# Things they could remove from TV forever
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 27, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677 "2009-02-27T16:43:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/1 "2009-02-27T16:43:41Z")
The thread about “networks that have slipped the most” has some great comments and opinions on that topic.
This is to let off steam about stuff on TV that you don’t care to watch, don’t watch, and couldn’t care less if they took off TV and never brought it back.
A starter list I could endorse:
Wrestling
Poker
NASCAR
Fashion shows
American Idol
David Caruso
Billy Mays (that screaming huckster for weird cleaning products)
FOX News
Ann Coulter
Nancy Grace
Televangelists
Damn, if I’m not feeling lighter after that.
If I have ofended you with items I would abolish, you’ll just have to watch that much closer and/or get some friends to watch. 😉
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/2 "2009-02-27T16:48:13Z")
“Perhaps you’ve been injured in an accident.”
Emeril
Lifetime, AKA the “It’s OK to be a frigid bitch” network
Home shopping
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/3 "2009-02-27T16:49:49Z")
Sports
Infomercials
Barney the Dinosaur
Caillou
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/4 "2009-02-27T16:51:34Z")
The Disney Channel
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/5 "2009-02-27T16:54:06Z")
Every single one of those god-awful “What Not to Wear”-style shows where they tear someone apart for not being stylish and trendy and attractive and then give them what amounts to a pittance of money to “re-build” their wardrobe or whatever.
I respond very angrily to “if it weren’t for our help, you’d still be a total loser”-themed “entertainment.”
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/6 "2009-02-27T16:58:44Z")
the entire laundry list of near-terminal symptoms you get from taking some new “doctors recommend” pill or tonic
ask your doctor if [placebo of choice] is right for you
tell your doctor if you’re taking harmful drugs
Lee Corso
Lou Holtz
Lawrence Welk
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/7 "2009-02-27T17:05:55Z")
All so-called “reality” shows, which don’t resemble reality in the slightest.
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/8 "2009-02-27T17:08:21Z")
> [@Zeldar](#):
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> Billy Mays (that screaming huckster for weird cleaning products)
Billy Mays here with amazing new MAYS-AWAY! Just spray it on your TV, and I’ll never appear agai…
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### Author:  [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/9 "2009-02-27T17:12:15Z")
I know a lot of people love them, but I hate all the CSI-type corpsy-porn shows and their gruesome commercials. Now they’re all going syndicated too.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/10 "2009-02-27T17:25:19Z")
I agree with all of the above save \*\*MsWhatsit’\*\*s attack on sports.
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/11 "2009-02-27T17:26:40Z")
> [@tdn](#):
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> The Disney Channel
☹ Yup, but it wasn’t always so.
Sunday morning televised church services.
Pseudoscience on supposedly educational stations. (MonsterQuest, UFO Hunters, anything about hauntings.)
Seasons-long occupation-profile shows. (Ice Road Truckers, American Loggers)
Animal Planet.
The View.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/12 "2009-02-27T17:36:41Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> I agree with all of the above save \*\*MsWhatsit’\*\*s attack on sports.
For my tastes/interests, football (college and NFL) is all that’s really needed, and I wouldn’t really cry if they quit carrying the Olympics. I’m okay with golf and tennis, but rarely watch either.
With no offense to you and **Chefguy** and other food preparation specialists, I could do with a lot fewer cooking shows. Mainly Rachael Ray. Maybe they could kill two birds with one stone (if they are trying to please me) and replace Rachael with Martha Stewart. She’s just too funny to do away with altogether.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/13 "2009-02-27T17:54:02Z")
> [@garygnu](#):
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> ☹ Yup, but it wasn’t always so.
I guess I came to it late, then. _shudder_
I made a little discovery about children’s programming recently. It sounds completely different than other shows. People don’t speak in normal voices – it’s either squeaky, doofy, cutesy, or otherwise weird. And the sound effects are over the top. There are far too many sproings, slide whistles, and cymbals. And the sounds are woven together into a tapestry of constant assault on the ears. It never lets up for more than half a second or so.
Turn. That. Shit. OFF.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/14 "2009-02-27T17:56:09Z")
I’m almost with you on that. What I can do without is all the rip-off “Cooking Challenge” shows. Leave **Iron Chef** (both versions) and **The Next Food Network Star** and dump the rest. Rachael used to be my sweetheart, but her voice has gotten so rough I can’t stand it anymore. If she isn’t going to be cooking nude, I’m done with her.
Football can vanish for all I care, so long as I get Dodger Baseball every day. 😃
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/15 "2009-02-27T18:06:28Z")
Food Network used to be great; now it’s nothing but silly competitions, like “who can make a meat-based replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa the fastest?” Apparently they did this to attract guys, who like competition. Fail.
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### Author:  [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/16 "2009-02-27T18:28:04Z")
Shows that show people vomiting. Please make it stop.
The only redeeming feature of the Disney chanel is [Shaun the Sheep](http://www.shaunthesheep.com/), which is quite funny.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/17 "2009-02-27T18:31:30Z")
Everything but _Chuck_, _Scrubs_, and anything involving Joss Whedon.
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### Author:  [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/18 "2009-02-27T18:48:16Z")
I wish my dish network would let me shut off the endless religious channels. Then scanning through yesterday there was "hair secrets of the stars’ then "diet secrets of the stars’ etc . Perhaps we can all get “air brushing of the stars”.
The shopping channels must go.
Ghost and angel programs must be eliminated.
Ann Colter should have a cage match against Nancy Grace. I would watch that.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/19 "2009-02-27T18:50:32Z")
> [@Aesiron](#):
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> Everything but … anything involving Joss Whedon.
> [@gonzomax](#):
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> Ghost and angel programs must be eliminated.
Perhaps you two should talk this over.
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-they-could-remove-from-tv-forever/487677/20 "2009-02-27T19:25:33Z")
> [@tdn](#):
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> Lifetime, AKA the “It’s OK to be a frigid bitch” network
I call Lifetime 'The women getting off watching other women be victimized network."
Also:
Anything involving Rosie O’Donnell.
Loud commercials.
Network logos in the corner.
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