Recently the Canadian equivalent of the Sci-Fi channel (here called Space) began airing the HBO series "True Blood", and while I had no interest at all in it, I tuned in for one very silly, very stupid reason:

Hearing Stephen Moyer's character Bill say the name "Sookie" in the commercials for it.

I couldn't help but laugh at that, and there's even two great youtube videos of it:

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I mean how ridiculous is that?

He says that name with such intensity, such devotion, damn it's funny.

Do you have any similarly stupid reasons for catching a show you've not seen before?

Maybe you found a favorite show because of something silly about it that caught your attention.

Does watching True Blood for the near-soft-core-porn-level sex scenes count? Nah, that's not a silly reason. That's a great reason.

That was a shock. I had no idea this show had so much of that. I didn't know anything about it beyond the commercials.

House for Jennifer Morrison.

does "Space" or what ever the channel is called, show the episodes uncut with all the swearing and sex?

I thought The Mentalist was supposed to be a show about a real mentalist with a studio audience where he gleans info about people. When I saw the first few minutes of the pilot I thought "Oh this must be like one of those re-enactments like like on Beyond Belief."

Needless to say it was not what I was expecting, though I am a happy fan of the show now.

Yeah Space is the name, and yes they do air it uncut. Sunday nights.

" I am not human Sookie-h. I am vam-piar".

Because it's on?

Saw preview commercials for The OC back in 2004. Refused to watch it. Chick show. yada yada

Saw a commercial for the Season 1, Episode 6: The Girlfriend. Some hot blonde was featured. I was like, oh well I guess I'll check it out.

Watched the full episode, realized the blonde wasn't all that, and ever since then, my celebrity crush has been Rachel Bilson. And I watched the rest of The OC until the series finale...hahaha

Started watching season 2 of Californication because I heard it was about middle aged man banging young chicks. Eva Amurri fulfilled that last season as well. Been a fan ever since.

All my silly reasons for watching a TV seem to revolve around the idea of "hey, it's that cute girl who was on that one show I used to like- let's see if the show she's currently on is any good."

i started watching glee just because of who the creator was, not knowing anything at all about it. Well 15 ep later and its my fave show

So you know that somewhere between season 2-4 of the show, it's going to go to shit.

Alyssa Milano's Boobies

Because it's in HD

I started watching Smallville just because I heard a snippet of information that they were never going to put Clark in the Superman outfit with the possible exception of the very last scene of the series.

That was about 6 convoluted seasons ago and I've since given up, even though I still believe that would be the absolute coolest final shot ever!

Joely Fisher's breasts remain the only reasons why I tune in to "Til Death" each week.

i actually do kinda secretly wonder what the show would be like if it were on FX, given how fucked up Nip/Tuck was

Set yourself free with Google Image Search, man.

I got hooked on Heroes because Rifftrax released a track for the first two episodes.

I checked out Weeds after reading that they had Shoshannah Stern topless.

Did you type "True Blood" when you meant to type "Spartacus: Blood and Sand?"

I checked out Glee friday night because I heard they were going to do Queen and that they actually already had. Two days later and I'm completely caught up.

Haha, I used to post on xMike! I remember those.

I watched all 15 episodes or whatever of "Stacked" because I've always had a thing for Pam Anderson. I know, I have terrible superficial taste