# The worst popular television show in history? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 2, 2001, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-popular-television-show-in-history/64038 "2001-05-02T03:43:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-popular-television-show-in-history/64038/141 "2001-05-19T14:45:21Z")
Finally someone mentioned Three’s Company, a show with something to offend everyone. I wanted to disembowel Chrissy and strangle the other two twits with her guts. Now the same actress is encouraging cancer victims to forgo chemotherapy and use homeopathic crap. As long as she was just peddling worthless exercise equipment, her victims would just stay fat. If you take her half-witted advice on cancer, you will die. ---
**Author:** ![Home\_of\_the\_Braves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Home\_of\_the\_Braves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Home_of_the_Braves)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-popular-television-show-in-history/64038/142 "2001-05-19T15:35:28Z")
Thank goodness someone mentioned Blossom! That show sucked eggs, IMHO. Also, who remembers SeaQuest? They filmed 2 eps on the campus of Florida Southern College. One (filmed during summer session) was the one where they violent virus invades the non violent planet. Ironically, that one was filmed in the Sociology/ Poli Sci/ Languages building. The other was filmed during Fall Semester. It was the one where the computer sent an SOS signal for someone to kill her because there was only 2 people (boy and girl) left on her planet. The pair spent their entire time playing computer games with each other (complete with giant robots) and having the computers run every aspect of their lives (including reproduction). She (the computer) thought she had too much control and wanted to turn it back over to the pair (oh please).The “computer” was the chapel of the College, and it was great fun watching the Education and English departments get obliterated by the giant fighting robots (I have a BA in English with a minor in Education). The College was not mentioned in the credits of the shows, and I’m not sure the College got any $$ either. Considering all the times we were forced to change our class schedule and forced to take other ways to class, we should have been compensated somehow. My guess why they picked FSC for the setting? World’s largest collection of Frank LLoyd Wright architecture might have done the trick… ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-popular-television-show-in-history/64038/143 "2001-05-19T15:59:38Z")
That Monopoly Gameshow! I hated that thing. They took Monopoly and put wierd stuff on the spaces, with Rich Uncle Pennybags doing something or other. -Soup prays they never make a Chess gameshow. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-popular-television-show-in-history/64038/144 "2001-05-19T18:52:11Z")
I think we could devote an entire thread just to crappy game shows. I hope I never see Bob Barker again for the rest of my life! ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-popular-television-show-in-history/64038/145 "2001-05-19T20:36:48Z")
::speaks into his chopstick microphone:: Remember to spay and nuder(sp) your posters. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2001, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-popular-television-show-in-history/64038/146 "2001-05-19T21:21:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jab1 \* > > Other than _Star Trek, The Twilight Zone_, and the original _The Outer Limits,_ has there ever been a good science fiction TV series? Yeah, several. _Doctor Who_ _Tales of Tomorrow_ (1950s anthology series, filmed live, IIRC. It had some downright creepy episodes) _Kolchak: The Night Stalker_ Any of the BBC serials featuring Professor Quatermass ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-popular-television-show-in-history/64038/147 "2001-05-20T18:54:32Z")
I take it nobody remembers \*Phyllis,\*which was a spin off from _The Mary Tyler Moore Show._ And…wasn’t there actually a spin off from _Laverne And Shirley_with just Lenny and Squiggy? Or was that some nightmare I had while I was sleeping off a drunk? Oh, and how 'bout _AfterMASH?_ ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-popular-television-show-in-history/64038/148 "2001-05-21T19:23:20Z")
You must’ve been drunk because there was never a _Laverne & Shirley_ spinoff (unless you count the animated cartoon version with the girls and guys in the Army)\*. _AfterMASH_ was a terrible series, but it wasn’t popular (it lasted only one season), so it doesn’t count. \*I had forgotten all about that show. The shit you find on [www.imdb.com](http://www.imdb.com)… ---
**Author:** ![holdenmagroin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@holdenmagroin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/holdenmagroin)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-popular-television-show-in-history/64038/149 "2001-05-21T23:30:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Number Six \* > **My vote goes for _The Dukes of Hazzard_. I hate this show** I was laughing the whole time I read this. NEWS FLASH FOR NUMBER 6…this show was not geared for the 26-49 age group. It’s a pointless show that has 2 cool guys running from the law, a hot girl and an even hotter car. You’re taking this show a little too seriously. When I was about 10, I would look forward to 8 o’clock, friday night. Then my parents would huddle around for Dallas. Get a grip, dude. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-popular-television-show-in-history/64038/150 "2001-05-22T03:07:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by holdenmagroin \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Number Six \* > > **My vote goes for _The Dukes of Hazzard_. I hate this show** > > I was laughing the whole time I read this. NEWS FLASH FOR NUMBER 6…this show was not geared for the 26-49 age group. It’s a pointless show that has 2 cool guys running from the law, a hot girl and an even hotter car. You’re taking this show a little too seriously. When I was about 10, I would look forward to 8 o’clock, friday night. Then my parents would huddle around for Dallas. Get a grip, dude. \*\* Thanks for the compliment. It was intended to be funny; it’s a mock-rant. The style is stolen whole-cloth from Roger Ebert’s review of the movie _North_, though the wording is entirely mine. I never claimed to be rational about my hatred for the show. I hated the show during its original run, when I was a teenager and in the target demographic. Even then I recognized it as a humorlous comedy/adventure with really no one to cheer for. And whether I am now in the target demographic is irrelevant. Good shows are good shows. Garbage is garbage. I love “The Muppet Show”, and I am way beyond the age of the target audience. I thought the best movie of last year was _Chicken Run_. The best action movie I’ve seen in a long time is _Spy Kids_. Stepfather #1 was in that 26-49 demographic you refer to, and he, as well as several of his contemporaries, loved this show. Age has nothing to do with it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-popular-television-show-in-history/64038.md?page=7)