Stupid tv shows that you're obsessed with
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Even if it's like this?
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The US X-Factor has been a fabulous trainwreck. You have contestants bitterly barely singing their save songs confident their fates have already been sealed. You have young girls breaking into hysterics of crying after losing. Because of the goofy mentor concept combined with the judges picking who gets saved you have infighting and breakdowns among the judges themselves. On top of it all you have Steve Jones cruelly and coldly making the show move along making people in tears talk while preventing others from comforting them.
What is sad I have eaten at a few of the ones shown in New Jersey and New York. I think I'm up to 5 restaurants shown on the show.
Scrubs.
If it's anything like the UK version for this, Dermot O'Leary generally bullies them into speaking when they'd clearly rather not, then cuts them off mid sentence. I wish they wouldn't bother in the first place!
Before or after?
(not that it makes much difference, since at least in the UK version, only very few of the restaurant owners were actually smart/humble enough to really listen to Ramsay and follow his advice)
I thought Scrubs had superior writing for a comedy. I wouldn't frame it as a "stupid tv show".
I wouldn't classify those shows as stupid, especially since they're so critically acclaimed.
I love it, but it's tremendously repetitive after a couple of seasons - it combines some pretty clever dialogue with the worst tendencies of American sitcoms.
Just recently saw a great riff they did on just that subject, the episode where J.D. fantasizes that they're all living in a three-camera sitcom. It was remarkably brave of the producers to demonstrate how little some of the characters interactions had to be tweaked to push them into that really formulaic realm. Best moment: studio audience applause when the Janitor enters riding on his supply cart.
Wipeout.
No matter how many times I see someone faceplant into the Big Balls I laugh as though it were the first.
No matter how many times I see someone faceplant into the Big Balls I laugh as though it were the first.
^ You could try checking out MXC, which actually WAS the first. 
(well, actually the original original - Takeshi's Castle - was. But MXC is basically a re-edit of that, it's not a ripoff like Wipeout is.)
(I hope that Wipeout's credits acknowledge it in some way, but it probably does not.
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(well, actually the original original - Takeshi's Castle - was. But MXC is basically a re-edit of that, it's not a ripoff like Wipeout is.)(I hope that Wipeout's credits acknowledge it in some way, but it probably does not.
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[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqVQTeeA8E8[/yt]
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MXC wsa outstanding when it first debuted on Spike. It was one of my favourite shows at the time. Haven't seen it in a long time now and it got old fast.
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