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TV shows you HATED even though just about everyone else you knew loved
- Thread starter mleach
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"The Brady Bunch" and "The Partridge Family."
I made it a point to watch "Sanford And Son"
at 8:00 on Friday nights, and I don't remember
what I watched at 8:30, but it wasn't on ABC.
I liked "Room 222," loved "The Odd Couple," and
could tolerate "Love, American Style."
I also despise "Wheel Of Fortune." Always have.
I made it a point to watch "Sanford And Son"
at 8:00 on Friday nights, and I don't remember
what I watched at 8:30, but it wasn't on ABC.
I liked "Room 222," loved "The Odd Couple," and
could tolerate "Love, American Style."
I also despise "Wheel Of Fortune." Always have.
I second "The Brady Bunch"...just never got that show's appeal. Later in the 70's, I seemed to be the only person who didn't think "One Day At A Time" was the most awesome show in the history of the universe.
What about shows the critics tell us will enrich our minds and generally make the world a better place? I keep seeing all these fawning reviews of "Mad Men", but I can't make myself watch more than a couple seconds of the show. It just looks depressing.
What about shows the critics tell us will enrich our minds and generally make the world a better place? I keep seeing all these fawning reviews of "Mad Men", but I can't make myself watch more than a couple seconds of the show. It just looks depressing.
Let me add "any reality show" to my list too.
Every reality show I've known someone who gets sucked in, but the number is thankfully dwindling each "season."
The "everyman" appeal of reality stuff has lost its novelty.
Every reality show I've known someone who gets sucked in, but the number is thankfully dwindling each "season."
The "everyman" appeal of reality stuff has lost its novelty.
This is a good topic...
I never could stand Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, nor Seinfeld. I've one episode each of Seinfeld and Friends...ironically enough, their final episodes. I've watched bits of two Raymond episodes, and was instantly bored. I used to feel the same way of That '70s Show and The King of Queens, but when both shows went into reruns (around 2004 or so), I've got hooked on both shows.
Americal Idol...usually I only watched the city-to-city auditions (it's a little sadistic seeing some of these people make complete asses of themselves), but this past seasons, I completely stopped watching altogether. One of the reasons why I love watching The Soup on E!, is that they completely trash all these reality and talk shows, making some of these people look like bigger idiots than they are.
I haven't watched an entire Simpsons episode in years (more like five or six, but seen the theaterical movie on HBO), and everytime I see a recent show, I felt like I've seen the same storylines from years past. An old girlfirend of mine got me hooked on Family Guy back around '05 (never saw an episode before then), but the last few episodes, it's just like Seth MacFarlane and company have just been "mailing it in"...some of the recent episodes have been kinda pointless, maybe it's just me.
I never could stand Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, nor Seinfeld. I've one episode each of Seinfeld and Friends...ironically enough, their final episodes. I've watched bits of two Raymond episodes, and was instantly bored. I used to feel the same way of That '70s Show and The King of Queens, but when both shows went into reruns (around 2004 or so), I've got hooked on both shows.
Americal Idol...usually I only watched the city-to-city auditions (it's a little sadistic seeing some of these people make complete asses of themselves), but this past seasons, I completely stopped watching altogether. One of the reasons why I love watching The Soup on E!, is that they completely trash all these reality and talk shows, making some of these people look like bigger idiots than they are.
I haven't watched an entire Simpsons episode in years (more like five or six, but seen the theaterical movie on HBO), and everytime I see a recent show, I felt like I've seen the same storylines from years past. An old girlfirend of mine got me hooked on Family Guy back around '05 (never saw an episode before then), but the last few episodes, it's just like Seth MacFarlane and company have just been "mailing it in"...some of the recent episodes have been kinda pointless, maybe it's just me.
Add me to the list of American Idol haters. Anything that reeks of a reality series is quickly switched off.
Never understood the appeal of Grey's Anatomy
Can't stand the Law & Order block of series.
I can watch CSI:Vegas. I've loved Gary Sinese for years but CSI:NY is so depressing. CSI:Miami is just way overacted.
I depise anything that comes on E!.
Never understood the appeal of Grey's Anatomy
Can't stand the Law & Order block of series.
I can watch CSI:Vegas. I've loved Gary Sinese for years but CSI:NY is so depressing. CSI:Miami is just way overacted.
I depise anything that comes on E!.
BRNout said:
The funny thing about both American Idol and Dancing with the Stars...I know many who really really hate both shows YET for some weird reason they watch them anyway as if that is the ONLY thing on TV and/or they think there is this this "law" where people are required to watch or else they would be "left out" out of society or whatever.
People like that reminds me of those sad folks who care more about the celebrities children ( like Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt's ) than their own. Like that Pennsylvania grandmother who spent $500 + plus on gifts...not for her own kids/grandkids but rather they were for Madonna's daughter Lourdes. Even more bizzare was that this woman bought this child she didn't even knew a TV, radio, made cookies and gift cards from McDonalds, Kohls, and Red Lobster.....and Madonna doesn't believe in any of that "garbage' ( anti-TV & radio...and anti-McDonalds too ).
mleach said:
There are lots of loosely wrapped people in the world, and they watch TV like the rest of us. I've heard more than a few stories about actors who play soap-opera villains. When they're recognized in public, people will curse them, and even spit on them. It's not surprising that there are a considerable number of sad people with not much to do in their lives who watch way too much TV. The soaps in particular, seem to become reality for these people.
I must be evolving into a cranky old man, or else my sense of humor is getting refined. I can't STAND to watch the Simpsons anymore! Homer's stupidity, Marge's nagging, Bart's brattyness, and Lisa, the goodie-two-shoes who one day will become an annoying feminist - it's all too much! Enough is too much!
The only thing that was ever funny about Family Guy was the homicidal baby. Apparently, somewhere along the line they decided to stop having Baby Stewy try to kill the family. The father figure alone is just plain unwatchable to me.
Speaking of father figures, reruns of the very unfunny Still Standing run (why?), and if the father in that show, I don't know the actor's or character's name, isn't the worst sitcom father ever, unfunny, embarrassing, even stupid, I'll start watching the Simpsons again!
Why does TV always make a cruel joke out of fathers?
The only thing that was ever funny about Family Guy was the homicidal baby. Apparently, somewhere along the line they decided to stop having Baby Stewy try to kill the family. The father figure alone is just plain unwatchable to me.
Speaking of father figures, reruns of the very unfunny Still Standing run (why?), and if the father in that show, I don't know the actor's or character's name, isn't the worst sitcom father ever, unfunny, embarrassing, even stupid, I'll start watching the Simpsons again!
Why does TV always make a cruel joke out of fathers?
Lkeller said:
I think soaps become reality for some people because they're on five days
a week, problems are not resolved in an hour (or 30 minutes on B&B) and sometimes
never (just as in real life), and very few actors are known to the public by their
real names (Susan Lucci is probably an exception). In fact, the first great soap
villainess, Eileen Fulton, who plays Lisa on As The World Turns, actually had to have
a bodyguard for years when she went out in public, so vile were some of the physical attacks on her. Perhaps Y&R has the right idea, identifying the actors
with their characters during the opening credits; e.g., "Eric Braeden as Victor
Newman."
RicoGregg said:
They didn't use to. Remember "Father Knows Best", "Leave It To Beaver", "The Rifleman" etc? It seems with the advent of the 60's breakdown of society, Vietnam, the counter-culture families, along with their strong provider father figures, became figures of buffoonery instead - and continues to this day. There have been exceptions of course ("The Cosby Show") but even in commercials dad's are played as balding, overweight, PW couch potatoes who can't figure out which soup to eat for lunch.
landtuna said:
Back in that day, we did have The Life of Riley, with William Bendix as the bumbling Chester A. Riley ("What a revolting development!"), and The Honeymooners, need I say more?
In the case of Leave it to Beaver, they had the kid be the show's stumblebum.
What may have made things different back then was the fact that there were bumbling, fumbling women on TV: Lucy, I Married Joan, My Little Margie, Cara Williams, Barbara Eden as Loco on How to Marry a Millionaire, and others I'll remember right after I post this.
In Father Knows Best, more often than not, they made little Kathy the butt of jokes. If you can't make a buffoon out of the father, there's always the youngest child.
I'm afraid it's a longtime practice in television.
landtuna said:
The bumbling fathers and husbands who can't figure out which soup to eat, or how to wash a shirt - have been a staple of TV commercials since TV began. Since many of these products are targeted to female consumers, it works for advertisers to portray men as clueless, and the women as the smart ones making the informed decisions that keep the family clean, fed, and healthy.
This was probably even more true in the 50s, 60s, and 70s when more women stayed at home. But I suspect that women still make the majority of household purchases.
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searadiofreak
Guest
For me, it was MASH. Perhaps I was too young to get the humor, or maybe I just liked the shows up against it better.
More recently, never watched Will & Grace on NBC, but have grown to like it in syndication. Very good writing and strong characters.
More recently, never watched Will & Grace on NBC, but have grown to like it in syndication. Very good writing and strong characters.
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Don62
Guest
Agreed.tah said:
CSI Miami is more of a cop-chase-the-bad-guy show. I agree its overacted.
I also noticed once a few months ago that the show had the young women, especially the one who had an abusive ex-husband and the black woman who worked the morgue, wearing really revealing shirts, with much open there. Quite eye opening, especially when they leaned down. Don't tell me that was a coincidence.
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Andy Coleman
Guest
there have been lots of them. Cheers, Everybody Loves Raymond but I have seen it in syndication. Roseanne, Mash, Home Improvement, Danceing with stars, now what is the meaning of that show watching people danceing with stars or out of work actors. Family Guy and American Dad I watched once they to me were nasty. Scrubs I detest so Friends I never seen a show.Scrubs or Doctor's would never be that so called funny. I love My Name Earl, but I have never seen the office.
RicoGregg said:
When "Father Knows Best" was about to debut on radio in 1949, Robert Young
was going to play a bumbling dad, and the title of the show was going to be
"Father Knows Best?". To his credit, Young refused to play it that way. On
the other hand, he received numerous letters from viewers asking for child-
rearing advice. His standard answer, "This is a show written by writers and
performed by actors." Billy Gray (Bud) once said that the show gave false
lessons; that if he had any advice for old fans of the show it would be,
"YOU know best."
The same can be said about Wrestling back in the day. I have heard of Heel Wrestlers in some towns having to drive old clunkers to where they were wrestling in order to keep some of the fans from slashing their tires and doing damage to their cars because they could not separate FACT FROM FICTION.Lkeller said:
I'll add a few more:
Drew Carey Show (totally not funny and tell me how this show lasted 9 years I don't know, the only thing that I liked about the show was The Presidents of the United States of America's song Cleveland Rocks)
The Price Is Right with Drew Carey (totally sucks ever since Bob Barker retired and what experience with the exception of Power of Ten does he have with game shows. All they did it for was to hire him because he hosted the Power of Ten which aired during the summer of 2007 and it was cancelled after a dozen episodes. There were other hosts that they interviewed that are far better than Carey is. ION even tried to show reruns of Drew Carey's sitcom and failed there, so what does that tell you?)
Roseanne (the early years were funny, the later years not funny)
Drew Carey Show (totally not funny and tell me how this show lasted 9 years I don't know, the only thing that I liked about the show was The Presidents of the United States of America's song Cleveland Rocks)
The Price Is Right with Drew Carey (totally sucks ever since Bob Barker retired and what experience with the exception of Power of Ten does he have with game shows. All they did it for was to hire him because he hosted the Power of Ten which aired during the summer of 2007 and it was cancelled after a dozen episodes. There were other hosts that they interviewed that are far better than Carey is. ION even tried to show reruns of Drew Carey's sitcom and failed there, so what does that tell you?)
Roseanne (the early years were funny, the later years not funny)
Cool Thread.....
As mentioned.....any of the CSI or Law & Order shows, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Dancing with the Stars, Survivor, The Bachelor, those Wive swap and Nanny 911 shows. Any of the reality shows on the those cable only stations.....and the one I hate the most which is still popular to this day is ER.
(a flip thread/topic should be strated, shows you loved...but everyone hated and were cancelled)
As mentioned.....any of the CSI or Law & Order shows, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Dancing with the Stars, Survivor, The Bachelor, those Wive swap and Nanny 911 shows. Any of the reality shows on the those cable only stations.....and the one I hate the most which is still popular to this day is ER.
(a flip thread/topic should be strated, shows you loved...but everyone hated and were cancelled)
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