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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So, I'm going to share your post with him, cos i know how much it will make him laugh

Happy to oblige @Ameanstreakamilewide😆

My favourite BFC was where she made a dish with fresh tomatoes, canned tomatoes, tomato juice and tomato purée (and 8 tons of salt) she tasted it said “ooh, you can really taste the tomato”

The latest incarnation of Changing Rooms.
Laurence L B's makeovers will be passable. He'll toss his head a lot and look sultry.
The other two "designers'" makeovers will be sh*te.
Insulting to the client imo.
The neighbours will ooh and aah over completed work. and probably have a breakdown off camera.

BoredZelda

@earthyfire

Celeb Masterchef, I can tell straight away who the producers have down as their winner.

Are you following the current debacle? It has caused eyebrows to be raised . One week to go before the nations collective blood pressure explodes like a squid ink sac in a rejected bowl of risotto.

Elementary

Show opens with a brutal and unexpected murder scene (the body is found impaled on a helicopter blade/ body is stuffed full of drugs with distinctive insignia printed on them / body is found in an art installation just as it's unveiled to the public).

Cut to Sherlock who is at home partaking in one of his quirky side interests (throwing axes at pig carcasses / timing how long he can stay submerged in his 1920s deep sea diving costume in the bathtub with no oxygen / conducting a chemical experiment having something to do with shrunken human heads from deepest darkest Amazon submerged in hydrochloric acid).

Sherlock and Joan start investigating the murder. While scoping out the scene they happen to speak to the receptionist/postman/girl who works at the downstairs juice shop/guy who was just randomly passing on his bike at the time). These encounters lead Sherlock and Joan to a hot clue which takes us down a merry storyline implicating the husband/business partner/estranged sister. What happens for the next 30 mins is not important. Joan doesn't smile. Detective Bell doesn't really do much except share confidential police information with Joan and Sherlock. Captain Quinn forgets his lines. There's some lip service to an ongoing plot line to do with Kitty/Mycroft/Moriarty/Sherlock's addiction.

Sherlock recalls some obscure piece of information leading to a breakthrough which has nothing to do with the story we've been watching for the last 30mins. They catch the killer. It's the guy who was just randomly passing on his bike.

MazzleDazzle couldn't agree more re DIY SOS used to enjoy it now it's prectcally rebuilding an entire 4 gedroom house and garden for family of dying child parent

Scooby doo.
Things get weird, the group investigate. Culminates with the pulling off the mask of the perpertrater to find it wasnt a ghost but someone they knew all along

@janj2301

MazzleDazzle couldn't agree more re DIY SOS used to enjoy it now it's prectcally rebuilding an entire 4 gedroom house and garden for family of dying child parent

When it first started, it was largely women who had had to put up with some useless knob demolishing the place and then losing interest in finishing it for years, then fucking off with the OW, leaving her wondering how on earth she could keep custody of the children when he's left her without a floor, ceiling or back wall.

@WomanStanleyWoman

I’m loving these 😁😁😁

I forgot Undercover Boss USA. Man in incredibly obvious wig and false moustache makes such a hash of using the machine that puts the jam in the doughnuts or taking a simple customer order that you wonder how he’s still even alive, let alone the CEO of Doolally4Donuts. Feisty server raises her eyebrows and shouts ‘You need to pick up the pace!’

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.

I enjoyed the programme the first time I watched it. But the above description is spot on. 'The man who looks like he bought his hair...' I'm in knots here!

Iglesias Piggle is now my officially favourite thing!

I want an Iglesias Piggle.
Can I buy one in Benidorm?

Anything with celebs on a journey/ holiday paid by us
Bradley Walsh and his personality free son who gives him a “challenge” Brad pretends he’s not gone over the health and safety with the tv executives for hours beforehand and feigns shock and surprise, then refuses to do it, then does it. Personality free son giggles. The end.

I have just entered an online family quiz with the name Iglesias Piggle!

@SchadenfreudePersonified

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!

Thank God! - Not just me, then?

The only bit I have ever found remotely risible was the segment shown on EVERY SINGLE COMPILATION OF COMEDY CLIPS EVER where David Json goes to lean on the bar and it isn't there.

I usually smile at that. The rest is dross.

We need a t-shirt and a badge! I've rarely seen a whole episode, Gott sei Dank, but I recall seeing the one with the chandelier, if ever there was a more obvious outcome on any programme I can't think of it.

Reading the thread it would be interesting to know what people actually like on TV! I'll confess that I loved House for the first few series but it went on too long, the same as Homeland, once Brodie died it lost its purpose.
One of my all time favourites, sometimes binge watch from DVDs is The West Wing.

@awaynboilyurheid

Anything with celebs on a journey/ holiday paid by us Bradley Walsh and his personality free son who gives him a “challenge” Brad pretends he’s not gone over the health and safety with the tv executives for hours beforehand and feigns shock and surprise, then refuses to do it, then does it. Personality free son giggles. The end.

I detest those programmes, especially Joanna Lumley. Why can't they have a real person, I'm free!

I adore Elementery, wonder though how Joan can afford a dozen stunning designer outfits a week when they don't actually get paid for their work. Re Grand Designs (UK, OZ & NZ versions) I watch the first bit up to the animation of how the house will look then watch after the last break, I have noticed the ladies don't seem to get pregnant in the antipodean versions so you might be onto something with virlie Kevin.

The Walking Dead. Zombies

I like this thread and sorry to have upset the Columbo fans

@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 came on here to say Friends as well. God only knows why it lasted so long, it's easy to watch I suppose!

@TheGirlWhoWantedToBeGod

Escape to the country - a wealthy couple in their 60s or 70s looking to move from a city or town where they have friends and family to a rural area where they know no one. Yet they are convinced they need loads of space for ‘entertaining’ twenty people.

Also no one mentions that in 10 years time the same couple would be much better off living in a ground floor flat in a town, with good bus routes to the local hospital. Rather than a barn conversion in the middle of nowhere. (Or maybe I’m just too pessimistic.)

Ha ha, and they always want to run a b & b for some insane reason. Don't they realise they will spend their retirement constantly cooking and cleaning for their guests ?

Threads like this one make me appreciate how fcking funny some of you are. I wish there was a like button because some of these synopsis' are spot on and brilliantly written 😌

@BoredZelda

We are convinced Contessa is just slowly marinading Geoffrey and her last show will feature him on a spit, slowly roasting over the barbecue with the required 8 tons of salt.

kosher salt.

Obvs.

@FaithHowells

Threads like this one make me appreciate how fcking funny some of you are. I wish there was a like button because some of these synopsis' are spot on and brilliantly written 😌

I agree. Numsnetters could make TV actually worth watching

Scooby doo for sure-afte the millionth time of it being someone in a mask why do the still insist its a ghost

I watched secret spenders couple of weeks ago marrie couple dont know why they dont have any money left after getting takeaways every night plus hello fresh subscritpions and a 20k camper van they dont use

oh do fuck off

[quote Piglet89]@BoredZelda

We are convinced Contessa is just slowly marinading Geoffrey and her last show will feature him on a spit, slowly roasting over the barbecue with the required 8 tons of salt.

kosher salt.

Obvs.[/quote]
I just know Geoffrey's gonna LOVE that!