Which TV shows overstayed their welcome?

All CBS and NBC procedurals.

Maude and The Jeffersons

Desperate Housewives

Weeds

Nip-Tuck

Grey's Anatomy

The Simpsons

Family Guy

NCIS

American Idol

Modern Family

MTMS spin offs Rhoda and Phyllis

Are You Being Served

The last seasons and the revamped sequel were dreadfull

Entourage

Dexter

Dallas & Dynasty.

Wasn't Phyllis just one season?

My vote is for Shameless.

Walking Dead and Shameless (US).

All these Cop/Firefighter/Doctor shows. People do other jobs you know. Those aren’t the only interesting jobs.

Walking dead

Sex and the City.

Now in its new incarnation, Sex Without Samantha is Shitty.

R11 Phyllis ran from 1975-77 and wore out its welcome after 2 episodes

Though I've never seen a single episode, I would imagine Grey's Anatomy

The Vicki Lawrence Show

The Lucy Show

Here's Lucy

The Judy Garland show

Will & Grace. Even though there was still some witty dialogue, the cast seemed tired (especially Debra Messing when she entered her frumpy, bitter phase).

My Mother The Car

The Young And The Restless - still overstaying its welcome.

Watch What Happens Live

Anything titled or involved with any Kardashian.

Celebrity Apprentice

Faye Runaway’s sitcom

Real Housewives of (--fill in the blank--)

Glee

Dharma and Greg

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The last three Procter & Gamble soaps.

Another World should have called it off when Vicky was being walled up in the Cory cellar.

As the World Turns should have turned off after Lisa sued John, sparing us the torture that was Carly Tenney (to say nothing of the horrible gay storyline).

Guiding Light should never have gone to Peapack-Gladstone.

I hate to say it, but Married...With Children. When they brought on Seven the show really went downhill fast.

TV has overstayed its welcome.

The Simpsons is the poster child of this. It’s now been bad for 2/3 of its 30+ year run.

Another vote for The Walking Dead and all of the rest of its spin-offs. It was a good show the first few seasons, but AMC was determined to wring every last nickel out of it.

What's TV?

Teen Wolf. The eye candy couldn't make up for the loss of focus or drive.

All of the CSIs and NCIS'.

Turn-On!

Agree with R35, The Simpsons wins gold. Part of me is still strangely glad it’s there but I wouldn’t watch it and haven’t for 2 decades. If they actually let the characters age and the storylines change I might be interested, but I recently watched a couple more recent episodes and it is a pale shadow of its old self.

I also think Frasier was around a couple seasons too long, although the final season did perk up a bit. Things really went south when Niles and Daphne got together and became a dismal sitcom couple (with Daphne’s basic personality changing).

Roseanne's 8th and 9th seasons were pretty lame.

South Park

Agreed R42. In particular, everything after they won the lottery was a shitfest and completely unwatchable.

CNN and MSNBC in general. All the "shows" which is exactly what they are. There is very little factual journalistic reporting news. It's 90+% op-ed under the guise of "analysis".

Law & Order SVU

Buffy

The X-Files

Arrow

Call Me Kat

R11 What the writers did to Shameless (US) was a tragedy, 11 seasons and it was barely watchable after season 5.

Moonlighting.

Seinfeld

Smallville

The Walking Dead

The Cosby Show

Family Ties

7th Heaven

Law & Order

The Oprah Winfrey Show

Home Improvement

Roseanne

The Beverly Hillbillies

Bonanza

Rescue 911

Martin

MASH

Real World

Price is Right

Laverne and Shirley

That 70s Show - when the main focus leaves it's time to pack it in...

Archie Bunders Place

After MASH

I thought the lottery season of Roseanne was extremely watchable as a complete train wreck. The show wore out its welcome in season 8, and then decided to shred the welcome mat and eat it in season 9. The terrorists-on-a-train episode should be listed as one of the worst episodes of anything, ever, but it's still fascinating to watch in a car-crash sort of way.

It didn't go out with a whimper.

The Nanny, they should have finished with the wedding.

The Apprentice/Presidency....

Interesting how r45 doesn't include FoxNews, which has no "journalistic reporting news." in his post. It's 100% op-ed under the guise of "analysis."

LOL R58 that's because I don't have it saved in my favorites so it doesn't even exist to me. FoxNews is a shithole.

R55 I love the lottery season. I agree with you, it was better than season 8 because they embraced the trainwreck. Season 8 had a few classics, like the Black & White episode, but it also had the stupid Gilligan’s Island horseshit.

R55 yes the Roseambo episode in season 9 is awful awful awful.

ER

30 Rock

Designing Women

True Blood

For Canadian TV viewers, the last two seasons of King of Kensington. Fiona Reid left the show and King started working at a youth center.

I would imagine Happy Days which ran from 1974-1984!!! I tuned out after 2 seasons.

Criminal Minds - I'm amazed it's being revived, as it was quite anemic by the end.

Prison Break

House - probably the worst offender

Big Bang Theory.

Seinfeld.

Two and a Half Men.

Cops!

Big Bang and 2.5 Men overstayed their welcome 5 minutes into the first episode of season 1. Horrible, unwatchable.

American Idol. Just kill it already.

The View. Did anyone post that already? If not you bitches are slipping.

R45 gets his news from OANN

^ yay I got to be R69!!

ER lasted way too long

Lost

Falcon Crest and Laverne and Shirley.

Days of Our Lives needs to hang it up, too.

No R70....AP and Reuters mostly. Your trolling is pathetic BTW.

AP got busted for sneering at 3.9% unemployment under Biden, while pretending it was awesome under Trump

Charlie's Angels after Season One.

The Facts of Life, four women in their twenties sharing a single bedroom and living with a 'housemother' was really pushing it.

Parks and Rec: loved this show but should have ended after Leslie won the mayoral election. After that everything felt like stretch.

Thanks for sharing R76.

Any TV show with over 7 or 8 seasons is usually pushing its luck.

South Park has hit the wall. But it’s still a money maker for the network.

The Good Wife once Alicia decided to run for States Attorney. Her storyline was completely separate from what was happening at the law firm, not to mention all the drama with Archie P.

Boy Meets World

Beverly Hills 90210

All in the Family (after Edith's death), Archie's Place, Gloria, Maude, Good Times, many others.......

Designing Women

Grey's Anatomy. END OF THREAD

ALL OF THEM

"The Affair". First two seasons were great and then, once the original showrunner(s) left, it quickly lost its plot.

"Dexter" (that one was discussed ad nauseam)

"Billions". Still running but ran out of steam around S3 or S4, though I have to say that with Corey Stall becoming one of the two main characters this season, I'm warming up to it again.

"Homeland". It kind of dragged on after the first three seasons.

I'm not even going to touch network shows since, generally, hardly any of them are prestige TV even when they are brand new.

And Just Like That

Saturday Night Live has been overstaying its welcome forever.

R90 This...

Lost should have been a few seasons but they had to milk that cash cow

The only right answer is Grey's Anatomy.

The Voice

America's Next Top Model

Today

The Hogan Family

Award shows

Glee

Simpsons own this thread

The Absolutely Fabulous movie was ridiculous

Modern Family. The kids were close to middle age by the end of the series.

R101, they couldn't have sent them to Cal U?

The View

one-note, repetitive, ill-informed. narrow-minded harpies

The View is not a talk show it's a squawk show!

The Simpsons and South Park, two shows I have love for, should have stopped long ago.

Six Feet Under did it right with what was arguably the best finale in T.V. history. So well done.

Chips

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

It not only wore out its welcome it wore out Louise Lasser

Arrested Development- that Netflix reboot was heinous.

Happy Days was good for two seasons but ran for almost ten years.

American Horror Story definitely has now.

Nip/Tuck

Agree that NCIS is geriatric tv, but Gary Cole has just taken over as the lead and has breathe new life into the show. He is hot, slim, well-dressed, lots of screen charisma and is a fun character to watch. Checks all my hot daddy boxes. With Cole, you know the acting is above decent.

I’m 50 and Simpsons started when I was just finishing high school.

Three's Company

The Roper's

Reality Shows!

The Helen Lawson Show.

It was tolerable the first season, but then when they re-tooled it into "Helen Lawson in 2200 A.D.", it was just too much.

American Horror Story

Once Jessica Lange left, the show should've gone with her.

True Blood

Dexter

The Blacklist

Black-ish

The Facts of Life gals were LOSERS. Who graduates high school and then hangs around Poughkeepsie with each other and an old lady instead of moving on to college or a career?

Dr. Who should have stopped a few doctors ago.

I accept the Roseanne lottery season just for the appearance from a and Patsy, but it was fucking weird. I mean Jim Varney played a European prince. Jim "Ernest" fucking Varney was supposed to be a European prince, really?

The last two seasons of the Carol Burnett Show.

R121 Sorry that should be a and Patsy, I'm not sure wtf happened.

a and Patsy

Edina and Patsy, for some reason it won't let me use the character's birth name which is the one I prefer.

All these shows stayed on long after they should have been cancelled. Some of them are still on. The show is shit, but it's still on:

Grey's Anatomy

The Simpsons

Family Guy

Scrubs

ER

The Walking Dead

The Big Bang Theory

Two and A Half Men

Scandal

Roseanne

How I Met Your Mother

Friends

True Blood

Happy Days

MASH

"Survivor." And the damned thing is still on.

[quote] I hate to say it, but Married...With Children. When they brought on Seven the show really went downhill fast.

IMO, Married with Children was stale from the beginning.

"Leave It to Beaver"

"The Match Game"

Different Strokes

R104 I think it's usually The View is The Spew with The Talk being The Squawk.

R132, I prefer "The Phew".

The Real Housewives of . . .

Bewitched had definitely run its course after eight seasons (they were repeating story lines left and right) but I was watching an episode today from the final season and thinking that, had it run just one more year, it would've been interesting to see Tabitha and Adam grow more into their powers (which, of course, would've caused all kinds of headaches for Samantha and "what's-his-name").

[quote] "The last seasons and the revamped sequel were dreadfull"

Oh, dear.

I DO agree that "Grace & Favor" wasn't nearly as good, and that the Australian version of "Are You Being Served?" was beyond pointless (I'm glad it didn't last), R8.

Seinfeld "jumped the shark" the season George's parents took over. But the next season it recovered, and then, in the finale, it so enthusiastically jumped the shark it had sort of a retroactive effect

At the other end of the spectrum, "Roseanne"s last season of its original run seemed to be all about being crappy. It was like an old person who had once been vital turning into someone you'd just want them to turn the ventilator off on.

That sort of diverted from the fact that the show started sucking a couple years earlier, specifically in the "Drunk Bev" episode. I'm thinking that, oddly enough, it was after Tom Arnold left the building.

Wheel of Fortune. Pat Sajak and Vanna White are STILL hosting. I remember watching them in 1990. They have been hosting that daily show for at least 32 years.

The "Murphy Brown" reboot was a huge mistake.

"The Beverly Hillbillies"

R127 I agree, it should’ve snuffed its own torch about 5 years ago!

"The Tonight Show."

Moonlighting. The last two seasons should be erased from existence.

Big Brother

R120, The Facts of Life was set in Peekskill, not Poughkeepsie. You dumb ass.

R136 Check out the US pilot for Beane's of Boston. It makes the Australian version look like Upstairs, Downstairs or something.

When "The Simpsons" started, I was younger than Bart. Now I'm older than Homer's various ages. The show is still making money and has a consistent audience. But at this point, euthanasia wouldn't be the worst idea. The new episodes are so lazy and aimless. Let it go out with whatever shred of dignity it still has.

60 Minutes

It's always The Simpsons bashing when it comes to these types of threads. They're still funny, sometimes edgy, and often on point. Perfect example, the new episode with Smithers falling for a fashion executive. LOL moments throughout. To each his own.

Letterman. He could've called it in the last 15 years. Maybe he did.

Laverne and Shirley. the last few years of it were dreadful.

Captain Kangaroo

The late-night sign-off video "High Flight."

One of the reasons there is so much hate for The Simpsons is that it has been a liberal leaning show, despite being the only show on television where the family regularly goes to church. As we know, Datalounge is infected with right wing assholes. No wonder they go after outspoken liberals like Lady Gaga, George Clooney, Alec Baldwin, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum. Not that they don't deserve criticism, but the seething vitriol implies conservative fuckery. Funny, their favorite target is "liberal Hollywood" when their heroes are shitty actor Ronald Reagan and reality show whore fucker/kid fucker/rapist Donald Trump, who have long overstayed their welcome.

Little House on the Prairie and the Waltons.

"The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet".

It was on for so long, David and Ricky went from little boys to married men.

[quote]"The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"

And their "adventures" usually consisted of things like Ozzie stopping by the Malt Shop and Harriet going shopping at "the emporium"

Supernatural, American Horror Story and The Walking Dead

"All In The Family." It should have ended when Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers left the show. But it kept limping along, adding a Jewish girl child (a jump the shark moment if there ever was one, adding a child character to a show) that somehow gets dumped into the laps of Archie and Edith Bunker. Then Jean Stapleton left the show but the network wanted to keep producing it so they killed off Edith and revamped the show into "Archie Bunker's Place." The show was shit long before it finally ended.

I loved Kate and Allie but once Allie got married and they moved to the high rise, it was done.

Hotel. Should have ended when Anne Baxter died. Who inherited the St. Gregory? Peter?

My thing with the Simpsons is I'm genuinely surprised they have enough of an audience still to justify all those salaries

“Dynasty”.

R156 R157 True but the quality never seemed to dip, the later shows where they are married are just as good as the ones when they are kids. Neither, were masterpieces but the entire run was entertaining. And Ricky Nelson was one of the most beautiful men to ever appear on tv or behind a microphone.

R154 I think it is the opposite. While The Simpsons has always been left leaning, the left has changed. The Simpsons is still a fairly old school liberal show in a world of wokeism. This makes left leaning audiences now view the Simpsons as archaic. While many on the right who used to hate them now find them to be one of the more wholesome shows on tv.

Dallas for sure. The last few seasons where JR married that Arkansas hillbilly and he had the Sasha Mitchell lovechild were awful. But it had been limping along for several years prior to that.

R165 I actually find the hillbilly tramp to be the best thing about those final seasons.

When Jerry Mathers' voice changed, "LITB" jumped the shark.

R167, Jerry Mathers aging from the cutest TV kid ever to gawky adolescent was not pleasant, but the show was lucky, because as Mather's charms faded, the show wisely changed it's focus to hunky Wally and his very funny friends (Eddie, Lumpy). Not like the awful Dennis the Menace, which had nowhere to turn.

Definitely agree about Bewitched. Wonderful during the first five years, the show became unwatchable in its last few years. The horrible recasts (Dick Sargent, Sandra Gould), the replacement of beloved characters like Aunt Clara with annoying hams like Maurice, recycled storylines, no chemistry between the two leads.....so many reasons.

And another agreement about Are You Being Served. Textbook examples of how not to replace key cast members (Mr. Lucas, Mr. Grainger), why you should never overdo the screen time of cast members that DO work (Mr. Humphries), and why you shouldn't make the plots totally ridiculous.

Didn't watch a lot of NCIS after Cote de Pablo and Michael Weatherly left the show. I just didn't care about the replacements. I still watched a while for Mark Harmon, but the show got boring to me. Then I just stopped watching it altogether

Leave It To Beaver was at least the first sitcom that gave us an actual ending. It ended as Beaver was going to high school and Wally to college, I honestly think that was the natural place to end it.

Another vote for How I Met Your Mother. I stopped watching long before the final show.

M*A*S*H - the worst show ever

Three's Company. It went downhill after Chrissy and the Ropers left.

As much as I love it, I think “The Handmaids Tale” needs to hang it up because now it basically defies logic. I mean, how is Scientology bitch still alive In Gilead? Other people look at someone funny and get executed- she starts a coup and is fine.

R174 I gave up in season 3. What a fucking mess.

R174 I had to read the book for a class in college, I never understood how they were going to take that story and make it into a continuing series that made any sense. A Mini-series, yes, but not a long running show.

Mork and Mindy

The X-Files. Should have ended much sooner than it did. What was the big deal about David Duchovny anyway? He was considered this hot sex symbol, but he has quite an ugly face. And is supposedly a full of himself asshole, too.

The Jeffersons.

[quote]Another vote for How I Met Your Mother. I stopped watching long before the final show.

That worked out very well for you. The final show was horrible.

"What's My Line?" wasn't as good after Dorothy Kilgallen died.

"Meet the Press" should have died with Tim Russert, Chuck Todd is abysmal.

Friends...god did it ever.

Ally McBeal should have skipped season 5.

Melrose Place died without Kimberly and Sydney.

But the champion is Grey's Anatomy. Sweet Jesus!

[quote] "What's My Line?" wasn't as good after Dorothy Kilgallen died.

JFC, I was MURDERED. Don't say "died".

Breaking Bad.

I got so tired of it. It was obvious he had to die so I skipped the last season.

Designing Women - turned into an unfunny preach-fest.

SVU - Where do you go after every single woman in NYC has been raped?

Modern Family

"Rhoda", after the divorce from Joe.

The show then evolved into "Brenda".

“The Office.” I love the show, but they should have ended it when Steve Carrell left.

MASH really went downhill after Radar left. Radar really seemed to be the heart of the show. After he was gone MASH, for the most part, sucked.

Life with Lucy

The Orifice

Emily's Reasons Why Not and The Paul Reiser Show

"The Carol Burnett Show"

Desperate Housewives

Everybody Loves Raymond

According To Jim

"The View"

Died of murder, R184.

MASH after Col. Blake was killed.

Seinfeld after Larry David left.

R198 , isn't it amazing how recasting can kill a show? MASH was a mixed bag. Harry Morgan wasn't a bad replacement. David Ogden Steirs wasn't as funny as Larry Linville, but I think they wanted to give Hawkeye a more formidable adversary. Mike Farrell was the worst. Never made me laugh once during his whole run on the show.

Come on R199 he added chest hair. With nice fur, who needs to laugh?

Jersey Shore after 10 minutes

R109- It premiered in January 1974 and went off the air in the July 1984. So it was on the air for about 10 1/2 years.