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.
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…
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.
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!
::speaks into his chopstick microphone:: Remember to spay and nuder(sp) your posters.
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
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 Shirleywith just Lenny and Squiggy? Or was that some nightmare I had while I was sleeping off a drunk?
Oh, and how 'bout AfterMASH?
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…
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.