<p>Mary Tyler Moore
Bob Newhart
The Odd Couple
Dr. Katz
King of The Hill
Arrested Development
Pete and Pete</p>
<p>The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Seinfeld
TCM
Classic Star Trek – the episode entitled “The City On The Edge Of Forever” is a classic tv top ten.</p>
<p>Oh yes, Seinfeld too.</p>
<p>By the way, my dh bought me Mary Tyler Moore the first four seasons. I went to buy the last three–and you can’t. You can buy a boxed set of the entire show, but not those last three, so now I’m stuck either buying the whole thing or living without the last three seasons.</p>
<p>Frasier :)</p>
<p>What Not to Wear
Ace of Cakes and the Cake Boss
Top Gear on BBC
So you think you can dance</p>
<p>If you try Top Gear, watch the whole episode. They do car reviews which don’t do much for me, but they also do highly entertaining things like driving a motorcycle across Vietnam, racing buses, building houseboats out of cars and then testing them on the road and in the water.</p>
<p>It’s a show that my husband and I can watch together. He has bought into the cake shows, tho. He really likes the family on the Cake Boss.</p>
<p>OK, being “Seasonal” here, but any of the Rankin-Bass XMas specials will always be my ULTIMATE comfort TV. “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” and “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer” are two shows I watch EVERY year, shared with my children as they grew up, and can’t wait to share with my grandkids when they eventually arrive in a decade or so. Know practically every line by heart, can quote them in a heartbeat, and LOVE to sing along to the musical parts! Always brings back happy childhood memories–curled up on the floor, 18 inches from the TV tube, breathlessly waiting for XMAS to actually come and happy that these specials were probably the first “official” word that the holidays were just around the corner, mesmerized by the magic of it all. </p>
<p>And isn’t that what “Comfort” TV show or comfort foods are all about, recapturing pleasnt memories?</p>
<p>Another HGTV and Food Network fan. I love House Hunters International. H wants to know why his food has not changed to reflect all of the time I spend watching the TV chefs cook. :rolleyes: I want Candice Olson to come to my house and redo EVERY room.</p>
<p>Also a fan of Law & Order (regular and Criminal Intent), Designing Women reruns, Leverage, Cold Case, Without a Trace, Project Runway.</p>
<p>I dislike L&O Criminal Intent, but could watch endless reruns of regular & SVU. Also could watch Cold Case and Without a Trace non stop. I always have a few episodes on my tivo for watching when I iron or cook dinner.</p>
<p>My favorite all time tv series, however, is Friday Night Lights. I absolutely love that show.</p>
<p>I like The Fashion Show and Project Runway. Also, Dog Whisperer and (when I’m in the mood) Nancy Grace.</p>
<p>Project Runway for me, as well as History Detectives on PBS (LOVE that show), Ace of Cakes, Ice Road Truckers and just about anything on the Documentary Channel</p>
<p>Like condor30, am also enjoying Royal Pains this summer. While my “school year” favorites, Grey’s Anatomy and House, are on hiatus, am also enjoying Cake Boss, Say Yes to the Dress, and House Hunters.</p>
<p>Just about any HGTV show, especially House Hunters. I can even watch it on “mute” and be just as happy. I get hooked on certain movies, especially if I happen to surf by when a favorite scene is on. Lately it’s been The Wedding Date. I can’t pass up a few minutes of The Wizard of Oz or parts of The Bird Cage.</p>
<p>We actually own on DVD the entire original Star Trek series - Son and I watch them together…a couple of nights ago we found the funniest one ever - I think it’s called the Arena - it’s the one with the Gorn that Kirk fights just the two of them on a planet. We were laughing so hard that the rest of the family had to come and watch.</p>
<p>My brother in law got tired of his family making fun of him for being addicted to the History Channel. They told him he would watch anything, as long as it was on the History Channel. He said that was NOT true. Then one night he realized he was watching a show on the history of toilet paper. “OMG, they’re right,” he realized.</p>
<p>“Then one night he realized he was watching a show on the history of toilet paper.” </p>
<p>I’d watch that! I love the History Channel (except most of the war shows). I wonder if “America’s Castles” is still airing anywhere. Loved those, especially the gilded age estates. A little history, a little architectural/interior design, a little voyeurism…</p>
<p>I don’t have cable, but if I could watch Cheers, Frazier, Designing Women, Cosby, Family Ties, & All in the Family again I would. Those really were the days…</p>
<p>Whenever I stay in a hotel I enjoy watching whatever is on…in Cgo this weekend I saw bits of movies I hadn’t seen in ages…cheap fun.</p>
<p>But I do NOT particularly like the History channel. I find it too slow moving. Lots of pretty pictures and very few facts. I’d rather read a book and learn more in the same time.</p>
<p>I plead guilty to watching WAAAAAY too much of HGTV. House Hunters and Curb Appeal are my favorites. </p>
<p>I also live for Project Runway, Mad Men, Breaking Bad and Curb Your Enthusiasm</p>
<p>Horrible guilty pleasure:</p>
<p>QVC</p>
<p>and purchasing nothing!</p>
<p>I figure that most of the tackiest stuff will eventually end up at Big Lots, Ross or Marshalls for 95% off and for pennies at a garage sale!!</p>
<p>The nicer and more utilitarian stuff I write down and figure I can find it or make it somewhere else for less. I get to shop without leaving the house or spending ANY money!! I can listen while cleaning or cooking or having a cold (like last week) and feel comforted to know I didn’t have to open my wallet!!!</p>
<p>I do enjoy Top Gear, House, old Elvis movies, and I too have a collection of “vintage” Christmas movies that we all watch during the season, over and over. Kiddos count on it.</p>
<p>Watch Paula Dean and dream of cooking like her (with LOTS of butter) and NOT getting fat. Again eating and shopping without the calories or expense. I watch while I cut my coupons, match up the grocery and drug store deals with said coupons and plan meals for when all the kiddos are home again.</p>
<p>Kids tease me for watching (QVC) and listening to “the next best thing” and how “I have to have it!!” I see it as quite an achievement to watch and purchase absolutely nothing…</p>
<p>Now clearance at Ross is another story!</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>Missypie, just a bit of info on your comment about African-Americans in Mayberry. Mayberry is actually based on Andy Griffith’s hometown of Mt. Airy, NC, where my parents are from and where I was born. Quite honestly, I just don’t think there were many African-Americans in that town some 50 years ago, another way that the show reflected Andy’s hometown background. Consequently, this show is really TV comfort for me.</p>
<p>Also, anything on TCM, Friends and The Cosby Show.</p>
<p>katwkittens, my 15 year old daughter sounds just like you, except she heads to the kitchen to see how she can recreate Paula Deen’s Cheasy Mac with the Bencol; fake eggs; whole wheat pasta; and fat free cheese, milk & sour cream our cardiac-challenged house keeps on hand. Just doesn’t work, but I give her props for trying!</p>
<p>And when Billy Mays passed away she said she was mourning him more than MJ. She actually teared up at a repeat episode of Pitchmen on the Discovery Channel.</p>