Here is something to vent your frustrations out on...very simple..name 10 things that make your skin crawl in all realms of entertainment. Remember the UMA rules and regs...I'll start.
10. Twilight
9. Harry Potter
8. Jon and Kate...its everywhere, I have no idea what it is, but how 2 people can be that interesting is beyond me.
7. Octo-Mom...not 100% sure on that one either, but I hear it enough to be annoyed.
6. Reality TV
5. Anything on MTV...remember when they actually played music videos?
4. Scy-Fy channel....its "SCI-FI" and it now its just ridiculous.
3. 100 good college ball games on ESPN and they're showing me Poker.
2. SAW.....c'mon man, quite while youre ahead!
1. End of the world scenario movies.....ZZZzzzzz
End of rant...your turn!
1. Jon & Kate
2. The View
3. Sarah Palin's almost son-in-law is now a celebrity? WTF is a celebrity anymore?
4. 'Celebrity' and 'Reverend' have to be the 2 most watered down titles, EVER
5. Brittany Spears
6. Anything having to do with the Kardashians--unless it's a wolverine mauling caught on film of the
entire family--who the heck CARES if they're pregnant & loving it? Are most of those girls even
ATTRACTIVE?
7. America Has Talent... can't ANYBODY just keep to themselves a little bit anymore? Not
everybody was meant to perform
8. Toddler Beauty Pagents...it's now a reality show for crying out loud
9. News about Tom Cruise
10. Sean Penn
The BEST thing about Entertainment? That show about Hoarders. Holy Moley. How do you have rancid 3-month old chinese food smeared all over your linoleum floor, buried under rat droppings and wet newspapers-----IN YOUR KITCHEN------and deny it's a health issue? Don't know when or where it's on----but I love that show. :o
Dancing with the stars
NCIS and spin offs
CSI and spinoffs
Most of the crap on Sy FY
Survivor
AMerican Idol
mindless sitcoms like 2 1/2 Men and Everybody loves Raymond.
Oprah, Dr Phil, DR Oz and every other self help self appointed guru----get a life!
any show that has to be politically correct or "keep" up with the times.
I agree ....where are the entertainers.
Any " reality" family show where the women have to dress like "Little House", the mothers are always pregnant, and the men get to dress like normal human beings....EEEEEEEK!!!!!!! , Hssssss!!!! and an exquisitely modulated bit of Anglo-Saxon...CR*P!
(you must please excuse me, but I'm just a wee bit brassed off...) >:(
Elisabeth
1. The whole concept of celebrity. So they made out with some other movie star. Now they're everywhere
2. Horror films. Now I know some of the old ones had blood, but this is just..... pointless. Why is there a man in a hockey mask ripping people's heads off?
3. The unappreciation. I said to my friend 'you sound a bit like Frank Sinatra' and they're like 'Frank who?' Oh no, only the greatest male singer like ever! (even though I'm not a big fan). Then it's like 'Who's Boris Karloff?' or 'Peter Lowre? (instead of Lorre)'. Then I threw them all off a building. Though of course I spend my days screaming about all the old legends, and I force my friends to watch Vincent Price films every time they come round to my house, so it's getting a bit better.
4. Remakes. HOW COULD YOU DO THIS???? They remake perfectly good films too. It just makes people think the original will be bad too.
5. Reality TV. It's like, here's our lives! Why do you care? I watched half an episode of Denise Richard's show and it was about buying a pig.
6. Size zero and Botox. If you aren't happy with the way you look, then just wear more foundation. Don't inject poison into your skin and starve yourself to death. I hate obesity but I don't fancy looking like the skeleton from House on Haunted Hill.
7. Celebrity endorsements. Come on, we know you wouldn't go near that product if they weren't paying you 5 million
8. Soaps, the terrible over-dramatic portrayal of people's 'lives'.
9. OK! and Hello and magazines that obsess over the Royal Family. The celebrities who publish their weddings in them are even worse
10. Weird celebrity diets and cults. Why would you get up at 4 in the morning and live on yoghurt? Why do you believe in aliens? Yes, I truly dislike Scientology (no offense) simply because they are literally trying to 'buy their stairway to heaven'.
Hope I didn't offend anyone
1 Oprah
2 Dr. Phil
3 Rachel Ray
4 reality TV
5 Lack of anything worth watching, with 200 channels to choose from
6 speeding up/editing classic TV shows
7 too many commercials
8 most sports
9 That little choral 'meeeeennnnnnn' musical cue thing between scenes on '2-1/2 MEN'
10 Oprah
Hey Bob -- Oprah's quitting her talk show -- so maybe that'll bring some sunshine to your life.
Here's my list.
1: the Tweener/Disney musical acts -- Jonas/Miley/etc. Bleech.
2: Those ridiculously overblown "Celtic Women" concerts they seem to be constantly showing on PBS. Give me some real Irish music, and I'm cool with that -- but this pretentious claptrap for dowdy grandmas makes my skin crawl.
3: The pop junk that passes for Country music these days. Johnny, Hank, Lefty and Patsy are spinnin' in their graves. If it wasn't for Dale Watson and a handful of others there'd be no real Country music left.
4: The vast majority of "reality TV" shows.
5: Nascar. OK, you're driving fast around a track. So? I don't get the attraction.
6: I'm with Bob on the editing of classic TV shows. Show the whole episode!
7: Animated network logos/promos inserted into the picture DURING the show -- annoying as hell!
8: FOX News
9: Celebrity hype/gossip -- I barely care about the movies/TV/music these people make -- I don't give a damn about their private lives!
10: A cable TV industry that doesn't allow you to pick and choose JUST the channels you want....
1. Paris Hilton
2. Any and all of those dancing with the stars or you think you can dance shows. I wish they'd all dance in front of a moving Semi.
3. That soul crushing ''wedding dance'' video that is all over You Tube. If i wanted to see awkward white people embarrass themselves in public, i'd invite my relatives over.
4. ALL of those Optimum Online commercials...maybe they're a tri state area thing.
5. Glen Beck..the most punchable face on TV.
6. Rush Limbaugh..the original Pumpkinhead.
7.Wendy Williams..don't get me started.
8. The Ghost Whisperer... My kid's Kindergarten Thanksgiving play had better acting.
9. The Disney channel
10.The Disney channel
Wow, great lists.
I guess this would fall in "the unappreciation", but awhile back I happened to catch MTV's (yecch) coverage of the Mission Impossible movie premier. Martin Landau was present, & the little MTV girl covering the event asked him what brought him there. She had no idea that MI was a TV series, let alone ML's involvement. As ML walked away, the teenie bopper rolls her eyes as if Martin Landau was the stupid one.
Thanks for suggesting this topic!
It has reminded me why The Dread Mrs Fester (cue scary organ music) and I have remained cable free for more than 20 years. We get enough dreck on the broadcast channels we get. Even without a hundred channels, there are still plenty of things that annoy the bejeebers out of me.
Here starteth the grumpy rant:
1. Opinion shows disguised as "news." Fair and Balanced or not!
2. Crime shows with mood lighting in the labs.
3. Crime shows begetting more crime shows. CSI: SVU, CSI:SUV, CSI:BFD!
4. The whole genre of sitcoms in the last few years. (The last one I truly enjoyed was Newhart)
5. Movie remakes/reboots/rehashes that rely on CGI eye candy instead of story (I'm looking at you Star Trek do-over)
6. Movies based on video games and comic books (err, Graphic Novels)
7. Tween pop stars.
8. America's Got Talent/American Idol shows.
9. Pseudoscience touted as real. Especially Y2K and 2012!
10. Roland Emmerich.
Here endeth the grumpy rant.
1. American Idol( horrible show)
2. Girls next Door
3. Jerry Springer
4. All court t.v. shows
5. Tyra Banks
6. When good t.v. shows get cancelled
7. Reality T.V.
8. The whole "Twilight" the phenomenon(what's up with that? >:()
9. OPRAH( PLEASE.........no more!!!!)
10. Award Shows
TODDLERS IN TIARAS!
ALL children are beautiful!!!
Elisabeth
>:(
1. Glen Beck
2. Glen Beck
3. Glen Beck
4. Glen Beck
5. Glen Beck
6. The Kit Kat candy bar commercial where idiots are eating candy bars to some kind of Rap beat.
7.Glen Beck
8.The Lexus commercial where cute owners pose outside their mini mansion doing cute things near their new Xmas Lexus
9. Glen Beck
10.Karl Rove commenting on anything accompanied by a pic of his pinkish pig head.
Quote from: Elisabeth on December 11, 2009, 04:12:03 PM
TODDLERS IN TIARAS!
ALL children are beautiful!!!
Elisabeth
>:(
I'll 2nd the motion. This is just plain disturbing. It's one thing to put your kid in a talent show or kids that play make believe dressup. It's another to turn them into your own live barbie doll and make them think this crap is everything. Most of these "mothers" need professional help and eventually some of the kids will too. Not to mention that a lot of the pedophiles must be havin a field day with this.
Add in My Sweet 16. Spoiled obnoxious clueless brats get big $ party by clueless useless parents. Get a life. u6juu
Quote from: Elisabeth on December 11, 2009, 04:12:03 PM
TODDLERS IN TIARAS!
ALL children are beautiful!!!
Elisabeth
>:(
The guy on The Soup called this show "Prosti-tots"! ;D
Quote from: Elisabeth on December 11, 2009, 04:12:03 PM
TODDLERS IN TIARAS!
ALL children are beautiful!!!
Elisabeth
>:(
I have to add my 2 cents worth. How & why this would appeal to anyone is beyond my comprehension.
Quote from: Wicked Lester on December 12, 2009, 11:20:23 AM
Add in My Sweet 16. Spoiled obnoxious clueless brats get big $ party by clueless useless parents. Get a life. u6juu
When my sister turned 16, a 'Sweet 16' party was her girlfriends over to the backyard pool for pizza and soda.... why did it ever get away from that? My cousin is turning 16 now. She has to have a 'Sweet 16' party. HAS TO. She's a good kid. She's not spoiled. Her parents told her they cannot afford an extravaganza like that. She asked them if she could take money OUT OF HER SAVINGS---they deliberated about it and ultimately said yes. It's time for a life lesson, I guess. It's her money----and it's going to cost her thousands, I guess.
They live in a VERY blue collar neighborhood in a blue collar town. The high schools are NOT snooty. I just don't understand where the pressure is coming from---it's not like ANY of those kids comes from the means to burn thousands of dollars like that on a kiddie party. Who the h*ll starts a tradition like this in a public high school in a blue collar NJ town? How many people actually can afford to CONTINUE the tradition?
There are j*ck*ss TV shows---garbage---that highlight kids living luxuriously and dopey kids WANT that lifestyle and parents can't tell them 'no'. My aunt and uncle DID tell my young cousin 'no'-----but she's so desperate for this event, that she's going to liquidate her life savings to have it.
Does anyone remember how overrated their PROM was? My prom (24 years ago) was ON my 18th birthday. I was with the best looking girl there----and she didn't even go to our school . And the night just isn't THAT memorable. It is amazing how TITANIC marginal life events are to a teenager WHEN THEY OCCUR. There's NO convincing them that this is NOT a big deal in life----so don't fret over it. I WISH I knew then what I know now. I would have been SO much more relaxed... so much cooler. She'll blow this money over nothing and 15 years from now, she'll cry over what she could have done with that money.
Quote from: Sean on December 13, 2009, 01:12:46 AM
My cousin is turning 16 now. She has to have a 'Sweet 16' party. HAS TO. She's a good kid. She's not spoiled. Her parents told her they cannot afford an extravaganza like that. She asked them if she could take money OUT OF HER SAVINGS---they deliberated about it and ultimately said yes. It's time for a life lesson, I guess. It's her money----and it's going to cost her thousands, I guess.
She'll blow this money over nothing and 15 years from now, she'll cry over what she could have done with that money.
I'm willing to bet that if she actually goes thru with it that she'll be crying over it within a couple days. That could have been car $ , College $ , First apartment $ etc. Now she'll be back to square one,for what? To be the center of attention and awe for a day or two. Good luck with that.
Quote from: Sean on December 13, 2009, 01:12:46 AM
She'll blow this money over nothing and 15 years from now, she'll cry over what she could have done with that money.
Er... hasn't someone told her this? And can't you block people from accessing their savings until they're 18? Someone should drug her out for the week of her birthday and then it'll be too late.
Quote from: Wicked Lester on December 13, 2009, 09:02:38 AM
I'm willing to bet that if she actually goes thru with it that she'll be crying over it within a couple days. That could have been car $ , College $ , First apartment $ etc. Now she'll be back to square one,for what? To be the center of attention and awe for a day or two. Good luck with that.
Wicked... I just don't get it at all. AT ALL. To ME, it's a good time to start teaching a kid that there are more important things than the shallow & showy ones. I'd take her to a Children's Hospital----make of day of it, go into the city, see a show or have lunch and walk around Times Square..... then visit kids at the Children's Hospital and bring somebody something for X-Mas. Get a little free perspective. JMO.
You said it, Sean.... I was a "middle class" girl who went to an "upper class" private school. I remember hearing things about "The Hamptons," "Cotillions", and "Finishing Schools", and being totally confused. What young, impressionable girl doesn't dream of looking like Cinderella.... and looking at the "Princes Charming", lined up against the wall in White Tie and Tails?
Fortunately, I had a mother who read Betty Friedan. She told me about how the money for ball gowns and tiaras could be used to feed and clothe people...and that REAL "Society" was inclusive not exclusive.
MY class was the first one in the history of our school to not have "The Prom" at the local Country Club because it was segregated. We had a "blow out" in the school gym, with soda, pizza and someone's brother's rock band.
A VERY GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL. That was the last Prom my school ever had...(1971), and I'm proud to have been a part of it!
Elisabeth
Quote from: Elisabeth on December 13, 2009, 03:00:21 PM
You said it, Sean.... I was a "middle class" girl who went to an "upper class" private school. I remember hearing things about "The Hamptons," "Cotillions", and "Finishing Schools", and being totally confused. What young, impressionable girl doesn't dream of looking like Cinderella.... and looking at the "Princes Charming", lined up against the wall in White Tie and Tails?
Fortunately, I had a mother who read Betty Friedan. She told me about how the money for ball gowns and tiaras could be used to feed and clothe people...and that REAL "Society" was inclusive not exclusive.
MY class was the first one in the history of our school to not have "The Prom" at the local Country Club because it was segregated. We had a "blow out" in the school gym, with soda, pizza and someone's brother's rock band.
A VERY GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL. That was the last Prom my school ever had...(1971), and I'm proud to have been a part of it!
Elisabeth
Excellent, Elisabeth.
I dodged a bullet when my daughter was nearing her 16th B-day. [she's now 22] She had been talking about having one of these nightmare parties where you spend until you bleed for basically nothing, but luckily it turned out Paul McCartney was playing Madison Square Garden ON THE DAY of her 16th birthday. I told her her she now had a choice; we could do the party OR i'd take her, her loser boyfriend [thank GOD he's gone!] and her mom to see Paul...lucky for me she's a music lover! I had to buy the tix from a scalper [great seats, too!], but still paid WAY less than that self indulgent stupid party would have been been and now she can tell her grand kids she saw a Beatle perform live...
Quote from: Gasport on December 14, 2009, 01:19:36 AM
I dodged a bullet when my daughter was nearing her 16th B-day. [she's now 22] She had been talking about having one of these nightmare parties where you spend until you bleed for basically nothing, but luckily it turned out Paul McCartney was playing Madison Square Garden ON THE DAY of her 16th birthday. I told her her she now had a choice; we could do the party OR i'd take her, her loser boyfriend [thank GOD he's gone!] and her mom to see Paul...lucky for me she's a music lover! I had to buy the tix from a scalper [great seats, too!], but still paid WAY less than that self indulgent stupid party would have been been and now she can tell her grand kids she saw a Beatle perform live...
Yup... that's another solution.
my top ten dislikes are.....
10.The Little People
9.Toddlers and Tiaras
8.Hannah Montana
7.GHI
6.The Modern Family
5.CSI:Miami
4.Saving Grace
3.Soap Operas
2.Dancing with the stars
1.High School Reunion
1. TODDLERS IN TIARAS
2. LITLE MISS PERFECT
3. JON & KATE PLUS EIGHT
4. THE LITTLE CHOCOLATEERS
5. THOSE D**N*D DUGGARS
6. THE JERSEY SHORE ( I spent 20 joy filled summers there, and that show is an insult)
7. BRIDEZILLAS
8. WHAT NOT TO WEAR
9. LAWRENCE WELK
10. MONSTERS INSIDE ME (I like monsters, but pulling parasites out of people's heads is a bit MUCH!)
Elisabeth ededed
Any show that has "forensics" involved and medical dramas
Definitely, but in no particular order:
Jon and Kate
Duggars
Anything doomsday or Nostradamas
Filling in plot lines with sex instead of good old funny dialogue
soap operas
reality shows
Old movies of the French Revolution or Victorian times complete with stupid accents
babies being born with every last grunt and push
toddlers in tiaras - WHY? Do girls have to be noticed just because they are pretty?
Long and loud commercials
Oooh, ChattyLms, I forgot "reality" shows. I really can't take anymore of those! I used to enjoy contests and shows that rewarded some type of winner, but now they need to go away.
10. twilight 9. Twilight! 8. TWilight!! 7.TWIlight 6. TWILight!!! 5. TWILIght!!!! 4. TWILIGht!!!!! 3. TWILIGHt!!!!!! 2. TWILIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!! 1.TWILIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1. Real Housewives who are neither real, nor housewives.
2. The Jersey Shore---the show, not the real thing
3. Everybody sees ghosts everywhere now. Really? And they're all on TV.
4. Political entertainment selling itself as news.... the adage 'consider the source' has never been
more sage advice.
5. TV showa that stared out interesting, like 'Deadliest Catch' that have fallen into the same trap as
the other 'reality' shows-----instead of staying true to their naturally wide audience demographic
by being just rolling cameras, they have to prop up false drama with crafted editing that makes it
look like something else is going on---------JUST FILM THE CRAB FISHERMAN FISHING!
EVERYTHING IS TABLOIDY AND FAKE!! So I shut it all off.
There are very few shows that interest me. But, i do enjoy Pawn Stars, American Pickers, Antiques Roadshow, Man vs Food, and watching the Cincinnati Reds!!! I used to watch the Simpsons but the last few times I tried it was just too lame to continue.
Having said that, I only watch these shows if I come across them while channel surfing for them. I don't find out when they are on and make an attempt to watch them. I'm usually painting or reading, when not working.
Mike
I generally watch only PBS, TCM & a local community college channel that shows tons of public domain stuff, including lots of monsters & sci-fi. Oh yeah, sometimes Family Guy, Seinfeld reruns, & America's Dumbest on TruTV has become a guilty pleasure. Other than that, I'm pleasantly out of the loop. I'll be dead before I watch ANY cable news channel.