What would be your pick for the Worst TV show ever?
03-22-04 | 11:27 AM
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I don't think anyone could successfully argue that "Turn On" wasn't the worst show ever put on the air.
03-22-04 | 11:46 AM
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The Powers of Matthew Star
Sad confession time however. I was about 10 when that show was on the air, and I liked it as a kid. I knew it has horrid (even at that young of an age, I was getting smart about TV), but I couldn't help my self. It was just about the only SF/F around at the time.
Rember the show "Baby Talk", the Look Whose Talking ripoff on TGIF in the early '90s? Remember the retooled version, with the brunette and Scott Baio? I saw one or two episodes of this show and said to myself, "This isn't very good..."
When most of you have these thoughts about a TV show after watching the first few episodes, what do you do? You stop watching and go on to something else.
And what did I do...I kept watching the show! Even though I knew it wasn't good!
Now I admit when I was a kid there were shows I watched a lot, and years later I cannot think of many redeeming qualities ("Whose the Boss", "Empty Nest"). I also admit I have a long history of watching and liking bad movies and TV shows, only hearing they are bad years after the fact ("Full House").
While watching "Full House", I thought the show was funny and was entertained by the stories and characters. I became knowledgable that it was a hated show only because of various TV sites on the Internet.
While watching "Baby Talk v2", I knew there weren't many (or any) redeeming qualities, but I never said to myself "This is a waste of time, there are better things for me to do."
I am very sorry and I will never do that again...
(On the "Baby Talk" section of the jumptheshark.com, one person posted that he watched the retooled version, even though he knew it was crap. That was me.)
03-22-04 | 08:16 PM
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Originally posted by Matt Millheiser
Nearly Departed -- the short-lived 1989 sitcom starring Eric Idle and an on-screen wife as a pair of ghosts haunting the fat guy from "Not Necessarily The News" and his family. So painfully awful, so filthy, so embarassingly abysmal, I felt sorry for everyone involved in the show and their ancestors.
Anyone else remember this wet, sloppy fart of an excuse for programming?
Nearly Departed -- the short-lived 1989 sitcom starring Eric Idle and an on-screen wife as a pair of ghosts haunting the fat guy from "Not Necessarily The News" and his family. So painfully awful, so filthy, so embarassingly abysmal, I felt sorry for everyone involved in the show and their ancestors.
Anyone else remember this wet, sloppy fart of an excuse for programming?
03-23-04 | 04:44 PM
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The Nanny?
03-24-04 | 01:24 PM
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This thread needs to be archived. Not for insight or humor, mind you, but to hold peeple accountable in the future for some of the statements made in here.
Btw, hands down, the worst show in the history of television is clearly C.S.I.
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Btw, hands down, the worst show in the history of television is clearly C.S.I.
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03-24-04 | 03:10 PM
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From: Lexington, Ky USA
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventues (the live action version on Fox in '92, not the animated version that aired in '90). The two idiots that played B&T were horrid. They didn't get the characters right at all. Very cringeworthy.
03-25-04 | 12:05 AM
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The Cosby Show and Family Matters are classic shows you should be shot for those statements.
Somebody will probably shoot me for this but Seinfield it's so overrated and not funny.
Cosby Show on the other hand is still funny to this day i catch reruns on Nick @ Nite all the time.
Somebody will probably shoot me for this but Seinfield it's so overrated and not funny.
Cosby Show on the other hand is still funny to this day i catch reruns on Nick @ Nite all the time.
03-25-04 | 01:34 AM
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Diff'rent Strokes
The Facts of Life
NBC was also my least favorite network for the longest time at a time when they had their big shows like the A-Team and Knight Rider, because none of it appealed to me.
One show that should never have been made was The Bradys, that unneeded updated version of the classic series. Why did they have to have that story where Bobby has an auto-racing accident so he'd be paralyzed?
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NBC was also my least favorite network for the longest time at a time when they had their big shows like the A-Team and Knight Rider, because none of it appealed to me.
One show that should never have been made was The Bradys, that unneeded updated version of the classic series. Why did they have to have that story where Bobby has an auto-racing accident so he'd be paralyzed?
03-25-04 | 02:01 AM
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From: Seattle
Originally posted by Meatpants
There was a show (NBC IIRC) a couple years ago about a virtuous southern girl who gets a job as the secretary for a stereotypical mysogynist. I wish I could remember the name, but THAT was the worst show I had ever seen, ill-conceived and -executed at every turn.
There was a show (NBC IIRC) a couple years ago about a virtuous southern girl who gets a job as the secretary for a stereotypical mysogynist. I wish I could remember the name, but THAT was the worst show I had ever seen, ill-conceived and -executed at every turn.
Good lord was that bad.
I second Union Square and I throw in The Golden Palace.
The Golden Girls manage a Hotel? WTF?!!?!?!?!?!
