My vote goes for The Dukes of Hazzard. I hate this show. Hate everything about it. Hate the tone that simultaneously celebrated and insulted the culture it deemed to portray. Hate the stupidity of a show set in what must have been the only county in the rural south with no black people, and in which few of the people speak with a southern accent. Hate the General Lee. Hate the “too dumb for Gilligan’s Island” plots. Hate the tires squealing on dirt roads. Hate the head of organized crime of a county with what, about 14 people it it? Hate that the makers didn’t know the difference between a county and a small town. I hate this show with the white hot passion of a thousand suns (insult courtesy of Diane Chambers). Hate it.
Stepfather #1 loved this show. It was only one of the many reasons I could never understand what my mother saw in this redneck neanderthal. I coulnd’t help seeing it, well, hearing it, as the dining room table where I did my homework was next to the living room where he got drunk nightly while soaking up the genius of this show and other masterpieces like Enos (an actual spin-off of Dukes) and The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo.
What relatively popular tv show (past or present) makes you grind your teeth just to hear the name of it? What is it that makes it irritate you more than any other?
Mama’s Family
Matlock
The Hugelys (however the hell it’s spelled.)
The entire WB
That show with the Olson Twins and Bob Saget.
Alice
3’s Company
3rd Rock
I could probably think of a hundred more. But I don’t want to.
No question about it six.I can’t even make myself type it. Only good thing about is I think of Cletus from “The Simpsons” every time I hear one of them talk,and have a chuckle at their expense.
There is only one show that I can think of as the absolutely worst in the history of American TV and probably most of the world. Every now and then it pops up advertised as ‘Our Favorite Show’ and I throw eggs at the screen and call up lawyers to see if the channel can be sued for false advertising.
The show was around when I was a kid, when we had 3 channels, an antenna and a black and white TV and it quickly annoyed me then. Mostly it was the leading character’s air raid siren characteristic ‘waaaaaaaaa’!
Yep. You guessed it. Lucy in all of her forms, from the Lucy Show to I Love Lucy.
She still keeps turning up, late at night, on A&E. We can’t get rid of it. Networks must buy the rights at 10 cents a reel.
Other movies were stinkers, but Lucy was the worst.
Petticoat Junction
The Beverly Hillbillies
Three’s Company
The Brady Bunch
The Partridge Family
Basically every show my sister insists on watching (everything on Fox Family, Disney, and most of Nickelodeon).
I now find it pretty funny how much I was into the Dukes of Hazzard (I was 11-13, give me a break!).
But for sheer, ultra-hardcore badness, I think you have to go for “Small Wonder”, previously mentioned here. At least most of the other shows mentioned had a shred of acting ability or plausibility, but this one had neither. I remember back when I wanted to be a tv/film major, saying that this show was the nightmare of everyone in the business.
Simply appaling. Those of you haven’t seen it will have to take our word for it. It’s amazing it ever got funded.
The worst show on right now that I watch regularly is “That 70’s Show.” I don’t even know why I watch the stupid thing. I guess for the same reason people gawk at car wrecks.
I can’t argue with what’s already been said, with the exception of All In The Family, especially the first few years. It was a ground breaking show that can truly be funny at times.
But the others? Real stinkers, each and every one of 'em. And yes, there is another one out there that thinks Ally Mcbeal is better than epicac.
(Interesting aside- As I was trying to search for the correct spelling of epicac, the vomit drug, I typed in ‘vomit enducing’ in the field of ixquick, my favorite search engine. I was hoping it would come back with the correct spelling. What I got instead, line four, was “WWWF Grudge Match: Kwai Chang Caine vs. Walker Texas Ranger”. 'Nuff said.)
Any rate, the truly bad, gut-wrenchingly awful show to grace the television air-waves? Saved By The Bell. God that show stunk. But, and this is what truly amazes me, it apparently was on long enough that you can witness all the psuedo actors age about fifteen years from shitty kids to assholic adults. Simply awfull.
I guess you’ve never seen “Student Bodies,” which is more or less the same thing, except
Little cartoon vignettes that would fail a first-year Introduction to Animation course at a junior college are interspersed between the scenes.
The “girls” (they’re all in their 20s, of course) wear even skimpier, sluttier clothing than in “Saved By The Bell.”
Amazing as it might seem, the acting, dialogue, direction and plots are all FAR worse than “Saved by the Bell.” If “Saved by the Bell” was the idiot cousin of TV, “Student Bodies” is the pet rabbit.
“Student Bodies” is the worst show I’ve ever seen. It’s worse than “Beverly Hills 90210” by a factor of 10,000. It’s worse than “Three’s Company” by a factor of a million.
I’m not a big fan of “I Love Lucy,” either, but I wouldn’t say the show stank up the airwaves. It was mediocre, but there were a lot worse.
My choice would be “The Love Boat.” Not only was the show unwatchable, but it was so popular that any other show on Saturday night got low ratings and was cancelled.
“America’s Funniest Home Videos” was hilarious – if you’re idea of humor was watching some guy getting hit on the crotch in every show. It also has the talentless Bob Sagat as host.
“Matlock” might have worked, if was wasn’t paced like it was in slow motion. Cut to a half hour, and it would have been OK, but dragged out to a full hour (and I do mean dragged), it was deadly.
I’d say “Survivor,” “Temptation Island,” “Boot Camp,” etc. should probably make my list, if I’d ever bothered to watch any of them. Since I haven’t, I’m in no position to comment.
Uh, hate to say it but there are towns in the rural south where you’re hard pressed to find a black person. I went to go visit my in-laws located in a very small Arkansas town last September. After my third day there I noticed that there weren’t any black or brown faces to be found. Needless to say I thought it was a bit odd.
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As a child I loved the show. Though I have to admit I can’t even watch it to relive my childhood these days.
Ally McBeal and Will & Grace. Two shows I just don’t find funny or well written.
