# TV series whose very existence drives you batshit insane **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 26, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041 "2012-04-26T17:57:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/61 "2012-04-27T01:26:27Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > :rolleyes: > > Jeez, you people are really driven batshit insane by the mere existence of these shows? > > A lot of these shows I have no interest in watching at all. So I don’t. That’s all it takes. Just don’t watch them if you don’t like them. If other people like that sort of thing, let them watch. No skin off my nose that the show exists. > > So far, the only sensible objection is the fake medium show. Don’t watch them? I WISH. I have to spend several hours a week with some elderly relatives who are obsessed with the Kardashians (did you know that show is on for hours, every day and every night? hour after hour, reruns and new?) I go over there and I’m a captive audience! Enough, I told them, we’re going to watch the fake medium show while I’m over here, or Dr. Phil, or hillbillies catching catfish by hand - turn off the damn Kardashians! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/62 "2012-04-27T01:46:29Z")
> [@Roadfood](#): > > …Has this medium _ever_ related something from “the dead” that some other currently living person did not already know? … This would be even easier to fake. “Did you know your departed husband was a cross-dresser when he went out of town and on the way to and from work had sex with stray dogs?” “No, I didn’t know any of that!” ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/63 "2012-04-27T02:04:28Z")
All of these things should go away. Except that if they went away, what would happen to The Soup? ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/64 "2012-04-27T03:03:11Z")
I thought I read somewhere that Anonymous has set it’s sites on Toddlers and Tiaras. Agree with them or not on their politics and tactics, I was thrilled to hear this. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/65 "2012-04-27T03:58:09Z")
> [@Musky\_Moon](#): > > I thought I read somewhere that Anonymous has set it’s sites on Toddlers and Tiaras. Agree with them or not on their politics and tactics, I was thrilled to hear this. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/66 "2012-04-27T04:54:00Z")
Any of those Ghost Hunter type shows, which I have never seen, but just the whole idea of them make my blood boil. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/67 "2012-04-27T05:03:55Z")
Finding Bigfoot is stupid, though the SCP Foundation’s [version of Bigfoot](http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1000) kind of makes for interesting headcanon. “Oh, they work for the Foundation, it all makes sense now!” ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/68 "2012-04-27T05:13:48Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Any of those Ghost Hunter type shows, which I have never seen, but just the whole idea of them make my blood boil. What bugs me is they don’t even try to show the property they are investigating, its a bunch of people in the dark screaming OMG DID YOU FEEL THAT? A COLD BREEZE! OMG SOMETHING JUST BRUSHED PAST ME, TOTALLY GUYS NOT JOKING! For hours and hours and hours and hours…:eek: My god who besides a brain damaged chimp could sit there and watch these shows? A small child could see the moronic trickery going on and turn away! ---
**Author:** ![straykat23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@straykat23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straykat23)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/69 "2012-04-27T05:36:47Z")
This hasn’t even been aired yet, but it’s the Russell Hantz (Survivor asshole) new show; definitely the worst of the worst. ---
**Author:** ![straykat23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@straykat23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straykat23)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/70 "2012-04-27T05:43:56Z")
Sorry! I haven’t been around here for a while and my link didn’t appear. Fucking cancer… I’ll try again somewhere…later. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/71 "2012-04-27T06:39:28Z")
> [@secretsmile36](#): > > You may think that not watching reality shows puts you on some kind of pedestal. It does not. You may think that _I said_ that not watching reality shows puts me on some kind of pedestal. I did not. At all. In fact, I actually mentioned two reality shows that I do watch. Read for comprehension. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/72 "2012-04-27T06:49:49Z")
I’m surprised that I’m the first one to mention _24_. I have a low tolerance for psychopaths being lauded as heroes. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/73 "2012-04-27T12:39:38Z")
> [@grude](#): > > What bugs me is they don’t even try to show the property they are investigating, its a bunch of people in the dark screaming OMG DID YOU FEEL THAT? A COLD BREEZE! OMG SOMETHING JUST BRUSHED PAST ME, TOTALLY GUYS NOT JOKING! > > For hours and hours and hours and hours…:eek: > > My god who besides a brain damaged chimp could sit there and watch these shows? A small child could see the moronic trickery going on and turn away! I’m with you on these. You know what I might watch? A ghost hunting show that was ACTUALLY skeptical. “Well, we heard this whispering noise up the back bedroom - here’s a recording _whoooshooshsooosh_ - so the next morning, taking advantage of the, you know, DAYLIGHT, we looked around and found the window frame wasn’t caulked very well on the outside. It was a windy night, and the breeze was whistling through the gap in the caulk. We replicated the sound using a Vornado aimed at the window.” ---
**Author:** ![Woeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Woeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Woeg)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/74 "2012-04-27T14:04:19Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > I’m with you on these. You know what I might watch? A ghost hunting show that was ACTUALLY skeptical. “Well, we heard this whispering noise up the back bedroom - here’s a recording _whoooshooshsooosh_ - so the next morning, taking advantage of the, you know, DAYLIGHT, we looked around and found the window frame wasn’t caulked very well on the outside. It was a windy night, and the breeze was whistling through the gap in the caulk. We replicated the sound using a Vornado aimed at the window.” When it first started, this is what Ghost Hunters was. They have long since abandoned debunking for the “WOO WOO DRAMA”. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/75 "2012-04-27T15:26:20Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > And, yes, phony psychics do use stooges. “Phony” psychics? Why the qualifier - aren’t they all? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/76 "2012-04-27T15:41:24Z")
> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#): > > Only recently moved into a place with cable. My first real exposure to many of the horribly sucky appalling shows already mentioned. > But the one whose very existence drives me batshit insane is “Toddlers with Tiaras”. No explanation necessary, one would hope. I concur simply because I beleve most of those parents should be up on child abuse charges. “Duck Dynasty” just from the commercials seems to be characters trying to act as retarded as possible. Three Stooges meets Jackass. At least stop trying to convince us it’s real. Suspension of disbelief only goes so far. Grey’s Anatomy. W T F is this still on the air. I saw the first two episodes of _Children’s Hospital_ on Adult Swim and the parody was better than the original. Half of History Channel and H2. I think the last show I saw was how Hitler’s brain communicated with a UFO via psychic abilities to convince Oswald and Jimmy Hoffa (the man on the Grassy Knoll) to kill Kennedy. The fact that Hoffa disappeared afterwards proves it as does Nostradamus’ prediction. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/77 "2012-04-27T17:41:30Z")
“What Would You Do?” is the worst kind of idiocy. No entertainment value. No educational value. No drama. No nothing. The only thing worse on TV is when ‘news’ programs substitute opinions for news. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/78 "2012-04-27T17:51:30Z")
> [@secretsmile36](#): > > Does anyone hear believe Long Island Medium lady can speak to the dead? How can you explain the things she knows about people? Is it all staged? You should have seen the John Edwards show. He was really amazing. Of course, all he did was cold-read and listen to recordings of people’s pre-show conversations, but he was a very talented actor/faker/psychic guy. > [@straykat23](#): > > This hasn’t even been aired yet, but it’s the Russell Hantz (Survivor asshole) new show; definitely the worst of the worst. Wow, I’m surprised they gave him a show. He’d have to be a pain to work with. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/79 "2012-04-27T17:55:37Z")
No mention of Dr. Oz? I mean, Toddlers and Tiaras is evil, but not “You can cure your cancer with eggplant” evil. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041/80 "2012-04-27T17:57:41Z")
The 700 Club. Back when Whose Line Is It Anyway? used to be on the Disney Family channel, we’d turn it on to go to sleep to, but the 700 Club was on right before it. Every time I tuned in early and saw Pat Robertson’s creepy face and listened to his crawly voice, I couldn’t get to the remote fast enough to shut it off. Note that while I do dislike televangelists as a class of people, Pat (and his equally creepy looking son) are the only ones who get this reaction from me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-whose-very-existence-drives-you-batshit-insane/620041.md?page=5)