^^I'm just kidding around. But the pick I am referring to, I am banking that it won't be picked and I just really wanted AD. If it gets picked, it does.
I wish I had gotten in on the Movie draft, I would have had fun picking my favourite movies. But oh well, picking my favourite TV shows will be fun too. A couple that I would have liked had already been taken before I was able to make my first pick...I'm sure with 22 of us drafting we're bound to have some similar tastes in TV.
I have never seen Arrested Development, and that's crazy because my wife loves Jason Bateman more than she loves me. Will be watching it sometime on DVD for sure.
Band of Brothers...embarrassed that I haven't watched this yet.
WKRP...genius. Phone Cops was my favorite episode I think.
Hate Friends. Hate it. I think there are half a dozen shows since it's finale that are better. I may be the only one. I also don't like a show I can't believe hasn't been picked yet given it's popularity here, so I may have strange tastes.
CSI...the Vegas show works. The other two are goofy but entertaining. Nice pick.
SNL....30 years. Billions of dollars in movies have been spawned from it. Some of my all time favortie comedic moments are from SNL. I would, some day, like to own all the seasons on DVD even though some of them are very bad.
Great stuff all!
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Hate Friends. Hate it. I think there are half a dozen shows since it's finale that are better. I may be the only one. I also don't like a show I can't believe hasn't been picked yet given it's popularity here, so I may have strange tastes.
I think I know what show youre talking about, and I was going to wait but now that Ive realized it's not a snake draft I think it might be gone before my next pick. But what I actually said was that there hasn't been a sitcom better (and by better i mean more well-recieved and popular) since Seinfeld, Friends, and one other sitcom will remain nameless as it hasn't been picked yet. The sitcom phase I think is over and we're now more into the dramas. Friends certainly isn't my favorite show, but I like to watch it when its on. I just thought it had to be picked. 10 years is a damn good run.
I don't mind Friends at all. It was a fun diversion at times. It's simply entertainment that you don't have to think about too much. It wasn't challenging but not all shows have to be.
Wow, the draft sure picked up steam today. I didn't think I'd be picking for another day or two. I was hoping Arrested Development would still be available, but since it's not, I'm going to fill one of the categories in which I don't think I could name 22 eligible shows...Hell, I'd be hard pressed to name 3 that I can even stand...
"5 Continents...10 Countries...And More than 59 Thousand Miles!"
With the 20th overall pick, in the Reality (Elimination) category, team Frozen TV Dinner selects The Amazing Race.
Hosted by New Zealand native, Phil Keoghan, The Amazing Race is currently airing its 13th race around the world between teams of 2 (and one time, horribly, teams of 4) players with some sort of pre-existing relationship.
So far, the Emmys have presented the award for "Outstanding Reality-Competition Program" six times. Each time, it has been won by the Amazing Race.
Unlike most other "Reality" shows, there are no judges and there is no voting for a winner. The rules are simple: follow the clues, perform the tasks, and if your team is the last to arrive at the end of a leg, pray it's a non-elimination leg, otherwise you will be eliminated from the race.
When all is said and done, one team will cross the Finish Line first and win $1 million.
There are teams you love and teams you hate...and there is Lena and Kristy from season 6 (who had the most heart-breaking elimination ever)...
Here's the intro from season 1:
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had to go with my personal favourite as I will likely do throughout this draft.
Me too, although M*A*S*H is prob on most TV lists as #1, it is one of my all-time favorite shows. I can't count how many times I've watched reruns. Having the first 4 seasons on DVD help too. I'm sure I will have shows that some people won't agree with, just favs of mine.
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With the 20th overall pick, in the Reality (Elimination) category, team Frozen TV Dinner selects The Amazing Race.
Great pick for the category, best reality show IMO.
Both awesome picks, getbak & Proto...I used to watch the Amazing Race religiously, but have lost interest since Boston Rob and Amber were a team (however many seasons ago that was!). And as for the Cosby Show...can't say enough good things about that show, definately one of my all time favourites.
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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In the comedy sitcom category The Couch Potatoes selects "Married With Children"
Peg and Al have been together, for better or worse, for more than two decades. How they survive their relationship is the basis for "Married...With Children." The sitcom represents a distinct departure from the saccharine-sweet television families viewers have known since the days of "Father Knows Best." With unflinching honesty, "Married... With Children" paints a painfully funny picture of a not-so-typical middle-class American family.
I thought about taking my "other" favorite fracking Sci Fi show but since I got it's cinematic counterpart in the Movie draft (Serenity), with my 2nd round selection team Jumped the Shark is pleased to select in the Fantasy Sci-Fi category:
Firefly
Firefly is an science fiction television series created by writer/director Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, under his Mutant Enemy Productions. Its naturalistic future setting, modeled after traditional Western movie motifs, presents an atypical backdrop for the science fiction narrative. Whedon served as executive producer, along with Tim Minear.
Firefly premiered in the United States and Canada on the FOX network on September 20, 2002. It was canceled after only eleven of the fourteen produced episodes were aired. Despite the series' relatively short life span, it received strong sales when it was released on DVD and has large fan support campaigns. It won an Emmy in 2003 for "Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series". The post-airing success of the show led Whedon and Universal Pictures to produce a film based on the series, titled Serenity after the fictional spaceship featured in the show.
The series is set in the year 2517, after humans have arrived at a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity. Whedon pitched the show as "nine people looking into the blackness of space and seeing nine different things".
The show explores the lives of people who fought on the losing side of a civil war and now make a living on the outskirts of the society, as well as the pioneer culture that exists on the fringes of their star system. In addition, it is a future where the only two surviving superpowers, the United States and China, fused to form the central federal government, called the Alliance, resulting in the fusion of the two cultures as well. According to Whedon's vision, "nothing will change in the future: technology will advance, but we will still have the same political, moral, and ethical problems as today."
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I thought about taking my "other" favorite fracking Sci Fi show but since I got it's cinematic counterpart in the Movie draft (Serenity), with my 2nd round selection team Jumped the Shark is pleased to select in the Fantasy Sci-Fi category:
Firefly
Great show. Another series that deserved a better fate than it received.
Team Where's the Remote? are pleased to keep the sci-fi theme going and choose the other fracking Sci-Fi show that Drunk was perhaps talking about. WTR are proud and delighted to be able to take in the 2nd round the one, the only,
Star Trek
I was going to take another sci-fi show in this spot but I really had to take this strong player at this position.
(who had the most heart-breaking elimination ever)...
