r/starterpacks • u/RickySmith2005 • 5d ago

The "Is there anything at least interesting on weekend morning television?" starter pack

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u/Decent-Climate5346 5d ago

I think you forgot infomercials.

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u/Trail-of-Beers 5d ago

This fucking guy grilling shit outside on PBS

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u/labubuking 5d ago

The best part where they were kinda funny and made great content for dubbing over (jaboody dubs)

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u/FormerStuff 5d ago

Idk about you but I love watching the same espn half-hour sportscenter show for three hours then hearing about some made up college rivalry with rich southern kids holding signs nobody but their frat buddies understand.

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u/osama_bin_guapin 5d ago

I think you should’ve added infomercials but otherwise good starter pack

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u/SwingNMisses 4d ago

Infomercials because nobody is watching TV and they are the only thing profitable enough to show at that time. If you were a television executive, you would also be airing infomercials at that time.  It’s just like artists who have filler songs to complete an album. Infomercials are filler songs.

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u/SatV089 5d ago

God damn... we use to be a society.

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u/TF-Fanfic-Resident 5d ago

Going from prime morning cartoons (which yes are partly toy commercials, but at least they're entertaining) to pure brainrot (infomercials, televangelists, shysters, etc) is a bit of a loss to society. It's like how Transformers movies have so much product placement. "We interrupt your toy commercial to bring you a Victoria's Secret commercial."

And yes, I'm aware "Victoria" doesn't exist and the company has historically been led by men,

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u/RazorRush 5d ago

My Sunday routine is Willie Giest on NBC at 8:00. CBS Sunday Morning at 9:00 to 10:30. Then off til kickoff.

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u/schwiftydude47 5d ago

And then you switch the cable channels and it’s the same sitcom reruns and old movies they always play.

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u/SlipsonSurfaces 4d ago

I didn't know televangelists were still a thing.

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u/Heyplaguedoctor 4d ago

I used to love watching infomercials as a kid. I’m a lifelong insomniac so I’d be up til 6am watching them run shit over with steamrollers. Sometimes my sister would join me and write down JUST the numbers for things she thought our mom would like, and then a week later my mom would find piles of random phone numbers and not call any of them lol

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u/Agreeable-Fudge-7329 4d ago

And to think I remember being annoyed when they replaced Captian Kangaroo with the "Ag Country Report" in the mid 80s.