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NCIS I know it's popular but no one I know watches it. (Old school episodes)

Lucifer. Every episode is the same and I love it.

Lately it’s been the Black Clover anime.

Bluey. I know it's meant for kids, but some episodes have had me in tatters because the writing is very good, lmao. Their writing team also makes a number of sweet and even poignant episodes. It's worth a watch.

If nothing is on the TV, I'm putting on a random episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. By far my favorite show. The parody of just the worst people imaginable is my kind of humor.

Why is my underwear full of junk food?

Bee and Puppycat. It's just so bat shit insane while also being cozy and hilarious.

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bar rescue...

you can find me often spouting out taffer quotes.

Milf manor

Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt

Those kooky alien/ufo/paranormal shows pretending to be documentaries. Ancient Aliens, Expedition X, Blind Frog Ranch, Oak Island, that sort of thing. They take themselves so seriously and yet they do the dumbest and weirdest things while “investigating”.

We often leave it on as noise now, skip to the end of most of the competitions, and routinely ask each other "who the hell is that?" on the final show where they all come back, but my wife and I have been watching US Big Brother since something like Season 3 or 4. At this point, the formulas are clear and they mostly just re-theme the existing competitions. It does seem like they may have retired "The Racist One" as one of the casting mandates; even the MAGA-coded blonde girl who almost won this past season managed not to say anything to get herself kicked out, though this season ended before the election results made racism okay again.

For shows that I enjoy unironically but can't in good conscience recommend to anyone, my current favorite is the US remake of Ghosts. I am like a moth to flame when it comes to stupid high-concept stuff, but I bail if I don't like it. Despite the very sitcommy gags and plots, I find the cast charming and the out-of-time twist on the usual banter is fun. But yeah, it's still very much a zinger-based sitcom full of stock characters in some form of historical cosplay.

Finally, I giggle like a twelve year old with a fart machine through the opening segment of "Wipeout," where the only question is how hilariously giant foam-covered machinery will clobber people. The only competitive point is who failed the least, and the edit of the episode doesn't even pretend to frame that in any cohesive way, likely so they can rig it. I generally watch something else once they move to the next phase. I don't give a single shit who "wins" and the rest of it is just a traditional physical competition game show with a few pratfalls.

Coronation Street. I spend $10 a month for a BritBox subscription to watch just that.

Tripping the Rift, Lexx, and Drawn Together. First and last are animated and twisted, Lexx is just plain messed up. GF doesn't share my humour

The (Real World/Road Rules) Challenge.

Survivor 🫣

I don't really watch it per se, but my wife will be watching Real Housewives of Orange County and I'll find myself getting drawn in. Like, "Oh, what's that one woman mad about? OMG she did what? Oh damn I can't believe she did that..."

Miraculous Ladybug. Such a dumb show, but I like it. It’s definitely a villain of the week show with a magic fix everything button.

Anything with James Spader at the moment.

1000 ways to die.

Shrinking on Apple TV.

Not really a show, per se, but

Reaction videos.

Specifically, reactions to consumable media like videos, games, or music. And it needs to be real, like, from some nobody with a webcam pointed at them in their bedroom, not that sterile reality TV tier content mill trash.

There is a dirth of really low quality trash in this genre. It has a well-earned abysmal reputation for being low effort, non-transformative, and all too often not even remotely entertaining. I'm never proud to go looking for it. Frankly I'm more embarrassed about my YouTube search history than my Gelbooru search history.

But even so, watching a recording of someone experiencing something I love for the first time... it's like, the closest thing you can ever get to experiencing it for the first time again yourself. It's a piss-poor substitute, but it's a substitute. If I'm lucky, sometimes they might even give me a new perspective on something due to the unique way they perceive it. If, of course, they bother to actually give insightful commentary at all, which is itself fleetingly rare.

Processing all this trash just to chase a phantom of that feeling, I feel like it's the YouTube version of huffing paint cans for a high or drinking antifreeze for the buzz.

We watch Family Feud during dinner. Obligatory "It's up there, Steve!"

Other palate cleanser shows include What We Do In The Shadows, MXC, or one of Zane Lamprey's travel shows like Three Sheets. Used to enjoy watching Nitro Circus quite a bit and miss it.

Definitely love is blind or any other shitty nick lachey reality dating show. You didn't have to pay attention, and practically everyone is trashy or nuts. It's great.

Only one season but I thought Bunheads was a kickass show.