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

[WomanStanleyWoman]

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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To be honest 'you've seen one episode, you've seen them all' could apply to loads of things...

I disagree with 'Friends' as a few people have suggested. All the episodes were different. Of course the behaviour of the characters was the same in many of the episodes. Why wouldn't it be?

My contribution is The Walking Dead - the most overrated cult show ever IMO. Was OK for the first couple of seasons, but the other seasons were exactly the same. Dull and boring IMO.

Also, all the house renovation shows, Naked Attraction, and all the dirty house/deep cleaning shows. Also, Love Island, and all the other dating shows are very samey and predictable, and so are the 'talent' shows... Seen one, seen them all.....

Even some of the crime dramas/cop shows are going this way now. Seen one, seen them all........

@Antsinyourpanta

Lol at the grand designs recaps. YY to the specially quadrupally glazed glass the size of a tennis court, shipped from Germany, and then delivered down a narrow gap between drives that a fiat 500 would struggle to get through.

Also
Escape to the country
Linda and Colin live in a 4 bed 1970s estate house in Reading but now all their children have left home, they want to retire to Devon. The new house must have character, and be rural with views but they want to be part of a community. It needs 4 bedrooms, a large kitchen diner because they love to entertain, a huge living area to accommodate family and friends, a large garden for growing vegetables and at least a double garage or outbuilding for (and this is where there are subtle differences) an art /pottery studio for Linda or to accommodate Colin's motorbike collection or potential to start a b and b.

Half way through the programme, for no point whatsoever, the presenter will take them to a nearby place to try wild swimming or basket weaving and Linda and Colin will look slightly bewildered and unenthusiastic, but make vaguely positive comments to camera about how they might try it again once they have moved.

Dont forget the Grand Designs bit where they have spent the whole night before the camera crew get there for the final reveal laying sod bought with their last five pounds and sticking a few garden center geraniums in pots to make it look like they moved in weeks ago and are living happily ever after …….. and the fact that they dont have the water hooked up to the bathrooms and 4 of the bedrooms arent finished and the garage is full of building crap and they dont have a washing machine because they spent that money on the sod….is cleverly glossed over because they have a lawn and flowers!

@WomanStanleyWoman I'd not heard of her though I think I remember an appearance on Wogan back in the day. I looked online and when I saw they were an artist, I had to look at their art.

@WorriedWishingWell

Gardeners' World. People grow stuff, people remove some of the grown stuff because it's dead or to make room for more stuff.

Sounds like my life and I don't even have a garden...

The hunted programme, go off grid and keep running, don’t contact your family, its only a month….. they contact their family, every fucking time meaning the hunters get a lead and race off to catch them.

A place in the sun

we are here in the beautiful dordogne with retired policeman Jeff and his wife carol who want to indulge their love of wine tasting and host theirextended family for holidays, as well as starting a self catering business for some extra income

Presenter: so, what kind of house are you looking for

Carol: ideally a 3 or 4 bedroom french character property, at least 2 acres of land so Jeff can get the drive on lawnmower he's always wanted (Jeff smiles gormlessly) a swimming pool, and an extra outbuilding we can renovate into a gîte for extra income.

Presenter: and what kind of budget do you have in mind?

Jeff: our budget is 30 000 euros, but we could stretch to 32 000 euros for something really special.

First property- ^grotty 2 bed 70s build, surrounded by and acre of gravel, with orange lino throughout, inexplicably no kitchen and ceilings that are only 6 foot high. Carol has a little cry. Jeff says he's not averse to going some DIY. Carol looks panicked and says they'd rather find something in move in condition.

@PandorasMailbox

😂😂 I think I love you

@DedalusBloom I hope you know you're wasted on MN, but I'm glad you post regardless - I just spat my tea out in morrisons caff!

Sparkling. (Your writing, not the tea) 🤗

@StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes

The hunted programme, go off grid and keep running, don’t contact your family, its only a month….. they contact their family, every fucking time meaning the hunters get a lead and race off to catch them.

God I hate that show! I hate how the people 'hunting' the 'contestants' go to their friends and family members home and say 'we have the right to know if they have been in touch.' And they demand to look at people mobile phones, and look at their emails. I would tell them to fuck off. They are NO jurisdiction whatsoever...

HAVE no jurisdiction.

@MyPatronusIsACat

HAVE no jurisdiction.

Personally, I reckon the hunting team are missing a major plot hole opportunity to know where these 'fugitives' are.

Why don't they just phone the cameraman that travels with them?

Not the local ones. But perhaps unfair to call them shallow. A quick trawl of my local BBC weathergirls reveals one is a sports scientist, another a journalism lecturer and stand-up comedian who runs a theatre school, and a famous former one was a quadrilingual qualified teacher

Yes, they’ve usually paid their dues and have some kind of education. The post made it sound like they just scouted Janice from Tesco because she had blonde hair and nice…assets!

American Chopper.

Someone asks for a custom bike. Paul Senior takes the job and agrees to do it in two days, despite it being two weeks worth of work. Paulie Junior, does the design, sources all the stuff, gets the team together, gets them working.

The new guy fucks something up, Paulie fixes it. Something breaks, Paulie fixes it. Something isn’t available, Paulie finds it in New Mexico and gets it shipped in twenty minutes. There’s half a day to go and Senior gets off his arse from his office to come an have a look, shouts and swears at Paulie Junior for being a waste of fucking space. With ten minutes to go, Senior comes in and fits the back wheel and everyone congratulates him for doing a brilliant job, the bike couldn’t be done without him. Paulie is given no credit whatsoever. Mikey fucks about on the internet and Senior crowns him as the golden boy.

No wonder Junior fucked off to start his own company!

@StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes

The hunted programme, go off grid and keep running, don’t contact your family, its only a month….. they contact their family, every fucking time meaning the hunters get a lead and race off to catch them.

I would like a crossover of this programme with Mediums Rescue described upthread.

The hunters would not be able to demand access to the communication devices of family, friends etc. to see if the person on the run had been in touch. The hunters would have to collaboration with Mediums Rescue to find the hunted.

On their break, Feisty Eyebrows reveals to bewigged stranger that she actually dreams of being a marine biologist, but had to leave school at 13 to support her nine siblings, as robbers cut off her father’s legs and used them to beat her mother to death. She’s remarkably stoic about it - ‘It is what it is; I do what I gotta do. It’s family’.

Wiggy reveals his true self. Feisty is stunned to discover she’s on Undercover Boss, having seen nothing odd in a man who looks like he bought his hair in the Halloween aisle at Wilko quizzing her on her tragic past. He buys her a car, a new set of legs for her father, and a luxury trip to Seaworld to get her ‘one step closer to that dream’. She sobs.

Proper laughed at this one.

Ha I was going to say Place in the Sun too.

First house - just under budget, but tiny shabby and shit. “Full of character!” Couple hate it.
Second house - soulless shit villa next to a golf course in expat hellhole. Way over budget but couple make cooing noises and absolutely love it.
Third house - on budget, perfect in every way. Shall we make an offer? No, cos the couple were very obviously only on the show to get a free week away and now they’re going to “continue the search” or “go away and think about it”.

Show ends with a disclaimer that property prices were correct as of 2004, so you’re shit out of luck if you think you can afford a place overseas. Sorry.

Scooby -Doo! I would have got away with it if it wasnt for those darned kids!!!

@the80sweregreat

The Repair shop Bit of a story behind the accordion brought in wrapped in an old blanket. They repair it to its former glory. People go home very happy It is a great show and I love Will so much, but once you've seen one you have seen the others.

Nan (Catherine Tate) kinda nailed The Repair Shop in the Comic Relief sketch with Daniel Craig 'people bring in all their old shit ...'

At least when people bring toys in, they have usually collapsed through genuine use. The repairers do some fabulous work on treasured items which have not seen daylight for decades so treasured they've spent decades in a cupboard/attic/garage or garden shed

Countryfile

Opening fluffy segment on picturesque farm with cute fluffy animals and accompanying cute fluffy farming family

Second segment - Adam tackles A SERIOUS ISSUE around rural life nodding wisely as the expert who’s studied it for years explains exactly why said issue is happening

Segment three people who are clearly already very well off get to showcase the tat they make out of twigs/beach rubbish/dead badgers which they try to pretend they make a living out of

Segment four back to THE SERIOUS ISSUE where everone agrees it is indeed a serious issue and looks serious

Insert bit on countryfile calendar

Segment five back to cute fluffy farm family for happy last piece segueing into the weather forecast

Final segment as all presenters gather ti laugh heartily at something not that funny “and next week we’ll be urban farming in shoreditch”

the80sweregreat
The Repair shop
Bit of a story behind the accordion brought in wrapped in an old blanket
They repair it to its former glory
People go home very happy

You forgot to add 'and put it straight on eBay now it's in sellable condition'.

And for Countryfile, @Theeyeballsinthesky, you forgot the section where Adam brings his chequebook for the Rare Breed his staff are going to be looking after next.

@BruceAndNosh

Any film with Liam Neeson

😂😂

I would like a crossover of this programme with Mediums Rescue described upthread.

The hunters would not be able to demand access to the communication devices of family, friends etc. to see if the person on the run had been in touch. The hunters would have to collaboration with Mediums Rescue to find the hunted.

But the would have to use a ouija board and a pack of Tarot cards.

@SchadenfreudePersonified

Boris's bits would be hidden with a Union Jack flag and Matt Hancock would be rather proud of his one

Boris's bits would be hidden by his own saggy belly, and Hancock's covered by an NHS badge.

The badge would later be auctioned to raise money for the local Conservative party. I hope.

Any channel 5/Hallmark channel Christmas film.
Busy career woman is shown the error of her ways by hitting her head on a snow globe or something and experiencing life in a parallel existence, where she put love before career!
When she gets back to reality, she gives up her city life to open a cafe/book/gift shop and marry a hunky local fireman. They might mix it up a bit with hunk having a cute child that Hermione bonds with and becomes the perfect mother to!

Hermione =heroine