Ever stolen a few moments with a show you wouldn't own up to even among your nearest and dearest? You don't have to be a celebrity to tell all. You can use this thread. The inspiration for the topic emerged from my own shameful fascination with summer TV. And I don't mean reruns, which at least have the patina of warmed over respectability. I mean all the offal that is crowding the networks while we are supposed to be enjoying the great out of doors and burning gasoline like...well, like gasoline. A case in point: I have come to look forward to "America's Got Talent." True! And I feel glad that you cannot know my real name here. I have developed a fondness for Sharon Osbourne (all right, that isn't so bad). And even David Hasselhoff, although I have no idea what his real occupation is (Broadway?).

And so, I invite all in TWOP land to come forward with their secret enchantments. I won't tell.

The Baywatch reunion movie.

I have it on DVD.

And I've watched it more than once.

I can't help it. I love Billy Warlock and what with his more recent turns on TFGH and Days of Our Lives, can anyone really blame me?

*SHAME*

I love half of Disney's lineup. Hannah Montana is on my must see list. It's such good cheeeese.

Having seen David Hasselhoff's hideous (in the worst possible way) portrayal of Jekyll/Hyde in the Broadway Jekyll & Hyde musical, I'd like to think that Broadway is not his current occupation. Please god no.

As for my own guilty pleasures, I adore So You Think You Can Dance and have DVRed every single episode so far, and I'm even making a collection of all the dances to burn onto DVDs so I can rewatch them later without the annoying judges commentary & other reality show filler.

Back when it was on air, I also loved the show "For Love or For Money" - its first and second seasons (not sure if it ever aired beyond that). Similar in premise to Joe Millionaire (but better executed in my opinion), it basically had a group of women who were told that the guy they're "dating" is a millionnaire, and the guy has to lie and go along with it and choose a woman. If she chooses him in the end, I think they both win some amount of money, but she can also choose the money. I remember being all aglow in schadenfreude when the woman ended up choosing the money because she wasn't all that into the guy. Ha!

Smallville. It's a guilty pleasure no longer, mostly because I'm watching a lot less television, but it would be if I had more time. I watched the first three or four seasons despite the cheesetastic dialogue and plotlines. But some of the supporting players really elevated their roles. John Glover and Michael Rosenbaum as Lionel and Lex Luther were truly magnificent bastards. I was rooting for them the entire time. I also found them much sexier than what's-his-name playing Clark.

America's Next Top Model. And I don't even watch it for the drama (I actually hate that part), I watch for the modeling and the pretty pictures.

Big Brother. I've been watching this show since season 2. Then I managed to quit in season 6. But then I went right back on it with season 7 because they had all the houseguests from previous seasons.

Starting Over. I don't even know if it's on anymore anywhere else, but my local affiliate yanked it months ago to put on Ellen DeGeneres so I had to go through withdrawal. While it lasted, it was can't-miss appointment TV for me during my last vacation. And I'm not a reality-show person at all.

I'm a bit embarassed to say, I'm a bit of a reality TV junkie. It all started with the "Pearl Islands" season of Survivor, then I went on to Last Comic Standing. After The Amazing Race won the Emmy, I started watching that. Then came RockStar: INXS. I managed to avoid Big Brother, though, but I eventually got pulled into that starting with season 7. Now I can't help myself. I mean, I even watch Pirate Master for God's sake! (Okay, since they moved it to Tuesdays, it's been on opposite new (to us) episodes of The Shield, so I've been taping it, and I haven't gotten around to watching it yet. But still...)

You're not alone, that's the reason my husband and I have for watching it. Of course, we've started passing time during the drama parts talking about who's a bigger bitch. ;)

Season two Veronica Mars was a real guilty pleasure for me. I legitimately loved season one, but season two? I was embarrassed to be seen watching it. Seriously, I would tape it on whatever night it was on, and then watch it on Thursday nights, because my two roommates were always out on Thursday (one worked, and one had a class). Whenever I watched it with them around, I felt like I always had to apologize for it.

Seventh Heaven was a huge guilty pleasure of mine for years. I stopped watching when it was brought back from the dead and renewed--I realized I was part of the problem.

Blind Date - That show was such a trainwreck for me. It made me glad that I'm through with the dating scene. It was also funny to see one half of the couple say, "I enjoyed going out with so and so. I think I'll have a second date. There was chemistry." While the other party said the opposite.

Definitely Big Brother. All seasons. I hate myself for watching it, but I just can't stop.

The best things about Blind Date?

1. Hey, you wanna get in the hot tub?
2. Where's the wildest place you've ever had sex?
3. Whatever....I'm having another shot and then I'm out of here.....
4. So I'm a 3rd grade teacher. Oh, you're a stripper? Wow. That's cool......

The little animated bits and thought balloons are pretty funny too.

I loved Fifth Wheel, it was just too good and too awful to see people being dissed and left out and who got mad at being rejected. And Elimidate. Man good trash tv can cure any blues.

And of course the ultimate in trash reality, Paradise Hotel. I simply cannot wait for the new series to start.

Another helpless victim in the thrall of America's Got Talent. It's too...hot out, in July, to change the channel.

My sister would never confess to watching such a thing, but while we were walking the local lake path admitted that she saw just one tiny bit, "that crazy guy." To which I shouted "Leonid!" much louder than I intended.

I have finally found a thread for this true confession:

Cheaters. The uncut version. I cannot be seen watching this. My embarrassment here is on two levels: One, they show all the incriminating footage. All of it. Which basically makes it porn. All that's missing is the usual unenthusiastic moaning and groaning. One episode actually featured a woman cheating on her man with two different guys, and they showed about 10 minutes of her having sex with one of them. They actually showed the guy ejaculating on the girl's face at the end.

Two, well, it's Cheaters. To be honest, I used to watch for the fights. Thank you, Cablevision! You've opened up a whole new world!

This is so embarrassing to admit, but one of my favorite all-time programs to watch is The Jacksons: The American Dream mini-series. Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (he'll always be Freddie 'Boom-boom' Washington to me) and Angela Bassett (good in everything) are great in it as the Jackson parents. Even though it gets really cheesy and melodramatic at times, you can't deny that the music is terrific and the kid actors sing and dance up a storm.

If I'm ever surfing and it's on VH-1, I'll stop and watch it all the way through.

Oh my god, there's an uncut version of Cheaters? Where do I get it?! Is there a DVD?

Seriously, it would make a perfect anniversary present for MrPunk. It was our first shared guilty pleasure.

Haha, me too. At first it started innocently enough with The Proud Family, but then I started to catch episodes of That's So Raven. I kept seeing advertisements for The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and noticed it was the twins from Friends so I tuned in to see them and next thing you know, I watch it almost 3 times a week. Lastly, I have now come to really enjoy Hannah Montana.

I am 29 and have no kids &no neices or nephews in the same state. I do not work in daycare. My friends do not have kids. Basically, no reason to be watching the Disney Channel.



Haha, that sounds great. I love Cheaters.

Okay, I have two, and I'm not sure which one I should be more ashamed of.

1) Age of Love. Have you ever watched a show and in the middle just ask yourself "why the hell am I watching this crap?"...but then totally continue to watch it? By far, the worst reality show I've ever seen, and I've seen a few.

2)I may or may not occasionally burst into The Wiggles's "Fruit Salad," complete with the dance routine that goes with it.

Blind Date was definitely a past guilty pleasure. Roger Lodge's snarky comments definitely made the show.

My current guilty pleasure is MTV's Engaged and Underage, and I have TWoP to thank for that: I was browsing in the Candid Reality section when I saw the show's title and thought "what the heck is that about?" so I started reading the posts. My curiosity then got the best of me and I had to start watching the episodes. It's like driving by and rubbernecking an accident every week.

Yeah, I actually quite liked Roger. And I thought BD was hilarious, even though I wouldn't admit it to anyone. I especially loved the coutdown clock, right before someone said something stupid.

My other guilty pleasures are cheap sci-fi/fantasy shows. I'll admit to people I own Hercules & Xena, but I try to avoid telling anyone that I also own all the Beastmaster seasons, all the Lost World seasons, all of Andromeda's seasons, Roar, Cleopatra 2525, AND Jack of all Trades. Pretty much any sci-fi show that has someone I know (Bruce Campbell, Kevin Sorbo, Heath Ledger, etc.), or as someone I think is hot (re: Jennifer O'Dell/Veronica on Lost World), I snap the DVD set up. I have way too much time. And money, apparentely.

Now I have a lot of guilty pleasures - America's Next Top Model, The Real World/Road Rules Extreme Challenge, Bravo Reality Shows, among many others. But my big guilty pleasure is Degrassi: The Next Generation. I am too old to be this invested in the lives of Canadian teenagers. This show started after I had graduated high school, I never saw the original series so I have no investment in seeing what happened to the original cast - in fact I did not care about Joey and Caitlin's relationship in seasons 3 and 4 and thought they were the most tedious plotlines, and I have no teenaged relatives that I feel the need to try and relate to by watching the show. In fact I managed to avoid the show until this year when I got sucked in during a Season 5 marathon and now I got all caught up and am totally invested. Seriously I should not care that much about these over dramatic teenagers and their relationships.

Some guilty pleasures of mine would have to be Smallville and anything on the Disney Channel. Hell, the only show on that channel I can stand to watch for more than five minutes is Hannah Montana, which I admit I hated at first, but it's actually a pretty good show once you get past the ridiculousness of it.

I used to watch Paradise Hotel like it was my job. I remember watching it and thinking "Why am I watching this?" yet I don't remember changing the channel ever.

And does anyone remember Change of Heart? I used to watch that constantly as well. I actually watched it in the emergency room after a pretty bad car accident. I was on oxygen, had cut marks and some broken bones. And I was watching Change of Heart and Cheaters while the doctors were waiting for x-rays and tests to come back.

Street Smarts was another good guilty pleasure.

The sad this is that I don't even feel guilty about watching any of those shows. I liked them, they were entertaining.

Flavor of Love and all of its spinoffs. I'll begin talking about the show (knowing I watch it religously), and if the person I'm talking to doesn't watch it I will deny, deny, deny I ever heard of it and then fall into canned laughter. But if the person shares in my guilty pleasure, then it's like I have found my new best friend forever. I have never had that response to any show before, lol.

I loved Blind date, it was perfect tv watching when I wound down at night. Roger Lodge perfected smarmy snarnkiness. All other Blind date lovers should check out this parody on you.tube, (blind date with propecia). I would post a link, but I never saw it. Yeah, that's my story. LOL.

Two words. American Gladiators. The silly nicknames, the hot guys and gals, the puny contestants, and the games - oh, the games- It was like Chuck E. Cheese for adults. I've always wanted to try that giant Jousting thing.

Going wayyyy back in the past for one of my original guilty pleasures - the Richard Bey show. He was Jerry Springer, when Jerry was still a legit mayor. There were Mr Punyverse and Ms. Thunderthighs contests, silly gameshows that involved stunts like the families do on double dare ( only the contestants were ghetto and mre ghetto), and the audience would do commercial spots for local companies, like "jacoby and Myers" lawyers. I don't know if this show only aired in Jersey and the tri-state area, I also don't know how my momma didn't know her 11 year old daughter was up late watching this drivel. It was great fun, though.

I know I will be able to add to this list, lol.

I see your "Blind Date" and raise you "Elimidate," "Fifth Wheel," and I'm not sure what else. There was a block of them on my local Paramount station -- two hours starting at 11 p.m.

I think I might be getting a "guilty" on "Dog the Bounty Hunter." I am absolutely fascinated by the Hair. On all of them. And even though I don't normally go for the heavily tattooed lean guys, son Leland is hawt. And the wife's breasts. I mean seriously, what do they weigh -- 50 pounds each? I'm amazed she can drive with those things in front of her. Hey, at least she doesn't need an airbag.

"A Haunting" on the Discovery Channel is my guilty pleasure -- the good episodes (like "A Haunting in Connecticut") freak me the hell out, and the not-so-good ones are like a free horror movie you can snicker at. I get a little thrill when I see my TiVo has recorded another episode.

Along that same line, "Ghost Hunters" on the SciFi channel. My old roommate and I used to make that our appointment TV. No joke. Of course, a lot of that had to do with our crush on Grant. *sigh* He's dreamy.

There used to be a show that folllowed (or preceded, I forget) "Blind Date" called "Strip Poker." They didn't get naked on the air (it was basic cable, after all), but the show as as stupid and guiltily pleasureful as the name implies. I want to say it was on around 1999-2001.

Oh where do I begin? I watch several shows on Disney even though I am single, childless and in my third decade of living. I saw every episode of Dirt and I plan on watching its second season. I’m all over shows on ABC Family, even Falcon Beach which was pretty bad television. I flove true crime shows so things like Forensic Files and American Justice are my crack. My all time favorite comedy is Married With Children. Much as I adore “smart” comedies like Frasier, The Office and Arrested Development, no one makes me laugh like Al Bundy. I have a few more but I have admitted enough for one evening.

My guilty pleasures mainly consist of shows that I'm too old for, particularly Fairly Oddparents, Danny Phantom, Live Action Sailor Moon and Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide.

For the longest time, I never missed an episode of Kim Possible. (And even now, I'm just waiting for the new ones to air on The Family Channel.)

Also? Pretty much anything based on a comic book, animated or not. The Flash? Saw it. Legion of Super-Heroes? Watch it every week. Birds of Prey? Saw every episode.

To find Cheaters, go to channel 500 on Cablevision or whatever your On Demand channel might be. You'll find it under the "Too Hot For TV" section. They've got uncut 5th Wheel and Jerry Springer eps on there, but I haven't seen those.

Another (extremely) guilty pleasure for me is the WE double whammy of Bridezillas and Platinum Weddings. I've even managed to get my bf into both of them. He watches Bridezillas every Sunday with me before Entourage. He snarks waaaaay more on Platinum Weddings than Bridezillas, which is pure comedy for me.

Oh my god. I just posted this on "Shows no one remembers but me.." I couldn't for the life of me remember the name. I loved this show!! It was so obvious that everyone on it was an aspiring actor/model/singer looking for their 15 minutes. Unabashed cruelty. Fantastic.

Speaking of aspiring actors/models/singers/rappers on Change of Heart:

The Game doesn't look that hard getting his heart stomped on TV, does he?

oh jadefox, you rule for that little nugget of awesomeness.

Mostly reality TV, like America's Next Top Model and The Biggest Loser. I've been watching TBL everyday on the Style Network... ack!

Oh, and I got into some Disney shows from babysitting, like earlier episodes of That's so Raven and The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.

Oh yeah, Cheaters. I loved that show. I remember back in 2003-2004 I stayed at home every Friday night to watch that show. Well I had to wake up early on Sat. to work. Then on Sat. nights I stay at home and watch Cheaters on this other channel. It's hilarious. I'm 21 and a few weeks ago I asked my 40yr old boss if he watched that show before and he admitted to watching it and thinking it's funny. I even thought about buying the dvds, but then I found the clips on youtube. I don't think I can handle the uncut version.

I hate Elimidate and the 5th Wheel, but I liked Blind Date.

But do you watch them when you're not babysitting? lol

I started watching Degrassi: The Next Generation with my daughter, and I was hooked. I mentioned to her that there was an older Degrassi series, I had only seen it a few times, so we went on a search for all the DVD's we could find. You really should watch it. I actually like it better than the new show. It's very cheesetastic. See Snake in all his geeky gloriousness! See Joey Jeremiah (with a full head of hair) walk through the cafeteria naked! See the Zit Remedy sing that song! Again and again and again! For awhile the N was running the old shows late at night. They still might be doing that, I'm not sure.

I used to watch old school Degrassi when I was younger and when I heard there was a new one that my younger sisters watch, I was like "Whatever". But, now I'm hooked on the new one too. There are so similar, but so very different. Amazing what a difference 20 years makes.

Oh, thank you, Eduardo!

Rumor had it that one of the more popular guys at my college appeared on Change of Heart as well, but I have yet to find the footage.

Xena was a guilty pleasure for me. My husband thought it was the stupidest show ever.

I watch *alot* of Gameshow Network shows. Lingo, Whammy, old school episodes of Pyramid? I'm there. The cheesier the better actually.

Any time Home Improvement is on, I will stop and watch at least a couple of minutes of it.

I guess that guilty pleasures are in the eye of the beholder.

All right, if we're going to play in the time capsule sandbox, I'll top you with Morton Downey, Jr. Don't ask me why. I was young. He was vituperative and smoked like a chimney, but something about him was mesmerizing. Actually all of those old talk shows of the day, Jenny Jones, Sally Jessy (/hides head).

Modern shows...this IS embarrassing. Extreme Home Makeover sometimes. I have no justification for it. It's not like I'm already on abc and it comes on. It is an actual choice I make to change the channel.

Generally nearly all reality TV is a guilty pleasure, so I can't parse out just one.

Oh my god, Imelda so did I! I use to hear about that show and thought it must be the trashiest thing TV ever had. Then I got bored one night and turned it on, I never missed another episode. It was the summer I lived alone, and I don't think I have ever admitted to watching it before.

I still miss it every summer. (I think I heard a rumor that it was coming back anyone know.)

One summer, I got totally bored and started watching re-runs of Baywatch. I felt exactly like you did. I knew it was a dumb show, but I just never got around to changing the channel.

Another guilty pleasure for me is Queer as Folk US. I only suffered through Seasons 2 to 5 because I really enjoyed watching hot guys gettin' it ON! *g* And okay, I was a B/J shipper too. [/small voice]