Worst sitcoms of all time
 

Obviously all lists are subjective. Most of these are one and dones. Surprise to see 2 Broke Girls since it has so many seasons. Brings up a good point about a race to see how many references to body parts and sex can be jammed into an episode. Never liked it myself but it must have had some eyeballs to keep getting new seasons.

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I'd love to check this out, but I'm not clicking through 33 slides. I hate when sites do that.

But I'll add my pick, the post-apocalyptic sitcoms Woops!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woops!

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Found a full list:
http://y98.cbslocal.com/2017/07/20/t...s-of-all-time/

TheWrap.com has a list of “The 31 Worst Sitcoms of All Time”. They are, in no particular order, so see if you agree…

1. “Cavemen”, ABC, 2007. It only lasted one season.
2. “George”, ABC, 1993-1994. It only lasted one season and starred George Foreman.
3. “Harry & the Hendersons”, syndication, 1991 to 1993. It lasted three seasons.
4. “Homeboys in Outer Space”, UPN, 1996 to 1997. It only lasted one season.
5. “Ferris Bueller”, NBC, 1990 to 1991. It only lasted one season.
6. The “Friends” spin-off “Joey”, NBC, 2004 to 2006. It lasted two seasons.
7. “Yes, Dear”, CBS, 2000 to 2006. It lasted six seasons.
8. “Dads”, Fox, 2013 to 2014. It only lasted one season.
9. “AfterMASH”, CBS, 1983 to 1985. It lasted two seasons.
10. “Rob!”, CBS, 2012. It only lasted one season and starred Rob Schneider.
11. “The Paul Reiser Show”, NBC, 2011. It only lasted one season.
12. “The Ropers”, ABC, 1979 to 1980. It lasted two seasons.
13. The American version of “Coupling”, NBC, 2003. It only lasted one season.
14. “2 Broke Girls”, CBS, 2011 to 2017. It lasted six seasons.
15. “The Great Indoors”, CBS, 2016 to 2017. It only lasted one season.
16. “My Mother the Car”, NBC, 1965 to 1966. It only lasted one season.
17. “[Stuff] My Dad Says”, CBS, 2010 to 2011. It only lasted one season.
18. “Emily’s Reasons Why Not”, ABC, 2006. It only lasted one EPISODE and starred Heather Graham.
19. “Work It”, ABC, 2012. It only lasted two EPISODES. It was about two guys who disguised themselves as women because of the bad economy, sort of like “Bosom Buddies”.
20. “Imaginary Mary”, ABC, 2017. It only lasted one season.
21. “1600 Penn”, NBC, 2012 to 2013. It only lasted one season.
22. “Joanie Loves Chachi”, ABC, 1982 to 1983. It lasted two seasons.
23. “The Millers”, CBS, 2013 to 2015. It lasted two seasons.
24. “Are You There, Chelsea?”, NBC, 2012. It only lasted one season.
25. “My Big Fat Greek Life”, CBS, 2003. It only lasted one season.
26. “The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer”, UPN, 1998. It only lasted four episodes.
27. “The Hard Times of RJ Berger”, MTV, 2010 to 2011. It lasted two seasons.
28. “Angel from Hell”, CBS, 2016. It only lasted one season.
29. “Bad Judge”, NBC, 2014 to 2015. It only lasted one season.
30. “Mulaney”, Fox, 204 to 2015. It only lasted one season.
31. “Mama’s Family”, NBC, 1983 to 1990. It lasted six seasons.

The site PrettyFamous did a list of the worst 52 earlier this year, based on IMDB scores:
http://napavalleyregister.com/entert...982d9c88c.html

Wikipedia has a list of horrible sitcoms:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...tive_reception

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Hey, I liked Whoops! It was really dark and really weird.

Really though, how could any list of "worst sitcoms ever" not have "Heil Honey I'm Home!"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heil_Honey_I%27m_Home!

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I always wondered how the hell Mama's Family stayed on the air for so long and it seems that after being on NBC for 2 seasons, it became a first run syndicated show for the next 4 seasons. This show was horrible to say the least.

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“Emily’s Reasons Why Not” is still made fun of around the Sony Pictures Television studios and the ABC network office. It's a running joke with production staff. How it's not #1 is beyond me.

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The Paul Reiser show had lots of potential, it just didn't have time to grow.

I've stumbled onto 2 Broke Girls a couple times and it's fucking dreadful. It's amazing it lasted six seasons.

Also, I figured this list would have more NBC "Must See TV" filler shows from the 90's - 00's.

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I'm waiting for all those people who hate Big Bang Theory to chime in...

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Somewhere in my house I have a trade paperback from the days when The Medved Brothers were writing their "50 Worst Films" series, and it covered the 50 worst TV shows of all time (I don't recall if it was all genres or just sitcoms). Obviously, the first list (I didn't read the others) misses a lot of bad Television from The Sixties and Seventies. The worst offenders can be found in direct-to-syndication sitcoms like "Small Wonder".

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Anyone who grew up in the 80's will remember that 'Small Wonder' was one of the worst sitcoms of all-time.

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The list would be more interesting if it were the worst sitcoms that lasted more than one season. If it lasted one season or less everyone knew it sucked. If it lasted longer it means people watched it enough to let it hang around.

And "Joey" wasn't that bad. It was mediocre and forgettable but if it didn't serve as a Friends follow up, it wouldn't have gotten railed as badly as it did.

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I haven't seen a lot of those on the list, but I can remember some of those Direct-to-Syndication ones like the Yakov Smirnoff vehicle "What A Country."

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Thinking back, there was "She's The Sheriff" with Suzanne Sommers, which ran for a while, and then there was "10 Items or Less", a grocery store comedy. There was one with Donna Pescow as the mother of an alien daughter.
Right now there are two Byron Allen-produced sitcoms that run at Saturday Night /Sunday morning at 3am (that's confidence!) called "First Family" and (I think) "Star of the Family".

To be honest, most of these aren't in the "worst" category, just stunningly mediocre. To be a worst, you really need a bad idea poorly executed.

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Secret Diary of Desmond Pfieffer was amazingly bad.

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Then you get into more subjective territory. It's easier to quantify suckage this way. :lol:

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If the amount of people who complained about "The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfieffer" actually ever watched "The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfieffer", it never would have gone off the air ;)

"2 Broke Girls" was a total abomination before the Lord, mostly because it lasted so damn long. There are a ton of direct-to-syndication 80s sitcoms (that always seemed to be on Saturday afternoons) which were infinitely worse. Someone mentioned "Small Wonder". That was a shitcock. What was that one with the teenage girl whose dad was an alien but she had to manage the pitfalls of suburban high school life? Ahh I forget...

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Since I also mentioned that one a few messages back, I decided to look it up:
It was "Out Of This World", which had 95 episodes, and starred Donna Pescow and Maureen Flannigan. Apparently it also starred Doug McClure and Burt Reynolds (who's listed for all 95 episodes, which seems like an error). I could have sworn Pescow was dead, but she's still out there working. Flannigan made an impression on some with "Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde" where she tried to break out of the Child/Teen Star thing with some racier material. She's not credited past 2011.

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I remember thinking the girls on that show were hot.

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Burt Reynolds played the father, who you only heard (never seen)... and he was probably in all the episodes.

It was a pretty terrible show.

I agree with Joey getting raked only because it was a Friends spinoff. It was bad, but not nearly as bad as people make it out to be.

About half on the list I've actually seen.

2 Broke Girls is pretty damn terrible. I actually watched it while on the exercise bike - I didn't want to waste a good show on the bike. It also helped me ride with more energy as the terrible comedy would get me somewhat angry and cause me to ride harder. An actual funny show would've slowed me down.

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Yes Dear is kind of a stretch to be on that list. It wasn't that bad of a show. "Worst shows" don't last for six seasons.

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I remember when I worked for the studios I was talking to the head painter of a new comedy series over at Paramount "The Tortellis" spin-off from Cheers.

He said it was so bad he put in for a new assignment before any filming even began.

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That's a fun show.

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What was the one where Tony Danza voiced a baby?

I guess you can't do a worst tv shows of all time anymore since more than half would be some form of reality show.

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I love Mama's Family! I need to find that in syndication.

I hated that NBC show, "Whitney"

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After watching 5 minutes of it before leaving the room, my vote goes to Downward Dog. Beyond horrible.

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I also expected to see Boston Common on here which got a ton of shit when it was on, but I enjoyed.

Unless it is titled "2 Broke Girls."

I never watched Yes, Dear, but just having Jean Louisa Kelly in the cast elevates it from being the worst of anything.

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I liked both of these shows as a kid. Mama's Family always made me depressed and was only slightly worse than the intro to M.A.S.H.

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I have a feeling Young Sheldon is going to be on a future worst list.

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Whitney was also pretty good.

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Funny you mentioned Boston Common, since the guy who played the husband on Yes Dear was on both shows. You must be a fan of his. :)

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I didn't realize Small Wonder was direct to syndication. Adds an extra layer to how shitty it was, from what I've seen.

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Hard to believe the original is that old. Given the subject matter, I knew that would never work on network TV at the time.

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What I remember about 10 Items or Less is that within a week of the show's premiere, an unrelated film with the same title opened.

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Yes Dear does not belong on that list.

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Wikipedia has a list of shows that only lasted one episode. One of them is Co-ed Fever, starring Heather Thomas. It sounds dreadful.

After reading the article, I want to see Turn-On, the show that was canceled part way through the broadcast of the first episode.

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Curious how someone can come up their own list like this unless they are a paid critic and it is part of their job. Who takes the time to watch scores of terrible shows to the point that they feel qualified to rank them relative to each other? If a show is so bad it can make such a list, who sticks around watching it for more than a handful of minutes? It's like spending your free time ranking turds by their smell.

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"My Mother the Car" always gets chosen for lists like this, and I don't think it deserves to be there. Once you accept the premise, it's actually pretty funny. Jerry Van Dyke did another sitcom in this era, "Accidental Family" that's much worse.

Shows that would go on my worst
list would include:
"Mr Terrific"
"It's About Time"
"Gilligan's Island"

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i worked as a studio page during college and was at the taping of the first episode. Not a funny show. :)

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Is there any wonder why I watch Two broke Girls? For dem Tittays and dat ass.