There’re DBZ wannabes? Anyway, they actually did kill Goku. Just so you know.
I have this vague memory of a TV show called “Mama Malone”, about a middle-aged Italian mother with her own TV cooking show, that was pretty awful. Didn’t last long, but while it did, it reeked.
Seeing as how a lot of TV Guide’s 50 worst have the characteristics of controversy and superficial shock appeal, I can’t help but think that if this list were made 10 years ago, The Simpsons would be on it.
Those crude Bart-centered early episodes sure ruffled a lot of feathers and it was before the show’s brilliance was apparent to most, especially to the audience this list was meant to appeal to.
That was true for me in the 1960s too but since then and especially recently (thanks mainly to the Internet) I’ve been exposed to Holocaust imagery that has left me changed forever. I was just so ignorant of so many things and Hogan’s Heroes possibly contributed to that ignorance. I don’t understand for one moment how Jewish people became involved with the programme and how they justified their involvement. Laughter is everything but not everything needs to be laughed at.
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Not to mention:
“The Charmings”
“Hi Honey, I’m Home”
“Time of Your Life”-that craptastic show with Jennifer Love Screwitt
“Nearly Departed”
“Jennifer Slept Here”-I remember that show! Shit, I was just a little kid…all I remember is the theme song…weird.
How did Bob Crane die in a kinky way? The IMDB just says he was found murdered?
“Rags to Riches”-I loved that show as a kid-it was set during the Kennedy administration-because they had that one episode about the Cuban Missile Crisis, IIRC. I used to pretend to be one of the orphans and sing along. shut up I believe Tisha Campbell was on that show (from “Martin”-which should be on the list)
And dammit, I LOVE “Mama’s Family”. I want to be just like Thelma Harper when I get old-only with a much better wardrobe. I want to be a bitchy old shrew!
My grandfather spent WWII in a German labor camp, and he loves Hogan’s Heroes. I first saw the show when I was little, and I was surprised to see him laughing at it considering how some things like documentaries and certain movies about that time upset him. When I asked my mom about it, she said it was one of his favorite shows during it’s original run.
I don’t think it’s a great show, but IMO it doesn’t deserve a place on this list.
Where’s:
We’ve Got It Maid
Madame’s Place
Boy Meets World
The Magic Hour
Kids Incorporated
It’s A Living
The Cindy Margolis Show
Any one of these shows was worse than most of the shows I recognize on this list (far too many for my own good).
Small Wonder should be on this list 50 times.
We’ve Got It Made should be there.
I hate Hogan’s Heros, but it doesn’t belong on this list at all. It was an okay television show from the reruns I’ve seen.
I don’t think there were more than 4 or 5 “Pink Lady and Jeff” episodes. I wonder if it even registered in the Nielsens toward the end of its run.
As for What’s It All About World?, it was produced by the same people who worked on the Smothers Brothers Show and the Smothers Brothers made a guest appearance on it, so I wonder how conservative it really was.
It was 1969 though and the country was moving a bit rightward.
I suppose this list is really addressing long-running (or at least meant to be long-running) shows. However, someone has to mention the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, a show so mind-bendingly awful that, should you be unfortunate enough to see it for yourself, you will not believe it was ever actually broadcast.
I just don’t see the problem with “Hogan’s Heroes” It’s part of a tradition stretching back to the war itself of poking fun at Hitler and the Nazis. We often forget that laughter is one of the best responses to a group that seeks to inspire fear.
I think Hogan’s Heroes has probably had a beneficial effect even today. People take the threat of violence posed by Neo Nazis seriously. However, they don’t take Neo Nazis seriously. Most people think of them as pathetic posturing ninnies.
- The Brady Bunch Hour (ABC, 1977)
How could they have left off The Brady Bunch and The Brady Brides?
Hell, anything with the word Brady in its title should be in the top ten!
And let’s not get into The Partridge Family!
At least the Partridge Family didn’t have a reunion.
Isn’t it a little unfair to judge a 1960’s TV Show (Hogan’s Hero’s, Flying Nun) by 2002 standards? There was no soch term as “politically incorrect” when these shows first aired. Let’s get a couple of copies of TV Guide from the same era and see how they stack up!
Reshuffle the list, take out Hogan’s Hero’s, add Small Wonder and everyone will be happy!
While we’re at it, add any TV show that featured Bob Saget!
Drollman! Over 200 posts with a spelling mistake!
Actually, the same standards were used when it first came out. Have a look at the satire of it that appeared in Mad magazine at the time.
Hogan’s Heroes wasn’t awful. In terms of writing, production values, acting, etc. it really doesn’t belong on the list. See some of the others I’ve listed above. There are, I suspect, a huge number of other shows that could be added, but the writers just weren’t familiar enough with them. How about The New Show, an attempt to create another kind of Saturday Night Live? It starred John Candy and IIRC, Mike Nesmith, and, IMHO, was awful. (Rod Serling JR. (John Candy) presents “Twilight Zonettes”!)
How could they leave out Joanie Loves Chachi and Charles in Charge? Scott Baio has much to answer for.
The list should be “shows we don’t like and are easy targets to pick on”.
Jerry Springer and Howard Stern know their audience and cater to it very well. And they’re much easier to pick on because they are risque.