South Park, for reasons we’ve already gone into elsewhere.
Nip/Tuck. I had to stop watching it when I wanted to slap every character. Sure, TV characters have to have some flaws or make bad choices to provide drama and move things along, but if that’s ALL they do, I ask “Why am I watching imaginary jerks when the world is too full of real ones?”
I quit watching CSI, because it seemed like it turned into a contest to see how many viewers they could revolt. And why does every show have to be about sex? At least, that’s what it was seeming like when I quit watching.
I also quit watching Without a Trace, because it was getting too soap-opera-y for me.
And since I started working for CPS, I quit watching any show–whether one I loved or not–that had to do with child abuse. I deal with it every day, and don’t feel the need to watch it for entertainment.
Desperate Housewives for me as well. I started the year as a fan, then started to find almost all of the characters annoying. By the beginning of the year I stopped watching altogether.
I’ve quit watching the Simpsons… one too many shows that I turned off halfway through, so I gave up on the first half.
Monk: Just lost interest, and have no desire to see it without Sharona.
Best Week Ever: I kept talking it up, and somewhere along the way it just got unacceptably stupid, instead of its previous level of stupid-but-funny. Now people keep saying, “You actually like that? It sucks!” I swear to God it used to be funnier; I don’t know what the hell happened.
- The premise of this season seemed interesting but they pulled the “plot device from out of their ass” one too many season for me.
I knew halfway through the pilot episode it wasn’t going to be for me.
“Ah, another show where well-dressed people fall into swimming pools.” —click—
Law and Order-It’s just not the same without Lenny. 
That 70’s Show-The show has gone way downhill. The writing was erratic at best and the laugh track got out of control. It’s also against Lost in the schedule. Now that Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher are leaving, the show is only going to get worse. Is it 1980 yet?
Here’s a third (or fourth) for Desperate Housewives. I think it was a post here that did it for me.
I’ve also lost interest inER and Lost. Haven’t decided if I’ll watch the new seasons of Nip/Tuck and Rescue Me. Probably not.
It’s not that I have anything else very interesting to do in the evenings (reading and sewing). I think it’s realizing that TV programs are vehicles for commercials. Thank heaven for PBS and TCM.
“The Screen Savers” on G4TechTV. Ever since they moved the show from San Francisco to L.A. it just hasn’t been the same. Then, they renamed it “Attack of the Show”. What’s up with that?
I’ll still watch it once in a while mainly to see Kevin Rose and Sarah Lane, but that’s about it. I need Kevin, Sarah, Leo, Pat, Jessica, and Yoshi to get back together!!
I’ve stopped watching CSI (same old, same old, similar plot, different deviant behavior, got boring), Without a Trace (interested in the cases, not wanting an entire episode about some guy’s divorce), and I haven’t caught a single American Idol episode this season (just not interested).
I pretty much watch only 3 shows aside from the 10 o’clock news: Extreme Makeover Home Edition (yeah, it’s schmaltzy, what can I say? I’m a big sucker for the happy, I guess. Though I could do without Ty’s stupid megaphone or whatever the hell you call that thing he’s always screaming into), Lost, and Alias.
Smallville - it used to be can’t miss TV for me, but the “secrets and lies” and Lana’s supposed perfection just got too annoying.
The OC- it never was classic television, but in the first season it was a cheesy, fun, entertaining show. While the Marissa character has always been annoying, I loved Seth and Summer last year, and many of the other characters as well. This season though it is just too much over the top, and I often want to slap Seth. I’ll halfway watch it now if it’s on while I’m doing homework or cleaning my room, but I could easily never see it again and not care.
I can’t believe they’re actually going to continue. I don’t blame the actors who are remaining to hanging onto a good paycheck, but this show is going to suck big-time. It would be almost like carrying on with Malcolm in the Middle without Malcolm and Lois.
I stopped watching The Simpsons, although I haven’t stopped wanting to watch. It’s just that I decided I wanted to see Cold Case more, and when Cold Case is a rerun, I’ll switch over to have a look at Enterprise. It’s just a really crowded time slot for a TiVo-less dude.
I’ve also given up on Joan of Arcadia. It was interesting at first, had likable, complex characters, and so on. Now it’s just subjecting each character to misery after misery. It’s too unpleasant to watch everyone suffering. I’ve all but given up on ER as well (and thus Will and Grace, since I used to sit down and watch the Must See TV lineup.) ER has gotten dull, and for some reason, while I really enjoyed the first two Apprentices, I just couldn’t persuade myself to watch it this season.
I gave up WWE Raw and Smackdown because they were getting really stupid.
(Yeah, go ahead and laugh.)
My dad gave up The Shield this season, because it was too dark and twisted, and he found it too hard to empathize with characters or care what happened to them. I still write him weekly recaps, which he looks forward to. We both gave up on The Sopranos after season 2 for the same reason, and now–who knew?–the old man is a Sex In the City fan.
South Park jumped the shark for me when Mr. Garrison became Mrs. Garrison. The shows this season just aren’t funny. I’ll still watch them if there’s nothing better to do, but I don’t really look forward to them anymore.
Not to rehash an old thread, but the… ignorance… of that episode. They made it sound like somebody can get a “sex change on demand” when it takes years and years of counselling and hormonal treatments, most people who apply are rejected (everybody who applies has to live as a member of the chosen gender for at least a year before an operation), etc… It’s not just a matter of a self-loathing gay guy deciding “I wish I’d been a girlie…”- I don’t know any transexxuals in the Waking and I know that much. Usually when they skewer a topic (whether Joseph Smith, PETA or NAMBLA) they do some type of research beforehand and it’s hysterical.
Stone and particularly Parker have just gotten full of themselves, though in fairness I have to admit that I thought the Kenny/Terry Schiavo episode was hysterical.
I agree that that episode was spectaculary unfunny. However, “Die, Hippy, Die” was hilarious, as was “Wing” and “Best Friends Forever.” The rest weren’t a hoot, but they were funny enough.