Do you sit through any TV shows or movies you hate just because your SO likes them?

[Zavulon]

If so, which ones?

I sit through one in particular that I hate, but I hesitate to name it because I'd probably be flamed like a steak on July 4th if I did. DU Loungers obviously like the show.

She sits through "The Big Bang Theory" for me, but her show lasts an hour, twice as long as mine. :mad:

Anyway, do any of you sit through a show you hate for your better half?

[mcctatas]

1. I used to always read a book or do a crossoword puzzle...

of course now I don't have to worry about it anymore :)

[taterguy]

2. We have more than one room in our house

We're lucky that way

[Zavulon]

4. As do we.

My SO tells me, though, that she and I should do stuff together. It's best to pick your battles, and this one really isn't worth starting just because thanks to your insightful post I just remembered that we have more than one room, too.

[fizzgig]

3. we like a lot of the same things

and i'm always willing to try something new. the one thing i can't get him to watch with me is the west wing, but i'm fine with that.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Zavulon!

Oh hell no!

I just say "enjoy your movie, sweetie" and I vanish into my study and hit DU!

Why would I want to torture myself that way?

We have plenty of things we do together...we're not joined at the hip, after all...

No resentments here!

Life is just too damn short...

:hi:

[Zavulon]

7. My dear CalPeg!

She likes discussing the show and trading predictions with me. It's not too big a price to pay to make her happy. :)

I just don't see what she sees in this stupid show, although I know I'm in the minority. Nearly everyone who watches it seems to like it.

You know how a good one-hour show passes by like an instant and a bad one seems to last for hours and hours? To her, the show is over in ten blinks of her eyes, and it seems like a week long to me.

[av8rdave]

6. I've endured 24, American Idull and Extreme Home Makeover

To her credit, she often sits through Real Time and Stewart/Colbert with me.

Oh, and Nip/Tuck. She puts up with that, so I really have no right to complain.

[Zavulon]

10. We used to watch 24 because our parents do.

This year we just didn't start because the last season was so convoluted and boring.

Thanks to your post, I see that my dedication does have limits. I would not sit through American Idol for her or anyone else. Luckily, she has no interest in it.

[av8rdave]

18. Lately, I've seemed to find errands to run when Idull is on

For me, that show is excruciating!

[azmouse]

8. MrMouse is good enough to (barely) tolerate all the baseball games I watch.

Yep. The lady of the house loves baseball, the gent does not. :shrug:

[KitchenWitch]

17. Sounds like my house as well.

Of course during college football season the roles are reversed.

[Shell Beau]

9. My husband likes a lot of dumb movies.

I attempt to sit through them, but usually I will find something to do.

[quakerboy]

11. everything on food network

Are we going to use any of these ideas? No? Then why are we watching this and torturing ourselves for being inadequate cooks when our food turns out perfectly fine 99% of the time?

Back when I lived with my sister she would spend hours on those "what not to wear" show. Similarly futile and antithetical to personal happiness.

[Chan790]

12. I don't have a SO...

I live with my best friend and his gf (who does not like me and vice-versa. She's a neat freak finance professional yuppie and I'm a messy artist who lives hand-to-mouth) and I sit through really bad sci-fi as to not be thought anti-social.

[DarkTirade]

13. Nope. I tend to stay within a small circle of people with similar interests to mine, so the problem

rarely comes up.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. I actually tried with SATC. I really did.

I tried to be the open minded and supportive husband, willing to sit down and watch that show with her. And I just couldn't do it. I tried, but I just couldn't do it. The characters I just found to be so incredibly shallow and materialistic and unlikeable. The writing and the type of humor just didn't appeal to me in the least. I mean, how much can I sit and watch people talk about shoes and purses? I just didn't get it.

Ditto with Grey's Anatomy, but that's mainly because IMHO it's so poorly written and pathetically unrealistic. Thankfully, The Office is now directly opposite in that time slot, so it gives me a ready made excuse to ignore it.

I have, on occassion watched Desperate Housewives, and while I wouldn't ever catch myself sitting down and watching it on my own, it was entertaining enough that I didn't have the urge to throw a brick at the TV like some shows.

I actually found myself getting into Top Chef, which my wife loves. While I hate most reality shows, I can always appreciate good food, so I don't mind Top Chef. However, I couldn't say the same for Project Runway. I just find the whole fashion industry to be pretentious and incredibly boring.

[Zavulon]

15. My SO didn't much care for that show, but she LOVES Friends.

I sit through reruns with her from time to time, but I hate everything about Friends except for the way Jennifer Aniston looks. Ross is an intolerable whiner, Joey is unrealistically stupid, Phoebe is equally dull and even less funny than Joey, Monica is too anal retentive and annoying to be likable, only 10% or so of Chandler's wisecracks are funny, and Rachel is unlikable enough to cancel out her looks.

I sit through Seinfeld because sometimes a genuinely good episode comes up, but I can't remember a good episode of Friends.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. I don't care for Friends either, although my hatred of it has mellowed somewhat over the years

I still think the characters are too concocted and most of the jokes fall way flat. But I will begrudingly sit through episodes now....occassionally there will be a funny line here or there. When it first came out, I didn't even want to even watch a minute of it. Still, watching it now, you get the whole Full House effect, as in, "Did anyone at any time ever actually find this show hilarious?"

[blue_onyx]

19. I liked Friends

Phoebe was my favorite character and I found her funny. Seinfeld is the show I don't get. I started watching it occasionally in re-runs about the time in ended. I saw an episode more recently and the show really hasn't held up well. It's only been 12 years since it ended and it feels lame, boring, and just not funny. The only thing that makes Seinfeld even remotely entertaining is Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

[sendittozoom]

20. My SO quit watching tv two years ago and now thinks it's dumb

I am so proud of him and will be doing the same shortly:D

[flvegan]

21. I have an ex that LOVED "artsy" foreign movies.

God they were horrible. I slept through Titanic twice, fercryinoutloud.

[tigereye]

24. my husband was a film student - fortunately I loved all those classic art flicks

He likes some anime and that kind of leaves me cold, though.

[tigereye]

22. Fawlty Towers and The Young Ones years ago

I have never thought either were that funny. More cringe-inducing than anything else, at least for me.

[WinkyDink]

23. That would be a "Why do you think we have more than one TV?" response.

[dixiegrrrrl]

29. actually, 2 tvs and 2 computers and 2 dens...works for us.

I like to read and I like silence and watching videos on computer with headphones on.

He likes to listen to radio and watch movies on tv with volume up.

House is big enough to accommodate the differences.

[Jamastiene]

25. Not my SO, but my aunt.

She seems to love all things Owen Wilson. I got no problem with the person. I don't know him, but his voice grates on my nerves. It's so monotone and boring to me. He is in some good movies though. So, I sit through them and appreciate his acting although his voice makes me want to chew through my leash and run for my life.

[Nikia]

26. I've watched action movies with my husband

I wouldn't say that I completely hate them, but I find a lot of the fight scenes boring. It isn't that they aren't well done. I just don't find fight scenes interesting. I wish that they got back to the plot, which in some cases turns out to be almost unexistent.

[bigwillq]

27. No. Can't think of anything.

There's more than one TV. We are ok with watching TV on our own, even when we are together.

[x-g.o.p.er]

28. Daughter LOVES How I Met Your Mother

So her and I watch that together.

She howls, but honestly, I've never laughed once.

[Skittles]

30. fuck no

[BarenakedLady]

31. Not anymore.

:evilgrin:

Actually, I doubt I ever did.

[AlCzervik]

32. Hell no, sorry but i'm not sitting through Top Gun or Over the top ever again.

you know what the real key to happy marriage and or relationship is---2 bathrooms and 2 televisions.

[RiffRandell]

33. No.

We pretty much agree on what to watch.