Do you watch Maru? We watch Maru. Maru's humans have adopted a new kitten in addition to Maru and Hana. (https://sisinmaru.com/)
Maru does not teach us anything except that our cat is not very motivated.
I will say that looking at the Maru humans' house is a big part of the fascination. It is beautifully clean and pleasant-looking but not especially decorated, possibly because it appears mostly devoted to cats.
We used to watch AFV in college with the sound off.
That would be an improvement.
Did you play Pink Floyd's The Wall at the same time?
OP.4: This. I give AFHV credit for showing the way people actually live rather than how it was depicted in sitcoms and other media. A good thing. DIY YouTube videos have continued that.
We liked watching people get injured bit didn't like Bob Saget.
We liked watching people get injured bit didn't like Bob Saget.
1: I do love Maru! It tends to flit across my Instagram from time to time, but I haven't explicitly followed them, but maybe I should.
This era is the host after Bob Saget, Mark something. He looks like a current comedian who I cannot place for the goddamn life of me and it's driving me nuts.
Amateur videos but for home decorating instead of pr0n.
Oh: Tom Bergeron is his name. But I still can't place who he reminds me of, except un-funny.
Bob Saget was horrible, but replacing him was an abomination.
I remember how shocked I was to find out more about his humor style when he was on The Aristocrats. He doesn't actually picture himself as America's Favorite Neutered Uncle.
Still, when I see him, it makes me want to watch children get injured.
Ooooh hadn't thought about the survey of interiors aspect of AFV, cool.
Soul train, aerobics contests, and Match Game or Dating Game are all favorites for me. Aslo timelapse videos of clouds and storms-- Mike Olbinski has a bunch of good ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBQF_6TQks0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFT7ATLQQx8
Nailed It is indeed great. It's just about the only non-scripted (for whatever that term is worth these days) show I watch.
We've all shot a nail into our hand at least once.
I looked it up. It's another baking show. Why so many competitive baking shows? Are there any competitive carpentry shows?
New Yankee Workshop was pretty brutal at times.
I thought I had expressed the AFHV sentiment before, and sure enough found this from 2008.
One of the few redeeming aspects of America's Funniest Home Videos is that a gave a glimpse of what people's actual houses looked like. (YouTube has now taken over that function.)
(From a thread where we were bashing ogged's fondness for NYT realeastate pron.
The corkscrew-shaped penis of a male duck.
22: That was an amusing thread. I enjoyed PGD's comment that he preferred Cops for seeing what people's actual houses looked like.
Nailed It is great but there aren't very many episodes. For those who are unfamiliar, it's a baking show where the contestants are terrible at baking.
20: It's probably because baking ingredients are cheap. There is a show that my wife watches that's a building/crafting competition -- Making It. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_It_(TV_series)
The judges are generally pretty supportive and encouraging rather than mean, but the contestants are so bad that there's a limit to how supportive they can be.
And everyone seems to be having a lot of fun, and the host is a funny commedienne.
23: "What's good for the goose"
I like my judges like I like my bustiers, supportive and poking someone in the ribs.
20: can't think of one, but this one was competitive metalworking/engineering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapheap_Challenge (Junkyard Wars in the US, I see)
32: Liked that ishow back in the day. Also Robot Wars.
30: So just the old idiom, not some sort of period-specific reference?
For whatever reason, this reminded me of Pueblo, Colorado. You were always supposed to write to Pueblo, Colorado to get government guides. About as relevant as mailing a video in, I guess.
Nailed It is great. Don't watch the French or Mexican versions of Nailed It. They couldn't find any incompetent contestants so the judges' comments are like "this batter was whipped for too long", not "you didn't measure anything" or "you used the icing when it was piping hot so it all absorbed into the cake or dripped on the floor".
Still, when I see him, it makes me want to watch children get injured.
You on Instagram? There's literally an account called Kids Getting Hurt.
When I watched these in college, they were called 'FAIL compilation1'. Also sometimes people died. Agreed this seems like a good way to teach kids not to be idiots, to the extent that is possible.