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I am totally with you on this!!

For How I Met Your Mother, willy nilly is ok. But something like Game of Thrones? House of Lies? That’ll just fuck shit up. Has to HAS TO be in order.

I’m with you, SD. Bros unite!
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My girlfriend does this kind of thing when we read to each other. She has some kind of special consecutive order in which she likes to read the pages, and gets annoyed whenever I try to introduce my own system.
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I’m the same way. Well… when I had a DVR. You can’t just watch a random show without seeing what happened before, that’s how confusion starts. You’ll be all like, why is so and so being such a dick this week? Well, if you had watched last week’s episode, you’d know.

You’re not weird, that’s perfectly normal… unless I’m weird too, ah nevermind.

I should clarify… I don’t just watch them in order if they are the same episode. Sure, if I have two Sons of Anarchy I’ll watch the oldest one first.

But if I have a Sons of Anarchy which was recorded on a Tuesday and a 30 Rock which was recorded on a Thursday. I will always watch the Sons of Anarchy first because chronologically it was recorded first.

That’s where the frictions comes in with the Lady Friend!
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Ahhhh… I agree with the gf. I have a couple episodes of The Mentalist out there yet yesterday when I turned on the TV I wanted to watch Mad Men and Shamless instead! I watch based on my mood!
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You are not weird, you sound just like me in the TV viewing department. You cannot watch TV episodes out of order, it goes against the laws of nature .

I’m just lucky that my husband feels the exact same way I do when it comes to the DVR.
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Completely agree with you on this one…. it would be a dealbreaker for me.
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LAWD, I could NEVAH watch anything out of order. That would put my whole OCD patterned life into a tail spin and I would need some serious therapy to recover.
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Be not afraid grasshopper. I too insist on watching the shows in order. However my man friend doesn’t really care what order we watch them in. He hands the remote to me, as a good man should, and allows me to watch whatever I like in whatever order I like.

This is where you must learn grasshopper. As the woman she has the right to do things as she sees fit. You should accept that the estrogen in her blood makes her smarter, wiser, and more functional that the testosterone in your blood.

Be strong and let her do things as she likes. I bet if you explain your frustration she might even succumb to your improper method and follow it for the sake of peace a quiet, you big whiner! LOL

Happy Surfing!
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Both styles have their own merit. However I would come down on your side as my wife finds it amusing that I start asking when she is going to watch something she recorded 3 weeks ago as I hate the memory getting full. She doesn’t know how to fill a dishwasher properly either.
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I watch whatever I am in the mood to watch, though I almost never watch TV. I am with Lady Friend. There is order in my life, but TV watching isn’t one of them.
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Dude, I’m partially with you. I believe in watching a show in order, largely because the shows which I enjoy often have a carryover plot. But I am simply not in the mood for NCIS and want to watch House or Big Bang Theory. My wife and I will typically watch things together if we are both interested.

Don’t let it get to you. There are way bigger things to quarrel about like which side of the bed you’ll make whoopee on.

WG
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wow, that chart is amazing! great find.
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Is there an instruction set for Whoopie WilyGuy?

Just like Ikea I always have parts left over.

But I have to watch things in order. My girlfriend has never seen Star Wars and have been watching them all over the last few weeks. We Started at Star Wars IV: A new hope. Because that is where it starts!
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Ok I am a mix of you and your lady friend meaning that I like to watch shows in order like you but at the same time I will look through the list and pick a show but I have to watch the show epps in order meaning if I am watching say “Bones” I can not watch Wednesdays eppisode before I see Tuesday’s eppisode that is just me I do not like to watch shows out of order………..and yes I know some shows it really doesn’t matter but I just can’t do it it doesn’t feel right…………I also can not start watching a show half way through it which hubby does all the time that is just annoying I need to see the show from the start. I also like to have subtitles on if I can’t understand what is being said much to hubbys annoyance
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Well, I’m with you there Brother.

I was exactly the same in a lot of things when I was dating my current wife. Some things just led to relationship choas while others sailed along smoothly.

That’s just the differences between people I’m afraid.

The easiest thing would be to simply buy another TV and get headphones for each of you – problem solved

No way, SHE’S the weird one. How can you record a series and watch the episodes in any order you want? It ruins it! Unless she’s watching a show like The Brady Bunch where they’re all self contained episodes. But even then, she’s likely have old episodes sitting there for months before she gets to them. I’m on your side.
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That makes good sense. But of course I’m guilty of just picking something on there. THough half of the shiz on our DVR is something like Family Guy or the likes. So it doesn’t matter anyway. Don’t mess with my Walking Dead though. Im the same way witht that!
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Ha! I will never have that problem because I don’t know what a DVR is. I assume, based on your post, that it has something to do with a television, which I don’t watch.

I dont let hubby near the DVR. He has enough toys of his own
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haha I totally agree when I have soemthing to watch it has to be in order, skipping around just doesn’t work well with my ocd, straight or I go a bit crazy..haha
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2 words…

separate DVR…
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That is too funny. We have the same thing happen at our house but in reverse. It’s hopeless, but what can you do but accept it … Big Sigh!
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I have that same problem with my brother. Except ours lead to blood baths. And possible injured pets.

Civilians should not get in the way of remote control throwing wars.

Dude I’m the same way. Don’t have DVR (don’t hate, I’m in college) but I find specific episodes on Hulu, and I’ll jump from show to show online to keep everything sorted to its proper day.