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06 November 2007

To bookend WolfDaddy's earlier TV post... let's compile a list of the all-time worst TV shows evah! I'll start:
Small Wonder (The horror...)
Oh, man, I could go on all day. Okay, here's one: Homeboys in Outer Space.
posted by box 06 November | 14:48
One word.

Manimal.
posted by iconomy 06 November | 14:49
The Brady Bunch Variety Hour
posted by box 06 November | 14:51
I used "wasteland" in my earlier post for a reason, you know........

Out Of This World
posted by WolfDaddy 06 November | 14:52
Top of the Heap
posted by box 06 November | 14:55
That one with the zany characters who do everything to the tune of a laugh track.
posted by cmonkey 06 November | 15:01
Steve Bochco's Cop Rock. I laughed just thinking about it.
posted by iconomy 06 November | 15:02
The Munsters Today (someone actually put several episodes of this up on YouTube) *shudders*
posted by Atom Eyes 06 November | 15:08
If Munsters Today is on the list, we should probably add The New Monkees and The Bradys.
posted by box 06 November | 15:12
Supertrain!
posted by octothorpe 06 November | 15:29
The Brady Bunch Variety Hour

Bruce Vilanch actually moved from Chicago to Los Angeles to write for The Brady Bunch Variety Hour -- his first television gig.
posted by ericb 06 November | 15:40
There was a show called Highway Men that I loved as a kid but only aired say two episodes. I'm pretty sure it was pitched as "Knight Rider meets semis."

also, Viper, which was probably the first obvious product placement (the hero drove a dodge viper).
posted by drezdn 06 November | 15:43
Lottery was a pretty terrible show. The premise was quite simple, you had two people going around delivering checks to the lottery winners, who not surprisingly, were having a rough time making it in life.

Battlestar Galactica 1980 was among the most disappointing series ever. The "Space Ball" episode springs to mind, and I really, really wish it wouldn't.
posted by King of Prontopia 06 November | 16:34
Everybody Loves Raymond
King Of Queens
Two and a Half Men
Just Shoot Me

posted by SassHat 06 November | 17:54
According To Jim
Drawn Together
Just the 10 of Us

Mind. Of. Mencia.

...and I happen to love Small Wonder. Watch an episode - it's like the actors can barely keep a straight face and they know it's a joke. Almost surreal.
posted by item 06 November | 18:00
While not completely related to the subject at hand -- whadafuxup with the severe sophomore slump of shows like Heroes and Friday Night Lights and, maybe, Ugly Betty? I really enjoyed the first season of all three shows but the second years for all three have, at best, inspired "meh" in me.

Though if they keep dressing Taylor Kitsch in as little clothing as possible I'll put up with just about anything Friday Night Lights will fling at me.
posted by WolfDaddy 06 November | 18:03
I agree with everything but King of Queens. I never watched it regularly, but was always amused when I did. (And I love Patton Oswalt.)

And I hate Mind of Mencia so vigorously that I will often wait until 5 after the hour to turn on The Daily Show just to avoid accidentally seeing it.

On preview: Heroes is awful. Just awful this season.
posted by jrossi4r 06 November | 18:05
Here are mine:

Two and A Half Men
Heroes
Bones
The Amazing Race
Grey's Anatomy
TMZ
anything on Vh1
anything on MTV
anything on Spike Television
the televised analysis of any NFL football game
(shall I go on?)

The Good News? The Kitchen Disasters! show, and last week's SNL with Bryan Williams. Dude is funny.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 06 November | 18:31
Ok, I have to take offence at the inclusion of The Amazing Race in that list. Everything else on all the lists, I agree with and could add all but about 5 shows that ever appear on TV without a qualm. Naming bad TV shows is a bit like using dynamite to catch fish in a barrel, though.
posted by dg 06 November | 19:04
AfterMASH
Joanie Loves Chachi
Mr. T and Tina
The Ropers
Mayberry R.F.D.
posted by kirkaracha 06 November | 19:24
I agree that Small Wonder was the worst of the worst!

Other major offenders:

Buck Rogers
Full House
Perfect Strangers
posted by halonine 07 November | 14:51
Pretty much the entire genre of 'American reality tv' sucks. Trust American tv execs to run a concept towards the gutter as quickly as possible.

Having said that, I don't know if anything on the planet could ever be as obnoxious as Big Brother (UK). It's just fucking awful... painful... like being jabbed in the frontal lobes with a rusty needle full of thorazine.

*drool*

"Look: they're SLEEPING. Wait a minute! One of them just got up to GO TO THE BATHROOM. Press RECORD."
posted by chuckdarwin 08 November | 04:50
Needs better headline. || Ask MeCha, a mystery to ponder for the ages

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