Sometimes shows are so bad that I just can’t look away. Here are five really bad television shows that I just can’t seem to stop watching.
1. The Secret Life of the American Teenager. I don’t know what it is about this show, but I sit there watching it and say to myself repeatedly, “People don’t talk like that!” “This would never actually happen!” (related: what was with that one episode when everyone knew about Amy’s dad vasectomy? Get real!) But yet, I just can’t stop watching, and I guess I am not alone because the series is already in their fourth season.
2. Keeping Up with the Kardashians. This show is so fake it’s painful. Real life issues do not get wrapped up so nicely in the way they do at the end of each of these episodes. Although this family does have some funny moments, it is definitely not the best show on TV.
3. Ice Loves Coco. This show aired on E! a few weeks ago and the network has been jamming it down my throat every time I turned on their channel since. Although I do think they’re a cute couple, there show is clearly scripted (as almost all reality shows are today) and I can’t decide why I keep watching.
4. The World According to Paris. I watched an entire episode of this show the other night about how Paris thought she was pregnant, when I know all too well that we would have already heard about it if she actually was. Yet, I could not turn away. An hour passed by before I realized what had happened.
5. The Real Housewives of New York City. I started watching this show is high ,which was strange, because the women featured on these “real housewives” shows are all mothers and much older than myself. Yet, I have been watching ever since. Despite me wanting to smack them every episode (Yes, I am talking to you Countess LuAnn) for their sheer lack of common sense, they’re still entertaining.
Tell me, Lovelies: What bad TV shows can you just not stop watching?
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I like dumb reality shows, but I’ve only seen 5.
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Proud to say I’ve never seen an episode of any of those.
Why you watch something you consider bad? Does not compute.
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I don’t watch reality TV. But some of the shows I’ve recently watched and love (that aren’t bad–lame, I know) are as follows: Firely, Pillars of the Earth, Sanctuary, Robin Hood (BBC version), Boys Before Flowers (K-Drama’s are <3), Bones (been catching up on it), and I just started watching State of Georgia…the pilot is on Hulu and it has Raven from the Disney channel (I remember cause my sisters used to watch it allllllll. the. time.) and it was actually pretty good.
I know I have random TV tastes.
rose / 795 posts
I stopped watching Secret Life this year. It was one of the best decisions I ever made.
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@Xbeautifully_broken_downX@xanga - Just started watching Bones! Kinda hooked.
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I tried to watch Secret Life because my high school drama club appointed “little sister” was into it, and I wanted to have something to talk with her about. I would catch the beginning and ends of the show since it came on right before and after Make It or Break It. All I know is the once school slut is now pregnant and is mad at her baby daddy’s ex girlfriend, Amy (isn’t she the main character?)….for some reason. Now that MIOBI is over for this season, it’s easy to not watch it.
My guilty pleasure will always be Bad Girls Club and Basketball Wives. Crazy ass bitches .
daisy / 543 posts
Keeping Up with the Kardashians is definitely one of my favorite dumb reality shows. The drama is kinda fun and I adore khole’s blunt sense of humor. And Scott is fucking hilarious, kind of a douche but hilarious.
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I watch all the Kardashian related shows, and Ice Loves Coco when I catch it on. LOL
LOVED Housewives of Beverly Hills…
I watch all this shit while I work out… idk why, but those activities go so well together.
daffodil / 1615 posts
I like watching Repo Games (I think that’s what it’s called and it’s on TruTV or something like that) and Campus PD hahaha
magnolia / 1369 posts
i agree with #1, 2 + 3 . i loved Jerseylicious – it was awful but i couldn’t turn away .
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I used to watch 1 & 2. Those shows were so bad but so addicting! I’m glad I don’t get those channels anymore lol
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I recently started watching The Secret Life, and I’m annoyed that I’m addicted to such a terrible show. Ha! I watched all the episodes on Netflix and told myself I woudln’t watch it anymore, but I caught an episode the other day, and now I need to find out with happens with Ben and Adrian! hahahaha.
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I used to watch desperate housewives. james denton is hot and I want a hot neighbor like him
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@Ashley Nicole Anders@facebook - Woops. Yes. Haha. FIREFLY. I always avoided watching it because I knew I would love it….and of course I did. I always love things that are discontinued.
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Oh my Goddd… Sister, you need to find new shows.
orchid / 189 posts
secret life is an obsession! I’ve watched it from season one, and was thinking “this never happens” and now I’m hooked.
sunflower / 355 posts
I haven’t watched any of these sows! YAY.
However, I watch Pretty Little Liars.
It’s my guilty pleasure.
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Gossip Girl.
daisy / 658 posts
lol wierdly real housewives of new york is the only one of the franchise that i haven’t gotten into,my favorites are atlanta oc and jersey, oc prolly tops the list
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90210.
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@Grtt@xanga – I LOVE Bones. I have all the Seasons on DVD. First time I’ve ever purchased a TV show….that is how much I love Bones. LOL
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I use to watch Jersey Shore but my cable went out and now I am thankful.
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LOVE Keeping Up With The Kardashians. And Khloé & Lamar, haha.
The DVR is usually 85%+ filled ’cause of Bones episodes (there’ll be 10 Bones episodes & like six other shows, haha).
For everyone that said they’re been watching Bones… me too
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pretty little liars. takes me back to the good ol’ middle school days when I read the series haha i should probably be ashamed of that. but i’m not.
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@ashleya - lol same. it was actually interesting the first few seasons, then it just got ridiculously un-realistic, cheesy and repetitive
magnolia / 1357 posts
I watch ANTM reruns everyday at 6.00pm … EVERY.DAY.
The funniest episodes are when they get their makeovers. It’s kinda funny how they go in all like “yeah, I’ll be whatever it takes to become a top model!!” and when they’re told they need short hair, bleached hair, extensions, etc. to become a top model, they’ll go cry in a corner and say they don’t want to change their looks…
@Xbeautifully_broken_downX@xanga - I love Bones. I started watching it after a lot of people kept telling me I was just like Dr. Brennan… even though I love the show and the character (and do actually identify with her), to this day I don’t know if I should take that as a compliment or not hahah
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i like the real housewives franchise. its fun watching different housewives trying to get along. even though they come from mostly the same background, they’re all different so its fun to watch that clash thing going on.
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Tried watching all of them
Only thing I can kinda stand is Keeping up with the Kardashians
lily / 5148 posts
@Xbeautifully_broken_downX@xanga - K dramas are love! I’m just starting a new one : Greatest Love. I’m so excited. Lol
OP:
I don’t watch any bad shows, at least those shows.
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“The Real Housewives of ______” are all amazing shows. They’re so annoying, frustrating and BAD that they’re good.
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I haven’t seen any of those and don’t plan to. My worst one’s are Sex and the City, and Gossip Girl. I don’t usually like overly dramatic and girly shows, but for some reason I got really into those both.
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@not3000@xanga – Take it as a compliment!!
She’s logical and quite intelligent! <3
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@Hinase@xanga – The first one I watched ever was Chuno…and I got sucked in..HARD. BEST. TV. EVAR. The plots are so much better than our TV and I love how they don’t have 239085892101921 million seasons to find somewhere and watch. <3 <3
sunflower / 282 posts
You have really bad taste in tv haha.
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#1: totally agree. i have NO idea why i watch it and yes the dialogue is horrible :/ it’s so unrealistic but i can’t stop…
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@ask_ashleyyy@xanga - Oh I watch that sometimes! Operation Repo or something. XD Some of that I think is fake.
lily / 5148 posts
@Xbeautifully_broken_downX@xanga - I agree with you on that. They do all sorts of dramas and it’s amazing. I find it refreshing that they don’t do season 2 or season 3 so easily like american t.v does.
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I watched the first couple of episodes of Secret Life and couldn’t get into it. I sometimes catch a few minutes of it every now and then if nothing else is on and I can’t stand to watch it because the acting is TERRIBLE! Ugh. Painful to watch.
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Even though Real Housewives of New York City, New Jersey, and Orange County are so boring now since the crazies/funnies left, I still can’t stop and have to tune in. You are so right about the Kardashians too.
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Sometimes its irresistible to turn away from a train wreck on screen. I keep watching several of these terrible shows.
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@Grtt@xanga - Hehe, exactly what I was thinking. For this reason, our television is not hooked up to cable, not even local… we just buy the few shows we like on DVD. SO worth it!
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America’s Next Top Model, but not recently; after the season with Whitney, it just started going down the crapper. It already had been for a long time but it just died after that season!
Project Runway…I love the flamboyant men, they’re so funny! And some of the odd characters you see…like Vincent from season 3. Then there’s Tim Gunn, probably one of my favorite people on TV. He has the driest sense of humour. And Christian Siriano…need I go on? :]
Aaaand Off The Map. It was terrible, but I loved it…and it got cancelled. SO LAME.
orchid / 149 posts
Oh my, I love the Real Housewives.
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Pretty Little Liars =_=
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I don’t watch bad TV shows.
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@WaitingToShrug@xanga - That’s kinda what my friend does. She got rid of cable and just bought a Blu-ray player, hooked it up to the Internet, and watches Netflix/Hulu through it.
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Ive mostly just been watching reruns of south park. i can’t keep up with tv shows. That’s what netflix is for.
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lol I watch Secret Life every week. it’s really dumb and so I don’t know why, but I still keep watching it. *shrug*
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the secret life is THE SINGLE MOST UNREALISTIC show ever! what parent in their right mind would be so nonchalant about their daughter moving in with the baby daddy and let their other daughter emancipate and run around the entire country with a boy.. also a mother let their daughter be promiscuous and let them have sex with every guy she meets.. or a daughter to get married and move in because they are having an unplanned pregnancy… REALLY THOUGH?! i watched a few episodes and i was just annoyed by it ‘cuz i thought it was a good show but it really wasn’t..
i hate any reality show that has to do with “wives”.. all they do is act like dumb bitches on national tv.. all them shows are pretty much the same damn thing!!
the kardashians are fame whores they’ll do anything get exposure to their name..
ice loves coco is boring as shit.. i like ice-t better on law and order svu
i watched one episode of the world according to paris hilton.. i gotta say i still don’t give a shit about her but i respect her more than i did before..
i’m surprised jersey whores i mean shore wasn’t on the list… they need to stop that altogether!
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The Secret Life of the American Teenager is one of the worst written and acted tv shows EVER. But, I still watch it too! lol I have no idea why. I sit there and think of how unreal the conversations are, and how bad the acting is, and how every talks just like everyone else, etc… and I keep on watching! It’s a guilty pleasure now or something…
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@tomorrow_may_rain@xanga - I don’t normally watch sows either. Unless it’s at the county fairs. then they usually have piglets with them… so technically… i watch piglets… not sows…
daffodil / 1615 posts
@misslei11@xanga - No Repo Games has a guy come around to people’s houses and it’s a game show where these highly unintelligent people have to answer questions that are quite easy. If they get like three questions right, they win their repossessed car back and it gets paid off, and if they get three questions wrong their car gets towed away hahaha
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this is so funny because I watch all of those shows and I think they are all bad too!
ohh LuAnn she cracks me up
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@howsthewheather@xanga - it’s not that dumb, it’s just a little slow sometimes. I looooove Pretty Little Liars though.
that and Gossip Girl!
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I really like TSLOTAT…
I’ve never seen any of the other shows though.
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I can’t stop watching Big Time Rush and that’s serious they are like 10 yrs younger than me :’( *tear* IT’S WRONG!!!
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@Grtt@xanga - me either
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@ask_ashleyyy@xanga - some of them not all do real good though I’ve seen only 1 or 2 passed it and very few get past the 4th question.
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@ask_ashleyyy@xanga - Oh! XD I’m going to have to watch for that.
daisy / 507 posts
watched none of these
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Actually, I’ve been watching some pretty good shows (none that I would consider bad), but I don’t watch TV often anyways (the last TV shows I watched were Modern Family, Raising Hope, and The Voice)
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omg i absolutely agree with secret life. I love watching it, i never miss an episode yet i sit there and wonder the same thing, like no one ever says the things they say and okay yeah kids are getting pregnant but the parents are just like, okay cool. Madeline & jack are such a joke it’s hilarious. Amy’s dad seems to be the only one to finally start acting like a real dad that would actually be the way he is.
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oh & for the bad tv shows, would have to be state of georgia, it’s just redic. and weird yet somehow hilarious.
sunflower / 355 posts
@TheProfessorSeraph@xanga - Well you, sir, are missing out. Sows are much more interesting than piglets.
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@ivarahBharavi@xanga - The only reason why I stick around is for Ezra
haha. Hopefully they solve soon before it gets dragged out too much!
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I watched the Secret Life for awhile. It’s so ridiculously bad but I needed to know what happened to the characters. I stopped watching after the producers felt they needed to make Adrienne, the “slut”, pregnant as a warning or something to other girls who sleep around. It’s just TOO bad now. I don’t know any teenagers now or when I was one that acted like any of those kids.
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@howsthewheather@xanga - I loooove Ezra and Aria! and Ian Harding (Ezra) is so gorgeous. ahhhhhh.
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Oh Secret Life. Is it SO bad but SO good. I am obsessed. My husband is obsessed. My one year old daughter is obsessed. (With the theme song anyway.) We sit there and talk about how bad the dialogue is, how high school is NOT like that, how no one talks about sex that much, how they use the same storylines over and over, but we can’t. stop. watching!
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I’ve seen one episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
All of these shows are trash. I don’t have the tolerance for cheap reality-TV.