Poll of the Day > You ever randomly catch the first episode of a show on TV?

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It's weird, especially if it's something you've been interested in checking out.

I saw Dead Like Me at the beginning of a marathon this morning. Hadn't heard of it before; it was pretty cool; but the way it's directed it feels like a giant love letter to 90s film tropes.
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The Rookie, there was a marathon on around summer time, caught it, liked it.
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I love Dead like me. On topic, it happens every once in a while. And I usually end up watching more. Haha.
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Dr. Who (not THE first episode but the reboot with chris eccleston). I enjoyed it up until near the Capaldi run

Married with Children was one I caught on accident when it first aired. Turned that antenna just right and Fox came in. Both the glories of living way out in the country and a new station to watch

All I can remember is seeing the first episode of Spongebob live after the 1999 kids choice awards. i guess thats a kind of neat moment but im sure millions of other people also did.

Do the pilot shorts of The Powerpuff Girls on What a Cartoon! and Beavis and Butthead on Liquid TV count? I also watched some of the Simpsons shorts on The Tracy Ullman Show, but I don't know if I ever saw the first one.
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I unintentionally saw the first episode of Charmed many months ago. I'd heard that Kaley Cuoco was in it, so I tuned in to watch. Then I learned that she doesn't appear in the show until the very last season. Even so, I found the pilot engaging, interesting, and thrilling. Then I tuned in every Sunday afterwards to watch Charmed. I regret to say that the show started to decline in quality and in writing after Doherty left. In my opinion, the show should have cut off when Cole was vanquished for the final time after he rewrites reality to have Phoebe back. Then the writers started borrowing all these creatures and items from real-world mythology. It just seemed to me like a lazy move to me. Afterwards, they introduce these "Cleaners", which made me lose faith in the show's credibility and ability to make sense. I mean, where were these jerks when all hell broke loose during the finale of the third season? Afterwards, a learning institution for magic called "Magic School", so originally named, is introduced. I have no real gripes about the school itself, knowing nothing other than the fact that it acts not only as a school to hone and control magic, but a sanctuary that dark creatures cannot reach, except for the one time during the seventh season. I just have problems with the name of the school; it's just so dumb. I know it's a petty complaint, so it should be disregarded in my analysis of the show, which I'm giving in this topic for some very odd reason, when I have answered the original question posed to me already. And honestly, over the course of the entire series, the Charmed Ones cheat death so often, you just don't even care if any one of them appears as if she is about to die, since a long-time viewer would be under the impression that she'd come back to life one way or another. I mean, with the exception of Prue Halliwell. Moreover, the excessive time-travel present throughout the series lacks consistency and is very much overdone in my opinion. So yes, I caught the first episode of Charmed, watched it religiously until the third season, then intermittently afterwards until the seventh season, when I watched it only if I had nothing better to do. I barely caught the eighth season, but I was sure to tune in to the series finale. But I really think that the final episode of the seventh season would have sufficed as just that. Instead, the writers insisted that the other two sisters are paired up and has a happy ending with some bloke that she'd only just met in the span of just a couple of months. But I digress; I have watched at most three episodes of the final season, so I do not actually know how well-developed these romances were, aside from the one with Piper and Leo, who have had a history almost as old as the entire show. In any case, I feel that the writers wanted a happy ending, as if these were the norm in real life; I disagree with them very much on that count. Additionally, I did not approve of the series finale. Two of the sisters die, then one escapes and revives them with more time-travel shenanigans, as if anyone needed more of that. Overall, I feel like if a writer relies on time travel too much, it's an indicator of the fact that his ability to write a good plot is slipping. In any case, the series finale did two things I hated: cheating death through time travel. For this, I do not think highly of it nor of the writers who had created it. In short, I did catch the Charmed pilot only because I had heard from my discussions of The Big Bang Theory that Kaley Cuoco appeared in it. Then I got hooked on the show despite her absence until the final season.
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That's the first time I have seen an essay on Charmed