We always do threads about the worst movies and the worst as actors, but what about tv?
Which TV shows do you think are the all-time worst? I nominate the reality show Are You Hot? I wasn't expecting high art, but this was just soul-deadening.
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We always do threads about the worst movies and the worst as actors, but what about tv?
Which TV shows do you think are the all-time worst? I nominate the reality show Are You Hot? I wasn't expecting high art, but this was just soul-deadening.
by Anonymous | reply 519 | June 7, 2019 12:19 PM |
As far as shows that were ratings hits...Mad About You. Just f-ing awful!
by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 19, 2019 8:23 PM |
The Bachelor.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 19, 2019 8:24 PM |
Desmond Pfeiffer
by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 19, 2019 8:25 PM |
I remember turning this off when it first aired and talked about it being the worst show episode ever. I tried to watch it just now, All these years later. I can not.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 19, 2019 8:27 PM |
“Small Wonder”, what a piece of crap!
by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 19, 2019 8:42 PM |
I know it’s a DL favorite but “Mama’s Family” is just awful. I have to assume the people who love it are blinded by lust for Bubba’s bulge.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 19, 2019 8:46 PM |
The Bob Newhart Show, which followed MTM on Saturday nights in the 70's.
I would read about how brilliant this show was , but it always left me cold and scowling.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 19, 2019 8:47 PM |
Seriously but, Hi Bob, I'm not gonna fuck you tonight, or ever.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 19, 2019 8:49 PM |
For successful shows?
The Alan Alda Show AKA M*A*S*H....
by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 19, 2019 8:50 PM |
I never got into Seinfeld. Just didn't like it
by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 19, 2019 8:51 PM |
"Friends" is horrific. That show inspired a record amount of suicides.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 19, 2019 8:53 PM |
My friends think I am joking when I say I watch Mama's Family. It's so bad, it relaxes me. I expect nothing from it, but corny stale jokes. It is the Little Debbie snack of television. Not satisfying, but hey it was on.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 19, 2019 8:54 PM |
Me gusta r12.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 19, 2019 8:56 PM |
True Blood, I cannot understand how a show that features the most abusive, misogynist men got such a huge female following.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 19, 2019 8:56 PM |
Cop Rock
by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 19, 2019 8:57 PM |
Gravity, by and with Eric Schaeffer. it was AWFUL and i'm the only person on earth who watched it.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 19, 2019 8:59 PM |
Manimal
by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 19, 2019 9:01 PM |
We were fantastic.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | April 19, 2019 9:03 PM |
When Calls the Heart.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 19, 2019 9:04 PM |
I was fantastic.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 19, 2019 9:05 PM |
R14 were Eric and Alcide that bad? I never finished it.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 19, 2019 9:08 PM |
Family Affair. The long pauses between actors lines? No.
Not even with hot Uncle Bill, NO.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | April 19, 2019 9:10 PM |
I hated Frasier. I really tried to like it but it just grated on my nerves.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | April 19, 2019 9:10 PM |
ARROW is pretty darned bad. Maybe come up with shows that have aired within the last FORTY YEARS, QUEENS??
by Anonymous | reply 24 | April 19, 2019 9:11 PM |
Yes, r23, especially when he took off his shirt.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | April 19, 2019 9:11 PM |
New shows have aired afternthenpast 40 years, r24?
Shirley you are mistaken.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | April 19, 2019 9:13 PM |
R24 I don't think it counts if it's a CW show.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 19, 2019 9:13 PM |
Major Dad. What a steaming pile of dog shit.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | April 19, 2019 9:14 PM |
OP, although it was awful, I admit that when I was in high school, I looked forward to watching Are you hot or not so I could masturbate to some of the hot men. Wish I could find some of the episodes online. It was an incredibly degrading show though.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | April 19, 2019 9:15 PM |
Bob Newhart: Hot or Not?
by Anonymous | reply 31 | April 19, 2019 9:16 PM |
Nearly every crime/medical/firefighter drama ever aired on network TV.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | April 19, 2019 9:17 PM |
There is no way Suzanne Pleshette ever fucked Bob Newhart.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | April 19, 2019 9:19 PM |
She’s the Sheriff starring Suzanne Somers
by Anonymous | reply 34 | April 19, 2019 9:19 PM |
True, R27.
Okay, here's another one. LIE TO ME. It's been off the air for a few years but the supposed genius Tim Roth is well into Scott Caan territory with his flailing elbows and eccentric-for-the-sake-of-eccentricity pauses and jags.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | April 19, 2019 9:19 PM |
Three's Company. The worst of screwball comedy. I mean, bottom of the drain, green algae and all.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | April 19, 2019 9:21 PM |
White trash Kim Zolciak from Real Housewives of Atlanta appeared on Hot or Not and was unanimously voted NOT.
This was years before RHOA.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | April 19, 2019 9:22 PM |
ANYTHING WITH A FAKE LAUGH TRACK
by Anonymous | reply 38 | April 19, 2019 9:23 PM |
Step by Step with Suzanne Somers
by Anonymous | reply 39 | April 19, 2019 9:27 PM |
I agree with Frasier. Could not stand it at all.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | April 19, 2019 9:27 PM |
This was real bad. It only aired a few episodes a few years ago. About two wanna be trannys. It ran on ABC
by Anonymous | reply 41 | April 19, 2019 9:28 PM |
Trannys ?
LITERAL VIOLENCE.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | April 19, 2019 9:30 PM |
Wings. Tim Daly only wishes he had the talent of his sister, Tyne.
His acting? He's as dead as dead is dead.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | April 19, 2019 9:31 PM |
R30 for the win.
Two Broke Girls. My sister said it was hilarious and I gave it a try and wondered if we were watching the same show because I never laughed.
Most of the ABC TGIF shows, but especially Family Matters and even more so when it became the Urkel Show.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | April 19, 2019 9:33 PM |
That show called "Strange Liquid in Ear."
Maybe I never understood its nuance...
by Anonymous | reply 45 | April 19, 2019 9:34 PM |
R41 for the win.
How did that ever get approved?
by Anonymous | reply 46 | April 19, 2019 9:35 PM |
Two Broke Girls was fucking TERRIBLE.
Add the chick who plays the skank baker to the list of Actors That Ruin Everything.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | April 19, 2019 9:35 PM |
Touched By an Angel
by Anonymous | reply 48 | April 19, 2019 9:35 PM |
Another vote for 2 Broke Girls. This is Guantanamo-level torture.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | April 19, 2019 9:37 PM |
Hogan's Heroes
Who knew Nazis could be so much fun!
by Anonymous | reply 50 | April 19, 2019 9:37 PM |
Murder She Wrote.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | April 19, 2019 9:39 PM |
The Paul Lynne Show And Lots a luck with Dom DeLuise....... two character actors that could never carry a show........
by Anonymous | reply 52 | April 19, 2019 9:41 PM |
I always hated Webster and Mad About You.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | April 19, 2019 9:43 PM |
Who's The Boss.
I didn't think Tony Danza, who was funny and charming on Taxi, could be so devoid of comedic ability on his own show.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | April 19, 2019 9:44 PM |
Golden Girls.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | April 19, 2019 9:45 PM |
The Lucy Show Here’s Lucy And Life with Lucy. A beloved star being kept in front of the public.... shows salvaged the worst parts of I Love Lucy and continued the same format week after week .. And then using her own kids as co-stars:
by Anonymous | reply 57 | April 19, 2019 9:47 PM |
Family Affair
by Anonymous | reply 58 | April 19, 2019 9:48 PM |
Hello Larry starring McLean Stevenson who ended up basically with no career after leaving MASH.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | April 19, 2019 9:51 PM |
Gloria
by Anonymous | reply 60 | April 19, 2019 9:52 PM |
R23 Mr. Robot had a twentysomething character obsessed with 90s sitcoms, and when he watched Fraser, he was like, "I don't get why so many women wanted to bang some balding old white dude."
by Anonymous | reply 61 | April 19, 2019 9:55 PM |
Anything starring Tim Allen. ANYTHING.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | April 19, 2019 10:01 PM |
FRIENDS
by Anonymous | reply 63 | April 19, 2019 10:04 PM |
Mama Malone was a waste of Lila Kaye's ample talents.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | April 19, 2019 10:09 PM |
Agree with the Tim Allen comment .......
by Anonymous | reply 65 | April 19, 2019 10:10 PM |
Happy Days
by Anonymous | reply 66 | April 19, 2019 10:10 PM |
"Two Broke Girls"
Dear god it's awful.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | April 19, 2019 10:12 PM |
r57 The Lucy Show was tolerable until Gale Gordon replaced Vivian Vance
by Anonymous | reply 68 | April 19, 2019 10:13 PM |
R11 Friends was the WORST. Even though I was im their target demographic back in the day, I just couldn’t tolerate it.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | April 19, 2019 10:14 PM |
Mudrder She Wrote....any place she was.....somebody was murdered......And the show was on for 14 years.......Angela Lansbury herself thought the workload was too much.......
by Anonymous | reply 70 | April 19, 2019 10:14 PM |
I like Victor French but Carter Country was terrible.
And as much as I love Claude Akins, even as a kid I thought The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo was horrible.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | April 19, 2019 10:20 PM |
(Anything starring Tim Allen. ANYTHING.)
Since you mentioned him . Anything with Nancy Travis. ANYTHING!
by Anonymous | reply 72 | April 19, 2019 10:34 PM |
Cosby show, in restropect
by Anonymous | reply 73 | April 19, 2019 10:38 PM |
[quote]The Paul Lynne Show
Who?
by Anonymous | reply 74 | April 19, 2019 10:38 PM |
Lost
by Anonymous | reply 75 | April 19, 2019 10:40 PM |
Family Matters
by Anonymous | reply 76 | April 19, 2019 10:43 PM |
Big Bang Theory, New Girl, unbreakable Kammy Schmitt
by Anonymous | reply 77 | April 19, 2019 10:43 PM |
Lost was dead to me when they killed off that eye candy Boone. Fucking assholes.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | April 19, 2019 10:43 PM |
Three's Company. It blows every other bad show out of the idiot box.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | April 19, 2019 10:46 PM |
Providence. Successful career woman loses boyfriend, and simply must return to her hometown so that she can have regular comforting talks with the ghost of her deceased mother when she has the sadz. It was proto-Hallmark Channel pablum, the canary in the coal mine.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | April 19, 2019 10:51 PM |
I'm going to catch shit for this, but I fucking hate game of thrones and breaking bad! They were billed as smart, brilliant, well acted shows, and I found them so dumb and the acting awful. GOT acting is worse than soap opera bad and the sidekick kid on BB was horrible(ironically he was the one all the assholes were praising). The plots were supposedly genius and hard to follow but I felt the opposite. In all honesty I don't like any HBO shows really, but GOT takes the cake.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | April 19, 2019 11:06 PM |
My mother hated Two's Company. I remember her saying that Donald Sinden had a terrible voice.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | April 19, 2019 11:06 PM |
Hats, magazine stands, more hats and unnatural poses!
by Anonymous | reply 85 | April 19, 2019 11:12 PM |
Damages
by Anonymous | reply 86 | April 19, 2019 11:17 PM |
Chicken Soup starring Jackie Mason
Oy vey, it was bad!
by Anonymous | reply 87 | April 19, 2019 11:17 PM |
Gilmore Girls? I've never seen an episode but it always looks insufferable.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | April 19, 2019 11:22 PM |
Three’s Company!
by Anonymous | reply 89 | April 19, 2019 11:24 PM |
Full House.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | April 19, 2019 11:25 PM |
Happy Days, spin-offs of Happy Days, and spin-offs of spin-offs of Happy Days.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | April 19, 2019 11:26 PM |
Medium and Ghost Whisperer are both unwatchable.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | April 19, 2019 11:41 PM |
Joey could have been good, but they didn't seem to know what to do with the character, outside of neutering it, and him.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | April 19, 2019 11:41 PM |
That one with Bette Midler got crucified and canceled almost immediately.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | April 19, 2019 11:44 PM |
In season two of Joey they retooled the show, gave him a sassy black friend and made his nephew a pussy hound.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | April 19, 2019 11:45 PM |
Did they? The whole point of Joey's nephew was that he was Cal Tech and Joey was...Joey.
Ah, the sassy black best friend...
by Anonymous | reply 97 | April 19, 2019 11:47 PM |
The Conners.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | April 19, 2019 11:48 PM |
Hated hated hated MASH
by Anonymous | reply 99 | April 19, 2019 11:52 PM |
[quote]The whole point of Joey's nephew was that he was Cal Tech and Joey was...Joey.
And that's what made the first season somewhat watchable.
It was a complete 180 for the nephew because he was the opposite of Joey and Joey was always stymied trying to make him cool, while the nephew just didn't get Joey and his personality. In the second season they were exactly the same and the odd couple dynamic was gone.
And the black friend just came out of nowhere and they were inseparable dudebros.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | April 19, 2019 11:53 PM |
I’ve never seen it and may not get the title right, but I think it’s called Dr. Pimple Popper, I cringe just reading the title.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | April 19, 2019 11:54 PM |
Keeping up with the Kardashians.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | April 19, 2019 11:56 PM |
Mixology. It only lasted one season and was Ryan Seacrest produced. It was like “Friends” meets “Cheers” with millennial douchebag main characters, all straight of course. That and 2 Broke Girls were the worst. It’s like they weren’t even trying.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | April 19, 2019 11:57 PM |
R82. I love you! I had forgotten that giant turd foisted upon us. This was when I learned the joy of "hate watching". Honestly, are producers injecting meth into their eye sockets when they approve this kind of shit? I know nothing of Hollywood at all but I always marvel when this kind of shit gets a green light. Lol. Thank you.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | April 19, 2019 11:57 PM |
Lucy's last show. Cancelled, with filmed shows left.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | April 20, 2019 12:03 AM |
Lord.
We need to separate shows that you didn't like between shows that we actually "bad". I didn't watch Friends really, but the few episodes I watched weren't "bad". Corny sure, but it was an acceptable sitcom. I CANNOT stand TBBT, but I have watched it and I can't say it is bad per se, just incredibly corny/trite, and people do enjoy that.
True Blood, like many shows, went downhill FAST. The last 3-4 seasons were bad. Two Broke Girls was just bad from the beginning. Baywatch Nights was terrible (the original Baywatch at least knew what show it was).
by Anonymous | reply 106 | April 20, 2019 12:04 AM |
I don’t like MASH either. It’s always shown in repeats all of the time.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | April 20, 2019 12:06 AM |
I expected to see the bottom of the barrel TV shows from the past sixty years, but I got people saying Frasier and Seinfeld. You may not have liked those shows, but they were competent, and not egregiously insulting to the viewers, which puts them head and shoulders above the following fare:
The Ugliest Girl in Town - a guy dresses as a girl to go to college. Like half of Bosom Buddies...the ass-half.
The Dumplings - James Coco and Geraldine Brooks are a fat couple in love. That's the whole concept.
Queen for a Day - '50s game show with the following premise: poor white trash, middle-aged women tell their tragic true life stories and the audience decides which one is the most pathetic. The winner is dressed in a tacky robe and crown, handed some flowers, and receives appliances.
The Pruitts of Southampton - Phyllis Diller capers around her southern Gothic mansion pretending to be rich, although the family fortune is gone. Poverty is SO hilarious.
Madame's Place - Starring Madame as herself.
Pink Lady and Jeff - Non-English speaking Japanese duo Pink Lady giggles while cheesy comedian Jeff Altman smirks and cracks jokes Bruce Vilanch would have turned up his nose at. Every episode (all 6) ends with them all jumping into a hottub.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | April 20, 2019 12:24 AM |
No one ever heard of any of that shit in R109.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | April 20, 2019 12:35 AM |
"I Dream of Jeannie" and "Baywatch." I tried to watch "The Wire" and couldn't make it through one episode.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | April 20, 2019 12:38 AM |
This idiot is trying to say one of the most critically lauded and popular shows, "The Wire", is one of the worst TV shows ever?
R112, Delete your account. You are the worst. You suck. You're terrible. Fuck off.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | April 20, 2019 12:47 AM |
Homes and Yoyo was pretty awful. My nine-year-old self would watch ANYTHING with robots or aliens and this show was too terrible even for me.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | April 20, 2019 12:49 AM |
Jennifer Slept Here
by Anonymous | reply 115 | April 20, 2019 12:59 AM |
The View
by Anonymous | reply 116 | April 20, 2019 1:04 AM |
All the Law and Order shows, particularly SVU. Dick Wolf is such a perv and his twists make no sense. He will go out of his way to be as bizarre and unrealistic as possible.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | April 20, 2019 1:12 AM |
Family Guy had it's moments early on, but it's become unwatchable. Just really tedious.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | April 20, 2019 1:14 AM |
Homecoming gave me a headache. It's like Chinese water torture.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | April 20, 2019 1:19 AM |
Thirtysomething
by Anonymous | reply 123 | April 20, 2019 1:21 AM |
MASH
by Anonymous | reply 124 | April 20, 2019 1:21 AM |
E.R.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | April 20, 2019 1:22 AM |
Parenthood. I hope they all die.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | April 20, 2019 1:22 AM |
Hollyoaks. As a Brookside fan, I tried to give it a try, but it's unbearable.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | April 20, 2019 1:24 AM |
I didn't mind it but..... i don't know how it lasted for 14 seasons.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | April 20, 2019 2:02 AM |
The Dukes of Hazzard
Cop Rock
by Anonymous | reply 129 | April 20, 2019 2:07 AM |
There's a show on now that premiered a few weeks ago called Abbys. It about a woman that runs a bar in her back yard. I don't think I've ever watched a show with such a stupid premise and the mostly no-name cast is awful. I can't believe the guy from Scrubs and The Middle agreed to star in such a turd. It recycles tired storylines like let's force a friend to ask someone out and the friend turns the tables and pretends to get engaged after dating someone for two weeks.
I also just finished watching Burden of Proof on Fox. Kelsey Grammer is one if the stars. He looks embarrassed in every scene. Lead actress is so wooden I don't understand how she was cast.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | April 20, 2019 2:12 AM |
Deal or No Deal. Pick a number talktalktalktalktalktalk Pick another number talktalktalktalktalktalk Pick another number...
by Anonymous | reply 131 | April 20, 2019 2:43 AM |
House of Cards jumped the shark.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | April 20, 2019 2:50 AM |
I hated The Good Place.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | April 20, 2019 2:52 AM |
You kids are spoiled.
Believe the hype: Supertrain was truly one of the worst programs ever to hit the air.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | April 20, 2019 2:58 AM |
Someone already mentioned Pink Lady & Jeff, but when it comes to the list of worst shows ever, it can't be mentioned enough.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | April 20, 2019 3:00 AM |
True Detective season 1.
Everyone loved season 1, but said season 2 sucked. But I thought it already sucked. Every frame of season 1 screamed: "Look at how moody, kinky and dangerous we are. Aren't we clever. Aren't we disturbing."
It was one horror cliche after another. Not nearly as edgy as it thought it was. And the dialogue was so fucking tedious.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | April 20, 2019 3:01 AM |
I'm not that old and I haven't liked a new tv show since the early 2000ish. I hear all the applauded shows and i'm sorry I just fucking hate them. I find myself watching older shows I used to loathe but now find funny. I haven't gone to the theaters in almost 4 years for the same reason.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | April 20, 2019 3:02 AM |
NCIS. It's basically geriatric porn.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | April 20, 2019 3:04 AM |
Mary!
As in Mary Tyler Moore's 1978 variety series, which lasted three weeks before getting yanked.
It was excruciatingly awful, despite the presence of David Letterman and Michael Keaton. Just skin-crawlingly bad.
by Anonymous | reply 139 | April 20, 2019 3:04 AM |
More Mary.
This was supposed to be show #4. CBS previewed it and canceled the program immediately.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | April 20, 2019 3:06 AM |
I'll probably be called worse than Hitler for this, but I always hated House. Everyone else seemed to enjoy it at its peak.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | April 20, 2019 3:21 AM |
MASH, Major Dad, and House have one thing in common -- their lead actors booted the creators and took over the show themselves.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | April 20, 2019 3:23 AM |
I love 2 Broke Girls. I watch it before bed to relax
by Anonymous | reply 143 | April 20, 2019 3:23 AM |
If someone would have trapped Kat Dennings in the oven like the witch in Hansel and Gretel, it would have been more enjoyable to watch.
They should also have thrown Pebble's necklace that the ugly blonde chick wears in there.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | April 20, 2019 3:26 AM |
Or was it Wilma who wore that thing?
by Anonymous | reply 145 | April 20, 2019 3:27 AM |
Small Wonder. It made me fat, short and shrank my penis.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | April 20, 2019 3:50 AM |
I'm with R137. Also, everybody who's nominating Three's Company and Who's the Boss has obviously never seen Too Close for Comfort. What a dog this show is. It's like watching couches act.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | April 20, 2019 3:55 AM |
How I Met Your Mother
Hello Larry
Two Broke Girls
Alf
Gimme a Break
Family Ties
Facts of Life
Any and all Law and Order and CSI, and various related spawn
Northern Exposure
by Anonymous | reply 148 | April 20, 2019 3:56 AM |
A small group of us were discussing bad tee-vee last night. Many agreed that the show "It's About Time" was among the worst.
by Anonymous | reply 149 | April 20, 2019 3:56 AM |
"It's About Time" was never funny, but I give it a free pass because Imogene Coca in false eyelashes and cave woman glam wig was still Imogene Coca in false eyelashes and cave woman glam wig, and that was enough for me.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | April 20, 2019 4:06 AM |
“Out of the Blue,” about an angel is sent to Earth to earn his wings by aiding a family of ophaned kids and their sassy/wise black nanny. It was a spin-off of the Happy Days episode “Chachi Sells His Soul.” *CRINGE*
by Anonymous | reply 151 | April 20, 2019 4:32 AM |
^^About an angel WHO is sent to Earth.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | April 20, 2019 4:37 AM |
So then, just about anything that was on ABC, CBS and NBC is trash. The other networks? Expectations are already low but they still manage to exceed the quota.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | April 20, 2019 4:43 AM |
The worst show of all time just aired for the first and hopefully last time a few days ago. It's a modern day take on Green Acres. It was so painful to watch but also good like watching a car accident. I already wrote the network to complain.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | April 20, 2019 4:51 AM |
B. J. and the Bear.
It's had a fucking monkey driving a truck, for Chrissakes.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | April 20, 2019 4:57 AM |
Stargate Atlantis
by Anonymous | reply 157 | April 20, 2019 5:03 AM |
How I Met Your Mother.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | April 20, 2019 5:12 AM |
Oh please MASH is timeless
by Anonymous | reply 160 | April 20, 2019 5:29 AM |
Is the Chrissy Metz show worth watching, at least for mocking?
by Anonymous | reply 161 | April 20, 2019 5:36 AM |
Paul Lynde's early 70's sitcom was nothing to write home about. The premise casting him as a straight husband somehow wasn't very funny or believable, although John Calvin was sort of hunky as 'Howie'. I think it lasted a season on ABC.
Needed better writers and more gay innuendo.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | April 20, 2019 5:39 AM |
Is Suzanne Somers the queen of this thread, with THREE’S COMPANY, SHE’S THE SHERIFF, and STEP BY STEP?
by Anonymous | reply 163 | April 20, 2019 5:46 AM |
The View and all the other daytime copycat panel shows.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | April 20, 2019 5:48 AM |
We can throw in her failed pilot/TV movie ZUMA BEACH, if there’s any question - -
by Anonymous | reply 165 | April 20, 2019 5:50 AM |
MASH and Sanford & Son were both depressing as hell and unwatchable.
by Anonymous | reply 166 | April 20, 2019 5:52 AM |
Love Boat
by Anonymous | reply 167 | April 20, 2019 5:52 AM |
I don’t get why 2 Broke Girls always gets hate on the DL. Isn’t it a meta joke about 3 camera sitcoms? I always laughed out loud every time Jennifer Coolidge made a too self aware entrance to fake screaming from the studio audience.
And I loved that the Beth Behrs character had her horse living in the alley of their apartment. Sort of Ren and Stimpy meets Mr. Ed. The show should get points for creativity.
Plus the girls were always fucking incredibly hot guys.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | April 20, 2019 5:53 AM |
On the basis of $ per minute aired, Smash is the thread's undisputed champion turd.
by Anonymous | reply 169 | April 20, 2019 6:33 AM |
A truly CRINGEWORTHY show not yet mentioned is Mork & Mindy. Jesus H. Christ, it gave me shingles it got under my skin so bad! Just terrible!
The Pruitts of Southampton was a riot. It was a reverse image of the massive hit The Beverly Hillbillies, and had that incredible theme song!
Nanny and the Professor was a charming show, and as a kid I loved it. I can also still sing the theme song 45 years later!
by Anonymous | reply 170 | April 20, 2019 6:54 AM |
Suzanne Somers? When your most iconic film role involves staring out a car window and never having to utter a word, what did you expect?
by Anonymous | reply 171 | April 20, 2019 6:55 AM |
R160 Oh please, MASH is time less spent on something worthwhile.
Fixed
by Anonymous | reply 172 | April 20, 2019 6:57 AM |
I hated “Dream On”, “Arli$$”, “The Powers That Be”, and “The Single Guy”.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | April 20, 2019 7:29 AM |
I forgot the title and had to look it up, “The Jackie Thomas Show”. I thought it was “The Tom Arnold Show”.
by Anonymous | reply 174 | April 20, 2019 7:34 AM |
Also, the prime time sitcom “Dinosaurs” which starred puppets.
by Anonymous | reply 175 | April 20, 2019 7:39 AM |
[quote]I always hated House.
I liked it before the renovation. How DARE you replace Jesse Spencer with a bunch of ninnyhammers?
by Anonymous | reply 176 | April 20, 2019 7:40 AM |
bring out the nursing home gays! posting from their soiled beds!
by Anonymous | reply 177 | April 20, 2019 7:43 AM |
The CSI shows (except Miami when the entire city wore the same color throughout the episode): "How NOT to Write Exposition."
by Anonymous | reply 178 | April 20, 2019 7:43 AM |
Bless this Mess. Dax Shepherd and Lake Bell. Just aired first episode. It's badness will become legend.
by Anonymous | reply 179 | April 20, 2019 7:51 AM |
R171 most actors wish they had an iconic film role staring out a car window and never having to utter a word
by Anonymous | reply 180 | April 20, 2019 7:51 AM |
Dante's Cove
by Anonymous | reply 181 | April 20, 2019 11:07 AM |
Hogan's Heroes, The Duke Of Hazzard for the 70s, Dallas for the 80s, Seinfeld for the 90s, NCIS & My Name Is Earl for the modern era.
by Anonymous | reply 182 | April 20, 2019 11:15 AM |
Cold Case.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | April 20, 2019 11:38 AM |
I'm sorry but nothing beats The Brady Bunch Variety Hour.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | April 20, 2019 11:51 AM |
Hard Copy & Real People.
by Anonymous | reply 185 | April 20, 2019 11:53 AM |
Unless I missed it, I don't think anyone has mentioned Gilligan's Island. It's a bit of an oddity; wasn't on all that long, cheesy and stupid, and somehow, still manages to linger in the world of reruns all these decades later.
by Anonymous | reply 186 | April 20, 2019 12:05 PM |
[quote]Cold Case.
Cold Case??? I LOVED Cold Case, particularly its musical manipulations. Particularly in its gay episodes. COLD CASE?????
by Anonymous | reply 187 | April 20, 2019 12:06 PM |
R139 Tried to watch that Mary Tyler Moore variety show and couldn't even make it to 10 minutes. Damn, that was so freaking painful it genuinely hurt the brain! Hopefully the genius that came up with that never worked again.
by Anonymous | reply 188 | April 20, 2019 12:22 PM |
[quote]B. J. and the Bear. It's had a fucking monkey driving a truck, for Chrissakes.
First, oh dear!
Second, the monkey never drove the truck. What are you talking about?
by Anonymous | reply 189 | April 20, 2019 12:36 PM |
[quote]Unless I missed it, I don't think anyone has mentioned Gilligan's Island. It's a bit of an oddity; wasn't on all that long, cheesy and stupid, and somehow, still manages to linger in the world of reruns all these decades later.
Wouldn’t that indicate it wasn’t such a bad show after all? Bad shows do not make it to syndication.
My Mother the Car on the other hand....
by Anonymous | reply 190 | April 20, 2019 12:37 PM |
R52 needs to turn in his gay card if he doesn’t know gay icon Paul LYNDE!
by Anonymous | reply 191 | April 20, 2019 12:38 PM |
Looking at Greg Evigan made it all worthwhile though.
by Anonymous | reply 192 | April 20, 2019 12:39 PM |
The problem with the question is that the truly terrible shows don't last long enough to be well-known and the well-known but objectively terrible shows are enjoyed by lots of people.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | April 20, 2019 12:46 PM |
I don't watch most bad shows long enough to remember them.
by Anonymous | reply 194 | April 20, 2019 12:50 PM |
The Slap. How on earth did they expect to make an entire dramatic series out of someone being slapped at a party?
by Anonymous | reply 195 | April 20, 2019 12:58 PM |
Highway to Heaven
by Anonymous | reply 196 | April 20, 2019 1:01 PM |
'charles in charge', 'small wonder'
by Anonymous | reply 197 | April 20, 2019 1:03 PM |
R85 reminds me how much I hated the deeply unfunny Richard Lewis, who was everywhere in the 80s. Anything with him in it.
"Working Stiffs," with the equally unfunny Jim Belushi.
"The Mommies"--self-explanatory.
Some variety show with Ernie Anastos and Bonnie Montgomery. Grim stuff.
by Anonymous | reply 198 | April 20, 2019 1:17 PM |
Speaking of Richard Lewis, is he in any death pools?
by Anonymous | reply 199 | April 20, 2019 1:35 PM |
Dinosaurs was genius. And Cold Case is the best procedural ever made by american tv.
by Anonymous | reply 200 | April 20, 2019 1:36 PM |
Cop Rock please tell me someone remember this NYPD Blue Musical?
by Anonymous | reply 201 | April 20, 2019 1:37 PM |
That one in the 80s with the little girl robotically pretending to be an alien from outer space. "Out of This World," something like that?
by Anonymous | reply 202 | April 20, 2019 1:38 PM |
My Generation, with DL fave Julian Morris
by Anonymous | reply 203 | April 20, 2019 1:40 PM |
I never saw My Generation. Wish I had.
by Anonymous | reply 204 | April 20, 2019 1:50 PM |
Mork & Mindy
by Anonymous | reply 205 | April 20, 2019 1:53 PM |
Models, Inc.
The new Dallas reboot
by Anonymous | reply 206 | April 20, 2019 1:54 PM |
Encore! Encore!
Nathan Lane as a washed up straight (?!?) opera singer.
Hilarity did NOT ensue...
by Anonymous | reply 207 | April 20, 2019 1:59 PM |
Oh God R207 I forgot about that one! And he played a straight man.
by Anonymous | reply 208 | April 20, 2019 2:05 PM |
R205 Agree, Mork and Mindy sucked. Robin Williams' act always seemed ridiculous to me. Sorry, I've read he was a good person, but that manic thing and the peculiar accent was so weird and off-putting.
by Anonymous | reply 209 | April 20, 2019 2:08 PM |
My Mother The Car
by Anonymous | reply 210 | April 20, 2019 2:11 PM |
[R41] for the win.
How did that ever get approved?
—Anonymous
Working it? Never heard of this. Wow! Awful. Now I want to see more!
by Anonymous | reply 211 | April 20, 2019 2:16 PM |
[quote]R169 On the basis of $ per minute aired, Smash is the thread's undisputed champion turd.
What are you TALKING about??? [italic]Smash[/italic] was SMASHING!
by Anonymous | reply 212 | April 20, 2019 2:36 PM |
Totally agree, r200! I love dirt walls, but they're so hard to keep clean.
by Anonymous | reply 213 | April 20, 2019 2:44 PM |
Can't stand Red Dwarf.
by Anonymous | reply 214 | April 20, 2019 2:53 PM |
F Troop. As a child I didn't have high standards, but even I couldn't bring myself to sit through an episode.
by Anonymous | reply 215 | April 20, 2019 3:12 PM |
[quote]R80 (Don't) ENJOY!
You know, I liked watching that well enough. Stritchy’s less abrasive than usual, and the characters are well contrasted. The jokes themselves didn’t make me laugh, but the situation is “fertile,” as they say. Like, it has a neat symmetry when he’s reading her literary reviews while she’s reading his letters of recommendation.
by Anonymous | reply 216 | April 20, 2019 3:16 PM |
R204, you didn't miss anything, Julian looked adorable in it, but the show was a dud
by Anonymous | reply 217 | April 20, 2019 3:23 PM |
[quote]R156 B. J. and the Bear.
I met that actor at a party a few years ago, having no idea who he was. He’s still GORGEOUS. And very nice/mellow.
I can’t imagine why he doesn’t work more, as he’s clearly professionally competent, and has a nice straight-guy charm. I’d think he’d never be out of a job.
I left with a bit of a crush on him. SO SUE ME! (And, Married with kids, UNFORTUNATELY!)
by Anonymous | reply 218 | April 20, 2019 3:31 PM |
My two dads
by Anonymous | reply 220 | April 20, 2019 4:14 PM |
So, r217, only if I absolutely, positively HAVE to see everything Julian has ever been in?
by Anonymous | reply 221 | April 20, 2019 4:18 PM |
Remember when they tried to turn My Big Fat Greek Wedding into a sitcom? What a shitshow.
by Anonymous | reply 222 | April 20, 2019 4:25 PM |
[quote]Models, Inc.
The first (shortened) season that aired during the summer was fucking brillaint! A real soapy murder mystery that was a little too good for itself.
Then it got a full season order and quickly went to shit.
by Anonymous | reply 224 | April 20, 2019 4:29 PM |
R133 is fucking delusional. "The Good Place" is one of the best shows on TV.
by Anonymous | reply 225 | April 20, 2019 4:56 PM |
80's Australian TV show Sons & Daughters. Premise of the show is 2 teenagers fall in love only to find out they're brother and sister.
by Anonymous | reply 226 | April 20, 2019 5:10 PM |
The US reboot of Kath & Kim fell flat here. Too bad, the Aussie version is hilarious
by Anonymous | reply 227 | April 20, 2019 5:16 PM |
The Paul Lynde Halloween special with Kiss and Margaret Hamilton is comedy gold.
by Anonymous | reply 228 | April 20, 2019 5:18 PM |
Toddlers & Tiaras
by Anonymous | reply 229 | April 20, 2019 5:23 PM |
R220, they should totally do a reboot of that show - "My 5 Dads"
by Anonymous | reply 230 | April 20, 2019 5:26 PM |
The Paul Lynde Halloween Show was the best, not the worst!
by Anonymous | reply 231 | April 20, 2019 5:30 PM |
God. When I was in Jr. High Greg Evigan was my ultimate fantasy. I still think of him during private times.
by Anonymous | reply 232 | April 20, 2019 5:31 PM |
Real People and That’s Incredible! were hits in the 70s but still totally awful.
by Anonymous | reply 233 | April 20, 2019 5:31 PM |
Full House
by Anonymous | reply 234 | April 20, 2019 5:57 PM |
Will & Grace
by Anonymous | reply 235 | April 20, 2019 6:02 PM |
8 Isn't Enough
by Anonymous | reply 236 | April 20, 2019 6:08 PM |
[quote]Needed better writers and more gay innuendo.
I dunno, R162, this exchange was pretty damn gay right off the bat ...
MARTHA: Would you care for a martini?
PAUL: Does Zsa Zsa care for jewelry?
by Anonymous | reply 237 | April 20, 2019 6:11 PM |
[quote]Highway to Heaven
I watched that show as a kid and I liked it. A couple of years ago, a conservative Christian relative (who also supports Trump) was ranting on Facebook about how many TV shows today aren't family friendly like Highway to Heaven was back in the 80s. Shortly after that I saw that Amazon Prime had the entire series and started watching episodes that I remember liking as a kid. Yes, a lot of the acting and writing was awful. I noticed that the show was pro-immigrant and I laughed because if my Trumpster relative watched that show today he would hate a lot of the episodes.
by Anonymous | reply 238 | April 20, 2019 6:27 PM |
Agree with R234 and R235 and would add [italic]Friends[/italic] and everything the repulsive Tony Danza did other than [italic]Taxi[/italic].
[italic]Saved by the Bell[/italic] was pretty bad and so was [italic]Growing Pains[/italic]. Not one funny moment on either of them.
by Anonymous | reply 239 | April 20, 2019 6:29 PM |
[quote]The Slap. How on earth did they expect to make an entire dramatic series out of someone being slapped at a party?
It was based on an Australian novel and there was an Aussie TV show adaptation before American one.
by Anonymous | reply 240 | April 20, 2019 6:31 PM |
[quote]Real People and That’s Incredible! were hits in the 70s but still totally awful.
Going back in time and preventing those two shows would be like killing both Baby Hitler and Baby Stalin.
by Anonymous | reply 241 | April 20, 2019 6:31 PM |
I loath Three's Company and it's still being shown on one of my cable channels decades later. I disliked John Ritter just because he starred in it.
by Anonymous | reply 242 | April 20, 2019 6:36 PM |
[quote]I loath Three's Company
Oh, dear!
by Anonymous | reply 243 | April 20, 2019 6:38 PM |
A lot of people mentioned Three’s Company on this thread. As someone who enjoyed it, I’m curious about what those posters didn’t like.
by Anonymous | reply 244 | April 20, 2019 6:39 PM |
All those family-centered 80s sitcoms: Family Ties, Growing pains, all of them, really. Treacly Reaganite crap. Kate & Allie was particularly bad -strident, unfunny afterschool special for adults. Also, that one with Balka or whatever his name was.
From the 90s: Ned and Stacey. OMG, I saw an episode of that and felt deeply embarrassed for everybody involved. Then we got "Yes, Dear"
Those are just sitcoms, I'll think of dramas later.
by Anonymous | reply 245 | April 20, 2019 6:39 PM |
[quote]Then we got "Yes, Dear"
A fucking unmitigated disaster of a show.
by Anonymous | reply 246 | April 20, 2019 6:41 PM |
238 posts before it became another Trump thread. Wow. You treason girls let this one fly under the radar for quite a while.
by Anonymous | reply 247 | April 20, 2019 6:42 PM |
Baywatch was awful, but it was fun guilty pleasure for me as a kid and teen in the 90s.
by Anonymous | reply 249 | April 20, 2019 7:10 PM |
Whitney Cummings played herself in “Whitney”, truly terrible.
by Anonymous | reply 250 | April 20, 2019 7:30 PM |
The theme song from MASH is the music they play at the Gates of Hell.
by Anonymous | reply 252 | April 20, 2019 7:42 PM |
I loved Family Ties as a kid and had a huge crush on Michael J. Fox.
I noticed it was on Netflix and tried watching an episode, and I couldn't get through it. What a total shitshow. The only mildly redeeming thing was MJF, but he's so coked out in most scenes you can practically see his teeth grinding.
by Anonymous | reply 253 | April 20, 2019 8:03 PM |
I can't believe M*A*S*H gets so many mentions, but nobody has nominated AfterM*A*S*H. Now that was truly dreadful.
by Anonymous | reply 254 | April 20, 2019 8:06 PM |
AfterM*A*S*H was better. It didn't have Alan Alda.
by Anonymous | reply 255 | April 20, 2019 8:07 PM |
R254
See R255
by Anonymous | reply 256 | April 20, 2019 8:08 PM |
[quote]B. J. and the Bear. It's had a fucking monkey driving a truck, for Chrissakes.
That is exactly NOT what I imagined a show called “B.J. and the Bear” to be about, well - except for the trucker part.
by Anonymous | reply 257 | April 20, 2019 8:35 PM |
That 80s Show
by Anonymous | reply 258 | April 20, 2019 8:54 PM |
Three’s Company and Laverne & Shirley we’re stupid and do not hold up well.
by Anonymous | reply 259 | April 20, 2019 8:55 PM |
Howabout some Canadian shows?
Hangin' In
Check It Out (using recycled King Of Kensington scripts)
Little Mosque on the Prairie
Twitch City
by Anonymous | reply 260 | April 20, 2019 9:06 PM |
The Trouble wth Tracey was another Canadian turd.
by Anonymous | reply 261 | April 20, 2019 9:21 PM |
I loved Family Ties as a kid. I mean LOVED. I tried to watch it as an adult, and surprisingly, except for Justine Bateman, it sucked, The first two season you could see how inexperienced MJ.F was. He was doing things like going for the phone before it rang, heading for the door before someone knocked, a walk/stomp to the beat of his dialogue. Meredith not delivering her lines but dequivering her lines in that shaky always hurt tone. I still laughed at Mallory. A lot.
by Anonymous | reply 262 | April 20, 2019 9:23 PM |
More Canadian shows:
Time Of Your Life
Ready Or Not
by Anonymous | reply 263 | April 20, 2019 9:28 PM |
Fuck the Canadian shows. We already know every single one of them is a boring mess.
by Anonymous | reply 264 | April 20, 2019 9:33 PM |
[quote]every single one of them is a boring mess
Are they all about you?
by Anonymous | reply 265 | April 20, 2019 9:37 PM |
[quote]I'm sorry but nothing beats The Brady Bunch Variety Hour.
Except [italic]Pink Lady and Jeff[/italic]. How do you say P.U. in Japanese?
by Anonymous | reply 266 | April 20, 2019 9:45 PM |
The Brady Bunch Variety hour was worse. It gets the slight boost over PLAJ because it was a blotch on the Brady timeline. Plus you had to imagine that Rip guy eating Alice's pussy. While throwing confetti at it.
by Anonymous | reply 267 | April 20, 2019 10:01 PM |
The Prisoner. Pretentious crap.
by Anonymous | reply 268 | April 20, 2019 10:09 PM |
The Prisoner was possibly the very first series to suffer from X-Files Syndrome: An intriguing mystery, loads of atmosphere, charismatic performers, and producers who had no fucking idea how to pay it off. I really liked the Prisoner until I watched the last episode. After that, I just wanted to throw the DVD set out the window.
by Anonymous | reply 269 | April 20, 2019 10:13 PM |
[quote]The Brady Bunch Variety hour was worse. It gets the slight boost over PLAJ because it was a blotch on the Brady timeline
And the other sequel series weren’t? This isn’t Shakespeare we’re talking about.
by Anonymous | reply 270 | April 20, 2019 10:13 PM |
R269, that sounds like Lost
by Anonymous | reply 271 | April 20, 2019 10:16 PM |
[italic]Hangin' In[/italic] ran for a while in syndication in the US in the late '80s. You could tell it was complete shit just from the opening credits.
by Anonymous | reply 272 | April 20, 2019 10:17 PM |
Why aren’t those degrading/enabling TLC/Discovery channel faux-reality horror/freak shows on here? My 600 Pound Life, Honey Boo Boo, and especially the emasculation of Jared Bloshinsky. All those shows are not just bad but evil.
by Anonymous | reply 273 | April 20, 2019 10:18 PM |
Canadian sitcoms are proof of how government interference makes things worse. Most of them only exist to fill CanCon requirements that a certain number of shows originate there.
by Anonymous | reply 274 | April 20, 2019 10:19 PM |
I never watched Lost, but my mom binged watched it on Netflix (I think), and said that she guessed they were in purgatory sometime in Season 1. But she thought there had to be more to the mystery than that. She was so pissed to find out she was wrong.
by Anonymous | reply 275 | April 20, 2019 10:21 PM |
Three's a fucking a crowd.
by Anonymous | reply 276 | April 20, 2019 10:24 PM |
[quote]Then we got "Yes, Dear"
[quote]A fucking unmitigated disaster of a show.
That show premiered the same season as [italic]Bette[/italic] and the show where Jason Bateman had a gay roommate, but those were cancelled and this, which was even worse, got renewed? Why? I have never met anyone who liked it or even cared that it existed. With some of the other shows mentioned here, I have.
by Anonymous | reply 277 | April 20, 2019 10:24 PM |
Please tell your mother, r275, she was wrong. They were not in Purgatory.
(How do people watch an entire show and get the premise completely wrong?)
by Anonymous | reply 278 | April 20, 2019 10:25 PM |
Where were they, then?
by Anonymous | reply 279 | April 20, 2019 10:26 PM |
R274, seems weird to bitch about "government interference" while touting British shows. Freepers are stoopid.
by Anonymous | reply 280 | April 20, 2019 10:27 PM |
As a Canadian I want to suggest that Kids in the Hall and SCTV were some of the best tv in the past in the past quarter century. Although I wasn't a big fan I know that The Trailer Park Boys and The Red Green Show had international fans. I also thought that Corner Gas was far more amusing that 90% of US sit-coms at the time.
by Anonymous | reply 281 | April 20, 2019 10:28 PM |
I gave up on Lost simply because it would be weeks before you got a new episode. Plus there was a huge thing that bothered me. They never talked about anything. They could be walking through the woods and see their dead dad get done up the ass by a tiger wearing a dildo and then never mention it to anyone.
by Anonymous | reply 282 | April 20, 2019 10:28 PM |
To be fair to my mom, she said she guessed they were dead. I put the embroidery of purgatory on it because I haven't seen the show, and it sounded like purgatory to me. They were all dead, right?
by Anonymous | reply 283 | April 20, 2019 10:28 PM |
OK you made your suggestion now get lost.
by Anonymous | reply 284 | April 20, 2019 10:29 PM |
[quote] Where were they, then?
They were on an island. It's really not brain surgery.
by Anonymous | reply 285 | April 20, 2019 10:30 PM |
On the topic of Canadian shows, Lost Girl was awful.
by Anonymous | reply 286 | April 20, 2019 10:31 PM |
No, they were not all dead.
They crash-landed on an island previously used of scientific experiments. They were all "lost" people who found their real family in each other. Then they died (in the last season) and met up in the afterlife.
by Anonymous | reply 287 | April 20, 2019 10:32 PM |
Oh well, whatever. I never liked the premise of the show enough to watch it, so I'm not going to argue about it now.
by Anonymous | reply 288 | April 20, 2019 10:33 PM |
Heroes started off great and then became awful by the end of the first season.
by Anonymous | reply 289 | April 20, 2019 10:41 PM |
R266 Kusai.
by Anonymous | reply 290 | April 20, 2019 10:41 PM |
Yeah. Heroes is a big WTF to me. I've never seen a TV show go downhill so fast and so far like Heroes did. The first season was as good as TV ever got. Before or after. The second season was still an A+ but not as good. The rest was shit. Utter and complete shit.
by Anonymous | reply 291 | April 20, 2019 10:43 PM |
People were ready to pounce on"Kath & Kim" before it started airing, but I like Molly Shannon and Selma Blair acting like dumb American girls.
by Anonymous | reply 292 | April 20, 2019 10:44 PM |
Kate & Alley
by Anonymous | reply 293 | April 20, 2019 10:45 PM |
Kath and Kim was funny as hell. Fuck whoever put Nanny and the Professor on this list.
by Anonymous | reply 294 | April 20, 2019 10:45 PM |
R280 is engaging in psychological projection. Not all English TV is under the thumb of the BBC.
by Anonymous | reply 295 | April 20, 2019 10:50 PM |
Whitney Cummings's own sitcom sucked, but " 2 Broke Girls" was sold for a million and a half per episode into syndication so she's set for life from that.
by Anonymous | reply 296 | April 20, 2019 10:52 PM |
See, plenty of privately owned UK TV channels. That’s like saying all American TV is on PBS. And if you had kids which would you rather be subjected to, the Smurfs or Barney? I’d take the little blue guys over that big dumb creepy purple pedophile and his children of the corn syrup any day of the week.
by Anonymous | reply 298 | April 20, 2019 10:55 PM |
As a Canadian, I have no problem stating that our shows tend to be almost uniformly bad. The only Canadian show in recent years I truly enjoyed was "Sensitive Skin" and I find "Cardinal" decent in what it's trying to be: a rip-off of Scandi noir TV series. The comedy tends to be really, really bad since it is intent on milking some quaint concept of Canadiana, which barely exists anymore. I knew some people who were really into "Corner Gas", so i watched an episode. It reminded me of that faux smalltown Canada schmaltzy bullshit such as Tragically Hip. If you live in a multicultural big urban area, this is like watching Pettycoat Junction or some other 60s throwback.
by Anonymous | reply 299 | April 20, 2019 10:57 PM |
[quote]Unless I missed it, I don't think anyone has mentioned Gilligan's Island. It's a bit of an oddity; wasn't on all that long, cheesy and stupid, and somehow, still manages to linger in the world of reruns all these decades later.
Perhaps it's still being aired because it's expertly produced and good silly fun with very likable characters!
"Gilligan's Island" is constructed from the classic Commedia dell'arte characters, and wisely isolates them to preserve the circumstances mostly without extraneous characters. I think it's pretty inspired, and the Harold Hecuba episode where the castaways perform "Hamlet" to the score of Bizet's "Carmen" to impress Phil Fucking Silvers is perhaps the most brilliant half-hour of television since the Ricardos and Mertzes moved from East 68th Street!!
by Anonymous | reply 300 | April 20, 2019 10:58 PM |
The Swan
by Anonymous | reply 301 | April 20, 2019 11:00 PM |
R300 has a point. I can still sing "Neither A Borrower Nor a Lender Be" and I haven't seen that episode in like 30 years.
by Anonymous | reply 302 | April 20, 2019 11:02 PM |
I mean, I just watched it now, but up until 5 minute ago I hadn't watched it since I was a kid.
by Anonymous | reply 303 | April 20, 2019 11:02 PM |
The great thing about the above clip is that Tina Louise looks like she's about to die of embarrassment.
by Anonymous | reply 304 | April 20, 2019 11:03 PM |
[quote]People were ready to pounce on"Kath & Kim" before it started airing, but I like Molly Shannon and Selma Blair acting like dumb American girls.
I also liked them on the American remake. I loved Mikey Day playing Kim's husband on the show.
by Anonymous | reply 305 | April 20, 2019 11:06 PM |
That's Incredible! It's the earliest reality show I can remember.
by Anonymous | reply 306 | April 20, 2019 11:14 PM |
Did anyone watch “Champions” on NBC?
by Anonymous | reply 307 | April 20, 2019 11:17 PM |
R307 yes! I really wanted to like it but it was bad.
by Anonymous | reply 308 | April 20, 2019 11:19 PM |
When Calls My Shart
FULL GODDAMNED HOUSE
by Anonymous | reply 309 | April 20, 2019 11:19 PM |
Champions was an awful Mindy Kahling creation.
by Anonymous | reply 310 | April 20, 2019 11:31 PM |
How I Met Your Fucking Mother
by Anonymous | reply 311 | April 20, 2019 11:33 PM |
Normal, Ohio was fucking awful.
by Anonymous | reply 312 | April 20, 2019 11:34 PM |
[quote]"Yes, Dear"
In the same vein (series that inexplicably ran for several seasons that no one cares about and that are never seen in syndication):
According to Jim
Rules of Engagement
Still Standing
by Anonymous | reply 313 | April 20, 2019 11:34 PM |
Father Dowling Mysteries was awful. It was Murder, She Wrote, but with a Catholic priest and his nun sidekick.
by Anonymous | reply 314 | April 20, 2019 11:36 PM |
Oh god Father Dowling was very hip and edgy.
by Anonymous | reply 315 | April 20, 2019 11:37 PM |
Another priest show that was awful was the one with Robert Blake as the priest. I can't remember the title.
by Anonymous | reply 316 | April 20, 2019 11:42 PM |
A lot of cop shows from the 70s hold up well today, but Beretta does not.
by Anonymous | reply 317 | April 20, 2019 11:43 PM |
Stand by Your Man, the American version of Birds Of A Feather. Horrible.
by Anonymous | reply 318 | April 20, 2019 11:44 PM |
Veronica's Closet
by Anonymous | reply 319 | April 20, 2019 11:46 PM |
The Ropers
by Anonymous | reply 320 | April 20, 2019 11:47 PM |
Still Standing was funny as fuck. Especially the episode that revolved around the son's huge cock. Sally Struthers deserved an Emmy for her work on that show.
by Anonymous | reply 321 | April 20, 2019 11:47 PM |
Wonder Woman
by Anonymous | reply 322 | April 20, 2019 11:48 PM |
[quote]Still Standing was funny as fuck. Especially the episode that revolved around the son's huge cock.
You've got to tell us more than that.
by Anonymous | reply 323 | April 20, 2019 11:48 PM |
His son was in a funk. The father finally wormed it out of him that the kids were staring at him after gym class in the locker room. The dad assumed it was because it was small because the kid felt bad. Come to find out they were staring because it was huge.
by Anonymous | reply 324 | April 20, 2019 11:55 PM |
Desperate Housewives: only fraus allowed
by Anonymous | reply 325 | April 20, 2019 11:55 PM |
I thought Devious Maids was worse than Desperate Housewives.
by Anonymous | reply 326 | April 20, 2019 11:57 PM |
The US version of Queer As Folk.
by Anonymous | reply 327 | April 21, 2019 12:02 AM |
The Prisoner is almost unique in that it was an outstanding series until the network demanded more episodes than Patrick McGoohan wanted to do.
The result was that two episode finale McGoohan personally wrote that was so bad it defies description.
The Prisoner may rank as the worst TV finale ever.
by Anonymous | reply 328 | April 21, 2019 12:02 AM |
[quote]Little Mosque on the Prairie
That show was fucking horrible as well. It should have been called "We're Muslim And Look How Superior We Are!"
Retarded.
by Anonymous | reply 329 | April 21, 2019 12:04 AM |
R329 sounds like a Trumpster.
by Anonymous | reply 330 | April 21, 2019 1:09 AM |
[italic]Toddlers & Tiaras[/italic] is my nominee for worst TV show EVER. It was a total train wreck. For that reason, it was one of my favorite shows. Just watching those spoiled, nasty little cunts (who were always referred to by their other name—"divas") did my heart good. While I don't condone child abuse, I think I could have made an exception in the case of these little horrors. Had JønBénèt Ramsey been as twatty and vicious as these little [italic]Toddlers & Tiaras[/italic] bitches, no jury in the land would have convicted Ms. Patsy Ramsey, formerly of Boulder, CO, of anything she might or might not have done.
by Anonymous | reply 331 | April 21, 2019 1:20 AM |
r330 sounds like an alt-left.
by Anonymous | reply 332 | April 21, 2019 1:20 AM |
R332, thanks for confirming that you are a freeper. Let me guess, your favorite show is on Fox News, right?
by Anonymous | reply 333 | April 21, 2019 1:28 AM |
No, r333, I am NOT a "freeper." And I got rid of cable in the 2000s so I never had to listen to Bush again. I don't watch the news. It's too depressing, especially since 2016.
Having no love for the muslim does not automatically make me the things you accuse me of.
by Anonymous | reply 334 | April 21, 2019 1:34 AM |
Don't argue with gay Muslim apologists. It will get you nowhere. They are the most damaged people on the face of the planet.
by Anonymous | reply 335 | April 21, 2019 1:35 AM |
[quote]Normal, Ohio was fucking awful.
Did that show fulfill some kind of contractual obligation with John Goodman on Carsey-Werner’s part? That’s the only explanation for its existence. I saw the first episode and it sucked so much I turned it off about five minutes in. The concept was good, the casting was good, but the writing was just horrible.
by Anonymous | reply 336 | April 21, 2019 1:38 AM |
The most deranged people are gays who recite Republican talking points like r335. Are you Aaron Schock?
by Anonymous | reply 337 | April 21, 2019 1:38 AM |
See?
by Anonymous | reply 338 | April 21, 2019 1:39 AM |
It really does suggest an inability to think, r338. I don't get it, either.
by Anonymous | reply 339 | April 21, 2019 1:40 AM |
No, R338, because R337 was blocked. Now I know why.
by Anonymous | reply 340 | April 21, 2019 1:41 AM |
Anyone anywhere remember the late 1980s sitcom where Joel Higgins played a priest?
by Anonymous | reply 341 | April 21, 2019 1:43 AM |
I actually made the mistake of giving r337 a WW, because I think "gays who recite Republican talking points" are crazy, too. But not being down with muslims is a gay talking point, or should be. It has nothing to do with Republicanism necessarily. Muslims hate gays. It's an article of their faith. Not wanting them around can hardly be considered Republican. They are Republican-esque, not me, or any reasonable gay person.
by Anonymous | reply 342 | April 21, 2019 1:45 AM |
R340 = one of the freeper trolls
by Anonymous | reply 343 | April 21, 2019 1:46 AM |
Cop Rock
by Anonymous | reply 344 | April 21, 2019 1:47 AM |
Whatever TV shows R343 hates must be really good.
by Anonymous | reply 345 | April 21, 2019 1:48 AM |
Not in what I was able to ignoredar, r343. He didn't say a single "freeper" thing. Don't you have some tofu to shove up your ass?
by Anonymous | reply 346 | April 21, 2019 1:49 AM |
R345 watches Fox News all day
by Anonymous | reply 347 | April 21, 2019 1:49 AM |
I'll bet r345 doesn't watch Fox News at all. R345?
by Anonymous | reply 348 | April 21, 2019 1:50 AM |
[quote]Champions was an awful Mindy Kahling creation.
I knew there was something fishy about that show. Once it was cancelled, the boy coming out as a trans “girl” and admitting he had already been on hormones for years while doing this stupid and uncreative show proved to me once and for all that there is a war on homosexuality.
by Anonymous | reply 349 | April 21, 2019 1:51 AM |
I don’t get cable.
by Anonymous | reply 350 | April 21, 2019 1:52 AM |
Same here, r350. Some "freepers" we are.
by Anonymous | reply 351 | April 21, 2019 1:53 AM |
I'm puzzled by everyone posting "Cop Rock" here. I mean, it was supposed to be awful, but I think they aired eleven episodes that were very poorly rated. I mean it was 1990, who the hell even saw ONE episode? I didn't. Have any of the people posting about it even seen it?
by Anonymous | reply 352 | April 21, 2019 1:55 AM |
The Carnie Wilson Show
I think she was aiming for Oprah, but ended up sleazy like Jerry Springer.
by Anonymous | reply 353 | April 21, 2019 1:55 AM |
[quote]I'm puzzled by everyone posting "Cop Rock" here. I mean, it was supposed to be awful, but I think they aired eleven episodes that were very poorly rated. I mean it was 1990, who the hell even saw ONE episode? I didn't. Have any of the people posting about it even seen it?
Neither did I, that’s why it flopped. But I saw [italic]The Bradys[/italic] and that flopped too. Nobody sets out to make a bad show on purpose, R352. But the strain of having to write new songs every week Killed this show before it had a chance to get good. Even Rodgers & Hammerstein would have struggled under these circumstances.
Another musical show called [italic]Hull High[/italic] came and went that same year, unable to compete with the nonmusical coolness of [italic]Parker Lewis Can’t Lose[/italic].
by Anonymous | reply 354 | April 21, 2019 2:01 AM |
Parker Lewis Can't Lose was based on Ferris Bueller, but ended up being much better than the actual Ferris Bueller TV show, which aired around the same time.
by Anonymous | reply 355 | April 21, 2019 2:06 AM |
R352, I watched at least one episode. I remember a scene with high school boys singing in the locker room shower. Another scene had a singing lawyer trying to bribe a judge with a briefcase. It was pretty cheesy.
by Anonymous | reply 356 | April 21, 2019 2:07 AM |
I saw the first episode with Miss Wilhoite, r352.....
by Anonymous | reply 357 | April 21, 2019 2:09 AM |
Although her episode with Richard Simmons is fucking golden.
by Anonymous | reply 359 | April 21, 2019 2:14 AM |
[quote]I remember a scene with high school boys singing in the locker room shower.
That’s how [italic]Glee[/italic] would have turned out if Bryan Singer had produced it.
by Anonymous | reply 360 | April 21, 2019 2:33 AM |
R324 They stole that plot from "The Nanny."
by Anonymous | reply 361 | April 21, 2019 2:33 AM |
R330 et al should be subjected to the Ludovico treatment with Little Mosque on the Prairie on loop.
by Anonymous | reply 362 | April 21, 2019 2:38 AM |
Full House
by Anonymous | reply 363 | April 21, 2019 2:41 AM |
I don't know what "the Ludovico treatment" means, r362.
by Anonymous | reply 364 | April 21, 2019 2:44 AM |
I watched this night after night after night and I never did figure out the plot.
by Anonymous | reply 365 | April 21, 2019 2:54 AM |
Just keep your eyes open, R364, you’ll know
by Anonymous | reply 366 | April 21, 2019 2:55 AM |
I enjoyed the first season of Prison Break but I don't understand why they don't have those kinds of shows be a miniseries instead. There's no way you can stretch that concept out across 6 seasons.
by Anonymous | reply 367 | April 21, 2019 2:55 AM |
Seriously, r367. Talk about MSU.
by Anonymous | reply 368 | April 21, 2019 2:59 AM |
r362 should be forced to watch Fox News all day. Wait, scratch that, he'd probably enjoy it.
by Anonymous | reply 369 | April 21, 2019 3:01 AM |
[quote]Parker Lewis Can't Lose was based on Ferris Bueller, but ended up being much better than the actual Ferris Bueller TV show, which aired around the same time.
Not having a no-talent homewrecker in it was a plus.
by Anonymous | reply 370 | April 21, 2019 3:14 AM |
Who remembers “It’s Like, You Know”, which featured Jennifer Grey as Jennifer Grey after her nose job?
by Anonymous | reply 371 | April 21, 2019 3:22 AM |
It's Like, You Know wasn't that bad.
by Anonymous | reply 372 | April 21, 2019 3:23 AM |
Supernatural owns this thread. It's awful, and the two actors on it are equally bad. The tall one is one of the worst actors I've ever seen anywhere and the shorter one that fakes that stupid deep voice isn't far behind.
by Anonymous | reply 373 | April 21, 2019 3:40 AM |
[quote]Another priest show that was awful was the one with Robert Blake as the priest. I can't remember the title.
It was called [italic]Hell Town[/italic], and it is remembered today largely because of a [italic]Golden Girls[/italic] episode where Rose tells a priest she’s sorry it was cancelled. Not as sorry as Robert Blake was.
by Anonymous | reply 374 | April 21, 2019 3:41 AM |
Grace Under Fire
The Bonnie Hunt Show
by Anonymous | reply 375 | April 21, 2019 3:50 AM |
R209. Didn’t cocaine have a lot to do with Robin Williams acting?
by Anonymous | reply 376 | April 21, 2019 3:51 AM |
Aaron's Way- Amish family moves to California. It was panned by the critics.
by Anonymous | reply 377 | April 21, 2019 3:55 AM |
The Tortellis.
by Anonymous | reply 378 | April 21, 2019 4:01 AM |
Agree with Supernatural. It's beyond bad. How the fuck did it stay on the air all these years??
by Anonymous | reply 379 | April 21, 2019 4:49 AM |
Dawson's Creek, Full House, Party of Five ... all insufferable.
by Anonymous | reply 381 | April 21, 2019 6:03 AM |
OMG Party of Five. I didn't watch it when it was on. I fell in love with Matthew Fox from Lost. I thought I'd get some of the show from Netflix. Wow. Fucking horrible. I think I made through two episodes.
by Anonymous | reply 382 | April 21, 2019 6:06 AM |
“Party of Five” had a spin-off titled “Time of Your Life”
by Anonymous | reply 383 | April 21, 2019 6:19 AM |
The Andy Griffith Show
Little House on the Prairie
by Anonymous | reply 384 | April 21, 2019 9:43 AM |
I recall there being an x-files spin-off called Millennium. Was it terrible?
by Anonymous | reply 385 | April 21, 2019 9:49 AM |
Not a spin off like “The Lone Gunmen”, “Millennium” was created by Chris Carter and pretty good.
by Anonymous | reply 386 | April 21, 2019 9:53 AM |
So according to this thread, Frasier sucked but Gilligan's Island is televisual brilliance?
Jesus.
by Anonymous | reply 387 | April 21, 2019 12:00 PM |
[italic]Frasier[/italic] had a few good years before it became dumbed down. If it had started independently of [italic]Cheers[/italic], it wouldn’t have run more than 5 or 6 years.
Oh, and those so-called TV “critics” who used [italic]Gilligan’s Island[/italic], which never had any intellectual pretentions to lose in the first place, as shorthand for bad TV for decades are the same ones who championed Bill Cosby as a role model. It’s time to overturn the critical consensus on TV comedy and smash it to bits.
by Anonymous | reply 388 | April 21, 2019 12:06 PM |
[quote]According to Jim
Would have been called [italic]According to John[/italic] if his brother hadn’t died.
by Anonymous | reply 389 | April 21, 2019 12:10 PM |
Whoever added [italic]Gimme a Break[/italic] and [italic]The Facts Of Life[/italic] to this list has been added to my permanent ignore list for racism, antisemitism, sexism, and homophobia. Anyone who hates those shows should be sat on by Chrissy Metz.
Replace them with [italic]Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper[/italic] and [italic]Can’t Hurry Love[/italic].
by Anonymous | reply 390 | April 21, 2019 12:20 PM |
All the [italic]Star Trek[/italic] And [italic]Star Wars[/italic] shows and movies belong here for enabling generations of obese incels who should be watched very carefully around children. When making a best or worst list, we need to consider more than just entertainment value and artistic merit, or lack thereof. We need to consider overall impact on the real world. It’s hard to get upset over average shows such as [italic]Too Close for Comfort[/italic] or [italic]Head Of the Class[/italic] when their impact on culture has been minimal. It is worth the effort to get upset when truly terrible shows such as [italic]Who’s the Boss[/italic] and [italic]Growing Pains[/italic] become top 10 hits because that enables even worse shows such as [italic]Full House[/italic] and [italic]Friends[/italic] to do the same. The slippery slope is real and TV is proof of it.
by Anonymous | reply 391 | April 21, 2019 12:31 PM |
The worst episode of Frasier was better than the best episode of Gilligan's Island.
by Anonymous | reply 392 | April 21, 2019 12:31 PM |
"Millennium" was actually better than "The X Files", but much, much darker.
by Anonymous | reply 393 | April 21, 2019 12:32 PM |
The worst of [italic]Golden Girls[/italic] was better than either of those shows, R392.
by Anonymous | reply 394 | April 21, 2019 12:42 PM |
[italic]Wings[/italic] was the worst show to come from the Charles/Burrows/Charles production team. Awful, awful show, and there was a thread condemning it for its homophobia. Yet it ran seven years while superior shows, some of which were aimed at children and were still funnier than this mess, didn’t last nearly as long.
by Anonymous | reply 395 | April 21, 2019 12:44 PM |
Joanie loves Chachi @*# my Dad Says My Two Dads Caveman (ABC sitcom based on the cavemen characters from an insurance company ad) The Adventures of Mark and Brian Emily Reasons Why Not The Paul Reiser Show
by Anonymous | reply 396 | April 21, 2019 12:49 PM |
[quote]Joanie loves Chachi
And now she’s dead.
by Anonymous | reply 397 | April 21, 2019 12:52 PM |
I have a theory about [italic]Gilligan’s Island[/italic]: Gilligan was one of those dumb-like-a-fox types and that he sabotaged all the rescue efforts on purpose. He was nothing on the mainland. On that uncharted desert isle, he was a king. Going back to the mainland would have meant going back to being a nothing. That’s why a supposed professor could build all sorts of doo-dads but not an escape raft ... Gilligan stopped it on purpose and pretended it was an accident. And the only reason they didn’t kill him was because they would have descended into [italic]Lord Of the Flies[/italic]-style anarchy and chaos.
by Anonymous | reply 398 | April 21, 2019 1:13 PM |
Rocky Road, another one of those shitshow sitcoms produced by TBD in the 80s/early 90s.
by Anonymous | reply 400 | April 21, 2019 1:26 PM |
I actually like the first season of that better than the last season of the original series, R399.
by Anonymous | reply 401 | April 21, 2019 1:26 PM |
R400: would it be blasphemy to admit that theme song is better than most anything The Beach Boys recorded since Dennis Wilson died?
by Anonymous | reply 402 | April 21, 2019 1:27 PM |
No R402, as long as you don’t watch beyond the opening credits.
by Anonymous | reply 403 | April 21, 2019 1:32 PM |
The very short lived sitcom version of A League of Their Own was awful
by Anonymous | reply 404 | April 21, 2019 2:19 PM |
That's not the Beach Boys, r402.
by Anonymous | reply 405 | April 21, 2019 2:25 PM |
R402 didn't claim the theme song was by the Beach Boys. Just that he thought the song compared favorably to post-Dennis BB.
by Anonymous | reply 406 | April 21, 2019 2:32 PM |
Cancelled after one episode: "Turn-On." ABC's attempt to do something hip and edgy like "Laugh-In."
by Anonymous | reply 407 | April 21, 2019 2:41 PM |
Just when you think there’s no one around whose carin’. Just when you think there’s no one around whose sharin’. Just when you think you can take off your pants and jack off - you can’t.
by Anonymous | reply 408 | April 21, 2019 2:43 PM |
"Emily's Reasons Why Not" - Heather Graham's disastrous sitcom. It was cancelled and yanked just before a huge publicity push (PARADE magazine cover, etc.) that made it all the more embarrassing.
by Anonymous | reply 409 | April 21, 2019 2:47 PM |
Cavemen
by Anonymous | reply 410 | April 21, 2019 2:52 PM |
Here come the Bride's.
by Anonymous | reply 411 | April 21, 2019 3:04 PM |
The Beachcombers. A Canadian show that ran for decades. The theme song is torture.
by Anonymous | reply 412 | April 21, 2019 3:10 PM |
At least on Gilligan's Island they didn't try to make us believe they were in purgatory.
by Anonymous | reply 413 | April 21, 2019 3:35 PM |
People didn't like the Nanny? what? Nile's and CC should get n award for sounding most like Datalounge responses.
by Anonymous | reply 414 | April 21, 2019 3:40 PM |
The Nanny was a terrific program. One of the very few comedies I've seen every episode of.
by Anonymous | reply 415 | April 21, 2019 3:42 PM |
TV is so 1956.
by Anonymous | reply 416 | April 21, 2019 3:43 PM |
R413 wins this thread.
by Anonymous | reply 417 | April 21, 2019 3:48 PM |
R398 The Professor did build several "escape Rafts" over their 3 year period.
In the first season, Gilligan/Skipper go out on 1 only for sharks to attack the raft & tear it to bits. Gilligan/Skipper are forced to swim to shore for their lives.
In a later season (the 1 with the "mind control rings" where the 7 are forced to do a bank heist run) the Professor & Gilligan build another raft but the currents are an issue. Between the sharks & the currents it's presumed that escape rafts are not a viable option without losing someone.
Under mind control in the above mentioned episode, the Skipper, then Ginger & finally by a non-mind controlled Gilligan (to the horror of Mr. Howell) all take turns destroying the raft.
by Anonymous | reply 418 | April 21, 2019 4:40 PM |
A lot of Fox sitcoms:
Babes
Top Of The Heap
by Anonymous | reply 419 | April 21, 2019 5:00 PM |
Can’t believe no one has mentioned this giant turd: “Animal Practice”, about an Aspie veterinarian who despises people.
It was promoted relentlessly by NBC, I think it even premiered after a Superbowl. Cancelled after 8 episodes, to be replaced by the equally horrible “Whitney”.
by Anonymous | reply 420 | April 21, 2019 5:19 PM |
R379, many of these shows were not syndicated so much as they were exhumed to fill the time slots of an ever growing number of television networks.
by Anonymous | reply 421 | April 21, 2019 6:08 PM |
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
by Anonymous | reply 422 | April 21, 2019 6:10 PM |
Gravity a short lived drama on Starz. It was about a support group for people who had attempted suicide. It started off ok, but it got worse over time.
by Anonymous | reply 423 | April 21, 2019 6:30 PM |
TV's Shortest-Lived Shows
THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE: TBL (The CW, 2009) Cancelled after 2 episodes. ...
CAVEMEN (ABC, 2007) Cancelled after 7 episodes. ...
COACH (NBC, 2015) Never aired. ...
DAY ONE (NBC, 2010) Never aired. ...
DOUBT (CBS, 2017) Cancelled after 2 episodes. ...
EMILY'S REASONS WHY NOT (ABC, 2006) ...
HANK (ABC, 2009) ...
HIEROGLYPH (Fox, 2014)
by Anonymous | reply 424 | April 21, 2019 7:35 PM |
IRONSIDE (NBC, 2013)
Canceled after 4 episodes
by Anonymous | reply 425 | April 21, 2019 7:58 PM |
[quote]The worst episode of Frasier was better than the best episode of Gilligan's Island.
Except the one with the radioactive vegetable seeds, because that shit was hilarious.
by Anonymous | reply 426 | April 21, 2019 8:05 PM |
I didn't know they did a colored version of Ironside.
by Anonymous | reply 428 | April 21, 2019 8:10 PM |
Yeah, well Frasier never gave us The Honeybees.
by Anonymous | reply 430 | April 21, 2019 8:32 PM |
That show about the autistic doctor. so fucking stupid.
by Anonymous | reply 431 | April 21, 2019 8:38 PM |
[quote]That show about the autistic doctor. so fucking delightful.
Fixed.
by Anonymous | reply 432 | April 21, 2019 8:44 PM |
Homeboys In Outer Space. You'd swear that it was a MadTV sketch, but it actually existed.
by Anonymous | reply 433 | April 21, 2019 8:45 PM |
Are you sure Homeboys in Outer Space isn't Canadian?
by Anonymous | reply 434 | April 21, 2019 8:47 PM |
The responses to threads like this almost invariably are not THE WORST shows. They are shows whose success or popularity puzzle or annoy the respondent. There’s a huge difference.
The actual worst shows aren’t “Mad About You” or “Friends” (why does everyone like this so much?).
The real worst shows are the ones so legitimately awful they induce suicidal tendencies, like Rob Schneider’s sitcom “Rob,” or the sitcom with the Geico cavemen. The tv versions of “Dirty Dancing” and “Uncle Buck” we’re also abominable. But maybe the worst show, ever, was the Fox answer to The Daily Show. The rightwing Daily Show was dreadful and painfully unfunny. I forget what it was called.
by Anonymous | reply 435 | April 21, 2019 8:55 PM |
[quote]The tv version of “Dirty Dancing” starred an extremely jerkoffable-to Patrick Cassidy.
by Anonymous | reply 437 | April 21, 2019 9:08 PM |
R391 sounds like an incel tv-critic wannabe.
by Anonymous | reply 438 | April 21, 2019 9:16 PM |
R391 is Shelley Hack on the set of Jack and Mike
by Anonymous | reply 439 | April 21, 2019 9:26 PM |
Then second season of the new version of Dragnet starring Ed O'Neill. Horrible.
The new version of Kojak which took all the charm and humour from the original and replaced it with...nothing.
The new version of The Bionic Woman. See Kojak, above.
by Anonymous | reply 440 | April 21, 2019 9:48 PM |
Warehouse 13
by Anonymous | reply 441 | April 21, 2019 10:12 PM |
Arli$$, Entourage and Girls were complete crap. How anyone got into these shows is beyond me.
by Anonymous | reply 442 | April 22, 2019 1:04 AM |
The TV version of Dirty Dancing had an impeccable cast. Megahot Patrick Cassidy, and Melora Hardin 15 years before The Office? Paul Feig before Freaks and Geeks? Mandy Ingber, the Rhoda of the '80s, as the best friend? AND McLean Stevenson as the dad? Whoever cast that show deserved all the Emmys.
It was in a shitty time period, IIRC, in an era in which sitcoms shot without a studio audience all died. But they kept trying...
by Anonymous | reply 444 | April 22, 2019 1:33 AM |
8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. Truly terrible, I think it killed John Ritter.
by Anonymous | reply 445 | April 22, 2019 1:37 AM |
R438 sounds like someone who works for Lori Loughlin.
by Anonymous | reply 446 | April 22, 2019 1:45 AM |
I would love to have heard the pitch for hogans heroes.
"No, It's a comedy, I swear"
by Anonymous | reply 447 | April 22, 2019 1:48 AM |
And then CBS cancelled a show about Nazis for a show about a homegrown American bigot.
by Anonymous | reply 448 | April 22, 2019 1:50 AM |
Hogan's Heroes was funny stuff. I still watch it. I used to watch it in repeats when I was a kid. I started watching it here an there as an adult. I was worried it would be one of those shows that would kill the memory of it if I watched it as an adult. It wasn't I still enjoy it.
Shows I loved as a kid but as an adult were shit: ALICE OMFG THE WORST
Jeffersons
Facts of Life a few others I'm to lazy to think about it right now.
by Anonymous | reply 449 | April 22, 2019 2:25 AM |
The Vampire Diarrhea
by Anonymous | reply 450 | April 22, 2019 2:29 AM |
My Big Fat Fabulous Life with Whitney or whatever her name is. Insufferable
by Anonymous | reply 451 | April 22, 2019 3:17 AM |
[quote]R232 God. When I was in Jr. High Greg Evigan was my ultimate fantasy.
To give him a little DL street cred, I will mention his longtime wife was a dancer in the original production of FOLLIES.
by Anonymous | reply 452 | April 22, 2019 3:27 AM |
R450 but then we never would've had the chance to experience Ian's [italic]eye opening[/italic] acting.
by Anonymous | reply 453 | April 22, 2019 3:52 AM |
[quote]Also, that one with Balka or whatever his name was.
I think you’re talking about “Perfect Strangers”
by Anonymous | reply 454 | April 22, 2019 4:04 AM |
The Paul Williams Show. Paul Williams played a Martian on a kids TV show. It lasted one episode to no one's surprise.
by Anonymous | reply 455 | April 22, 2019 7:23 AM |
Platypus Man
by Anonymous | reply 456 | April 22, 2019 8:33 AM |
How about “Duckman” with Jason Alexander?
by Anonymous | reply 457 | April 22, 2019 8:38 AM |
[quote]I think you’re talking about “Perfect Strangers”
The girlfriends on that show were ciphers. Why is it that female-centric shows from the 1970s and 1980s aged better than male-centric ones?
by Anonymous | reply 458 | April 22, 2019 11:10 AM |
[quote]The actual worst shows aren’t “Mad About You” or “Friends” (why does everyone like this so much?). The real worst shows are the ones so legitimately awful they induce suicidal tendencies
[italic]Friends[/italic] makes me want to kill TV. The other show I can take or leave.
by Anonymous | reply 459 | April 22, 2019 11:13 AM |
[quote]It was in a shitty time period, IIRC, in an era in which sitcoms shot without a studio audience all died. But they kept trying...
Until that stupid, pretentious, and pedo-y Fox show that stole [italic]Futurama[/italic]’s time slot got all the credit.
by Anonymous | reply 460 | April 22, 2019 11:19 AM |
r15, no that was genuis, just before it's time.
by Anonymous | reply 461 | April 22, 2019 11:36 AM |
[italic]Bob Patterson[/italic] starring Jason Alexander. And another JA shitbox was [italic]Hit the Road[/italic] which lasted 8 episodes.
by Anonymous | reply 462 | April 22, 2019 12:18 PM |
That transpedo-enabling Ryan Murphy autotune fest belongs on any serious list of the worst TV shows ever before [italic]The Jeffersons, Alice,[/italic] and especially [italic]The Facts Of Life[/italic]. R449, you can kiss my grits!
by Anonymous | reply 463 | April 22, 2019 12:19 PM |
The 1960s has more unfunny sitcoms than the entire 1970s and 1980s put together. Name one funny line from [italic]That Girl[/italic]. Lucy and MTM hold up like a dream, but that? I wanted to like it but it is sorely lacking in laughs for an alleged sitcom. That book by her majordomo was a scream, though.
by Anonymous | reply 464 | April 22, 2019 12:22 PM |
Jonah Hill was the genius behind the cartoon sitcom “Allen Gregory” which aired on FOX in 2011. Did anyone here watch the show?
by Anonymous | reply 465 | April 23, 2019 8:54 PM |
Full House. I fucking lived for Nick at Night's Full House hour when I was a kid, and got mad when my dad would call it out for being an absolute shit TV show. Then a few years ago I tried to watch an episode while flipping through channels and my god--it's worse than I could've ever imagined.
by Anonymous | reply 466 | April 23, 2019 9:57 PM |
Scamps, an unsold pilot starring Bob Denver and Joey Lawrence.
by Anonymous | reply 467 | April 23, 2019 10:15 PM |
Any family sitcom from the 70s/early 80s that featured a lovable moppet with a bowl cut was crap. Seriously: Name one that wasn't.
You're going to want to say Silver Spoons, but go back and rewatch it. Horrible.
by Anonymous | reply 468 | April 23, 2019 10:19 PM |
MINGLE MINGLE MINGLE
by Anonymous | reply 469 | April 23, 2019 11:10 PM |
The O'Reilly Factor.
Thread over!
by Anonymous | reply 470 | April 23, 2019 11:12 PM |
Three's company. The worst of the worst.
by Anonymous | reply 471 | April 23, 2019 11:13 PM |
From the folks who brought you Gilligan's Island. How could it miss?
by Anonymous | reply 472 | April 23, 2019 11:17 PM |
Another Bob Denver clunker, Dusty's Trail.
Basically Gilligan's Island with the same types of characters, but in the 1800s and they're heading out west on a wagon train.
Not even Forest Tucker's enormous cock could save that show.
by Anonymous | reply 473 | April 23, 2019 11:26 PM |
Well, as long as we're trashing Bob Denver, there's this (with Dorothy's ex-husband Stan)
by Anonymous | reply 474 | April 23, 2019 11:47 PM |
mash was trash
by Anonymous | reply 475 | April 24, 2019 6:53 AM |
The Partridge Family 2200 A.D. Hannah-Barbera made a whole season of this shit.
by Anonymous | reply 476 | April 24, 2019 6:57 AM |
R440 Is Robert Downey retired from playing Iron Man?
by Anonymous | reply 477 | April 24, 2019 10:09 AM |
OMG I so want a full episode of The Partridge Family 2200.
by Anonymous | reply 478 | April 24, 2019 11:20 PM |
Geez, some of you people are warped. [italic]Silver Spoons[/italic]? [italic]Frasier[/italic]? [italic]M*A*S*H[/italic]? Those are grudge votes if ever I saw any; the worst episodes of those shows were just forgettable, and not soul-crushingly bad like, say, the majority of [italic]Simpsons[/italic] episodes made this century. Taking a great show and letting it go to seed is more worth that kind of rancor.
TV history is littered with shows that were doomed from conception to execution. How long of a run do you think the producers of [italic]Heil Honey I'm Home![/italic] expected to get out of what was essentially the TV version of [italic]Springtime for Hitler[/italic]? And [italic]Cosby[/italic] may have been the big deal in its day, but try watching it now. The hypocrisy and sanctimoniousness was typical of the era, but such well-intentioned "life lessons" ring hollow coming from them. And what's worse is that TV critics cheered them on and enabled them while attacking other shows for things they let this one off the hook for. Meanwhile, pretty much all network TV shows serve the same master: the advertiser, who still has enough influence to try and squelch any negative stories or news exposure about them.
by Anonymous | reply 479 | April 25, 2019 1:35 PM |
r479, perhaps you shouldn't call others warped if you think Silver Spoons was better than The Simpsons.
by Anonymous | reply 480 | April 25, 2019 4:07 PM |
I meant the later years. 99% of [italic]The Simpsons[/italic] after the year 2000 is completely unwatchable. I tried, it just made me angry to see a show that used to be consistently funny week after week turn into a worthless piece of garbage that was actually worse than its own ripoffs the shows they were making fun of. And they wasted Jason Bateman on a two-line cameo to plug his show (the one that actually did have a sex scandal on it) after Gary Coleman got a whole third act to himself!
by Anonymous | reply 481 | April 25, 2019 4:33 PM |
[italic]Futurama[/italic] and [italic]King of the Hill[/italic] have aged better, too, if you want me to be perfectly honest.
by Anonymous | reply 482 | April 25, 2019 4:36 PM |
Now Apocalypse
by Anonymous | reply 483 | April 25, 2019 4:42 PM |
[italic]Ozzie's Girls,[/italic] the "hip and with-it" [italic]Ozzie and Harriet[/italic]
by Anonymous | reply 484 | April 25, 2019 4:45 PM |
The Monfaucastoas - or whatever. An Italian family with every dumb stereotype imaginable. Mama! Mama! The ravioli! DL fave Linda Dano was in it. Blink and you missed her.
by Anonymous | reply 486 | April 26, 2019 11:25 AM |
[quote] The Monfaucastoas - or whatever. An Italian family with every dumb stereotype imaginable. Mama! Mama! The ravioli! DL fave Linda Dano was in it. Blink and you missed her.
Was that better or worse than [italic]The Dumplings[/italic], a rare Norman Lear flop for NBC with James Coco and his equally fat wife?
by Anonymous | reply 487 | April 26, 2019 5:56 PM |
ARROW, ARROW, ARROW!
by Anonymous | reply 488 | April 26, 2019 9:22 PM |
The All in the Family sort of spinoff. They had a colored family living in the Bunker's old house.
by Anonymous | reply 489 | April 27, 2019 12:51 AM |
There's a long clip from The Montefuscos at 11:15 here. What a piece of shit.
Linda Dano was pretty cute before she had dyke hair, though.
by Anonymous | reply 490 | April 27, 2019 1:24 AM |
I’ll always love Threes Company — I knew I’d see a couple of those on here but screw that.
by Anonymous | reply 491 | April 29, 2019 12:16 AM |
I can't get through five minutes of "Grey's Anatomy" or any of those ABC chick schtick lineup. Just awful. Or "This is Us". Women have base tastes.
by Anonymous | reply 492 | April 29, 2019 12:22 AM |
The New Normal. I get a pit in my stomach whenever I see anything about that heap of garbage. Also, Dexter. Somewhat off-topic as that I acknowledge it was dearly loved, but I just thought it was so poorly written.
by Anonymous | reply 493 | April 29, 2019 12:31 AM |
R492, some would say gays have "base taste" so many middle aged gay guys listen to stuff like Jaty Perry
Straight guys have shit for taste, too
by Anonymous | reply 494 | April 29, 2019 1:15 AM |
Nah, gays are famous for our taste levels. Haven't you heard?
by Anonymous | reply 495 | April 29, 2019 1:21 AM |
Add the “Grey’s” spin-off “Station 19” to that list, R492
by Anonymous | reply 496 | April 29, 2019 3:12 AM |
American Housewife and Speechless. Just awful.
by Anonymous | reply 497 | April 29, 2019 5:55 AM |
Did any of you watch Love Sidney with Tony Randall as a perhaps gay (the love that dares not speak its name) artist ? I never watched it so I can't pronounce on its quality although according to IMDB it was nominated for a Golden Globe.
by Anonymous | reply 498 | April 29, 2019 1:39 PM |
Naked and Afraid
by Anonymous | reply 499 | April 29, 2019 1:47 PM |
Grey's Anatomy should have ended five years ago. I think Shonda Rhimes is overrated as writer and producer. I wouldn't be surprised if she flops at Netflix.
by Anonymous | reply 500 | April 29, 2019 2:48 PM |
Big Bang Theory
by Anonymous | reply 501 | April 29, 2019 3:52 PM |
“My mother the car” was a punchline on so many 70s sitcoms. I never got around to watching an episode to see if it was really that bad but it certainly had the reputation for being the worst thing put on tape.
by Anonymous | reply 502 | May 24, 2019 3:40 PM |
[Quote] The new version of The Bionic Woman.
Katee Sackhoff was the highlight of that show imo.
by Anonymous | reply 503 | May 24, 2019 4:30 PM |
Ritter's Cove, a truly terrible Canadian drama that ran for years in the 1970's. It was bad even by Canadian standards.
by Anonymous | reply 504 | May 24, 2019 7:03 PM |
[quote] “My mother the car” was a punchline on so many 70s sitcoms. I never got around to watching an episode to see if it was really that bad but it certainly had the reputation for being the worst thing put on tape.
James L. Brooks actually worked on that show before he went on to be responsible for [italic]The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi[/italic], and [italic]The Simpsons[/italic].
by Anonymous | reply 505 | May 24, 2019 7:55 PM |
Me & The Chimp. Poor Donald Hollinger.
by Anonymous | reply 507 | May 24, 2019 8:35 PM |
Models Inc. -or as it came to be known Models Stink.
by Anonymous | reply 508 | May 25, 2019 2:34 AM |
The Brady Bunch spin off with Ken Berry and I don't even remember who played the wife or the name fo the show for that matter.
by Anonymous | reply 509 | May 25, 2019 2:37 AM |
[quote]Me & The Chimp. Poor Donald Hollinger.
We feel his pain.
by Anonymous | reply 510 | May 25, 2019 2:41 AM |
R511 I don't know what they were thinking with that finale. What a waste.
by Anonymous | reply 512 | May 25, 2019 6:04 AM |
R509 it was Brooke Bundy who I always hated because she was replacement Diana Taylor on General Hospital and I ADORED Valerie Starrett.
by Anonymous | reply 513 | May 25, 2019 8:01 AM |
This is a shit-tastic trip down Memory Lane. Thanks for starting this thread, OP. Don’t forget the thrice-misbegotten Mrs. Columbo AKA Kate Columbo AKA Kate Loves a. Mystery.
by Anonymous | reply 514 | May 25, 2019 11:18 PM |
deal or no fucking deal
by Anonymous | reply 515 | May 26, 2019 3:41 AM |
Very little from the 2000s is going to age well. Cartoons from the 1990s aged better than a lot of the live-action shows (the opposite was the case with the 1980s).
by Anonymous | reply 516 | May 26, 2019 1:44 PM |
Why is it always sitcoms that get dumped on, never dramas? Lucy queens talk at about why [italic]Life with Lucy[/italic] failed, but was [italic]Automan[/italic] any better? Or Lucie Arnaz's own show between those two? The three of these so close together must have been what killed Desi Arnaz.
by Anonymous | reply 517 | May 26, 2019 2:18 PM |
Ally McBeal
by Anonymous | reply 518 | May 26, 2019 6:38 PM |
R127 alas, poor Brookie. It was too good to last. Oaks was indeed a shoddy milquetoast imitation.
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