Hehe, to each his own 
I just thought of a couple of others. A couple of stars from one of my favoriate TV comedies of all times, Wings didn’t seem to be able to make it on their own 
I don’t think that Ned and Stacy (with Thomas Haden Church who played Lowell) lasted that long, did it? Well, a couple seasons I think, so that wasn’t too bad.
And then there was Stark Raving Mad (with Tony Shalhoub who played Antonio) which, I think was already mentioned.
The Golden Palace, a spin-off of The Golden Girls lasted about 5 minutes.
There was a spin-off of Cheers called The Tortellis that was cancelled after the first season. I remember in one episode, they were arguing whether or not evolution was true, and one brother asserted, “There’s no way men came from monkeys!” and then a third brother walks in eating a banana and scratching himself.
It was funny at the time…when I was five…
Shit, I had a third one, but now I can’t remember it. As soon as I hit reply I lost it…
Oh, Roc used to come on after The George Carlin Show. I don’t remember that lasting for very long either. That’s not the one I was thinking of though…damnit…Oh, Hi Honey I’m Home, but that’s already been mentioned. I still remember the song. Hi, Honey I’m home! They were once a sitcom family, in your black and white TV and now they’re blah blah blah BLAH!
I remember Thea premiered the same season as Grace Under Fire, but didn’t last nearly as long. Did it even make it through the end of the season?
I also remember that TGIF had a revolving door policy for their 9:30 timeslot. Just the Ten of Us aired then, but so did a lot of other crappy shows.
What about those Malcom in the Middle copies? That one with Katie Segal, and then that show…something with bean in the title, Oliver Bean…oh, something like that.
Oh yeah, and poor Tim Cury. Great in the movies, but sadly, can’t do television. There was that failed attempt with Annie Potts, and then he was in that remake of Family Affair playing Mr. French.
As of few weeks ago, Oliver Bean was still on. It’s a cute show.
I saw this show at one of those horrible “preview screener” things. You get invites, you sucker three friends into going, and all of you end up in a hotel conference room watching truly horrible pilots and telling the folks who brought them in what you think. I remember seeing “The Ugily Family” at one of them. I think at the same one I saw a pilot for “Sirens,” a buddy show about two female cops. IIRC I saw “Sirens” actually air for a few episodes, but they had changed it from a dramedy with “character actors” to an actual cop drama with babes.
I do remember voting “The Ugily Family” as pretty much bottom of the barrel, and not staying for the third offering. There are only so many “AAAAH MY EYES!!!” 1/2 hour pilots I can take in one evening.
Oh, then I guess it was another show I was thinking of. It’s about a boy growing up, the commercials reminded me of a cross between Malcom in the middle and The Wonder Years, or something like that.
No, that sounds like Oliver Beene…Hmmm, now this is curious. I know I watched it. It was on between KoTH and The SImpsons but now it doesn’t look like it’s on anymore…poking around the Internet it seems that the last 10 episodes will air over the summer.
Poor Oliver. It wasn’t a bad show.
Lush Life. Karyn Parsons, late of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, plays a spoiled princess who’s been kicked to the curb by her husband, who’s tired of her spending him into the ground. She moves in with Lori Petty, her grunge/slacker pal.
The pilot did have one funny line. Petty, who is exceedingly thin with no curves, announces that she has to go to work, and emerges from her room wearing a Hooter’s shirt. “I put 'em on when I get there!”
Holy crap! Repressed memory!
Didn’t that star the guy who played the “Dad” on Silver Spoons? The “dirt floor” joke was on the commerical previews too.
And let’s not forget the American attempt at Men Behaving Badly with that guy from ER and Rob What-'s-His-Nuts.
Hey, anyone else remember Condo with McClean Stevenson and a Luis Avalos from the Electric COmpany? A Hispanic Family moves in next door to a white family, their kids marry… hilarity ensues.
Avalos (singing in Spanish to his new grandson): “Petito… Petito…” (Lttle one, littleone)
Stevenson: Objects to the fact that the other grandpa is singing “potato, potato.”
Oh, aaaaaaargh… another… repressed memory… comes flooding back… <pukey smiley>
My Big Fat Greek Life was what came to my mind.
I think these shows are the reason aliens fly past our little blue planet.
Wow, I did a TVTome search on Jason Bateman and before Arrested Development it looks like he had the touch of death for any sitcom – three stinkers in a row: Chicago Sons, George and Leo and Some of My Best Friends.
And anyone ever hear of Arresting Behavior? I was trying to remember the guy who was in the U.S attempt at Men Bahving Badly and it seems that he was in some kind of cop sitcom that only lasted for August 1992 - September 1992. Ouch! Never heard of it though.
Somebody mentioned AfterMASH*, but has anybody here seen WALTER* (Radar O’Reilly gets his own show - 1 episode)
The lousy, post-MWC Katey Sagal vehicle was called Tucker. Katey did as well as she could but what I esp. remember was the one where nearly-30 Seth Green visited his ‘girlfriend’, 14-year-old neighbor McKenna. This was even more disturbing because that’s my Mom’s maiden name. McKenna, that is.
But it was all OK because he doesn’t sleep with her :rolleyes:
It was like Malcolm if all of Malcolm’s monologues were only about sex. It was dismal. Although I seem to remember the nasty cousin, although he was the same age as Tucker, was actually a Cousin Oliver.