April Bloodgate July 22, 2015 Share July 22, 2015 I thought the idea to have a "favorite Carrie" micro be part of the happy birthday ad was super clever. Loved this game time. I didn't remember the show Bad Judge, so I was thinking that Juliana Margulies & Kate Walsh was supposed to be ER & Private Practice. 1 Link to comment
AndySmith July 22, 2015 Share July 22, 2015 Dynasty was awesome. The original Empire. Link to comment
Joseph Finn July 22, 2015 Share July 22, 2015 I had the same thought about Private Practive and ER! 1 Link to comment
radishcake July 22, 2015 Share July 22, 2015 I watched far more "Ally McBeal" than the average 8th grade male. I thought (or hoped?) that's what having a job would be like. One of my favorite scenes in the pilot for the IT Crowd is Jen getting a tour of the office and they go into a restroom and see this couple making out. Jen says "oooh unisex toilets. Just like Ally McBeal!" hee. I'm sorry you were inevitably let down by the more mundane offices of the regular world! :D Link to comment
Trip July 22, 2015 Share July 22, 2015 Nameless voice?!? "Mork calling Orson! Come in, Orson!" 2 Link to comment
John Ramos July 22, 2015 Share July 22, 2015 I can say with certainty that "bitch" was uttered on Dynasty before L.A. Law, because I remember Alexis Carrington Colby slapping her daughter (played by a terrible British actress IIRC) and shrieking "You bitch!" because the daughter went public with her parentage, and I was jaw-droppingly, silent-movie-reactive scandalized that they said "bitch" on TV. 2 Link to comment
Lela July 23, 2015 Share July 23, 2015 I just finished listening to all the Mark I podcasts, and the last episode made me a little sad, even though I know that the podcasts come back. Link to comment
Primetimer July 23, 2015 Share July 23, 2015 Talking TV cookie dusters. Read the story Link to comment
swimmyfish July 23, 2015 Share July 23, 2015 This was a really great topic! I'm a little surprised that Ned Flanderses's mustache didn't come up, but really solid choices all-around. 1 Link to comment
LAFR July 23, 2015 Share July 23, 2015 I was surprised no one said Tom Selleck on Friends to get around the Magnum PI stipulation. 2 Link to comment
sacrebleu July 23, 2015 Share July 23, 2015 What? No love for Schneider's pencil-thin mustache on "One Day at a Time" -- That thing was practically its own character. Link to comment
MuuMuuChainsmoker July 24, 2015 Share July 24, 2015 I think we still need to see Dave's picture of the Trebekstache so we can share the love. Link to comment
Tara Ariano July 24, 2015 Share July 24, 2015 That's it in the lead image on the post. Link to comment
MuuMuuChainsmoker July 24, 2015 Share July 24, 2015 *Blargh*. We are all domer for seeing my post. Link to comment
David T. Cole July 24, 2015 Author Share July 24, 2015 Yeah, we got to get Dan back on the show!. Link to comment
profreader July 24, 2015 Share July 24, 2015 Ahhh Private Practice / ER is a great alternate solution for Margulies / Walsh -- it didn't even occur to me. (Game Time contributor here.) For a while they had "Bad Judge" ads all over the New York subways. They had "bad show" desperation vibes all over them... Link to comment
Primetimer July 24, 2015 Share July 24, 2015 Celebrating TV's platonic male/female friendships. Read the story Link to comment
Trini July 24, 2015 Share July 24, 2015 Both from Ugly Betty: Betty and Daniel, and Amanda and Marc. Link to comment
Cranberry July 24, 2015 Share July 24, 2015 Peggy Carter and Jarvis from Agent Carter for sure, and Sherlock and Joan Watson from Elementary. I liked Emily and Nolan from Revenge as well, although that show went off the rails after a couple of seasons. I always liked Veronica Mars and Wallace. I'm liking Liv and Ravi from iZombie so far. Fitz and Simmons from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. started off great, and then the writers decided to go the unrequited love route, which pissed me off. 3 Link to comment
JTMacc99 July 24, 2015 Share July 24, 2015 Oh wow. Excellent. Right to episode 13 for me. Because, of course that's what I would do. And I'm just 19 minutes in and would like to say that I agree with Tara that it probably is the best episode of The Simpsons and with Dave that my favorite part of the whole Duff Gardens thing was Homer's defense of the sandwich. "Six more feet and I can fit it in the fridge!" leaves my mouth every time I see a giant sandwich. Every. Time. Link to comment
Jesse July 24, 2015 Share July 24, 2015 Does it count if they aren't both straight? Alison and Felix from Orphan Black! Fee and any of the clones, really. 4 Link to comment
Trini July 24, 2015 Share July 24, 2015 I like Emily and Nolan, but I'd like them a lot better if she hadn't thrown him under the bus several times. Link to comment
Primetimer July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 Movies whose TV broadcasts we can't resist. Read the story Link to comment
Dave in Chicago July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 I haven't had cable in a while, but in the early aughts: "Little Shop of Horrors". Mid-aughts: "Legally Blonde". 1 Link to comment
EricJ July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 "That Thing You Do" - my #1 all-time poppy field movie. 2 Link to comment
radishcake July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 Jaws. I swear the last time it was on I think I came in like 20 minutes from the end and STILL had to sit and watch. Always this one. :D Interestingly since we killed cable I have to seek out my poppy field movies. I can't just stumble on them like when you are flipping channels. I have two that basically live in my dvd player "Sense & Sensibility" and "Pride & Prejudice" (the Keira Knightly version - don't HATE! I have them all. Colin Firth is just too long for laundry folding) 3 Link to comment
JTMacc99 July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 One of my friends said one time that he even watched Jaws on the Spanish station. "You catch on pretty quick. Tiburón = shark." 5 Link to comment
swimmyfish July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 I have to second Miss Congeniality - which I saw for the first time last weekend when it was playing on my local CW affiliate. I'd avoided it through the years because I knew it was going to be dumb, and even though it was exactly as terrible as I thought, I couldn't stop watching. And if the station had pulled a TBS and started it up again immediately after it ended? I would definitely have watched it again. 1 Link to comment
sacrebleu July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 Shawshank is totally one of mine, and I'll go one further and admit that whenever Spike or Syfy runs any of the Stephen King mini-series-- I'll get sucked in. "It" "The Stand" "The Langoliers" I am powerless against them. 2 Link to comment
MuuMuuChainsmoker July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 Grease is great for The Adjustment Bureau treatment. Rydell Dance-off, Greased Lightning--you could steal my kidney and I wouldn't even notice. Hopelessly Devoted to You? Time to flip over and catch a few minutes of Futurama. Link to comment
Qoass July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 When Harry Met Sally and You've Got Mail. The first one speaks for itself. The second one isn't very good but they're both pretty New York City porn. I still want to walk around the upper East Side in the autumn and eat because my day job is just an excuse to hang with my girlfriends. I guess that's why I can never pass up a Sex & the City marathon either... 5 Link to comment
Louise July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 My husband would pay a large amount of money for ABC Family to stop airing Harry Potter Weekends. I can't resist. 2 Link to comment
messyone15 July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 Mine used to be Clueless, but now it's Mean Girls. 3 Link to comment
Halo July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 I haven't had cable in nearly a decade (doesn't stop me from consuming lots of movies/tv), but I totally agree with The Holiday--it is a go-to hotel movie. It's also part of my traditional Christmas triple feature along with Love, Actually and Bridget Jones's Diary. No, I won't listen to arguments agains any of these as classics. 2 Link to comment
Lindsey July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 Ladies of the 80s: Working Girl, Baby Boom, and Overboard. Do all of them contain weirdly retrograde gender norms to one degree or another? Of course! Do women fall in love with men after they take advantage of moments of mental disorientation in all three films? Sure do! Do I ignore these issues and break out the popcorn every time those movies are on? Absolutely. 5 Link to comment
LAFR July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 A League of Their Own and it always makes me cry at the end, no matter how close to the end I turn it on. 2 Link to comment
Halo July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 Tom and Donna are pretty epic, agreed. I also really loved Jen and Jack from Dawson's. Also Veronica and Wallace! And this is weird, maybe, but Goran and Eames on L&O: CI. Good stuff. 1 Link to comment
Carrie Ann July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 Veronica and Wallace above all others, for me. But a few others I love and haven't seen mentioned are Nikita and Berkhoff from the CW Nikita, Starbuck and Helo on BSG, and Mary and Branson on Downton Abbey. I think something I liked about those dynamics is that the women are sort of your "strong female character" types, who have tons of stress and drama and emotions running high elsewhere in their lives, and the guys (who may also have that stuff going on in their lives) provide a grounding presence for them, a feeling of ease and comfort. The friendships are (generally speaking) drama-free, just mutually supportive and positive, and I like all the characters more because of those relationships. 1 Link to comment
radishcake July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 Tom and Donna are pretty epic, agreed. I also really loved Jen and Jack from Dawson's. Also Veronica and Wallace! And this is weird, maybe, but Goran and Eames on L&O: CI. Good stuff. Totally not weird! Goran & Eames was one of my favorites. 1 Link to comment
radishcake July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 Ladies of the 80s: Working Girl, Baby Boom, and Overboard. Do all of them contain weirdly retrograde gender norms to one degree or another? Of course! Do women fall in love with men after they take advantage of moments of mental disorientation in all three films? Sure do! Do I ignore these issues and break out the popcorn every time those movies are on? Absolutely. Lindsey I started hearing Let the River Run immediately. :D I love that one too. 1 Link to comment
Edna Crandall July 28, 2015 Share July 28, 2015 (edited) Terminator 2 is my ultimate poppy field movie. Also any of the mission impossibles, even MI3. I once watched Van Helsing twice in a row on TBS and didn't realize it had started over (I thought she died? Guess she's a vampire now...) and so it's on the list too. Edited July 28, 2015 by Edna Crandall 2 Link to comment
ChristinaRoo July 28, 2015 Share July 28, 2015 Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail are poppy field movies... for my husband. The one who regularly refuses to watch anything but Mythbusters and bass fishing. 2 Link to comment
Portia July 28, 2015 Share July 28, 2015 Pulp Fiction and Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion. 2 Link to comment
ScoobyDrew July 28, 2015 Share July 28, 2015 Miss Congeniality, Clue, Dead Again, The "Burbs ... and for whatever reason Judgement At Nuremburg OH! B. Broderick Woman Scorned I and II and Jumpin' Jack Flash. Both have gross kiddie toucher Stephen Collins and I thought that might ruin them ... but honestly it adds a whole new demension to Broderick... I root for her now. 1 Link to comment
JTMacc99 July 28, 2015 Share July 28, 2015 My husband would pay a large amount of money for ABC Family to stop airing Harry Potter Weekends. I can't resist. Oh yeah. Prisoner of Azkaban probably falls into this group for me. 1 Link to comment
radishcake July 28, 2015 Share July 28, 2015 Miss Congeniality, Clue, Dead Again, The "Burbs ... and for whatever reason Judgement At Nuremburg OH! B. Broderick Woman Scorned I and II and Jumpin' Jack Flash. Both have gross kiddie toucher Stephen Collins and I thought that might ruin them ... but honestly it adds a whole new demension to Broderick... I root for her now. YES to Dead Again. So so good, no matter where you start. Man I love that movie. All the HP weekend folks, I saw this today and it made me snort coffee from laughing. :D https://vine.co/v/e6pL1BYt0l1 Link to comment
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