Favourite hangover TV

I'm not hungover or drunk currently, but whilst browsing some files wondering what to watch whilst i use the stationary bike (no it's not made out of elastic bands and pencils), it came to me that i like a particular type of television when hungover. That being ..

for the most part Nature documentaries and binging animated comedy like the simpsons.

When considering why these might appeal more when i'm in that state of recovery, i think the answer would be the calm one derives from watching the wildebeest drift by whilst a gentle well spoken voice elucidates on the action. And the animated comedy trips both the childlike reverie and the warm part-smile circuits of the mind. Both these types of programs would have a rejuvinating effect whilst distracting you from the personal suffering and potential self loathing that might otherwise be ruining your day.

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Of course some might just take some paracetamol and a multivitamin or go for a long swim. But this thread is about what TV you'd watch, hopefully, for the most part, if it ever gets off the ground. Heh, perhaps i should have posted it on everybody's saturday.

murder she wrote. it works for lots of things. its great mood neutralizing background tv and its great going to sleep tv. i don't remember any one single plot line but i've watched the whole shows run a couple times through

  On 11/28/2013 at 7:50 AM, xxx said:

Televised golf when it's raining at the game. Sedate narration, pattering on umbrellas, slow pace--it's the only way I made it one day after an acutely stupid night. I realize that this is an extremely specific and rare example but know that the programming I described is the hangover Holy Grail.

I like the way you express yourself. Its almost poetic.

maybe the weather channel or shopping network?

The Joy of Painting

Anything David Attenborough

Poirot

Teletubbies (if you're not feeling nauseated)

Stationary bike, lol

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  On 11/28/2013 at 7:50 AM, xxx said:

Televised golf when it's raining at the game. Sedate narration, pattering on umbrellas, slow pace--it's the only way I made it one day after an acutely stupid night. I realize that this is an extremely specific and rare example but know that the programming I described is the hangover Holy Grail.

yes, yes, yes. the raindrops hitting the mics is one of my fav sounds in the world.

Jason and the argonauts

well this christmas i will mostly be hungover watching ghostbusters, scrooged and trading places.

Not really television, but I like to go on google street view walks around randomly picked locations while listening to music on my laptop, in bed. I only do this when I'm hung over or sick. It is a pretty ok time.

The crime drama thing sounds alright. My version of that would be real crime shows like first 48 or the other week Drugs Inc.

Frasier, Columbo and Man vs Food.

tennis.

I used to very much enjoy watching the kind of sport they'd show on BBC2 and CH4 in the daytime at the weekend.

Usually indoor bowls, snooker or darts (oh! and curling).

Sound muted with music playing.

It'd be like a mixture of TV lava lamp and watching a strange human ritual like an alien anthropologist (I'm not a sport lover). I really dug the white loafers that the old people playing indoor bowls would wear, like uncooked cornish pasties.

Kabaddi was fucking great for the alien anthropology thing too:

http://youtu.be/FrtyQ1uSRB4

I watched Daft Punk's Interstella 5555 on youtube yesterday when I was hungover. I tried with Tokyo Gore Police first but I was also trying to eat something so it didn't really work out, what with the chopped up body parts and copious amounts of blood in the first 10 minutes, lol.

I think maybe the worst hangover film I've actually watched is Cannibal Holocaust. My ex wanted to see it and I managed..

If you're able to watch TV it's not a hangover

  On 12/1/2013 at 8:32 PM, chim said:

If you're able to watch TV it's not a hangover

QFT

  On 11/28/2013 at 8:40 AM, Friendly Foil said:

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It don't mean butt if it ain't got that jutt

MST3K

wendy vainity soothes me good.

pr0n

Beavis and Butthead. for sure.