TV shows you fight with your friends about?

[The Borgified Corpse]

Friends usually have a lot of common interests. My friend & I like a lot of the same shows-- Animaniacs, Doctor Who, The Simpsons, Stargate SG-1, etc. But there are a couple shows that, whenever they come up, always start fights between the 2 of us. Does that ever happen to the rest of you?

For us...

South Park. I think that show is the most socially relevent TV series ever. It's a much needed satire of the sorry state of American culture today. Stan & Kyle are the super-ego, the voice of reason. The people of South Park, frequently personified by Stan's father, are the ego, the terrified, malleable masses too quick to adopt the latest media hysteria. Cartman is the raging id, the sum of every vice you could ever think of. This has been the only show to have to guts to directly tackle such diverse topics as censorship, Mormons, Scientology, NAMBLA, Catholic pedophilia, Paris Hilton, etc.
My friend just can't get beyond the scatological humor.

That '70s Show. My friend loves it. I just don't get it.

What shows start fights with your friends.

 

[Roger Wilco]

I usually don't. We point out stuff the other ones might like, but if they don't that's it.

The only thing that I really don't get is the obsession with One Piece of two of my friends. Imo that's the among the most stupid, childish crap ever shown on tv, but any discussion about that is pointless. We don't have to share the same taste about everything.

 

[Starbreaker]

I don't understand the Office at all but my friends love it. I pretty much just leave the room when it's on.

 

[Cutter John]

When I want to fight about tv shows, I just get online.

 

[HappyDayRiot]

I can never fathom why my best friend of many years absolutely despises Coupling when I think it's one of the best original British comedies of the last ten years or so. And our tastes in TV and even music are incredibly similar. His hatred for that programme defies belief and I always feel obliged to defend it.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Me and my significantotherperson fight over Larry David. He likes Seinfeld the best and I prefer Curb Your Enthusiasm.

He constantly tries to get me to watch dumbass comedies I watch for ten seconds and get bored of - Married with Children, King of Queens, Malcolm in the Middle. Sorry, South Park and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia are more my speed. Mainstream comedies are so bourgeois.

He has this weird reverence for Prison Break, his favorite TV show ever. And here's the really weird part - he's never seen the first season, which was the only good season! It's like he just doesn't comprehend that for the other seasons, the show was a pile of steaming garbage. I think he's been brainwashed.

OTOH, he loves Farscape, DS9 and Firefly and loathes Stargate with every fiber of his being. So his tastes in sci if are reasonable.

 

[DevilEyes]

I absolutely despise 24 and I have several friends who are really into it. I wouldn't say we actually fight about it, but I always state my opinion that the show is crap and I stand my ground no matter how much they ensure me it is great. Oddly enough, most of them have overall very good taste. This is just one thing we agree to disagree on. Maybe they are just not bothered by some things that are, to me, a complete turn-off. And it's not that I am judging something I haven't seen - I watched the first two seasons in their entirety, mostly out of curiosity (and because I found many things in season 1 unintentionally hilarious).

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

The only thing that I really don't get is the obsession with One Piece of two of my friends. Imo that's the among the most stupid, childish crap ever shown on tv, but any discussion about that is pointless.

I have a friend who is thoroughly anime obsessed. Her obsessions include One Piece, Naruto, & some new show that isn't actually legally available in this country yet called Soul Hunter or something like that. Personally, I have very limited taste in anime. I think most of it is rediculous and takes itself way too seriously. There's only a few anime shows that I actually like-- Cowboy Bebop, Excel Saga, Ghost Stories, Puni Puni Poemi, Ranma 1/2, & portions of Saber Marionette J.

I don't understand the Office at all but my friends love it. I pretty much just leave the room when it's on.

I know a few people who love it, including one man who I have an inordinate amount of respect for. Yet, when he compares The Office to Arrested Development, I just don't see the connection. Arrested Development is an incredibly clever, witty show. The Office is... not. I appreciate subtle humor but this is subtle to the point of subterranean.

I can never fathom why my best friend of many years absolutely despises Coupling when I think it's one of the best original British comedies of the last ten years or so. And our tastes in TV and even music are incredibly similar. His hatred for that programme defies belief and I always feel obliged to defend it.

Amidst all of the sitcom dross that the U.K. has produced (and I believe needs to apologize for) over the last 30 years, there are 2 shows that have become milestones of quality British comedy-- Coupling & Red Dwarf. Although, I admit, I sometimes have a problem with my friends liking Coupling. While they like it, I fear they don't really understand it and like it for the wrong reasons. I think they think Coupling is supposed to be instructional, not an appalling cautionary tale. Ever since one of my friends compared me to Jeff, it's taken all my willpower to not tell him to fuck off.

He constantly tries to get me to watch dumbass comedies I watch for ten seconds and get bored of - Married with Children, King of Queens, Malcolm in the Middle.

Married with Children has its moments, although I prefer Unhappily Ever After.

 

[Kira's Mom]

I've argued with my cousin about House v. Grey's Anatomy. She doesn't get House, and just raves about GA, while I find the characters on that show mostly nasty (except for Christina and Bailey).

 

[Mistral]

I try not to discuss my choice of shows with my friends-they are more into 2 1/2 Men or the Big Bang Theory while I like House and Leverage. So I just avoid the topic of TV.

 

[Trubinator]

My friend and I always debate whether Picard or Sisko is better. He likes Sisko, whereas I like Picard. We also argue over whether 24 and Farscape are good shows. I'll probably never get him to watch 24, but I've been making progress toward getting him to try FS.

 

[Kelthaz]

The only thing that I really don't get is the obsession with One Piece of two of my friends. Imo that's the among the most stupid, childish crap ever shown on tv, but any discussion about that is pointless. We don't have to share the same taste about everything.

Yay, One Piece. Best show ever made.

Anyway, I don't really fight with my friends about TV shows. Most of them don't even know half the shows I watch, so it'd be pretty hard to fight about them. The few people I know who, for example, know what One Piece or Doctor Who are tend to enjoy them also.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I'll probably never get him to watch 24, but I've been making progress toward getting him to try FS.

The friend that I fight with over South Park & That '70s Show is one that I have converted over to several of his now favorite shows. Of course, I've usually had to go through his wife to get there. She's a lot more open minded than he is. That was how I got him hooked on Doctor Who & Stargate Atlantis (which of course led to him discovering many of the related shows such as Stargate SG-1 & Torchwood. In fact, I was even able to mooch off of his DVD set of The Sarah Jane Adventures). I'm trying to decide which show to get him hooked on next. I'm thinking either Dollhouse, Odyssey 5, or Red Dwarf.

 

[_r_]

Firefly.

All the more complicated, since I introduced it to them.

 

[Steve Roby]

I can never fathom why my best friend of many years absolutely despises Coupling when I think it's one of the best original British comedies of the last ten years or so.

A friend of my wife's let us borrow her Coupling DVDs. My first reaction after a bit of the first episode was, this is just a crass remake of Friends with everything but the focus on sex removed. But we kept watching, and before long we were both convinced that Coupling was one of the best and funniest sitcoms in a long time (and infinitely better than Friends). If something had happened to interrupt us early on, though, and we hadn't kept watching, I might have assumed my initial reaction was correct.