Atrocities on TV that you had to dealt with during your travels and stay with family this Xmas

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1) Some godawfully disturbing God movie starring Jason Priestley and Luke Perry. Jason is this evil coups/cult guy with striking sideburns and goatee who shoots down prisoners for finding solace in Jesus, and Luke Perry is this prisoner who's trying to turn Jason the other way.

2) Most of MTV. I think the millenial stereotype for MTV videos is the "Look! We're digital video... we'll stop, rewind, and ffwd every frame in every video to show off how cool digital video is!". That said, I enjoy the Justin Timberlake "Cry Me A River" and Aguilera "Beautiful" videos, for some reason.

3) The Chrisopher Lowell show on Discovery. OH DEAR GOD DEAR F'IN GOD WHY GOD WHY GOD WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY???!!!!

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 25 December 2002 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Tim Allen in The Santa Clause

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 25 December 2002 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Every aching line on the Lifetime network:

Mother: "Did you just teach yourself to throw up?"
Daughter: "Mom, it takes discipline to be thin."

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 25 December 2002 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dude, don't complain! you have mtv!!

my parents have about 20 channels, all of which seem to be news channels. it suXoRs. i've been watching a lot of cnn. ew ew ew ew ew

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 25 December 2002 23:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Sounds like all of your parents have cable, at least. I inexplicably sat through a glurgy local news feature on a man who lives under a bridge yet has "the true spirit of Christmas."

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 25 December 2002 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

donut bitch, that sounds like AWESOME tv!!! I watched CNBC and the Weather Channel. THRILLS.

― rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 25 December 2002 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

today there was...death on the nile! and last night there was...the mummy!

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 25 December 2002 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

oh the horror, I was forced to endure:

The Santa Clause

My Family ~(the worst sitcom evah!)

Ground Force (featuring a very scary Titchmarsh dressed as Santa)

and then The Derek and Clive thing I was looking forward to was unbelievably depressing.

And I'm not going to even start on Eastenders!!!

― chris (chris), Thursday, 26 December 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm currently in a hotel room in St. Petersburg, Florida, where the TV has like 7 channels, not including VH-1 or MTV--and two of which are devoted to the glories of the bonus-points plan of the hotel chain itself. Aieee.

― Douglas, Thursday, 26 December 2002 04:42 (twenty-three years ago)

mulan, where i did a gendered reading in my head, and anstsia where i noticed how close rasputin looked like the evil jew anti semtic trope.

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 26 December 2002 05:35 (twenty-three years ago)

touched by an angel - i sneered the whole way through and felt so evil

― Queen G (Queeng), Thursday, 26 December 2002 10:36 (twenty-three years ago)

We don't watch TV at all on Christmas day in our family. Never have. Never seen the Queen's speech, Xmas editions of 'Only Fools & Horses', 'Eastenders', 'Top Of The Pops' or the Bond film or ANYTHING. Ever! Television is FORBIDDEN.
Apparently Christmas is a time for family and board game playing. Or some shit like that. Sigh.

― DavidM (DavidM), Thursday, 26 December 2002 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)

ABC sitcoms shamelessly aping _Everybody Loves Raymond_ (though I was actually enjoying myself, to a point - dear God, did the Christmas Spirit infect me?!?!)

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 26 December 2002 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

None of it. I haven't watched Xmas TV in 3 years and I'm not gonna start now. Absolute fucking garbage.

Why is there not one channel that dares to be different at Xmas?

― baby got bahn (country matters), Thursday, 25 December 2008 14:50 (seventeen years ago)

you'd think they'd try to make it BETTER, since so many people are stuck watching it because they have nothing to say to their families.

― Maria, Thursday, 25 December 2008 14:52 (seventeen years ago)

it all becomes watered-down platitudinous self-congratulatory contrived hokum of the most desperate, grasping, mediocre kind, no sort of edge, no sort of risk, nothing with any sort of interest factor

fuck "convention" i wanna be thrilled

― baby got bahn (country matters), Thursday, 25 December 2008 14:55 (seventeen years ago)

srsly gonna break out the scrabble

― baby got bahn (country matters), Thursday, 25 December 2008 14:56 (seventeen years ago)

I just realised that I forgot to watch TOTP. Surprisingly not that bothered though.

― snoball, Thursday, 25 December 2008 15:09 (seventeen years ago)

we have watched a lot of C-SPAN because my parents have basic cable and there is nothing on it. it's extra boring when legislature not in session :-\

― ill c u n may Schwwwwwww (harbl), Thursday, 25 December 2008 15:09 (seventeen years ago)

we watch question time on C-Span and PBS if there's something particularly notable on and baseball in season and that's it, pretty much

― a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 December 2008 15:13 (seventeen years ago)

I'm looking forward to Wallace and Gromit!

― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 25 December 2008 15:43 (seventeen years ago)

I just saw Devil Wears Prada. but actually it was pretty neat

― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 25 December 2008 15:56 (seventeen years ago)

are there generally baseball games on during Christmas? are we talkin' ESPN Classic here, gabby?

this year my sister insisted on watching the live action Grinch movie. What a load of crap. Mostly we watch the food network and the news.

― ian, Thursday, 25 December 2008 15:57 (seventeen years ago)

i am referring to our tv-watching practices generally, not limited to the holiday season, as made evident by "baseball in season" and reference to question time (broadcast on sunday nights). i think YES and maybe SNY show the occasional game this time of year, but we don't generally go to the videotape.

― a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 December 2008 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

Why is there not one channel that dares to be different at Xmas?

Enjoy Ahmadinejad's Queen's Speech on c4 tonight!

― get that pion down you son (Frogman Henry), Thursday, 25 December 2008 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

already noted: come anticipate AHMADINEJAD at COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY with me

C4's grasp for cheap controversy is no less tiresome than anything else on telly today.

― baby got bahn (country matters), Thursday, 25 December 2008 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

4 channels and nothin' on

― a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 December 2008 16:18 (seventeen years ago)

I just saw Devil Wears Prada. but actually it was pretty neat

― sonderangerbot, donderdag 25 december 2008 15:56 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

Haha, saw this last night as well, and I have to admit it wasn't half bad.

Otherwise though, the tv remains off these days. I'm so fucking sick of all those same movies every goddamn year. Like LJ said upthread, why doesn't anyone have the balls to be different this time of year? Looking at the tv guide alone makes me cry, it's all so dreadful.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 25 December 2008 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

(xxpost) bet it'll be as non-controversial as the Queen's Speech...

― snoball, Thursday, 25 December 2008 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

Oh wait, some MPs have complained, even though it hasn't been broadcast yet.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7799652.stm

― snoball, Thursday, 25 December 2008 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

5 channels nebby

― conrad, Thursday, 25 December 2008 18:58 (seventeen years ago)

we got freeview so it's about 30-40

― baby got bahn (country matters), Thursday, 25 December 2008 19:00 (seventeen years ago)

I often fantasize about having my own channel. Then you'd see something.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 26 December 2008 03:38 (seventeen years ago)

In honor of Eartha Kitt, the episode of The Nat King Cole Show that she guested on.
The "Anyone Can Host" Christmas episode of Saturday Night Live, with Elvis Costello's American TV debut.
A Night at the Opera
More Eartha Kitt: some Batman episodes
Diner (set between Christmas Eve and New Year's)

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 26 December 2008 03:42 (seventeen years ago)

And if NBC's showing 30 Rock tonight, we go black for a half hour.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 26 December 2008 03:43 (seventeen years ago)

The Dick Van Dyke Show marathon

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 26 December 2008 03:45 (seventeen years ago)

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