The Great TV Self-Outing

Over at the InsightScoop, Carl Olson has just outed himself regarding the fact that he watches TV, including which particular shows he watches.

He did so because Mark Brumley dared him.

Then Mark e-mailed me and dared (well, suggested) me to do the same.

Now they have a blogstorm going of bloggers and other Catholic notables outing themselves as TV watchers and naming their favorite shows.

GET THE SHOCKING TV CONFESSIONS OF CARL OLSON, MARK BRUMLEY, DOM BETTINELLI, JULIE D, SANDRA MIESEL–AND OTHERS!

Now, per Mark’s daresuggestion, here is my own:

Since I never use my blog to talk about anything other than apologetics, it may come as a shock to readers that I, too, watch television.

Unfortunately, I have to admit that I’m a bit out of the loop when it comes to some of the shows that they’re talking about over at InsightScoop. I mean, I’ve heard of them, but I can’t actually tune in to them due to the fact that I’m out square dancing much of the time–at least when the shows are on.

As a result, there is really only one current show that I’m guaranteed to tune in for every week, other shows that I’ll watch if I’m still awake, and other shows that I plan to watch when they’re released on DVD (allowing me to skip the annoying and offensive commercials, as well as the annoying and offensive waits until next week’s show).

So here’s my list, divided by subcategory:

WHAT I ACTUALLY TUNE IN FOR

  • Battlestar Galactica (I get home just in time from square dancing to watch this one)

WHAT I’LL WATCH IF I’M STILL AWAKE

  • The repeat of Stargate SG-1 immediately after Battlestar Galactica
  • The repeat of Stargate Atlantis immediately after the repeat of Stargate SG-1

SHOWS I’LL WATCH ON DVD ASAP AFTER THEY’RE RELEASED

  • Monk (I’d watch it live, but it’s on at the same time as Battlestar Galactica)
  • Stargate SG-1
  • Stargate Atlantis

SHOWS I’LL GET AROUND TO WATCHING ON DVD

  • Lost
  • 24
  • The Simpsons
  • The 4400

SHOWS I HAVEN’T ACTUALLY SEEN BUT MAY WATCH ON DVD

  • Deadwood
  • Sleeper Cell
  • CSI

SHOWS I WON’T WATCH ON TV OR ON DVD

  • The latest lame Sci-Fi channel original movie (unless it has Bruce Campbell in it)

So how about you? What’s your list?

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

63 thoughts on “The Great TV Self-Outing”

  3. Shows I watch every week:
    House, which I love for all the reasons Carl Olson does, and which I own the first year of on DVD
    ER (yeah, one of the last 3 people in the continental US who can still stand this dog…)
    Shows I tape and watch when I’m bored, or maybe watch if I’m bored when they’re on:
    Bones
    Numb3rs
    Shows I’ve bought the DVDs of:
    Alien Nation
    Babylon 5 (and everything they’ve given us in the way of spinoffs, wacthed over and over again…)
    The Good Neighbors (classic British comedy)
    Monk (which I buy cause I can’t afford cable…but I can afford DVDs…not sure how this works)
    Firefly
    [GUILTY PLEASURE] Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff Angel
    I have seen Season 1 of LOST on DVD, and I LOVE it, but I missed the first half of Season 2, so I need to wait for the DVDs this summer. Assuming they don’t ruin it, I’ll be right there on Wednesdays next fall!

  4. Actually, Jimmy, my list is very similar to yours.
    The only shows that I never miss are:
    Battlestar Galactica – I would have to say this is probably the best program I have ever seen. The great cast and realistic storylines really combine to make it ‘must see’ TV. I just hope they don’t blow it when Sharon has her hybrid child.
    Lost – Ditto to my comments to BSG. This and BSG have revived my interest in episodic television.
    Stargate SG1 – A fun way to spend 60 minutes. I will admit, though, that I kinda preferred the show earlier on in the season with Vala (Claudia Black) as opposed to Samantha Carter. I like Sam, but Vala threw some much needed spice into the show.
    Stargate Atlantis – Not the best show ever created (by a long shot), but it fills in the time between SG1 and BSG.
    The Office – Ya know, people either think this show is completely hilarious or completely flat. I love it.
    I’ll also be watching the new DOCTOR WHO, once Sci-Fi starts showing it on Friday nights, starting March 17. I’ve already seen the first season online, but I’m such a longtime fan of the program that I can’t not tune in for it. 🙂
    The only other thing I watch is sports – Hockey and Football. Go Flyers! Go Eagles!
    Oh, and EWTN from time to time.

  5. The only show we watch off TV is 24.
    We catch quite a few shows off of DVD. We watched Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5 and FireFly on DVD. Currently working on Farscape. I imagine we’ll check out Battlestar Galactia and Lost on DVD at some point… and after seeing Jimmy’s list, I’ll probably add The Simpsons. 🙂
    Input from my five year old son:
    Live: CyberChase, Zoom
    DVD: Veggie Tales, The Muppet Show, SpongeBob SquarePants and Blues Clues

  6. I don’t have alot of time to watch shows regularly except for a few:
    – 24 (show sucks you in like a soap opera)
    – Law and Order (I’ve been watching this for 10 years now; always good)
    – Everbody Loves Raymond (only on syndication now; as funny as Seinfeld but more family oriented)
    – Fox News
    – Sports (baseball, basketball, football)
    – Every now and then I’ll flip by American Idol to see what is considered pop music talent these days.
    – I wish I could watch EWTN, but don’t get it on my cable system.

  7. No television in our house,
    neither cable things,
    nor sattelite things.
    Have never bought a television thing.
    Last regular telvision watching was Watergate hearings in 1964.
    I do watch DVD’s on my computer.
    Mostly Asian films.
    Last Christmas we did buy three American television series on DVD:
    – I Love Lucy from the 1950’s
    – Andy Griffith Show from the 1960’s
    – Kung-Fu from the 1970’s.
    Television of the 1980’s and later does not interest us.

  8. Football. And, lately, Olympic figure skating with my wife. She also has me watch “Seventh Heaven” most weeks, but that will be ending soon since this is the show’s final (11th!…) season.
    Star Trek on DVD.
    And the odd news program.

  9. +J.M.J+
    I know no one really cares, but FWIW here are my favorite TV shows (in no particular order):
    Mythbusters
    Fox News Watch
    Home Improvement (in reruns, natch)
    King of the Hill
    I’ve also sometimes watched various and sundry scifi shows that my husband likes (the many Star Trek incarnations, Babylon 5, Farscape, Andromeda, Firefly, the new Battlestar Galactica, etc.). Truth be told, though, I probably wouldn’t watch them if he didn’t.
    In Jesu et Maria,

  10. 24 absolutely tops my list. Watch it every week and have all previous seasons on DVD. Nothing else like it on TV!
    Don’t make it a point to watch anything else regularly. Sometimes I’ll catch a CSI, but mainly because CBS is inundated with way too many of those shows and all their imitators!
    If I had cable, FOXNews would top that list; EWTN would be cool to watch too. Used to listen to the audio feed of FOX on Sirius radio, but when that contract didn’t get renewed by either party at the end of 2005, there went my FOXNews fix. I do enjoy listening to EWTN and Catholic Answers on Sirius though!

  11. We have lived without TV since moving in August. When we close on a house in a couple of weeks, we must get back dish for EWTN, Fox News,The Local Weather (we live in tornado alley and the season is about to begin) Monk, HGTV and a few sports events.
    My question is: Why isn’t SpongeBob on any of your lists? Is it too passe or too childish?

  12. Law and Order
    Simpsons
    Classic old movies (all genres)
    On DVD TV
    JonnyQuest and Little House on the Prarie (first several seasons) and Star Trek (Kirk version)

  14. OK, I’ll get on board – I confess to watching any and all episodes of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries showing on the Biography Channel with the late, great Jeremy Brett. Also, Agatha Christie’s Poirot with David Suchet. Any reruns of Star Trek: TNG. But my favorites to watch are Journey Home with Marcus Grodi on EWTN, Life on the Rock (EWTN) – geared for youth but I still love it, Swear to God with Scott Hahn and Mike Aquilina (EWTN) and Daily Mass (EWTN).
    Guess I’m an EWTN junkie… Thanks – confession is good for the soul.
    P.S. On DVD I have most of the episodes of Cadfael, based on Ellis Peters great novels of the medieval monk/sleuth and the above-mentioned Sherlock Holmes Mysteries.

  15. CURRENT SHOWS I WATCH (semi-regularly):
    Antiques Roadshow
    Survivor
    The Apprentice
    The Amazing Race
    The Ghost Whisperer
    Other shows I watch are usually from DVDs I own, cable channels (like the FoodNetwork), and classic sitcoms.
    Amazingly enough, I don’t watch a lot of TV in the evenings, and I don’t watch hardly any TV on weekends, but these are the shows I watch when I do have the TV on.

  16. Memo to self: “if crappy 80s series starring Lee Van Cleef and his stunt double as a ninja ever comes to dvd, send copy to Old Zhou.” >;)
    Been watching Remington Steele and Magnum PI on dvd, myself. Sometimes catch Monk or House or BSG live-have Firefly on dvd but haven’t had a chance to watch it yet.

  18. Thanks quasi, for catching the typo.
    I hate it when I mix up decades.
    On the other hand, 10 years is a blink.

  19. No antennae, cable, or dish. My wife has watched “It’s a Wonderful Life” a gazillion times on the VCR (rememeber those?) and of course my son’s constant diet of Barney.

  20. If I have time:
    Seinfeld re-runs.
    I’d get cable if they let me order one channel and pay for just one channel, but they don’t, so I won’t.

  21. I would be happy at Rosemarie’s house if she kept off of Fox News (I do not watch the (real) news).
    Alright, time to alienate myself:
    Every day (even the repeats): The Daily Show, The Colbert Report
    Monday: American Chopper
    Tuesday: Dirty Jobs, Mythbusters
    Wednesday: Mythbusters (x2), Drawn Together
    Thursday: Whatever I can find
    Friday: Fridays! on Cartoon Network
    Saturday: Toonami and Adult Swim on Cartoon Network (from 7pm to 2am).
    Sunday: King of the Hill, Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, The Boondocks, Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman
    I watch a lot of TV. Well, I watch a lot of cartoons, anime, and comedy shows.

  22. Can’t watch Battlestar Galactica because you’re too busy squaredancing? Could you be any more of a dork?

  24. BTW, one thing everyone should do at least once in their life is give up TV for Lent. See what happens.

  25. When we close on a house in a couple of weeks, we must get back dish for EWTN,
    We got rid of DISH when EWTN became available on Sirus satellite radio. Much cheaper, and we can listen in the car as well.
    My question is: Why isn’t SpongeBob on any of your lists? Is it too passe or too childish?
    My son listed it on my post above. Ummm… Of course I just watch it because of him. Yeah… That’s the ticket… ;->

  26. I hated The 4400! The “chosen alien child” thing reminded me too much of V from the ’80s (but without the big hair and shoulderpads). Never got into BSG, though, either. (See previous post about “Does NO ONE notice the doctor is crazyily talking to self and masturbating whenever they walk in?”)
    On TV:
    “Bleak House” miniseries on PBS (Did anyone catch that? Has the actress from X-Files doing a good job as Lady Deadlock)
    Stargate re-runs on CTV out of Canada
    I used to like “Lost” last year, but forgot to tune in this year.
    HGTV when I’m visiting relatives with cable
    On DVD:
    Stargate SG1 (don’t get Atlantis, though)
    Inuyasha (an anime series)
    Remington Steele
    Oh, and I found the store at EWTN, and now I want to buy DVDs of some of the shows. But that will have to wait until I finish reading a pile of things.

  27. Benedict, I’ll join you in alienating myself 😉
    Shows I tune in to watch on TV:
    Desperate Housewives
    Veronica Mars (my husband joins me for this one)
    Shows I wish I had time to watch on TV:
    Monk
    Scrubs
    Lost
    Malcolm in the Middle
    Shows my husband and I watch on DVD:
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    Angel
    Firefly
    X-files
    Highlander
    Star Trek TNG

  28. WHAT I ACTUALLY TUNE IN FOR: Lost, Smallville. (This is the first year I’m watching S’ville on broadcast TV. I didn’t have cable until last year. Only have it now ‘cos it comes with the house!) EWTN. I got into 24 this year ‘cos a friend was on it. Occasionally I watch Numbers & I confess to liking the Food TV channel & the Home & Garden channel. I catch the odd ep of CSI, usually in re-run, though. And, when baseball season starts, I’ll be watchin’ my Giants! Plus special things like the Olympics, if the sports are ones I like.
    WHAT I’LL WATCH IF I’M STILL AWAKE: Um, not much, really. Sometimes an old movie on Turner Classics, especially the foreign ones. I like my sleep!
    SHOWS I’LL WATCH ON DVD ASAP AFTER THEY’RE RELEASED: Leave it to Beaver. Season 1 is already out. This is my all-time favorite sitcom. Love this show! Also, there’s this show on Nick called Avatar that’s pretty cool but it’s not on at a good time for me so I’ll just get the DVDs.
    SHOWS I’LL GET AROUND TO WATCHING ON DVD: Babylon 5 – currently, I’m just about to start season 3. I Netflix it amongst the movies I have to catch up on. I gotta catch up on these shows, too: Monk, Battlestar Galactica, & Firefly. Eventually.
    SHOWS I HAVEN’T ACTUALLY SEEN BUT MAY WATCH ON DVD: Um, none, really. I pretty much get ’round to seeing what I want to, if I make the time.
    SHOWS I WON’T WATCH ON TV OR ON DVD: Pretty much anything else that I’ve not mentioned above. I’m behind on my books & guitar so I don’t really watch much TV throughout the week, anyway. Maybe 5-6 hours/week.
    Finally . . .
    “My question is: Why isn’t SpongeBob on any of your lists? Is it too passe or too childish?”
    No, not into SpongeBob. But I really dig the Teen Titans series on Cartoon Network that just got cancelled. It’s startin’ to come out on DVD, too! So add that to my list above!

  29. Monk is the only regular series fiction that I watch.
    EWTN — The Journey Home, and Father Groeschel Sunday Night Live.
    Old movies on Turner Classic Movies.
    And, I just discovered they are rerunning episodes of the X-files so sometimes I watch that.
    Oh and reruns of British TV comedies, Are You Being Served? and Keeping Up Appearances, if I can’t sleep. They’re on PBS.

  30. I’ll stay anonymous for my protection.
    I actually love to watch professional wrestling. Some of it is offensive at times, sometimes very much so on Vince McMahon’s shows – think goodness for TiVo.
    I have other shows I like, too, but that’s the most interesting.
    I may be the only person in America who TiVo’s Smackdown and EWTN Live every week.

  31. I get Netflix. I got the first season of Lost from them and it was awesome. Now I’m watching Alias and it’s pretty good too.

  32. I sometimes watch “House, MD” and occasionally Law and Order: Criminal Intent. If there’s ever a second season of Firefly, I’ll watch that.

  33. In a software startup, not much time for tv.
    The one show we watch every week is The Journey Home. This show is money – the cumulative effective of week after week of adult conversions is very, very encouraging. Most weeks we catch Life on the Rock with our 14 year old.
    After that it’s random other EWTN shows (particularly Fr. Corapi or Scott Hahn) and hd movies (hdnm has been doing a good job of making some older movies available in hd, which does look better than progressive scan dvd).
    In the real sports season we most definitely have cardinals baseball on, though that’s usually in the background while reading etc. Second choice is other baseball (any kind).
    We still have two teenagers left at home (14 and 16) so we have many channels blocked: ABC (due to desperate housewives), family guy, mtv, mtv2, blah blah blah. When one of the college kids is home (in particular) we regularly scan the tivo “to do” list and delete out stuff that we don’t allow.
    Honestly, we just got tired of so much corrosive crap and started blocking channels wholesale. Kids complained at first, got over it (except for one). Used to just do it with parental control alone, now we have the technology assist.
    This has two practical effects: 1) it reduces the amount of corrosive stuff entering their heads, even if only a wee bit and 2) it makes it very clear where we (as parents) stand on these things.
    Six of the kids are (mostly) raised and on their way, & those particular battles are well worth fighting.
    Sorry for injecting the “serious tone” into this fun little thread … but just got done dealing with a 14-year old attitude for about the 7.53 x 10*5656565656565656565656565656565 time! 😉

  34. Firefly…some Star Trek…lotsa Babylon 5…and my dad watches 24.
    How can a Sci-Fi junkie like you, Jimmy, not mention Firefly?

  35. So much television, so little time 🙂 I work evenings, though, so I miss just about everything. I’d be lost without tivo. We tivo quite a bit of stuff, but I dont watch most of it.
    Stuff I watch that night, after work:
    Supernatural
    Stargate SG1
    Stargate Atlantis
    Ghost Whisperer
    Justice League Unlimited
    Stuff I get around to watching (in this order):
    Smallville
    My Name Is Earl
    Braniac (GREAT 20 min “filler” program from the UK/G4–wanton abuse of science, mostly involving electricity and explosives)
    Teen Titans
    Stuff I’ll watch if my husband’s playing it, and I’m there:
    Battlestar Galactica
    Gilmore Girls

  36. Here goes my favs (thanks to Tivo & DVD):
    Firefly (favorite all time)
    Battlestar Galactica
    Monk
    Fr. John Corapi (he’s just awesome!)
    Law & Order
    …
    and of course anything with Bruce Campbell (just for fun). Although, I wouldn’t of mentioned him if not for Jimmy.

  37. ok, here’s my list and I’m unashamed of it all!
    Monk, House, Law & Order the original is always the best, West Wing though I haven’t liked this last season as much and I think it’s time for it to go quietly, Mother Angelica Live Classics, Father Corapi, The Journey Home, Life Is Worth Living, old moviees on TMC occasional reruns of CSI.
    what I’ll watch if I’m still awake, The Golden Girls and occasional reruns of family Guy,
    and shows I’ll also watch all the time are The Simpson’s and some stuff on food network

  40. Favourite shows at the moment are:
    1. Battlestar Galactica – my favourite SciFi show.
    2. HOUSE, MD – Hugh Laurie is great.
    Favourite *retired* SciFi series was FireFly – very unlucky show 🙁
    Strangely I never quiet liked Babylon 5. Perhaps its coz i watched the first season in 2005! way too late?
    I went through the entire first season of Monk in a week. I have yet to start season 2.
    Guilty Pleasures:
    The O.C – I can’t believe it myself. For Summereth if anything. Am I’m superficial?
    Smallville – It’s superman. But they killed off BO … i mean Jonathan Kent instead of LANA 🙁
    Still not decided if I should make an effort for 24, Alias, LOST, StarGate, The Office.
    RJ

  41. Ditto the comments about Deadwood being F-bomb fest. Watched it once for ten minutes and never again. Disgusting!!!
    Two and Half Men is by far the funniest show on TV now that Raymond has retired. Unlike EBL Raymond, it is for adults only.
    Dancing with the Stars, Numbers, Monk, Leno and the “Stargaters” round out my top six. 24 is too “soap operaish” (ditto for Battlestar Galactica). “A Idol” would be OK if they dropped the appearances of the talent-challenged. And the Winter Olympics were overall very good. Too bad Cohen fell. What a little package of beauty and talent. And the Russian skaters, simply awesome!! As were the “Tomato Head” and the other snowboarders. Short track skating should be dropped due to talent wasted on someone else’s mistake.
    Travelogues, the Olympics, movies, NFL football games and just about everything else broadcast in full HDTV and viewed on a new 55 inch Sony GrandWega HDTV Sony are worthy of any grand description. Star Wars and StarTrek in HDTV will be priceless.
    And then there are TIVO and similar recorders. Pause, rewind, record and/or replays at your fingertips. Who will have time for “blogging”???

  42. Everybody Loves Raymond is my favorite, which is weird since that show is not aimed at people my age and in my stage of life. I’m a 22-year-old single college student…no husband, kids, or inlaws like Marie and Frank to annoy me! Nonetheless, I still understand all the jokes in that show.

  43. I don’t tune in for anything. But we record Monk in this household and watch it religiously.
    Other than that, I’m more inclined to get DVDs from the library/video store etc. and watch series straight through. Give me a good BBC series when I’m feeling down to watch straight through.

  45. Anon:
    I will come out and in the open join you in admitting to watching Raw, though not quite as regularly as I used to. Smackdown’s pretty much impossible since the move to Friday.
    Other current shows I watch:
    24
    The Simpsons
    Family Guy
    South Park
    House (semi-regulalrly)
    Also, Simpsons and Seinfeld in syndication.
    After that, it’s basically just sports, mainly baseball and football.

  46. House. I’ve even got my daughter addicted to it.
    I will watch 24, but this year started great, but has been slow the last few episodes.
    Not much else for must-see tv. Don’t have cable and just a couple of weeks ago, got Dish family pack. 20 family friendly channels for $19.95 /month. So far, no complaints. It even has FoxNews and EWTN. Yeah!
    In it’s time, Invader Zim was a wickedly funny show on Nick. Too bad it was cancelled. Get the DVD.
    I also liked Yu-Gi-Oh until the last season.

  47. “Monk”, Reds’ baseball, Bengals’ football, Xavier U. basketball, History Channel, other baseball, other college basketball, “Lilo & Stitch”, “World Over Live”, and “Life is Worth Living”.
    Occasionally I’ll get to see DS9 repeats.

  48. WHAT I ACTUALLY TUNE IN FOR
    I’ll watch Packer and Ohio State Buckeye football games live. Otherwise its tape (so I don’t have to watch the commericals) for two series:
    Lost
    Hustle (AMC) – its kind of like Ocean’s Eleven but with Brits
    WHAT I’LL WATCH IF I’M STILL AWAKE
    STTNG – depending on the episode
    Simpsons
    SHOWS I’LL WATCH ON DVD ASAP AFTER THEY’RE RELEASED
    Poirot (now A&E)
    Horatio Hornblower (A&E)
    Here I’ll nominate some deceased shows that I still love
    Firefly
    Nero Wolfe (A&E)
    Hogan’s Heroes
    Sherlock Holmes
    SHOWS I’LL GET AROUND TO WATCHING ON DVD
    Battlestar Galactica
    Columbo
    SHOWS I HAVEN’T ACTUALLY SEEN BUT MAY WATCH ON DVD
    Alias
    Actually
    SHOWS I WON’T WATCH ON TV OR ON DVD
    Any original movie on Sci-Fi channel is BAD except the first Dune.
    Any M*A*S*H episode with BJ
    All Norman Lear shows
    So how about you? What’s your list?

  49. 24 is the only show that I make a point not to miss! The kids are in bed by 8:00 every Monday for that reason!
    If we are awake, we will watch Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond. We also have the Simpsons on DVD.

  51. Ok… I don’t watch a ton of TV, but most of what I watch is EWTN – I particularly like Fr. Groeschel, Fr. Corapi, Life on the Rock, and Web of Faith. I also LOVE baseball so that’s regularly on the radio or TV during the season – any team, any game, if it’s baseball, I will watch! 🙂

  52. The shows that I watch.
    Local news,
    Court shows,
    Law & Order
    Anime related stuff like Gundam and Cowboy Bebop
    -kc8wZm
    -The Lego Church Project

  53. My home is not connected to cable or satelite, so we don’t watch many shows regularly. But, a friend lent us the seasons of SG1, and we really loved that show – but it’s run it’s course and we no longer watch it. The latest show to catch our fancy was due to bringing my wife to see Serenity on a whim. Never heard of Firefly before that, but have since bought the season and love the show – even though there are many objectionable scenes in it. We watch it with the remote in hand after the kids go to bed. I hope they bring it back.

  55. Best show to ever get cancelled: Arrested Development, Firely comes in a close second. So sorry to see no one has mentioned one of the greatest comedy shows to ever grace TV

  56. BTW, one thing everyone should do at least once in their life is give up TV for Lent. See what happens.
    I have done that a few times in the past. It actually prepared me for a time (4 or 5 years) that I had my own apartment, but did not own a TV. I always had roommates in college who had TVs, but when I got my own place, I also started going through a formation and discernment process, so I never bought a TV.
    Now that I’m married (that was the result of all that discernment!), my wife and I have a few shows we watch:
    WHILE PLAYING WITH AND FEEDING OUR DAUGHTER:
    my wife – Rachael Ray’s 30-minute meals
    me – Jeopardy! or Good Eats
    my wife – Wheel of Fortune
    ONCE DAUGHTER IS ASLEEP:
    Mondays:
    doing Catholic Scripture Study homework for Tuesday (this is not a suck-up – this is true!)
    Wednesdays:
    Lost
    Alias (although Alias was much better up to Season 3)
    Thursdays:
    My Name Is Earl
    The Office
    Beauty and the Geek
    Dancing w/ the Stars (my wife & I met Swing dancing)
    Fridays:
    Dancing w/ the Stars results show
    my wife watches What Not To Wear (on TLC) while I play Civilization or Puzzle Pirates
    any day:
    Whose Line Is It Anyway?
    GUILTY PLEASURE:
    first few episodes of a new season of “American Idol” – watching the bad people is our guilty pleasure/pain.
    TV ON DVD:
    Seinfeld
    The Simpsons
    The Office (UK version)
    Desperate Housewives (yes, one of my wife’s co-workers lent it to her, and we’ve been watching it since)
    You wanted honesty…

  58. Jimmy,
    First, I read the post that you’re having a hard time finding a good Catholic girl (via the singles sites). Then, I read that your favorite shows are Battlestar Galactica and Stargate….those shows aren’t exactly babe magnets. My advice to you: don’t tell any prospective females those are you favorite shows. You may as well tell them you go to Star Trek conventions and have Spocks autograph hanging on your wall.
    Dennis

  59. Shows I watch (not live, on DVR – I don’t watch anything live):
    1. Lost
    2. Battlestar Galactica
    3. Invasion – this is really quite a good show. I am disappointed that NO ONE here has mentioned it except for me. It started off slow, but over the last 6 episodes or so, it has been just as good as Lost.
    4. Smallville
    5. The 4400 – just catching up on this series now. Halfway through Season 2.
    6. Surface – it is probably cancelled now, but the best way to describe this show is “cheesetastic”. Reruns on Sci-Fi channel.
    7. Prison Break
    Shows I’ll watch on DVD eventually: House, Babylon 5
    Historical shows I have watched and enjoyed: All Star Trek shows, Firefly, Nowhere Man

  60. My favorite shows are:
    Lost
    My Name Is Earl (warning: it can be a little raunchy.)
    I also like watching the Simpsons for its irreverent send up of typical American life and King of the Hill because it is a send up of typical Texas life!

  61. “Gilmore Girls” and “House.” I argue that GG is one of the best written shows, with some of the most realistic portrayals of human interaction on television. It also is hilarious. “House” has its problems as a show, but I identify with the character flaws of Dr. House.

  62. Dennis said: “First, I read the post that you’re having a hard time finding a good Catholic girl (via the singles sites). Then, I read that your favorite shows are Battlestar Galactica and Stargate….those shows aren’t exactly babe magnets. My advice to you: don’t tell any prospective females those are you favorite shows. You may as well tell them you go to Star Trek conventions and have Spocks autograph hanging on your wall.”
    We-ell, speaking as a single gal, I can say that we don’t ALL think that guys who watch the sci-fi stuff ARE Comic Book Guy (or Craig Feldspar, for that matter). It depends on what type of girl you’re looking for. The Jessica Simpsons of the world will laugh at you, call you a nerd, and walk away. But I think that most of the girls who read this blog are more Lisa than Jessica (and we’re definitely not Ashlee!)
    I’m amazed how sympatico most of us are – weird! I’ve never seen so many Monk fans in 1 place…
    I am in the middle of a Lenten TV fast. It’s really hard, but I’m getting a LOT of reading done!

  63. I stumbled across your blog while I was in the process of doing some online research. I actually either watch shows when they’re aired or I tape them if I can’t be home to catch them, but I don’t do the whole DVD thing. How does anyone get anything done now that all the shows you never got around to watching before they ended are available for sale?

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