Blogapalooza 2016 - Day 6: When I'm Sick

     Anyone else veg at the TV/their laptop when they are sick?  I certainly do!  And whatever I watch has to have a theme.  Usually I crave older movies like The Thin Man and Arsenic and Old Lace or older musicals like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers or Bye, Bye Birdie.  When I get sicker (not only do I have the whiny internal monologue of a four year old) the craving turns to kids shows and movies like Magic School Bus, Zoboomafoo, Kratt's Creatures, Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers, and Rescuers: Down Under.  When I got super sick with the flu a few years ago all I wanted to do was watch Theodore Tugboat.  Come to find out the only libraries that have it are in Canada so I spent a lot of time YouTubing it.
     This trend towards light older movies and kids shows has my selection for my most recent illness looking rather odd.  When I had a cold last week, all I wanted to watch was M*A*S*H episodes with Frank Burns, seasons of NCIS with Ziva and Director Vance and, when I ran out of those, MythBusters.  What?  XD  Boom!
     What are some of your go-to movies or shows when you're sick?

My Favorite TV Shows

Picture Prompt Day 3

     It's like one awesome family portrait.  I can never chose one (TV show, movie, book, song, food) so this is what happens.  :)  Shows in alphabetical order:

Adam-12 -  I love the interaction between Malloy and Reed and watching Reed grow as a police officer and human being.  The attitude against the police in the '60s however makes me MAD sometimes.  So much blind anger and against-the-system-just-because-we-can.  GAH!  (And a young Mark Harmon makes an appearance.  Gibbs sure has mellowed out.)
Bones -  It is next to impossible to find a cast picture with some of my favorite characters.  Where's the love for Zach or Caroline or the Squinterns?  Or baby Parker Booth?!  ♥  I'm not up to date with the show unfortunately.  A couple of seasons ago there was a season finale entitled "The Beginning in the End" after which I stopped watching as regularly, afraid that it meant the show was winding down.  It wasn't, but now I have three years to catch up.  :)  I love the variety of characters in the cast and am so glad Booth and Brennan worked things out!
Criminal Minds -  Rossi or Gideon?  I like both for different reasons.  It was fascinating to watch Reed be forced to grow after his father figure left.  My sister won't watch them after 10 pm and my mother can't stand them but I love the insight into the human psyche.  And the interplay between the characters is phenomenal.
Flashpoint -  Once again, great ensemble set in a high pressure environment.  The spend most of their time figuring out how to talk someone down but have their snipers for when things go wrong.  Set in Canada, interestingly enough.  (And the leader is a villain on Person of Interest!)
NCIS -  I love how the characters have grown.  I watch more for McGee and Abby and Gibbs and Ducky than the crimes.
Numb3rs -  A show about geeks!  And where is the love for Ian Edgerton?  I realize he's not a regular per say but I wish he was in cast pictures.  Le sigh.  And do you realize how hard it was to find the cast with Larry and Papa Eppes?  I can recognize the show from three seconds of the theme song.
Person of Interest -  Watched half of one episode and I was hooked.  Just watched the entire first season, waiting for the second from the library, and waiting for the DVR to work again so I can catch up.
Stargate: Atlantis -  Funny thing, I prefer the secondary characters: Radek Zelenka, Evan Lorne, Drs. Carson Beckett and Jennifer Keller and Rodney.  I remember being completely shocked, stunned, and devastated when they killed off Carson.  I had watched other seasons so I knew he had been replaced but had no idea why or how.  First time I teared up for a TV character and I walked around in a funk for the next 24 hours.
Sherlock -  What's not to love.  They cast this epically (except Mycroft but he's growing on me), the chemistry is amazing, and I love the Sherlock vision.  I haven't seen the last episode yet but I can't wait.
The Voice -  The only non-fiction show on here.  Singing is my passion so the show really speaks to me (I love to try to figure out what I would sing if I could audition and which coach I would pick, though who am I trying to kid, Team Blake all the way).  Not a fan of Christina and Cee-Lo.  I was glad when they were gone.  Xtina is so fake and catty and doesn't know how to cover up.  Sheesh.  And Cee-Lo is off in a different universe (a creepy one).

I cannot believe I forgot Leverage and Sharpe!!  Eliot is displeased.  I'm sorry Eliot.


Honorable mentions: The Big Bang Theory, Castle, Dancing with the Stars, Lie to Me, White Collar, NCIS: LA, SWAT, Dragent, She-Spies, Cadfael, Burn Notice, In Plain Sight, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Reading Rainbow, Between the Lions, Rescue Rangers, The Puzzle Place.