Day 01 - A show that should never have been cancelled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of one of your favorite shows
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of one of your favorite TV shows
Day 08 - A show that's had a significant effect on who you are today
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character

Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death


In ascending order, the shows which are my guiltiest pleasures --

America's Funniest Home Videos, but only the version hosted by Tom Bergeron. It helps that I find Bergeron affable and pleasantly self-effacing, and having Trace Beaulieu as a writer helps immensely. And more when they have clips of animals. Especially birds.

The Soup, hosted by Joel McHale. Again, affable, genial, clever and comically adept host wins the day; McHale's on an entirely different plane than Bergeron, though, and takes full advantage of the freedom to be savage and unrelenting on the subjects of his clips.

But the show that really caresses the reptilian part of my brain and caters to it with bombast and urgency played dead straight? Destroyed in Seconds.



"Without so much as a warning, life hangs in the balance. Human endeavor turns to chaos, and within seconds, nothing will ever be the same again."

The clips of various things exploding and idiot daredevils horribly injuring themselves often takes a back seat to former NFLer Ron Pitts and his emphatic, intense narration. Better still, each episode starts and ends with Pitts at some interesting locale -- a junkyard, typically -- in slightly-sub-business-casual attire. There's no real segue to the clips, just a hard cut. This means after 22 minutes of carnage and fireballs, just when you're getting desensitized and expecting something to ignite or detonate, BOOM there's Ron Pitts in your face again, and he's very happy to be there, overpowering your senses just like a plane crash. Transitions are for pansies; this is Destroyed in Seconds, goddammit!

Assuming this show stays on for half the time AFV has, it's going to need some variety. I don't want any more shots of Pitts in burnt-out post-industrial environments. I'd like to start an episode where he's in a suit at a bar, only to turn to the camera and address it as he would on any other episode. There would be no explanation. That would be capitulation. Or perhaps he's in scrubs, washing his hands -- he turns and does his monologue as he puts on his gloves, finishing just as he darts into the operating room. Or perhaps he's on a seesaw or hanging off a jungle gym, cavorting carelessly amongst a baffled horde of second-graders, ignoring their every blank stare. In a just world, Ron Pitts would be a meme.

I enjoy The Soup more, but I'm so glad Destroyed in Seconds exists, only exactly in the form it does now.

(And of the gentlemen named above, one of them was actually on an NCAA championship football team. And not the one I would've guessed. Nor even the second.)

From: [identity profile] manekikoneko.livejournal.com


My grandmother loves AFV. I think her viewing schedule could be graphed, "Is there an episode of Price is Right, Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy on? If not, is there an episode of Are you Smarter Than a 5th Grader or Cash Cab on? If not, is there an episode of AFV on? If not, is there an episode of House on? If not, what's on Hallmark?" etc. So she watches a lot of 5th Grader and AFV.

It doesn't sound at all like my thing, and yet you make me want to watch Destroyed in Seconds.

From: [identity profile] daethkow.livejournal.com


I know McHale has a Rose Bowl ring as he was a backup TE for the Washington Huskies. He walked on.

I'm also okay with Bergeron. He's an old-school host. Doesn't get rattled easily, knows how to get a laugh, will take the piss out of himself for a joke. Professional. I respect that.

I'm Ron Pitts, and you're about the see some of THE most unbelievable moments of destruction ever caught on camera.

From: [identity profile] patchsassy.livejournal.com


I *love* the Soup. He cracks me up so much.

I liked AFV when Bob Saget hosted it, mostly because of the voices he made while narrating it.
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