Meme's Law

[captainsblog]

Arright arright arright. My rule on these is, more or less, if I get at least two people from nonconcentric circles posting it and I answered both of theirs, I have to do it, too. It's in the Bible.

01. Go to IMDB.com and look up your 10 favorite TV shows.

02. Post three official IMDB "Plot Keywords" for these 10 picks.

03. Have your friends guess the show names.

On any current ones I might have ::slaps self in head::, I reserve the right to be obscure. On past favorites, I will try to be cruel but fair.  All have been mentioned in this journal at one time or another. Possibly to excess. Maybe quite recently (what, you want me to SPELL them for you?)

1. Non-fiction/(sorry, that's the only one it has)

2. Alternative history/Experiment gone wrong/Cigar Quantum Leap, thanatos_kalos

3. Garbage/Prozac/Character Name in Title The Sopranos (Meadow: "My father's not in the Mafia, he's in waste management!"), sturgeonslawyer

4. Ensemble Cast/ Famous Opening Theme/Defense LawyerHill Street Blues, thanatos_kalos

5. Surreal/Criminal/Cliffhanger Yeah, Lost, yadda, yadda, thanatos_kalos-da

6. Sea/ Futuristic/Interracial Relationship seaQuest dsv, thanatos_kalos

7. Different gags during credits/Cult tv/ Slapstick Police Squad!, thanatos_kalos who else?

8. Class conflict/Steampunk/Femme Fatale Firefly, per sturgeonslawyer

9. Tragicomedy/Human relationship/Pacific Northwest Northern Exposure, thanatos_kalos not being thrown for a second by the reference to this Alaska show being filmed in Roslyn, Washington

10. Male bonding/computer/Famous score Was Star Trek TOS that hard to guess? thanatos_kalos didn't think so.

Hint from Hell-oise: I may be out for part of the day, so check comments before claiming your answer. Someone may already be there.

Comments

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

Alternative history/Experiment gone wrong/Cigar Quantum Leap

Sea/ Futuristic/Interracial Relationship seaQuest?

Tragicomedy/Human relationship/Pacific Northwest Northern Exposure

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't quite remember the interracial thing either. Unless Darwin was hornier than we all thought.

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

Cmdr Ford and Lt Henderson, also Tim O'Neill and Heiko Kimura, in the last ep.

oh, and: Surreal/Criminal/Cliffhanger The Prisoner?

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Yes on the sQ references.

No, about Number Six being number 5 (though that would have been an evil red herring).

[galateadia.livejournal.com]

Is #7 The Simpsons?

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Nope. But read on.

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

Is 3 Sledge Hammer? And is 7 Police Squad? 10 Couldn't be Trek, could it?

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Trust me, I know what I'm doing- #3 is not (but I do miss that show).

But #7 is, and of course 10 could be:)

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Sledge Hammer in ages either-- I know it's on DVD, but...

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

#4 - Perry Mason?
#1 - Nova?
#6 - Twin Peaks?

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Surprisingly, none of the above.

You did get the Firefly one, though; YOU have any idea what "steampunk" is all about?

::scurries off to do the ones you left::

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

Steampunk began as sort of alternate-Victorian era science fiction, a descendant of the "cyberpunk" movement. I'm not really sure how it applies to Firefly, though.

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

Oh, and #8 - Firefly?

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

#3: Sopranos. "Garbage" threw me.

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

could 5 be Lost?

[swingdancefan.livejournal.com]

#4--LA Law? (A show I never watched, btw...)

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Nor I. And you're closer than I'd care to admit, but no.

(Hey, you ever get my Missing Persons Bureau comment?)

[swingdancefan.livejournal.com]

I remember reading it...but it isn't in my inbox any more. Sorry. I think it came when I was grading research papers or something.

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

Is 4 Hill St Blues? Joyce was a DA, I think...

I haven't seen HSB in years, either...

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Bite your tongue. She was a defense lawyer. Hence the keyword.

And you're right. Dammit.

V. was so damn close because LA Law was the same producers and took the same time slot.

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

Bite your tongue. She was a defense lawyer. Hence the keyword.

didn't she switch from one to the other...? I just checked with mom, and she remembers a switch too.

And you're right. Dammit.

;) ::has far too much time on her hands::

V. was so damn close because LA Law was the same producers and took the same time slot.

huh. I never watched LA Law either...