Fack ju Göhte (2013)
Mar 7th – €9.99 @ Media Markt
Collection no. 1187
Tammy (2014)
Mar 7th – €7.99 @ Drogerie Müller
Collection no. 1188
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
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Mar 19th – €9.99 @ Amazon.de
Collection no. 1189
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
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Mar 23rd – €9.74 (£5.95) @ Amazon.co.uk
Collection no. 1190
Mallrats (1995)
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Mar 23rd – €11.17 (£6.94) @ Amazon.co.uk
Collection no. 1191
The Big Bang Theory: Season 6 (2012 – 2013)
Jan 4th – €1.66 ($7.99) @ Amazon.com (paid partially via gift certificate)
Collection no. 12605 – 12607
How I Met Your Mother: Season 8 (2012 – 2013)
Jan 4th – €1.93 ($9.96) @ Amazon.com (paid partially via gift certificate)
Collection no. 12608 – 12610
Justified: Season 3 (2012)
Jan 4th – €1.94 ($9.99) @ Amazon.com (paid partially via gift certificate)
Collection no. 12611 – 12613
Night Court: Season 2 (1984 – 1985)
Jan 7th – €0.00 ($11.99) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)
Collection no. 12614 – 12616
Night Court: Season 3 (1985 – 1986)
Jan 7th – €0.00 ($11.49) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)
Collection no. 12617 – 12619
I hate real life. Yes I know, it’s bringing in the money and with it the food and the DVDs but still. There are just…
I watched a lot of TV shows over the years. And when I say a lot, I mean A LOT. And I watched accross the board.
Keep in mind that I’m only 35 years old.
I watched The Guiding Light for two years straight (it’s a soap opera whose German title was the Springfield Story). I watched medical shows like Trapper John M.D. and lawyer shows like L.A. Law. I watched the 80s action shows from MacGuyver to Riptide. I even watched Love Boat every weekday on one of the first private channels in Germany: Sat.1. I got up at 6am on every Saturday morning to watch Rawhide (Tausend Meilen Staub, lit. “A Thousand Miles of Dust”) with a very young and pre-Fistful Clint Eastwood. I knew who Daniel Boone was around the same time I met the Cartwrights as well as the men from the Shiloh Ranch.
And last weekend I binge-watched the first Netflix show House of Cards (Big recommendation! Kevin Spacey is a brilliant Magnificent Bastard!) and I got curious as to how many shows I watched intently over the past two and a half decades.
With the help of the list on the German site Wunschliste.de I created a list of “my” shows.
I only counted live-action fiction shows, no animated shows may they be Saturday morning cartoons like Yogi Bear or Scooby-Doo or evening shows like The Simpsons or South Park. No scripted reality (which I’m avoiding to 99% anyway with the exception of Comic Book Men). In this list are only shows which I followed for more than a year unless the show itself didn’t last that long.
And the answer was: 244 246 247. Two hundred and fourty four six seven different shows I watched with active interest since I’ve started watching television. And the worst thing is: Of most of these shows I watched 90% or more episodes at least once.
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe (2011)
04 Oct – €7.27 (£3.92) @ Amazon.co.uk
U.S. Marshals (1998)
11 Oct – €4.80 (£2.98) @ Amazon.co.uk
Bond 50 (1962 – 2008)
11 Oct – €111.51 (£89.23) @ Amazon.co.uk
Leverage: Season 4 (2011)
11 Oct – €0.00 ($24.28) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)
UHF (1989)
11 Oct – €6.04 (£3.96) @ Amazon.co.uk
Heroes: Season 4
07 Oct – €0.00 ($21.99) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)
Johnny English
07 Oct – €7.99 @ Netto
Just Go With It
07 Oct – €6.99 @ Amazon.de
How I Met Your Mother: Season 6
11 Oct – €6.09 (CA$24.99) @ Amazon.ca (paid partially via gift certificate)
Flatliners / Gattaca
20 Oct – €8.50 @ Saturn
Back to the Future 1 – 3
11 Jan – €24.01 (£17.99) @ Amazon.co.uk
Mad Men: Season 1 – 3
18 Jan – €32.46 (£24.79) @ Amazon.co.uk
Dexter: Season 3
20 Jan – €17.28 (£12.89) @ Amazon.co.uk
Dune
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20 Jan – €12.99 @ Media Markt
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
20 Jan – €9.99 @ Media Markt
2010 End Statistics:
New Purchase Items: 131 (141 in 2009)
New Movies: 93 (thereof Blu-ray: 36)
New TV Seasons: 54 (thereof Blu-ray: 7)
New TV Specials: 17
New Special Interest: 1 (thereof Blu-ray: 1)
Money Spent: 1,586.10€ (1,869.30€ in 2009)
Money Spent on Movies: 684.18€
Money Spent on TV Seasons: 813.53€
Money Spent on TV Specials: 78.41€
Money Spent on Special Interest: 9.98€
Avg Spent: 12.11€ (13.26€ in 2009)
Avg Spent on Movies: 7.36€
Avg Spent on TV Seasons: 15.07€
Avg Spent on TV Specials: 4.61€
Avg Spent on Special Interest: 9.98€
Runtime: 45,592m (31d 15h 52m)
Runtime Movies: 10,647m (7d 9h 27m)
Runtime TV Seasons: 33,491m (23d 5h 11m)
Runtime TV Specials: 1,349m (22h 29m)
Runtime Special Interest: 105m (1h 45m)
Cheapest Item: Superman: Vol. 1 (1.00€)
Most Expensive Item: Torchwood: The Complete Series (42.99€)
First Item: How I Met Your Mother: Season 3 (0.00€)
Last Item: V for Vendetta (9.99€)
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Purchase by Locality:
United States: 17
Canada: 6
United Kingdom: 80
Germany: 28
In the show How I Met Your Mother the character Robin used to be a child star in Canada and had the stage name Robin Sparkles.
For the third time there’s a music video with a song from that time and it’s pretty harmless – unless you think of something else:
If Robin’s beaver devours six inches of wood every half hour and Jessica’s beaver devours eight inches of wood every 45 minutes how much wood will I need to keep both beavers well fed all weekend long?
In the last few weeks I didn’t feel much like watching anything. But then the hill turned into a mountain. Luckily some of the series are pausing for some weeks and I decided to play catch up before I have to cross the Alps. Since this was a bigger marathon session I won’t talk about every individual episode but rather about I like the season so far.
Bones
With Bones it’s business as usual. I like their cases and their chemistry and I just enjoy watching them.
And I loved it how Brennan managed to jump over her own shadow for this kids show:
Castle
The same is basically true for Castle. Castle and Beckett are hilarious together and I love the way they solve their cases. Both shows have put the WTWT topic on a back burner which is good for now but it’s obviously still there and will become an issue again. I don’t mind as long as it’s well executed.
Chuck
Chuck’s family tree is becoming more complicated than the one Jennifer Garner had in Alias – and that’s saying something. 😉
Chuck as a person has grown but luckily that doesn’t take away the humour and the appeal of the show. If anything the addition of Morgan as Casey’s “partner” made it even better.
Community
I love it how every episode is mainly about one or two characters but it doesn’t really feel that way because everyone is contributing their own point of view and in the end it’s always an ensemble show.
The zombie movie homage in the Halloween episode was so cool – and I don’t even like zombie movies.
Cougar Town
The show continues where it left at the end of the first season. I’m glad that it doesn’t really matter that Travis is in college because he’s either at home or they are visiting him, so he’s still a full cast member.
I also love how they toy with the series name, for example in episode five the title card read 100% Cougar Free Cougar Town. 😀