Guilty pleasure tv shows

[Parrothead]

You know, the ones that are for a younger crowd, or are overly sappy, whatever, but you love them anyway. Share!







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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

[the_std]

I will admit, I watched the entire first season of Jersey Shore in two separate sittings, and found it wholeheartedly amusing. I haven't watched it or any of the new seasons since, and I usually consider myself a pretty highly educated person, but it was so... Base and common-denominator that I found myself enjoying it.

Yeah.

[muses_nightmare]

She-ra :p I have it on DVD, I was excited when I saw that it was on DVD, I bought it right away. :lol:

All of those YTV shows that I watched when I was younger: Big Wolf on Campus, Student Bodies, Breaker High.

Also, Animorphs. Terribly cheesy but I loved the books when I was younger. Actually, I just d/l all of the books to my e-reader so I can re-read them. :p

[LexiaFira]

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Sid the science kid, but only because its easy to remember most of the songs by heart until its time for Miss Susie to sing. And daughter dances to it all the time. One of the few kid shows that stick to a routine of same songs/same routine. (house at breakfast, mom/sid car time, looking for friends, school time, recess laugh time, back in, susie teacher sings, etc)

the other one, going through hubs collection and watching his anime.
and Reboot!

[Miss_Maple_Leaf]

There are plenty of shows that I watched as a kid that I still enjoy today and would happily admit to in public, but since we're going with guilty pleasures and this is the internet (so anonymity is at play here), then I present the following:

Care Bears

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (and the other seasons up to Turbo)

and

Captain Planet.

:o

[mikoyan29]

Lately: Parenthood

In the Past: My So Called Life and Thirtysomething

[ExRetailDrone]

In the Past: My So Called Life and Thirtysomething

I actually just watched the pilot episode of My So-Called Life after having not seen it since the mid-90s. I liked it just as much as I remembered :o

[Boozy]

I will admit, I watched the entire first season of Jersey Shore in two separate sittings, and found it wholeheartedly amusing.

Jersey Shore has become weirdly popular among my group of friends. Oddly, it's those with the advanced degrees that seem to enjoy it the most.

I haven't gotten around to watching it yet, but it must be the ultimate junk food for the brain.

[Sarah Valentine]

Captain N the game master, Sonic (the sat am one), Pokemon, the Super Mario Bros. shows, and Yu-Gi-Oh!. I had nothing better to do on saturday mornings, but now I just sleep in or play video games. :)

[telecom_goddess]

I remember thirtysomething! That was a great show actually. Haven't seen it in years.

I loved this show when it was on and now that it's hit Netflix I'm watching it all over again from the beginning...Ally McBeal. Very innovative and well done show in my opinion. But then I love dramedies.....comedy/drama.

Two shows I used to watch and love, but really don't anymore are Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place, the ORIGINAL ones.

Another one of my favorites is The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd....which is STILL not available on DVD, so is not on netflix. Annoying!!

I go in spurts where I love watching The Golden Girls....it reminds me of the old days when I was 19 and had just met my now ex husband....when I was young and carefree...kind of an oxymoron I guess but what the hell :D

[Andara Bledin]

Sailor Moon.

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[guywithashovel]

I used to watch The Golden Girls quite a bit, but it's been a long time since I've seen it. It's a very popular show, so it may not be a guilty pleasure, but it is/was geared more towards women. Still, it was a good show, and it had good writing.

I also used to watch Degrassi: The Next Generation regularly. This was during the mid to late 2000s. It was geared more towards middle and high school students, and I was in my 20s, but still, it was good. I think the show is still in production, but most of the characters have changed, and understandably so, since it's about a high school, and those characters have graduated and moved on.

[Rageaholic]

Yugioh. Now I wouldn't call the original Japanese stuff a guilty pleasure because that's pretty well done, especially considering it's an anime about a trading card game. But the 4kids dub was horribly done. Almost all references to death are taken out and replaced with being sent to the "shadow realm". To get an idea of how absurd this is, there was one episode that featured a death trap in which the loser of the duel would fall through a building. However, the 4kids geniuses thought that a death trap where people fall to their death would be too traumatizing for children. So they change it up, they fall through the building, but instead of falling to their death, they fall into a portal that sends their soul to the "shadow realm", a place of eternal suffering. Because that wouldn't traumatize children. :rolleyes:

With my ranting out of the way, I still found myself watching the dub (since I couldn't understand Japanese and didn't even know how to find it if I could). As corny as it was with, I was still intrigued by a series based on trading card games. It was like they're own world where trading card games decide the fate of the world. Instead of solving problems with violence, they place childrens card games (and yes I do watch and lovethe Abridged series). It sounds stupid, but since I was addicted to the pokemon TCG, this was a cool show.

In the end, you can't deny that it's an original and creative concept.

[Andara Bledin]

Actually, the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga came first. The card game actually only showed up a few times until a ways in, and then it became a focal point in the story. I don't know the anime that well, but I think it shifted the story to start with the focus on the game, and then the actual CCG was released the next year.

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[muses_nightmare]

Oh man, I totally forgot about a bunch of those shows until they were brought up here. :P Sailor Moon for sure, Reboot, oh and I used to be a big fan of Cardcaptors, Pokemon and Digimon. :lol:

[Gravekeeper]

Sailor Moon, Golden Girls, Empty Nest, Reboot, anything with Gordon Ramsey in it >.>

I was a huge Sailor Moon/Reboot junkie when I was in high school. As for the Golden Girls, grew up on them. Golden Girls / Empty Nest was a CBC afternoon combo when I was something like 10 years old. Always watched it with my mom. Thus blessing my childhood with the glory of Betty White.

[Andara Bledin]

Thus blessing my childhood with the glory of Betty White.
Betty White is made of awesome. :D

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[telecom_goddess]

Sailor Moon, Golden Girls, Empty Nest, Reboot, anything with Gordon Ramsey in it >.>

I was a huge Sailor Moon/Reboot junkie when I was in high school. As for the Golden Girls, grew up on them. Golden Girls / Empty Nest was a CBC afternoon combo when I was something like 10 years old. Always watched it with my mom. Thus blessing my childhood with the glory of Betty White.

Yeah Empty Nest was great too...Loved Richard Mulligan, who was also on Soap in the seventies, with Billy Crystal :D

If you love Betty White still she's on Hot In Cleveland...also an interesting show.

I guess my ultimate guilty pleasure is the original Star Trek....my favorite episode ever and one I can watch repeatedly is "The Squire of Gothos"

The guy who played General Trelaine in that episode died recently too.

[blas87]

I can go quite low-ball with the shows. I mean, Kardashians, Girls Next Door, Kendra, Holly's World, Dance Scene, or popular "sheep" type TV shows.

But I couldn't even tolerate more than one minute of Jersey Shore. Their annoying voices, their annoying marbles in their mouths accents, and the fact that I have seen all of this drunken fighting/drama/backstabbing/plotting crap before in real life, why watch it on TV? Granted, over in Wisconsin, it's a more fair skinned, German or Scandinavian type of people getting trashed and fighting, and with our little awesome accents.....but people getting trashed, fighting, useless conversations, plotting revenge, more fighting, more getting drunk........is so dumb and old no matter where it happens.

[kiwi]

Murder she wrote, the Waltons, Little house on the prairie.

Repetition calms me and so having shows where the same plot is played out over and over and over makes me LOVE that show even though it drives everyone else crazy.:rolleyes:

[Parrothead]

But I couldn't even tolerate more than one minute of Jersey Shore. Their annoying voices, their annoying marbles in their mouths accents, and the fact that I have seen all of this drunken fighting/drama/backstabbing/plotting crap before in real life, why watch it on TV?

Have you seen these?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhk5Rjz7xk0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN7OS0V17PQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW9_SM5i2M4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KUcMmGMDHE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaqUKLx2z-Y

Jersey Shore done in the style of Oscar Wilde.

[boringscreenname]

I watch 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom. I have no idea why because I'm always rolling my eyes at the sheer stupidity of some of those couples and/or yelling at the tv. I just can't look away from the trainwreck. My husband makes fun of me for it, but he watches too.