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Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Wikipedia has a great list of awful shows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_series_considered_the_worst

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Superior Bastard
Jun 5, 2004

I wanna be on you.
I never understood the popularity of this horse faced woman and her friends.

SlickDealer
Dec 13, 2014

I can't believe you like money too. We should hang out.
I don't know if anyone caught the new show, 'Bordertown' last night on FOX, but that poo poo was absolutely awful. None of these characters are likable and the animation is just horrible, IMO, not to mention awfully 'borderline' racist/stereotypical content. Not to menton Hank Azaria doing some poor voice acting for the show. It seemed to get some laughs from the Latino community, but that's about it. I'm betting they won't even air the entire season.

Going along with Fox's craptacular show record, 'Mulaney' has to be up there with one of the worst sitcoms..if you could call it that. It was trying to hard to be an unfunny version of Seinfeld..not every comedian can pull of the TV show thing. It's so forgettable Fox seemed to forget to take down the website, with the last update being February of 2015.

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all
I remember watching some sitcom when I was little, I think the name was Out of This World. The main character was a high school girl and her mom hosed an alien I guess who maybe died or had to go incorporeal for some reason or some poo poo, so her dad was an alien who could stop time and poo poo to give her advise or whatever when she got into stupid situations?

Luvcow
Jul 1, 2007

One day nearer spring

SlickDealer posted:

I don't know if anyone caught the new show, 'Bordertown' last night on FOX, but that poo poo was absolutely awful. None of these characters are likable and the animation is just horrible, IMO, not to mention awfully 'borderline' racist/stereotypical content. Not to menton Hank Azaria doing some poor voice acting for the show. It seemed to get some laughs from the Latino community, but that's about it. I'm betting they won't even air the entire season.

Going along with Fox's craptacular show record, 'Mulaney' has to be up there with one of the worst sitcoms..if you could call it that. It was trying to hard to be an unfunny version of Seinfeld..not every comedian can pull of the TV show thing. It's so forgettable Fox seemed to forget to take down the website, with the last update being February of 2015.

i saw some of mulaney when it was on bc of martin short...

:cripes:

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

Oh, yes, Mulaney was loving garbage, and that dude is my favorite comedian.

Drink-Mix Man
Mar 4, 2003

You are an odd fellow, but I must say... you throw a swell shindig.

I'm going to go with "Just Shoot Me." Its repugnant, unlikable characters and setting leave a bad taste in my mouth to this day.

SlickDealer
Dec 13, 2014

I can't believe you like money too. We should hang out.
Also, how has nobody mentioned this yet?

Luvcow
Jul 1, 2007

One day nearer spring

Drink-Mix Man posted:

I'm going to go with "Just Shoot Me." Its repugnant, unlikable characters and setting leave a bad taste in my mouth to this day.

episode with david cross was funny

Drink-Mix Man
Mar 4, 2003

You are an odd fellow, but I must say... you throw a swell shindig.

Luvcow posted:

episode with david cross was funny

Oh yeah. Chicken pot pie. Okay, points in fairness for introducing me to David Cross.

Leon Einstein
Feb 6, 2012
I must win every thread in GBS. I don't care how much banal semantic quibbling and shitty posts it takes.

Pvt.Scott posted:

I remember watching some sitcom when I was little, I think the name was Out of This World. The main character was a high school girl and her mom hosed an alien I guess who maybe died or had to go incorporeal for some reason or some poo poo, so her dad was an alien who could stop time and poo poo to give her advise or whatever when she got into stupid situations?

Yeah, Burt Reynolds was the cube dad's voice. My sister and I watched that a lot. Freezing time would be a cool power.

Nckdictator
Sep 8, 2006
Just..someone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkoP4sJDSnI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia's_Naughtiest_Home_Videos

quote:

The content of the videos included shots of animal genitalia, humans or animals humorously engaging in sexual intercourse, people who get accidentally and humorously disrobed, and other situations that often relied on ribald humour, including a child grabbing a kangaroo's testicles, a man lifting a barbell with his penis, a man getting his head squeezed between an erotic dancer's large breasts, an elderly woman removing an envelope from a stripper's undergarments with her dentures, two people running into water with flaming pieces of toilet paper hanging from their buttocks, and two people filmed having sex in the middle of a park.

Kerry Packer, the owner of the Nine Network at the time, was informed of the show's content by friends while at a dinner. He tuned in to watch the show, which was being transmitted on TCN-9, and was so offended by its content that he phoned the studio operators and shouted, "Get that poo poo off the air!" Within minutes, the series was pulled.[3] After the break, the Nine Network announced that it was not able to continue airing the show, purportedly due to technical difficulties, and aired reruns of the American sitcom Cheers immediately afterwards to fill in the remaining airtime. In 2008, Bert Newton justified the broadcast explanation: "It's technically very difficult to keep a show on air with Mr. Packer on the phone, yelling at you."

General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend
The League was easily one of the worst shows on television for (at least) its last three seasons. It's probably not one of the worst shows ever, its first few years were pretty good, but for the last few years it was certainly the worst show I've ever continued to watch regularly.

You Are A Werewolf
Apr 26, 2010

Black Gold!

Zeroisanumber posted:

The worst show that I ever watched was a wretched piece of crap called "Sister Kate" which was about a nun with a lovely attitude taking care of a bunch of orphans with lovely attitudes. The show had all of the charm of a dead rat on a plate.



Whoa, someone else remembers this show. I think I still have a VHS tape somewhere of an episode where Milli Vanilli guest starred because I had to tape it for my sister who wouldn't be home to watch it that night.

And yeah, I'll jump on the Allen Gregory hate-train. As has been said before, no TV show before or since has filled me with such utter contempt. A lot of people are posting bland sitcoms and such, but that's the keyword: bland. Allen Gregory is a whole other category of animosity, deplorableness, and culpableness of the writers and especially Jonah Hill for unleashing it upon the TV world.

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
the simpsons seasons 1-9

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all
Well, now I'm going to have to watch Allen Fucknuts or whatever and love it, just to spite everyone.

I wasn't saying Out of This World was terrible, exactly, as I was pretty young and my description is about as much as I remember, but I figured with a premise that thin, it's either gold, or poo poo.

Microwaves Mom
Nov 8, 2015

by zen death robot
Honestly any of the alphabet soup shows of crime porn. They're all awful I think one that really takes the cake though may be that criminal minds one.

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Microwaves Mom posted:

Honestly any of the alphabet soup shows of crime porn. They're all awful I think one that really takes the cake though may be that criminal minds one.

my favorite one is murder team: delaware city

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
Saved by the Bell. yes.

Liquid Penguins
Feb 18, 2006

by Cowcaster
Grimey Drawer
Let's take the most naive kids we can find; kids who don't know a thing about the world. Then we force them to sit next to Bill Cosby.

Microwaves Mom
Nov 8, 2015

by zen death robot

Liquid Penguins posted:

Let's take the most naive kids we can find; kids who don't know a thing about the world. Then we force them to sit next to Bill Cosby.

Does he teach them to drug women?

You Are A Werewolf
Apr 26, 2010

Black Gold!

Pvt.Scott posted:

I wasn't saying Out of This World was terrible, exactly, as I was pretty young and my description is about as much as I remember, but I figured with a premise that thin, it's either gold, or poo poo.

The thing I've learned about revisiting old TV shows you watched as a kid is this: Don't. I used to watch Out of This World, too, along with Small Wonder and other syndicated shows. Although I haven't seen either of them in at least 20-some years, I'd rather keep them as a fun memory instead of learning the horrible truth: they're corny and bad. Not even "so bad, it's good," just... bad.

Learned that with Full House and Saved by the Bell, I did. Jesus, the gently caress was I thinking back then?

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
gary: story of a city was pretty stale by season 8 but not nearly as bad as Retired cop

slave to my cravings
Mar 1, 2007

Got my mind on doritos and doritos on my mind.
Did anyone ever watch Lil Bush? There is no way that wasn't terrible, right?

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


Scorpion is about as bad as you'd expect considering CBS had already hit peak sperg saturation with big bang theory

Idiot Kicker
Jun 13, 2007

Lord of Pie posted:

Scorpion is about as bad as you'd expect considering CBS had already hit peak sperg saturation with big bang theory

It's another one of those shows that has the unnatural "everyone has a quick wit and spouts one-liners for 60 minutes" thing to it. 1/10 would not watch again (1 point is for Katherine McPhee being hot)

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

Lord of Pie posted:

Scorpion is about as bad as you'd expect considering CBS had already hit peak sperg saturation with big bang theory

How did that show get a second season? I watched like 5 episodes of the first and they someone got even worse one after the other. I couldn't even watch it just to rag on it, and I love doing that.

Idiot Kicker posted:

1/10 would not watch again (1 point is for Katherine McPhee being hot)

tuyop
Sep 15, 2006

Every second that we're not growing BASIL is a second wasted

Fun Shoe

I like that they had to separate sitcoms into a whole other article.

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Sep 7, 2014

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Plaster Town Cop
Lipstick Jungle or Groomer Has It, cannot decide

Ferdinand Bardamu
Apr 30, 2013
the girl in out of this world was my first crush. i won't revisit the show but look her up on the googletron.

another vote for 2 broke girls, homeland, 24 and the hitler/ignore the eastern front channel.

Doppelganger
Oct 11, 2002

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Boy Meets World

HeatherChandler
Jun 21, 2007

Is this turnout weak or what? I had at least 70 more people at my funeral.
For whatever reason as a kid I was obsessed with the short lived series 'The Charmings,' a whacky sitcom about fairytale people living in the modern world for reasons.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charmings
My older brother recently made me watch an episode on YouTube as payback for the times I cried until my mom put it on the our TV.

Inzombiac
Mar 19, 2007

PARTY ALL NIGHT

EAT BRAINS ALL DAY


The Magic Hour

Inzombiac
Mar 19, 2007

PARTY ALL NIGHT

EAT BRAINS ALL DAY


Once Upon a Time is pretty dire.

Julius CSAR
Oct 3, 2007

by sebmojo
Anyone else ever seen that secret life of the American teenager clip where the girl says that having sex killed her dad? That's the worst tv ever.

Besides Blue Bloods

Also even though it's not terrible, I still dislike MASH because the took a super edgy raunch comedy and made it a dumb sitcom. The book is even more far out though. The actually keep Ho Jon out the army and send him to Dartmouth. They raise funds for this by tying a drunk Trapper John to a cross in a diaper, hang him underneath a medevac chopper which flys him to FOBs to sign autographs as Jesus.

GIANT OUIJA BOARD
Aug 22, 2011

177 Years of Your Dick
All
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Non
Stop
The tv show based on The Crow that debuted in syndication.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost
The Highwayman a 1988 television show that was like a cross between Mad Max and Knight Rider about a man who drove through the badlands in a flaming semi truck that could transform into a helicopter.

Surprisingly, it was the least awesome show imaginable.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

YeahTubaMike posted:

but they didn't make everyone terrible. the teacher and the adopted daughter were nice. if everyone had been terrible, then maybe it could have worked (lol no).


That's a good point, and also Allen Gregory, the title character, was horrifically cruel to both, which just didn't work. (Oh, and as noted, it ends on the nice teacher being raped with no associated comedy aside from what you personally ascribe to any given rape.) So you'd have this "super rich super smart" boy terrorizing two decent people while the show did not seem to acknowledge it in any way. The man who got coerced into a gay marriage and given AIDS was usually pretty nice too.

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



I have vague memories of Supertrain, prompted by the list of worst shows ever on Wikipedia.

I also have vague memories of the show BJ and the Bear, and am pretty sure it was terrible.

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ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
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The facts of life. It's a show about a goddamn whore house.

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