# Rant against a TV show you hate. 100 word maximum. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610 "2008-01-30T17:38:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/41 "2008-01-30T23:01:38Z")
Survivor: Look, TV producer-bots. Let’s just cut to the chase: Gladiatorial combat. To the death. None of this “voted off the island” shit. Stop pussyfooting around. You know you want to do it. ---
**Author:** ![recondite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@recondite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/recondite)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/42 "2008-01-30T23:23:42Z")
I want to watch Scrubs, because I like the likable characters. But when the nasty guys come on screen I change the channel. I have no time for bullies like the janitor and the mean head doctor. ---
**Author:** ![mshar253](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@mshar253](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mshar253)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/43 "2008-01-31T00:01:36Z")
> [@](#): > > Do none of you have kids? Have you never seen the Disney Channel? Does anyone know the torture that is “The Suite Life?” I’m 23 and I actually have seen the show. I love Ashley Tisdale, and (I’m not going to consult imdb before I say this because I _think_ she is over 18) Brenda Song is really hot too, IMO. That said, the plot is horrible. I think the producer’s are aiming that Brenda plays a hotel heiress named London Tipton (London Tipton, get it? **GET IT?1?!?** ) is witty enough to produce endless laughs. It doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![mshar253](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@mshar253](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mshar253)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/44 "2008-01-31T00:02:38Z")
I really messed up the final sentence in my above post. You catch my drift, though. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/45 "2008-01-31T00:17:29Z")
[QUOTE=ShadowFacts] I hate the soul-sucking, moronic, shallow, rotten, talentless, plastic, worthless, inane, Seacrestified, brainless, superficial, needlessly cruel, hipper-than-thou, craptastic, miserable, fake, oh-so-fucking-cool, abysmal, dreadful, stinkbag, portends-the-end-of-all-that-is-good-in-this-world, awful, D-List, fake-celebrity factory that is _American Idol_. [/QUOTE] I’ve wandered past this show a few times over the years, and as a musician all I can think is, Who the hell wants to watch people audition for a mediocre wedding band all day long? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/46 "2008-01-31T00:18:10Z")
Three shows in 100 words exactly (starting after this parenthese): **Larry King** - If his guest was Jesus Christ he’d ask him “Would you consider yourself a spiritual person?” and “What do your parents think of your career?” **Carson Daly** - Who decided this guy needed a career that didn’t require a hair net? He can’t interview, he’s ignorant, stupid, and he takes up oxygen and kidneys that other people could use. \*\*Tyler Perry’s \*\* **House of Payne** - Every episode is warmed over SMALL WONDER/CARTER COUNTRY quality jokes and “But seriously folks, crack is a problem that affects everybody…" self righteous PSAs, plus M’dea was funny for twelve minutes five years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/47 "2008-01-31T00:27:36Z")
“It was then that I realized why I hate Kyle XY, and why I don’t watch shows on the Family Channel.” ---
**Author:** ![vison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@vison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vison)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/48 "2008-01-31T00:33:10Z")
I don’t watch much TV. But I’m glad others do, because reading this thread has given me several minutes of pleasure and for that, I’m truly thankful. My husband watches CSI. I can endure maybe 5 minutes of the one with William Peterson. But if David Caruso enters the picture, I go all spasmodic and start shooting. Why does David Caruso get to be on TV? Is the world being punished? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/49 "2008-01-31T00:34:48Z")
[QUOTE=mshar253] and (I’m not going to consult imdb before I say this because I _think_ she is over 18) Brenda Song is really hot too, IMO. [/QUOTE] She’s [20](http://reneeashleybaker.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/brenda-song-at-film-party.jpg). You’re in the clear. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/50 "2008-01-31T00:40:44Z")
[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy] I suggest we put everyone that had anything to do with Will & Grace in one bus. The folks that Love Raymond in another. Have these two buses race towards a cliff, and drive off, landing in two heaping piles of flaming bus. [/QUOTE] Wow. For **Mr Bus Guy** to advocate bus-busting … wow. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/51 "2008-01-31T01:05:35Z")
**Law & Order** (+ associated spinoffs). There isn’t an ounce of compassion in any of the regular characters (c.f. an ep with a conniving 13 year old, and all everyone wants to do is expose his lies and nail him, and NOBODY speaks up with concern for his future, no talk of redemption, nothing). The characters are all static and develop nary a smidgen over the course of the show, and the plots all gratuitiously predictable in their banality. Never has a more pat, boring, and one dimensional drama made it to the small screen, yet millions watch it every week. [And before someone chimes in with the “Well don’t watch it!” My roommate has it on all the time, as compensation for the times I’ve had the likes of **Buffy** on.] ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/52 "2008-01-31T01:14:03Z")
Bill O’Reilly, please attempt self-fellatio, succeed, and choke to death. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/53 "2008-01-31T01:34:27Z")
:smack: [QUOTE=TroubleAgain] _Deal or No Deal_, **OtakuLoki** , I’m pretty sure. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/54 "2008-01-31T01:40:00Z")
[QUOTE=Mosier] Fox canceled Arrested Development, and picked up Prison Break. This has been the single worst move ever made by a human being, easily replacing Oedipus nailing his mother as worst decision of all time. The flames of hell are too good for everyone involved in this tragic, pathetic facsimile of a show, including their children, accountants, and garbage collectors. Better for the human race to never have evolved from pre-human ape-things at all than to endure the embarassment of belonging to the same species as the people who allowed this horrible monstrosity to exist. [/QUOTE] ::teleports Mosier the current-winner-of-the-thread diadem:: I salute you. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/55 "2008-01-31T02:20:24Z")
In addition _L&O_, baby, I’m gonna tell you this 'cause I love(d) ya. Either shape up the “ripped from the headlines” angle or ship out. Episode 2’s RFTHs “Lawman-Sues-Over-Pants/Big-Box-Store-Plays-Big-Brother/Also-Sells-Poisoned-Toothpaste was bad enough. But last week’s “Don’t Snitch/Rich-White-Mom-Drives-Kids-To-Confrontation/Black-Queens-Man-Kills-White-Boy/We’ll-Throw-In-A-Noose-Incident/Wait-Not-Enough-Little-Girl-Is-Innocent-Bystander/We’re-Dealing-With-Gentrification/Convict-Both-Rich-Mom-And-Black-Dad-In- Equal-Justice-Angle was, shall we say, gilding the done turkey. WTH! RFTHs is like fine perfume, honey; it don’t take much. NBC moved you to Friday night, trying to kill you. Because I love you, I wish they had. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/56 "2008-01-31T02:26:02Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] In addition _L&O_, baby, I’m gonna tell this 'cause I love(d) ya. Either shape up on the “ripped from the headlines” or ship out. Episode 2’s RFTHs “Lawman-Sues-Over-Pants/Big-Box-Store-Plays-Big-Brother/Also-Sells-Poisoned-Toothpaste was bad enough. But last week’s “Don’t Snitch/Rich-White-Mom-Drives-Kids-To-Confrontation/Black-Queens-Man-Kills-White-Boy/We’ll-Throw-In-A-Noose-Incident/Wait-Not-Enough – Little-Girl-Is-Innocent-Bystander/We’re-Dealing-With-Gentrification/Convict-Both-Rich-Mom-And-Black-Dad-In- Equal-Justice-Angle. WTH! RFTHs is like fine perfume, honey; it don’t take much. NBC moved you to Friday night, trying to kill you. Because I love you, I wish they had. [/QUOTE] [Denial river] I do not know what the HELL you’re talking about. Everybody knows L & O was cancelled years ago, two years after Claire Kincaid was killed in the automobile accident. Jerry Orbach, Sam Waterston, S. Epatha Merkerson, Stephen Hill, Benjamin Bratt, and Carey Lowell simultaneously decided they had told all the stories they had to tell, and Dick Wolf decided to take the rest of his career off. [/dr] ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/57 "2008-01-31T03:11:42Z")
I hate, despise, abhor, loathe, detest, contemn, disdain, scorn, execrate, abominate, anathematize, curse, shun, spurn, slight, disparage, deprecate, censure, snub, revile, repudiate, flout, eschew, slight, renounce, reject, refuse, disesteem, deplore, revolt against, mourn, rue, gibe, confute, ridicule, defy, taunt, scoff at, disapprove of, shudder at, spit upon, am nauseated by, object to, recoil from, can’t stand, am sickened by, am disgusted by, bewail, bemoan, complain of, cry out on, denounce, trash, undervalue, run down, misprize, belittle, abjure, abnegate, criticize, chastise, decry, dispraise, reproach, reprove, abuse, am grossed out by, disregard, decline, am opposed to, and am repelled by Tila Tequila. (Microsoft Word says that’s 100 words. And I don’t really hate her _that_ much. Her show was just the only thing that came to mind at the moment.) ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/58 "2008-01-31T03:55:56Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] I hate, despise, abhor, loathe, detest, contemn, disdain, scorn, execrate, abominate, anathematize, curse, shun, spurn, slight, disparage, deprecate, censure, snub, revile, repudiate, flout, eschew, slight, renounce, reject, refuse, disesteem, deplore, revolt against, mourn, rue, gibe, confute, ridicule, defy, taunt, scoff at, disapprove of, shudder at, spit upon, am nauseated by, object to, recoil from, can’t stand, am sickened by, am disgusted by, bewail, bemoan, complain of, cry out on, denounce, trash, undervalue, run down, misprize, belittle, abjure, abnegate, criticize, chastise, decry, dispraise, reproach, reprove, abuse, am grossed out by, disregard, decline, am opposed to, and am repelled by Tila Tequila. (Microsoft Word says that’s 100 words. And I don’t really hate her _that_ much. Her show was just the only thing that came to mind at the moment.) [/QUOTE] Roget? Izzat you, Roget? Bring…bring me another blanket, Roget. I’m cold. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/59 "2008-01-31T04:36:23Z")
[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy] I suggest we put everyone that had anything to do with Will & Grace in one bus. The folks that Love Raymond in another. Have these two buses race towards a cliff, and drive off, landing in two heaping piles of flaming bus. [/QUOTE] and then bombard the remains of the busses with high-yield thermonuclear weapons, from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610/60 "2008-01-31T07:15:29Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] Roget? Izzat you, Roget? Bring…bring me another blanket, Roget. I’m cold. [/QUOTE] [thesaurus.com](http://www.thesaurus.com), actually. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-against-a-tv-show-you-hate-100-word-maximum/435610.md?page=4)