TV Meme (subtitled I Watch Too Much?)

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So this is one of those cheesy memes and likely one that most of you will scroll on by, but that's okay!

Mainly I'm doing it because:

1) I just finished my homework (early!) so unless I start in on the next chapter, I can actually take the rest of this weekend a little easier. Which is unheard of for me.

2) I just finished taking an online test for my class, one that was stressing me out because I was having trouble with the mathematical-like equations of the JavaScript coding. But! I got 50 out of 50 on the test anyway. What a freaking miracle. LOL.

After all that, my really ridiculous, perfectionist brain is still trying to tell me to get ahead with my homework and push myself to insane limits like I usually do.

However, this semester I'm trying to force myself to ease up every once in a while, and try things in a different way (a less anxiety-filled way). NOT easy, because I've been behaving this way for a long, long time. But I'm trying!

So... I thought, why not have a bit of fluffy, pointless fun, and do this TV meme.

Here are the rules:

• Bold all of the following TV shows of which you've seen 3 or more episodes.


• Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode.
  
  (Sherry's note: I'm going to take poetic license and use both bold and italics on shows I've seen every episode of, because that seems more stand-out than just the ones I've only seen 3+ episodes of. Just italics doesn't stand out much. Let me own what shows I've obsessed about. LOL.)


• Asterisk * if you have at least one full season on tape or DVD


• If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order).

21 Jump Street* - all seasons on DVD (come on, it's Johnny Depp!).
24
Alias
American Gothic
America’s Next Top Model
Angel* - all seasons on DVD.
Are You Afraid of the Dark
Are You Being Served?
Arrested Development
Ashes to Ashes
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Barney Miller
Batman: The Animated Series
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Being Human – UK
Being Human - US
Beavis & Butthead
Beauty and the Beast
Beverly Hills 90210 - used to have the early seasons on TAPE. Don't judge me. LOL.
Bewitched
Black Books
Blackadder
Blake's 7
Bonanza
Bones - only seasons 1 & 2 on DVD (the good years *GRIN*).
Bosom Buddies
Boston Legal
Boston Public
Boy Meets World
Breaking Bad - apologies to leucocrystal, I always meant to see this one!
Brideshead Revisited
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Buffy the Vampire Slayer* - all seasons on DVD.
Bug Juice
Caitlin’s Way
Carebears
Castle* - all seasons on DVD so far.
Catweazle
Chappelle’s Show
Charlie’s Angels - probably seen more than 3, but it's so lost from my memory by now.
Charmed
Cheers
Chicago Hope - had some random episodes on tape.
China Beach - always wanted to see more of this one, but it's hard to find.
Clarissa Explains It All
The Colbert Report
Cold Case
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling
Cowboy Bebop
Criminal Minds - had to stop watching this one after about 5 seasons, so heavy & dark.
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dallas - I couldn't name any episodes, but I vaguely remember watching as a kid.
Damages
Dancing with the Stars
Danny Phantom
Daria
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci’s Inquest
Dawson’s Creek
Dead Like Me* - have both seasons on DVD; final TV movie was a travesty.
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women - have one DVD (mix of popular episodes from early seasons).
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Dinosaurs
Different Strokes
Dirty Jobs
Doctor Who (1963 - 1986)
Doctor Who (2005)* - have Christopher Eccleston & David Tennant seasons on DVD.
Dollhouse* - first season on DVD.
Dragnet
Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman
Due South* - all available seasons on DVD.
Dukes of Hazzard
Earth 2
Emergency! - I watched this when I was little, but have no memory of actual episodes.
Entourage
ER* - lost track of this show after (spoiler alert!) Dr. Mark Greene died. Have first 2 seasons on DVD, and a bunch of random episodes on TAPE.
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Facts of Life - again, watched it back in the day, have no memory of actual episodes.
Family Guy
Family Ties* - I'd buy all the seasons if they were available (yay, APK!).
Farscape* - all seasons on DVD, including Peacekeeper Wars mini-movie. ♥
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly* - all 13 awesome episodes on DVD and the Serenity film, whoo! ♥
Flash Forward
Forever Knight
Fraggle Rock
Frasier* - lost track of this show after Niles & Daphne got together. Have 1 or 2 seasons on DVD, and some random episodes on tape.
Freaks and Geeks
Friday Night Lights
Friends* - all seasons on DVD.
Futurama
Game of Thrones
Get Smart
Ghostwriter
Gilligan’s Island
Gilmore Girls* - seasons 1 thru 5 on DVD; I protest anything after that.
Glee* - all seasons so far on DVD (except most recent, because I lack $$).
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Greek
Green Wing
Grey’s Anatomy* - I think I have seasons 1 through 3. Left with George O'Malley.
Growing Pains - had some very old, random episodes on tape. LOL.
Gummy Bears
Gunsmoke
Hannah Montana
Happy Days - I'm sure I've seen more than 3. Couldn't name any, though.
Hardcastle & McCormick
Heroes* - have season 1 on DVD.
Highlander
Highlander: The Raven
Hogan’s Heroes
Hillstreet Blues
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
How I Met Your Mother* - have 3 or 4 seasons on DVD, I believe.
Hunter
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Instant Star
In Plain Sight
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
JAG
Jackass
Jeeves and Wooster
Jem
Jericho
Joey
John Doe
Just Shoot Me
Justice League Unlimited
Justified
Keen Eddie
Knight Rider
LA Law
Land of the Lost
Laverne and Shirley
Law & Order
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Lexx
Life on Mars
Life With Derek
Little House on the Prairie - I look at this now, and it's just SO melodramatic! LOL.
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman* - all seasons on DVD.
Lost - really need to finish watching this one! (I got behind.)
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H*
MacGyver
Mad About You* - have 2 or 3 seasons on DVD (loved this show).
Mad Men
Magnum PI
Malcolm in the Middle
Mama’s Family
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Married... With Children
Melrose Place
Merlin* (BBC series with Colin Morgan) - have seasons 1 thru 3 on DVD so far.
MI:5
Miami Vice
Millennium
Miracles
Mission: Impossible
Monk
Moonlighting* - have 2 or 3 seasons on DVD.
Mork & Mindy
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Murphy Brown* - have season 1; would buy more if they'd only come out with it! ♥
My Life as a Dog
My Little Pony
My Name is Earl
My So-Called Life
My Super Sweet 16
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
News Radio* - have first 2 seasons on DVD (anything when Phil Hartman was still on).
NCIS* - all seasons on DVD (never had to buy, my aunts get them for my b-day every year, LOL).
NCIS: LA
Night Court
Nip/Tuck
North Shore
Numb3rs
NYPD Blue* - season 1 on DVD.
One Tree Hill
Oz
Paranormal Witness
Perry Mason - not the B&W TV show; I used to watch the mystery TV-movies of the 80's.
Phil of the Future
Pokemon
Popular
Power Rangers
Prison Break* - all seasons on DVD.
Profiler
Project Runway
Psych
QI
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (UK)
Red Dwarf
ReGenesis
Relic Hunter
Remington Steele* - all seasons on DVD (Pierce Brosnan, people!).
Rocco’s Modern Life
Rescue Me
Road Rules
Robin of Sherwood
Robotech
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell
St. Elsewhere - vague memories of watching this with my mom
Salute Your Shorts
Saved by the Bell
Scarecrow and Mrs King
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
SeaQuest* - season 1 on DVD (if they'd come out with the rest, I'd buy it).
Seinfeld
Sex and the City* - all seasons on DVD (store sales are a wonderful thing).
Silver Spoons - one I watched as a kid, but don't remember anymore.
Six Feet Under* - seasons 1 & 2 on DVD.
Skins
Sliders
Slings and Arrows - always wanted to check this one out. Haven't yet.
Smallville* - seasons 1 through 5 on DVD. I quit after that.
So Weird
South Park
Spaced
Space 1999
Spongebob Squarepants
Sports Night* - all seasons on DVD (love, love, LOVE this show!). ♥
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation - used to tape this one. *GRIN*
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Starsky and Hutch
Superman
Supernatural* - seasons 1 through 5 on DVD (then I lost track of watching it). Not sure I'll go back & finish.
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teachers
Teen Titans
Tenth Kingdom
That 70’s Show
That’s So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
The Andy Griffith Show
The Apprentice
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Big Bang Theory
The Bionic Woman - vague memories of this.
The Brady Bunch
The Closer
The Cosby Show* - along with Family Ties, this is the show of my childhood. Ah, the 80's. Taped quite a bit of this show and watched it with my parents.
The Daily Show
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show - only on Nick At Nite.
The Dresden Files
The Famous Jett Jackson
The Flintstones - again, watched as a kid, no memories of actual content.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Goodies
The Honeymooners
The Invisible Man
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The Kindred
The L Word
The Love Boat - watched it every Saturday night. No memory of any actual eps, though.
The Lucille Ball Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mentalist
The Mighty Boosh
The Monkees - used to watch this on Nick at Nite late nights while babysitting, LOL.
The Munsters
The Muppet Show - sadly, watched it but can't remember it, I was so young.
The Mythbusters
The Nanny
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Pretender
The Real World
The Sentinel
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Tribe
The Tudors
The White Queen
The X-Files* - all seasons & films on DVD (those very expensive DVDs...). ♥
3rd Rock from the Sun
Third Watch
Three’s Company - I watched it, but have no memories.
Thunderbirds are Go!
Thundercats
TJ Hooker
Top Gear
Torchwood* - have 2 seasons on DVD.
The Twilight Zone
Twin Peaks - am really curious how this one holds up after all these years.
Twitch City
Two and A Half Men
UFO
Ugly Betty
Under the Umbrella Tree
Veronica Mars
The Vicar of Dibley
The Waltons - another 70's early childhood show that has slipped from memory.
The West Wing* - all seasons on DVD, though the Sorkin years = my favorites. ♥
Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?
White Collar* - all seasons on DVD so far. ♥
The Wire
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace* - seasons 1 through 5 or 6, working to get all of them. ♥
Wings
Wiseguy
Without a Trace
Wolf Lake
WKRP in Cincinnati
Xena: Warrior Princess
X-Men
X-Men: Evolution
You Can't Do That on Television
Young Justice

Good grief. I've seen a lot of TV. Not every single episode of every show, though, and some I caught after the shows already aired and/or ended, whenever I had time.

It would seem like I've watched a TON, but some I highlighted because I've caught a few episodes here and there when channel-hopping, but I was never a regular viewer.

Some I know I've seen, but didn't bold because I couldn't remember if I watched them more than a couple times, or in fleeting glimpses in syndication years after they originally aired (like I Dream of Jeannie).

Some I bolded because I knew I watched them (Dallas, Knight Rider, The Love Boat), but it's from so far back into my childhood that I couldn't really name any episodes if I tried.

From this list, I'd say my top favorites are these: Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bones (only the first 2 seasons), Dead Like Me, Farscape, Firefly, Friends, Gilmore Girls (first 4 seasons), Murphy Brown, Sports Night, White Collar, Will & Grace, The West Wing, and The X-Files.

My biggest loves (and fandoms) have always been The West Wing and The X-Files, with shout-outs to anything by Joss Whedon. I could rewatch those over and over again. ♥ ♥ ♥

How about you? Are you (or were you once) a big TV-watcher? What are your favorites? Which ones are/were "Must See" for you?