Thursday, December 24, 2009

I do TV




So, Pitu and Amrita did this post. And since I have no idea for any new posts at the moment, I think I might as well go ahead and take it up.

Statutory warning: Most of the shows listed below are offline right now. I have marked the ones on screen right now which I follow regularly (as against catching up once in while), and you can see, the percentage is pretty low. Plus, like shoe sizes, 2 seasons of a British show = 1 season on US TV. What I am saying is, just because I watch Doctor Who and Scrubs on repeat once in a while doesn’t mean I need medical help.

Anyway, getting back to the topic at hand, the rules are pretty simple:

  1. Bold all of the following TV shows which you’ve ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
  2. Italicize a show if you’re positive you’ve seen every episode of it.
  3. Highlight new additions with an Underline. ( I added some BBC and Scifi/syfy shows which were missing from the list)

  • 24
  • * 30 Rock
  • 90210
  • 7th Heaven
  • ALF
  • Alias
  • American Gothic
  • American Idol
  • America’s Got Talent
  • America’s Next Top Model
  • Angel
  • Arrested Development
  • Babylon 5
  • Batman: The Animated Series
  • Batman Beyond/Batman of the Future
  • Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
  • Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
  • Baywatch
  • Beverly Hills 90210 (original)
  • Benidorm
  • Bewitched
  • Big Love
  • Black Adder (Rowan Atkinson + Stephen Fry + Hugh Laurie – Mr. Bean = Great Comedy)
  • Bonanza
  • * Bones
  • Bosom Buddies
  • Boston Legal
  • Boy Meets World
  • Breaking Bad
  • Brothers And Sisters
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Burn Notice
  • Californication
  • * Castle
  • Catherine Tate Show
  • Chappelle’s Show
  • Charlie’s Angels
  • Charmed
  • Cheers
  • * Chuck (I am going to miss first few episodes of season 3)
  • Clarissa Explains it All
  • Columbo
  • Commander in Chief
  • Crossing Jordan
  • CSI
  • CSI: Miami
  • CSI: NY
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm
  • Dark Angel
  • Dark Skies
  • DaVinci’s Inquest
  • Dawson’s Creek
  • Dead Like Me
  • Deadwood
  • Degrassi: The Next Generation
  • Designing Women
  • Desperate Housewives
  • Dexter
  • Dharma & Greg
  • Different Strokes
  • Dirty Sexy Money
  • * Doctor Who (OK, the 2005 series, not the original series)
  • Dragnet
  • Due South
  • ER
  • * Eureka (you are missing something if you haven’t been to Eureka)
  • Everwood
  • Everybody Loves Raymond
  • Extras
  • Facts of Life
  • Family Guy
  • Farscape
  • Fawlty Towers
  • Felicity
  • Firefly
  • * FlashForward
  • Frasier
  • Freaks & Geeks
  • Friday Night Lights
  • Friends
  • * Fringe
  • Futurama
  • Gavin and Stacey
  • Get Smart
  • Gilligan’s Island
  • Gilmore Girls
  • Glee
  • Gossip Girl
  • Grey’s Anatomy
  • Grange Hill
  • Growing Pains
  • Gunsmoke

  • Happy Days
  • Harry Hill’s TV Burp
  • Have I Got News For You
  • Hercules: the Legendary Journeys
  • Heroes
  • Home Improvement
  • Homicide: Life on the Street
  • * House
  • How I Met Your Mother
  • Ideal
  • I Dream of Jeannie
  • I Love Lucy
  • Invader Zim
  • Invasion
  • Hell’s Kitchen
  • JAG
  • Jackass
  • Joey
  • Kim Possible
  • King of Queens
  • Knight Rider
  • Knight Rider: 2008
  • Kung Fu
  • Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
  • La Femme Nikita
  • LA Law
  • Laverne and Shirley
  • Law and Order
  • Law and Order: SVU
  • Law and Order: CI
  • Legend of the Seeker
  • Leverage
  • Lie To Me
  • Little Britain
  • Little House on the Prairie
  • Live At Appollo
  • Lizzie McGuire
  • Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
  • Lost
  • Lost in Space
  • MASH
  • MacGyver
  • Mad Men
  • Malcolm in the Middle
  • Married… With Children
  • McLeod’s Daughters
  • Melrose Place
  • Merlin
  • Miami Vice
  • Misfits
  • Mission: Impossible
  • Mock The Week
  • Modern Family
  • Mod Squad
  • Moonlight (It has a mopey vampire in love with a mortal girl)
  • Monk (Series finale was just this month)
  • Mork & Mindy
  • Murphy Brown
  • My Life As A Dog
  • My Three Sons
  • My Two Dads
  • * Mythbusters (I have seen a lot, just not sure all the episodes)
  • * NCIS
  • * NCIS: Los Angeles (Like CSI, NCIS is going places now)
  • Ned Bigby’s Declassified School Survival Guide
  • Nip/Tuck
  • * Numb3rs
  • One Tree Hill
  • Oz
  • Perry Mason
  • Power Rangers
  • Press Gang
  • Primaeval (dinosaurs + time travel)
  • Prison Break
  • Private Practice
  • Privileged
  • Profiler
  • Project Runway
  • * Psych
  • Pushing Daisies
  • QI
  • Quantum Leap
  • Queer As Folk (US)
  • Queer as Folk (UK)
  • ReGenesis
  • Remington Steele
  • Rescue Me
  • Road Rules
  • Robin Hood
  • ROME
  • Roseanne
  • Roswell
  • Royal Pains
  • * Sanctuary
  • Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
  • * Scrubs
  • Seaquest DSV
  • Seinfeld
  • Sex and the City
  • Six Feet Under
  • Slings and Arrows
  • Smallville
  • So Weird
  • South of Nowhere
  • South Park
  • So You Think You Can Dance
  • Spaced
  • Spongebob Squarepants
  • St. Elsewhere
  • Star Trek
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  • Star Trek: Voyager
  • Star Trek: Enterprise
  • Stargate Atlantis
  • Stargate SG-1
  • * Stargate Universe
  • Starsky & Hutch
  • Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (Hey, I still think it is nice)
  • Superman
  • Supernatural
  • Surface
  • Survivor
  • Taxi
  • Teen Titans
  • That 70’s Show
  • That’s So Raven
  • The 4400
  • The Addams Family
  • The Amazing Race
  • The Andy Griffith Show
  • The A-Team
  • The Avengers
  • The Beverly Hillbillies
  • * The Big Bang Theory
  • The Brady Bunch
  • The Colbert Report
  • The Cosby Show
  • The Daily Show
  • The Dead Zone
  • The Dick Van Dyke Show
  • The Flintstones
  • The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
  • The F Word
  • The Golden Girls
  • The Honeymooners
  • The Jeffersons
  • The Jetsons
  • The L Word
  • The Love Boat
  • The Magnificent Seven
  • The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  • * The Mentalist
  • The Monkees
  • The Munsters
  • The O.C.
  • The Office (UK)
  • * The Office (US)
  • The Peep Show
  • The Powerpuff Girls
  • The Pretender
  • The Real World
  • The Shield
  • The Simpsons
  • The Six Million Dollar Man
  • The Sopranos
  • The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
  • The Thin Blue Line (seriously, Rowan Atkinson is funny when he is not Mr. Bean)
  • The Twilight Zone
  • The Waltons
  • The West Wing
  • The Wire
  • The Wonder Years
  • The X Factor
  • The X-Files
  • Third Watch
  • Three’s Company
  • Top Chef
  • Top Gear
  • Torchwood
  • True Blood
  • Twin Peaks
  • Twitch City
  • Unfabulous
  • Ugly Betty
  • Veronica Mars
  • Weeds
  • Who Dare Wins
  • Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
  • Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
  • Will and Grace
  • Wings
  • Xena: Warrior Princess
    • So, what’s your score on the chart?

       

      - The Great Eagle Has Spoken

      Wednesday, December 02, 2009

      The other shoe is in hand




      For last few months, we at the Aerie Institute have been waiting for some enterprising company to pick up a brilliant business idea which has been making regular news. Unfortunately, either due to recession, or some other reason, nobody has picked up on it. So, we thought, why not us?

      Imagine the scenario: you are sitting in a press conference given by a Famous Person, and fuming at the way things are going in there. You want to vent, but almost everything a journalist has at hand (including the journalist himself) makes for a very poor projectile weapon. And  before you know it, you are suddenly walking unbalanced, with just one shoe on.

      That’s why, we are proud to present: Feko Shoe.

      Each Feko shoe is manufactured with carefully tested toe to heel ratio, and extensively researched aerodynamic profile which give it the best flight characteristics. Studies have shown Feko shoes get 80% more range and 50% more accuracy than normal shoes*.

      Another disturbing trend can be noticed in the news: none of the shoes in the news have hit the target. Which is why there is Feko Premium, armed with “Throw and Forget TM” technology. With one flick of a switch, the Feko Premium will hit the speaker with unerring accuracy. The target can be locked on manually quite easily (so that you don’t end up standing up with a shoe in your hand, looking like an idiot), or the automatic targeting system will take over in case there is no manual input. Want to vent, but don’t want violence? No worries. Just turn the switch to “Miss” and the shoe will miss the target very closely, no matter what.

      Both the standard and premium versions come in easy to carry collapsed form, which can be easily popped up into action readiness. After all, you don’t want to carry a shoe box with you everywhere, do you now? Plus, the faux leather material is completely bio-degradable, making the shoe quite environment friendly.

      As a buyer of Feko Shoe, you also get a chance to enroll in our Shoe Throwing training, where experts from military and sports field will teach you to be the perfect shoe thrower. Our instructors may not have thrown any shoes, but believe us, they have accurately chucked quite a few solid objects at their targets in their career.

      Please note the singular in all the paragraphs before. After all, with Feko, you don’t need to carry a backup to get your point across.

      But for the cautious and overzealous amongst you, as a limited time offer, every Feko Premium purchase gives you a 50% discount on another Feko Premium. Having a pair is always better than a single shoe. Who knows, you may want to wear them at some point of time for some reason.

       

      - The Great Eagle Has Spoken

      P.S. Don’t forget to check out our “Shoe Avoidance Force Filed” products. After all, that Feko shoe is going to make you into a Famous Person.

      P.P.S. Want more career advice from Aerie Institute? Here’s your intro to “Effigy Burning” and “Spamming 101” (and Updated course).

       

      * Under test conditions