Show(s) You Despise But Everyone Else Seems to Love

[FreeViarga3524]

Sneak, for once, I am not taking your side.

 

I don't mind Extreme Makeover though, but basically everything else mentioned here I do hate.

[TheTire]

As for X-Play, if you're able to ignore the bad humor, which is pretty much everything except for Bob and Steve and the occasional pop-ups, the reviews tend to be pretty good. I will say though that I am now also looking at IGN's reviews of games in addition to X-Play.

Yeah, the reviews are okay, but they were so much better back with Judgement Day was doing them. X-play seems to not really care as much as giving a good review.

[Deputy Laser Action]

I miss G4 when it was a good station. Oh wait.

[PokéHomsar]

I don't hate shows anymore. I hate networks.

HGTV. The Style Network. MTV. VH1. The Disney Channel/ Lifetime. *shudders*

All of them need to go die in the Pit of Cancellation.

Lifetime still has Unsolved Mysteries...  I still have no idea why such a show is on that network to begin with, but still.

[ChocolateMetal]

I totally have to agree on What Not To Wear. My sister ADORES What Not To Wear and I was stuck in a hotel room with her watching it and so I had to go into the bathroom for TWO HOURS (it was like a mini-marathon) to keep from killing someone. I honestly don't think another show has filled me with such blinding rage before.

[potthole]

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is actually a good show. I love seeing the new house and all the neat stuff put in the rooms, especially kid's rooms. The kids always get the really sweet rooms. Plus, c'mon, you get to see different ways of tearing down a house. How is that not fun?

I can't help but wonder how long it'll be before most of the kids 'out-grow' the rooms made for them.  For example, in one episode they made this 12 year old girl a Cheeta Girls room.  Sweet.  I'll bet ya that in just a couple of years she's going to hate that stuff and change her room around.  Whoops, all that time, money and effort just went down the toilet.

I do think things are usually a bit over-dramatic, and with some of my inside knowledge of how things on done on TV, I can't help but think some scenes are shot, re-shot, and re-shot again to make things look good for TV (Example: reactions of people when they see the new stuff.  Yes, I think they are honestly overjoyed when they see it, but I don't think they really have that big of a reaction... until the director yells cut and tells them to, that is).

Nonetheless, that show does some great things for some great people who are in need, and when that's the case, I'm not going to say the show needs to stop.

[Revan/anakinjmt]

I can't help but wonder how long it'll be before most of the kids 'out-grow' the rooms made for them.  For example, in one episode they made this 12 year old girl a Cheeta Girls room.  Sweet.  I'll bet ya that in just a couple of years she's going to hate that stuff and change her room around.  Whoops, all that time, money and effort just went down the toilet.

I do think things are usually a bit over-dramatic, and with some of my inside knowledge of how things on done on TV, I can't help but think some scenes are shot, re-shot, and re-shot again to make things look good for TV (Example: reactions of people when they see the new stuff.  Yes, I think they are honestly overjoyed when they see it, but I don't think they really have that big of a reaction... until the director yells cut and tells them to, that is).

Nonetheless, that show does some great things for some great people who are in need, and when that's the case, I'm not going to say the show needs to stop.

Yeah, I often do wonder what the parents will do years down the road when the kids get older. I honestly have a hard time believing they would cheapen them getting a new house by reshooting reactions. Plus, honestly, I often times just say "Wow," in amazement, and if I was the person walking into the room, I probably would have that reaction too. But, maybe that's just me.

[potthole]

Oh, I'd have a pretty excited reaction if my house were a dump and then redone to look like the ones on the show.  I don't think I'd react as extremely as the people on that show, though.

[Revan/anakinjmt]

Oh, I'd have a pretty excited reaction if my house were a dump and then redone to look like the ones on the show.  I don't think I'd react as extremely as the people on that show, though.

Are you talking about the crying, jumping up and down, screaming part? Just curious.

[The Dark One™]

I seriously think they fake those really dirty houses sometimes.

[Deputy Laser Action]

Another show I hate is Pimp My Ride.

-Nothing to do with music
-People putting stupid crap in their cars. (Somebody got a thing that holds three PSPs in his trunk, cause you know, he will never EVER have to use his trunk.)
-Reactions to their butchered cars.

[The Dark One™]

I would like to see a car where they didn't put a monitor in it.

[Goombazoid]

I saw an episode where this one guy spent all his time making the exhaust shoot flames. Then his boss told him it wasn't street legal so he had to take it all apart. I laughed.

[The Dark One™]

They always have to put something in the trunk. ALWAYS. And it's usually something dumb.

[potthole]

Are you talking about the crying, jumping up and down, screaming part? Just curious.

Partly that, and partly the whole "Moving the bus to show you your new house."  I honestly do not believe that when the bus pulls away it is the first time the people see the completed house, and as such, their reactions are at least somewhat fake.