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I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE!

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johnbasalla

What TV show(s) did you enjoy and watch regularly in the past, but can't stand anymore?

Mine is the agenda driven "All In The Family". First of all, I don't like the videotaped look. I know it's all 2-D, but it looks flat to me next to filmed series. Secondly, the series gets annoying pretty fast, what with all the arguments and yelling that goes on between the characters. Yes, some of the lines are funny, but it becomes unbearable to me these days.
 
Full House for me.

As a kid, I loved the show when it first aired, but can't stand it now as an adult. Hell, any TGIF show (maybe with the exception of Family Matters) is awful to watch now as far as I'm concerned.
 
I liked 'The Beverley Hillbillies' as a kid, but burned out on it very quickly when it aired on Nick at Nite.
'Diff'rent Strokes'..not so much 'couldn't stand' as 'found it uncomfortable to watch.'
 
"The Flintstones." I used to look forward to Friday nights
when I was a kid (I know, it was on Thursdays for about a
year and a half but my local ABC affiliate carried a movie at
that time), but I don't find one thing funny about it now.
 
"Little House on the Prairie"...my family always watched it when I was a kid and I usually found it tolerable, if not mildly entertaining. I can't hardly stand to think about the show now, let alone watch it.
 
johnbasalla said:
What TV show(s) did you enjoy and watch regularly in the past, but can't stand anymore?

Mine is the agenda driven "All In The Family". First of all, I don't like the videotaped look. I know it's all 2-D, but it looks flat to me next to filmed series. Secondly, the series gets annoying pretty fast, what with all the arguments and yelling that goes on between the characters. Yes, some of the lines are funny, but it becomes unbearable to me these days.
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It's not the show. The arguments people engaged in back in those days WERE actually that annoying.
As were the 70's come to think about it. It was a very self-righteous decade.
 
in answer to the question....

Welcome Back Kotter. I remember being a grade-school kid and thinking this was about
the funniest thing I'd ever seen. I watch it now and think it is stupid to the extreme side of awful.
 
Four words: "Saved by the Bell."

I have seen all three versions of this long-running Saturday morning staple, and in retrospect is less enjoyable than it was in the past simply because of the inane dialogue, poorly-written scripts and awful acting. I know they were trying to reach the tween crowd and make it family-friendly, but DANG! How many times can we bear Zack's unbelievable schemes and Screech's weirdness?
 
"Cannonball" a sydnicated show produced in Canada by ITC from the late 50s/early 60s had a catchy theme..about two over the road truckers driving an early 50s-era GMC cab-over...and catching bad guys along the way. As a little kid in the early-60s I thought it was cool.

By the time I hit my teens it was still on and thought it was the campiest show I have ever seen...but still kinda liked the theme song...the show was sort of a precursor to the 70s series "Movin' On."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4F4C6IzxEc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_(TV_series)
 
RALfan said:
Four words: "Saved by the Bell."

I have seen all three versions of this long-running Saturday morning staple, and in retrospect is less enjoyable than it was in the past simply because of the inane dialogue, poorly-written scripts and awful acting. I know they were trying to reach the tween crowd and make it family-friendly, but DANG! How many times can we bear Zack's unbelievable schemes and Screech's weirdness?
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I share your feelings...I recently saw a minutes of a rerun on MTV2, and changed the channel almost immediately. Much lke my feelings about ABC's TGIF lineup that I mentioned up above, the TNBC lineup would be unwatchable as well. The later shows like Saved by the Bell: The New Class (which I don't believe has been shown anywhere on TV since it was cancelled in 2000, and ran longer than the original), City Guys, and California Dreams became more overt with their E/I content to the point where it just became annoying.
 
All in the family was taped in front of a live audience. At the time that was pretty ground breaking. It was a stage play, video taped and I liked it. Usually I don't like the look of 70's video tape - Three's company, Welcome Back Kotter etc., but All In The family pulled it off. Most of the time producers used tape as a cost savings, instead of using film and it shows. All In The Family was the only show that worked for me and I only tolerated the WKRP In Cincinnati look on tape.

Welcome Back Kotter was a great show when it originally ran -very hip. I remember making a big effort to get home to watch it in the the pre VCR days. It did not age well at all. I have seen some episodes in the last ten years or so. It's just obnoxious and stupid.

The Flintstones jumped the shark for me when Pebbles & Bam Bam were introduced.

Speaking of All In The Family and jumping the shark.... I think AITF jumped when the Jeffersons moved on up. I really enjoyed the banter between Archie and Lionel. Never liked the show- The Jeffersons.
 
The opposite is true for me. I was born in 1952 and we have always been a tv family. In the fifties and sixties, my dad watched every cowboy show that was on and I hated them all! Hated hated hated them!!!!!! Now that I am a collector, I have them all on DVD and they bring back wonderful childhood memories for me.
 
I find it hard to watch a lot of old TV because my taste in TV has changed somewhat since the days when many of those shows were first-run. If I could watch those shows the way they were presented in those days, once a week, even if one chose to run the entire series that way rather than have them for 39 weeks then run reruns the rest of the year, it might not be so tiring. However, it's hard to flip on those oldies and be at the point where I can turn down the volume and recite the scripts. I'm not a couch potato. I try to live a life with a job and workouts and family and so forth. It just happens that one can turn on the TV and find shows that are running ad nauseam, on so many networks.
 
Who's the Boss? - Judith Light now seems even more annoying than Tony Danza. Katherine Helmond's sex puns were tiresome, and neither of the kids could act. Watched it regularly in prime time though.
 
71dude said:
Who's the Boss? - Judith Light now seems even more annoying than Tony Danza. Katherine Helmond's sex puns were tiresome, and neither of the kids could act. Watched it regularly in prime time though.
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Several years ago Judith Light kissed me. Then I woke up! :D
 
This might come as a surprise to some of you, but I believe that this has been mentioned on these boards before: Peanuts specials! Charlie Brown could never call "the little red-haired girl" by name? (Heather) Neither could anyone else in these specials? And she was almost NEVER shown? Otherwise, the specials just seemed dated, but I enjoyed them back in the day, and still watch them from time to time.

But the one that really grates on me now? Happy Days! The ultimate shark-jumper! Most of the time, I just want to deck Fonzie! And Richie seems nerdier now than he did back then!
 
therealjm12 said:
Speaking of All In The Family and jumping the shark.... I think AITF jumped when the Jeffersons moved on up. I really enjoyed the banter between Archie and Lionel. Never liked the show- The Jeffersons.
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Don't you mean between Archie and George? Not saying that Archie never bantered with George's son, but that might be like picking on a kid.
 
firepoint525 said:
This might come as a surprise to some of you, but I believe that this has been mentioned on these boards before: Peanuts specials! Charlie Brown could never call "the little red-haired girl" by name? (Heather) Neither could anyone else in these specials? And she was almost NEVER shown? Otherwise, the specials just seemed dated, but I enjoyed them back in the day, and still watch them from time to time.

But the one that really grates on me now? Happy Days! The ultimate shark-jumper! Most of the time, I just want to deck Fonzie! And Richie seems nerdier now than he did back then!
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"Happy Days" & "Laverne & Shirley" apparently didn't age well, despite their huge ratings 30 years ago. MeTV I think only shows 1 ep of each per week.

As to the little red haired girl.....I believe Heather was a name given in one of the later specials. (Someone correct me if I am wrong here.) I seem to recall, even in the comic strips, Charlie Brown anticipating the arrival of the "little red haired girl", never named, NOR shown, until a later special. The *original* specials, I felt, tried to stay 100% true to the strip. Schulz was consultant on these, wasn't he?*

Later on, (and I honestly don't recall,) there were specials that strayed from the format....didn't they meet grown-ups in a history special? And the former teacher (wah-wah-wah-WAHHH-wah) actually spoke in later ones, right? Schulz must have been embarrassed by those.

[*I still chuckle when Charlie Brown throws a pitch, a line drive goes right by him, and he loses his clothes from it!]

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