Good TV Shows

Pants · Jul 14, 2005

I like 'Lost' and '30 Days,' too bad they're on at the same time now.

'Family Guy' is still funny too.

Queen_Dopplepopolis · Jul 14, 2005

Pants said:
I like 'Lost' and '30 Days,' too bad they're on at the same time now.

'Family Guy' is still funny too.

That's why you need TiVo or a DVR!! Join us!

reveal · Jul 14, 2005

Queen_Dopplepopolis said:
That's why you need TiVo or a DVR!! Join us!

Or he could just program the VCR.

Queen_Dopplepopolis · Jul 14, 2005

reveal said:
Or he could just program the VCR.

VCR? What is that?

reveal · Jul 14, 2005

Queen_Dopplepopolis said:
VCR? What is that?

Not sure. I think I saw one in the Smithsonian once.

Dagger75 · Jul 14, 2005

Queen_Dopplepopolis said:
I do love the food network. I *love love love* ~~30 Minute Meals with~~ Rachel Ray!

I'll just use your quote with a minor adjustment

I like House. Thats a cool show.

Law and Order SVU is pretty good.

stevelabny · Jul 14, 2005

my new tivo is chock full of cartoons. boomerang is showing batman: the animated series and superman every midnight, disney shows x-men, spider-man, gargoyles and TICK.
my gf records who's line is it anyway, cuz its probably the easiest guarantee for a laugh on tv. And of course Justice League, Family Guy, American Dad and South Park.

you can probably catch most of veronic mars and lost in repeats. and if you havent seen firefly, dont forget to grab that when it hits sci-fi at the end of the month.

I also tape X-Play, Around the Horn, Pardon the Interruption and Baseball Tonight, but those are pretty specific.

Buffy, Angel, Twin Peaks, Gargoyles, Firefly, Veronica Mars are best watched in order, so I wouldn't just tape them if you've never seen them.

each of the three major networks is trying an alien-related show in the fall, so they might be worth checking out. they'll either suck, or get cancelled

Mostly, tv sucks

Morpheus · Jul 14, 2005

Dagger75 said:
Law and Order SVU is pretty good.

Yep, except that they generally don't end on a "happy" note ("Yeah, we caught the serial rapist, but now one of his victims raped someone else.")
Angel definitely...The X-Files if you didn't catch them when they were first on (or own all of the dvd sets).
Funny thing about The X-Files, Dagger75 wants to run a Delta Green game, but he's not a big fan. Or maybe that was MEG Hal...
The Dead Zone is good...
Rescue Me and The Shield are the class of F/X...

Arbiter of Wyrms · Jul 15, 2005

Essential:
House (unless you have something against medical dramas or you're in the medical field)
Avatar: The Last Airbender

lesser:
Lost
Deadwood
Celebrity Match Game
What's My Line

As for recording and watching at the same time, it depends on your set up: any DVr will let you watch something that you've already finished recording while something else records. If you want to record two things at once, or watch one program while recording another, you'll need a dual reciever and a dual LNB (the pluggy-in part on the actual dish itself) I've seen more than a dual LNB, and in fact, I'm pretty sure that we have a quad LNB, some to think of it, but we only have one dual receiver with DVR and one regular reciever, so we can record two programs while watching two other programs recorded earlier while at the same time my mother can watch another (live) program in her bedroom on the non-recording box.