das Monkey

• Quoth Numanoid •<HR SIZE=1>I take it you still watch the show, or you wouldn't know that it's on auto-pilot. And by still watching it, you are in fact the one to blame for its continued success due to your complacency with familiarity and mediocrity, no? Thank you for beautifully demonstrating your own example. Or do you just blame Nielsen families? <HR SIZE=1>

I watch it for research value (often not of my own choice) and am frequently annoyed that I do ... and I'm not a Nielsen viewer. Had I any impact on the ratings, you could be damn sure I'd use it. You're smart enough to know the difference and are just being argumentative.

No, I don't blame Nielsen families completely. I do, however, blame Nielsen Media Research and the networks who are fostering a statistically inaccurate and outdated system knowing full well that it tips the scale in the favor of the Big 4.

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Josh Z

Although it may be politically incorrect to say so right now, 8 Simple Rules is just a dreadful, dreadful show and I am very disappointed to hear that ABC intends to continue it even without John Ritter. If anything, his dropping dead was the perfect excuse to yank this crap off the air.

Sorry if that's insensitive.

Venusian

can I say that I hated the Pitts and That '80s Show?

the shows sucked, but more importantly, they took up space on Fox's schedule that could have been used by better shows

Groucho

Okay, I'm going to backtrack: I hated That 80's Show. I kept watching it hoping it would stop sucking, since it was from the same people who brought us That 70's Show (which I enjoy).

Roto

There ya go! That 80's Show is probably the worst show I ever saw many times. I gave it 2nd, 3rd, 4th, I don't know how many chances, then I'd go back to it a few weeks later to see if it got any better. Wow, that was an awful show! Far worse than Will and Grace or Frasier ever have been. I hate FOX executives with a passion that cannot be measured. They have had some of the best shows on TV and they just throw them away to be replaced with the most God awful crap you could imagine.

Most sitcoms run out of steam after a while. I used to watch Will and Grace, Frasier and Everybody Loves Raymond. They all started out as good shows, but after so many years it always gets too predictable. I watched Raymond last night for the first time in a while and it was pretty dull.

Morf

What's Happening? Everytime I see that show, I want to poke my eyes out with forks.

das Monkey

• Quoth Josh Z •<HR SIZE=1>Although it may be politically incorrect to say so right now, 8 Simple Rules is just a dreadful, dreadful show and I am very disappointed to hear that ABC intends to continue it even without John Ritter. If anything, his dropping dead was the perfect excuse to yank this crap off the air.

Sorry if that's insensitive. <HR SIZE=1>

Not insensitve (honesty rules), but I'm surprised you feel that way. It was one of my favorite sitcoms last season and a real bright spot on ABC. It was the kind of show I could enjoy with my family, and yet, it didn't rely on cheesy Full House speeches.

Anyway, just for clarity, the question was for the show we "hate" the most, right? Not the show that sucks the most. Were it the latter, I could come up with a nice long list of sitcoms that are just stupid to begin with.

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Jadzia

I hate Everybody Loves Raymond and I have never even seen it. I just hate that guy who seems to be on every show promoting that show and I find him so annoying. And for that show to win against Curb Your Enthusiam-- ugh!

I am also amazed that Frasier is still on the air. He was my least favorite character on Cheers, so the fact that he even got a spin-off was a head-scratcher to me.

grunter

"Designing Women" -- there, that's my final answer.

What do I win?

Rogue588

Quote:

Originally posted by das Monkey
Anyway, just for clarity, the question was for the show we "hate" the most, right? Not the show that sucks the most.

Again, I say...I don't see a "What sitcom do you loathe/hate/detest the most...?" question anywhere in there..

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Venusian

well if we all say which one we hate, someone can tally it up and see which one the forum hates

das Monkey

• Quoth Venusian •<HR SIZE=1>well if we all say which one we hate, someone can tally it up and see which one the forum hates <HR SIZE=1>

Agreed. I believe that's the implication made in the first post. He's hypothesized that it's Will & Grace, and through our individual posts, he can determine whether that's an accurate assessment or not. It would be really silly for each of us to post our perspective of what the whole forum thinks, when each of us could simply state what we each think as an individual.

Don't you have something better to be doing, Rogue?

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Michael Corvin

Will and Grace by a longshot. Wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.

Decker

Sounds like the set-up for a typical W & G joke.

das Monkey

• Quoth Decker •<HR SIZE=1>Sounds like the set-up for a typical W & G joke. <HR SIZE=1>

10 foot pole?!? *Puts hands on hips* DETAILS???

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