TV Show Meme
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featherxquillWow. Memes are a useful tool of procrastination. Have one about TV shows.
Pick five of your favourite shows, in no particular order, before you read the below questions, then answer them!
1. Law and Order: SVU
2. Third Rock From the Sun
3. Skins
4. Bewitched
5. Teachers
01. Who’s your favourite character in 2?
Mary Albright. Sharp and sarcastic! Sort of lonely and surprisingly forgiving. Played by one of the best deadpan comic actresses in the history of ever. One half of an adorable, middle-aged, show-leading pairing. With an active sex life! Seriously, has there been a couple like Dick/Mary since? I don't think so.
02. Who’s your least favourite character in 1?
TBH, of the regular, long-time cast, it's probably Stabler. He's judgemental, and violent, and more often than any other character, his opinions make me angry.
03. What’s your favourite episode of 4?
So hard to choose only one, but if I have to, I will say it's the one in which Endora loses her magic. She's so adorably pathetic without it. 'Derwood, come and plump my pillow *poutyface*', 'It's heavy!' when she has to lift the coffee pot by hand. I also love any episode in which Endora faces off with Arthur, the annoying younger brother who never grew up. And there are a whole string at the end of season 5 in which there is no Darrin because of Dick York's unfortunate injury, quickly re-written and carried by Liz and Agnes and the sheer power of their awesome.
04. What’s your favourite season of 5?
Season 2. I love the original cast - especially Susan - so Season 2, with its shift away from Simon as the main POV character but still with all of the wonderful original players, yes. Win all round.
05. Who is your favourite ship in 3?
Canon ship? Emily/Naomi, for certain. Fannishly, I'm partial to Chris/Cassie and Tony/Sid.
06. Who is your anti-ship in 2?
Tommy/Alissa. I really don't know why they got rid of August. She was so much funnier, and I think Alissa's only real role was to be the daughter of Strudwick, whose character was all about Dick, really, not Tommy.
07. How long have you watched 1?
I've watched it on and off forever, but a few years ago I started from Season 1 and watched the whole lot. Now, I keep up with each new season as it airs.
08. How did you become interested in 3?
Watched the first episode of season one on a recommendation, and absolutely fell in love with it (which is odd, for me, considering the cast is around my own age, and it's not the sort of thing I'm usually into).
09. Who’s your favorite actor/actress in 4?
That's a no-brainer. Agnes Moorehead is incomparable.
10. Which do you prefer: Show 1, 2 or 5?
That's really difficult. I mean, 2 and 5 are at least comparable because they're comedy, but 1 is completely different. I'll go with Third Rock, though, because it makes me laugh possibly more than any other TV show ever.
11. Which show have you seen more episodes of, 1 or 3?
More SVU, but that's only because there is more of it.
12. If you could be anyone from 4, who would you be?
It's tempting to say Endora, because of how much I love her, but I think I'd love to know her much more than I'd love to be her. So I'll say Serena, because she's a witch, and she has lots of fun, and she pulls all sorts of amusing shenanigans with her aunt, and I'm sure has coffee at all sorts of glamorous places with her as well.
13. How would you kill off your favourite character in 1?
Munch would have to die in an appropriately ironic or darkly comic way, or a way that went with his wonderful ability to walk into other TV show universes. Perhaps he would be killed on a Naval base, and the NCIS team would investigate his murder, or he would end up in Dr House's hospital as a patient who couldn't be saved.
14. Give a random quote from 1.
Munch telling a room full of burly bikers that the apostrophe in their gang name was superfluous. So much win.
15. Which character from 5 would be a good guest star on 2?
I'm going to go with school principal, Clare. Could you imagine her transferring to Rutherford University?
16. Would a 3/4 crossover work?
Anything is possible in the Bewitched universe. Maybe Tabitha or Adam Stephens went on exchange to a certain college in Bristol.
17. Pair 2 characters in 1 that would make an unlikely but strangely okay couple.
Munch/Olivia. I seriously considered writing this, once. It would be awesome.
18. Has 5 inspired you in any way?
To buy a lot of movies with Raquel Cassidy in them? That's about the only way I could imagine Teachers being 'inspiring'. Although the episode in which Simon decides to go overseas and all of a sudden it's his last night in England and everything is surreal and odd for him - tat fills me up with something every time I watch it because I remember that feeling - leaving your home for somewhere far away where you're going to be for a while, standing under the sky and thinking that tomorrow the sky you see will be different and you'll be on the other side of the world and everything will be new - I remember it vividly.
19. Overall, which show has a better cast, 2 or 4?
NGH. They're so different! Different time, different comedy! And the cast of Bewitched are now acting legends, so how can one possibly say 3rd Rock's cast is better? Honestly, though, I think 3rd Rock's cast was genius, and I get more actual laughs out of them bouncing off each other tan I do from the Bewitched cast doing the same, that I'm going to go with 3rd Rock, taking the cast as an ensemble.
20. Which has better theme music, 3 or 5?
Skins. Skins has awesome soundtracks, and TBH, I can't even think of what Teachers' theme music was, if it had any.
Pick five of your favourite shows, in no particular order, before you read the below questions, then answer them!
1. Law and Order: SVU
2. Third Rock From the Sun
3. Skins
4. Bewitched
5. Teachers
01. Who’s your favourite character in 2?
Mary Albright. Sharp and sarcastic! Sort of lonely and surprisingly forgiving. Played by one of the best deadpan comic actresses in the history of ever. One half of an adorable, middle-aged, show-leading pairing. With an active sex life! Seriously, has there been a couple like Dick/Mary since? I don't think so.
02. Who’s your least favourite character in 1?
TBH, of the regular, long-time cast, it's probably Stabler. He's judgemental, and violent, and more often than any other character, his opinions make me angry.
03. What’s your favourite episode of 4?
So hard to choose only one, but if I have to, I will say it's the one in which Endora loses her magic. She's so adorably pathetic without it. 'Derwood, come and plump my pillow *poutyface*', 'It's heavy!' when she has to lift the coffee pot by hand. I also love any episode in which Endora faces off with Arthur, the annoying younger brother who never grew up. And there are a whole string at the end of season 5 in which there is no Darrin because of Dick York's unfortunate injury, quickly re-written and carried by Liz and Agnes and the sheer power of their awesome.
04. What’s your favourite season of 5?
Season 2. I love the original cast - especially Susan - so Season 2, with its shift away from Simon as the main POV character but still with all of the wonderful original players, yes. Win all round.
05. Who is your favourite ship in 3?
Canon ship? Emily/Naomi, for certain. Fannishly, I'm partial to Chris/Cassie and Tony/Sid.
06. Who is your anti-ship in 2?
Tommy/Alissa. I really don't know why they got rid of August. She was so much funnier, and I think Alissa's only real role was to be the daughter of Strudwick, whose character was all about Dick, really, not Tommy.
07. How long have you watched 1?
I've watched it on and off forever, but a few years ago I started from Season 1 and watched the whole lot. Now, I keep up with each new season as it airs.
08. How did you become interested in 3?
Watched the first episode of season one on a recommendation, and absolutely fell in love with it (which is odd, for me, considering the cast is around my own age, and it's not the sort of thing I'm usually into).
09. Who’s your favorite actor/actress in 4?
That's a no-brainer. Agnes Moorehead is incomparable.
10. Which do you prefer: Show 1, 2 or 5?
That's really difficult. I mean, 2 and 5 are at least comparable because they're comedy, but 1 is completely different. I'll go with Third Rock, though, because it makes me laugh possibly more than any other TV show ever.
11. Which show have you seen more episodes of, 1 or 3?
More SVU, but that's only because there is more of it.
12. If you could be anyone from 4, who would you be?
It's tempting to say Endora, because of how much I love her, but I think I'd love to know her much more than I'd love to be her. So I'll say Serena, because she's a witch, and she has lots of fun, and she pulls all sorts of amusing shenanigans with her aunt, and I'm sure has coffee at all sorts of glamorous places with her as well.
13. How would you kill off your favourite character in 1?
Munch would have to die in an appropriately ironic or darkly comic way, or a way that went with his wonderful ability to walk into other TV show universes. Perhaps he would be killed on a Naval base, and the NCIS team would investigate his murder, or he would end up in Dr House's hospital as a patient who couldn't be saved.
14. Give a random quote from 1.
Munch telling a room full of burly bikers that the apostrophe in their gang name was superfluous. So much win.
15. Which character from 5 would be a good guest star on 2?
I'm going to go with school principal, Clare. Could you imagine her transferring to Rutherford University?
16. Would a 3/4 crossover work?
Anything is possible in the Bewitched universe. Maybe Tabitha or Adam Stephens went on exchange to a certain college in Bristol.
17. Pair 2 characters in 1 that would make an unlikely but strangely okay couple.
Munch/Olivia. I seriously considered writing this, once. It would be awesome.
18. Has 5 inspired you in any way?
To buy a lot of movies with Raquel Cassidy in them? That's about the only way I could imagine Teachers being 'inspiring'. Although the episode in which Simon decides to go overseas and all of a sudden it's his last night in England and everything is surreal and odd for him - tat fills me up with something every time I watch it because I remember that feeling - leaving your home for somewhere far away where you're going to be for a while, standing under the sky and thinking that tomorrow the sky you see will be different and you'll be on the other side of the world and everything will be new - I remember it vividly.
19. Overall, which show has a better cast, 2 or 4?
NGH. They're so different! Different time, different comedy! And the cast of Bewitched are now acting legends, so how can one possibly say 3rd Rock's cast is better? Honestly, though, I think 3rd Rock's cast was genius, and I get more actual laughs out of them bouncing off each other tan I do from the Bewitched cast doing the same, that I'm going to go with 3rd Rock, taking the cast as an ensemble.
20. Which has better theme music, 3 or 5?
Skins. Skins has awesome soundtracks, and TBH, I can't even think of what Teachers' theme music was, if it had any.
