Do you have a guilty favourite television show?

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[–]Vigte 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Trailer Park Boys

[–]AbeFroman 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

An answer and a link. Getting 2 birds stoned at once!

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I've heard that folks like Trailer Park Boys, but I couldn't watch it then, and I wouldn't even have watched half way through that Best Of except I saw a young Ellen Page. Tragic more than funny.

[–]Vigte 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

It's because it's so painfully stupid that it's fun to watch, it lets you turn your brain off for a while lol. Plus it's kind of part tragedy (as you said) and part "overcoming adversity"... just not in a wolf of wallstreet or Rambo kind of way.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The painful part and watching people suffer is too much for me. I don't like the COPS shows and the Funniest Home Videos - and the YouTube equivalents - because people get hurt.

I didn't catch the "overcoming adversity" thing but that is indeed a worthy reason. And the unconventional nonconformist angle is also worth embracing.