Really Stupid Films, Television Shows, and Series You Nevertheless Loved

^*John Canaan (not McCann - I have no idea where McCann came from . . .)

It's Pat

First Period

OP, what was stupid about Dracula?

"Animal House" is bad according to you? You are an imbecile and boring just from saying that.

Lost In Space

Land of the Giants

The Time Tunnel

The Flying Nun

The Man From Atlantis

Weekend at Bernie's - So much stupid humor, it was a blast.

Mama's Family

I hung in with Supernatural for years, but eventually it got too stupid for me. But I loved it in the beginning.

What/If on Netflix -- trashy but addictive. Unfortunately, I don't think it will get a second season.

Rocky Horror Picture Show

True Blood was good at first but sucked really bad after the first few seasons

Passions

Revenge

OP, if you're coming for A Summer Place, then that means you're coming for Connie Ford and that just will not stand in these parts.

GCB,Lonestar,Love Sydney .

GCB,Lonestar,Love Sydney .

Desperate Housewives! There was something about that show that really hooked me, but man oh man was it stupid. (Especially the second half of the 8-season series.)

Malibu's Most Wanted. Fucking hilarious movie about a w*gger who thinks he's Eminem and how much of a joke he is.

Pacific Blue Acapulco H.E.A.T. Silk Stalkings All those early USA shows.

You Can't Do That on Television

Full House

Power Rangers

Sabrina the Teenage Witch with MJH

Finding Bigfoot

Are we talking about "guilty pleasure"-type stuff?

If so, then a lot of old stuff from the'50s and '60s - "Father Knows Best," "That Girl," "Hazel."

Three's Company in reruns

Survivor

"The Blues Brothers" Bad movie but it cracks me up every time.

"Summer Lovers" Another bad film about a gorgeous threesome who spend a summer fucking in Greece.

R13, I got your back.

Anything with Troy Donahue, but I especially love Parish and Imitation of Life because Troy plays a bad boy who says a very bad word.

Fired Up is stupid as hell but i love it. Same with The Roommate.

Flash Gordon (1980). Ridiculous fun. Sexy cast. Music by QUEEN. Love it.

Men of a Certain Age - Andre Braugher, Ray Romano and Scott Bakula. This series barely lasted two seasons but it was great. They were all buddies going through their own angsts. Ray - divorce, Andre - father-in-law issues, Scott - actor facing aging. PLUS the show was funny!

Midnight Madness.

Susan Slade with Connie Stevens.

Any and all of the "Lucy" incarnations.

"The Facts Of Life."

"It's A Living."

"The Golden Girls."

("Screamer TV" shows, one and all.)

As for Troy Donahue -

Parish is a stupid film and only somewhat likable

Imitation of Life is an excellent film (and I love it)

A Summer Place is a good film, not a stupid film, and I really enjoy it.

The 1979 Dracula definitely has some problems but it also has a fantastic score by John Williams and I like Langella’s performance. He had great chemistry with Kate Nelligan.

Overboard. Completely stupid, but if it's on tv, I end up watching it. Of course Kurt Russell is nice to look at.

R4 - It was racist, misogynist, homophobic, unbelievable, and damned silly in parts.

It wasn't exactly Bridge on the River Kwai, Oliver Twist, Henry V, or Hitchcock . . .

That was the point of the thread: stuff that is hardly deep or meaningful but that one nevertheless loved.

Which is why "Animal House" heads my list. I think I've seen it 25 times - the scene at the vegetable counter with Otter and Mrs Dean Werner, and Matheson whistling "Peter and the Wolf" as he saunters into the girl's dormitory at a nearby university, are alone worth the price of admission.

It's junk - but a very high grade of it, which is why it head my list.

If you're not happy with that clarification, go fuck yourself and get off the thread, you humourless numpty.

If that is too much of a stre

^* damn, hit the post button too soon before erasing that last phrase . . .

R34 - OP here - I agree. It had some awful scenes it it, actually, they went over the line to camp, but Williams' score was perfect for it and Langella was 1) delicious, and 2) nailed just the right note.

R33 - Oh, come on. A Summer Place is a pot boiler. It might have a few more serious moments than Where the Boys Are, but let's face it - Mom telling Dee she was going to take off every scrap of clothes so the family doctor can give her an internal exam and make sure her hymen is intact??!!

[quote]It was racist, misogynist, homophobic, unbelievable, and damned silly in parts.

Doesn't that describe the 70s in a nutshell?

R22 - YES - this is a "guilty pleasures" thread - perhaps I should have included the phrase in the thread's title. You know, like, for people who buy and eat Ring Dings or Hostess Cupcakes when no one is watching.

Oh, and for the Troy Donahue fangurl upthread: a moment here to acknowledge "Rome Adventure".

No love here for "Charmed"?

Scary Movie 3

R32-Mr Mooney always came across as a bit of a QUEEN to me. By the mid sixties -with her raspy CIGARETTE voice and bouffant hair do Lucille Ball looked and sounded like a DRAG QUEEN.

A Summer Place IS a potboiler. As such it is good one! We are still watching it decades later!

And potboilers are not stupid movies they are a genre of movies. Sheesh!

The Nanny!

House of Women: Future soap matriarchs Constance Ford and Jeanne Cooper dukeing it out, and Connie has no dish towel!

The First Traveling Saleslady: Ginger & Carol, two future Dolly's, with Carol singing a song about corsets and getting to be kissed by Clint Eastwood.

Caddyshack: Stolen by the lower billed Lois Kibbee ("The Edge of Night") who gave a new meaning to "Don't touch it!"

The Fuller Brush Girl: A comedy classic, yes, but I love the parrots on the ship. ("Dem boids told me!")

R46 Bette "What a Dump" Davis or Fran "Even I know my voice is annoying" Drescher "Nanny"?

haha. both! R48

Talking about STUPID shows- Has anyone watched VALERIA on netflix. It is a stupid show but I watch only because some of the men are so good looking especially that married guy the woman with the brother in the wheelchair has the affair with.

"Here's Lucy"

Those "Three Stooges" feature films from the 1960s that were played on TV a lot in the 1970s and early 1980s.

"Ma and Pa Kettle" movies

I love The 3 Stooges, Little Rascals, and the old Charlie Chan movies. There is no redeeming social value in any of those titles and they are products of their time, but they were just so much fun and escapist, which is every now and again all you need to get through a rough day.

Hazel is another show that is just mindless escapist fun because it is so absurd.

The Porky's series with the teenagers played by actors pushing 30. Still - great fun, particularly the first one.

Dark Shadows (More badly executed than stupid, at least until the second or third trip Parallel Time)

The Flintstones (much unfunnier on viewing as an adult)

Melrose Place.

Porky's was a lower-rent Animal House.

R43 it should be a DL classic.

A second vote for "Dark Shadows" here . . .

I would say starship troopers. But In retrospect, it had a lot of good social commentary.

How is it that "Peyton Place" and "Return to Peyton Place" (with Mary Astor turning in a film-stealing supporting role as the town's moral guardian and Ted Carter's domineering mother) haven't been mentioned yet?

I can watch them both any time of day or night.

[quote] Really Stupid Films, Television Shows, and Series You Nevertheless Loved

This thread would really open itself up to more options if it also included Really Stupid Films, Television Shows, and Series You Nevertheless Watched for Male Eye Candy.

60 replies and no mention of The Brady Bunch? C'mon now, it wasn't exactly high art, bitches

R61, that's because we all learned a lesson at the end of every Brady Bunch. It was socially uplifting.

"Married With Children'

Some like "Here's Lucy" that I loved as a kid, I can still enjoy nostalgically. But others like "Hogan's Heroes" and "Gomer Pyle" I cannot stand as an adult.

R60 - Have at it with my blessing - OP

{Why do you think Cheyenne is up there on my first list? Clint Walker's dramatic power? The subtle philosophical subtext of the scripts?)

F Troop - headed Mr Hung Himself . . . Forrest Tucker.

The original Dynasty, or as they say in the UK, Dinis-tee.

Joe Dirt -- so stupid but I watch it every time it shows up on cable. And I HATE David Spade!

The splendid UK version of "Being Human" - it was idiotic, let us be honest, but sooooo much fun and we had ample eye candy in Aidan Turner.

There was wailing heard in flats throughout my building when George killed Mitchell! And it was really all over after that, although they tried hard to keep it going. But without Mitchell it became, er, bloodless.

Toby Whithouse, who created "Being Human", also created "The Game" with barely out of twinkdom but toothsome young Tom Hughes.

"Lara Croft: Tomb Raider"

Just adore it. I mean, Iain Glen (we've never talked about him, have we - anyone here seen his crime series "Jack Taylor" - longer in the tooth but still hot, and that smoky voice!) AND Daniel Craig . . .

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

The Incredible Mr. Limpet

Lidsville

Xanadu, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Can't Stop The Music, etc. Basically any late 70s/early 80s movie "musical".

The soap "Santa Barbara" with A. Martinez

I used to love the cheesy WB show The Lost World when I was young. I also watched WBs Jack of All Trades, Cleopatra 2525 , The Outer Limits, and Beyond Belief Fact or Fiction.

Logan’s Run

H.R. Pufnstuf!

A French series called Plan Coeur on Netflix. It started mildly stupid and then got ridiculously stupid but I stilled loved it. It was set in Paris and the leads were beautiful and charming.

I'm a sucker for all those 70s/80s comedies that didn't age well...Midnight Madness is a good one, as mentioned above. Walk Like A Man with Howie Mandel, all the National Lampoon films, Just One Of The Guys, Rock 'N Roll High School, Revenge of the Nerds, Meatballs, etc.

King of Queens

I saw Norbit while stoned with friends and we all enjoyed it.

The Golden Palace

R78 I think Just One Of The Guys has aged pretty well for an 80s movie.

Pirate Movie.

Phantasm and Phantasm II are extremely silly and inexplicably watchable. I've never seen the direct-to-video Phantasms.

Henry Danger to see Jace Norman

Mortal Instruments City of Bones

(A profoundly stupid but honourable entry to this list.)

Drop Dead Gorgeous

The original "Stargate" with Kurt Russell

LOVE Stargate. Great popcorn fun. And Kurt Russell so damn sexy.

R87 is gay gay GAY!

Dante’s Cove. I recall the first season being campy fun, but after that, it became a totally different show —unwatchable trash.

Another vote for "That Girl" and shocked that no one has mentioned The Donna Reed Show with the delectable young Paul Petersen . . .

And . . . "Spin and Marty"??? WHET Tim Considine?

The Rifleman with that unmistakably phallic opening title?

I watched a movie once called "Cabin Boy." It was unbearably stupid. It's with the neighbor guy/mayor from Schitt's Creek.

I would say about 70% of “gay” films are terrible. Obviously most are independent films, so they aren’t going to be big budget productions. The problem is they are often vapid vanity projects by some eldergay who hires all the no-talent pretty boys he wants to fuck as actors. I won’t name any because many here enjoy sitting through two hours of bad writing and bad acting with a gay twist to see 2 minutes of soft core porn.

Both of the Mortal Kombat movies. Robin Shou is hot and Linden was charming as Johnny Cage. Annihilation is a disaster since half the cast (and it's budget) is gone. But the actor doing a Shakespearean take on Shao Kahn is hilarious.

Street Fighter. Van Damme vs. Julia!

Stealing Harvard

R73 I loved much of "Santa Barbara" too, but even though she wasn't on all that much after the first year and a half, this is what I think of when I remember "SB".

I loved Midnight In The Garden, even though most people say it was the worst Eastwood film ever made.

I loved Midnight In The Garden, even though most people say it was the worst Eastwood film ever made.

Sugar&Spice

Blue Mountain State

Pandemonium. An 80s parody of slasher movies. It makes Airplane look like a Francois Truffaut film.

Love At First Bite

R104 - Another vote for "Love at First Bite" - that was a first-rate rom-com, even if it wasn't "My Favourite Wife" with Grant and Dunne, and had some lastingly funny lines in it.

Not Another Teen Movie

"Ozzie and Harriet"

OMFG!

We forgot GIDGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! was HORRIBLE but I LOVE IT. It's the gayest movie ever made... and it just doesn't care what you have to say about it.

The Pitch Perfect movies.

The Pitch Perfect movies.

Dude where's my car?

A couple of hot guys and a stoner dog.

Any Godzilla or King Kong movie.

The 1998 broadway taping of CATS. What a stupid musical, but the dancers are hot with amazing skills, and they seem to not give a F about the whole ridiculous mess.

Valentine(2001)

Three’s Company. Which is on right now.

This movie is so dumb but it makes me 😂

This movie is so ridiculously bad it’s good. JLo becomes a Krav Maga expert in a few weeks while wearing a terrible mullet wig.

OMG Halle girl, thank you for this fine piece of cinema!

Everything, with exception of “The Color Purple” that has starred or co-starred Whoopi Goldberg.

Follow that with:

Ellen DeGeneres in...everything.

Tango and Cash (anything with Kurt Russell, actually)

Canadian television that was actually so bad it was good, in a campy, low budget spot the boom shadows and tilted wigs way:

Adderley, about a spy, I think or a cop. Doesn't matter because Winston Rekert was in it and he was hot as hell. They knew it was ridiculous so they had fun with it.

Sledgehammer--same thing. David Rasche who was an under-rated comedian. I always wondered why he never did better. Also starring Anne-Marie Martin who I think was one of Michael Critchton's earlier wives.

I might be the only person who remembers them.

Mighty Mouse ("Here I come to save the dayyyyyyyy!")

Superman (the original TV programme, and dumber than shit)

Mister Ed (dumber than just about everything else mentioned)

"I dream of Jeannie"

The BEST, EVAH!

No love for "Bewitched"?

Land of The Giants and Police Woman are two of my more recent nominees in their truly inane yet perfectly watchable treks.

Kate and Allie. A really dull premise, cheesy child actors, and over the top acting by the two leads (looking at you, Jane Curtin!). But, due to a DL thread about the show, I am currently watching the entire series on YouTube!

"Dude, Where's My Car", & the Pam Amderson series "V.I.P.".

Armageddon

The Fantastic Four (the one with Chris Evans)

San Andreas

Joe Dirt. It is so freaking stupid but I love it especially Christopher Walken and Rosanna Arquette (who must have been so ashamed to be seen in this that she's 'uncredited')

R28, the Queen just said that Flash Gordon is one of her favorite movies, and she watches it every Christmas with her grandchildren.

Except Harry now, I guess, since Meghan has forbade him from seeing her.

Can't Stop The Music

Josie and the Pussycats (movie)

Mama's Family

R83 I knew a woman who thought "The Pirate Movie" was a masterpiece. She even bought the album, back in the day.

Laguna Hills

Playing House on USA

Revenge

Slaves of New York. Loved Bernadette and all the male eye candy.

Can't stop the Music, starring Bruce Jenner and the Village People, didn't even have a plot. R72 said it best.

R73, did you think R. Martinez pinged?

He seemed like a reluctant hot dude, to me. One of those super hot dudes who would never look towards me.

Land of the Lost.

Whatever happened to Wesley Eurich?

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Wesley and Richard Chamberlain f***ed many times in the late 1970s.

“Clifford” with Martin Short and Charles Grodin

Rough Night

The Brady Bunch, The Brady Girls Get Married, The Brady Brides, A Very Brady Christmas, The Bradys, etc.

Gilligan's Island

ALF. ALF. ALF!!!

Dude, Where's My Car?

All of the Rush Hour movies as well as Lethal Weapons.

Gidget (the original Sally Field Programme)

Yes, Wesley Eure is an eldergay!

[quote]OP, what was stupid about Dracula?

In one word: John Badham. He took a (with the exception of Trevor Eve) magnificent cast and an interesting premise and transmogrified it into shlocky crap. It has some good moments, but tonally it's a mess.

Thread closed.

Dick & Dom is loopy insanity. Loved it at 8, and still think it’s hilarious at 28.

^^and over time it got more dumb and more nuts.

^^^nothing is going to challenge this show in the stupid madness stakes

Dick and Dom? WTF? Let me guess, that's yet another crappy show from the UK?

Scary Movie franchise

Scary Movie franchise

The BILL & TED movies, especially BOGUS JOURNEY which is somehow simultaneously the smartest and the dumbest entry.

Films

I Love You, Alice B Toklas

Weekend at Bernies, pts 1 and 2

National Lampoons Vacation films

TV

The Young Ones

Central Park West

Dallas 2012

How on earth has no one mentioned Borat?!

Some more favourites of mine..

Benny Hill

The Aristocats

Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place

Revenge of the Nerds

American Pie

I second R35's love for Overboard, but it's an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, so it's not all THAT stupid.

OP, I've said this before on the DL, but I thought identical cousins was a witless concept till I saw the young King George V with Tsar Nicholas II. Before George's eyes started to bulge later in life you really couldn't be confident which one you were looking at. I'm surprised no Hollywood producer has thought up a sitcom in which Nicholas is so enraged by George's refusal to allow his family asylum in England that he escapes Russia by posing as George and manages to usurp the British throne (and Queen Mary). George has to try to reclaim it by proving he is who he says he is, all the while dodging Bolshevik emissaries who keep trying to fetch him "back" to Ekaterinberg.

You're welcome, Ryan Murphy.

It’s About Time - 2 astronauts cross the time barrier & wind up in the Stone Age. In the second season the Stone Age characters came to modern earth.

Years later I found out what a lowdown character Joe E Ross was in real life.

R161 reminded me of ENCINO MAN.

So Bad, It’s Awesome.

Big Trouble in Little China. A good looking Kurt Russell AND beautiful Kim Cattrall.

When I have insomnia I sometimes like to watch 'The Time Tunnel' at 3AM. It's jarring because the producers would cut in stock footage from 20th Century Pictures epics, so you see a shot of Tony and Doug standing on a cheap set, and then they would cut to thousand of ancient soldiers marching past. Also, Robert Colbert's suit was too tight in all the places. But then there was the reassuring presence of Whit Bissell! He showed up in every damned TV show and B-movie made between 1950 and 1970.

"A Summer Place" is in my top five all-time favorites, OP. Such juicy, campy 1959 technicolor melodrama. And that gorgeous theme, the most beautiful movie theme evah!

The Friday the 13th sequels, Caveman (the movie), Grease 2

R164, insomnia? Why not get a DVR and record the show every week? Geez.

Poltergeist III