Cult TV shows

Well, Buffy is pretty poor in my opinion (and it so completely is aimed at young teens). Dr. Who might be pretty cool if I ever watched that. They have some specially written animated episodes on the BBC website if anyone’s interested, and there will be a full new series on TV in 2005. I’m a fan of weird british comedy shows. Like The Fast Show, and Little Britain (v. good). Also…

MONKEY DUST!

Monkey Dust is soooo cool.

I like almost all sci-fi, but when it becomes weird like buffy did i don’t like it as much and the fact that it is rarely shown on tv in Melbourne, even when it is it is at 11:30 or something, too late for me on school nights and for me it is not good enough to tape.

I also like all the star treks well those that i have seen (i have not seen the original series, but that one with deep space nine going back in time to them was good.)

I like futurama, simpsons, farscape, stargate, seven days (time travel series short lived), sliders, and many movies.

I also enjoy watching british comedy, i find that american comedy is getting a little too predictable like friends. Some US is ok, but some is just copying the same old story line, you know: problem, mess ups fixing problem, problem solved. Why can’t there just be a program that doesn’t solve the problem? This is just something i would like to see, i still like programs that follow the usual, but not as much as new, inventive shows.

BTW I don’t know if someone has already mentioned this but Dr Who is showing everything (except maybe movies)on ABC tv in Aust. I watched the first few episodes and i found that they were a little slow moving and also a bit predictable. The set is ok for its day, but when there is a flame in the scene and it makes the film look as if it was burnt can’t they do anything about it? You will know what i mean if you saw them. I plan to watch later series because my parents say it will get better. I do remember a movie that was good, so there is still hope. I wonder how people will react to these tv shows in another ~40 years.

ALEX At last we agree on something. The one thing you mentioned that I didn’t really get into is farscape. I watched all the first series incase it improved but it never really caught on for me. Futurama and Simpsons are good aswell. BTW there is a cartoon thread lurking somewhere you may want to read that aswell. :wiske:

Yes. I can understand how farscape does not appeal to everyone, but i like it. And i might read but not post in the cartoon thread, it’s probably finished long ago.

My current favorite TV show is the O’Reilly Factor. It’s fun to watch because O’Reilly is always on a crusade to correct the injustices of society.

The Holy Cartoon Trinity: The Simpsons, Futurama, and Family Guy.
How come no one has mentioned Family Guy?!?! I love that show! Plus, ITS COMING BACK! Jan. 2005 there gonna start realesing new Family Guys since its DVD did so well. :cool_laugh: :cool_laugh: :cool_laugh:
Can’t wait!

Buffy’s okay I guess, and I’m gonna have to agree its aimed at younge teens. Still, no where near the Simps, Futurama, or Family Guy :wink:

yeah… family guy was great too… i really hope it comes back.
It is confirmed that there will be a family guy movie atleast :happy:
https://imdb.com/title/tt0385690/

I concur. Very dark and surreal, yet with out saacrificing laughs, of which there were plenty. I loved the man wrongly convicted of murder who couldn’t adjust to modern life. Doesn’t sound funny, you had to see it, it was great.

At least the first series was. I haven’t watched the second yet as I haven’t got access to a TV at the moment. This has also prevented me from watching the last series of Buffy. I think people need to lighten up about that, the monsters are not meant to be realistic, it’s meant to be funny, you get sharp dialogue and decent chaaracter development interspersed with laughable fight scenes for light relief, and its a winning formula.

Nobody has mentioned spaced yet so I shall do so…

agree there

No one’s mentioned Frasier which was the spin off from Cheers. The Niles character was brilliant in it.

Buffy has now ended… I’ll have to start replaying the series on the video recorder. I’m waiting patiently for the terrestial channel to continue the current Angel series…they left it half way through and are not showing it until April. :cry:

I love ‘The Office’, the dialogue, the acting, everything about it is so good :happy:

https://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2003-11-18-family-guy_x.htm
https://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,12954,00.html

:cry: Now in addition to Buffy having ended, they are cancelling Angel after series five! :grrr:

A few quotes…
‘Bye mom. Thanks for storing my body on the lice pile instead of the maggot heap.’
The Host
There’s No Place Like Plrtz Glrb

‘I didn’t ask for this responsibility, unlike some people, who shall remain lifeless!’
Cordelia
Parting Gifts

‘I do not, however, understand why the woman who brutally tortured me last night gets pastries!’
Wesley
Sanctuary

‘As much as I like your family - and they’re great, honest, I’d really prefer if they didn’t cannibalize me.’
Doyle
The Bachelor Party

If I remember correctly, one of the episodes of Buffy involved lucid dreaming. Giles dreamt that he was in this graveyard/amusement park. He entered a crypt and found Spike, who seemed to be the owner of the park. Suddenly, Giles took up his watch and looked at it, looked away, and back again. He then said “I know what this is.”

He did not get a chance to do much, though, as he was hit in the head by some astral plane demon or something shortly after. :wink:

My favorite now is Babylon 5 and Stargate.

When i was younger it was MacGyver, i was so into MacGyver that i must have seen every episode atleast 5 times :grin: .

The best show I’ve seen, by far, is 24. It’s simply excellent. The story is so tight and the actors are wonderful. And the fact that Kimberly is the cutest girl I’ve ever seen doesn’t make matters worse :grin:

For all the huge Buffy fans (of which I am), did any of you guys watch Firefly (also by Joss Whedon) when it was on? True, it didn’t last a full season on stupid Fox but that show absolutely rocks! So many laughs. . .

gone

Yes. I’m glad someone else watches it - not many people I know have even heard of it.

You know, I only ever saw 10 minutes of Spaced. At the time I didn’t get it, but I think if I saw it now I would enjoy it. I think it involved someone dreaming they had woken up, and then something happening in the dream (can’t remember what) and then waking up for real, and the same thing actually happening in real life. Or something like that. I could well be thinking of a completely different programme.

Oh yeah, Arrested Development is great! I love how their crazy dad used to teach them not to do irresponsible things by always tying in the moral with the man who kept losing an arm. “And this is why you always leave a note!”