You’ve seen one episode, you’ve seen them all?

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Inspired by the ‘Vera’ thread - what are the shows you can see once, then theoretically never see again without missing anything?

My vote goes to Location Location Location. As much as I love it, the formula is eternally predictable:

‘Steve and Samantha Deluded-Twats are looking for a spacious two-bedroom apartment in west London. They love pricey Chiswick, but only have £300k to spend. They’re hoping that, with our help, they can find an area nearby with an attractive high street with a villagey feel and lots of independent shops and cafés, even though they buy everything off Amazon and get their lunch from Tesco Express like the rest of us. Today, I’ll be showing them a one-bed in need of work opposite a condemned council estate now being used as an unofficial skate park and drug den. I REALLY hope they can see the potential’.

Share your nominations…

Lol I came on to say Vera

That is such a good description of how those shows go!

Mine would be Grey’s Anatomy. Patient with an unheard of condition, Meredith is angsty, people are sleeping with their colleagues, the hospital is in danger of being sued.

Actually House is much more predictable but I enjoyed it more the GA.

I saw this and thought House! I loved it and watched every episode....but it was very formulaic. Enjoyable though!

Masterchef

Probably unpopular….. Friends.

Uptight monica, oooh look Rachel has done something daft, Phoebe has been quirky, Chandler thinks he’s hilarious, How you doin’, Joey, oh Ross is a condescending dick to someone.

On and on for YEARS.

Friends

Phoebe does something ditzy/Ross is a twat to someone/Chandler says something sarcastic and or funny. etc..

The end.

@BillyJoe111 what a cross post! xD

Geordie shore.
Britain's got talent.
X factor.
All the Soaps

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Ha!!

Great minds.

Definitely!

Star Trek.
Mysterious space thing, omg nobody has seen this before/ gotten out alive, moralising LOOPHOLE FOUND, escape found just in time, moral lesson the end

*ok not moral more of philosophy but you get my drift

The Yorkshire vet, all exactly the same!

Prison Break. How many times can one person and all his girlfriends, mates, family be sent to, and then escape from prison. Mind boggling

Changing Rooms. Its fucking tedious.

Don’t Tell the Bride 🥱

House, but I still love it

I’m loving the Friends x-post

Grand Designs
Young couple want to build home of their dreams which must simultaneously blend in with the landscape and be the size of an aircraft hangar.

Kevin is dubious about whether their budget will stretch.

The wife becomes pregnant and the family lives in a caravan throughout multiple delays and setbacks to the build.

Windows get delivered and one might break! Then it doesn’t.

It finally gets built and Kevin decides it’s a unique feat of architecture and he was oh so wrong to have ever doubted anything.

It is revealed that the budget went over by 200%.

Eat Well for Less - generally a two parent family with 2.4 children, buying tons more than they ever get to eat because in addition to giant supermarket shops they get takeaways every day.
the solution is always stop buying branded stuff, cut out junk food, no takeaways and packed lunch for work, and cook from scratch.

And if they buy cheap tea forever they'll save £2.03 a year - never any suggestion to buy a brand they like, but get it when it's on special offer

And the two idiot presenters gurning their way around a supermarket pretending no one knows they're there.

Wanted Down Under.

‘One half of a couple dreams of a big move down under despite never having travelled further than Wigan. Tracey is convinced she can show long-suffering husband Andy that they can swap their modest two bed terrace in Kettering for a swanky open-plan home with its own outdoor pool in a suburb of Brisbane, a stone’s throw from some fantastic beaches.

The children’s grandparents are devastated and in tears at the thought of the family moving to the other side of the world, but Tracey insists that uprooting her two boys from their friends and schools is ultimately the best decision for their family, and a week all-expenses paid holiday with visits to water parks and feeding kangaroos might just be evolution to convince them’

Midsomer Murders.
Unlikely murder in a bucolic village where everyone is overinvested in one particular hobby or activity. Quite often Barnaby's wife (either) is also involved in it. More murders follow, until the last potential victim is saved by Barnaby (either) at the eleventh hour.

HOUSE! Whatever the diagnosis (99% cancer) you won't be right until after the third adverts!

*enough

Grand Designs.
Couple design some state of the art residence full of sustainable energy technology on a hilariously unrealistic budget. Kevin delivers whispered warnings to camera just before ad break. Specially engineered glass from Germany fails to arrive and when it does it doesn't fit - just. Woman gets pregnant and thereby the race is on to get moved in by Christmas (FFS is Kevin actually impregnating these women?). A catastrophically awful winter ensues with waist deep floods on site, and in the latter series there's a countdown clock to when you, the viewer, know that Covid is about to strike and you're shouting at the telly "Hurry UP! Covid is coming!". They move in and make the inside beautiful, and Kevin delivers his closing homily about the transformative power and beauty of great architecure.

Eat Well for Less

Family spends about £15k pa during 5 supermarket visits a week plus at least 3 takeaways. Can't understand why they can't afford to go on holiday.

They get 'secretly' followed around the supermarket where we watch them buying sacks of crisps, ready meals and branded drinks.
Massive surprise when Gregg and Chris appear at the till and ask them to guess how much they spent. Participants say £60-70 and Gregg spins round the till display for it to show £230. Lots of gasps and a few tears.

Back to their gaff where they swap all their Kelloggs cereals for the Aldi version, Heinz Ketchup for Sainsburys own and the £4 a bottle Fiji spring water that they 'must' have for tap water. They can't tell the difference and promise to live on home made bolognese in future.

See also Secret Eaters, Shop Well for Less and new favourite, Secret Spenders where this week's highlight was the woman who thought they had no money because her DH bought their DD a comic and some sweeties once a week, and had apparently no idea it was down to her own doing, spending £400 a month on having nice things posted to her door, with multiple mini breaks and beauty treatments on top.