Good one. We might have a winner.
The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross
It has NOT been mentioned yet so I guess Everyone Does NOT Love Raymond.
Definitely not. Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek can pull off the childish husband and annoying wife dynamic quite well.*. Ray Romano and Patricia Heaton not so much.
Has anyone nominated Malcolm in the Middle yet?
If you want to see Heaton in top form as an annoying wife, watch Beethoven.
No if it has Angel in it. Yes if it has Lance White. ![]()
I’m not arguing with your choice, but I don’t think you can judge ANY show by a random episode. Every show has a(t least one, maybe more) stinker, and if you randomly caught that one and that one only, it will leave a improper impression.
If your only ST:TOS was The Alternative factor or Spock’s Brain, you might never come back. Same with the Simpsons episode where Homer gets raped by a panda. (shudder)
I hate it because of the serialized format, combined with the fact the stations I grew up with never showed them in order. With both R&B and Underdog, I’ve never seen a complete story.
Not to threadshit here, but the question really is “Is there anything that’s a matter of taste that everyone agrees is good/great?” And the answer has to be no. There are some shows that have been mentioned that I consider to be meh. There are some I enjoyed, there are some that I got tired of as they went on (specifically MASH)
I do find it interesting how many of the suggestions are comedies or dramas with a light touch (like Rockford Files.) And nary a western or police procedural in the batch.
I think it’s even worse than that. Many of the shows listed I could not in fairness say are “bad”. I enjoyed them to some extent, like MASH or MTM. But they had bad episodes, or bad years, but are still “good”. I could watch a random episode and probably enjoy it, even now.
I don’t think House is a “bad” show, but I don’t think it’s great, either. I’ll never watch it, so i couldn’t vote against it.
Even the worst of the worst, cancelled in one or fewer episode shows, like Heil Honey, or Turn On, probably has someone (the show creators, at least) that think it is “good”.
I think you might be posting with tongue in cheek, but on that basis I would say I don’t like MASH Frank Burns was a jerk. ![]()
Partially. I do hate Angel and will generally skip his episodes, but I still like The Rockford Files and think it is a good show.
I just checked and I see where Angel was only in 37 out of 119 random episodes, and Maj Burns was in 121 out of 251 mostly consecutive episodes. Easier to avoid Angel, that’s for sure!
(And Lance White was in only two. But he was nearly perfect.
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I’d find it hard to believe anybody disagreeing with Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, or Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood". As for more general TV fare, both The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart would be my best guesses.
Only B.E. (Before Elmo)
Only by the fact I’ve never seen any of them, and must abstain.
Though I did watch Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and felt a profound sadness that I missed something special.
How about Barney Miller?
Definitely has an high spot on my list of Least Funny/Most Hated shows.
OTTH, I would glance highly askance at anyone that didn’t like The Good Place.
I always thought it was a little strange that Mr. Rogers was supposedly “at home”, yet he never took off that stupid tie.
I’ll veto The Mary Tyler Moore Show. I’ve watched many clips now of the supposed best bits, and the entire episode about the dead clown. Not one gram of amusement.
They do have a lot of fun with the ‘preconceptions’ game, though. For example — spoilers? — if a black wife and her white husband are showing the same symptoms, and it could be an STD that one got from the other and they’d maybe lie about it, or it could be something in the walls of their home and they maybe wouldn’t know it, how long would it take our lovable gang of idiots to ask, wait, is this a super-rare genetic condition they share because they’re siblings?
Have we ever seen him and the Girl with the Green Ribbon in the same room?
I have a different - possibly unique - take on I Love Lucy. I hated the show with the heat of a thousand suns. Her constant whining got on my nerves. BUT I recognize that ILL was ground-breaking in many ways, not the least of which is the degree of control that Lucille Ball (and Desi, too, of course) maintained creative control. She was a pioneer in the business of television, and ILL set that stage. So I’d agree that I Love Lucy was a great show even as I would refuse to watch it.
So far all I’ve got is:
- Frasier
I’m not saying Frasier wasn’t good, but it certainly didn’t deserve all of the accolades it got. “The most intelligent show on the airwaves!”. No, it wasn’t. It was a fish-out-of-water comedy. Most of the humor was between elitists (Frasier, Niles) and " normal" people (Daphne, Martin, Roz).