Ways to waste electricity

Posted on April 22, 2006 by Gene

When I do my periodic cruise through blogs, I’m often struck by how detached I seem to be from mainstream culture, and here’s one reason why: even though I have the TV on for long periods of time, I still don’t ever watch what everyone else is watching. I took a few moments this morning to compile a list of shows that people are currently talking about around the water cooler — shows which I have never seen nor had any desire to see.

  • American Idol

  • Alias

  • Law and Order (any variety)

  • CSI (any variety)

  • Any sitcom with some fat guy married to a thin gorgeous woman

  • Fox News

  • Family Guy

  • American Dad

  • Arrested Development

  • Scrubs

  • Anything on The WB

  • Any beauty pageant

  • Anything with "Celebrity" in the name or "America’s Somethingest"

  • Any reality show that features celebrities, especially has-beens cooped up together in a mobile home

  • The Simple Life

  • Everybody Loves Raymond or Everybody Hates Chris

  • Survivor or any of its reality progeny

  • That 70s Show

  • South Park (other than the movie)

  • The Apprentice

  • Desperate Housewives

  • Crossing Jordan, Cold Case, The Unit, The Shield, JAG, NCIS, blah blah blah

  • 24

  • The Office

  • The Sopranos

  • Sex and the City

  • Nip/Tuck

  • Six Feet Under

  • The L Word

  • Chappelle’s Show

  • The Amazing Race

  • The OC, Gilmore Girls, 7th Heaven, Charmed, Dawson’s Creek, Smallville, and the rest of their hangers on

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Xena, Hercules, etc.

  • House

  • Boston Legal

  • Fear Factor

  • Top Chef, Iron Chef, Project Runway, etc.

  • Grey’s Anatomy

Man… it goes to show how annoying it must be to watch TV with me. Probably 75% of the experience is just shuffling through the guide desperately looking for something, anything that I might want to watch.

Category: General Annoyances