You should watch The Planets Funniest Animals on Animal Planet. The jokes that the host, Matt Galant, say, make Saget’s jokes look brilliant in comparison.
The funny thing about Saget is that before ‘Full House’ he was just about the dirtiest comedian out there. It was kinda funny hearing stories about people who had seen ‘Full House’ going to see Saget and walking out after 2 minutes :D.
Ever see Saget in Half Baked?
Saget:
"Marijuana is not a drug. I used to suck dick for coke. Now that’s an addiction. You ever suck some dick for marijuana?"
(I pulled the quote from IMDB.COM)
Here’s a little extra rant to go: the apostrophe goes before the 70, not after.
I felt sad for Saget on Full House … I saw his stand-up and to see him dulled to nothing was depressing!
Anyone whom hates Saget should see his stand up … he’s incredibly funny! Dave Coulier, too! Dave had this whole routine on farts that was hysterical, saw it on HBO back in the 80’s …
I don’t know, I kind of liked full house when it was on. But are you only complaining about his humor because he wasn’t raunchy any more? Or did you have other problems with it?
Perfect Strangers
It lasted three seasons according to epguides.com. Ended in 2000. And you know what? I still see it on TV. My local FOX affiliate plays it Sunday nights as soon as the national programming is over. Perhaps that’s why it bothers me so much. Shows that lasted 66 episodes and sucked in the first place don’t belong in syndication.
Good god, how could we get this far in the thread with nobody mentioning “Family Matters”…someone once said hell was a place where the tv could only get one channel , couldn’t be turned off and “Family Matters” was playing 24 hours a day…Urkel :shudder:…
I actually like bad TV shows. I watch and I know it’s bad, but I laugh anyway. Oh, that’s right, they should be bad sitcoms. I can’t sit through bad action shows, even if they are pretending to be funny. Dukes of Hazzard, Charlie’s Angels and The A-Team.
There have been recent ones, but I wouldn’t call them “hits” Cleopatra 2525, Silk Stalkings, VIP, Fast Lane to name the few that my teenaged son and wanna-be teenaged husband just loooooove. They watched Baywatch too, but they didn’t think it was a good show. Just very jiggley.
I never understood the appeal of Seinfeld. I think I’ve only actually sat through two or three episodes, and usually when somebody else was trying to convince me of how great it was. The characters were all just too irritating and whiny and stupid for me to get into it.
I never was interested in Baywatch either, or, as I called it, T&A watch.
Charlies Angels would pretty much fall under the detective shows of the 70’s I talked about earlier. Shows like that, Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, Barnaby Jones…
Hey, did anybody notice, in Barnaby Jones, the very few episodes I watched, it seemed like Buddy Epson just sat behind his desk making phone calls all day, while the two younger characters did all the work, and at the end he’d just show up.
Come to think of it, a lot of mystery and detective shows were pretty bad. Murder She Wrote, everywhere Jessica went, all the cops and detectives were inept. I never bothered even trying to watch the Father Doweling Mysteries. I watched one or two episodes of Diagnosis Murder :rolleyes:
Oh oh, I’m rambling, so I’ll just say one more thing, then shut up. Two more “Hits” I didn’t like.
- Mr. Belvedere. It seemed to be like a bad and pale imitation of shows like Growing Pains and Family Ties.
- DR. Quinn, Medicine Woman. I don’t even know where to begin with this one.
I never watched it when it was being made, but now it’s on at a time when, nothing else is really on, so I watch it. It has its moments, but I don’t think it’s as great as everybody says. And a lot of the “Talked about eppisodes” didn’t seem like a big deal to me. But, that’s just my opinion.
For me it is easier to sit through bad action shows than sit-coms. I did enjoy Dukes of Hazzard and the A-Team, though shows like Family Matters, Perfect Strangers to me are unwatchable.
Most dramas from the 1970s not named “The Rockford Files” had a lot of problems.
Do’h!
I’m going to have to say The Simpsons.
ducks flying bottle
Ok, just kidding. I’m going to have to agree with Seinfeld as well. Sometimes it’s on as background noise and when I take a moment to watch the characters are such annoying self-centered twits I can’t help but to totally dislike them and feel nothing but satisfaction when something awful happens to them. Which means that I’m taking television waaaay too seriously, I know.
Another one I don’t get is any of the CSI incarnations. While I feel that the plot twists are somewhat fun, they aren’t as intelligent or twisted as they are on Law and Order. Also I feel the dialog is flat and stilted and often delivered in such an uneffected manner as to also remove any sort of feeling for the character. I realize I might be speaking heresy, but I’m standing by my opinions here.
In general, '50s TV comedies are almost impossible for younger viewers to even wrap their minds around - they can’t believe that there was a time that was even remotely like those shows indicate.
That said, the appeal of I Love Lucy absolutely boggles my mind. It’s the WORST of that era of shows, IMHO.
Home Improvement was unbearably bad.
Malcolm in the Middle stinks almost every time I happen to watch a few minutes of it.
Will and Grace is tiresome. Not awful, just tiresome.
ALL of the reality shows make me hide my face in embarrassment when I see even a commercial for them.
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Wow, so many Will and Grace haters. I’ve only started watching it recently myself, but I like it so far.
Okay, want one that (I don’t think) hasn’t been mentioned here?
Cheers
Why this was a hit, and why it had to go for eleven years is beyond me. Not one of those characters was likable, or anybody I would want to associate with. I kept hoping that someone would take Carla’s tray and wrap it around her head. And bitch-slap Diane, kick Sam in the nuts, and slam Norm’s head in the door for good measure.
I remember the finale, or more accurately, the Tonight Show “interview” with the cast. They were all drunk as skunks, completely unprofessional. How appropriate.
I must say, the “Must See TV” attitude people had about Cheers kept me from watching Friends for years, which I regret because I love that show now!