A TV meme.

[rogueslayer452]

Television show meme, taken from trobadora:

+ 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.
+ Asterisk if you have at least one full season on tape or DVD
+ Exclamation mark if it's an all-time fave.
+ If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order).

24
The 4400
A League of Their Own
The A-Team
The Addams Family
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
America’s Next Top Model
The Americans
Angel (*)
The Andy Griffith Show
Arcane: League of Legends
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Are You Being Served?
Arrested Development

Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Batman and Robin
Batman: The Animated Series
Batman Beyond
Battle Creek
Battlestar Galactica (the original series)
Battlestar Galactica (2003) (*!)
Beavis & Butthead
Beauty and the Beast
Beverly Hills 90210
Bewitched
Big Love
The Bionic Woman (1976)
Black Books
Blackadder
The Brady Bunch
The Brittas Empire
Blake's 7
Bonanza
Bones (*)
Bosom Buddies
Boston Legal (*)
Boston Public
Boy Meets World
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (*!)
Bug Juice

Caitlin’s Way (!)
Carebears
Carnivale (*!)
Catweazle
Charlie’s Angels
Charmed (*)
Cheers
The Closer
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling (UK)
Cowboy Bebop
Criminal Minds (*)
Crossing Jordan
CSI (*)
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Dallas
Dancing with the Stars
Dangermouse
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel (*!)
Dark Matter (2015) (*!)
Dark Skies
Davinci’s Inquest
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Dawson’s Creek
Dead Like Me (*)
Deadwood
The Dead Zone
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dexter (*)
Dharma & Greg (*)
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Digimon
Dinosaurs
Different Strokes
Dirty Jobs
Doctor Who (1963 - 1986)
Doctor Who (2005 - present) (*)
Dollhouse (*!)
Dragnet
The Dresden Files
Due South (*)

Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
The Expanse (*!)
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Facts of Life
Fame
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly (*!)
Flash Forward
Fleabag
Forever Knight
Fraggle Rock
Frasier
Freaks and Geeks
Friday Night Lights (*)
Friends
Futurama

Game of Thrones (*)
Get Smart
Ghostwriter
Gilligan’s Island
Gilmore Girls (*)
The Golden Girls
Green Wing
Grey’s Anatomy
Grimm
Growing Pains

Hannah Montana
Happy Days
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Heroes (*)
Highlander
Highlander: The Raven
Hogan’s Heroes
Hillstreet Blues
Homicide: Life on the Street
House (*)

I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Instant Star
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
Invincible

JAG
Jackass
Jeeves and Wooster
Jericho

Killing Eve
Knight Rider

Laverne and Shirley
Law & Order
Legend of the Seeker (!*)
Lexx
Life on Mars
Life With Derek
Line of Duty
Little Britain
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost (*)
Luther

M*A*S*H
MacGyver (*)
Magnum PI (*)
Malcolm in the Middle
Mama’s Family
The Man from U.N.C.L.E
Married... With Children
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Melrose Place
MI:5
Miami Vice
The Mighty Boosh
Millennium
Miracles
Mission: Impossible
The Muppet Show
My Mad Fat Diary
The Mythbusters
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Life as a Dog
My Little Pony (*)
My Name is Earl
My So-Called Life
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (*!)

NCIS
North Shore
Northern Exposure
Numb3rs *
NYPD Blue

The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
One Tree Hill
Oz

Perry Mason
Person of Interest
Phil of the Future
Pokemon
Popular (*!)
Power Rangers
Primeval
Prison Break (*)
Profiler
Project Runway
Psych (*)

QI
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US) (*)
Queer as Folk (UK)

Red Dwarf
ReGenesis
Relic Hunter
Rome
Roseanne (*)
Roswell (*!)

Saved by the Bell (*)
Scarecrow and Mrs King
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
seaQuest (*)
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
She-Ra: Princess of Power (1985)
Six Feet Under
Skins
Sliders
Slings and Arrows
Smallville (*)
So Weird (!)
South Park
Space: Above and Beyond
Spaced
Spongebob Squarepants
Sports Night
Star Trek
Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis (*)
Stargate SG-1 (*)
Starsky and Hutch
Superman
Supernatural (*)

Taxi
Teachers
That 70’s Show
That’s So Raven
The Avengers
The Famous Jett Jackson
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Jetsons
The Love Boat
The Lucille Ball Show
The Nanny (*)
The Pretender (*!)
The Real World
The Sarah Connor Chronicles (*!)
The Sentinel
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
3rd Rock from the Sun (*)
Torchwood
Transformers
The Twilight Zone (!)
Twin Peaks

Veronica Mars (*)

WandaVision
Weeds
Wellington Paranormal
The West Wing (*)
Wheel of Time
Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?
White Collar
Wonderfalls (*!)

The X-Files
Xena: Warrior Princess
X-Men: Evolution


I added Dark Matter, Dollhouse and The Expanse to the list.

Going through this list and with the meme rules, it made me realize some things. Obviously there's quite a lot of shows I have definitely watched more than one episode of, as this is what happened when I used to watch network television where there would be constant reruns of things that weren't of the shows I would catch weekly. Some I even have episodes of on VHS when I would record just randomly (and sadly not all of those shows would end up getting on DVD or even available for streaming nowadays, which is unfortunate). There's also shows that I would've categorized as being an all-time favorite, but only for specific seasons, like Veronica Mars, or shows that I'm sure I watched at some point in my early childhood but I tend to prefer or remember their movie counterparts more, such as Highlander or The Jetsons or Power Rangers. Even things like My Little Pony, I grew up with G1 rather than the newest generation. There's also shows where I never watched a single episode, but I definitely know of it, either through fandom osmosis or because I saw it being advertised a lot that I feel like I knew it.

This is just reminding me how much I used to watch with television. And believe me, this list isn't even half of the things I watched, either religiously or just casually.

Comments

[goodbyebird]

mwhaha so happy to see the meme making the rounds! And yeah, we used to watch a lot of stuff, huh?

I was debating whether to give LotS a ! or not, I feel a rewatch may be in order.

[autumndaze]

This is reminding me of my years old goal to watch the Highlanders animated TV show lol It's the only bit of the show/movie stuff I haven't seen. I remember the live-action show better than the movies cause I watched it first and enjoyed it more. I still wanna fic for Methos T-T I've wanted to for like... 19 years or so and never got around to it alkjdlaj And now I don't remember enough of the lore and don't have the spoons to rewatch it all lol

[pianogurl330]

This looks fun! :)

[haebin]

Oh my god, I wish I could do that meme but my memory is sooo bad :|

[cinderlite]

Wow, what a list! You've watched so many things! That's so impressive! You've said it's not everything, either!

I was considering doing this myself, but tbh I absolutely won't be able to remember what I have and haven't watched! Not only do I not remember a large chunk of my childhood, but I got a memory like a sieve. My list would be dramatically shorter and mostly full of question marks because even if I remember watching some of it, I wouldn't be able to remember how much. LOL

Thanks for the prompt, though! Kudos to you for being able to memorize everything. It's great to keep track of such things!

[trobadora]

Yeah, I used to watch a lot of TV, too, and nowadays I don't really. Until I got into cdramas, for several years I barely watched anything at all, even ...

[rogueslayer452]

Yeah, the same happened with me, too. I started watching shows less and less over the years, mainly due to being disinterested in what was coming out, but a lot of times it was due to not having the streaming service they were on and no DVDs available. I went from watching so much television to barely watching much live television at all. It's such a strange thing, really.

Getting into Asian dramas was such a blessing, it got me introduced to things I didn't know existed and didn't know I needed in my life, and there's a wide range of them out there.

[rogueslayer452]

There were definitely shows that I had to think about, whether I watched them or not. Because I knew of them but did I even watch more than one or two episodes in passing. There's shows that I know and love and have rewatched constantly, but even with some of those I had to stop and think on whether I've seen the whole thing or not. So yeah, unless you know for certain with your favorites it really tests your memory.

[rogueslayer452]

We really did. Watching television used to be such an event in itself. Even just casually, you'd just flip through the channels and pause when you caught something that sparks your curiosity. It's a feeling that I miss, honestly.

[rogueslayer452]

I didn't know there was an animated show for Highlander, then again I only vaguely recall the movie, so. Of course there were a lot of movies that spawned shows, even animated shows, so it's not at all surprising that Highlander got one too.

[rogueslayer452]

It was quite fun. :D It was interesting just having to stop and think about "have I see this show" and then trying to remember how much of it you watched and if you own a full season of it.

[autumndaze]

I ran across it once at a store. I think it's how I found out there was also an animated Stargate. The Highlander one has 40 episodes lol Someday.

[elizalavelle]

I may need to steal this :)

It definitely reminds me of how much I used to watch. I just don't have the time anymore.