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Vanity- Looking for a TV series on DVD to begin watching. Any suggestions?
5/24/10 | Alienand stranger

Posted on 05/24/2010 12:10:06 PM PDT by AlienandStranger

I don’t watch TV, but I own a few series on DVD that I watch in order to avoid commercials and to watch on my own time.

I’m looking for something that doesn’t insult my spiritual or political (Christian Conservative) beliefs. And I don’t want comedies that exist on juvenile sexual innuendoes.

I love and own the first five seasons of LOST and THE OFFICE. I have the first two seasons of 24, but quit when I saw that the producers are too cowardly to depict Muslim terrorists not backed by white corporate types as the bad guys. I also have BAND OF BROTHERS and the first 10 seasons of THE SIMPSONS.

I was thinking of getting the first season of SCRUBS except I’m uncomfortable watching with my 16 year old daughter because of the frequent sexual situations.

I heard good things about CHUCK.

Any suggestions for a series I can get into?


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To: fatnotlazy
I agree with the weirdness. All the more reason to watch vs. other H'wood offerings.

I did find THIS wINTER that NCIS WAS RETTY GOOD.

/cap

221 posted on 05/24/2010 1:40:34 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Yaelle

http://www.amazon.com/Frasier-Complete-Series/dp/B000VDDE18/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1274733619&sr=1-3


222 posted on 05/24/2010 1:40:45 PM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Yaelle

I found the first three seasons of Frazier in an FYE store. I still have a couple of seasons to get.


223 posted on 05/24/2010 1:41:05 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: BelegStrongbow

Thanks, I knew I got at wrong, but couldn’t put my finger on it. It looked right.

Appologies to Jim & Tim.


224 posted on 05/24/2010 1:41:11 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: AFreeBird

BTW, just about my favorite current series. I am entranced by Sophie and can’t wait to see her back on the team.

Did you see the burger commercial where Hardison offers a free meal if the guy will pay him two bucks?


225 posted on 05/24/2010 1:43:07 PM PDT by BelegStrongbow (Ey, Paolo! uh-Clem just broke the Presideng...)
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To: AlienandStranger
"Dead Like Me"

The absolute best show ever cancelled and ran for 2 years on Showtime. Based on a 18y/o girl who is killed when the toilet seat of a Russian space station falls to earth and pulverizes her. There are 2 videos (one for each season) that are HIGHLY RECOMMENDED and available via Amazon. Intelligent, funny and at times, quite touching. The made-for-DVD-movie is OK and helps to tie up loose ends


226 posted on 05/24/2010 1:44:37 PM PDT by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: Conservative4Life

Have you checked out some of the old UK shows...

Are you being served?

Black Adder?

Keeping up appearances?

All very funny if you like British humor.


227 posted on 05/24/2010 1:44:43 PM PDT by surfer (To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
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To: oh8eleven

If I remember the original correctly, the audience laughed so long, they almost didn’t finish the skit.

There was an interview once with Bob Mackie, who designed the costumes for the show and Ms. Burnett’s gowns. He said that when he went to the prop department and asked for a pair of drapes and a drapery rod, the props people thought he was nuts. Carol Burnett herself said that when she first saw the “gown” with the drapery rod, she literally fell on the floor laughing.


228 posted on 05/24/2010 1:46:18 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: AlienandStranger

Inspector Lynley was fantastic.


229 posted on 05/24/2010 1:52:49 PM PDT by janereinheimer ((I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.))
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To: dangerdoc

bump


230 posted on 05/24/2010 2:00:07 PM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: BelegStrongbow

No, I haven’t seen that commercial. But then again with a DVR, no need.


231 posted on 05/24/2010 2:00:12 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Tijeras_Slim
The Widda Garrett was teh Hawt, tho.

In that demure drug-addled Victorian millionairess kind of way.

232 posted on 05/24/2010 2:01:57 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Nickname

Thank you for that link to the petition against Polanski. It made my heart swell with joy that there are so many people in the “industry” that feel as we do. I loved reading their comments. I hope to G-d he is returned to face justice.

Now I want to buy Criminal Minds too, and I don’t even know what it’s about (though I can guess...). I love his essay.


233 posted on 05/24/2010 2:02:07 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: newfreep

The last scene of “Dead Like Me” is simply a classic with George visiting her gravesite on the morning after Halloween and finding her mother & sister sleeping there. It begins at 2:30 and is a nice capstone on the series. I love the final lines...”It’s not so bad, being dead like me.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkcXKgpZNk0


234 posted on 05/24/2010 2:03:12 PM PDT by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: AlienandStranger

James Burke’s “Connections”.


235 posted on 05/24/2010 2:04:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Truth29
I vote for Babylon 5

That's the first show I thought of... one of these days I'll purchase the DVD series and watch it again with my boys.

236 posted on 05/24/2010 2:14:05 PM PDT by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: thefactor

My mouth is hanging open! I’ve looked for it before!! Thanks! On my order list. Shoot, $200. But worth it...

Frasier has very few “bad” episodes. Many of the episodes are like little Moliere plays.

Nearly every male actor on the show is gay, playing straight, and some of the producers and writers were gay as well, so they LOVE to poke fun at homo-hetero antics, but it’s FUNNY. The very straight, American, ex-cop Dad is a riot, because he is played by a gay Brit. An amazing actor whose American accent is better than House’s.

In the end it was mainly a long-running comedy troupe, with the 5 main characters absolutely creating genius with each other. Poor Kelsey Grammer may have stayed Frasier too long; he just isn’t as good playing anyone else. Still, I am grateful he did create the wonderful, bright, self-absorbed Frasier.

The only thing I would do while watching it with a teen is to remark that they make the characters have these one-night-stands all the time. It’s not reality; it’s what they do to create new love interests for the sake of comedy. You wouldn’t want young teens to think everyone does this, or that it’s right to.


237 posted on 05/24/2010 2:14:14 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle
oor Kelsey Grammer may have stayed Frasier too long; he just isn’t as good playing anyone else.

He's good as "Sideshow Bob"


238 posted on 05/24/2010 2:16:48 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Yaelle
It's my favorite show ever.

For me, by far the greatest episode is where he meets Faye after being set up by Faye's mother.

The Crane's have to pretend to be Jewish while a ham is cooking in the oven, Christmas is approaching, and Niles and Daphne are involved in a production of 'Jesus Christ Superstar.'

I cry everytime I see it.

239 posted on 05/24/2010 2:17:52 PM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: AlienandStranger

If have good screen on your computer you can go to Hulu -old and new tv shows. Good luck personally I got Sky angel myself.


240 posted on 05/24/2010 2:51:07 PM PDT by johngrace
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