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’.

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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

The week before was just as bad where they'd taken a £20k loan out to buy a bloody camper van they had used twice in 3 years because they actually hate camping! They just left it sitting on the driveway instead of selling it!

Death in paradise is like a big formulaic comfort blanket. I love it.
Murder followed by a jolly theme tune. Lovely.

All of the CSI's. Love them but the murderer is pretty much always the first, non CSI, person you see after the murder. Could be the hotel cleaner or the ambulance driver or distraught relative.
They then try to pin it on 2 or 3 others before circling back to the first person just before the end.

Ramsay’s kitchen nightmares.
Gordon trials dishes on the menu. It’s all utterly disgusting and gets sent back after a few mouthfuls.
He rants at everyone and tells them they are useless and might as well shut down. Usually someone threatens to walk out.
Overnight there is a sudden improvement and they are all so grateful for his God-like help.

The Hotel Inspector has a similar format.

Funniest thing is when they discover that avocados are more expensive in Oz than in the UK! It then
becomes a ' game changer ' as couple can't run to higher priced fruits!
They also discover that wages are pretty much the same too. It's so disappointing all round ( for them anyway )

Eastenders 🥱

Another one for Friends.

Never got the fuss over that show.

It's so funny on Wanted Down Under or A Place in the Sun when the couple realise that £200k will not buy a mansion with outdoor pool with sea views.

And I agree with a PP about Jane Mcdonald. What an ego.

Friends : I don't ' get it' at all.
Never have.

I love it on ' place to the sun' when they do go to the 3 million pound pad and it's exactly what the others want for 200,000.
It's like quiz shows ' here's what you could have won' moment. If only you hadn't been so thick

Pining for the good old days and Leo from Easyjet!

we all know they're going to end up like Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall in The Shining

Naked Attraction

Fannies, willies, tits.

Hairy bits, bald bits, saggy bits.

Uncomfortable date.

The End.

Good god Vera is just weary, her voice alone sends me to sleep, I can't bear that program!

The airline programmes were always fun.
Naked attraction : words fail me to be honest.
Who would actually want to go on it ?

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Rescue mediums. No one but me seems to have heard of it but it was on my netflix for a while.

2 yorkshire women, Alison and Jackie, are in some sort of interesting transport on their way to an unknown location to help family x who are experiencing hauntings. Cut to family members saying what theyve experienced. The narrator continues: Days previously the mediums had some EERIE PREMONITIONS. They tell each other what theyve seen while the other listens with pursed lips. "A man in uniform" "a feeling of being watched" "the name james".
Now we see the mediums arrive at the home and they tell the homeowners their premonitions. The homeowners usually exchange glances and smile. Then the mediums do their observations. They usually feel a spirit or hear or see something. They surround said thing with light and then open the door and watch the person be collected by spirits they knew in their former lives.

Then they sit down with the homeowners and present their research on who they rescued. Usually some immigrant from Ireland who came to Canada in the C19 and suffered some sort of terrible tragedy.

Then they leave, all smiles but finish off with a drink and some awful pun about spirits.

All of that in 20 minutes. Brilliant telly!

Oh my days, this better still be available to watch somewhere. It sounds right up my alley.

I was going put in a pun about it being available in some medium but decided it's not in the spirit.

Escape to the Country:

Couple claim that they want to downsize but want at least four bedrooms because their family might visit occasionally. As family live the other side of the country they are totally deluded. Couple go round sniffing at how small everything is, presenter tries to remind them that they want to downsize, they ignore him. Or couple says they want a project, get shown something where they might have to knock a couple of walls down, don't fancy it, ignore presenter when he reminds them they wanted a project. Couple end up proclaiming that it's confirmed to them that Surrey/Dorset/Cornwall/the Isle of Man or whatever is the only place to live and the last thing we hear is that they are still looking for a mahoosive country house for their unrealistic budget but strangely haven't found it yet.

Judge Judy -

Plantiff: I sold my car to my cousin but he didn't have the money so I said he could pay me monthly. Then when it didn't run any more he stopped paying me. I took it back off his drive. I want $5000 for loss of earnings and hurt feelings.

Judge Judy: You have kids? You don't pay alimony? You don't have a job? Go and picks up cans for money.

I often wonder at the number of cans that must just be scattered across America just waiting to be collected by feckless fathers.

i just watch the last 10 minutes of Grand designs -its all i need

It's the actual nose turning up at anything less than Buck house that amazes me on moving shows. If only you had worked harder and longer you could have a bigger kitchen, but you can't so boo sucks ..

@AuntieJoyce

Criminal Minds

In women are disappearing from supermarket carparks/jogging/garage restrooms. Profiling team get called in. Give profile - single male nondescript in his thirties lives with mother.

Garcia uncovers a shortlist of three in between 2nd and 3rd ad breaks. Reed goes off on his own bat whilst rest of team investigate shortlist. Whoops as Reed accidentally blunders into serial killer’s den in remote wooded area. Rest of team realise Reed was right all along and arrive just as Reed is about to have his eyeballs eaten.

Yes to this... Also if they seem to be stuck, don't worry there's hypnosis... And before you can say look into my eyes, the team have the whole history, an oil painting of the one what did it and their social security number. So disappointing!

@BillyJoe111

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.

I can be even more unpopular, Only Fools and Horses, I really cannot understand why people rave over this and get genuinely quite annoyed at me for not liking it!

A Place in The Sun

June and Peter from Derbyshire want to retire to Benalmadena because June has arthritis and they are both looking forward to a new life in a Ground floor property with space outside for entertaining and an area for their dogs which they hope to rescue when they get there.

Laura Hamilton shows them four penthouse properties and rolls her eyes at the camera when they protest at the stairs and says they have changed the goalposts

@MeredithGreyishblue

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

Wasn't it usually Lupus?

Walking Dead.

Threat.
Run.
Find safe house.
Safe house compromised by threat.
Run.
Find safe house.

Repeat for 300 series.

@FuckPilledLatteplus

*Gregg shares one of his sexual fantasies involving puddings.

That is a LAVVERLY plata food!*

Not sure whether to laugh or vomit

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House.