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TV shows you HATED even though just about everyone else you knew loved

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Back in 1994 I was working at a CHR station in Virginia. At the time "Friends" was big on TV. Even though I hated the show, my PD actually forced me to go on the air to say how much I "loved" Friends since at the time the theme song from that show was in heavy rotation at my station. As my PD said at the time "...Friends speaks for our generation !!". Oh whatever !!!!!

Never really got into Will & Grace and Jerry Springer either even though back then ( the 90s ) it seemed just about everyone I knew LOVED those shows.

My wife had an interesting experience with The Cosby Show. Back in 1985 ( when Cosby was the BIG thing ), she was in her high school history class when her teacher brought up an episode of The Cosby Show in class. He asked her in front of her classmates had she watched last nights Cosby Show. When she said that not only did she NOT see Cosby but that she hated the show, her teacher actually accused of being "racist" and went on about how everyone "must love" The Cosby Show.

Are there any TV shows that you could not stand even though just about everyone else you knew..loved?
 
Any show starring David Hasselhoff

Dallas, Dynasty, Desparate Housewives, etc., etc., etc.

Sponge Bob Squarepants

Dancing With The Stars

Deal Or No Deal (no skill, no knowledge necessary)

The View, but I sometimes like Rachel Raye (go figure)

I hated Two And A Half Men when it was originally on, but now watch reruns most days (wassup with 'dat??)
 
I hated "Friends", too.

And I take pride in never having seen "American Idol".
 
I despise American Idol, have never watched a single second of it and am VERY proud of that! Despite that, I actually like Kelly Clarkson. As for Friends, I used to watch it from season 2 and up because I liked Jennifer Aniston...but HATED the theme song.
 
cowboybud said:
I hated "Friends", too.

And I take pride in never having seen "American Idol".
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Dittos.

I never really watched Seinfeld much when it aired in prime, and I still don't watch it regularly. I can however now see how funny it is

I never watched Everybody Loves Raymond until it aired in reruns. I did watch the very last ep.
 
In the mid 70s - Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley and Welcome Back, Kotter. None of the three ever appealed to me. I don't remember that a lot of my friends liked them (quite the opposite), but the woman I was dating at the time absolutely loved them. All other life activities stopped on that night (Tuesday, was it?) for those three shows. We weren't together long...broke up for other reasons. I missed her the other six days of the week, but found some solace knowing I didn't have to watch those three awful (IMO) shows anymore.
 
...having grown up in Wisconsin, I detested (and still do) Happy Days. Any show that portrayed 1950s Wisconsin while avoiding any references whatsoever to the disease of McCarthyism -- in the very location from whence Joe McCarthy originated -- is always deserving of a special brand of loathing. If the show was set in, say, Pittsburgh, Seattle or Denver, it may have had appeal to me. But Garry Marshall, whose other shows I rather liked (and The Odd Couple remans a favourite) chose a 1950s Milwaukee without the terrible presence of that monster of American fascism, and therefore sealed its doom in my house...
 
Ultimajock said:
...having grown up in Wisconsin, I detested (and still do) Happy Days. Any show that portrayed 1950s Wisconsin while avoiding any references whatsoever to the disease of McCarthyism -- in the very location from whence Joe McCarthy originated -- is always deserving of a special brand of loathing. If the show was set in, say, Pittsburgh, Seattle or Denver, it may have had appeal to me. But Garry Marshall, whose other shows I rather liked (and The Odd Couple remans a favourite) chose a 1950s Milwaukee without the terrible presence of that monster of American fascism, and therefore sealed its doom in my house...
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There was at least one episode where they referred to McCarthy in the past tense. The would-be despot died in 1957, and it's possible that most of the Happy Days episodes took place after that.

You wouldn't want to associate McCarthy with something Happy, would you?

FYI: For a great primer on McCarthyism, and how awful it was, look for the 1977 TV movie, Tail Gunner Joe, starring Peter Boyle as quite possibly the most gruesome monster that he ever played, Joe McCarthy; John Forsythe as an old time Washington political reporter; and Heather Menzies as a student studying that era. The fact that it was all real will scare the living bejeebers out of you.
 
Don62 said:
I never really watched Seinfeld much ...

I never watched Everybody Loves Raymond ...
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Amen!

Two of the least funny shows in the history of television.

"Fanily Guy" once summed up "Raymond" perfectly:

Ray: "It's been nine seasons, Deb. I just don't care anymore. How about not being a bitch all the time?"
 
Seinfeld: BORING
Friends: see above.

I still don't understand the draw of American Idol. Its karaoke at best. And having that goofball Simon picking apart peoples performances is just plain nasty. Enough of a reason to NOT watch. If you like great "put downs" go watch some of the Norman Lear shows from the '70s. Sharp writing and nasty too. Simon is just nasty, and at about a high school level or lower.
 
This thread has been therapy! I've too have never seen a Seinfeld, Friends, American Idol or Dancing w/the Stars.

Lo, these many years, I thought I was alone in this situation, but, Wah-La! It has been made clear that I am far from being alone. I won't go so far as to proclaim the above shows "dreck", but I will say, what a waste of the airtime. NONE of these will be remembered on the par of "I Love Lucy" or "Burns and Allen."

That's my opinion, and I'm stickin' to it.
 
I used to watch Seinfeld and The Simpsons every week. Now, I think to myself, "at least it was only 30 minutes every week" and it was ten years back.

I have heard people raving about Two and a Half Men and Family Guy A LOT, and I guess I just do not get either one. Two and a Half Men is about two men too high of a guess if you're totaling them up, and Family Guy just seems like a disjointed bunch of nonsequiturs and yelling fits, like The Simpsons eventually turned in to, not really a "show" with any continuity except its nonsensicalness.
 
Cheers (never got into it)
Seinfeld (not funny)
Friends (not funny)
Just Shoot Me (David Spade is not funny and I don't have any idea why he is popular)
The non-John Ritter 8 Simple Rules (the show died with him and David Spade is no John Ritter)
Rules Of Engagement (see Just Shoot Me)
Any show that has featured the Seinfeld cast in solo roles
Jerry Springer
Maury Povich
Steve Wilkos (although he is doing what Jerry did before bringing the trashy people in, only a matter of time before he does bring them in though)
Dr. Phil
Oprah Winfrey
American Idol
Dancing With The Stars
Anything reality that MTV/CMT/VH1 puts out (My Redneck Wedding, Celebrity Wrestling, etc.)
 
American Idol (any show that gets THAT much hype CAN'T live up to all the hype! ::))
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Survivor (INTENSE hatred for this one, and again all the hype! My local CBS station used to report (during their newscast!) who got voted off the show! If I had wanted to know that, I would have simply watched the show myself already! :mad:)
 
ANY "reality" show. They are NOT reality! If it was real, they would show it unedited, you'd have people belching, farting, scratching their crotch, snoring in bed, etc. They would show more then the "beautiful" people, and the few "ugly" ones they did show were NOT dysnfunctional, screaming bible thumping, low IQ mouth breathers.
 
The first show I thought of is "The Closer" the critical favorite on TNT starring Kyra Sedgewick. My girl friend loves that show, as do several of her girlfriends do, but everytime I hear Kyra Sedgewick speak with that FAKE SOUTHERN ACCENT, I just cringe. I grew up in the South and I can tell when someone on TV or in a moie uses a FAKE SOUTHERN ACCENT. When a role calls for a character to be from the South, do use a favor and use a Real Southern in that role.

M*A*S*H is another show I never cared for that everyone else just seemed to love. After Henry Blake and Trapper John left the series, I didn't care for it nearly as much as I did the first 3 seasons it was on. The Korean Conflict only lasted for 3 years yet M*A*S*H was on the air for almost 12 seasons. Using math, that meant that Col. Blake and Trapper John was only in Korea for 9 months, with each season being the equivilant of 3 months.
 
jwk1979 said:
The first show I thought of is "The Closer" the critical favorite on TNT starring Kyra Sedgewick. My girl friend loves that show, as do several of her girlfriends do, but everytime I hear Kyra Sedgewick speak with that FAKE SOUTHERN ACCENT, I just cringe. I grew up in the South and I can tell when someone on TV or in a moie uses a FAKE SOUTHERN ACCENT. When a role calls for a character to be from the South, do use a favor and use a Real Southern in that role.

M*A*S*H is another show I never cared for that everyone else just seemed to love. After Henry Blake and Trapper John left the series, I didn't care for it nearly as much as I did the first 3 seasons it was on. The Korean Conflict only lasted for 3 years yet M*A*S*H was on the air for almost 12 seasons. Using math, that meant that Col. Blake and Trapper John was only in Korea for 9 months, with each season being the equivilant of 3 months.
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Agreed about The Closer. Aside from her accent, the plots seem predictable and pedestrian, and the show obviously suffers from a small budget. For well written shows it doesn't matter - I've heard The Shield is shot on a small budget, and Monk looks rather cheap too - but the shows are well written and acted, so it doesn't matter.

As for MASH being on for 12 seasons...if you figure 26 individual shows a year consisting of anywhere from a day to a week, the math works fine. Problem is - the actors aged 12 years and looked it. I guess war really is hell.
 
American Idol-My wife eats that show up though I can't stand it, though some good talent (Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson) came through that show..

Family Guy-The show could be much funnier if it didnt have to be crude

Friends-No appeal to me

Seinfeld-Never liked this show, either
 
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