TV shows you're 'ashamed' to admit you watch

[Clara Bow]

Celebreality on VH1...I feel so dirty, but I cannot get enough of the Surreal Life....

[dietcokeofevil]

Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders: Making the Team.  I also watch the Girls Next Door.  Sometimes you just need some mindless TV.

[hobish]

Celebreality on VH1...I feel so dirty, but I cannot get enough of the Surreal Life....

Oh my goodness, the Surreal Life! When i had major dental surgery there was a Surreal Life marathon going. I spent 4 days on my couch watching that show.  I blamed it on the painkillers. The season with Ron Jeremy and that crew was great. I loved the end when Sally Jessie Raphael tried getting them all stirred up and they all defended each other and accused SJR of trying to cause trouble. It was a proud day for celebritydom.

  Oh man ... i have to watch some extra Discovery Channel now just to make up for even thinking that much about SL.

[extranormal]

*whisper*
Beauty and the Geek
*slinks off in shame*

[TZ]

I also love Degrassi: The Next Generation, and I watch the worst soap on the planet, Passions.  It's great, and I'm legitimately upset that it was cancelled.

But the most shameful is...The Real Housewives of Orange County.  I highly recommend it, as it features etiquette violations galore!  It is also the trashiest show on T.V.

[Venus193]

I don't have any guilty pleasures on TV; I freely admit all.  One quirk, though, is that I've taped a few entire novelas.  It started because when I first began watching them I would tape them just in case I had to review a section that wasn't familiar and I ended up keeping the series.  Considering that the DVD releases are condensed to about 10-12 hours (depending on who edits them), this was a smart move with a couple of them.

[Brentwood]

Seriously?  I was cheering for Kaysar!

(I have a big problem cheering for a drunk, no matter how 'good' she played a game, she is still a convicted drunk.)

Kaysar wasn't in the final two.

Edited to add that neither was Janelle - she was the last eliminated before the finals - but Erika and Boogie both disgusted me.

[Brentwood]

I like the Nanny programs.  I think there are two?  I used to watch that Paris and Nicole show.  I wouldn't have allowed them in my house in real life, though.  They were just too unpredictable.

I just want to clarify that when I said The Nanny, I was referring to the sitcom starring Fran Drescher, not the Nanny 911-type shows.

[Brentwood]

I also love the Nanny. I am severely jealous of Miss Fine's wardrobe (and ability to pull it off for the most part).

I um, really really like to watch Arthur and Jakkers. On PBS. I think they're rated ages 5-8 or something.

"It's the tales of our pal Piggley, Ireland is the world that he loves so well..."

[megswsu]

I'll also cop to "7th Heaven." For a while I had a ton of free time, and watched the 2 hour block of reruns every night on ABC Family or something. The acting is sub-par, and everything wraps up so neatly in an hour, but I just had to know what was going to happen next to those 'crazy' Camdens!    DH would just shake his head and go in the other room.

[sammycat]

I love 'Degrass'i too, and lets just say it's been a while since I was in high school.  I also like "Wife Swap", and one of the few children's movies I can bear to watch is the live action 2004 release of the 'Thunderbirds', although I'm not a big fan of the original TV show.

[Miss Misery]

America's Funniest Videos

Only the episodes with Tom Bergeron.

[T'Mar of Vulcan]

OH MY GOSH!  I forgot about Battlestar Galactica!  I watched the first season and half of the second before I told anyone I liked it, I didn't want to be the "geeky sci-fi girl". 

I AM a geeky sci-fi girl and proud of it! There's nothing wrong with being a geeky sci-fi nut, there's only people rude enough to try to make geeky sci-fi fans feel bad. Well, I don't! Sci-fi RULES!

T'MAR!  I just now realized that pic is of Daniel Jackson! I have to keep my brightness down to less than 10 or I get headaches.  Michael Shanks is YUMMY!!!

Hee. Yes, he is. I had to put that pic and quote there, since he mentions etiquette. It's etiquette relating to being a hostage, but we can't be picky when looking for etiquette-related quotes from Stargate...

[Buffy2424]

I like to watch Girls Next Door.  Yes, that one.  The E! show starring an 80 year old Playboy Mogul Heff and his three live-in girlfriends (ages 20, 26 and 33).  I don't know what it is about that show!  It's a trainwreck, yet it's charming. 

[Venus193]

Hugh Hefner is one of the biggest marketing geniuses of the 20th century.  I never had the pleasure of meeting him, but when I did business with his magazine ages ago he had the most socially-polished staff of any magazine I ever recommended to a client.  Did you know he had a TV show years ago, too:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063940/