when youre friends don't like TBS

[Lacey]

My boyfriend doesn't like the show so I stopped inviting him over on Tuesdays.  Now I have to work on Tuesday nights.  I listen to the podcast when he's not around.  I like listening to the show alone because I can follow it closely.  When other people are around, it's harder to pay attention. 

I had to listen to the show for a couple months before I got into it, before I started to understand it.  I heard about it through The Sound of Young America.  I thought it was something I was obligated to like, and so I invested a good amount of time into starting to like it.  Now I don't like it, I love it!

I don't recommend it to people unless I think they're in it for the long run. 

[Son of Dorvid]

The next logical step, of course, is to dump that humorless boyfriend.

[Steve in North Hollywood]

Seriously.  Hand him the keys to the street.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

alright, you goons- so i got a little crazy with the 'e'...at any rate, apologies all around.

[todd]

Addendum to my previous post: That same friend is also as obsessed as I am with Tom's rendition of "Under Pressure-" to the extent that we both know the entire song mostly from listening to it, since neither of us actually has the original song.

I'm that way about Tom's rendition of "Someone Saved My Life Tonight". I can no longer hear that song without breaking out into a grin. That and, of course, the opening bars to "Wise Up".

Can someone post links to these? I'd appreciate it!

[noise.light]

I find that my friends just don't have the patience to get to the good stuff.

Also, The Best Show is really hard to listen to in a group of people. They are always talking over the show. So I stopped inviting them over to listen to it with me. I like to actually listen to the show. haha.

Ha.  I get into trouble all the time back home when listening to the Best Show live, because fiancee will start talking and it must be pretty clear from my expression that I don't like it.

And whenever I'm listening to something talky on headphones, same thing-- I think she just finds it rude that I pause the thing I'm listening to, take them off, talk, and then put them back on.  She says she doesn't want to "bother" me.

My boyfriend doesn't like the show so I stopped inviting him over on Tuesdays.  Now I have to work on Tuesday nights.  I listen to the podcast when he's not around.  I like listening to the show alone because I can follow it closely.  When other people are around, it's harder to pay attention.

I can totally relate.  Because I don't always get to listen to the show while it's going live, it really bugs me when people interrupt.  I invited a friend over to listen with me once, saying, "we're going to have a blast."  I don't think that he had a blast as I kept shushing him.

It seems totally justifiable that you would ask for time to listen without interruption.  Likewise, I wouldn't interrupt my roommate while he watches Law and Order.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

youre a better person than i, Liz. 

i interrupt every chance i get when i catch someone in the act of watching any of that filth: Law & order, CSI: whatever...

[noise.light]

youre a better person than i, Liz. 

i interrupt every chance i get when i catch someone in the act of watching any of that filth: Law & order, CSI: whatever...

Hahaha!

It's literally the only thing he uses his gigantic television for so I couldn't do that.  I use the television for far more terrible shows.  Swingtown, anyone?

[iAmBaronVonTito]

youre a better person than i, Liz. 

i interrupt every chance i get when i catch someone in the act of watching any of that filth: Law & order, CSI: whatever...

Hahaha!

It's literally the only thing he uses his gigantic television for so I couldn't do that.  I use the television for far more terrible shows.  Swingtown, anyone?

i'd never heard of this show until this weekend when my family started to speak of it (very nonchalantly).  i thought they were referring to real people.

ew buoy....

[Spoony]

My roommates wonder why I'd shut myself into my room every tuesday night. It worked to my advantage when it came time to throw one of them under the bus on-air.

They would rather watch HOUSE then listen to the radio. In fact, they would rather watch any shitty television show that's on during the evening.

[Sarah]

Likewise, I wouldn't interrupt my roommate while he watches Law and Order.

You must speak rarely.

[AllisonLeGnome]

Addendum to my previous post: That same friend is also as obsessed as I am with Tom's rendition of "Under Pressure-" to the extent that we both know the entire song mostly from listening to it, since neither of us actually has the original song.

I'm that way about Tom's rendition of "Someone Saved My Life Tonight". I can no longer hear that song without breaking out into a grin. That and, of course, the opening bars to "Wise Up".

Can someone post links to these? I'd appreciate it!

I don't know about those specifically, but a lot of the time Omar posts that sort of stuff at the Best Show Vault- I think my "Under Pressure" is from there.

[Lacey]

The next logical step, of course, is to dump that humorless boyfriend.

Okay, okay.  It took a couple of months, but I did it. 

New qualifications for boyfriend in order of importance: 
1.  Likes Best Show.
2.  Not a mutant.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

New qualifications...in order of importance: 
1.  Likes Best Show.
2.  Not a mutant.

that's all you can ask for.

[erika]

New qualifications...in order of importance: 
1.  Likes Best Show.
2.  Not a mutant.

that's all you can ask for.

3. Has all his parts.

Oh wait does that count as "not a mutant"?

nevermind.