<p>Maybe it’s different where you grew up then. </p>
<p>Oh, summer school, boo hoo.</p>
<p>One of my best friends is currently working two jobs, as is her boyfriend, to support her young baby girl. She dropped out of high school and got her GED. Her boyfriend works all night and she works all day so that there is always someone home with the baby. They don’t buy anything for themselves because their paychecks go 100% towards their baby. THAT is reality. They are the rule, not the exception. Their parents help when they can, but the parents are not doing financially well either due to the economy. The fact is, she feels lucky because me and my other friends chip in when we can with diapers, new toys for the baby, etc. If that wasn’t the case, they would probably be on welfare.</p>
<p>I don’t want to argue with you anymore because you aren’t listening to a word I’m saying and your head is obviously in the sand. But to quote Flannery O’Connor, “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” The view on that TV show is easier to handle. Do you think, if the show portrayed reality, half as many people would watch it? Of course not. Like I said, no TV show portrays reality. That’s all I will say. I’m done arguing, since it’s obvious I’m just talking to a wall.</p>
<p>Amy really has no life. She can’t go out with her friends and she can’t do activities that she wants to do.</p>
<p>Like I stated before, this show is not about a teen mother raising a baby, it is about the impact of being a teen parent. It is understood that Ricky and Amy take care of the baby and that the church takes care of the baby when they are at school.</p>
<p>Amy thinks that just because she has a baby that means she is grown up and that she has the ability to do anything that she wants. That quote shows that eventhough she had a baby, she is a still a child herself and that just because you have a baby doesn’t mean you are an adult. It has nothing to do with being a spolied brat.</p>
<p>Well this thread hasn’t become completely monopolized by the discussion of one show.</p>
<p>Anyway, reading through this thread made me realize how little TV I actually watch. I try to catch the King of Queens during the weekend if I can. The Venture Bros. is my favorite show by far, but the second half of this season hasn’t started yet :(</p>
<p>Agreed, I can’t believe that I was the only person that said entourage (i think), every person that I’ve recommended entourage to ended up loving it.</p>
<p>Also, I watched a little of “my life as liz” only because i know kids from that school and its like 10min away from me, show seems very, very fake</p>
<p>I have stepped up my search for a new room after my roommate started watching Jersey Shore regularly. I missed the secret life, make it or break it, greys anatomy, and private practice season finale because she was watching the same rerun of jersey shore during all of them.</p>
<p>I desperately want to like Monk because I think it can be funny, but when I see like eight of the million negative OCD stereotypes in four minutes of programming it becomes a little difficult. And I can’t tell you how many times something OCD related has come up, and someone has replied with, “HAHA LIKE MONK THAT’S SO FUNNY.” Yeah, being a real person and being mentally ill is totally funny just like Monk! I think you need to have a certain IQ in order to be allowed to watch that show. >.<</p>
<p>House, occasionally the Simpsons (though they used to be soo much better), Greek, and (when I’m in the mood and go through a bunch of episodes at once on Hulu) The Colbert Report. I also watched all of Dead Like Me on Hulu last summer. Good show! :)</p>
I get compared to Monk a lot, too. Then again, my obsessive-compulsive quirks are kind of funny.
I watch Lost, Burn Notice, Fringe, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and the Mentalist regularly. The Mentalist is good, but it’s predictable since they’re always trying to do the unpredictable. I used to watch Arrested Development and Monk until they ended and Heroes before it went downhill.</p>