View Full Version : TV shows you view differently as an adult


TMC
08-31-2014, 05:43 AM
I DON'T mean negatively-like a show you used to love as a kid but are disappointed in now-those stories are sad.:lol:

I mean shows that you look at in perhaps a different way than you did when you were younger.

Frenky
08-31-2014, 06:21 AM
Baywatch, Full House - these 2 shows I see something that only kids would watch.

tlc38tlc38
08-31-2014, 09:38 AM
I view everything different now as an adult but the shows I view more differently now are "Pee-wee's Playhouse", "Boy Meets World", "Garfield & Friends", "Green Acres", "Small Wonder", "ALF", & "Dinosaurs". I think I actually respect these shows more now than I did then.

vampirevsrobot
08-31-2014, 09:57 AM
I view everything different now as an adult but the shows I view more differently now are "Pee-wee's Playhouse", "Boy Meets World", "Garfield & Friends", "Green Acres", "Small Wonder", "ALF", & "Dinosaurs". I think I actually respect these shows more now than I did then.

Well there you have it kids, this is the unofficial post of the day!

Let's be serious here, that is if we want to be serious?

Have we never really rolled our eyes during "Walking Dead" or "Game of Thrones"???

Aren't they all really lame at some point?

Of course they are...

There really hasn't been a sophisticated, genuine ball breaking show on cable television since HBO's "Deadwood".

I always said, "Don't push the envelope off the cliff", because you'll never really have nothing later left to push off that cliff.

(that's why we have the Internet!)

Regardless, in the end you're ultimately going to regret falling off the cliff!

tlc38tlc38
08-31-2014, 10:49 AM
Well there you have it kids, this is the unofficial post of the day!

Let's be serious here, that is if we want to be serious?

Have we never really rolled our eyes during "Walking Dead" or "Game of Thrones"???

Aren't they all really lame at some point?

Of course they are...

There really hasn't been a sophisticated, genuine ball breaking show on cable television since HBO's "Deadwood".

I always said, "Don't push the envelope off the cliff", because you'll never really have nothing later left to push off that cliff.

(that's why we have the Internet!)

Regardless, in the end you're ultimately going to regret falling off the cliff!

I'm not sure how to take this post. Is this supposed to be an insult or compliment to my post?

vampirevsrobot
08-31-2014, 10:57 AM
It's a compliment...

Coffeecup
08-31-2014, 11:05 AM
Baywatch, Full House - these 2 shows I see something that only kids would watch.
When Full House was in production I glanced at it but never watched it for I felt it was for young children.

UMFaninMD
08-31-2014, 11:23 AM
When V: The Miniseries came out in 1983. I was seven and thought it was a cool story about aliens taking over Earth. When I returned to it in my 30's and read how creator Kenneth Johnson meant the whole thing as an allegory for a fascist society taking over Earth, a second viewing shows it's not just another alien takeover story as they do more than just kill. They brainwash people, they put their own in political and medical authority roles, and enslave humans making them second class citizens.

70s show watcher
08-31-2014, 07:04 PM
when I was a kid and watched the hulk I wated for the hulk outs and did not really follow the main stories involving dr banner but watching it now through adult eyes i have noticed how entertaining that the stories are on their own

Regulus
08-31-2014, 07:21 PM
I never grew up! :happyface Of the 764 TV Shows in my Mammoth DVD collection over 120 are "Saturday Morning" Kids Shows. :D

Tubehead
09-01-2014, 01:06 AM
ones right now I can think of are:

ones I remember like some times still watch are
perfect strangers
three company
happy days
the odd couple
alf
family matters
Goosebumps
my favorite martian
the munsters
my three sons
petition junction
I love Lucy
The Incredible Hulk’ TV series
batman with adam west
welcome back ,kottoer

one don't like
Seinfeld
friends
every one loves Raymond
Roseanne
mad about you
the nanny
all in the family
mash
square pegs
married with children
the cobsy show


one used to like but don't care for any more
full house
bewitched
7th heaven
bewitched
sister, sister
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
ALF

Mace Dolex
09-01-2014, 01:29 AM
When V: The Miniseries came out in 1983. I was seven and thought it was a cool story about aliens taking over Earth. When I returned to it in my 30's and read how creator Kenneth Johnson meant the whole thing as an allegory for a fascist society taking over Earth, a second viewing shows it's not just another alien takeover story as they do more than just kill. They brainwash people, they put their own in political and medical authority roles, and enslave humans making them second class citizens.
Yeah I felt the same way, I was only 7 too when it first came and what I liked about it back then was the lizards and their cool mother ships and spacecrafts, and you had the cool resistance heroes like Mike Donavan and Ham Tyler, only after revisiting it many years did I understand it's Nazi allegories and political conspiracies.

Other shows I liked to mention are the original G.I.Joe and Transformers cartoons, laugh if you will but some of those cartoons were smartly written with clever dialogue.

comedyfreak
09-01-2014, 05:03 AM
Full House and Family Ties. I use to watch them when they first aired and enjoyed them. Now they seem too cutesy and perfect and I can't get into them anymore. They were good in their time but they don't keep my interest.

zypherix
09-01-2014, 08:01 AM
Married... with Children

Used to enjoy the entire show, but the audiences' constant yelling got annoying. Seasons 8-11 (or at least 8-10) took a different focus from the sarcasm of the earlier years, with the dumbing down of characters and a more cartoonish style.

Kasey
09-01-2014, 09:12 AM
THE ODD COUPLE - Was never interested in it back when it was constantly in syndication in the late '70s/early '80s. Am discovering it on DVD for the first time and am enjoying it.

LAVERNE & SHIRLEY - Watched it religiously on ABC (at least up to S6) but now I can only take it in small doses on DVD due to the juvenile writing and silliness.

Interesting both are Gary Marshall relics.