Homeboys in Outer Space: Just by the title, you can tell, it’s going to be a piece of crap, with one attention-seeking corny joke after another. I don’t think anyone (including the producers!) like this show.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Maybe it’d be okay if it actually had anything to do with witchcraft. Want to know what’s worse? They made a crappily drawn animated series of it! Want to know what’s even worse than that? It’s on around here on Saturdays at the same time on 2 different channels!
Oh, the crap they let on TV nowadays…it makes me want to make a good show to show these people how to do it RIGHT…
And those are just the live-action shows. Being 14, I have had experience with bad cartoon shows, and believe me, if you think there are a lot of crappy live-action shows, you have not sat down and watched a few exceptions of some of the cartoons on nowadays. This includes ANY cartoon based on a live-action show or movie. This includes Beetlejuice, Sabrina (as I mentioned), Addams Family, Men In Black, Ghostbusters, Extreme Ghostbusters {pukes}, Mighty Ducks, Free Willy, and maybe a few I forgot…
If anyone has actually seen an episode of this, I’m sure you’d agree…they seem thrown together in about an hour per episode, and they are nothing but a cheap attempt at making more money, since the movies made a lot of money.
The sad thing is that it sometimes works…
Also crappy shows are anything on Nickelodeon and 90% of the shows on the Disney Channel.
KJ, actually, the original Real GhostBusters was pretty cool until they started focusing on Slimer and Merchandizing. Of course they had JMS writing scripts for it at the time. When cthulu calls…
>>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.<<
How about “The Waverly Wonders”, starring Joe Namath as a coach? Or “Webster” with Alex Karras? Or “Hunter” with Fred Dryer? Or “Little House on the Prairie” and whatever its awful spinoff with Merlin Olsen was? Has there ever been a decent program starring a former football player? Not to mention “Ball Four” with Jim Bouton. OK, the book was funny, but the TV show blew.
Oh my Lord! Don’t any of you have kids? I just read through this whole thing and didn’t see Barney listed!
Barney and those insipid little children!
And PeeWee’s Playhouse was no picnic either. Anyone who would have a secret word that required children to yell whenever they heard it (at 7:00am on Sunday morning!) deserves flaying.
She’s The Sherriff with Suzanne Sommers.Also, Sha Na Na.There is a new show coming soon called Shasta McNasty;I expect it to be added to the list-they couldn’t come up with a better title?
Air Wolf and Blue Thunder were two different shows, but had the exact same fundamentals. Helicopter from hell battles evil, wins, good guy gets the girl, but sadly has to leave her before the action REALLY kicks in, because “there’s more crime and evil to fight, baby !”.
AARGHH
They both sucked.
Homeboys in outer space is TERRIBLE. So is that series with that 90210 girl and that Who’s the Boss girl (she’s foxy though ) about three sisters who are witches.
Of course, Melrose Place sucks bigtime.
Well, there seems to be more new shows than I thought. I was not counting on cartoons. The majority of the Saturday morning cartoons suck.
For the record, I liked the premise of Barney, although, I absolutely hate all the kids on it. They are like the Olsen twins with a modicum of talent (at least they can lip synch, if they could do more they should go to a different show). Being like the Olsen twins means they should volunteer for the famed “Electric Chair Image Readjustment Therapy” otherwise known as electrocution.
I also liked Peewee’s playhouse…now. I think it is hilarious seeing Lawrence Fishburn continually trying to kiss Peewee only to be spurned by him once more. It should really read, “Peewee’s Homoerotic Playhouse.” That would be more accurate from the episodes that I have recently seen.
HUGS!
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“People’s Poet don’t die, we’ll kill ourselves if you do, but first we’ll take off all our clothes.” The Young Ones
I don’t know that Father Murphy was a spin off of Little House, because his character’s name on that show was Jonathon Garvey.
Also, I remember, in a classic moment of discontinuity, that Shannen Doherty was on Little House as Jenny, Laura and Almanzo’s orphaned niece, daughter of Royal Wilder. The discontinuity stems from the fact that a season or two before Laura and Almanzo had baby-sat Royal’s twin sons when he and his wife went on vacation. Next season, Royal is a single father of a daughter. Huh? I could be misremembering, but that’s how I recall it going.
Another “classic” moment of discontinuity occurred in the episode where Albert was a drug addict. That one ended with the epilogue that Albert would go on to become the town doctor some day. But in a later episode, Albert had some fatal disease and came back to town to die or some such horsepucky.
I watched way, way, way too much of that show in my youth, before I read the Little House books, and the biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Now I hate that show with the passion of 10 thousand suns for the liberties it took with Laura’s life. Michael Landon was a self-absorbed jerk.
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
I don’t know about him personally (seeing how I didn’t know him personally) but I appreciate the fact that Michael Landon was one of the few people in television that produced shows that I will let my children watch today. Growing up, I watched The Waltons and Little House – all pretty innocuous but at least they depicted families that loved each other and were respectful of each other. Look at what kids growing up now get to pick from: Buffy, Dawson’s Creek, and 90210, not to mention those horrendous Jerry Springer type shows. As a parent, I would appreciate an alternative to this garbage. As is, the t.v. is turned off most of the time.
Ok, I will admit it, i used to like some of those shows mentioned. Also almost everyone in my age bracket liked these shows :).
Small Wonder - I actually liked the show despite the utter corniness of it all
Out of This World - Yes I liked that one too. I was watching it when the Loma Prieta earthquake struck. I thought it was cool because it was set in an imaginary town just to the south of here.
Silver Spoons - Yup, was one of my favorites in elementary school. I think I have seen every episode.
I liked Full house for one season until the Olsen Twins could talk. I see the reruns and think ‘God, how could I have liked this torture?!’. My brother liked the show til it’s cancellation. I wish I could torture Bob Saget with paper cuts and smack the Olsen twins upside their heads!
Growing Pains. Surprised no one mentioned it. Growing up, i loved it but watching the re-runs on the Disney Channel, i can’t believe how sickeningly cute the show tried to be and how corny it really is!
-Saved by the Bell. I liked this one too. Screech got annoying, but watching that Mario Lopez made up for it. Now he’s on Pacific Blue, and thank god he lost that perm!.
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No offense, but uh yeah right, like it would get big ratings if it were all about witch craft. The title mentions the show is about Sabrina. The magic is the gimick to sell the show. Yes, I do like this show.
Be afraid, be very afraid… I am more than shocked to learn that someone actually liked Small Wonder and Out of This World. What horrible trite garbage. It would seem a worthy punishment for Hannibal Lector to be forced to watch repeats of them over and over again rather than the Christian garbage that they forced him to watch whence he was in his little cell.
Doobieous, how old were you whence you watched these shows? Please say “very young, or before five.” I like some preschool television shows, Sesame Street, Banana’s in Pajamas and such but never have I found such a complete lack of humor in a show that was supposed to be funny. Both of those shows were so bad that MST3K would not even take them over. BLECH!
My $0.02
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“People’s Poet don’t die, we’ll kill ourselves if you do, but first we’ll take off all our clothes.” The Young Ones
I’m with Doobieous, there’s a bunch of these shows that I watched at one time or another, and a few I still do. Of course, there are some shows I can’t believe I watched as a kid, e.g. Silver Spoons. Two shows I try to avoid at all costs: Sledge Hammer and Seinfeld. I’m sorry to all Seinfeld fans out there, I just don’t find him or his show funny.
You haven’t BEGUN to scratch the surface of TV show badness.
How about:
Captain Nice – William Daniels (!) as inept superhero
Mr. Terrific – Captain Nice’s competition in the inept superhero game (NOTE: These were both prime time series.)
My Living Doll – Inventor creates female robot. Really bad
Barefoot in the Park – after they tried out a series based on Neil Simon’s play on the anthology series “Love American Style” (and a pretty good pilot it was, too) they decided to make it a regular series. With one change – all the cast members were now black. It felt completely WRONG. It graphically illustrated how, even with the best intentions, you can’t write a part for black characters by simply writing it the same as for white characters, any more than you could write a female part exactly as you wrote for a guy.
and the all-time winner —
“Suicide Theater”. I found this on a compilation tape called “TV Turkeys”. I can’t believe this was a serious show – but it WAS made. I didn’t recognize the actor at first, until the very end, where he said “Well, whadda ya know…” and I recognized the voice from the same line in an episode of Star Trek (“Well whaada ya know… I finally got the Last Word!”) DeForrest Kelley starred as the inept suicider.
OK, I agree with everyone’s list so far, but to me, the absolute worst show of all-time has to be “Acapulco H.E.A.T.” Has anyone seen this piece of… well, to call it garbage would be an insult to garbage. But has anyone seen this monstrosity? I’ve actually only seen it one time, but I’ll never, ever forget the experience. I am now a changed man because of it. I think it was on at 1:00am on a late Saturday night (actually, I guess that’d be Sunday morning). Anyway, I couldn’t take my eyes off this “show.” I guess it was supposed to be one of those action/crime/cop shows, but OH MY GOD, it gave me a new appreciation for the masterpiece that Bay Watch is. I mean, why didn’t they just hold up the cue cards so we could all read along at home? And the stunts? You’ve never seen such a big pile of cheese before! Sorry little explosions and “stunt men” you could actually see preparing to get “blown up.” I could never figure out what the “H.E.A.T.” stood for, but I’d love to find that out. I laughed my ass off through the entire hour. The crew that does the cheesy religious program on my local pubic access channel laughs at Acapulco H.E.A.T!
But I never put the blame on all these horrible, horrible shows on the writers. Hey, they’re just trying to be creative. Good, bad or indifferent, they’re just being creative. But I put the blame on the TV executives who after hearing one of these sorry, sorry ideas says, “Ya know… I like it! Here’s a pile of money - let’s make it!”
But I gotta ask, who out there watches all these bad shows? Who watches all those carbon-copied action hero/private eye shows? I can barely sit through one of their promo’s, much less an entire show! I can’t even begin to name them all - Magnum PI, Heart to Heart, Walker Texas Ranger, Hunter, Renegade, Air Wolf - I’m sure I’m missing a ton of them. Who are they supposed to appeal to? Who gets into them? Talk about a snorefest! Yaaaafuckinaaaaawn.
I have very dim memories of a show that was made in the late '50s-early 1960’s-it starred the late lloyd Bridges, and was about a skin diver who found himself in all kinds of dangerous situations. The hilarious thing was-while he was underwater, the sound track had the noise of bubbles!
Must of cost at least $5.00 per episode!
That was “Sea Hunt”. I never watched it, so I can’t tell you how bad it was. I think they filmed it at Weekee Watchee springs in Florida (Home of the Mermaids – they used it because it was very clear water).
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But I gotta ask, who out there watches all these bad shows? Who watches all those carbon-copied action hero/private eye shows? I can barely sit through one of their promo’s, much less an entire show! I can’t even begin to name them
all - Magnum PI, Heart to Heart, Walker Texas Ranger, Hunter, Renegade, Air Wolf - I’m sure I’m missing a ton of them. Who are they supposed to appeal to? Who gets into them? Talk about a snorefest! Yaaaafuckinaaaaawn./
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Since you asked, I have watched some of these, and still do if I can’t find anything else to watch. They seem to appeal to boys in their early teens, and the women who find the stars attractive. I personally know a woman who simply can’t get enough Chuck Norris! Ya gotta admit, the writers of Magnum did have some good ideas, like when they set one episode in the '30s.
) about three sisters who are witches.