“Pinwheel”. It was a fairly early Nickelodeon show. Horrible, horrible puppetry, lame set design, and the show was like 4 hours long! Please tell me I’m not the only person who remembers this show.
I never saw it myself, but one of my friends said that the “Emeril” sitcom made him feel bad for television as a whole.
Yes, I remember Pinwheel. I’m convinced that it’s main segments were written on the Bizarro world. The characters behaved so stupidly, even for kiddie TV. Too squeaky-clean for even little kids, no sense of wonder or fun, just “think others” lessons, over and over. Although some of the short films weren’t too bad. There was a series of silent stop-motion shorts involving two characters playing in a vast world of building blocks and wooden toys that were actually quite good, even my dad thought they were entertaining. Oh yeah, almost forgot…Gotcha last!!!
Pinwheel, despite being flat, was a very cultured show. They had cartoons from all over the world in between the show’s skits.
I would have to call Perfect Stranger worse that the BBH, and maybe a few other offerings from Miller-Boyett.
That is a pretty tall order. Of course there being many different ways for shows to be wastes of film I can nominate the following.
“The Duck Factory” - It was like eating cardboard, only with your eyes. And you can’t even have the fun of making fun of it. It was so boring to watch you could feel yourself growing older.
The Dumplings: The horribly overrated Norman Lear* decides that “Making fun of fat people is a jolly way to spend a half hour”.
It starred James Coco and no-one else I’ve ever heard of.
Fenris
*Remember, he gets no credit for “All in the Family”: It was a British show first (called “Till Death Do Us Part”), he just < cough> swip…copied it.
Is it a good thing that I have no idea what any of these shows were?
How about Enos or Shields and Yarnell ?
Birds of Prey was right up there for me.
I only saw about 3 minutes of one episode, but I remember the Bunch singing Van McCoy’s “The Hustle.” Now, McCoy’s single was primarily an instrumental, but the Bradies “improved” on that by singing the flute part!
Just imagine the whole, untalented family singing “doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo… DO THE HUSTLE!” For a full 3 minutes!
Although… for sheer, sick inappropriateness, it’s hard to top the record they made, featuring American Pie." It’s sort of scary to hear Bobby and Cindy singing about “Satan laughing with delight.”
Joe Millionaire
Married by America
Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?
Get a Life
Suddenly Susan
Get a Life was supposed to be italicized. Sorry!