Have you talked about this?
The show Mom?
They got rid of the kids…um Yes they are still mom’s but, re name it “Former Alcoholic Mom’s”
Any other mis named shows out there?
:smack::smack:
Look at it this way: “mom” used to be Anna Faris, now it’s Allison Janney.
Laverne & Shirley ended up without Shirley.
48 Hours originally focused on only the first 48 hours of an investigation.
The newsmagazine Weekend originally aired once a month in place of Saturday Night Live. Eventually SNL completely took over the time slot, and* Weekend* was moved to weekdays. This led the hosts to use such introductions as," This show is called Weekend. Yes, we know it’s Wednesday. . ."
Sabrina the Teenage Witch outgrew her title
The Hogan Family wasn’t misnamed so much as it was always one step behind original star Valerie Harper’s contract negotiation. It started life as Valerie, then Valerie’s Family, then* The Hogans*, and finally The Hogan Family.
Not TV but a movie based on a TV show, Ernest Borgnine (McHale) didn’t even show up in a cameo for McHale’s Navy Joins the Air Force.
Cougartown, which starred Courtney Cox, stopped being about a woman who dated younger men.
Jane the Virgin lost her virginity in the third season. Apparently, after that they crossed out the word “Virgin” in the opening credits and replaced it with a descriptor appropriate to each episode.
No apostrophe. :smack:
Or, it could be the other way around.
Who Wants to be a Millionaire but Has No Chance in Hell of Winning Tonight?
Connections That Become Increasingly Tenuous as the Series Progresses
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Which Is Stupid Enough to Bring Children on Board a Starship
Mission: Impossible (and Would Never Succeed in Real Life)
Since the previous post opened the door:
What on Earth? A Whole Bunch of Woo!
I always thought “My Two Dads” should have been named “My Mom The Slut”. 
The two main characters are a mother and her daughter. The title is quite appropriate.
***Ancient Aliens ***should be retitled as Moronic Oblique Question after Moronic Oblique Question.
Shows like American Ripper should be called Tons of Circumstantial Evidence with Absolutely No Corroboration.
A better name for ***In Search Of *** would be Pointless Endless Speculation.
More apt: Star Trek: The Next Generation Which Is Still Beholden To The Increasingly Unworkable Demands Of The Creator Of The Previous Generation, Gene Roddenberry
I have a lot of respect for Gene as a broad-strokes creator, but when it came to writing specific episodes and laying rules for a series, he had some very bad ideas.
Any documentary or news show* with an axe to grind should be at least subtitled Tendentious beyond Belief.
*Fake news included.
A British cop show, Taggart, outlived it’s eponymous central character, and the actor who played him, by sixteen years.
T.V. Tropes calls this an Artifact Title.
I was always confused by the British series Dangerfield, with Nigel Havers as Dr. Jonathan Paige, until I learned that he had replaced the previous main character, Dr. Paul Dangerfield.
The Avengers began as a show about Dr. David Keel who wanted to avenge the murder of his fiancee’; he was assisted by a John Steed, a trenchcoat-wearing fellow. Keel left, Steed became a dandy, and Peel arrived, to create the more commonly seen version of “The Avengers.”
“(family) Ties worn by under a sweatervest by Michael J. Fox” was a better title after the first season of “Family Ties”
MASH was about a mobile unit, but I can only remember them moving twice. 
I’ll show myself out.
I know you’re joking, but it seems to me they did the “bugout” thing about every season or so. Got a little old after 11 years.
Did they? I remember a few bugouts, but very, very few. Anyone have a list?
I remember three times. Once was a drill, once they were under enemy fire, and the third time was when a fire threatened the entire area.