<p>GLEE (I was a theatre kid as well…)…I told my work I’m not available on Wednesday nights just so I could be home to watch Glee (no, I don’t have a problem…>.>)
Gilmore Girls (I have all 7 seasons on DVD and watch them at night as I’m falling asleep)
Grey’s Anatomy (only the first few seasons, I don’t watch anymore)
CSI: NY (I used to watch Las Vegas but I don’t like it as much since the cast started falling apart, though Lawrence Fishburne was a good addition)
All those wedding shows (It’s Wedding Sunday on WeTV! :D)
Criminal Minds
Bones (sometimes, ie it’s on and I’m not watching anything else)
Cake Boss/Ace of Cakes/Food Network Challenge</p>
<p>The reminder that it is wedding sunday just prompted me to turn on my tv. I was much more productive a moment ago.</p>
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<p>It is far from sugar coated. It really does a good job to show how hard it is to be a teen parent. The father had to get a job to pay for child support and the mother missed out on a lot of school events and had to sacrifice a lot of life. This show doesn’t promote abstinence (as evidenced by their PSA’s), they are jsut proting safe sex and to talk with your parents about safe sex.</p>
<p>But amy is skinny and pretty and her boyfriend didn’t care that she was pregnant with another guys baby and her parents let her get away with constantly being a spoiled brat? Amy is virtually NEVER seen actually having to interact with the baby, there appear to have been little to no social repercussions, and Amy’s parents are still supporting her ass. She had to quit marching band, boo hoo. And ricky isn’t really paying child support since they didn’t bother to go through the courts, Amy is SERIOUSLY lucky that the church was charitable enough to give her the daycare job and free childcrare since most single parents have to get a job just to pay for daycare to have a job at all, and between that and her parents charity she is still portrayed to be breezing through high school, nevermind that if she actually had any personal responsibility for her child at all she would be much too exhausted for all the drama and would have a hell of a time staying in school at all. All the teen moms I know watch that show and laugh.</p>
<p>I forgot to mention I also watched 16 and Pregnant and now watch Teen Mom. XD No wonder if takes me so long to do my homework. I think Teen Mom is a much better representation of how hard it is to be a teen mom, based on my observations. Although Farrah… Farrah I think probably watches too much Secret Life. She is lucky her mother is so patient.</p>
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<p>It is a show. It’s not going to be perfect. I never thought she was spoiled brat. The whole show is not about Amy and the baby, it is a show about teen parents (which is why the baby isn’t shown in many scenes with Ricky and Amy). She breezed through high school? She had incompletes in some of her classes and had to attend summer school. She has help from her parents (which her parents should do), but they don’t bend over backwards for her. The mother went to work right after the baby was born. There are many churches that give free daycare in exchange for work, so I don’t see how’s she’s lucky. </p>
<p>What does anything have to do with Amy being skinny (I think she’s average and not skinny at all) and pretty?</p>
<p>The Office- funniest show on TV
Glee- my guilty pleasure
The Simpsons
Two and a half men- HILARIOUS but verging on uncomfortable
Watched The Buried Life on MTV last week, will try to watch it again</p>
<p>its always sunny in philidephia
friends (love love love)
family guy
jersey shore (my guilty pleasure)
simpsons
project runway
30 Rock </p>
<p>hmm thats it i think.</p>
<p>I started watching My Life as Liz yesterday. It seems like a good show.</p>
<p>Ooh, I saw an episode of My Life as Liz and liked it, when does that air?</p>
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<p>They should? If that was my daughter I would tell her to move out and support the baby herself. You wanna be an adult so bad? You got it. If she didn’t want to deal with the real pressures of adult life and of parenting, quite frankly she should’ve kept her knees closed or at least been more cautious. I would help if she absolutely needed it, but there would be no more help for my daughter, only the baby. The fact is, at least around here, it’s uncommon for parents to raise their grandchildren. Sometimes they watch the baby while the parents are at work, but that’s about it. It’s very rare that the kid is still living at home.</p>
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<p>I don’t know where you go to church, but a lot of the ones around here don’t look too kindly on premarital sex or teen parents. Just saying. Childcare is EXPENSIVE. She’s lucky indeed that her job has it available.</p>
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<p>It’s unrealistic. It takes a long time to lose baby weight for some women (it took my sister-in-law several months, but women on TV just seem to drop the weight as soon as the baby is born–miraculous!)</p>
<p>If nothing was sugar coated, IMO, she would be living on her own with the baby and would have extremely few friends. It’s highly likely that she would not have completed high school simply because of how draining being pregnant and then having a newborn baby is. I don’t even watch the show and I know how ridiculous it is. I have some friends that had babies in their teen years, and they watch the show and–like others have said–laugh at how easy that “poor girl” has it. Let’s face it, whether you think so or not, they’re glamorizing teen parenting. If it was really that easy, you can bet there would be a lot more girls with babies by 17.</p>
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<p>I saw it on Teen Nick yesterday, but I think it normally airs on MTV on Mondays.</p>
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<p>Bingo! Why are you even commenting on the show if you don’t even watch it.</p>
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<p>Some woman. Exactly. I guess the actresses in the shows are the exception.</p>
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<p>You don’t even watch the show, so how would you know? This show promotes safe sex and the consequences of having sex. If you watch the PSA’s that the show does during the commercials, you would know what I’m talking about.</p>
<p>Whatever makes you feel better…spend some time in the real world and get to know some teen parents. Then come back and tell me the show isn’t sugar-coated.</p>
<p>The fact is the life the girl lives is VERY easy for someone who is a teenaged parent. I said they were glamorizing it, not promoting it. There’s a big difference.</p>
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<p>You don’t have to jump off the Empire State Building to know how it’s going to end.</p>
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<p>That’s pretty sad that you would do that. If you watched the show, you would know that the parents are not raising the baby.</p>
<p>^It’s sad, yes, but that’s what happens I’d say about 75% of the time. Again, take a look out in the real world instead of basing your perspective on the happy and sparkly life of TV. The fact is that NO TV show represents reality. And if my daughter or son wasn’t smart enough to practice safe sex, you can bet I’d let them feel the consequences.</p>
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<p>How could you know that they are glamorizing being a teen parents when you don’t even watch the show? If you watched every episode, you would know that it’s not true. Amy went from being a top student to having to enroll in summer school. In one show, she even stated that just going to the supermarket was a “break” for her because she simply has no free time.</p>
<p>I DO watch the show, have seen every episode more than once, and still agree with HisGraceFillsMe. Is the only response you have that they don’t watch the show? That’s not a particularly strong argument.</p>
<p>"That’s pretty sad that you would do that. If you watched the show, you would know that the parents are not raising the baby. "</p>
<p>You’re right, NOBODY IS. It only even appears in every third episode. This is realistic? When you have a baby, it absorbs your life. Especially when you’re that young and single, you have no life anymore. You can argue that the show isn’t about the baby and that it’s about the parents, but once the baby is born the parents life IS the baby. But Amy’s isn’t, because she’s getting off easy. </p>
<p>And my god, if I hear, “I AM A GROWN WOMAN, I HAVE A BABY” one more time I’m going to vomit. Not a spoiled brat?</p>
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<p>No way it is 75%. I don’t understand how you can still comment on the show if you don’t watch it.</p>
<p>The consequence for them is having the baby. You are their parent and you should do everything you can to help them, no matter how bad they messed up.</p>
<p>To tell you the truth, I was a little skeptical of this show at first thinking that she was going to have the baby, the parents were going to raise it, and everything was going to go back to normal for her. But, as you know if you watch the show, that is far from the truth.</p>