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Best and Worst - TV
*edited 07 Sep 2010 20:37
Bit of levity needed in these trying times and what better than a good old best and worst list..... of current TV programs.....
Best
1. Californication
(smokin hot babes and sex from a male point of view - no relationship agonising, no Jimmy Choo shoes, no desperate houswives on a street with more crazy goings on than the texas chainsaw massacre house, just more snatch and more often... Duchovny gets all the best gigs)
2. Destroyed in seconds
(cant believe no one ever thought of it before, show sh1t getting blown the fack up. winner!)
3. Family Guy
(vag jokes and miscegenation... seth is one sick funny puppy)
4. Cops
(still rules after ten years)
5. Batman, the brave and the bold
(surprisingly good and dark kids animated sat morning show, if im up in time im on it)
Worst
1. Numbers
(was Ridley scott in any way involved in this implausible, unengaging piece of cr@p? the only wonder is it managed to get past the pilot)
2. Fringe
(JJ Abrams latest scourge on the world as if Lost wasnt bad enough, its like satan sent the sci fi antichrist to plague us with really bad sci fi TV.... )
3 Anything with CSI in the title
(im so over 'identical apart from location' forensic crime "thrillers")
4. undercover boss
(crying CEOs are not entertaining, have these b1tches no dignity?)
5. the bachelor
(or any reality TV involving many men or women courting one man or woman, Daisy of love, Flava of love, Charm school, gay, straight or taken etc... a new nadir for the tube)
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BEST:
1: Robot Chicken
2: Tosh.0
3: House
3".5: Doctor WHo -new series
4: NCIS
5: always a soothing mind numb..... Home and Away
6: All the underbelly series especially the last one,
WORST:
1: Outrageous Fortune - this series,,, just not cutting it
2:Road Cops or whatever,,, funny but lame at the same time,,
3: Target
4:whats really in our vagi.na : Petra Bagus (sick of those)
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never seen any of them.
don't watch telly much. although last eve i was interested in the doco on what we don't see.
what fascinated me the most was the range of the light spectrum and light waves...amazing. all that light and we only see a fraction..kinda makes ya wonder what else is out there we don't see.
but yeah, overall i find tv a bit bland these days.
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Sorry Seeka, that first invisible worlds program was utter bollox, all that 'cutting edge' stuff is decades old, i read about ultraviolet vole wee and UV flower patterns when i was in secondary school (11 upwards in the UK) the 'hot Bee' footage has been in several previous docos too. (see if you can find youtube footage of japanese bees boiling an invading giant hornet to death with thier body heat!!!)
Hopefully the rest of the series wont be so uninformative... I havent given up hope it will have something new.. but you cant hold up too much hope when you have that midget c0ck from the inexplicably popular Top Gear at the helm
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how the other half live was pretty good but think its over now
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Yep target... forgot about that god wawful piece of tat, between thier fantasy 'test' results (3 apoligies and two lost lawsuits later) and thier drawer rummaging tradesmen it really is like the bizzaro universe version of fair go, one can only hope they make a mistake worse than they did with the completely wrong allegation about cafe cezanne ( a great little cafe)or the warehouses flammable pyjamas and get sued off the air. presenter Brooke Howard-Smith is a 'champion roller blader'... says it all really
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anything with paris hilton 
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRz23qF5pj0 [youtube.com]
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robot Chicken Skit [youtube.com]
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Destroyed in seconds can be ok sometimes, but isn't something I make time to watch. I wouldn't say fringe is one of the worst either, for me it's bearable.
A few of my favourites are How I met you mother, Two and a half men and Bones.
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ITM fishing show
Country calendar
I am genuinely mourning that King of the Hill finished
Robot Chicken, American Dad, Family Guy etc
Worst
I dunno - i turn it off when these aren't on.
Best- history of new zealand and 7 days
worst-any cop, medical, nymphomaniac-egomaniac show.
Best:
The Office
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Arrested Development
Father Ted
Skitz
Freaks & Geeks
X-Files
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Married With Children
Avatar
X-Men Animated
Code
Pulp Sport
My Name Is Earl
Lost
Firefly
Top Gear
Deadliest Catch
Iron Chef
Man vs Wild
Survivorman
A lot of other British comedies...too many to list
Worst:
Will & Grace, Friends...rubbish like that
NZ & Aussie Soaps
Reality shows on E, C4 or MTV
Heroes
Sports Cafe
Anything with Peta Bagaust, Jim Mora or that ugly b*tch Mary Lambie in it
Mythbusters
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"Inbetweeners" is funny aye. It's on now if you wanna check it out.
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Okay I admit it.......I'm a SUP'er groupie.
not bad hulio
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it. Lao Tzu
Arrested Development makes me laugh like a stoned teenager at least once an episode. The miss thinks I'm wrong in the head.
how i met your mother
big bang theory
top gear
river cottage(love the good life stuff).
Worst:
Gotta agree target is tat
and almost anything on animal planet that isnt about crocidiles
Californication in my opinion is the best viewing on TV presently.
Second would be Deadliest Catch.
I rated Lost highly as well.... Tempantion Island was possibly the craziest and most compulsive reality viewing ever..... I was disgusted but it- and never missed an episode.
Good:
Cali
7days
family guy
river cottage
Boston legal "Denny Crane"
Simpsons
Top Gear ...its funny Statik that's why you don't get it 
Bad
I hit the Off switch
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it. Lao Tzu
Originally posted by: 2020
I rated Lost highly as well....
i read a disney war
had some funny stuff like them turning down "who wants to be a millionare and survivor but taking the then unnamed "LOST" despite the fact there was no story past the pilot episode crash!......Seems they never did create a story
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it. Lao Tzu
I watched the first season of Lost but couldn't be bothered after that - it seemed to go off the rails completely.
2 qs - what was the mist thing about?
And why the polar bear?
Originally posted by: downsouth
I watched the first season of Lost but couldn't be bothered after that - it seemed to go off the rails completely.
2 qs - what was the mist thing about?
And why the polar bear?
The black mist was the bad twin who wanted ot get off the island.... the polar bear (f+ck who knows..)_
It was a crazy story alright- hard ot follow at times, but a lot of fun....with an ending that brought it altogetther (kind of)
i dnt watch much tv even though i work at tvnz...
but river cottage is good, bostan legal was epic, family guy is all good, i was pretty into the 1st season of lost before i got lost, arrested development, the office, black books, batman
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Waaay too many adds on NZ tv that i cant even watch it anymore. Every 5 mins the volume goes up and im fumbling for the control to stop the onslaught.
... that volume thing gets me as well Tasty....especially during The Pacific... I would turn up the volume to hear what they were saying- then I would get deafened by a motar barrage- get yelled at by the SHM2020, and wake up the 1010's.
I was relieved and glad when the series ended- now are all dealing with the lingering effects of shell shock.... watching war is hell...only a viewer knows the horror..
Yeah river cottage is good - some great food produce ideas on that. Plus the guy gets drunk a lot on it.
Originally posted by: Mr Statik
Sorry Seeka, that first invisible worlds program was utter bollox, all that 'cutting edge' stuff is decades old, i read about ultraviolet vole wee and UV flower patterns when i was in secondary school (11 upwards in the UK) the 'hot Bee' footage has been in several previous docos too. (see if you can find youtube footage of japanese bees boiling an invading giant hornet to death with thier body heat!!!)
Hopefully the rest of the series wont be so uninformative... I havent given up hope it will have something new.. but you cant hold up too much hope when you have that midget c0ck from the inexplicably popular Top Gear at the helm
no need to apologise, opinion is just that.
yeah, most folk know about the light thing...but i just enjoyed seeing it...i had no idea how big the light spectrum actually was, musta been wagging school that day.
i quite enjoy antiques roadshow and d1ckinsons real deal, some of the stuff that turns up is just great imo.
but yeah, on the whole i find telly a waste of valuable time...unless it's a doco of some sort. there is a building show on now and then(english) that interests me sometimes.
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best - crowd goes wild
worst - cambell, close up
There was an awesome doco on the sardine run (breeding sardines in the north atlantic) on the other day David attenborough, it was just amazing.
contrast this with Invisible worlds "special corona sensitive camera" (really meaning 'add really dodgy special fx sparks' to the picture)
kicking off a docu-mentary with false images doesnt bode well, auntie beeb is slipping!
I always enjoyed Will and grace, Boston legal, and arrested development but the thread was current TV as its a bit of a doldrums for good TV at the moment, where are the shows with the staying power of X files, Red Dwarf, Ab fab and Blackadder? too much money going into easy, cheap to make 'reality' shows... 
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WORST!!
That program where awful british northerners go to each others houses for dinner to win 300 quid and some smarmy git narrator cracks awful jokes... makes flava of love look like high art!!!
I end up suffering small portions of these programs cos the mrs watches them, i just scurry off to the computer...
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with no axe to grind scooter, the last time i watched top gear Clarkson was in a 4wd made up to look like a fox complete with fluffy tail and had a bunch of british foxhunters chasing him over field and hedge...
Leaving aside the dubious wisdom of courting the almost universally hated british foxhunting fraternity, it was a singularly unamusing and pointless exercise.
Its kinda like watching 'the rock' radio station ads, funny, but only if you think my 'name is earl' is a reality tv show about your neighbourhood...
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river cottage is good but always has a horror show somewhere in it. The dude is te radar's doppelgänger and aint right.
Originally posted by: Mr Statik
There was an awesome doco on the sardine run (breeding sardines in the north atlantic) on the other day David attenborough, it was just amazing.
i saw some of that, ...outstanding!
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Yeah that was amazing
oh and 'heroes' season one was ok (for a total rip off of X men) but the characters all switching sides from good to bad and back again WWF style has ruined it.
My name is earl is always a hoot and Joy and Catalina are smokin, but somehow i kinda avoid watching it...
Joy (yes she is)
Catalina
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didnt the polar bear pull someone out of a tree top in the very first episode of lost? i gave up after that...
wierd thing is the guy makes ok movies, cloverfield was cool, great design on the large creatures, and the star trek movie was also pretty good...
Holding high hopes for the Star wars TV series but only because in this regard, im like Apple zombies. If its got light sabres and jedi, im in like flynn... bit like all those people with substandard phones and mp3 players, dont matter.... as long as it has a little apple on it it must be the shiznit!
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Best
Wipeout.... its hilarious but i get the sneaking suspicion its almost reality TV.....
I kinda hate myself for enjoying it....
then i see 2 minutes of 'the amazing race or survivor' and realise how much worse wipeout could be....
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you watch a lot of telly MrStatik.
who was it who rapped "television..the drug of a nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation" ??
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Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
but im pretty sure they got the idea and definitley thier meter from Gil scott herons The revolution will not be televised [youtube.com]
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wipeout is super funny and feel the same way static. Thing is the Japanese have been doing that sort of thing years before.
true, but the japoanese do mental sh1t like sticking people in glass boxes in which the walls are loads of magnifying glasses, then sticking them in direct sunlight and seeing who can last longest....
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America will be doing that sort of thing when bouncing off balls becomes boring haha but yeah they have shows like 'bug wars'now... farked up.
Originally posted by: seeka
you watch a lot of telly MrStatik.
im over 50..... what do you expect!!
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BUG WHAT?
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Originally posted by: Mr Statik
im over 50..... what do you expect!!
a better comeback.
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talking of bug wars heres the kiler bee footage ....
Bees cook hornet [youtube.com]
Apoligies for the american doco where the poor old hornet appears to be forced into the hive, the original footage of this was in an attenborough doco and looked much more authentic but the results are the same
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Bug wars. Two big bugs of different species go head to head to the death. Commentary, replays... Sick sh1t.
Tv at its finest is damn good, I guess one of the reasons why im pretty ambivalent about music these days is i get way more of a buzz ( the same buzz i used to get from music) from gaming and movies, theres a lot more creativity going on with those entertainment media than the rehashing and mashing of a few tropes that pop music has become.
I was working for sony music in 1994 when the Playstation 1 was launched. The MD held up this boring looking white box and said, the media for this box will outstrip music sales within 2 years by ten to one .... and much to our disbelief, he was right...
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Originally posted by: bionic chronic
Bug wars. Two big bugs of different species go head to head to the death. Commentary, replays... Sick sh1t.
serious?
yanks......
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Nah that's the Japanese.
Originally posted by: Mr Statik
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
ta for that..here's the clip..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOWTM5R2DA [youtube.com]
Originally posted by: Mr Statik
The revolution will not be televised [youtube.com]
excellent.
Originally posted by: Mr Statik
Bees cook hornet [youtube.com]
amazing
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Originally posted by: Mr Statik
Tv at its finest is damn good,
i agree, problem is it only accounts for about 1% thats broadcast.
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japs (hope the mrs doesnt see this, she will tear me a new one... )
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Originally posted by: seekaOriginally posted by: Mr Statik
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
ta for that..here's the clip..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOWTM5R2DA [youtube.com]
Originally posted by: Mr Statik
The revolution will not be televised [youtube.com]
they dont make em like that any more....
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I liked Lost because it was different - there hasn't really been anything like it, and it was really refreshing. Some seasons were a total waste of time, while the last episode was just a big load of sheite.
Plus I hated that fat c*nt Hurley.
Originally posted by: Mr Statik
oh and 'heroes' season one was ok (for a total rip off of X men) but the characters all switching sides from good to bad and back again WWF style has ruined it.
While the team-switching was a tad annoying and predictable, I didn't mind it that much. What I REALLY hate about Heroes is all the hooking up. Every episode someone has to behave like a horny 16 year old and kiss anyone in the immediate vicinity.
The kissing and romance scenes were absolute rubbish, and it got to the point where it was like a MTV reality show and went completely ridiculous and over the top.
Plus the plot started to suck big time too. It had a lot of potential but they ruined it.
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Originally posted by: Mr Statik
didnt the polar bear pull someone out of a tree top in the very first episode of lost? i gave up after that...
wierd thing is the guy makes ok movies, cloverfield was cool, great design on the large creatures, and the star trek movie was also pretty good...
Holding high hopes for the Star wars TV series but only because in this regard, im like Apple zombies. If its got light sabres and jedi, im in like flynn... bit like all those people with substandard phones and mp3 players, dont matter.... as long as it has a little apple on it it must be the shiznit!
Lost was pretty polarising (non punintended) you either loved it or hated it... I saw the first few episodes i nthe states when it first screened there, and thought it was some cheap made for tv mini series.
When i got back its started screening here several months later, and I watched it again..... and thought this is some f+cked up sh*t, and really enjoyed it.
It probably ran for 2 series too long though...but i loved some of those unridden waves inthe back ground beach shots
Tubenet- what I never understood was how Hurley stayed so fat on the island- tat was the greatest mystery to me
didnt he have a secret stash of lollies?
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.....i suspect he ate the polar bear, possibly some of The Others as well
*edited 09 Sep 2010 14:31
I saw a David Attenborough doco a couple weeks back which included whales hunting herring in the north pacific. Amazing photography and the show was totally absorbing. Can't remember the title.
Current TV,
Anything with Hugh Fearnly-Wittingstall. The guy is the biz....
Grand Designs on Living channel
Restoration Man on TV1, well cool
Thrillseekers Guide, Skiers World and Great Motorcycle Journeys on travel channel.
Big Bang Theory
and Spartacus, Blood and Sand on the box. Gladiator fights and Lucy Lawless with her t1ts out.
Hasn't started screening yet, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna be my favourite if the trailer is anything to go by, Raiders of the Lost Snow on travel channel. Unbelieveably crap title but epic looking footage.
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yeah even BC agrees the herring doco was wicked...
i loved Rome, both series, i have the DVD's the only 'tv on dvd' i own, spartacus sounds a bit like they are ramping up the rumpy pumpy and not much else,, though im all for TV with nudity and rampant shagging
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