The following have shown up in reruns recently and I just can’t watch them.
Gilligan’s Island
I Dream of Jeannie
Bewitched
Beverly Hillbillies
I disagree on ELR, though. It has one of the funniest and well-staged sitcom moments of all time: Everybody Loves Raymond - Whoops!! - YouTube
I saw this and couldn’t help but think:
“Oh, okay, it’s ELR now? We need a shorthand for Everybody Loves Raymond, that’s how fundamental it is?”
Unless you’re including animated ‘sitcoms’ I love lovelovelove King of the Hill.
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It doesn’t count, KoH should be classed as a documentary.
It’s threads like this that make me glad I don’t have a television
You must not have been watching too hard. The fact that they picked out their bodies (presumably from some sort of catalogue) was the subject of a number of jokes throughout the series’ run. And their fake identities, and the (lack of) documentation therefor, served as the plot of numerous full episodes and indeed entire multi-episode story arcs. It was established very early on that Tommy, the “Information Officer”, had done advance research on Earth culture and had prepared supposedly extensive background dossiers and documentation for each of them. Several times throughout the series it was discovered that he mistakenly omitted or otherwise flubbed some key aspect of their identities (such as Dick’s marital status, the family’s ethnicity, etc.), resulting in their having to hurriedly invent cover stories. One episode was even based on the premise that Tommy and Harry had lost the files in their entirety.
Yes, but Married with Children was one of the first ones where everyone openly hated each other.
As for the hate for Seinfeld, its regarded by a lot of people as one of the best sitcoms of all time, so thats a measure of how opinions can vary…
And I can’t believe some are slating How I met your mother and The Big Bang Theory when there’s been no mention of:
King of queens
Joey
Mad about you
The Nanny
That 70’s show
Going further back
Joanie loves Chachi
Cybil
Ellen
Rosanne
And here’s a list of someones best sitcoms of the 2000’s, 3 of which were mentioned here as worst: 11_best_sitcoms_of_the_2000s
I personally don’t like Frasier, I found Frasier and his brother to be annoying and getting caught in the same cliched situations every week, but I’d not say it sucked.
Major Dad - Never saw it, but that’s gotta be up there in terrible.
Seinfeld, and, as others have said, glad to see I’m not the only one thinking it was awful.
To me, the problem with Home Improvement and Everyone Loves Raymond is that they only had 3 episodes each. They just remade the same episodes again and again and again.
I have just had the epiphany that popular TV shows have a rating of 10, which means that 90% of households aren’t watching them. This means that all TV shows suck for most of the population.
I HATED Roseanne. If I wanted to hang out with a family like that, I’d hang out with my own family!
Or making Dick *Canadian * (which May thought explained all of his eccentric behavior) because he thought it would be suspicious if everyone in the same family was from the same country.
They seemed just as bad and cheesy back then, too. I have no idea why they were popular.
Some other seventies stinkers that were NEVER funny, but somehow got good ratings: Chico and the Man, Welcome Back Kotter, Three’s Company, Mork and Mindy. Never remotely funny.
I AM a nerd, and I find this show as offensive as Amos 'n Andy.
Let the old folks weigh in…
My Mother the Car
Any show with Lucille Ball after I Love Lucy.
I’m a nerd as well, and while I don’t find it offensive – I can watch episodes when nothing else is on – I am mystified by how popular it is.
Now that everybody has had a chance to show how superior their taste in TV shows is, and the requisite “I don’t even own a TV” elitists have weighed in, I’m sure we all feel superior to 90% of the rest of the posters in this thread, and to 99% of the untermenschen out there in TV Land.
Well done all.
You should have put the period after the word Ball and deleted the rest of the words.
Awww…I have fond childhood memories of “Here’s Lucy”, especially the little Puppetoon Lucy in the opening credits. I do acknowledge that the show stunk, though. Nostalgia forgives much.
I’m watching ELR right now. I looked at the craptastic Pan Am for about 2 minutes and decided to put on something I actually enjoy watching.