View Full Version : Little rated TV shows
Readman
08-07-09, 02:08 PM
The Larry Sanders Show
Go!
jerkoff
08-07-09, 02:11 PM
two and a half men
eintein
08-07-09, 02:11 PM
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
AndrewFoersChumpington
08-07-09, 02:19 PM
Ugly Betty
Arrested Development was never really rated by the Public or Fox. It's the greatest example.
Also Keeping Up Appearances
Quatterarbro
08-07-09, 02:31 PM
Arrested Development was never really rated by the Public or Fox. It's the greatest example.
Also Keeping Up Appearances
Repeat for awesome.
Also That 70's Show. Yes, the jokes are obvious but it's still funny and Mila Kunis.
A.F.Ceatz
08-07-09, 03:33 PM
Reboot
Vindik8or
08-07-09, 03:40 PM
Is this actually little rated TV shows, or are these shows that you like and you'd like to think that you're the only one in the world that doesn't like them? Because I'm scoping a few well-rated TV shows in this thread.
It's actually little rated TV shows.
Vindik8or
08-07-09, 03:53 PM
And so what's the deal with Ugly Better, Keeping Up Apearances, and That 70s Show being here?
Quatterarbro
08-07-09, 04:18 PM
And so what's the deal with Ugly Better, Keeping Up Apearances, and That 70s Show being here?
Ugly Betty shouldn't be. It's too popular/well known.
Keeping Up Appearances I agree with. Not many people know about it,
70's show most people don't watch/care for it.
jerkoff
08-07-09, 05:20 PM
dude that 70s show is one of the most popular shows of the last decade
El Tigre
08-07-09, 07:32 PM
dude that 70s show is one of the most popular shows of the last decade
Quatters is just saying it's not popular because me and my other bro don't like it. That's what Quatters gets for being from Generation X, he likes stupid shit.
Grimace
08-07-09, 08:18 PM
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
This.
Also - Son of the Beach :p
Quatterarbro
08-07-09, 08:32 PM
Quatters is just saying it's not popular because me and my other bro don't like it. That's what Quatters gets for being from Generation X, he likes stupid shit.
I'm Gen Y EASILY you fucking idiot.
1980 is the cut off, considering I'm not even born in that year go fuck yourself/
El Tigre
08-07-09, 09:02 PM
I will fuck myself!
And so what's the deal with Ugly Better, Keeping Up Apearances, and That 70s Show being here?
For being well known TV shows.
Yes, no and yes.
Tremendous Boob
09-07-09, 11:54 AM
1980 is the cut off, considering I'm not even born in that year go fuck yourself/
Not according to TAYG it isn't.
Little Miss Chisi
09-07-09, 12:12 PM
Freaks & Geeks
^ This and i say Roswell
Readman
09-07-09, 02:17 PM
What is Always Sunny in Philadelphia about?
Araenel
09-07-09, 02:38 PM
Not according to TAYG it isn't.
TAYG? I'd say it would be, Gen X generally refers to people who were at least teenagers during the 80s, at most very early 90s. Even being born in 1980 would put you past 1995 to be in the stereotypical age of a "Gen X" person and that's too late.
Tremendous Boob
09-07-09, 02:42 PM
I think they said, in the first episode of Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation, that Gen Y was defined as being born in 1990 onwards. But maybe I shouldn't get my facts from game shows.
Araenel
09-07-09, 03:11 PM
The font of knowledge wikipedia sez
It wasn’t until Canadian author Douglas Coupland’s 1991 novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, about young adults of the late 1980s (at that time aged their late twenties) that the term more accurately described the cohort that would eventually be labeled Generation X. While Coupland's book helped to popularize the phrase “Generation X,” in a 1989 magazine article
Which seems right, the Gen X stereotype refers to that age bracket, 17-25 (to be generous), by the time people born 1980 or later would be too young to be considered Gen X around the time it was conceived, hell it was 2000 by the time people born in 1980 were 20 and there's no way that's still in the time frame of "Generation X".
Going by that definition (TAYG), I would be part of Generation X, but we were well into the dotcom boom by the time I was going through high school, so that definitely puts me out.
twofivefour
09-07-09, 03:30 PM
I think they said, in the first episode of Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation, that Gen Y was defined as being born in 1990 onwards. But maybe I shouldn't get my facts from game shows.Gen Y is 1980 - 1994
That's right, anyone who doesn't turn 15 this year is in an undefined generation, and 2009 will probably be another generational line in the sand.
Personally, I can't mentally associate myself with Gen Y. I'm very much a Gen X person who was born a little late - and there seems to be a definite overlap between Gen X and Gen Y for the early 80s.
Gen Y is 1980 - 1994
That's right, anyone who doesn't turn 15 this year is in an undefined generation, and 2009 will probably be another generational line in the sand.
Personally, I can't mentally associate myself with Gen Y. I'm very much a Gen X person who was born a little late - and there seems to be a definite overlap between Gen X and Gen Y for the early 80s.
The next-gen is Gen I, standing for Internet.
Lame.
Araenel
09-07-09, 09:41 PM
Gen Y is 1980 - 1994
That's right, anyone who doesn't turn 15 this year is in an undefined generation, and 2009 will probably be another generational line in the sand.
Personally, I can't mentally associate myself with Gen Y. I'm very much a Gen X person who was born a little late - and there seems to be a definite overlap between Gen X and Gen Y for the early 80s.
I remember having my photo taken by the West Australian as their token pic of a teenager using a laptop to justify the article, back in 2001 I think. They wanted to call us Generation dotcom instead of Y, I guess it didn't catch on >_>
eintein
09-07-09, 09:41 PM
What is Always Sunny in Philadelphia about?
I'd be lying if I said I could name some consistent plot or "goings on" in the show. Safe to say that it's just random things happening that are absolutely hilarious.
Vindik8or
09-07-09, 10:01 PM
Gen Y is 1980 - 1994
That's right, anyone who doesn't turn 15 this year is in an undefined generation, and 2009 will probably be another generational line in the sand.
Personally, I can't mentally associate myself with Gen Y. I'm very much a Gen X person who was born a little late - and there seems to be a definite overlap between Gen X and Gen Y for the early 80s.
You do know that a generation is roughly 25 years, right? RIGHT?
twofivefour
10-07-09, 09:11 AM
They get so arbitrary about where the lines are drawn, I've given up on basing it around actual facts and just took a wild stab. It seems like the proper thing to do.
Generation I is better than Generation 9/11, which is what they were touting a few years ago.
Vindik8or
10-07-09, 10:14 AM
The only generation that counts is the Baby Boomers, and only because they've had a measurable effect upon the world by being a generation (post-war population boom). Plus, fuck them.
twofivefour
10-07-09, 10:28 AM
Anyway, this is the Little-rated TV Shows thread.
Miracles. Skeet Ulrich and Angus MacFayden star in Supernatural with more religious overtones.
Now And Again. John Goodman's Brain + Eric Close's Body + Nanobots.
Nowhere Man. Dude takes photo of military evils, has entire life erased. Weird metatextual happenings ensue.
eintein
10-07-09, 10:35 AM
Oh, I remember Now And Again. My whole family used to sit down and watch it, it was great. :)
mittens
10-07-09, 11:45 AM
Now and Again was awesome. Shame it had such a tiny run.
Little Miss Chisi
11-07-09, 12:55 AM
I liked Once and Again. I kinda remember Now and Again.
Duck Dodgers
11-07-09, 01:51 AM
Now and Again was awesome. That's one of those shows I enjoyed and had completely forgotten about.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.
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Ridiculous.
eintein
11-07-09, 01:57 AM
I've watched that bike chase about a hundred times now and it's still funny.
The funeral scene, though, is the greatest scene in any TV show ever.
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I guess you needed to be there >_>
Duck Dodgers
11-07-09, 02:11 AM
There's a scene in Hell Hath Fury where Thornton Reed is on the phone. He hangs the phone up then, realising he didn't say goodbye, picks the phone back up, says goodbye (in his 'poorly acted' style) and hangs it up again. That makes me laugh everytime. I couldn't find it on Youtube.
Also, the last ep where Sanchez falls in love with the broccoli lady. Something similar to following transpires
Lady - Make love to me.
Sanchez - We don't even know each others names
Lady - Linda
Sanchez - DR SANCHEZ
I guess you needed to be there >_>
It definitely helps to have seen the show.
eintein
11-07-09, 02:21 AM
I want you in my office...five minutes ago.
So you best hurry up already.
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Cool it Sanchez or you'll get a knuckle supper
*cup changes to shovel*
I guess you needed to be there >_>
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If I was to make a judgment that single scene taken from a show I've never seen, I'd have to say it wasn't very funny :/
Like I alluded to, you'd probably have to watch the show to "get it".
The only bit that made me chuckle was the broken continuity of the black dude randomly firing a shotgun.
But I have no idea who these characters are, and the context of the scene or the humour. Apart from the fact it appears to parody OTT 80s drama. Its no Roger Explosion.
Duck Dodgers
11-07-09, 02:32 AM
Haha! That's one of my favourite scenes!
My friends and I use 2 quotes from that scene a fair bit.
"I agree with that" - said in a Thornton Reed voice
"Tell me something, is this >insert location< called St Crock of Shit?"
Duck Dodgers
11-07-09, 02:35 AM
If I was to make a judgment that single scene taken from a show I've never seen, I'd have to say it wasn't very funny :/
Like I alluded to, you'd probably have to watch the show to "get it".
The only bit that made me chuckle was the broken continuity of the black dude randomly firing a shotgun.
But I have no idea who these characters are, and the context of the scene or the humour. Apart from the fact it appears to parody OTT 80s drama. Its no Roger Explosion.
It's hard to explain, so I'll just copypaste wikipedia and hope it does the job.
"Darkplace is presented as a lost classic: a series produced in the 1980s, yet never shown until now. Subsequently, it features 'present day' commentary from many of the "original" cast, where characters such as "Marenghi" and "Learner" reflect on making the show. Darkplace parodies numerous aspects of 80s low-budget television, including fashion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_in_fashion), special effects (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_effect) and music."
I'll add to that.
Marenghi believed (and still believes) that they were making cutting edge, shocking, powerful television. The show is meant to be masterwork of this amazing horror author.
Marenghi is a fictional horror author/actor who starred in his own show and play the character Rick Dagless. Dean Lerner is Marenghi's fictional publisher who plays the role of Thornton Reed in the show. Marenghi and Lerner appear through the series in interview style senarios, reflecting on making the show and how it was a landmark for tv. Lerner had a cat once.
Corner Gas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner_gas), is a Canadian comedy show a little bit similar to Scrubs in terms of humour. A few seasons have aired on SBS; the first being released on DVD. I don't hear anyone talking about this show.
Peep Show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peep_Show_%28TV_series%29) is another show that doesn't get much mention outside of the UK.
Sleeper Cell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeper_Cell_%28TV_miniseries%29) was a pretty decent drama based around a terrorist cell. Some people were saying it was better than 24, but I don't agree. It was still entertaining though.
Outrageous Fortune (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outrageous_Fortune_%28TV_series%29) is a NZ comedy/drama centering around a bogan family. At first you think "this is shit", but you soon come to love it. Well I have. Ten and Nine were airing it a few years ago and I think it's shown on Pay TV, but no-one I know seems to have heard of it/watch it much. I've imported all the series from NZ. It's pretty big there though so it may not be a worthy addition.
eintein
11-07-09, 02:44 PM
I've seen Corner Gas and Outrageous Fortune, Corner Gas is pretty damn hilarious but I never know when it's on TV so I always catch it by accident.
And I think there was an Outrageous Fortune thread on MJ, there was definitely one on Hyper, loved the show as well, though it took a while to get into the swing of things. Again, it was another show where I never knew when it was on TV so I always caught it by accident.
I'm going to have to re-download Darkplace.
Duck Dodgers
11-07-09, 04:26 PM
I don't know if anyone else has the dvd, but the booklet that comes inside has some awesome info. Such info includes the following bio on Dr Lucien Sanchez.
"Hot-shot surgeon Sanchez served alongside best buddy Dagless in 'Nam and the Falklands. A student of martial arts and Eastern lore, he has pledged a sacred oath to uphold justice, which he often keeps. When he isn't flirting with nurses in the operating theatre, Sanchez can usually be found adminstering bed baths or local anaethetics to female patients. An expert fencing instructor and masseuse, he is the only surgeon allowed to drive a motorbike on the ward."
I love the last line.
Oh, here's the official 'what's this show about?'.
Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace was originally filmed in the 1980s and has since earned a cult reputation as one of the most terrifying and radical television programmes ever made. Despite this, none of the episodes have ever been seen before now (although the show enjoyed a brief run in Peru).
Darkplace was scripted and directed by the best-selling horror writer Garth Marenghi, known to thousands as the author of such classic chillers as The Ooze (can water die?), Afterbirth (a mutated placenta attacks Bristol) and Black Fang (rats learn to drive). In addition, Marenghi starred as the show’s lead character, Dr. Rick Dagless M.D., a maverick doctor battling against the evil forces lurking in a standard-sized hellmouth underneath a hospital in pre-apocalyptic Romford.
Darkplace was funded by Marenghi’s publisher, business associate and co-star, Dean Learner, who plays hospital boss Thornton Reed. The programme also features cult horror star Todd Rivers as Dr. Lucien Sanchez, and Madeleine Wool as Dr. Liz Asher (who vanished during the production and remains missing, presumed dead).
Controversy has surrounded the show since its creation, leading to rumours that the production was cursed. When Darkplace was originally cancelled, it had already claimed several lives, caused three nervous breakdowns and been subject to at least one visitation. Marenghi, however, blames the government for the show’s troubled genesis: “MI8, which is actually three levels above MI6, pulled the plug. And they did it because I knew the truth. They had files on everyone. But mainly on me.” Dean Learner, however, blames its creator: “Not since Orson Welles had one man so many fingers in so many pies, and been the chef as well. And then looked like he went and ate them all. The guy was out of control.”
Finally, almost twenty years later, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace returns for its first UK screening. Channel 4 will show six of the fifty or so half-hour episodes, repackaged by Avalon Television and carefully restored and re-mastered by Marenghi himself, along with technical help from Learner and his one-time brother-in-law. Included within the new versions are recent interviews with its key players, and an appeal for any information which might lead to Madeleine Wool’s discovery.
At last, those who made Darkplace give you the facts behind the fiction…
Even now, Garth warns that the show, an effort to “radicalise men’s minds,” may prove “too subversive, too dangerous, too damn scary.” The wait for the most famous ‘lost’ project in horror goes on, but not for much longer…
Two things I love about Darkplace:
- that the intro sound outputs in mono (80's standard, almost)
- the part at the beginning of each episode with 'Garth' reading parts of his book, my favourite being the vivid description of the sex scene followed by something like "and then the monster ate them".
Duck Dodgers
15-07-09, 12:00 AM
Was that the one about the mutated afterbirth that attacks Bristol?
No, that's a passing comment he makes during the intro to the first episode.
Jeremy's Dick
15-07-09, 12:51 AM
- the part at the beginning of each episode with 'Garth' reading parts of his book, my favourite being the vivid description of the sex scene followed by something like "and then the monster ate them".
Nina's eyes popped out of what was left of her back. Why, oh why, had she opened that tomb? The sand turned red. This was because she was bleeding on it. Blood... Ruby-red blood - her blood. Blood… and piss and shit. This was the worst day of her life.
No, that's not it either...
Jeremy's Dick
15-07-09, 10:40 AM
Yeah I know it isn't, I was just quoting a better one.
Duck Dodgers
15-07-09, 10:48 AM
Something was pouring from his mouth. He examined his sleeve. Blood!? Blood. Crimson copper-smelling blood, his blood. Blood. Blood. Blood....and bits of sick.
Everyone watch United States of Tara (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Tara) on ABC1 9:30pm Wednesdays so its not a little rated TV show. Nothing like seeing Toni Collete beat 7 shades of shit out of a weeaboo.
Although, if Juno's script shit you to tears, this show will too. Its created by Diablo Cody, and just like Juno... teenagers don't talk like this.
Bad Mother Arse Lover
29-07-09, 10:18 PM
Michael Palin's docos.
Prototype This!
Samurai Jack.
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