I’m not talking about sitcoms that are popular but bad or even bad sitcoms that exist. I’m talking about bad on such a level it leaves you thinking “Who’d they have to felch to get this crap on television?”
Such classics as “My Mother the Car” which was about a man why buys a car with the spirit of his mother inhabiting it.
My personal favorite was The Charmings from the late 80’s. It was all about Prince Charming and Snow White waking up in modern day California all all the wonderful hijinks that would occur. Anyone else have any candidates for the worst sitcom idea?
The British cast remakes of That 70s Show and Married With Children: even worse than the original US shows. Just 'cause it’s funny over there, ITV, it doesn’t mean it’s funny over here.
A classic of the genre is I Married Dora (“the only sitcom based on a felony!”). It was about a guy who married his housekeeper so she wouldn’t be deported. Its saving grace was its cast: Elizabeth Pena, Daniel Hugh Kelly, and Juliette Lewis.
Struck by Lightening starring Jack Elam as Frankenstein’s monster who is now working as a handyman at a hotel. He entices the doctor’s last relative to the inn for a tune-up, but the descendant has no aptitude for science!
Almost as funny as Fatal Attraction; the Sitcom.
“Rabbit stew again?”
My all time fave was Oops. It lasted four weeks. It was about a group of survivors after a nuclear war. It was a comedy! They fought off giant cockroaches. It was excellently bad.
We’re Your Dog- people dressed in doggy suits and portraying household pets. Just a single half-hour pilot aired, yet it sank careers.
What was that abomination about Abraham Lincoln’s black butler? And almost as bad was the one about the female President.
Let’s see, what could be the absolutely worst idea for a sitcom? I know- A sitcom version of Hannibal! Featuring Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter as a history professor in a small state college; Clarice, his brainwashed loveslave wife (running gag- every time she starts to regain her former personality, he jabs her with a hypo of drugs); two ditzy neighbors who keep wondering about those late night dinner parties next door; the “Victim of the Week”, someone who’s so obnoxious we’re glad to see them get invited for dinner; and the suspicious but incompetent police detective, who never quite manages to stumble across the evidence of Lecter’s latest crime. Top that if you can!
The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer. The title character went on to get the lead as principal on Boston Public.
It could be like Fantasy Island. A new “washed up” star comes each week and ends as dinner. To make the show worse, let’s end each episode with one of the pair on the toilet talking to the other. Heck, maybe even get one of those love seat toilets on SNL.
Michael Keaton as a Parole Agent in Report to Murphy The one episode I saw had the mean old parole agent (Not MK), sending a guy back to prison 'cause he was 5 minutes late to his parole office appointment.
I found it terribly amusing my own self, but some how never at the moments that the laugh track did.
It’s a story about an inventor who makes a robot child as a ‘sister’ for his son.
Okay, if that isn’t stupid enough, the acting in it was the worst you could ever expect in any sitcom! Absolutely the worst.
The little girl who played the robot was actually a really good actress, but 99% of the time she had to speak in a stupid monotone voice and cause mayhem by passively doing ignorant ‘learning to be a human’ things.
Why a robot child that looked indistinguishable from a human in every respect had to speak in such a stupid voice I don’t know.
And I may be wrong here, but I think the fact that she was a robot was kept a secret from everyone else, which of course only adds to the hilarity.
I don’t think this was the only sitcom based on that particular felony. I dimly remember seeing at least the pilot for a sitcom about a single mother who married a Scottish man to keep him from being deported. I believe the actor playing that role was Billy Connolly, but I couldn’t swear to it.
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Has ANYONE from that show gone on to do anything, other than Robbing Tyson…errr…Robin Givens? With a cast that big (and young) it is a suprise that no did anything.
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