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I think that was the point of the episode where Jay in San Diego was roughhousing with Marley. Jackson took offense, and rightly so; I would never roughhouse a cat like Jay did.

Yet another: Little House on the Prairie. Two of my brothers think that this was one of the best shows they ever saw (and they have the freedom to so believe), but I was never the fan of it. In fact, what put me off of it the most was the setting (the 1800s, out in the middle of nowhere). I don't know exactly how to expand upon that, but that was the main culprit.

They probably meant "exacerbating" on that one. "Exacerbate" means to make worse, while "exasperate" means to make angry.

I totally did! That's another patently obvious pseudohistory thing of theirs. Good catch!

Indeed it does! It became troubling when The History Channel became less about actual history and more about Bible Code, Nostradamus, and similar bullsmoke. Since when is that history?!

No kidding! Not only did I not like anybody on the show, it, like Friends, also had one of the worst title tracks I have ever had the misfortune of hearing.

Star Trek: DS9. The reason I hate this one (though not having seen much of it) is because despite staying on a space station, the show is still called Star Trek. I always thought that Trek meant going somewhere, not staying on a space station. If they were going to stay on a station, they should have simply called it DS9 and left off the Star Trek.

I never saw 24 either, and I never plan to; you make a great point about how stupid it is, and you've also saved me a lot of money in the process (referring to the DVD releases of course, which I also never plan to get any of in the future).

I think you have a better point than I did: not only that, but CSI was far too graphic and realistic.

Another one that gets this from me: Law and Order. SVU is most assuredly the worst, but the entire Law and Order franchise is the archetype of television stupidity in my opinion.

You're not alone there! Don't know exactly how to explain it, but I'm not much of a golf fan.

It was also on a short-lived 1979-80 ABC legal comedy called The Associates; it was bluish and in a different font there, though.

You got a point there! I never thought of it that way.

That's another reason why I strongly disliked Friends, Seinfeld, and Everybody Loves Raymond: that they appealed to wide audiences, IIRC.

Oh no! is right. He made original 60s NBC Trek worth watching (I saw it through from the three remastered DVD releases).

I made a painting of the 1979-86 Proud N in 2004, and that still hangs in my bedroom today.

That fourth-season (1982-83) Hart to Hart release from Shout! does have a CPT logo after the Rona II/Spelling-Goldberg card, but it is not the Coke Lady from the original ABC broadcasts; rather, it is the bylineless Torch Lady also seen on Mill Creek's release of the first two seasons' worth of T.J. Hooker (the bylineless Lady was on the second season, while the Sunburst/Abstract Torch was on the truncated 5-show first season). Here's how it is presented on that DVD release:

He also hosted a short-lived 1969 NBC game show spinoff called Letters to Laugh-In.

Trope Co. Trope of the Week: usually seen on sports shows when a specific segment of a broadcast is named for a sponsor. One of the first examples I remember is The Prudential College Football Report with Jim Nantz (his first role at CBS, by the way, in what is soon to be a 30-year career there doing college football, college hoops, golf, the NFL-- practically everything).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUeKnfs8yFs This September will be the thirtieth anniversary of Jim Nantz's debut in the studio for CBS on The Prudential College Football Report. Just thought you might like to see him in action in the studio in this halftime segment from the 1986 Oklahoma/Miami broadcast: go to the 18:55 mark, and there will be a CBS ID, and then the Prudential segment starts with Don Robertson's sponsor bumper.

I know why it didn't go for me-- that title track that it had ("I'll Be There For You" by The Rembrandts).

Just earlier in receipt of this from Amazon:

Recently, I rolled the dice with the first-season (1994-95) release of ER (hit 1994-09 NBC medical series); I so desperately wanted to like this one, and after the pilot, I thought I would. I started to watch the first regular episode last night, and then regret set in as to how much of a gamble and loss this was, as I discovered how graphic and realistic ER really is. It has been said that Barney Miller was realistic to what a police station is like, but that kind of realism is accepted with me, because it's a comedy (and a funny one at that), but ER is something that I will always regret getting that first release of. The only mitigating circumstance is that the release I got was the 7-disc single-sided version and not the original 4-disc double-sided edition.

Moonlighting, like Designing Women, started off good out of the gate from its premiere in March 1985 (the pilot was an ABC Sunday Night Movie on March 3 of that year) to the end of the second season in 1986. I later purchased that third season's worth (1986-87), and for some odd reason, it just bogged down and screeched to a halt before I even got to the middle (never mind that I never desired to see Nos. 4 and 5 [1987-88 and 1988-89]).

I'm definitely not watching XLIX. Why?! Because Green Bay had that NFC Final-- had it!--and flat blew it. And of course, New England winning again on the AFC Final. That said, no Super Bowl for me.