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Lunchtime Poll: Truth or Dare Dance Party
May 17 2012 in Lunchtime Poll by [E] Sally Lawton
Truth: What’s a TV show that you watch with relish but that is maybe a little embarrassing to admit? I love Stargate SG-1. I’m not sure why, but I find it endlessly entertaining and comforting.
Dare: Next time you are in a store that is playing really loud, club-like music, have a little public dance party. Bring friends for bonus points!
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[E] pileofmonkeys said on May 17, 2012
Don’t be embarrassed about SG-1! Be like me and be embarrassed about Stargate: Atlantis! (I blame Jason Momoa.)
Opifex said on May 18, 2012
Jason Momoa and David Hewlett are the reasons to watch Stargate: Atlantis. It is easily my least favorite of the Stargates, but those two are well worth watching.
[M] QoB said on May 18, 2012
How could you be embarrassed by this guy? Totally normal.
mxandb said on May 17, 2012
I cannot subscribe to guilty pleasures. I take no guilt in them. They are simply My Pleasures. :) But, there are TV shows I love that I know others may not care for. For example. I fucking LOVE Drop Dead Diva. I watch it on Netflix (only two seasons are avail so please no spoilers, thanks) and I am about to begin watching it all again for the second time. I love every character in their own way. But my favs are Stacey and Fred. (he’s some dude on Mad Men now! yah Fred!) I want Stacey to be my best friend and roommate. So Bad. But, overall, it’s not in the scope of shows my friends would watch. I do not think they’d understand the intensity of the slam DebJane gives BitchFace (even though I love it, some names never stick) by way of one Birkin Bag knock off. Oh well. It’s still fabulous.
As for the dare, that’s a life activity I live by. I was just in Forever 21, dancing to their music while finding beachy gear. Robyn played while I was in the dressing room and I had an all out dance party. I tend to sway to the adult contemp music in grocery stores also. I’m a slave to the music. :)
[E] Sally Lawton said on May 17, 2012
Drop Dead Diva is another one I love!
mxandb said on May 17, 2012
I had no idea it existed until Netflix recommended it to me!
Netflix is Awesome.
[E] Slay Belle said on May 17, 2012
I think everyone knows that I have a long term relationship with TV. So there’s not much I’m embarrassed to admit to loving, but I guess I probably should be better than My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding. I don’t care. I DVR that shit.
[E] Sally Lawton said on May 17, 2012
No shame!
Kym G said on May 18, 2012
and yet more proof that were are and remain soul mates. That is exactly the show I was coming down here to type. Those dresses! The sparkles! Needing battery packs for your wedding dress! The amazing dressmaker coming armed with a fire extinguisher, just in case? Brilliant.
[M] freckle said on May 17, 2012
I know that Dr. Phil is Very Not Done, but me and my mom can do a little bonding over his most extreme episodes and be happy about how normal/plain our family is. Besides that.. no embarrassment.
I might have done that dare before, especially in my alternative days.
[E]SaraB said on May 17, 2012
The only show I am embarrassed to admit liking is American Idol, otherwise I am an unabashed tv-lover.
books-and-chocolate said on May 17, 2012
Anything on HGTV. I can leave that channel on for hours watching makeover show after property buying show forever. It’s great for when I don’t want to think too hard. My favorites probably Income Property, Color Splash and Property Virgins. But I will watch anything that comes on.
Also Supernatural. The DVDs were really cheap and the premise appealed to me. Hot guys fighting demons? Yes, please. The fandom scares me a bit, though
KellsBells said on May 17, 2012
I got seriously mad at the Hallmark Channel for cutting out my favorite Golden Girls lines to make room for more advertisements. There are very few GG episodes that i don’t know verbatim, so when “Miami . . . you’re cuter than . . . an interuteraaaaaan” gets cut, shit gets serious. I actually started a complaint letter then realized that there was no way to write that without sounding like a crazy person.
Silverwane said on May 17, 2012
Fucking hell, same here. I don’t know them by heart like you do, but I noticed the liberal editing on the episodes, and the fact that I might be watching 15 minutes of show and 15 minutes of advertising.
Pissed me off, it did!
bibliotecha said on May 17, 2012
My really guilty pleasure show: Say Yes to the Dress. Pretty dresses!!
Also, I like Bones and NCIS. Bones I like so much that I watch it on my laptop to stay up with the season, while NCIS is my go-to background tv show for when I’m doing work. (They’re not really guilty pleasures, though, because I feel no guilt in watching them).
[E] Sally Lawton said on May 17, 2012
Say Yes to the Dress makes me feel better about myself.
wannabemusicologist said on May 17, 2012
I organize my tv watching (which is done on the internet) into tiers, because I don’t have enough time to watch all of the mildly comedic crime shows that I like to watch. Tier 1 are the shows I watch definitely each week if they are on, tier 2 are the shows that I watch if the tier one shows aren’t on, and tier three are the shows I watch if I am grading papers/need to keep myself awake. I pull largely from the crime/mystery genre but I prefer mildly cheesy funny tv.
Tier 1: Bones, The New Girl, Flashpoint
Tier 2: NCIS and NCIS Los Angeles
Tier 3: Castle, The Mentalist
I am uncertain if the shows are embarrassing or if my weird organization system is….
[E] Sally Lawton said on May 17, 2012
I don’t organize them into tiers like that, but I certainly have shows I watch with focus and shows that are more for the background.
Dormouse said on May 17, 2012
My guilty pleasure is Glee. I actually stopped watching it beginning of season 2 because it was ridiculous, the plot kept changing, and the characters were so inconsistent. Then a year later, I decided on a whim to watch an episode because I was bored and got sucked back in. The guilty pleasure is that it was something I railed against and now I just feel like a dork.
Rude And Not Ginger said on May 17, 2012
True Blood! Which may not have been as embarrassing to admit a few season ago, but oh man is it terrible and incoherent now. And I love it.
[E] Slay Belle said on May 17, 2012
Recaps for the new season start soon!
Rude And Not Ginger said on May 17, 2012
Excellent!
Ireena said on May 17, 2012
Pretty Little Liars. I never want my labmates to find out I watch that absolutely trashy show, they would tease me mercilessly if they knew.
Everyone thinks I am this awesome perfect nerdista, and my nerd-cred would diminish greatly if I admitted to it.
Which is surprising, considering I freely admit to reading Meg Cabot and other such “chick-lit” books, because I like them SO THERE.
KellsBells said on May 17, 2012
*snort* nerdista
mxandb said on May 17, 2012
[have you read the books?!]
Of Course my book shelf is full of Dune, LOTR and Literary delights! Whatever do you mean by these YA novels with barbies on them?!
[seriously though, so good, so twisty]
Ireena said on May 18, 2012
I’m starting to read them now.
They share shelf space on my goodreads profile with Dostoevsky and Dickens.
But yes, so good. And twisty.
Also the best part of the TV series are the clothes. Gorgeous clothes of all the characters.
mxandb said on May 18, 2012
So true! Best of both worlds. :)
LadySybilRamkin said on May 17, 2012
NCIS is my guilty pleasure. If I have children, one of them will be named Jethro. I have promised myself that. Gibbs4lyf, man.
wannabemusicologist said on May 17, 2012
Mine too…well, I am more of an NCIS Los Angeles gal. Also, Jethro is an awesome name!
[E] Hillary said on May 17, 2012
I am mourning the demise of Make It or Break It, as the series finale aired this week. I think that’s my most embarrassing show.
Opifex said on May 17, 2012
MacGyver in Space (er, SG-1) is not embarrassing! Surely! I love that show. Actually I love all the Stargates.
I’ve been watching the new Thundercats show and it is surprisingly good, although the quality of the animation in this most recent batch of episodes has taken a nose dive. In this version Snarf can’t talk, and that already makes the show a billion times better. And Panthro has apparently turned into Jet Black from Cowboy Bebop.
KellsBells said on May 17, 2012
holy hell, i made the exact same association re: Panthro and Jet Black!
Opifex said on May 17, 2012
we are not alone…
[E] Sally Lawton said on May 17, 2012
MacGyver in Space is forever what I am calling SG-1 now.