TV shows

Guy: And then I'll go home and watch Gilmore Girls. (awkward silence) I mean something manly.

London
England

Overheard by: ohdear

Female barista: He's going to Tel Aviv or something. I don't even know where that is.
Male barista: Tel Aviv?
Female barista: Yeah, it's like in Egypt or something, I think.
Male barista: Oh, wait, no, that's the tv station.
Female barista: What?
Male barista: Yeah, it's like their version of the BBC.

Starbucks
Orinda, California

Middle-aged woman: What's on TV tonight?
Middle-aged man: I think Chuck is.
Middle-aged woman: Oh, do we watch that?
Middle-aged man: I don't know.

Boone, North Carolina

Girl: Hey, do you remember that show The Littlest Hobo?
Guy: Yeah.
Girl: That's all. I just wanted to remind you of it.

Toronto
Ontario
Canadia

Overheard by: Meech

Black woman, chuckling gleefully at bad financial news on tv: Oh, some white folks gon' kill themselves now!

Medical Office Waiting Room
Chesapeake, Virginia

Overheard by: Ashleigh

Girl #1: You know every time I see Tyler Perry I think about the white Tyler Perry.
Girl #2: That's Steven Perry from Aerosmith.
Girl #3: That's Steven Tyler.
Girl #1: Well, I'm talking about the Tyler Perry from Friends.
Girl #4: That's Mathew Perry!

Cancun
Mexico

Cashier: I never noticed before, but you look like a meerkat.
Customer: Is that another Pokemon?

Yarmouth, Maine

Overheard by: Jade

Professor: I don't even turn on the television anymore. It's just violence. It's all rape, and gore, and homosexual pedophiles in wheelchairs who chop up grandmothers.

http://www.overheardatmcgill.com/archives/2008/04/01/wasnt-that-the-season-finale-of-what-not-to-wear/

Overheard by: philosopher

Hairdresser to client in salon: I really like Egypt, you know? I feel like I have a connection to Egypt, like I was there in a past life. Like, I was watching this show on the History Channel about Egypt? Or some place? And they have three religions there? The first one was this religion where everybody kisses this wall? Mmm-mm-mm-mm. They were making out with this wall! They loved that wall. And then the next religion, god told Abraham to kill his son? What kind of crazy religion is that? And then the third religion was all these people standing up, and bending down.
Client: They were probably Muslims. They were praying towards Mecca…
Hairdresser: Uh huh. And I said to my boyfriend, “that's good exercise.” I was going to watch more, but Dancing with the Stars was on.

Collingswood, New Jersey

Man on cell, about his genitals: Yeah, it's shaped up like a 'fro on a Scooby Doo Chia Pet.

Toronto
Canadia