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Fun Stuff => ENJOY => Topic started by: Mr. Mojo on 09 Jul 2008, 15:01
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Hello internet, go ahead and give me your guilty pleasures. (T.V., Movies, I don't care). For instance, I fucking LOVE Spongebob. I'm sure there's worse though. So go ahead.
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Spongebob is not a guilty pleasure
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Well i feel ashamed for loving it, so i count it as one.
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Spongebob is possibly one of the stupidest shows on television and I credit it for why kids aren't reading and why American children are illiterate and incredibly stupid. Well.....that and everything else that contributes to it...but Spongebob isn't helping. My sister is 20 and she's COMPLETELY obsessed with Spongebob, the only merchandise she hasn't bought yet are the blankets for her bed.
That being said......I really like watching TMZ. I hate paparazzi and I absolutely hate the entire concept of stalking celebrities but.....whenever that show comes on it's what I'm watching...commercials and all.
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Spongebob is possibly one of the stupidest shows on television and I credit it for why kids aren't reading and why American children are illiterate and incredibly stupid. Well.....that and everything else that contributes to it...but Spongebob isn't helping. My sister is 20 and she's COMPLETELY obsessed with Spongebob, the only merchandise she hasn't bought yet are the blankets for her bed.
That being said......I really like watching TMZ. I hate paparazzi and I absolutely hate the entire concept of stalking celebrities but.....whenever that show comes on it's what I'm watching...commercials and all.
TMZ=Fail my friend.
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I watch Spongebob at least once or twice a week and look forward to new episodes...
And I read more then any person I know. So there goes part of your theory.
(Oh, and I am totally sleeping on Spongebob bedding, I am not even kidding. I have two sets of sheets, and 1 comforter --I would have two, but I opted not to get it.)
Anyway, I guess my guilty pleasure is old WB shows. I just bought/watched all six seasons of Dawson's Creek. And I own all but the last season of Gilmore Girls. And I have all 7 seasons of Buffy, my sister has all 5 seasons of Angel. I want to get seasons for the original 90210 (just out of curiosity), and my sister suggested that i get Felicity... Basically, I am sucker for shows that are no longer actually on television.
Oh, and I suppose yaoi manga is a guilty pleasure too. I forced my sister to go to Borders with me so I could see if they had a new volume of a series I have been waiting a friggin YEAR for, only to find that they didn't have it. I was sad...
And lastly, I guess you've gotta add X-Men to the list. If I find -anything-, no matter how silly or unnecessary, that is X-Men Related, I have to buy it because I know I would never be able to find it again. This is how I acquired a Wolverine pencil topper, a knock-off Pez dispenser, and various action figures.
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I think Freddy Got Fingered is a good film. If I wasn't tired and in pain, I would defend this.
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I am still pretty fond of Donnie Darko.
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I think Freddy Got Fingered is a good film. If I wasn't tired and in pain, I would defend this.
I watched that film when i was really young. Needless to say i was traumatized.
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I dig Donnie Darko, too.
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i like Naruto.
i don't actively seek it out but if i'm flipping channels and it's on, i'll watch and like it.
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I also like Spongebob. Also I think Tom Green is funny.
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Yeah, not sure what's wrong with Spongebob, its pretty funny. Though I haven't watched it in at least a year, its humor I thought was pretty clever at times. Also I read, a lot, thank ye very fuckin' much.
But guilty pleasures? See, the very fact that I post regularly in an internet forum and have gone to visit other members of it before would count as a real life guilty pleasure. As would World of Darkness, I love reading those goddamn books but none of my real life friends would ever play the damn game, so its on the list too.
Now, in music, I've been known to sing along to Nsync while riding in my car alone, as well as various other 80s and 90s pop hits. This is mainly when I'm listening to Jack FM or something.
In movies, I like The Labrynth and Dark Crystal, which again are really just for real life friends who never saw them as a kid and thus don't understand. This also goes for Last Unicorn, which god help me I like the soundtrack sung by America.
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I love the Labyrinth and Dark Crystal, the Jim Henson Company are very good at what they do. I have to admit that it is sad that they sold the rights to the Muppets to the Walt Disney Company.
EDIT: Dark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_of_the_Dark_Crystal#Sequel) Crystal (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460907/) Sequel (http://powerofthedarkcrystal.blogspot.com/)
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I love Avatar the last Airbender.
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EDIT: Dark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_of_the_Dark_Crystal#Sequel) Crystal (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460907/) Sequel (http://powerofthedarkcrystal.blogspot.com/)
WHAT THE FUCK. Although I don't think I'm outraged or anything. Just perplexed. Dark Crystal was pretty swaat.
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Drake and Josh
I love Avatar the last Airbender.
Man, that shit is fantastic, you don't have to feel guilty about liking it. Oh man, final episodes next week.
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My love for a sizable amount of Nickelodeon's programming.
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Zombie movies. I watch a lot. Some of them are just shit. I watched one today that was so low in the barrel it was making a leak.
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Lol you listen to Jack FM? Gotta listen to Q107, not many good radio stations in the GTA. I've heard that Mod club does something with a Toronto radio station, but I haven't been able to ind it on the dial.
My guilty pleasure is mid 90's cartoons. Animaniacs, Pinky and the brain, Spiderman, X-Men, Timon and Pumba, Bonkers, Gargoyles..... pretty much anything in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmcKGcKW76M
I can't watch any Batman cartoons because Batman: Beyond totally tainted my perception, it rocked far too hard.
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I love Avatar the last Airbender.
Dude, I know a bunch of college students (male and female) who LIVE for Avatar. I have heard only good things about it....it's totally not a guilty pleasure.
I love the Adam West Batman movie. It is freaking sweet.......and I like Invader Zim.....and when I watched Naruto I fell in love with at but then started hating it because of the fans.
The only Tim Burton film that blew me away was Nightmare Before Christmas.........all of his other stuff just hasn't done it for me although Sleepy Hollow came pretty close.
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Dude Top Gear is great. We don't have it in the U.S. so i can't watch it that often. But i love the show, it's seriously great
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I work at a grocery store and we sell those Spongebob-shaped noodles with tomato sauce that Heinz makes. Anyway, the French side of the label says Bob L'éponge. I like to say it to myself with an intellectual French accent and imagine the show adapted as an existentialist novel.
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I hate Spongebob, but one of the first hot babes I met in college was obsessed with the show. She even had Spongebob underoos... and she was an equestrian. Sigh.
My biggest guilty pleasure is romantic comedies of the Freddie Prinze Jr or Tom Hanks variety.
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I work at a grocery store and we sell those Spongebob-shaped noodles with tomato sauce that Heinz makes. Anyway, the French side of the label says Bob L'éponge. I like to say it to myself with an intellectual French accent and imagine the show adapted as an existentialist novel.
I'm pretty sure that went through the creator's head at some point. At least, the French accent part.
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Anime, basically.
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My guilty pleasures?
I may never live this down... Hell's Kitchen, I mean I hate all reality TV, but seeing Gordon Ramsey going crazy (in an admittedly obviously staged manner) is something I enjoy
also, my guilty movie pleasure.... Jack and Sarah... It's terrible, a below average "chick flick" but any time its on tv I probably will sit through the whole thing. In my defence, it does star both Withnail and Gandalf
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Firstly, Faker? Your sig is awesome. I love Spaced.
Secondly (and thirdly), Xena and the L word. Xena may be a gay icon but I just watch it for the pretty girls jumping around kicking butt and coming up with funny one-liners. The L word? Well, it's basically just porn isn't it. TiVo it and turn the sound down, then just fast-forward to the good bits.
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As much i feel that i MUST make fun of most of you. I'm not in the mood. Anyway, i just remembered, stupid cheasy low budget movies on the SciFi channel are pretty awesome to me.
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Hey, I liked Tin Man. And not just because it had Zooey Deschanel and Kathleen Roberts.
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Cmon man nobody like Tin Man, who are you fooling?
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I vomited from the sheer amount of dumb stuff in that movie. I only got half way through...
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Cmon man nobody like Tin Man, who are you fooling?
Well I did watch the entire thing --- but only because it amused me to no end. I think they passed the point of no return when a horde of flying monkeys came out of her breasts.
Alright, I'm guessing you guys were expecting some sort of pansy-ass Wizard of Oz remake rather than a badass reboot.
But you have to admit, that was some spectacular cleavage.
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Spongebob is possibly one of the stupidest shows on television and I credit it for why kids aren't reading and why American children are illiterate and incredibly stupid. Well.....that and everything else that contributes to it...but Spongebob isn't helping. My sister is 20 and she's COMPLETELY obsessed with Spongebob, the only merchandise she hasn't bought yet are the blankets for her bed.
That being said......I really like watching TMZ. I hate paparazzi and I absolutely hate the entire concept of stalking celebrities but.....whenever that show comes on it's what I'm watching...commercials and all.
Dude, I watched Spongebob religiously as a child and even then I made time to read. Spongebob is like happiness condensed into a wonderfully retarded mass.
TMZ is much more retarded and undoubtedly has a much more negative impact on the American mind.
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Cmon man nobody like Tin Man, who are you fooling?
Well I did watch the entire thing --- but only because it amused me to no end. I think they passed the point of no return when a horde of flying monkeys came out of her breasts.
Alright, I'm guessing you guys were expecting some sort of pansy-ass Wizard of Oz remake rather than a badass reboot.
But you have to admit, that was some spectacular cleavage.
Ahhh yes.... the cleavage.... maybe it wasn't THAT bad....
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the movies, the old TV show, the comics
Ghostbusters, the Real Ghostbusters, et. al.
Superhero cartoons/shows, no matter how bad, or campy.
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TMNT isn't a guilty pleasure. I'm pretty sure every person that grew up in the 80's/very early 90's has a strong affinity for them.
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Ghost Busters was great, you shouldn't feel guilty for that.
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I like king of the hill too :-P
I don't know why it works but it does.
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I think that they're actually a subtle satire, but that may be optimism
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King of the Hill can be pretty amazing. Being a Canadian I don't "get" a lot of the humor but sometimes the show really connects with me. However, I cannot start watching in the middle of the show, I have to watch from beginning to end.
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King of the Hill was created by Mike Judge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Judge). It's largely satire.
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I like the movie Hudson Hawk.
Just getting that out there.
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King of the Hill, I think it's a lame show but i LOVE it. Seeing as how it's created by the same man who made Beavis and Butthead, well, it just has to be funny.
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Huhhhh..... you said butt.
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Conan stories
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like Conan the Barbarian? If I'm wrong I probably look pretty retarded right now :-D
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After watching Arnie as Conan I'm not too sure whether I'll ever be able to read the stories.
Vampire Hunter D novellas are something that I have tried, and failed, to give up a couple times now. They're lots of fun and even though they're very similar they still make me feel really fuzzy inside.
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Try them, Howard's ones are pretty good adventure stories, not great examaninations of the human condition, but decent stories.
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The Conan books are damn good stories. Howard can compress all the great things about fantasy novels into what are essentially short stories. The first Conan movie was also really damn good, even if it had absolutely nothing to do with the books outside of names. In fact, they're both good enough that I wouldn't call them guilty pleasures, you really shouldn't feel guilty about enjoying them.
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I always feel kind of bad when I hear Canadians and English people talking about the American movies and TV shows they watch. King of the Hill is a good example of a show that (if they insist on broadcasting it at all) should never be broadcast outside the US. There are just so many (extremely heavy-handed) inside jokes. It would be like a show being broadcast in America that makes fun of Quebecois and Newfies, or Glaswegians.
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Thlayli
why? Canada's media is just like America-light. Honestly most Canadians get 95% of the jokes that Americans get. We can get shows like King of the Hill because we GET the inside jokes.
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Where as if you watched, say Chilly Beach or Air Farce alot of the jokes would go right over your heads. Well Chilly Beach pokes at alot of the Canadian stereotypes as well.
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Man, this thread. You guys are silly, things like retro cartoons and campy shit aren't guilty pleasures. They are legitimately cool, that is why people list them on their internet profiles.
Now. My guilty pleasure has been the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. I mean, yes, I know the characters are kinda predictable and the situation is rather contrived...but then actually I feel kinda bad criticizing it, because I know I shouldn't be one of those pretentious college kids who just tries to appear smart. Honestly, I enjoyed reading through the books. It kept me immersed and it was the first time in forever that I've had that experience of being sucked in by stuff that I'm reading. Lately it feels like everything I try to read, I have to work at, and while it can be very rewarding, sometimes it's just not that fun. Twilight allowed me to basically not think about my life for two days, which was nice.
It does reference creationism and it is kind of funny how Bella and Edward end up saving sex for marriage but I guess the author is a Mormon so it kind of makes sense.
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Where as if you watched, say Chilly Beach or Air Farce alot of the jokes would go right over your heads. Well Chilly Beach pokes at alot of the Canadian stereotypes as well.
The chicken cannon is accessible to practically anyone with a sense of humour.
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I suddenly have been encouraging one of my guilty pleasures. Somebody has uploaded all the batman beyond episodes onto youtube. I've basically canceled all my plans.
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Thlayli
why? Canada's media is just like America-light. Honestly most Canadians get 95% of the jokes that Americans get. We can get shows like King of the Hill because we GET the inside jokes.
Just because you're laughing doesn't mean you understand why it was originally meant to be funny. Which is totally cool, because art is supposed to be open to subjective interpretation.
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Charmed is my guilty pleasure. :roll: I can't help that I love those Halliwell sisters and their cheesy special effects.
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music-wise for me would be a few songs by Linken Park. I know that that destroys my music credibility though :cry:
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Oh Roxie, I secretly love them too. I will admit that I haven't heard their new album yet but I still bust out their debut and sing along every once in a while. It's so catchy!
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For music my guilty pleasure is probably The Cure, i get ridiculed a lot by liking them.
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Musically, my guilty pleasure is Wierd Al
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I have no guilty pleasures
I am utterly proud of each and every thing I do
This includes loving the shit out of Pokemon cartoons/movies... even the latest ones where they have gone so far downhill they wound up back at the top
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Dude..
I just found this guy on YouTube that's uploaded every single friggin' Pokemon episode and I'm watching them all.
I like Pokemon too.
Almost no one knows though.
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share and enjoy
mostly with the sharing though
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for a long time I was not ashamed of anything I read, listened to, or watched, but then my brother introduced me to charmed, and my friend gave me a shit tank full of pokemon episodes. I don't particularly like either of them, but I watch them, I don't know why.
Also one final resounding vote for do not be ashamed of avatar the last airbender. That show was 10 kinds of awesome, though the first half of the 3rd season was a tad lackluster.
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ooh, FLCL! back when I used to have Adult Swim I would watch that show religiously (even if it's only *six* episodes long), and I imagine I would still love it today, regardless of what I might say to the contrary :wink:
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For those who say the first half of season 3 of Avatar was lackluster:
Go back and look at the first half of seasons 1 and 2 and you will notice the trend of lackluster there too. It's usually not until the latter parts of the seasons that it really picks up. And the last 4 episodes (a.k.a. the 2-hour finale super-episode) are made of brilliance and win.
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Conan, what is best in life?
TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES! TO SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU. AND HEAR THE LAMENTATION OF THE WOMEN.
I love it.
I really thought it was cool someone mentioned the Stephanie Meyer series. That was a guilty pleasure of mine once, as well as the Laurell K. Hamilton series in which the first book was ironically titled, "Guilty Pleasures".
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is my favorite TV Guilt.
As for movies, it's a tie between Harold and Kumar and Much Ado About Nothing- which has Denzel Washington playing some white guy's brother, and Keanu Reeves raping Shakespeare harder that anyone ever thought possible.
Although I have a strong affection for anime, I have over the years learned that not all of it is good. I never bowed down for Pokemon, but I did watch a shit ton of Dragon Ball Z in high school. Always waiting for that damn spirit ball to form.
Oh, and I like Rush. That statement right there usually gets me more grief than everything I have previously mentioned.
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As for TV guilt - Total Drama Island on the Teletoon Network....
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As for movies, it's a tie between Harold and Kumar and Much Ado About Nothing- which has Denzel Washington playing some white guy's brother, and Keanu Reeves raping Shakespeare harder that anyone ever thought possible.
Oh my gosh yes, I love this movie but Keanu Reeves is the worst Shakespeare villain ever. Did you HEAR his evil laugh? Like Doctor Horrible would say-- "that's about standards". Keanu is unable to show any emotion besides confused. It worked for the matrix (part 1 anyway) because he's playing a guy who was just thrown into a world full of stuff to be confused about. Unfortunately, Mr. Reeves, to be an actor you need an emotion count far beyond 1.
I do think by far the best display of Reeves' acting abilities is in the monologue he has in that movie. You know the, "I will drink..[insert DUN DUN DUN] when I am thirsty! AND LAUGH AT NO MAN'S LEH-SURE!"
I do have to say that Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure is fabulous though. I just think it's so ironic that instead of being typecasted as a moron, Keanu simply ... is! Brings a whole new meaning to method acting.
As for Total Drama Island- I had high hopes but alas I don't think it rocks that hard. Chowder however is a delightful new addition to the 'We're making cartoons during daytime hours for kids that isn't quite really for kids' cartoon thing that the network is doing recently. Props.
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The only new cartoon that has been made within the past year or so is Flapjack, mostly because it is extremely bizarre and sometimes lightheartedly disquieting.
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The most disquieting thing about Flapjack is that freakish 'Candy Wife' they show every now and then. That thing reminds me of something some serial killer would make out of skin. And then the man who had a boat powered by the anger of adolescent children?
It kind of makes you wonder how much further they're going to go on the creep-o-meter without pushing the limits of day time television. I mean, what exactly is their target audience for these shows? Considering the time they air the age requirements to fully understand all of the subtleties don't seem to match up.
Soon there'll be a "Silence of the Lambs" cartoon where Young Clarisse tries to jokingly make Young Hannibal stop eating people. And you know, with a theme song and some super hero suits, it might be pretty cool. Candy Wife could guest star with Young Jame Gumb as they put some lotion on the skin.
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TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES! TO SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU. AND HEAR THE LAMENTATION OF THE WOMEN.
Excellent quote, one of my all time favourites. I'm pretty sure the quote is "lamentation of their women."
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Well you gotta give me a break here, I mean, Arnold says THE and THEIR much the same.
In Arnold talk it sounds like he says the lamentation of "THEY" women.
So I took my best guess.
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Funny thing is, it's not even a Conan quote. It's not in the books at all, actually. It was originally spoken by Genghis Khan, in the same manner shown in the movie, and is now attached to Conan.
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Ok enough of all your hipster shame.
My guilty pleasure, Johnny I will kill your family if this gets leaked, is Gossip Girl. I watched it once cause I just saw Accepted and had a total boner for Blake Lively, then ended up watching the whole thing. I think its cause Im a poor boy that want to live in Manhattan so it kinda speaks to me.
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Poor or not wanting to live in Manhattan is much worse than any TV show.
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I really thought it was cool someone mentioned the Stephanie Meyer series. That was a guilty pleasure of mine once, as well as the Laurell K. Hamilton series in which the first book was ironically titled, "Guilty Pleasures".
I personally think Hamilton is awesome, miles better than Meyer because her books actually have something genuinely interesting in them.
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Oh my gosh yes, I love this movie but Keanu Reeves is the worst Shakespeare villain ever.
To be fair, Don John is one of the worst Shakespeare villains ever anyway. Regardless of how he's played. IMO
Also, guy who said Batman Beyond. Guilty pleasure? That show was awesome!
My guilty pleasure is probably Star Wars novels. Of any kind. Some aren't so bad, but some are just terrible, and I love them all.
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I really thought it was cool someone mentioned the Stephanie Meyer series. That was a guilty pleasure of mine once, as well as the Laurell K. Hamilton series in which the first book was ironically titled, "Guilty Pleasures".
I personally think Hamilton is awesome, miles better than Meyer because her books actually have something genuinely interesting in them.
Well they ONCE did. Until that "interesting" thing pulled a 180 and just became Vampire/Werewolf slut-smut. I turned off when the bestiality turned on.
Maybe that's why I went to the whole Stephanie Meyer thing, because there was a lovely angst yet nothing too overtly sexual. After all of Hamilton's multi-sex rompcapades, I was ready for something chaste.
And speaking of Meyer, read "The Host", if you like her style but are looking for something more of interest. However, if it's the sex you want, stick to Hamilton, she will never let you down. And let's face it, the world always needs more vampire smut! :laugh:
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As for TV guilt - Total Drama Island on the Teletoon Network....
oh god, me too. Now that Cartoon Network is showing it here, I am all over it. I normally hate reality TV Shows, but it being an animated reality show doesn't seem to bother me. It is the reason I look forward to Thursdays. An odd thing though is that CN likes to put little warnings in front of it, like the Up A Creak episode they had "Mild Flirtatious Dialogue" every time it came back from commercial.
A comic guilty pleasure - Tiny Titans
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And speaking of Meyer, read "The Host", if you like her style but are looking for something more of interest.
'The Host', that had so much potential (plot-wise) were it not for that big 250+ page bog of soap-opera wanderering, c wut i did thar and admittedly the quality of Meyer's writing has definitely improved since Twilight's initial release.
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Ummm...
I kinda just remembered my guiltiest pleasure.
Watching videos of people squeezing pus out of abcesses and cysts on youtube. Sure it makes me nauseous after twenty minutes or so but the screams of horror and exclamations of "Dude! That is Sick!" are just completely entertaining.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP9P3RQ-roM
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It comforts me to know that pretty much only Canadians will understand...but my guilty pleasure is CTV original programming. Yeah, Instant Star. Degrassi. Other horribly written and acted half-hour less-than-prime-time spots.
Also, someone said something about a radio station broadcasting from the Mod Club in Toronto, and it's definitely 102.1 The Edge, live-to-air thursdays.
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My guilty pleasure, Johnny I will kill your family if this gets leaked, is Gossip Girl. I watched it once cause I just saw Accepted and had a total boner for Blake Lively, then ended up watching the whole thing. I think its cause Im a poor boy that want to live in Manhattan so it kinda speaks to me.
I love that show. It's ridiculously entertaining, of course I'm going to watch it.
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It comforts me to know that pretty much only Canadians will understand...but my guilty pleasure is CTV original programming. Yeah, Instant Star. Degrassi. Other horribly written and acted half-hour less-than-prime-time spots.
Also, someone said something about a radio station broadcasting from the Mod Club in Toronto, and it's definitely 102.1 The Edge, live-to-air thursdays.
Oh yes. God they still show that "drama" with the deaf FBI agent, when the dogs the best actor on the show, its Canadian.
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Sue Thomas F.B. Eye? God that show blows! Total can-con yet set in D.C.? Just dumb, Ive watched a few epis cause I have 3 channels and its the only thing thats not a soap thats on around the time Im having a bowl of cereal for breakfast.
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And speaking of Meyer, read "The Host", if you like her style but are looking for something more of interest.
'The Host', that had so much potential (plot-wise) were it not for that big 250+ page bog of soap-opera wanderering, c wut i did thar and admittedly the quality of Meyer's writing has definitely improved since Twilight's initial release.
Speaking of Twilight, comic-con released the poster/pictures of the new movie coming out in December.
Meet the Cullens.
(http://filmonic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/twilight1.jpg)
It's Cedric Diggory!
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I've got the girly animes (princess tutu), the girly shows (gossip girl)
..and back in the day sailor moon and cardcaptors kicked loads of ass imo
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I got one for you guys. I just finished three seasons of Gilmore Girls in one week. And I'm a guy.
Could someone point me to the office where I turn in my guy card? Well, it's not so bad because the main females of the show are quite attractive which is part of why I watch it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi4DEdUmA6A
Just for you, guy above me.
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The Twilight series, as mentioned in other threads and Le Gabbly. They are so addicting.
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I just read Breaking Dawn. My verdict: Pretty Okay, not more or less hokey than the first three books. Also geez people on the internet can be kinda awful when they dislike a book (MISSUS MEYER YOU ARE NOT JK ROWLING AND YOU NEVER WILL BEEEEE)
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I just finished reading Ten Little Niggers by Agatha Christie. It was a brilliant and thrilling novel. On Saturday night I finished reading the non-fiction book Lionheart by Jesse Martin, as I finished it Shearwater's Red Sea, Black Sea reached it's crescendo and I felt utterly triumphant. I had to read it for English and it was dreadfully boring and poorly written book. A biography without scandal is like bread without flour and to try and spice the book up Martin had to talk incessantly about the joys of wandering around one's yacht in the nude and how one had to be ever so careful to not "get something caught" in the rigging and write things like "WOOO HOOOO, YEAH" [sic] to recapture the sense of adventure and fun.
Also, I totally understand what you're getting at there Ruyi (JEEZ JAMES PATTERSON, YOU'RE NOT AGATHA CHRISTIE. QUIT TRYING TO BE AN EDGIER VERSION OF HER AS WELL. U 2BIT CRIME WRITER ONLY FIT 4 THE DUMB HOUSE WIFE'S CONSUMPTION)
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I just read Breaking Dawn.
cathy i respect you
please don't do this
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Ten Little hi i am an ignorant fucktard, please ban mes
Hehe...did you forget about the word filter?
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I just read Breaking Dawn.
cathy i respect you
please don't do this
but it's about true love, man
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Ten Little hi i am an ignorant fucktard, please ban mes
I'm not even sure why you chose to refer to it by this title. I never knew it by that title, and the title hasn't been used in America for 68 years.
Edit: Oh wait you're Australian. I guess there's only 28 years of having a reasonable name there.
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I just read Breaking Dawn.
cathy i respect you
please don't do this
I did it too.
My bad.
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Ten Little hi i am an ignorant fucktard, please ban mes
Hehe...did you forget about the word filter?
Honest to GSD, word filter?
I'm not even sure why you chose to refer to it by this title. I never knew it by that title, and the title hasn't been used in America for 68 years.
Edit: Oh wait you're Australian. I guess there's only 28 years of having a reasonable name there.
I read an old edition, like 35 years old and I wasn't being at all rascist. It genuinely wass the name of the book and contextually there was nothing wrong with naming it as such, people need to stop being so overly sensitive. I'm sure Christie didn't sit down thinking "Yeah /viggers, I don't like them they are an inferior race. I will write a story in which the word is used a fair number of times and the main chrarcters will drop off like the /viggers in a certain poem."
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Nothing wrong with naming it as such at all.
Which is why the name was changed to Ten Little Indians and then And Then There Were None 20 years before the civil rights movement even started and no one refers to it as such anymore.
Clearly, there was nothing wrong with it or the poem.
I mean, this isn't Huckleberry Finn, where use of the word is relevant to the setting and theme. The use of the word is irrelevant t the novel, as evidenced by how quickly and easily it was removed. Why bother referring to it as such?
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That was a terrific book, the only other Agatha Christie book I've read is Murder on the Orient Express. It was interesting, but didn't really compare to And Then There Were Ten Little Indian Boys That Took the Place of the Black Ones.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi4DEdUmA6A
Just for you, guy above me.
Wow, that commercial is great. I wish I could be so lucky to have Mr. T drive through a building to shoot snickers at me from a modified gatling gun.
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I just read Breaking Dawn.
cathy i respect you
please don't do this
I did it too.
My bad.
A friend of mine just reviewed the series for me and I thought her analysis was pretty accurate. (This is a shortened excerpt)
and bella! ugh what a fucking bitch! she has no personality whatsoever. i mean i realize smeyer wrote bella as an extension of herself and as a blank character for other girls to imprint themselves on but this is how she is: "i'm bella waaaaaaaaaah i dont wanna move away waaaaaaaaaah i'm so self sacrificing waaaaaaaaaah i am never gonna make any friends waaaaaaaaaaah wait, why are these people in my high school being nice to me and actually showing interest waaaaaaaaaaah fine i'd rather not make any friends waaaaaaaaaaah why is jacob mad at me when all i did was give him false hope waaaaaaaaah why is edward not mad at me when he knows i love jacob too waaaaaaaaaaaaaah why is alice being so sweet to me and taking care of me and i cant even say thank you waaaaaaaaaaaaaah"
and edward! you'd get a restraining order on his ass in real life! fucking stalker watches you while you sleep cuts your breaks to keep you from driving other places where he cant be mentally attuned to you at all times psycho!
and i still LOVE HIM.
seriously these books are such shit and i love them so guiltily and so much and i HATE IT.
And that's about how I feel as well.
Woo hoo Breaking Dawn here I come!
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The similarities between that review and the conversation I had with my cousin 3 months back are uncanny.
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The Soup(on the E! channel) is probably my biggest one.
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The movie Ravenous is one of my guilty pleasures. It's sorta schizophrenic, because the studio fired the original director two weeks into it. Studio wanted it to be a dark comedy, while all the actors and original director just wanted it to be dark. But it's got Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle and is about cannibalism and has a very loud and in-your-face musical score.
Also, I *love* the first season of Digimon. I watched the whole thing over the course of a couple of days when I was sick with a really bad flu (fever, aches, unable to put anything but clear liquids into my body) and it was, like, the best thing ever.
I am also a bit of a masochist, as I LOVE to read Paolini's Inheritence books. If you haven't read them, take the plot of Star Wars, set it in Middle Earth, add a sociopath Gary-Stu as the main "hero", throw in several Deus Ex Machinas and record it all with horridly purple prose. That's basically "Eragon". "Eldest" is largely about Eragon watching ants and doing yoga and writing really awful poetry. I can't wait for "Brisnger". I actually buy the books, too, because I love to attack the writing with highlighters and red pens.
I can't get into my musical guilty pleasure, because I'm pretty sure I'll be banned from the forums for life.
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is it MCR? HIM? Different retarded acronym?
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is it MCR? HIM? Different retarded acronym?
Maybe. But I don't wanna be banned.
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I love Kung Fu movies.
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you are not going to get banned, just mocked and verbally sodomized until your brain shrivels into a dusty mound of agony.
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I reckon it's A7X.
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It's much worse than either of those. And that's all I'm going to say unless someone actually mentions the correct answer, because I read something about the n00bs keeping their posts low and I am nothing if not compliant.
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Shame on you! where is your rebellious and hateful spirit? Tell us and consequences be damned*!
* Until it blows up in your face, of course.
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Its kinda silly to make a post about not posting. Also its Evanescence isnt it?
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It's much worse than either of those. And that's all I'm going to say unless someone actually mentions the correct answer, because I read something about the n00bs keeping their posts low and I am nothing if not compliant.
The Other Fun Things subfora are usually where the more normal or nicer people are. Basically, unlike the main subfora we will not disembowel you and don't feel the need to speak in 1337.
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Fine. Since I am totally trashed out of my mind, I will reveal my guilty musical pleasure.
IT IS THE BACKSTREET BOYS, AKA "BSB".
In my defense, I totally missed out on the "New Kids On the Block" phenomena, since I was listening to mainly 60s music at the time. Also, I was totally crazy (ala Hanners) during most of my high school years, which was when BSB were popular.
Even though I now realize the magnitude of my sin, I still have a soft spot for the "band" that kept me from going completely off the deep end during my teenage years.
Commence mockery and/or banning.
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Well, as long as we're on the subject of bands, here's one of mine:
Bon Jovi, and I don't mean this like "Yeah, they're kinda good, I guess." I mean I have four of their albums. Actually, I like hair metal in general. Does that make me a bad person?
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Definitely not. I love "Livin' on a Prayer", and a lot of other songs as well.
But then, who am I to judge? ;)
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One of my music guilty pleasures--Jimmy Buffet.
Yes.
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Wow, this thread just got really......sad.
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Miss Vinyl, I used to think you might be pretty awesome.
WHY DID YOU BREAK MY HEART?
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Women like that only aim to heart people, just move on, child.
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Miss Vinyl, I used to think you might be pretty awesome.
WHY DID YOU BREAK MY HEART?
Suddenly five boys come out of no where, wearing way too much hair spray, billowy satin shirts, the wind is blowing (they're inside).
And their arms open wide as sweet, sweet harmonies come out of their mouths and you swear you'd never hurt them if they were yours.
If only you'd give them your heart they'd take you to the beach, an outfit change, and a montage of sushi eating, frolicking in the waves, then steamy make outs right where the waves break (yet water does NOT go up their noses).
If only you wouldn't break their heart.
I used to love N'Sync...
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The band the Cult. They were often thoroughly ridiculous but I like some of their songs anyway.
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I've said this before but I sometimes enjoy MSI. I'm pretty sure this makes me a masochist of some nature. But this is talk for the music forum.
Also I enjoyed the Eragon books when they came out. But I was also like, 13. And I was a really lame 13 year old.
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Speaking of the books, I finally watched the Eragon movie the other day.
And I was actually kind of into it!
Then the ending happened sort of like a drive by, and I was left on the couch with a big ole WTF!?! on my forehead.
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I'm sorry. I just know that I can't take no more.
That ain't no lie.
I want to see you out that door.
Baby,
Bye
Bye
Bye
(I do not care if it's the wrong band.)
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i loved those "archie" comics.... and facebook.
facebook is definitely a guilty pleasure.
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I watch Sex and the City religiously. (I like to re-watch series.)
I also watched every single episode of Friends when I was in high school.