What popular TV show have you NEVER watched?

[Tyler Durden]

My PARTIAL list:

NONE of the Survivors
Trading Spaces (or any of its spinoffs)
Dallas
Friends
Cheers
Happy Days

I got a MILLION of 'em.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. Friends

Seinfeld
Fraiser
all of the " reality " shows

[Tyler Durden]

4. Three more for my list.

I did see a video tape of the Seinfeld "Soup Nazi" episode. Marginally amusing.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

7. That was the ONLY episode that I thought was funny.

[Tyler Durden]

12. The person who showed it to me said it was the best one....

...and howled with laughter all through it. This convinced me of two things:

1. I'm not a "Seinfeld" person, and
2. Maybe I have one too many friends.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

19. lol at your #2

[skippysmom]

2. American Idol

Any of the CSIs.
Trading Spaces (for some reason, Paige Davis really annoys me)
ER

[Teddy_Salad]

18. She annoys me too....

She seems so full of herself.
I much preferred the former host of TS.

And isn't she annoying the way she just goes from house to house the entire show screaming....."Hurry up! Hurry up! Get a move on! Don't you know what time it is? How much money did you spend on that?!! FRANK!!!???????"

Maybe if she helped out from time to time instead of doing nothing but whining the whole show the teams wouldn't be running late!

She's a pain.

:grr:

[Tyler Durden]

27. Nice Legs and Ass though.

That IS why she was hired. Ex-Vegas Showgirl I understand. A dancer. Explains the legs.

[Gothmog]

26. American Idol

I have never watched one episode of this show.

[Triple H]

3. NONE of the Survivors...

Friends
Fraiser
American Idol
All of the "reality" tv shows
Martha Stewart Living
CSI
The X Files
NYPD Blue
West Wing
The Bachelor(ette)
Will and Grace
The King of Queens
The Nanny


etc...

[curlyred]

5. any reality show

24
LA Law
The Brady Bunch
Dallas
Nip n Tuck

[soothsayer]

6. West Wing

[belladonna]

8. Trading Spaces, CS1, 24

I'm sure there are alot more that I haven't thought of

[flamingyouth]

9. Survivor

The Apprentice
The Swan
Most of the other reality shows

[kmla]

10. American Idol.

Law and Order - any iteration.
The X-files.
ER
Big Brother.
JAG.

[tigereye]

33. have to say the X-files was pretty amazing initially

smart, great dialogue and creepy as hell. When you compare it to that CSI crap ( oops saw one once), you can see the quality. Might be worth a rethink... :)

[kmla]

35. Nah. I kinda like that CSI crap.

:P

[tigereye]

39. do an experiment, watch an old X-FIles repeat

for the sake of comparison. Ordinarily I would not advise anyone to do this ( watch more TV), but the difference is palpable. JMO :)

[toddzilla]

11. would be too long of a list.

i like seinfeld.. that's about it really.

[wtmusic]

13. Nearly all of them

Turn off the TV...enjoy life.

[Teddy_Salad]

14. .

The West Wing
The Sopranos
Six Feet Under
Frasier
Friends
Every single 'reality show'

In all honesty, I just don't watch a lot of television.

[larryepke]

15. Lots

Friends
Seinfeld
Thirtysomething
Oprah
Bevis & Butthead
Southpark (or is it South Park)
The O'Reilly Factor
any CSI
X-Files

My wife likes American Idol, so I've seen enough parts to total about one episode. Likewise Survivor.

[Sgt. Peppers]

16. West Wing, Will & Grace, Queer Eye, Sex and the City

[VelmaD]

17. Everybody Loves Raymond

Dynasty
American Idol

[Triple H]

21. I, unfortunately, have seen a couple of episodes...

of "Everybody Loves Raymond." I don't. I can't stand him or Patricia Heaton. :puke:

[CO Liberal]

48. Patricia Heaton is a Repuglican

She's been on Sean Hannity's radio pukefest a few times.

[Ms. Clio]

20. American Idol

Friends
ER
The West Wing

and many more. But I have no time to watch television (except The Daily Show), since I spend all my spare hours surfing the Web.

[xultar]

22. I have a HUGE LIST

Friends
Frasier
American Idol
Survivor
The Batchlor and ette
Fear Factor
who wants to be a millionaire
The weakest link
will & Grace
That Raymond show on cbs
The Nanny
The King of Brooklyn or what ever it is
The Mole
Boston Public

Actually most popular shows, I watch Discovery, SciFi, A&E, Bravo...that stuff

[Bertha Venation]

23. i got a million too

everybody loves raymond
all "survivors"
fear factor
who wants to (fill in the blank)
american idol
csi miami (love the original though)
EVERY sitcom currently running except for Whoopi and Will & Grace
Seinfeld :puke:
none of the primetime sequin soaps (dallas, dynasty, etc)

i could go on

[tomreedtoon]

24. From someone who works in TV...

I cannot understand "Seinfeld." And I can't understand Jerry Seinfeld.

I have seen many comedians in my life, many kinds of comedy. But I have never found anything very funny about Seinfeld, not even his dalliances with Superman in commercials for American Express. Why Kal-El would hang around with such a bland, unsociable jerk can only be explained by one thing; Seinfeld is made of lead, and Supes keeps him around in case he needs a handy shield against kryptonite.

And "Friends?" I could hear more interesting conversations by planting a microphone in a bowling alley during League Night.

Speaking of drunken bums, I have seen the episodes of "Cheers" because one of the stations I work for runs it. But I never saw it in its network run. Who cares whether Diane and Sam slept together? They were both jerks. The possibility of them breeding the next generation of jerks was depressing.

[petersjo]

25. Friends

I never watched Dallas either. I feel none the worse off for it. ;-)

[TN al]

28. I often let syndication decide for me...

I don't watch a lot of network TV so often I don't catch things the first time around, Law And Order being a notable exception. Two of my favorite shows of all time are Northern Exposure and Picket Fences, neither of which I saw first run. So the answer is I have never watched MOST of the popular shows.

[SarahB]

29. Almost all of them

We watch Nick & assorted child-related ones, PBS, Tech TV, Discovery, and the assorted movies channels in our house (oh, and the YES network- home of the Yankees :eyes: ).
That's about it. Network TV is geared down to the least common denominator in my snotty, elitist liberal opinion. ::7

[LibertyLover]

30. Shows I never watched

Seinfeld, Survivor, any reality tv show, COPs, virtually every sit-com since MASH went off the air, Dynasty, Dallas, etc. I will confess to watching Trading Rooms on BBC America however. I prefer to read, when my 22 month old Rugus Ratus Sino-Americanus goes down for her nap or to bed at night that is.

Years ago when Dallas was still on in prime-time, during the "who shot JR" period, I walked into the local candy/ice cream parlor/news store to find a bunch of the customers discussing who shot JR. I,not being up on such things, asked if there had been an assassination and if so, who had been killed. They thought it was amusing. I was floored that they could care so passionately about a fictional tv character. Later, as it turned out on the night all would be revealed, I flew down to Virginia Beach to visit a friend. She picked me up at the airport, practically threw me in the car and peeled rubber to get home in time for the show. Since I had no idea who the characters were, who was or was not sleeping with who and all the various plot twists and turns, it was a very boring couple of hours. This was the same friend who had a major crush on Jack Lord in Hawaii 5-0 and would schedule things around its running.

[Kahuna]

31. Survivor, American Idol, Friends, Seinfield, Will and Grace, Darma and

Greg...The Practice, Miami CSI..

I basically never watch series television. I may catch some of the shows when they go into syndication. :shrug: Still haven't watched, any of the above shows yet.

[DEM FAN]

32. Mine.

CSI
The West Wing
Donald Trumps Show
Idol
Friends
Law And Order

[tigereye]

38. avoid all of that reality crap like the plague

tend now to watch PBS or movies. Or hang out here!

However, I do like West Wing and Gilmore Girls is a guilty pleasure. I am a sucker for sparky, smart dialogue. I have rewound the tape of West Wings on numerous occasions to catch the snappy dialogue, reminds me of the witty and fast dialogue in 40s CAry Grant movies.

And I do confess a great love for early X-files. I loved those.

[Mobius]

57. I also have never watched the West Wing

[dpbrown]

34. Survivor, Friends, American Idol, Fear Factor...

The list goes on and on.

They're all brain rot as far as I'm concerned.

Now, "Gardening by the Yard" with Paul James (the Garden Guy) is real entertainment.

Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota

[Rhiannon12866]

36. No reality shows

The networks just put them on because they are so cheap to produce. No writers, no sets, no actors demanding high salaries. The first wave was the proliferation of news shows. A spin-off of "60 Minutes," "48 Hours," Connie Chung's ""Eye to Eye" and "Face to Face," "20-20," numerous "Datelines." But these were at least, often, informative. The reality shows are just a waste of air time, IMHO. I used to work with the commercial networks, so know what they are trying to do, save money. And I admit to watching some sitcoms. Some are pretty well-done.:-)

[Delano]

37. Survivor.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Fear Factor, (actually I aven't watched ANY of the reality shows, except for the original "the Real World". I mostly only watch the local news, SNL, a bit of comedy central, and rreruns of Roseanne on Nick right now.

[FunBobbyMucha]

40. Proudly rejecting any and all reality television.

Then there's also:

Road Rules.
CSI.
NYPD Blue.
Melrose Place.
90210
Dawson's Creek.
American Idol (reality or reek-ality?)
Regis and Whoever.
Maury, Sally, or any show featuring a first name as a title.

I did watch enough of an episode of STD and the City to know that a gay writer's fantasy of what women say and do was not worth my time.

E Hollywood True Story (they are doing one of these now on Laci Peterson. Laci Peterson. A dead, unknown pregnant housewife. How long can it be until there is an E Hollywood True Story on you, or your uncle Bill?)

The Rush Limbaugh TV Show, which I believe had to be presented in Widescreen long before the advent of HDTV. At least it wasn't scratch n' sniff.

[matcom]

41. The Sopranos

Survivor
Sex in the City
Watched ONE fear factor. that was all it took

[Mobius]

58. I watched the Sopranos once

thats all it took for me, oh and I never watched Oz.

[CBHagman]

42. Where do I start?

ER
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Survivor
The Bachelor
Any crap with Paris Hilton
Most "reality" shows, except on PBS or when I tune in too early for The West Wing and catch the tail end of that Trump show

And I've almost never watched Frasier. I caught that and "The Weakest Link" in the emergency room once.

[terrya]

43. "Little House on the Prairie". It looked incredibly moronic.

[chicaloca]

44. I'm going to answer a bit differently.

These are the popular shows that I _have_ watched:

Ally McBeal (Don't know if it's even on anymore, though)
Friends (about three episodes, mind you)
Seinfeld (one or two episodes)
Sex and the City (used to watch regularly, not anymore)
Will and Grace (used to watch regularly, not anymore)

I've never seen a single episode of any of the reality TV shows, except for some of the original European versions--for instance, I've seen Big Brother in Dutch. Oh, and I once had the misfortune of seeing about half of Survivor. Ugh. And it sounds like there are loads of even worse ones out there right now. Sadly, this also means I've never seen the West Wing or the Daily show, but overall I'm so bloody glad that my TV gets no channels at all...I f*^&ing hate TV. :argh: (I'm imagining that the smiley is throwing a TV rather than a computer, BTW.)

[Arbustosux]

45. 24 and any reality based Fox show

won't stoop that low :)

[gpandas]

46. only watch nypd blue and csi...

i vowed quite a few years ago to never watch another show that has canned laughter

[Commendatori]

47. American Idol, Survivor, any reality show (n/t)

[SiouxJ]

49. ER, West Wing, Friends, Buffy

I'm sure there are others but those are the first ones that come to mind.

Actually I watched one ep. of ER. The one they filmed live as I thought the concept was interesting. It was.

[SoCalDem]

50. So many..

What was the one with Carringtons? Never saw that one.

Never saw:

CSI
Will & Grace

for starters

[djeseru]

51. Avoid all popular television.

I gave up after the X-Files. The only show I stay current with is The Sopranos, besides the daily C-Span and weekends on PBS.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

52. No reality shows except

that I did watch Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ONCE when an acquaintance was on it.

I have also completely missed out on

Friends
Everyone Loves Raymond
and all other sitcoms since Murphy Brown went off the air

[Iris]

53. Will & Grace

really, I don't know why. I just never saw it before.

And I've never seen a complete episode of Friends.

[politicat]

54. All of them. I don't do TV. EOM

[UnAmericanJoe]

55. Any show on HBO or Showtime

Honestly, the only one I feel like I've truly "missed" has been Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I could certainly do without the Sopranos (Sopranos fans are nothing more than Dynasty fans with a violent streak anyway...)

I did just conclude watching my first reality show, Sci FI channel's Mad, Mad House. It was pretty lame actually, but I got hooked.

And finally, I've never seen a full episode of any CSI show. I even find the promos irritating. Instant switch-off when it comes on (as if I'd be watching CBS anyway.)

[Mobius]

56. King of Queens, Who wants to Marry a Millionaire,(or any of its spinoffs)

NYPD Blue, a whole slew of game shows, the other shows I cant remember so I cant tell you the names.

[NightTrain]

59. Friends, Drew Carey, Third Rock From The Sun, Star Trek Voyager...

...any of those stupid "reality" shows, Ally MacBeal, Judging Amy, E/R, CSI, any of those dumbass right-wing "talk" shows, VH-1's I Love The '80s, Family Ties, Wings....

Come to think of it, I'd have an easier time listing popular shows that I do watch!

[mac56]

60. Where to start?

ER
Law and Order
Ally McBeal
Melrose Place
Survivor
Big Brother
American Idol

and Twin Peaks