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Your Parent's Favorite TV Shows That You Were So Sick Of

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Did your parents always hog the living room and keep the TV on at all times? Which shows did they keep watching that made you gag? :doh

My dad: Amazing Discoveries (yeah, he would drink while watching informercials!)and Walker Texas Ranger/Renegade/Dukes of Hazard/Hunter/Nash Bridges.

My mom: noontime soap operas like As the World Turns and the Love Connection.
 
PoS said:
Did your parents always hog the living room and keep the TV on at all times? Which shows did they keep watching that made you gag? :doh

My dad: Amazing Discoveries (yeah, he would drink while watching informercials!)and Walker Texas Ranger/Renegade/Dukes of Hazard/Hunter/Nash Bridges.

My mom: noontime soap operas like As the World Turns and the Love Connection.
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Dad: Law & Order, Sanford & Son, Andy Griffith
Mom: Reality garbage TV like Teen Mom. Travel shows, and Real Life Crime stuff like Dateline.
 
I always hated when my parents would watch Coronation St. or NCIS.
 
PoS said:
Did your parents always hog the living room and keep the TV on at all times? Which shows did they keep watching that made you gag? :doh

My dad: Amazing Discoveries (yeah, he would drink while watching informercials!)and Walker Texas Ranger/Renegade/Dukes of Hazard/Hunter/Nash Bridges.

My mom: noontime soap operas like As the World Turns and the Love Connection.
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My dad had a Lazyboy rocker recliner. It was not what he would watch, but that he would fall asleep 5 minutes after sitting in his chair.

To answer the other part of the question, my dad loved Rockford Files and McMillan and Wife.
 
Perry Mason, Moonlighting, The Facts of Life and The Love Boat.
 
I have no idea on both counts.

My Dad was rarely home and my Mum (Dad was a Brit) kept to herself.
 
My father had really good taste in TV. He watched dramas like NAKED CITY, MEDIC, US STEEL HOUR, GE THEATER, PLAYHOUSE 90 and lots and lots of westerns. I am thankful for these that he introduced me to.
 
Winston said:
Mom: Reality garbage TV like Teen Mom. Travel shows, and Real Life Crime stuff like Dateline.
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LOL I watch TV like your mom and also irritate my daughter with it.


Thinking of that, I have to say anything my parents watched is nothing compared to the crap my daughter watches. Cartoons just ain't what they used to be. Now I compromise and just subject myself to Henry Danger and The Thundermans, which at least don't make me want to stick my head in an oven.
 
americanwoman said:
LOL I watch TV like your mom and also irritate my daughter with it.


Thinking of that, I have to say anything my parents watched is nothing compared to the crap my daughter watches. Cartoons just ain't what they used to be. Now I compromise and just subject myself to Henry Danger and The Thundermans, which at least don't make me want to stick my head in an oven.
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SpongeBob snuck some adult jokes in there so young parent's heads stay safe and sound.
 
Oh god, my mother and her trashy spanish novelas.

"Maria! Por que?!?!?"
 
PoS said:
Did your parents always hog the living room and keep the TV on at all times? Which shows did they keep watching that made you gag? :doh

My dad: Amazing Discoveries (yeah, he would drink while watching informercials!)and Walker Texas Ranger/Renegade/Dukes of Hazard/Hunter/Nash Bridges.

My mom: noontime soap operas like As the World Turns and the Love Connection.
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I can't remember that far back. All I can remember is sitting by the TV and changing the channels (3) until they found something they wanted to watch and then being sent to fetch a beer.

Now my grandparents (both sets) insisted on watching Lawrence Welk, holy **** it was worse than watching paint dry.
 
Winston said:
SpongeBob snuck some adult jokes in there so young parent's heads stay safe and sound.
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Yes, Spongebob is always one of the family compromise we can all enjoy. I do wish there were more good family friendly shows in prime time we could all enjoy together.
 
americanwoman said:
Yes, Spongebob is always one of the family compromise we can all enjoy. I do wish there were more good family friendly shows in prime time we could all enjoy together.
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When the kids were younger we always watch Star Trek (any variety) together. We watched Mythbusters later on.
 
Winchester said:
I can't remember that far back. All I can remember is sitting by the TV and changing the channels (3) until they found something they wanted to watch and then being sent to fetch a beer.

Now my grandparents (both sets) insisted on watching Lawrence Welk, holy **** it was worse than watching paint dry.
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True, but when you got a bottle of bubbles and one of those rings your goal was to blow as many bubbles as on the Lawrence Welk show, wasn't it?
 
Lutherf said:
True, but when you got a bottle of bubbles and one of those rings your goal was to blow as many bubbles as on the Lawrence Welk show, wasn't it?
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:lol:

Seriously it was doubly bad because IIRC it interfered with my watching the Six Million Dollar Man or some such show. It was horrible.
 
Oh gawd, I just remembered a few shows my folks watch that I hated. Sonny and Cher and the Osmonds... I'm a little bit country and I'm a little bit rock n roll... hurl. I also remember being so pissed they had something else they wanted to watch and I missed Rescue from Gilligan's Island.
 
americanwoman said:
Yes, Spongebob is always one of the family compromise we can all enjoy. I do wish there were more good family friendly shows in prime time we could all enjoy together.
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Have you watched through the Harry Potter's yet?
 
my mom would watch day time soaps at times. ugg and day time talk shows.

I did get tired of some shows like andy Griffith and mash, but growing up I didn't have cable to
TV was limited to 4 stations.

my dad didn't get a satellite till I was in high school and then it was the basic TV package.

I got tired of the facts of life as well.
I didn't like columbo, but I loved watching matlock.
 
ludin said:
my mom would watch day time soaps at times. ugg and day time talk shows.

I did get tired of some shows like andy Griffith and mash, but growing up I didn't have cable to
TV was limited to 4 stations.

my dad didn't get a satellite till I was in high school and then it was the basic TV package.

I got tired of the facts of life as well.
I didn't like columbo, but I loved watching matlock.
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I know I am way older than many of you. Our first tv was a 12" B&W. We watched all the serial westerns, Cheyenne, Sugarfoot, Big Valley, Wanted Dead or Alive, Temple Houston, The Virginian, Bonanza etc. We had well to do relatives who had a color console (look it up), it was great at Tgiving or Christmas just to see the color tv.
 
As the Stomach Churns
The Young and the Stupid

Dallas

All courtroom dramas
All doctor shows.
 
Winchester said:
I can't remember that far back. All I can remember is sitting by the TV and changing the channels (3) until they found something they wanted to watch and then being sent to fetch a beer.

Now my grandparents (both sets) insisted on watching Lawrence Welk, holy **** it was worse than watching paint dry.
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I feel your pain. Lawrence Welk was always on at Grammas.
 
When I was in early elementary school, I could walk home for lunch. My mother invariably had Search for Tomorrow on. I'd have lunch and she'd watch. I remember when Jo's husband, Arthur, got shot right through the heart. I was enjoying vegetable soup, and old Arthur's ass was dead. Way to ruin my soup, Arthur. Go get shot in the heart on your own time.
 
PoS said:
Did your parents always hog the living room and keep the TV on at all times? Which shows did they keep watching that made you gag? :doh

My dad: Amazing Discoveries (yeah, he would drink while watching informercials!)and Walker Texas Ranger/Renegade/Dukes of Hazard/Hunter/Nash Bridges.

My mom: noontime soap operas like As the World Turns and the Love Connection.
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Well, my dad I would not know, haven't seen his dumb ass since 1980 or something like that and before that I only remember his watching Studio Sport (which was the Dutch first division football show on Sunday evenings) on our regular color TV meaning me, my sister and mother had to watch an small crappy black and white TV so that we kids could watch sesame street.

My mom loved As the world Turns which often was on at times I was still in school or doing something other than watching television but her addiction to "goede tijden, slechte tijden" or in English, good times, bad times is a horrendous thing, that show aired at 8pm Monday to Friday and has been airing since 1990.
 
Winchester said:
:lol:

Seriously it was doubly bad because IIRC it interfered with my watching the Six Million Dollar Man or some such show. It was horrible.
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I watched an episode of the Six Million Dollar Man a few weeks ago and, for the life of me, I can't understand why I liked it so much. It was a really, really bad show.
 
Lutherf said:
I watched an episode of the Six Million Dollar Man a few weeks ago and, for the life of me, I can't understand why I liked it so much. It was a really, really bad show.
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I got the first season DVDs for Christmas several years ago. Most popular multi-season shows start off well, and then get kinda stupid the longer they run, so I figured it would go along those lines.

But no, it really was pretty dumb right out of the gate.

It did, however, have outstanding opening credits, well ahead of their time.
 
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