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Ridiculous TV Programmes Okay, I'm in work right now - so I can't do this justice - but here's your opportunity to pick a tv programme that you think is absolutely ridiculous. 
Tell us the name of the programme, what it's about and what YOU think makes it so ridiculous. I'll start. 'Rosemary & Thyme'. 
Here's what wikipedia has to say about it: Rosemary & Thyme was a British television series that starred Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris as gardening detectives Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme. The show began on ITV1 in 2003, and the third series ended in early 2006. On 12 May 2006, ITV announced that the third series was the last. The show is a mixture of gardening and detective investigation as the green-fingered sleuths delve into the world of crime, solving the various mysteries that happen to follow them around the country — and in other countries as well. A mystery series set in a variety of beautiful English and European country gardens, Rosemary & Thyme features two friends who, although partners in a gardening business, often find themselves in the middle of a crime scene. Laura Thyme (Pam Ferris) is a former policewoman whose husband has abandoned her for a younger woman; Rosemary Boxer (Felicity Kendal) is a plant biology lecturer whose academic career is cut short. A sudden death brings them together and they discover their shared love of the soil and a natural inquisitiveness. Forced to reassess their lives, they hope their new-found friendship will lead to future gardening commissions, not more detective work. But whilst Laura and Rosemary don’t think of themselves as sleuths – they are just as interested in a problem with a rosebush as with a dead body – mysteries have a habit of following them around. The fact that they are inconspicuous gardeners means that they overhear secrets and dig up clues which not only lead them to rectify the floral problems but also solve the crime and capture the criminal. In other words, two nosey, middle-aged biddies who snoop around other people's gardens - and find mystery wherever they go! I thought 'Murder She Wrote' covered that off. And, I'm sorry - the chances of two women meeting up, one called Rosemary, the other called Thyme.   This is just getting silly now! 
It's hardly 'Crockett' and 'Tubbs', is it?? . [Edited 5/1/07 4:23am] | |
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I was not really able to function on Saturday due to no sleep the night before,so just stared at the TV most of th day and evening. I ended up watching the show where they are trying to find two people to play Danny and Sandy from Grease.
It was so painful to watch I had to keep on watching it. Nobody could sing or act. It was Saturday night, prime time TV and NOTHING at all on to watch. How any of those people will make it in the west end I have no idea | |
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I heard the plan for seasons 4 was they'd hook up with 2 other biddies
called "Parsley" and "Sage" and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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ellieadore said: I was not really able to function on Saturday due to no sleep the night before,so just stared at the TV most of th day and evening. I ended up watching the show where they are trying to find two people to play Danny and Sandy from Grease.
It was so painful to watch I had to keep on watching it. Nobody could sing or act. It was Saturday night, prime time TV and NOTHING at all on to watch. How any of those people will make it in the west end I have no idea Oh GOD, poor you. I hate those programmes. Primetime tv is rubbish these days - we need a new Noel's House Party. | |
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IstenSzek said: I heard the plan for seasons 4 was they'd hook up with 2 other biddies
called "Parsley" and "Sage"
Oh. My. God. 
How many murders can two women come across in country gardens??! | |
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onenitealone said: IstenSzek said: I heard the plan for seasons 4 was they'd hook up with 2 other biddies
called "Parsley" and "Sage"
Oh. My. God.
How many murders can two women come across in country gardens??! haha that's what i always think when i see "Midsummer Murders" it's like if there were so many killings going on all of these villages would be deserted and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: haha that's what i always think when i see "Midsummer Murders"
it's like if there were so many killings going on all of these villages would be deserted
Oh, *that* programme...  
Which reminds me... When I moved house a few years back, I had all week to pack my stuff. Of course, only normal, organised people do this and I was up all evening, the night before, as I'd left it totally to the last minute and was still packing things when my mate turned up to help me move.  He wasn't impressed. 
In fairness, I was suffering from a very bad cold and I felt awful. My mate was sympathetic but not *that* sympathetic. He's waited far too many times for me over the years. 
Anyway, I love him but he's 30 going on 75 and, since it was getting dark and we *still* hadn't moved my stuff, his patience was wearing very thin. Eventually, he snapped and said "Will you bloody hurry up!!!  I WANT TO WATCH MIDSOMER MURDERS!!!'.  I was, like,
He wasn't even kidding! Unbelievable. | |
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Any and all soup operas. Judge Judy makes me cringe. Everything on MTV except the music videos (if they still play those). Any intervention shows. Any self help shows. Oprah Winfrey is the anti-christ. And the most ridiculous show ever is Catching a Predator.
 America's political system used to be about the "pursuit of happiness." Now more and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.
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greenpixies said: Any and all soup operas. Judge Judy makes me cringe. Everything on MTV except the music videos (if they still play those). Any intervention shows. Any self help shows. Oprah Winfrey is the anti-christ. And the most ridiculous show ever is Catching a Predator.
What makes you hate all these? Or why are they ridiculous? And what's the premise of 'Catching A Predator'??  | |
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IstenSzek said: I heard the plan for seasons 4 was they'd hook up with 2 other biddies
called "Parsley" and "Sage" too funnyhttp://www.fatpossum.com/...0329-1.mp3
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onenitealone said: greenpixies said: Any and all soup operas. Judge Judy makes me cringe. Everything on MTV except the music videos (if they still play those). Any intervention shows. Any self help shows. Oprah Winfrey is the anti-christ. And the most ridiculous show ever is Catching a Predator.
What makes you hate all these? Or why are they ridiculous? And what's the premise of 'Catching A Predator'?? Well, soap operas are pretty self explanatory (overwrought dramas that artificially contrive and exploit human emotions and circumstances for pure entertainment value, not to mention the unbearable acting). Same with MTV plus unbearable and unhinged teenage melodrama with no productive or well directed outlet. Oprah, intervention and self help shows involve unbearable perceived careingness or carefulness but is actually carelessness. They expound upon all the little nuances of life and all the little moral lessons all the while giving poor and misdirected advice and guidance. And at times giving completely immoral advice. I find them to be insulting and evil. Catch a Predator is a Dateline show I believe. The premise is Dateline puts one of their reporters in a suburban home and use other sources to lure child predators into the house for the sole purpose of degrading and indignifying them for pure entertainment value in front of millions of television watchers worlwide. I find it ridiculous because it's not justice, it's sad. It speaks volumes about our character if we find that entertaining. oops I keep spelling soap wrong. [Edited 5/1/07 9:12am] America's political system used to be about the "pursuit of happiness." Now more and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.
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greenpixies said: onenitealone said:
What makes you hate all these? Or why are they ridiculous? And what's the premise of 'Catching A Predator'?? Well, soap operas are pretty self explanatory (overwrought dramas that artificially contrive and exploit human emotions and circumstances for pure entertainment value, not to mention the unbearable acting). Same with MTV plus unbearable and unhinged teenage melodrama with no productive or well directed outlet. Oprah, intervention and self help shows involve unbearable perceived careingness or carefulness but is actually carelessness. They expound upon all the little nuances of life and all the little moral lessons all the while giving poor and misdirected advice and guidance. And at times giving completely immoral advice. I find them to be insulting and evil. Catch a Predator is a Dateline show I believe. The premise is Dateline puts one of their reporters in a suburban home and use other sources to lure child predators into the house for the sole purpose of degrading and indignifying them for pure entertainment value in front of millions of television watchers worlwide. I find it ridiculous because it's not justice, it's sad. It speaks volumes about our character if we find that entertaining. oops I keep spelling soap wrong. [Edited 5/1/07 9:12am] 
Wow! I wan't quite expecting that answer.  And that 'Catch A Predator' show sounds sick. | |
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onenitealone said: greenpixies said: Well, soap operas are pretty self explanatory (overwrought dramas that artificially contrive and exploit human emotions and circumstances for pure entertainment value, not to mention the unbearable acting). Same with MTV plus unbearable and unhinged teenage melodrama with no productive or well directed outlet. Oprah, intervention and self help shows involve unbearable perceived careingness or carefulness but is actually carelessness. They expound upon all the little nuances of life and all the little moral lessons all the while giving poor and misdirected advice and guidance. And at times giving completely immoral advice. I find them to be insulting and evil. Catch a Predator is a Dateline show I believe. The premise is Dateline puts one of their reporters in a suburban home and use other sources to lure child predators into the house for the sole purpose of degrading and indignifying them for pure entertainment value in front of millions of television watchers worlwide. I find it ridiculous because it's not justice, it's sad. It speaks volumes about our character if we find that entertaining. oops I keep spelling soap wrong. [Edited 5/1/07 9:12am]
Wow! I wan't quite expecting that answer. And that 'Catch A Predator' show sounds sick. It is sick. For sure. America's political system used to be about the "pursuit of happiness." Now more and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.
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Cause it's fucking hilarious. 
Because it's....ridiculous! | |
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Spookymuffin said:
Cause it's fucking hilarious.
Because it's....ridiculous! Never seen The Mighty Boosh but my ex-housenate loved it. Must invesitgate. 
And is that a good ridiculous or a bad ridiculous for Green Wing? I think I have seen you denouncing it here before. 
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onenitealone said: Never seen The Mighty Boosh but my ex-housenate loved it. Must invesitgate.
And is that a good ridiculous or a bad ridiculous for Green Wing? I think I have seen you denouncing it here before.
WATCH THE BOOSH ASAP! ASAP! ASAP! And I love Green Wing. It's so weird. | |
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Spookymuffin said: onenitealone said: Never seen The Mighty Boosh but my ex-housenate loved it. Must invesitgate.
And is that a good ridiculous or a bad ridiculous for Green Wing? I think I have seen you denouncing it here before.
WATCH THE BOOSH ASAP! ASAP! ASAP! And I love Green Wing. It's so weird. I'll take a look! And the episodes I've seen of Green Wing have been really funny.
Not as good as The Two Ronnies, though. | |
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onenitealone said: Spookymuffin said: WATCH THE BOOSH ASAP! ASAP! ASAP! And I love Green Wing. It's so weird. I'll take a look! And the episodes I've seen of Green Wing have been really funny.
Not as good as The Two Ronnies, though. Oh no. Old school comedy. Argh! | |
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Spookymuffin said: onenitealone said: I'll take a look! And the episodes I've seen of Green Wing have been really funny.
Not as good as The Two Ronnies, though. Oh no. Old school comedy. Argh!  | |
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onenitealone said: IstenSzek said: haha that's what i always think when i see "Midsummer Murders"
it's like if there were so many killings going on all of these villages would be deserted
Oh, *that* programme...
Which reminds me... When I moved house a few years back, I had all week to pack my stuff. Of course, only normal, organised people do this and I was up all evening, the night before, as I'd left it totally to the last minute and was still packing things when my mate turned up to help me move. He wasn't impressed.
In fairness, I was suffering from a very bad cold and I felt awful. My mate was sympathetic but not *that* sympathetic. He's waited far too many times for me over the years.
Anyway, I love him but he's 30 going on 75 and, since it was getting dark and we *still* hadn't moved my stuff, his patience was wearing very thin. Eventually, he snapped and said "Will you bloody hurry up!!! I WANT TO WATCH MIDSOMER MURDERS!!!'. I was, like,
He wasn't even kidding! Unbelievable.
omg. this friend of yours sounds so much like an ex of mine. especially the 30 going on 75 part, lol. you half expect to find them in a chair knitting some yarn when you get home from having a few drinks with mates. waving the finger at you and scolding you for being irresponsible. and somehow they never lose their cool because they think they've seen it all heard it all and are above us mere young mortals. untill, that is, you forget to tape the latest Midsummer Murders for 'm that's when they go all mental on your ass.
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ow ow! i call rosemary! | |
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Christopher said: ow ow! i call rosemary!
now you know deer tastes marvelous with a bit of rosemary my father would go out hunting and shoot his own deer oh did he? that sounds smashing. like such an adventure yes it was and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: Christopher said: ow ow! i call rosemary!
now you know deer tastes marvelous with a bit of rosemary my father would go out hunting and shoot his own deer oh did he? that sounds smashing. like such an adventure yes it was | |
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i wasnt the only one to watch this!
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IstenSzek said:
omg. this friend of yours sounds so much like an ex of mine. especially the 30 going on 75 part, lol. you half expect to find them in a chair knitting some yarn when you get home from having a few drinks with mates. waving the finger at you and scolding you for being irresponsible. and somehow they never lose their cool because they think they've seen it all heard it all and are above us mere young mortals. untill, that is, you forget to tape the latest Midsummer Murders for 'm that's when they go all mental on your ass.
Oh my God - do you *know* my mate?? You've just done the most accurate description. 
He's straight but you'd swear we're boyfriends stuck in some broken relationship, sometimes. He's like my nagging husband.   And for some reason, even though I am most definitely not the 'bitch', it is like that 'butch'/'bitch' thing when we're together. There again, he's known me a looooong time so I cannot get away with anything with him.
We fell out for, like, a month when we were 14 or something. I offered him a sweet, he didn't want one, I thought he answered me rudely and we didn't speak for about 4 weeks. That's just one of many  's over the years but I love him to death; he's a good guy. And he keeps me in line.  | |
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Christopher said: IstenSzek said:
now you know deer tastes marvelous with a bit of rosemary my father would go out hunting and shoot his own deer oh did he? that sounds smashing. like such an adventure yes it was | |
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Christopher said:
i wasnt the only one to watch this!
dont make me put family feud pics too! 
Don't go there!
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I always hated Last of The Summer Wine, but I got the impression everyone else loved it.
Its one of those programmes that make me feel like I am wasting valuable seconds of my life when watching it Its just so boooooring, all the boring old people in the boring little town where nothing ever happens; it spoke to everything I felt after having to come in from playing on a Sunday evening, and get ready for school the next day, and everyone around me in the little villiage with their nondescript quiet little lives! 
I wanted to watch glamourous American tv, where people did exciting things, and the sun always shone! Thats the life I want to identify with! Rock n roll baby | |
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susannah said: I always hated Last of The Summer Wine, but I got the impression everyone else loved it.
Its one of those programmes that make me feel like I am wasting valuable seconds of my life when watching it Its just so boooooring, all the boring old people in the boring little town where nothing ever happens; it spoke to everything I felt after having to come in from playing on a Sunday evening, and get ready for school the next day, and everyone around me in the little villiage with their nondescript quiet little lives!
I wanted to watch glamourous American tv, where people did exciting things, and the sun always shone! Thats the life I want to identify with!
 I agree with ALL of this. You said it perfectly.
I hate that programme. Isn't it the world's longest running sitcom or something? Utter shite.
How many times can 3 old men wander the streets, be chased out of shops by a woman wearing wrinkly stockings and brandishing a broom or roll down a mountain in some contraption made out of a bathtub??? As soon as I hear the theme tune, I have to turn it OFF!
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