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…

@Jaysmith71

The National Television Awards Thing

.....and the winner is ........Ant & Dec. Again. For the twentieth year running. But nobody knows why.

😂😂

@viques

Only Connect

Two teams of Pub Quiz bores are asked questions by a woman who unfortunately writes her own jokes .

Ooh! Spot on

(Am also still laughing at Iglesias Piggle)

The Bachelor, Australia. "We have this great connection and I'd like to see where it goes" repeated to death. Why those poor girls don't just run for the hills!

@Bobsyer

Changing Rooms. Its fucking tedious

I mean, it finished in 2004 so fairly easy to avoid

Any American (in particular) crime show, like Criminal Minds or CSI. They don’t know how to wrap up a series so they go on and on and on and on.....

Changing Rooms has returned! I watched it this week (never again).

@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.

Hahaha brilliant! 🤣 this totally!!!!

Anything with Phillip Schofield in.

Grand Designs

@Mamette, you missed “someone thinks they can project manage/QS the job despite having no experience and that these are professions that take years of training and/or a degree to master”. I’ve worked as a construction professional for 30 years, even I would struggle to properly project manage a home build, unless it was my full time job.

A teacher, a Royal Marine, a bank manager, an accountant, they all think they can do it. How would they feel about me turning up at their work and deciding I could do their job with hee haw training or experience?

@Unfashionable

In the Night Garden. Iglesias Piggle goes to bed. The end.

I just woke DH up chuckling at this and the comments afterwards. Genius!

Glad to see so many other 'Place in the Sun' appreciators. I think I saw the lovely couple too. Least favourite couple: the ones who couldn't find what they wanted for £80K so got a new budget of £100K & liked a house shown to them at that price. They made an offer on it... of £80K. LOL.

Why is everywhere they go completely deserted? How do the programme makers get everybody to clear off? What does those little shared swimming pools look like when everyone in the complex is in & around it with their visiting family?

what do, obvs...

homes under the hammer

@Tulips15

MAFS, producers putting incompatible people together encouraging 'affairs'

Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares

Ramsey goes in to struggling restaurant. Tries their food - it's shit.
Meets staff - shouts at them, few f bombs thrown in for good measure. Lots of smacking together of the back of Gordon's hands. 17 year old sous chef is recognised by Gordon as having managerial/head chef potential.
Restaurant has makeover, menu is reduced to 7 items.
Big first night opening of redecorated restaurant. All going swimmingly. So swimmingly the staff can't cope with all the orders & something goes wrong. But they get there in the end. The end

Married at First Sight

Haha, just saw a few previous votes for that!

The summary of In The Night Garden did make me laugh, no matter what version of Iggle Piggle we are referring to. I rather like the Spanish version with Inglesias, I'm hoping Upsy Daisy does the flamenco in it.

DH has a tendency to watch shit TV at night like Train Truckers where people move trains on trucks. That's the same every time, load train, set off, have trouble going round corner with long vehicle around the commercial break time with a voiceover that implies peril - but you'll be surprised to hear that they make it round every time. To be fair, even DH says he doesn't know why they have to create the false drama.

@Unfashionable

In the Night Garden. Iglesias Piggle goes to bed. The end.

Always wondered what ‘Iggle’ was short for 😂😂😂

Nightmare Neighbour Next Door

• New neighbour moves in, doesn't engage with others raising eyebrows amongst the "naice" close knit community

• New neighbour lowers the tone of neighbourhood with messy garden/parties/undesirable friends

• Naice neighbours embark on surveillance campaign which picks up some bizarre behaviour (e.g. new neighbour checking out contents of naice neighbours bins)

• Physical attack of some sort

• Police intervention

Death in paradise. Impossible crime is committed, then suddenly solved by something insignificant (like a spider crawling into a hole) jogging the detectives thought process to solve said crime.

Still love it though! (And Vera!)

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

@MrsLargeEmbodied, I need the first five minutes too, so I can do my usual “no fucking way” when they say what their budget is, then watch the last ten to see how close I was with my prediction.

Bridgerton. And what’s worse is it is exactly the same as Gossip Girl just with older houses and fancier costumes (and, of course, far more gratuitous sex)

@Bloodyavocadoagain

River Monsters: This week Jeremy Wade is on the hunt for a giant, possibly prehistoric, ferocious looking fish that has been biting fishermen’s willies off on the coast of Mauritious.

Cue Jeremy Wade‘s subtitled interview with distressed williless Mauritian fisherman.

It’s going to take some doing to track this monster down. From descriptions given by witnesses it’s 20 foot long, looks like a piranha that’s teamed up with a shark and a diplodocus and has 2 rows of disturbingly human looking teeth.

Cut to Jeremy Wade ruggedly standing naked from the waist up in a small boat, competently casting his large, thick rod into the middle of a sludgy looking lake.

Tense music as there’s a huge jerk on Jeremys rod and he is nearly pulled off the boat. Camera pans river as Jeremy reels in a pissed off looking cod. Announces it’s not the willy chomper and has to turn in as its getting dark.

Next day:

After 3 false alarms that yield two further vicious but incorrect offenders and a dead seagull, the willy chomper is finally reeled on deck 5 mins before the end of the show. Jeremy stuffs a stick in The frantically thrashing chompers gob to keep it away from his appendage, while telling viewers that it is indeed the very rare Mauritian Willy Chomper that normally poses no threat to humans as it is supposed to hang out mid ocean but alarmingly due to climate change has adapted to freshwater habitats and is now swimming around denuding Mauritian fishermen of their manhoods. Jeremy describes the physiology of the fish, pointing out its disturbing teeth in close up before chucking the furious creature back into the lake. Fish brought to justice, Jezza warns the locals to wear y fronts when out in the lake at all times. Locals dead chuffed.

Next week Jeremy is nearer home investigating reports of a long, bright red and shiny fish in The Thames. It turns out to be the 9 pm No.2 bus to Walthamstow that large numbers of people are still queueing up for, tutting about how utterly shit the No.2 is these days.

Brilliant! You've nailed the entire series in one! 👏👏👏

@Boozysoozy1

Not sure anyone apart from me watched it but “Rosemary and Thyme” was the same every episode. Two gardeners (Rosemary and Thyme) are landscaping the gardens at a stately home- using only a trowel between them- when murder happens. Police are useless and it’s up to the plucky gardeners to find the killer!

Yes, I remember R&T. Very annoying pair who would rummage about for clues in the private homes they were supposed to be gardening for, after spotting something suspicious which the two nosey ol hinnies thought wasn’t quite right. Sometimes a dog would be involved.

@Whirlywooo

Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares

Ramsey goes in to struggling restaurant. Tries their food - it's shit.
Meets staff - shouts at them, few f bombs thrown in for good measure. Lots of smacking together of the back of Gordon's hands. 17 year old sous chef is recognised by Gordon as having managerial/head chef potential.
Restaurant has makeover, menu is reduced to 7 items.
Big first night opening of redecorated restaurant. All going swimmingly. So swimmingly the staff can't cope with all the orders & something goes wrong. But they get there in the end. The end

Then the restaurant always ends up closing within a year 😂