guilty pleasures past and present

[sandar]

Okay, time to 'fess up!

Did you wear out your 45 of "MacArthur Park" because you loved it so?

Did you watch "Here Come the Brides" because Bobby Sherman played Jeremy Bolt? Or "Partridge Family" to see David Cassidy?

Did you adore "Creature Double Feature" on rainy Saturday afternoons?

Do you currently nurse a secret fondness for any movie Brendan Fraser's in, no matter how poor the script?

Do you watch "WWF Smackdown" on a regular basis?

Do you watch all the beauty pageants? Awards shows? Game shows?


Please, confess all and don't hesitate to mention those goodies that I've forgotten here! :shock:

Sandi

[DisneyPam]

What's a Bobby Sherman? :lol: :wink:

Must've been before my time. :lol:

[Francine]

Tim and I love watching Everybody Loves Raymond! We laugh so hard!

In my youth I was a big Monkees fan, and yes Bobby Sherman was often a part of my day dreams.

I loved Gilligan's Island, and love to watch it now on TV Land. In fact I to this day have one thing I still don't know about Gilligan's Island. I swear that Mr. Howell's teddy bear looks exactly like the teddy bear that Radar had on MASH. It is one of life's true mysteries.

Francine

[Esmerelda]

OK, I have a confession. We have TV's at work and at 2:00 every afternoon I watch the Maury show. It is typically along the lines of I am 16 years old and testing 12 people to see who my baby's daddy is. The only redeeming value of this show is that it helps my self esteem-my life is in MUCH better shape than I thought!

[Pinky]

My name is Aimee... and I am addicted to Beauty Pagents....

Yes I admit... I watch Miss America and Miss Universe Pagents. I don't know why... It is addicting!

I think I need help... :shock:

[LisaG]

I am addicted to Buffy the Vampire Slayer! I have the musical soundtrack from the Once More With Feeling episode and listen to it in my car everyday.

I'm also addicted to Survivor!

And I'll admit to Shaun Cassidy and Andy Gibb in my youth!

(And I'll see any movie with John Cusack, Keanu Reeves, or David Duchovny!)

[Rosebud]

I watched Partridge Family but not because of David Cassidy. Can't think of any show that I watched because of some cute guy, but I probably did.

About in 5th grade I became addicted to a few day time soap operas. My friends at school would talk about stuff that happened on the show and I felt left out, so I started watching and that was the end of that. Still watched them in my early 20s and this guy at work had a job that he would be in his car a lot and would listen to the radio soap opera updates and fill us in. I finally did give them up though - probably because there used to be so many night time soap operas.

I don't feel guilty about it, but I am addicted to Survivor. What I do feel a little guilty about was the fact that I watched Married By America. Watched the 2nd episode because the TV was on that channel and I didn't see the remote - I was too tired to look for it and didn't want to get up to change the channel, especially since I knew nothing else was on anyway. The next week came and looked at TV guide (nothing on - I don't have cable) and I started watching it figuring that would be it. That is when I became addicted and was secretly glad that the show I normally watched at that time was showing reruns. However, in my defense I was relieved when neither couple went through with the wedding.

BTW Francine, seems to me I remember reading someplace that that was the same bear.

[Moley]

Guilty past: Dark Shadows and Luke and Laura's summer of love on General Hospital. :shock: Oh and favorite movie of all time, Red Dawn. :shock:

Guilty present: Survivor and the American Pie movies.

Hey! Who said any script Brendan Fraser reads is bad?! 8)

[roodad]

Red Dawn? As in "wolverines!" ?
Yikes!
I am not being critical here, since I am a big fan of all those body count movies - the ones with Arnold or Sly or Van Damme or Willis with lots of grenades, and automatic weapons, and bodies flying thru the air. I actually used to keep a pad handy in which I would keep count of all the dead guys.

[sandar]

roodad,

And you were worried about me after the Barney vs. Gilligan poll? :shock:

Sandi

[WillCAD]

WOLVERINES! (No guilt. Lea Thompson, Jennifer Grey, and an impressive body counts. What more do you want?)

Just this week I found a couple of cassettes I used to listen to in the car way back in the 80s when I was in high school. One was a compilation called Let's Beat It (don't make fun, I thought it was a stupid title even in 1986), and the other was Michael Jackson's Thriller. I loved both of these albums when I was 17, so wen I found them last week, I went online and downloaded (Shh, don't tell the RIAA!) all the tracks. I've been listening to them at work on my laptop the past couple of days.

But I keep the volume low so my coworkers can't hear.

(Click the image to see a page with a track list)

http://www.ktelclassics.com/albumspix/letsbeatit.jpg
(http://www.ktelclassics.com/letsbeatit.html)

http://www.djangomusic.com/images/cover200/DRC000/C055/C055587QSSE.jpg (http://www.djangomusic.com/item_music.asp?id=R++++10089&dt=1)

[Moley]

Ahh, those were the days, Will. We could enjoy watching Michael perform without wondering if a body part would fall off right before our eyes. 8)

And my cockles are more than warmed to find out there are fellow Red Dawn Wolverines! enthusiasts among us. :mrgreen:

I love the body count note pad idea. I did that one time during Under Siege Two as Steven Seagal dispatched the bad guy team one by one. There ought to be a spread sheet somewhere(with camo backgrounds) that has types of dispatches of bad guys. I bet "Getting in Head Lock and Cracking their Neck" would be the number one way. Getting less votes, but being in the coveted, Save This One for Last category, would be hand to hand combat of the most evil guy, near a cliff or stairwell, with a big ole spikey thing at the bottom. A close second is the power grid Dance of Death. zzzzzzzt zzzzzZZZZT :shock:

Quit proscrastinating, Moley, and get back to the Survivor recap.

[MargaretJ]

I admit it, I watched Here come the Brides for Bobby Sherman. I also was hooked on Dark Shadows. Used to rush home from school every day so I can see it. Acting was bad & you could always see people standing behind curtains but I still loved it.

[kathi]

Fun Fun!!

First, I have to admit that I honestly have no idea who Bobby Sherman is.

I do have a sad habit of watching every dog show that comes on TV. Worse yet, I have several of my friends addicted. If you didn't know better you would think we were watching the Super Bowl. We eat crappy snack foods, drink far too much booze and shout at the TV ("NOT THE POODLE!!"). It's a good time

I think that possibly Lisa G and I were separated at birth as I also will watch ANYTHING with John Cusack, Keanu Reeves, or David Duchovny).

kathi

[LisaG]

Kathi,
If you were born in NJ we weren't too far apart I'm originally from Langhorne, PA - born in Bristol. My mom is a Jersey girl.

LisaG

[Rosebud]

OK Kathi - are you trying to make us cranky too by telling us that you are too young to remember Bobby Sherman? Which would mean that we are OLD.

To the others - I loved Dark Shadows. Don't remember much about it, but do remember I loved it and remember having to see the movie when it came out.

[sandar]

For all you young whipersnappers, here's a link:

http://www.bobbyshermanfanclub.net/index.html

Pretty darn groovy, man!

Sandi

[kathi]

Sorry Ladies...I've never heard of him and he doesn't look familiar. I was born in 1966, so I must have just missed the Bobby Sherman craze. I remember all the girls going gaga over Sean Cassidy and Lief Garrett. I personally was in love with Mark Hammel (because I was doomed to be a geeky SiFi fan from an early age!

kathi

[AliciaG]

Guilty pleasures of my youth were Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch, The GH Luke and Laura saga, Days Bo and Hope and more Bo and Hope.

Currently it is almost any reality TV, and I really get a big laugh out of silly comedies like Saving Silverman and Deuce Bigolo

[Moley]

Fun Fun!!

I do have a sad habit of watching every dog show that comes on TV. Worse yet, I have several of my friends addicted. If you didn't know better you would think we were watching the Super Bowl. We eat crappy snack foods, drink far too much booze and shout at the TV ("NOT THE POODLE!!"). It's a good time

I think that possibly Lisa G and I were separated at birth as I also will watch ANYTHING with John Cusack, Keanu Reeves, or David Duchovny).

kathi

We never want the Poodles to win either. We are always yelling at them to get their ugly shaved butts out of the winner's circle. :shock:

And I love John Cusack, too. Two words: Say Anything. :)

[kathi]

"I gave her my heart...and she gave me....she gave me a pen"

I LOVE THAT MOVIE!!!!

I also am very emotionally attached to "Pretty in Pink". When I was young I was so happy she ended up with Blane. Now that I am an adult - I find I realate much more to Ducky.


As far as dog shows go...I'm usually voting for the silly dogs...especially the Peeks...they are so funny!!

-cranky

[MargaretJ]

Kathi yes you would have missed Bobby Sherman. I was not even a teenager when Here Comes The Brides came out but I had an older sister so that is how I started watching the show.

[Stinkerbelle]

1 word - Elimidate

But I am not all that picky, any cheesy dating show will do - Change of Heart, Blind Date, the Fifth Wheel etc. but Elimidate is by far my favorite. Oddly, I do not like Shipmates.

I also have a really bad Guiding Light addiction.

I also get really entranced by those Strongest Man Alive contests on ESPN where enormous guys do insane things like pull 18 wheelers with their teeth, toss logs into the air to see how high they can get them etc. Its like a train wreck... I can't look away.

The final squirt of the Cheez-whiz would be that I absolutely positively adore the song Kung Foo Fighting.

Now you know all of my secrets.

-ram

[AliciaG]

ram, this is just for you...

Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting!
Come on!
Huh! Woo-ha!
Those kicks were fast as lightning,
Hah! Woo-cha!
In fact, was a little bit frightening,
Huh! Huh-huh!
But they fought with expert timing.
Hah!

Where do you find all those dating shows? I think I've only heard of Blind Date. I watch the Bachelor, but thought the Bachelorette was better.

[Moley]

1 word - Elimidate

But I am not all that picky, any cheesy dating show will do .......

The final squirt of the Cheez-whiz would be that I absolutely positively adore the song Kung Foo Fighting.

Now you know all of my secrets.

-ram

:rofl: I am sooo glad to find one more person with cheesy tastes! :rofl:

[Stinkerbelle]

Alicia -

The cheesy dating shows are all syndicated shows so times and channels will vary from city to city. They do come on during the day here but I am usually not home or else sleeping then. I work evenings so when I get home from work between mid-night and 1:00 a.m. they are kicking into high gear with the dating shows as most of them are not really fit for prime time viewing. With my work schedule I never get to see "real" TV so I am an expert on odd late night shows and my beloved Guiding Light.

I forgot to mention another totally guilty pleasure show - Cheaters. Probably the cheesiest of all cheese but I ADORE it. It comes on at mid-night on Saturdays here (or it did, I haven't seen it in a while) and the obession with it among my group of single late twenties/early thirties friends got so bad that we would do the unthinkable - stay home on a Saturday night to watch it together over the phone. Luckily our social lives have picked up in the last year or so. :mrgreen:

-ram

[sandar]

ramson wrote:

The final squirt of the Cheez-whiz would be that I absolutely positively adore the song Kung Foo Fighting.


:rofl: I have had a lot of fun reading this thread and this quote was a double-snorter. Thanks, ramson!

Sandi

[fantayzya]

Easy (and embarassing) answer here. What I call 'Stupid People Shows' You know talk shows (Jenny, Ricki, Maury, all the dating shows, and Court shows) It never ceases to amaze me what laundry people will air just to get that 15 seconds of fame. Although, I am starting to get bored with the 'Who's your Daddy' theme. On the other hand, I'm pretty good at guessing which ones are guys and which are gals on the 'Which Gender is He/She' shows. I also love it when Da Judge gets riled up and actually says what I'd love to say to the idiots standing in front of him/her.

I work an off schedule so prime time is lost on me, but thanks to the wonderful invention of DVDs I am completely hooked on "24". I want this season over so the DVDs can come out and I can go on a binge again.

As for the Bobby Sherman thing, I was born in 62 and I thought he was a doll baby too. But I have always had a thing for older men. :wink:

Other than that, the Monkees, Gilligan ('The tiki torches MUST remain lit') Yeah I watched the Bradys and the Partridges and (dare I admit it?) Love Boat and Fantasy Island too. (Sigh) those were the days!

In movies, it's the horror suspense jobs for me. I'm not talking about the slash and spatter ones, I mean the ones that mess with your mind. And oldies too. (Psycho and such) We do lots of old movies around here, all different subject matter.

[Rosebud]

Fantaszya,
I've come to the conclusion that some of those people just are pretending to air their dirty laundry to get a free trip. What an easy way for a free trip - my sister is really my half-brother, and her/his father is my uncle that turned out to be my son - you know something like that.

[Francine]

Oh, how oculd I forget Dark Shadows! The vampire Barnabus Collins, and his true love Victoria. The bad witch, Angelique, she had it out for Victoria. I believe she lured her to a cliff where Victoria fell to her death. Angelique is also the one who had Barnabus turned into a vampire. He was doomed to live forever missing his true love Victoria.

A few years back I had found it on the SciFi channel. It was a kick watching it after all these years.

Francine

[LimeGreenCheri]

Rosebud wrote:

I've come to the conclusion that some of those people just are pretending to air their dirty laundry to get a free trip

I've thought the same thing, but then again, HOW COULD SOMEBODY MAKE UP SOMETHING LIKE THAT? Those folks don't seem like the brightest crayons in the box. I'm not sure they are that creative! LOL

My past guilty pleasure was my Staying Alive album. I just to put on my brown leotard with the thin wrap around skirt and disco baby! I was only 8.

My guilty pleasure now would have to be Days of Our Lives. I've watched it since I was 3! I also enjoy all the reality shows. To me, they are the ultimate in being nosey!

[roodad]

Gee, I think of watching dog shows as my noble pleasure. Sure, I dis the poodles and root for the dogs I have never actually seen in the flesh, and usually rename them - Komondor becomes Rastamutt. GO RASTAMUTT!!!
And I have always kind of wanted to see a bull mastiff run off with a mexican crested dangling from its jaws. Hmmmm, maybe it is a guilty pleasure.

[kathi]

Roodad - that's AWFUL!!! (but funny)

Did you watch Crufts over the weekend? We didn't get to see the whole thing, but I thought that the dogs were not as well behaved as I would have expected. At Westminster and the Eukanuba the dogs are MUCH MUCH better behaved. I guess they have different standards in Europe.

We always root for the Commondor and the Puli - love those dreads!!

kathi

[roodad]

Missed Crufts - I was in Las Vegas last week for a conference and stayed over the weekend. I really enjoyed the Eukabana series. We sat there going - "oohhh, that's what our next dog should be!" or "eeeeeeuuuuuuwww!" or occasionally one of us would say oooohhhh and the other would say eeeuuuuwww -(mexican crested - they almost creep me out as badly as poodles - I suspect my beloved is just torturing me on this one).

[BetsyAnn]

Confessions from a TV Addict!

My generation was raised with TV from a young age -

So, my first crush was on Dr. McCoy from Star Trek! :oops:

Music was the Monkees and then Partridge Family - their first album was my first album and I think my mom threatened to break it if it was played one more time -- and then when I was older - it was Barry Manilow- every album- every song memorized!

I love the Dick Van Dyke show in re-runs! "Oh Rob"

Later it was Hill Street Blues -- you name any male character on that show and he was work watching - BetsyAnn fans herself and last but never least - Captain Picard and crew also heated up the screen!

[sandar]

BetsyAnn,

I adored "Hill Street." And I must say, the male actors were a nice bonus! Sometimes I'm lucky enough to catch a repeat these days on Bravo.

Also dug Captain Picard from moment one. Whoa, baby, what a great voice! Patrick Stewart really has a wonderful presence in that role. I think WillCAD mentioned "First Contact" in another thread and that's a favorite of mine, too. I particularly enjoyed the scene in which Alfre Woodard's character confronts him about letting his emotional response to the Borg to overshadow the best interests of the crew.

Out of respect and love for you, I'm not going anywhere near your Barry Manilow obsession. :shock: :lol:

Thanks for the fun, Betsy!

Sandi

[Jasonsmom]

I love most reality shows. Currently I'm watching Mr. Personality and The Bachelor. I wish The Mole and Amazing Race would come back. I also watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 7th Heaven and all the Law & Orders. When I was in high school I loved ABBA. In 5th grade my favorite singer was Barry Manilow :oops: My favorite shows growing up were Little House on the Prairie and Facts of Life.

Paula

[MargaretJ]

Paula I may have the date wrong but I think Amazing Race starts the 27th of May.