# The worst moments on pop-cultural, non-important television **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 12, 2005, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310 "2005-09-12T19:53:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310/21 "2005-09-15T18:04:45Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > My contribution to this thread? Maybe something from Letterman—an appearance by Crispin Glover or Andy Kaufman or Madonna? What happened at those appearances? > [@tdn](#): > > 10.5. What’s that? ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310/22 "2005-09-15T18:06:49Z")
Roseanne singing the national anthem. Any time there’s an embarassing, awkward silence on SNL when the sketch obviously has nowhere to go- which happens more than I’d like to admit… ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310/23 "2005-09-15T18:09:02Z")
> [@](#): > > Chevy Chase’s late night talk show. Sinbad’s talk show. Keenan-Ivory Wayans talk show. ------'s talk show: let’s name 'em all! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310/24 "2005-09-15T18:23:41Z")
Fonzie jumps the shark. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310/25 "2005-09-16T18:12:43Z")
> [@andrewdt85](#): > > What happened at those appearances? [Crispin Glover takes drugs, freaks out and tries to kick Letterman](http://www.compfused.com/directlink/746/) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310/26 "2005-09-16T18:45:10Z")
[Madonna curses a blue streak on Letterman’s show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_on_Letterman) (March 31, 1994) [Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lawler visit Dave](http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1299/zehme/transcript2.html) (July 28, '82) ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310/27 "2005-09-16T19:30:35Z")
> [@andrewdt85](#): > > What’s (10.5)? _10.5_ was a wonderfully horrible NBC mini-series about a series of earthquakes destroying the West Coast, culminating is (surprise) and 10.5 hitting Los Angeles. It was just chock full of cliches, ripped from _Armageddon_, _24_, and just about anything else anyone has seen in the past thirty years. Couple that with really bad CGI, and other moronic mistakes (“Marshall Law declared”), toss in Kim Delaney, Beau Bridges, and Fred Ward, and you got a Grade-A pile o’ shit movie. I bought it, and I anxiously await… oh yeah… [the sequel, _10.5 Apocalypse_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463850/). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310/28 "2005-09-16T19:38:03Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > [Crispin Glover takes drugs, freaks out and tries to kick Letterman](http://www.compfused.com/directlink/746/) That is one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen. And I spend a lot of time on the internet. Also, the last few minutes of that ~9 minutes clip are NSFW. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Wing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@Little\_Wing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Wing)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310/29 "2005-09-16T19:47:40Z")
Is that Crispin Glover clip from Letterman thing for real? I mean, was it a set-up? It’s just too bizarre for words and painful to watch. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310/30 "2005-09-16T20:23:28Z")
> [@Troy McClure SF](#): > > That is one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen. And I spend a lot of time on the internet. Also, the last few minutes of that ~9 minutes clip are NSFW. Whoops. I stopped watching after the Letterman bit. ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310/31 "2005-09-18T22:13:27Z")
Any of the premieres of the 47 (that’s the actual figure) Mary Kate/Ashley Olsen films on ABC or Disney Channel- although, only some premiered on television, many were straight to video. Still though- add them all up, and it must beat 10.5! ---
**Author:** ![unophobia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/41988e/32.png) [@unophobia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unophobia)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310/32 "2005-09-18T22:20:29Z")
The Olsen Twins becoming billionaires. Who wasted money on them? ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310/33 "2005-09-18T22:42:29Z")
Actually they both have 137 million each, not a billion. ---
**Author:** ![unophobia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/41988e/32.png) [@unophobia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unophobia)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310/34 "2005-09-18T23:06:43Z")
But they do have a billion-dollar enterprise before they turn 18. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310/35 "2005-09-18T23:09:26Z")
> [@unophobia](#): > > But they do have a billion-dollar enterprise before they turn 18. This is the sort of thing that makes me sure that free-market capitalism has its flaws. Deep, very deep flaws. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310/36 "2005-09-18T23:25:25Z")
Michael Jackson’s little press conference the first time he was accused of molestation. I NEVER want to hear that…freak talking about his genitalia, ever, EVER again. ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310/37 "2005-10-10T06:27:16Z")
FriarTed, thanks for bringing this one up in another thread- this is one of the **worst** moments in this kind of tv history- remember the last episode of the show Dinosaurs? When everyone freakin’ DIES b/c of the global freezing or whatever the corporation caused? This MUST be mentioned. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-moments-on-pop-cultural-non-important-television/321310.md?page=1)