TWO TV MEMES!!

First, a fun one...

Name a TV show series in which you have seen every episode at least twice:

"Friends," for sure. "Sex and the City."

Name a show you can’t miss:

I cannot miss "The Office." or "The Hills." *ducks*

Name an actor that would make you more inclined to watch a show:

Fred Willard

Name an actor who would make you less likely to watch a show:

Hm. There are so many! Probaby Ray Romano.

Name a show you can, and do, quote from:

"Saved by the Bell." ("It's ME, dad. YOUR SON, ZACK.")

"Dateline: To Catch a Predator." ("Well, I'm Chris Hansen...")

Name a show you like that no one else enjoys:

Hm. There are so many! "Rock of Love Charm School"? "The City"?

Name a TV show which you’ve been known to sing the theme song:

"Golden Girls." It took me several years before I knew all the lyrics, but they were worth the wait.

Name a show you would recommend everyone to watch:

"Gilmore Girls." Even you, Steve.

Name a TV series you own:

"Charles in Charge." (for real! Worst purchase ever!) Also "Sweet Valley High: The Series."

Name an actor who launched his/her entertainment career in another medium, but has surprised you with his/her acting choices in television:

Sydney Pollack

What is your favorite episode of your favorite series?

Ack! This is too much pressure. I'm just going to have to pick from ONE of my favorite shows.

"Sex and the City": Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

I've seen it so many times, and I cry BUCKETS every time. When Aiden comes back to Charlotte's wedding? holy GOD. Sarah I. came over one evening when it was on, and we both just wept together the whole episode.

Name a show you keep meaning to watch, but you just haven’t gotten around to yet:

"Sports Night"

Ever quit watching a show because it was so bad?

Yes--just recently, "Bromance."

Name a show that’s made you cry multiple times:
Okay, I won't repeat myself from above. But I cry a lot, so I'll say...the family reunion episodes from each "Survivor" season. Also "Grey's Anatomy." Just about every time, there.

What do you eat when you watch TV?

Dinner, or cookies. Pumelos. Stuff that takes a long time to eat so I'm not just constantly inhaling calories.

How often do you watch TV?

Mostly every day.

What’s the last TV show you watched?

Caught up on "Deperate Housewives" and "The City" last night.

What’s your favorite/preferred genre of TV?

Hm. I'd say Romantic Comedy.

What was the first TV show you were obsessed with?

Give it up for "Square One TV"! Still absolutely love it and would pay good money for the series.

What TV show do you wish you never watched?

"Twin Peaks," hands down.

What’s the weirdest show you enjoyed?

I don't like weird shows AT ALL (see previous answer). But...I don't know, "The Surreal Life"? Because Vince Neil was in it.

What TV show scared you the most?

See above, "Twin Peaks." I can't take it.

What is the funniest TV show you have ever watched?

I'm gonna give this one to "The Office." Although "Phenom," a relatively unknown short-lived series from the early 90s, was effing FUNNY. Also "The Powers That Be," also a relatively unknown short-lived series from the early 90s.

SECOND TV MEME

1. Bold the shows you watch/used to watch regularly.

2. Italicize the shows you've seen at least one episode of.

3. Asterisk the shows you own on DVD (at least one season).
*okay, I'm sure I'm alone in this, but I think it's so irritating when I'm talking about some movie or show that I like to someone, and they say immediately "Oh, I OWN that!" So....so what? You paid $20-$50 for something I said I liked. Good damned job. Why are people are so proud of owning DVDs? I'm going to follow the rules here, but I don't like it.*

4. Post your answers.

This list, upon a first glance, strikes me as extremely sci-fi-centric. So I'm already at a disadvantage. I wish this were a "trashy TV meme" or a "Useless Sitcom Meme."

50. Quantum Leap
[I think I *would* like this. It's been on the tail-end of my Netflix queue for like two years. There's always something better, though.]
49. Prison Break
[He's hot, but...nah.]
48. Veronica Mars
[COME ON NOW, SUGAR! Bring it on, bring it on yeah! Best theme song EVER!!]
47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
[Good LORD]
46. *Sex & The City*
[One of the best. I'm naming my next pet Stanford Blatch.]
45. Farscape
[Nonononononono]
44. Cracker
[This is Hagrid, right? I do like Hagrid.]
43. Star Trek (TOS)
[ANOTHER one??]
42. Only Fools and Horses
[I have never heard of this one ever.]
41. Band of Brothers
[War, no thanks! Plus, is this really a series? It's a MINI-series, right?]
40. Life on Mars
[Cop show. Bleh.]
39. Monty Python
[Don't get it. Just don't get it.]
38. Curb Your Enthusiasm
[GOD, who can stand to listen to that VOICE for more than two seconds in a row? It's whiny with a side of sinus infection.]
37. Star Trek: The Next Generation
[Just no.]
36. Father Ted
[What? Some British thing?]
35. Alias
[Might be interesting, but I can't be bothered. Plus I think Jennifer Garner, not unlike Hilary Swank, is uggo. Though she was adorable in that "13-30" movie.]
34. Frasier
[Mainly because it's the show before "Golden Girls" every night on Lifetime. Roz, you slut!]
33. CSI Las Vegas
[Well, it's not CALLED "Las Vegas." It's too gross for me to watch much of, but if I watch the first few minutes I often can't stop.]
32. Babylon 5
[More sci-fi...]
31. Deadwood
[Eh.]
30. Dexter
[ABSOLUTELY NOT.]
29. ER
[Ah, those college breaks when Em & Sarah would come over to watch Must-See Thursdays on NBC!]
28. Fawlty Towers
[I'm sorry, but I generally just don't get British comedy. I do try, but only "As Time Goes By" and Eddie Izzard satisfy me. And anyone who says the British Office is better than the American one is pretentious. But I totally judge people when they probably shouldn't be judged.]
27. Six Feet Under
[The DVD-series set is in the shape of a gravestone with a grass-turf top. Love, and want. But I'd prefer the Brady Bunch series with a shag carpet-top.]
26. Red Dwarf
[I don't know. Sounds sci-fi. Or fantasy. Both of which are no-nos.]
25. Futurama
[Generally not a fan of animation for adults. Or sci-fi.]
24. Twin Peaks
[Don't remind me. *shudder*. I've seen and hated every episode. So very very creepy.]
23. *The Office*
[Favorite scene: when Pam's mom comes in, Season 2, and she whispers to Pam "so which one is Jim?" Pam says "Shut up, Mom!" and the camera focuses in on Jim, who, having overheard, gives a tiny, hidden half-smile]
22. The Shield
[I do not watch shows about good cops OR bad cops, Chiklis.]
21. Angel
[No, thanks.]
20. Blackadder*
[kinda. Dad bought it for The Family.]
19. *Scrubs*
[Who doesn't love Scrubs?]
18. *Arrested Development*
[Neil and I began watching it 2 years or so ago, but were waylaid by...something or other. I didn't love it, and I expected to. Now that Michael Cera makes me weep with all the cute, I'll probably try it again soon.]
17. South Park*
[kinda. The movie, and two Christmas Specials DVDs. Hate Cartman, though.]
16. Dr Who
[Tried it the other night on BBCAmerica. Too weird, and oddly fake.]
15. Heroes
[Sigh. No. I might even like it. But it looks like there's blood sometimes.]
14. Firefly
[No, sounds sci-fi. But I really like the looks of the one dude, Jennie Garth's husband? You know? He was in Twilight with terrible blond hair?]
13. Battlestar Galactica
[Sci-fi, so no. BUT, I just figured out why the one main guy looks so familiar when he's on EW covers--he was Bridget's best guy friend in "Bridget Jones"!]
12. Family Guy
[It has become a staple rerun in our home, and I love all the musical parodies. Sometimes my jaw drops open purely from the intricacies they follow from musicals. I don't love the characters, really, but it's such a clever show that it doesn't really matter.]
11. *Seinfeld*
[I hate when people are proud to admit they have never seen an episode of Seinfeld in their life. Congratu-damn-lations.]
10. Spaced
[Um. What?]
09. The X-Files
[Not by choice. Some were okay, like when Jesse L. Martin was the alien baseball player, but most were terrible and disturbing and I've never forgotten them. This is why I can't see scary movies, people! I WILL NEVER FORGET THE INCEST EPISODE OHMYGOD.]
08. The Wire
[Heard it's good. EW is obsessed with it. And I'd be mildly interested in seeing Tristan Wilds in something other than 90210.]
07. *Friends*
[Abso-tutely! I don't know that I like it more than The Office, but we were BFFs for all ten seasons.]
06. *24*
[Neil's a fan, and I watched an episode with him. Also the first episode, way back when. It's exciting, but I get confused, and there's a lot more torture in it than my delicate sensibilities can handle. Pretty low threshold, there.]
05. Lost
[Nope. And Greg Grunberg gets FAR too much screen time in anything.]
04. The West Wing
[No politics, thank you!]
03. The Sopranos
[Most of Season 1]
02. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
[The musical episode. Otherwise: Too Scary.]
01. The Simpsons
[Entirely against my will. Every night after dinner {4:30! FAR too early!}, our group of friends in college freshman year would gather in James lounge to watch Simpsons and Jeopardy. I never liked it. But I didn't hate it, so I stayed.]

Monday memes...on a Tuesday. Or Wednesday. Both days. This took me TWO DAYS.

Thedailymeme.com has daily themes, and I'm just now getting to this one. I'm not a huuuuge movie buff, so we'll see how it goes....





Favorite Chase Scenes



Memento (you know, when Dodd is running after Leonard, and then Leonard forgets halfway through who's chasing whom? Because he lost his short-term memory? Plus how Guy Pearce is really, really hot in that movie, though strangely not-so-much-hot in others?)



Casino Royale (In the beginning? With that guy who jumps over everything and Daniel Craig is all yummy in that dirty sweaty shirt? Rrowr!!)



Um. I think that may be it. Unless you'd call the leaping-through-backyards scene in Ferris Bueller a chase scene, or any part of Run Lola Run, because my heart rate was like a million beats per minute during that one. I'm really not an action-adventurey movie person, though I *have* seen Star Wars, Bourne #1, and even Starship Troopers! Dad would choose French Connection, no doubt.



(Also it appears that the attractiveness of the chaser/chasee has a lot to do with if I'd pick them or not.)





Favorite Movie Musicals

(Yayyyy! And no, I am not calling them movicals. Not in a million years. But you knew that.) Also, I'm probably going to have to limit myself here, or else I'll list every single one I've ever seen except South Pacific because it sucks. Also Passion. So I'll list my top five. I'm steering clear of Disney/etc. animated musicals, but just so you know, I'm a big fan of Sleeping Beauty and Little Mermaid. And Oliver and Company. And Anastasia.



West Side Story (Forever my favorite, from the moment I was stunned into silence when Mrs. Seymour played it for our Unit C class. I cry every time. I loved Richard Beymer more than the heat of a thousand suns and, to a lesser extent, every single Shark and Jet who weren't ugly. I wrote out EVERY SINGLE lyric, in my 7th grade notebook, by playing the VHS and pausing every two seconds to write more down. I got many of the lyrics wrong, doing this. I wrote an essay about my love for it, and it was the only one of my writing assignments Mr. Hook didn't criticize in Musical Theatre II. I analyzed lyrics and memorized passages and cried some more. HHS did it as the Spring musical the YEAR before I got there [Brent's Baby John made my cry--laughing], and Rock Bridge did it my senior year, and then Steve was Action when HHS did it again his sophomore year. Love love love. FAVORITEFAVORITEFAVORITE.)



Rent (Can't not put this in there, even though the movie was somewhat of a disappointment. Still, Wilson...Jesse...Ant...and Adam...I'd seen them on stage before, together, and was breathless. When Roger, Patrick, Trevor and I met up on opening night to see the movie, it was a reprise of our Mamma Mia! trip, and a wonderful memory. Still hated "Over the Moon," of course, and "In Your Eyes"--oh GAG me--but "La Vie Boheme" totally held up. However, my favorite song, "What You Own," was completely butchered. Adam looked like he was making a John Tesh video, on some Santa Fe-ian rocks.)



Mary Poppins (Makes me clap my hands together with glee. Love every bit of it, from Bert's one-man-band beginning the whole thing, to Chim-Chim-Cheree, to Glynis Johns, to "And never smell of bar-ley water," to Dick Van Dyke as the bank president finally laughing at "a wooden leg named Smith" and floating into the air, to the final "Let's Go Fly a Kite" with MP's sad departure. The books, if you can imagine it, are ten times EVEN better!)



The Sound of Music (I would have figured this would have gotten old after awhile, especially since the bitterness of HHS' fall 1993 musical, but it never has. I think it's so cute that Dad saw it multiple times in the theatre when it first came out. It's my goal to attend the sing-along some day...Mom said it was too fun!)



Moulin Rouge (Who knew, Ewan?)







Favorite Spoofs



Hmm. This is making me sound picky, but I'm not a fan of slapstick, too much, and this is often a constant in these types of films. I saw Hot Shots Part Deux back in the day, and Not Another Teen Movie...but I haven't seen Spinal Tap yet, and I expect that may make the list.



Wait, do Guffman and Best in Show count? Because if so, there you go! (Not so much for A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration, though.)



Oh wait--Austin Powers, I guess? And Princess Bride counts? Really?



P.S. OHMYGOD did you hear they might be bringing Guffman to Broadway?! MY DREAM IS REALIZED!!!!





Favorite Remakes

(i.e, better than the original)



Groannnnnn.



Ocean's Eleven.







Memorable Endings

(For this, I'm not including "satisfying"--just because that's basically all the movies I see. Only dealing with twists and surprises, here.)



Memento (Every time I see it---and I may be up to double digits, here---I let out a big exhale after his last bit of dialogue. Wow! Although perhaps I should have made a rule that I couldn't list movies on this meme twice.)



The Sixth Sense (Except, Mom told me ahead of time so I wouldn't be scared. Even so, it was a "twist" that I really, really liked the movie.)



Besieged (Lupin! Aw, David Thewlis! I saw this before any HP movie was out, so I didn't realize that was him.)

The Departed (I read somewhere that they want to make a sequel out of this. Um. HOW?)





Movies you would never watch with your parents



Brokeback Mountain (except, I did--the second time I saw it, so I can't say "But I didn't KNOW!" or anything. Dad and I went with Roger. So, a 28-year-old woman, her father, and a gay family friend sniffling their way through Jake Gyllenhaal making out with Heath Ledger. Not actually as awkward as it could have been.)



Showgirls (probably. I haven't seen it, though.)



Mulholland Drive (again, probably.)



Basic Instinct (Pretty much anything with lesbian sex scenes, okay? Just assume that.)



Don't Look Now (also pretty much anything with hetero sex scenes, particularly if it's been said that the costars WERE ACTUALLY banging one another onscreen. Also, I would never ever watch this movie anyway.)



Y Tu Mama Tambien



Shaving Ryan's Privates

Feel Good Flicks

Okay, this is a difficult one, since I generally don't go for heartwarming AT ALL. I mean, I like a satisfying ending, but not if we had to go through sadness and stuff to get there. The other blogs for this had things like Wonderful Life and Rudy, and I don't really have anything against those movies, but they're just not the *sort* of film I like. I really, really don't like when movies make me cry, with a few exceptions.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Aw! Chubby girl gets John Corbett! YES!!)

Enchanted

The Truman Show

Father of the Bride (my one regret about my wedding is that there was no father/daughter dance.)

Four Weddings and a Funeral (Andie MacDowell is so terribly wooden, but jiminy cricket, who didn't melt at "I think I love you"? And Rowan as Father Gerald: "In the name of the father, the son, and the holy spigot. Spirit!" Or when Matthew read Auden? Okay, another instance where crying wasn't so terrible, for me..."I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.")

Bridget Jones's Diary (Oooooh, when Bridget says "Nice boys don't kiss like that" and Colin Firth says "You bet they f***ing do"? Holy crud SEXY!!)

This next category is Best Cop Flicks. Which I am skipping. Because it would be blank anyway.

Favorite Sports Movies

Okay, I'm going to admit something. This is getting tedious. I love memes of all kinds, but I don't really love movies, so I have very few I really LOVE LOVE...and also, I am both picky in terms of what I like and what I will actually watch, so any "favorite sports movies" would just be "sports movies I have seen" because I've seen like four total. Rudy, Goal!, Without Limits, Remember the Titans....and I do like them, just fine. (Except the ending to Without Limits). I just don't have a super-hot passion for them.

My only sports movie that i LOVE is Lucas. Corey Haim at his absolute, geekiest finest. I wanted him to get the girl so, so bad.

Second Chances

(i.e., Sequels that were better than the Originals.)

Eeeeeek. I blogged about how part two's are NEVER as good as part ones. I like the category, but I can't think of a single one that was better. I liked HP3 very much, but HP1 will always be magical...first time I saw Hogwarts realized, Neville cute for the last time, Filch's "God, I miss the screamin'"...so good. But I digress. My point is that in my experience, the sequels are never better.

Okay....maybe Young Guns II. But that was only because Balty was in it. And Christian Slater. And Cameron from Ferris Bueller.

Encores

(what movies can be watched over and over and over?)

I've listed almost every one above: Mary Poppins, Memento, Rent, Sound of Music, Anastasia...

Let's see about others.

I saw Great Balls of Fire and Days of Thunder, inexplicably, five times EACH, In The Theatre! When *I* had to cough up money for tickets out of my own allowance!

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

The Breakfast Club

Young Guns I & II

The Parent Trap (Yeah yeah yeah!)

All about Expectations...
What was the last movie you saw that was much BETTER than expected?
Any new/upcoming releases that you can't wait to see?
What was the last movie you saw that was much WORSE than expected?
Any new/upcoming releases that you couldn't be paid to see?

1. Enchanted, I think. I knew I'd probably like it...I didn't expect to loooooove it.

2. Not really. I rarely 'can't wait to see' anything. There was a foursome of goodness one holiday season, with Harry Potter 4, Rent, Brokeback Mountain, and The Producers--all of which I couldn't wait to see. I was excited for Mamma Mia! last year, but never got to it.

3. Charlie Bartlett. I thought that would be an AWESOME movie--Neil and I both did. It took us months to finally watch it, and it was so astoundingly 'meh.' Also, Kat Denning can suck a big one.

4. Yeah, any of the effing plethora of horror films out now. (WHY?? it is WINTER!! That's just not fair.) Or any of the stupid spoof movies that keep coming back. (i.e., Epic Movie, that sports one, things like that).

The year YOU were born...
What year were you born?
What movie won the Oscar for Best Picture that year?
If you have seen this film, what did you think of it?
What is YOUR favorite movie from the year you were born?
Any movies that you have discovered in researching this that you now want to see?

1. 1977

2. Annie Hall

3. I did see it, while I was at Grinnell. I remember liking it, but I want to see it again just to make sure.

4. Oh, crud. Um, so far it's Annie Hall. Because I have probably seen 3 movies from that year. No, I'm not choosing Close Encounters, because aliens are spooky...FREAKY FRIDAY ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!! Oh YES!!! Love it love it love it. Nutcracker with Mikhail...I do like that one...Pete's Dragon, no thanks (don't like animation paired with live action, even in Mary Poppins it makes me a bit uncomfy)...Saturday Night Fever was okay, until they killed OFF someone, like wtf, movie? I was likin' you there for awhile (p.s...this is weird, right?)...No, Star Wars. Just no...

5. Absolutely and wholeheartedly Not.

Oh my lord, did I finish it?? I did! I did!