
Okay, so right now, I have more than 13 shows per week I TiVo for someone or other in my family. I’ll only give you the ultimate favorites of each family member, and then, just for fun, I’m gonna throw in a few I WOULD have TiVo-ed had TiVo been around “back in the day”. Holler if you recognize an old favorite or a recent addiction. It’s nice to know if others share in this sickness called TiVo Overload.
Here goes:
1. Grey’s Anatomy. This one is a no-brainer. I’m so mad at ABC for changing Grey’s to Thursdays, because that means my TiVo will have to decide between CSI, Grey’s and The Office (unless NBC moves that earlier or to, say, Tuesday). I want to say Grey’s would win, but right now I’m so mad at McDreamy, I might have to suspend TiVo privileges.
2. Lost. I HAVE to TiVo these, if only for all the stuff I have to go back and look for after I read various message boards and conspiracy-theorists. This show is tailor-made for TiVo. It so rocks.
3. The Most Extreme. Spiff loves this show with all of his heart. He and his teacher discuss, at length, stuff from this show. I have to turn my head every time a snake comes on, because snakes make me squeamish.
4. The Wonder Pets!. Nick Jr. took a 2 minute silent-but-for-music filler between shows and turned it into a half-hour show where Linny, Tuck, and Ming-Ming save other pets from peril. Scamp loves this show, and I have been known to hear the theme song in my sleep. Hopefully, we’ve seen most of the shows they have put out there, so this TiVo addiction can stop for awhile. Please.
5. Hustle. Brilliant premise, brilliant show. AMC Channel, Saturday nights at 10pm. Give it a chance, will ya? It’s not like there’s anything else on worth watching or anything.
6. America’s Funniest Home Videos. Nothing brings a family closer together than watching other people bonk into all kinds of things or go flying through the air. Perfect before bed viewing, any day of the week.
7. American Idol. By TiVo-ing this show, you can skip all the goofy commercials, ESPECIALLY the constant ones about the OC or Bones. Cuts the show down to about 15 minutes, if you cut out the inane chatter of Ryan Seacrest too. Makes it worth watching.
8. Extreme Makeover:Home Edition. Okay, don’t get me wrong, I love Ty. Really, I do. When this show first aired, I watched it from beginning to end, religiously. I’d only fast forward through the commercials. Now, however, things are different. I know they’ll build a house in a week. I know it will be cool. So now, I just watch the first 10 minutes or so to see stuff about the family, and then go to the reveal and watch until it’s over. It’s actually very satisfying to view it that way, and I can still like Ty. Everybody wins!
9. The Showbiz Show with David Spade. Forget Entertainment Tonight, you should be watching this show. I like a little snark with my celebrity from time to time, and Mr. Spade delivers.
10. (TiVo Flashback!) Knots Landing. I was a Rainbow Girl, and our meetings were on Thursday nights. This meant that I either missed the entire show altogether or I would get home just in time to see the very end. This went on for years. Thank God for SoapNet in it’s infancy, otherwise I wouldn’t have ever seen the episodes I missed, or even the ones I had long forgotten. This was back when it was worth it to watch Nicolette Sheridan on your TV. Her Paige Matheson could run rings around Edie Britt anyday. Yes, I had a girl crush. Shut up.
11. (TiVo Flashback!) Dallas. Friday Nights were nights I got to go out on dates, but I used to watch (and love) this show when I was younger. This was the perfect TiVo show back in the day. Actually, Friday would have had the perfect TiVo trifecta of Dukes of Hazzard, Dallas, and Falcon Crest.
12. (TiVo Flashback!) Hee Haw. This show was opposite The Lawrence Welk Show. This show was very boring, and only appealed to the older generation. Trust me on this. Well, I happened to live with not only my parents, but for a time my grandmother also lived with us. Guess what we ended up watching each week on Sunday nights? Guess what Shash would have preferred watching on Sunday nights? I did get to watch it on occasion, but usually Mr. Welk won the battle. Well, until my father bought my grandmother her own television, then I got to watch Hee Haw sometimes. No, really, I’m not still bitter about this. Honest.
13. (TiVo Flashback!) Fantasy Island. The original is still the best with Ricardo Montelban as Roarke, but I still love me some Malcolm McDowell. For a kid, this show was what High School Musical and the OC are to today’s youth. It just rocked. I can’t tell you why though, just like they can’t tell us why those shows today are great. It’s a mystery. A fabulous, wonderful mystery.
So that’s it! Thoughts? Comments? Corrections? What would you have TiVo-ed back then?
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May 18th, 2006 at 11:14 pm
That is a great list. I’ve watched them all before.
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May 18th, 2006 at 11:14 pm
Thumbs up on Greys and Lost! Great List! Happy Thursday! -Mix
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May 19th, 2006 at 12:14 am
my favorite wonder pets is the one where they save the puppy, that has to go pee pee… good lord. we live by our tivo. sad, isn’t it…
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May 19th, 2006 at 1:07 am
#8 – i do the same thing watch the first and last 10 minutes and i have my “fix” and sometimes I get in a good weepy moment too
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May 19th, 2006 at 2:19 am
My Grey’s is still Sunday…well now it’s off for the season! sad so sad….
I’m up
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May 19th, 2006 at 3:20 am
How funny! We TiVo like crazy, but the only one that’s on my list and yours is #6.
Man, I love being able to just record whatever I want and watch it when I feel like it. How did we survive before?
My T13 is up!
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May 19th, 2006 at 7:32 am
Wonder Pets is cute! My daughter likes it, but we don’t see it often, because, since I homeschool, the tv isn’t usually on during the day. Another reason for TiVo, but then I would watch waaay too much tv. And we have Dish Network, supposedly they aren’t compatible, DN has their own DVR, we just haven’t looked into it.
Will have to check out Hustle, sounds intriguing. I keep missing Grey’s…what did Dr. McDreamy do that makes you mad??
And when does the Showbiz Show come on now? I know, I have tv listings, but I never think to check, I guess. I have watched it and he is very funny.
I would TiVo X-Files, though I think I saw just about every episode. Not sure.
Oh and we record House and Bones, but sometimes forget to watch.
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May 20th, 2006 at 12:38 am
so i’m a day late….
my tt was up too.
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