# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/61 "2018-01-11T02:32:49Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > The Mickey Mouse Club > > Never been a fan of Disney. > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Or Annette Funicello I guess… Or Ryan Gosling, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Keri Russell or Britney Spears…😃 The only show/episode I can remember \*really \*hating was the Dennis The Menace Christmas episode that featured Jay North singing Silent Night. What a load of treacly tripe! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/62 "2018-01-11T02:36:11Z")
“The Lawrence Welk Show,” which my grandparents were addicted to. As I recall, nearly all the ads were for laxatives, denture adhesives, and pain relievers. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/63 "2018-01-11T02:41:10Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > The Watergate hearings may have been fascinating for adults, but for a 7 year old they were boring. I don’t remember watching, but I DO remember saying “Watergate” was my least favorite show with my parents / older siblings saying it was “important”. > No love for Soap Operas > I didn’t hate Road Runner / Bugs Bunny, but I always felt sorry for the carnivores (not Elmer). > I didn’t care for Sigmund the Sea Monster or HR Puff N Stuff, but I did love Land of the Lost. > > Brian I used to watch Art Fleming’s “Jeopardy” at noon every day, and I was furious that it kept getting pre-empted by the Watergate hearings. I loathed Sam Ervin and Jeb Stuart Magruder like you wouldn’t believe! ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/64 "2018-01-11T02:51:04Z")
Let me be another vote for (against?) the Watergate Hearings. I sympathize with whoever said the Kennedy assassination swamped the airwaves, not surprisingly, but one good thing TV networks did during the days of the 9/11 attacks is Nickelodeon kept their kids programming intact. I wish that we had more channels like that when I was a kid. Other hates: PBS fund-raisers, Jerry Lewis telethons, political conventions, and Billy Graham crusades that the local stations carried, in short, anything that interrupted our normal schedule. However watching space launches and moon landings were always OK! ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/65 "2018-01-11T02:56:49Z")
sad to say I didn’t understand the tiamein\ square protest and was pissed when it preempted the sat morning cartoons… ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/66 "2018-01-11T02:57:37Z")
_Timothy Churchmouse_. It was a little preachy Sunday School moral lesson of the week that aired on Sunday mornings, and I always hoped it would be like Saturday morning cartoons and it so wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/67 "2018-01-11T03:06:47Z")
heres another thing anyone remember when first run weekday cartoons became a thing and youd get 2 versions f the same cartoon ? like during the week on the smurfs had Johannes and pee-wee and the like and was made very cheaply by the b writing and drawing staff and the nicer A-list Saturday version and neither acknowledged anything that happened in the other … … the jaeel whites sonic and the teenage mutant turtles did this too … ---
**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 11, 2018, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/68 "2018-01-11T03:08:55Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > sad to say I didn’t understand the tiamein\ square protest and was pissed when it preempted the sat morning cartoons… It was Friday evening where I was, and they kept breaking into _ **Dallas** _. I was yelling at Dan Rather to **SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!** :mad: ---
**Author:** ![svd678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@svd678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/svd678)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/69 "2018-01-11T03:38:50Z")
How ironic that The Lawrence Welk Show is the only music show now on TV! Westerns were what TV was, in the early days. I used to get upset when baseball/football usurped the adventure stories, like Jack Armstrong, All-American Boy and Sky King on radio. I’m still upset when a football run-over delays or usurps 60 Minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/70 "2018-01-11T03:47:09Z")
Sports, of almost any kind. I was waiting for the movie Heidi to come on in 1968 after the Jets V Raiders game. I was pissed that my movie was late. I loved Heidi! I remember Saturdays and Sundays as being TV wastelands of sports and other uninteresting programming. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/71 "2018-01-11T03:54:19Z")
On Saturday mornings, networks would occasionally show reruns of [H. R. Pufnstuf](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orUNj09oN4U). I never understood the show’s attraction. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/72 "2018-01-11T04:59:46Z")
[The Mighty Hercules](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEHeqz-zbwMhttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qqL0jzFpRNY/UXvgl07QM_I/AAAAAAAAMw0/l987MCXZgKw/s1600/5herc.jpg) (1960’s prime time cartoon). Granted, the opening [theme song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laoBvt9CcQo) kicked ass. And, Herc was a pretty cool dude. And, I certainly wouldn’t kick [Helena](https://orig00.deviantart.net/145c/f/2010/268/4/d/mighty_hercules_helena_stoned_by_stonespell-d2zhfsr.gif)out of bed for eating crackers… But, [Seinfeld] [_Newton_](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6FvsPVK1BkY/hqdefault.jpg)! [/Seinfeld] aka “Newt”, that liminal helium-voiced centaur with the shit-eating grin who repeated every stupid line twice??? Man, I just wanted to horse-whip that butt-headed beast of burden each and every time he opened his horsey mouth. I still do. In fact, I’d like to send him to the factory, render him into a tub of glue, then use that glue to hang bulletins throughout the land proclaiming he wasn’t half man/half horse, he was half moron/half jackass. …and, don’t even get me started on that pan-pipe playing cornholer, [Tewt](http://pariedolia.weebly.com/uploads/4/3/6/1/43615323/3684286_orig.jpg)! ---
**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 11, 2018, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/73 "2018-01-11T06:33:42Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > …and, don’t even get me started on that pan-pipe playing cornholer, [**Tewt**](http://pariedolia.weebly.com/uploads/4/3/6/1/43615323/3684286_orig.jpg)! Surely you mean “Toot”? :dubious: 😕 ---
**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 11, 2018, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/74 "2018-01-11T06:40:03Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > I remember Saturdays and Sundays as being TV wastelands of sports and other uninteresting programming. _The human drama of athletic competition! The thrill of victory … and the agony of defeat!_😛 On Sundays, you could always switch the channel and watch Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler on _ **Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom** _: **MARLIN:** I’ll stay here in the Land Rover … while Jim goes downrange to wrestle the fierce Bengal tiger! **FOWLER:** (_Australian accent_) Mind you, Bengal tigers are tricky beasts … can’t take your eyes off 'em for a second! ---
**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 11, 2018, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/75 "2018-01-11T06:40:39Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > Sports, of almost any kind. I was waiting for the movie Heidi to come on in 1968 after the Jets V Raiders game. I was pissed that my movie was late. I loved Heidi! Ummm…the “Heidi Game” was infamous for NBC _not_ delaying the start of “Heidi” when the Jets / Raiders game ran long. It was probably one of the last times that a TV network let that happen. > **[Heidi Game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game)** > > The Heidi Game or Heidi Bowl was a 1968 American Football League (AFL) game between the Oakland Raiders and the visiting New York Jets. The contest, held on November 17, 1968, was notable for its exciting finish, in which Oakland scored two touchdowns in the final minute to win the game 43–32. However, NBC, the game's television broadcaster, decided to break away from its coverage on the East Coast to broadcast the television film Heidi, which caused many viewers to miss the Raiders' comeback. > ... ---
**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 11, 2018, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/76 "2018-01-11T06:52:21Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > The first thing among prime time I think of is _The Lawrence Welk Show_. Do I have to say why? > > Several other shows tried to match Welk in awfulness. The closest was probably _Sing Along With Mitch_. > > There were some pretty awful kid’s shows, some locally produced. I didn’t see the point of _Romper Room_, _Captain Kangaroo_, _Ding Dong School_ etc. > > There was a regionally distributed kids show called [Wunda Wunda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunda_Wunda) that was unbelievably bad. There was another kids show in the northwest that I was dimly aware of as a child, [Boomerang](https://youtu.be/1DIWL6Uiz68). Found out years later that the host was Marni Nixon, who dubbed the singing for lead actresses in films like _West Side Story_, and _My Fair Lady_. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/77 "2018-01-11T08:59:24Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > The Brady Bunch. I still hate The Brady Bunch. I wished for a Brady Bunch Meets The Manson Family spinoff movie. I think it would work better as Scooby Doo meets the Manson Family. (_The Venture Bros._ kinda did it.) > [@salinqmind](#): > > I always wondered how the wife could allow the Pillsbury dough boy to endlessly impregnate her. [_Just what is it that makes yesterday’s children do doughy, so pasty?_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_what_is_it_that_makes_today%27s_homes_so_different,_so_appealing%3F) (Hey, it was that or a “Man of Pressurized Dough, Woman of Kleenex” riff on the biscuit cans… ) ---
**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 11, 2018, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/78 "2018-01-11T11:52:12Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > **FOWLER:** (_Australian accent_) Mind you, Bengal tigers are tricky beasts … can’t take your eyes off 'em for a second! Jim Fowler is American. Perhaps you’ve conflated him with Steve Irwin? But Marlin Perkins was famous for letting Fowler do the dangerous work while he (Perkins)m supervised from the Land Rover ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/79 "2018-01-11T12:20:11Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Surely you mean “Toot”? :dubious: 😕 Nope, [Tewt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mighty_Hercules), the satyr. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/80 "2018-01-11T12:36:36Z")
Hanna-Barbera cartoons were crap. So were most of the superhero type ones. Yes, I was a Warner Bros. fan 🙂 I didn’t like Perry Mason because I was too young to understand the plot. As somebody else said, once you’re adult and catch it on MeTV, you understand why your parent(s) loved it. I didn’t like most dramas nor soap operas. I still cannot understand Lawrence Welk’s appeal either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346.md?page=5)