TV show meme

I have cheesecake and a meme about television. Good times. :-) I copied this from Rebecca at Just One More Page....

Actually, thanks to some distractions and mucking around, I now have less than a quarter of a cheesecake and a meme about television.

1. Name a TV show series in which you have seen every episode at least twice: Friends probably. They just keep playing it! I'm pretty close on Star Trek: Voyager. There are a few I've only seen once, mostly in S7.

2. Name a show you can’t miss: Anything I've decided to watch, really. If I'm going to watch a show, I take it seriously. :-) Currently, Bones, House, and starting Friday, Battlestar Galactica. I'm okay with missing an ep of Boston Legal because I don't watch that for the story.

3. Name an actor that would make you more inclined to watch a show: This hasn't happened to me much but I guess I have to say Kate Mulgrew, since I started watching The Black Donnellys largely because she's in it. Anyone who has played a favourite character of mine would give my interest in a show a boost.

4. Name an actor who would make you less likely to watch a show: Um... I can't think of one.

5. Name a show you can, and do, quote from: I said "moo point" yesterday, so Friends. I'll use "I don't know what that means" whenever I can too, so Bones. Firefly is good for quotes but I'm not quick enough off the mark to use them. I sometimes get a kick out of using a quote no-one else in the room recognises as a quote.

6. Name a show you like that no one else enjoys: It has recently started to annoy me that whenever I start watching a show, my whole family will usually jump on the bandwagon. Call me weird, but I like occasionally watching thing by myself! So I don't have an answer for this one.

7. Name a TV show which you’ve been known to sing the theme song: Pretty much every theme song that is singable, or hummable. All the Treks, SG1, SGA, Battlestar, Boston Legal, Scrubs, Friends (even did that one in school choir), Seaquest, Earth: Final Conflict (that was great theme music), Buffy, Jonathan Creek, Firefly, QI, Dr Who, Sailor Moon...

I have a playlist labelled 'TV/film' in my iTunes which includes no less than 4 different versions of the Voyager theme (one of which is in the style of Strauss).

8. Name a show you would recommend everyone to watch: Battlestar Galactica. The new one. I don't care if you're not a sci fi person, you will be sucked in. It's not Star Trek. Also Boston Legal. It's hilariously quirky and says so many things that need to be said.

9. Name TV series you own: Sadly, my list is a lot shorter than Rebecca's.

Voyager (s4-6)
Bones (s1)
Firefly
The Dresden Files
SG1 (s1)
SG:A (s1, which I haven't actually watched yet. I jumped in part-way through when it was on tv.)
Earth: Final Conflict (s1)
House (s2)
Scrubs (s1)
BSG (miniseries, which I also haven't watched yet. I foolishly started with s1.)

10. Name an actor who launched his/her entertainment career in another medium, but has surprised you with his/her acting choices in television: I can't think of any...

11. What is your favourite episode of your favourite series? No way. I'm not even going to try to answer this. The beauty of a series is that there are lots of wonderful episodes.

12. Name a show you keep meaning to watch, but you just haven’t gotten around to yet: I have a few. Andromeda, The 4400, more of SG1, ST:TOS, maybe Babylon 5.

13. Ever quit watching a show because it was so bad? Heroes. It's probably not that bad but some of the dialogue recently has just been awful. Plus I never really cared about any of the characters.

14. Name a show that’s made you cry multiple times: House gets me occasionally. Voyager a few times too.

15. What do you eat when you watch TV? Nothing usually. I like to have chips though. When my friends and I do DVD days we try to cover all the major junk food groups.

16. How often do you watch TV? *counts* There is something I 'have' to see on 4 nights a week at the moment. On the other nights I might catch a bit of the news but I tend to only watch the shows I've committed to.

17. What’s the last TV show you watched? Some of Chuck. But only because I was avoiding tidying the kitchen. The last thing I properly watched was the season premiere of Scrubs. :-D

18. What’s your favourite/preferred genre of TV? Science fiction. Movies, sometimes. Books, hardly ever. But sci fi television...

19. What was the first TV show you were obsessed with? I can't remember. I remember liking Sailor Moon and some other kids shows around that time but I don't remember if I was obsessive or not. I suspect Voyager is the one. It's definitely the obsession that has stuck around the longest.

20. What TV show do you wish you never watched? Um... Teletubbies maybe? I didn't watch much of it but I'll never get that time back...

21. What’s the weirdest show you enjoyed? None of my favourites are all that weird, IMO. Every show has it's weird moments though. "Get the cheese to sickbay!"

22. What TV show scared you the most? I tend to avoid things that scare me. Something that freaks me out is the times on House when things go horribly wrong with people's hearts and they show what's going on inside the body. *shudder*

23. What is the funniest TV show you have ever watched? QI.

24. What show was cancelled too early? Firefly, obviously. I wouldn't have said no to another season of Voyager but I have no complaints about it ending when it did.

They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk. Gene Roddenberry. I had a hard time finding a quote about television that was even remotely positive. Thank-you, once again, Mr Roddenberry.