# TV shows you hated as a child **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 10, 2018, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346 "2018-01-10T18:15:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/221 "2018-01-16T01:28:21Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > “Gilligan’s Island” > > And yet we watched it every fucking summer afternoon. I still don’t know why. Probably because there was nothing else on other than soap operas and game shows. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/222 "2018-01-16T01:33:27Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > I think it’s: > > It’s the New Zoo Revue > Comin’ right to you > Where three (adjective: amazing? magical? nightmare?) animals > \*\*Tell you what to do. > \*\*Delicate and feminine is Henrietta Hippo. > (some name) Owl is wise and he’s smart The three (delightful) animals \*\*have fun with what they do. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/223 "2018-01-16T01:42:03Z")
WHY ARE WE FIXATING ON THE EVIL ZOO REVUE?!?!?!\* (Also, apparently nobody remembers the owl and frog’s lines, or Dougie and Emily’s (?) lyrics) \*As an aside, on the Giraffeboard, a poster mentioned Red Skelton (you know, the big guy who’s gimmick was to act like a mentally challenged 4 year old and his tag-line was “I dood it”) who skeeves me out just as much. I apparently have an aversion to adults playing stupid children. Lily Tomlin had a little girl character who was slightly less creepy than Skelton’s, but only just slightly less. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/224 "2018-01-16T02:45:44Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > \*As opposed to New Zoo Revue where an apparently 50-ish Henrietta Hippo needs to learn lessons appropriate to a 4 year old like “Sharing is…good” It’s not so bad when you realize she went on to do[porn.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097858/)Okay, not really, but we can dream. And it’s closer to true than it really has any right to be. ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/225 "2018-01-16T03:14:07Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > Also, the Bugaloos were part of the Krofft family of shows and were psychotic and brilliant: Martha Raye was Benita Bizare who wanted to capture the Bugaloos who were what would happen if Herman’s Hermits married “Up With People” and produced bee-children so she could manage their singing careers. This…_THIS_ is entertainment, people\* (and to tie it all together, the ever mediocre but rarely terrible Johnny Whitaker was in Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, which was another Krofft show. See how it all fits together people :eek: ) Yes, I do see and appreciate how the World Sid & Marty Krofft fits together, and I loved the Bugaloos and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters. When I got older and began watching classic movies, I always smile when I spot a young Mary Wickes. Nice to know she had a career playing maids before she was a maid on that show. I always felt like there must have been some collaboration (or rip off) of the McDonald Land characters because they sure did look an awful lot like something out of Sid & Marty Krofft, especially the Mayor. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/226 "2018-01-16T04:05:14Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Very. Must be the first banning triggered by a Café Society thread about a 60s tv show casting issue … I’d expect that from a newbie. but not someone who’s been here since 1999! :eek: When I was a kid, my dad liked a PBS interview program called “Kup’s Show” that I loathed, but do keep in mind that I was a kid and I would probably enjoy a program like that now. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/227 "2018-01-16T04:32:51Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > WHY ARE WE FIXATING ON THE EVIL ZOO REVUE?!?!?!\* (Also, apparently nobody remembers the owl and frog’s lines, or Dougie and Emily’s (?) lyrics) > \*As an aside, on the Giraffeboard, a poster mentioned Red Skelton (you know, the big guy who’s gimmick was to act like a mentally challenged 4 year old and his tag-line was “I dood it”) who skeeves me out just as much. I apparently have an aversion to adults playing stupid children. Lily Tomlin had a little girl character who was slightly less creepy than Skelton’s, but only just slightly less. You’d hate Mexican TV. It’s full of this sort of crap. ---
**Author:** ![pdhenry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pdhenry/32/5561_2.png) [@pdhenry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pdhenry)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/228 "2018-01-16T04:40:15Z")
I remember coming across Teletubbies for the first time. I was flipping channels and - say, what’s this? 15 minutes later I was still standing in front of the TV, mesmerized. Mind you, I was well into my 30’s. I understand the power it must have had on mostly non-verbal little kids. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/229 "2018-01-16T05:04:27Z")
> [@pdhenry](#): > > I remember coming across Teletubbies for the first time. I was flipping channels and - say, what’s this? 15 minutes later I was still standing in front of the TV, mesmerized. Mind you, I was well into my 30’s. > > I understand the power it must have had on mostly non-verbal little kids. I think it captures the acid experience much better than, say, that scene in _Easy Rider_. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/230 "2018-01-16T05:15:16Z")
> [@Grumbacher\_Red](#): > > I always felt like there must have been some collaboration (or rip off) of the McDonald Land characters because they sure did look an awful lot like something out of Sid & Marty Krofft, especially the Mayor. You are exactly right. It started out as collaboration, then became rip-off. Short version: McDonald’s ad agency (Needham, Harper & Steers) approached Sid & Marty Krofft, and asked them to develop a proposal for using the Pufnstuf characters for a McDonald’s ad campaign. After the Kroffts did so, and the agency told them it would be going ahead, the agency then suddenly cancelled the campaign. However, the agency was, in fact, going ahead with the campaign, just with slightly-modified versions of the characters, so they could avoid having to involve (or pay) the Kroffts – they even hired former Krofft employees to work on it. The Kroffts sued Needham and McDonald’s for copyright infringement, and won. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid\_%26\_Marty\_Krofft\_Television\_Productions\_Inc.\_v.\_McDonald's\_Corp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_%26_Marty_Krofft_Television_Productions_Inc._v._McDonald%27s_Corp). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/231 "2018-01-16T05:31:06Z")
> [@pdhenry](#): > > I remember coming across Teletubbies for the first time. I was flipping channels and - say, what’s this? 15 minutes later I was still standing in front of the TV, mesmerized. Mind you, I was well into my 30’s. > > I understand the power it must have had on mostly non-verbal little kids. > [@JKellyMap](#): > > I think it captures the acid experience much better than, say, that scene in _Easy Rider_. Ain’t neither of this got shit on Boohbah. [https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=boobah&view=detail&mid=C7056518484F55A933D7C7056518484F55A933D7&FORM=VIRE](https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=boobah&view=detail&mid=C7056518484F55A933D7C7056518484F55A933D7&FORM=VIRE) Problem is, that was the “Brown” acid. The bad stuff. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/232 "2018-01-16T05:33:47Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I’d expect that from a newbie. but not someone who’s been here since 1999! :eek: > > When I was a kid, my dad liked a PBS interview program called “Kup’s Show” that I loathed, but do keep in mind that I was a kid and I would probably enjoy a program like that now. Irv Kupcinet! I think the logo for the show was a loving cup. I thought it was dull as dust when I was a kid, but like you, I’d find it interesting now. Does anyone remember a show called _That Was the Week That Was_? I found it dull as a kid because I didn’t quite get satire, and the song at the beginning seemed to go on forever. but I bet I’d enjoy it now. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/233 "2018-01-16T06:01:53Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > Does anyone remember a show called _That Was the Week That Was_? I found it dull as a kid because I didn’t quite get satire, and the song at the beginning seemed to go on forever. but I bet I’d enjoy it now. I was way too young to even remember its original run, but have developed an appreciation for it. I’m a Tom Lehrer fan for one thing, and one of his albums was a collection of songs he wrote for the show. I even found a CD of some bits from the show, edited so as to sound like two full episodes. And I’ve seen bits and pieces from it in other places, like youtube. There were British and American versions of TW3, and it seems they could both be pretty vicious; makes _The Daily Show_ look like _Mr. Rogers Neighborhood_. Not safe for work (language and characters):[Really, really not safe for work.](https://youtu.be/dOKqzJJvEOw)It was not a kids’ show. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/234 "2018-01-16T06:03:34Z")
There was a music type kids show on after Mr. Rogers. The guy was Cat Steven’s brother, I think. I remember thinking that was cool. My little sister always wanted to change the channel so I never really watched the show. I watched way too many cartoons as an older child because of my younger sibs were way too loud and I baby-sat, a bunch. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/235 "2018-01-16T06:11:00Z")
The one I despised more than anything was _Dark Shadows_. It was just molasses and not at all amusing. Then there was this thing called _Roger Ramjet_ that even as a child I could tell was shit. As far as the Watergate hearings, I watched them just about every day after school. I am not sure how much I understood as a 7th grader, but it felt like something I ought to pay attention to. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/236 "2018-01-16T06:49:49Z")
> [@pdhenry](#): > > I remember coming across Teletubbies for the first time. I was flipping channels and - say, what’s this? 15 minutes later I was still standing in front of the TV, mesmerized. Mind you, I was well into my 30’s. > > I understand the power it must have had on mostly non-verbal little kids. I first noticed that show in the middle of a NyQuil coma. I was asleep on my mother’s couch, and I rolled over onto the remote. I woke up to the baby in the sun, and I truly thought that I was hallucinating. As a child, possibly in the 6-7 year old age range, I remember asking my father why Johnny Quest’s dog Bandit couldn’t get the Old Yeller treatment. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/237 "2018-01-16T06:56:06Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > There was a music type kids show on after Mr. Rogers. The guy was Cat Steven’s brother, I think. I remember thinking that was cool. My little sister always wanted to change the channel so I never really watched the show. I watched way too many cartoons as an older child because of my younger sibs were way too loud and I baby-sat, a bunch. I bet you’re thinking of “Make A Wish.” The guitar guy was Harry Chapin’s brother, Tom. Artwork by Peter Maxx? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/238 "2018-01-16T06:58:17Z")
one show I was waaay too old for but my mentally disabled brother loved …bananas in pajamas…I can sing the theme song because they had an hour or two of it and I’d hear in my sleep and I have the doll that plays the song at my aunts house that I got him for Christmas … ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/239 "2018-01-16T07:39:24Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > It was not a kids’ show. The hot babe in that clip is Millicent Martin, who later played Daphne Moon’s mother Gertrude in _ **Frasier** _. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/240 "2018-01-16T07:52:13Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > The hot babe in that clip is Millicent Martin, who later played Daphne Moon’s mother Gertrude in _ **Frasier** _. Everybody has a past. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346.md?page=13)