# 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:** 5
**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 11, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/81 "2018-01-11T13:18:41Z")
> [@DinoR](#): > > It’s not just you, although I am not embarrased by it. I was even the right age when I first saw it. It was a slow building hate, though. I was supposed to like it. I wanted to like it at first. It kept offering what seemed like it would be interesting, especially visits to the Magic Kingdom, but consistently kept not delivering. Over time constantly underperforming even my lowering expectations built up a real hate for the show until I stopped watching in disgust. I have been chastised so much as an adult for saying I didn’t like it, I guess I have shamed and guilted into being embarrassed for hating Nice Guy Fred Rogers, lol! But yes, the whole show was lame as a busted-leg horse. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/82 "2018-01-11T13:22:07Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > [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)! Ah, yes. I didn’t HATE it, but it clearly waassn’t good. I admit I watchied it. Newton was the _Jimmy Two Times_ of the mythological world. some other awful cartoons you might recall: \*\*Dodo, the Kid from Outer Space Clutch Cargo Space Angel\*\* Those last two were the 'almost no movement" kind of cartoons where they decided not to animate mouth motions, so you either had a microphone or something blocking a view of their mouth, or else they used that creepy Syntha-Vox technique, where the superimposed footage of someone’s actual lips moving over the drawing. You can see it in the movie _Pulp Fiction_ where Clutch Cargo is playing on the TV as Christopher Walken gives the kid playing a young Bruce Willis his dad’s watch. Or you can google it on YouTube. **The Beagles** – it was supposed to be a parody of The Beatles. For that matter: **The Beatles** – a TV cartoon using Beatles songs and voice actors imitating the Beatles. This cartoon is the reason that the real Beatles refused to perform the spoken lines in the movie _yellow Submarine_ – they thought it would be just like the TV show. It wasn’t until they saw the finished product, with its Peter Max-like graphics, that they agreed to appear in that final filmed portion. **The Lone Ranger** – as a cartoon. He faced wild.wild West-ish science fictiony enemies Of course, there were some weord and bright spots. I recommend thes, if you can find them: **Crusader Rabbit** – the earliest CR cartoons were by Jay Ward, and are sort of a practice run for Rocky and Bullwinkle, with the diminutive boyish hero and his tall, strong, and dumb companion (Ragland T. Tiger). They also had a villain in frock coat, cape, top hat, and handlebar moustache – Dudley Nightshade – who was basically a taller version of Snidely Whiplash. the later cartoons – which includes most of the ones I watched – were actually made by a successor company, with no Jay Ward input, although they managed to maintain his wacky sensibility and sense of humor. **Colonel Bleep** – the adventures of a alien space officer, with his sidekicks Scratch (a caveman) and Squeak (a marionette). I kid you not. One of the weirdest kid’s cartoons ever. It gets points from me for having an alien as not only a good guy, but the central character. The show used just about every SF trope in the book. And every single cliche. **The Adventures of Felix the Cat** – “From Trans-Lux” , as the closing credits said. This was my childhood intro to Felix. I had no idea that he had a long prioer history in comic strips and cartoons (and televisdion – he was arguably the first TV star, being roadcast in the 1920s!!). So to me, Felix the Cat was a character who had a Magic Bag of Tricks and said “Right-ee-o!” His opponents included The Professor and his bulldog-headed henchman, Rock Bottom, and also the evil robot The Master Cylinder. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/83 "2018-01-11T13:22:21Z")
> [@pdhenry](#): > > 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 “I’ll hover here in the helicopter while Jim approaches the jaquar with the dart gun. Hmmm, Jim seems to have missed. Jaguars can run at 45 miles an hour…Jim seems to be doing about 44. You can get the best life insurance from Mutual of Omaha.” ---
**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 11, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/84 "2018-01-11T13:28:25Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > “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. Geritol! It was brought to you by Geritol. And lots of Polygrip ads. 😛 In our area it aired on Sunday evenings and my Grandmother would watch it and for some reason I would walk over to her house on those night and watch it with her. She loved that Champagne Lady older woman singer. It didn’t seem like an out-of-place show to me since it was the era of the variety show. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/85 "2018-01-11T13:28:56Z")
Sometimes at night I wake up in a cold sweat and I can still hear it… “My Three Sons…da da da daaaaaa…” :eek::eek::eek::eek: ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/86 "2018-01-11T14:06:01Z")
> [@whitetho](#): > > How could you dislike “Dale and Gail” singing [_One Toke Over the Line_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg)? :p:p:p:p This a prime example of what I was talking about in [this](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=846699) thread (see post 22)Thanks, **whitetho** ; you have me cracking up! ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/87 "2018-01-11T15:08:08Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > Hee Haw. It was on just before the Muppet Show, and my parents would watch it while I waited for the Muppets to come on. I can’t stand most country music and the kind of hillbilly/hick humor that I seem to remember being a big part of that show. Thank you for this. I remember hating Hee Haw. But I couldn’t remember why the hell I was watching it if I hated it so much. Now I remember, I was waiting for the Muppets! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kimberly1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7ab992/32.png) [@Kimberly1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimberly1979)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/88 "2018-01-11T15:13:17Z")
I feel your pain I hated that show as well and I hate country music to this day. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/89 "2018-01-11T15:20:15Z")
When I was a kid, there was a local religious show called “[Rock of Ages](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z4fS24nlOY)” that would come on before the cartooning hour on the weekend. Being both bored and brainy, if not worldly or wise, I would assume that “Rock of Ages” must be about geology – maybe even dinosaurs! – and attempt to watch it and then become increasingly frustrated and resentful with whatever the hell was going on. I’m ashamed to admit it probably took me 5-7 attempts to finally conclude that this just wasn’t going to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/90 "2018-01-11T15:30:13Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > :p:p:p:p This a prime example of what I was talking about in [this](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=846699) > thread (see post 22)Thanks, **whitetho** ; you have me cracking up! Welk’s [del]renderings[/del]renditions of The Beatles brings tears to my eyes: [Hey Jude](https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Lawrence+Welk+Beatles&view=detail&mid=499CBB7C3CC3E491CDDA499CBB7C3CC3E491CDDA&FORM=VIRE) [Let It Be](https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Lawrence+Welk+Beatles&view=detail&mid=CE53098898800977B908CE53098898800977B908&FORM=VIRE) ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/91 "2018-01-11T15:36:04Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Davy & Goliath. > > Blasted mealy-mouthed boring little jerk. > AND his dog! I came here to mention this show. It always was the only “cartoon” on, on Sunday mornings. If you wanted to watch TV, you _had_ to watch this. I ought to appreciate it, really - for getting me to play outdoors rather than TV watching! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/92 "2018-01-11T16:04:49Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Welk’s [del]renderings[/del]renditions of The Beatles brings tears to my eyes: > [Hey Jude](https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Lawrence+Welk+Beatles&view=detail&mid=499CBB7C3CC3E491CDDA499CBB7C3CC3E491CDDA&FORM=VIRE) > [Let It Be](https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Lawrence+Welk+Beatles&view=detail&mid=CE53098898800977B908CE53098898800977B908&FORM=VIRE) Ha! I love how he explains who the Beatles are. If only I could have seen the humor when I was a kid. I mean, I knew it was boring and dorky but obviously you need the element of time to really bring out the drecky quality. When I think of the LW show, I think of loneliness. IIRC , it was on Sundays, which were depressing for me anyway, and if was in a situation where I was forced to watch Lawrence Welk, then obviously there was no one around to play with and nothing else on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/93 "2018-01-11T16:14:25Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > I came here to mention this show. > > It always was the only “cartoon” on, on Sunday mornings. If you wanted to watch TV, you _had_ to watch this. > > I ought to appreciate it, really - for getting me to play outdoors rather than TV watching! It’s absolutely necessary to watch a few episodes of this to really appreciate _Moral Orel_. ---
**Author:** ![flaming\_yawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@flaming\_yawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flaming_yawn)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/94 "2018-01-11T16:15:52Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Little House on the Prairie. The setting, characters, and look and feel were very good. The plots though, so dramatic. I logged in just to say the same thing! As a country born girl this show should of fascinated me… I hated it. When I was a teen and it was in repeats the commercial was Mary and Laura going thru a blizzard to or from a christmas party and Laura yelling “Mary my present!” That is one of my screen names from years ago and to this day every time it snows I will scream it. Hated 8 is enough too. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/95 "2018-01-11T16:19:13Z")
As a kid, I loved everything. I loved actioners, westerns, sitcoms, variety shows (except for Lawrence Welk. Even as a kid. That one I share with you), game shows, and Packers football games. I loved the halftime show. Even cartoons that I found as an adult to be incredibly stupid, as a kid I loved them. I loved Star Trek and the Monkees even before I could see them (we didn’t get NBC in the 60s). I loved Davey and Goliath, Pink Panther, most of the ones specifically mentioned in this thread as being hated. I even loved the farm report, but for only one reason - at the midpoint, some (but not all) episodes would feature ads for farm machinery, and seeing the IH tractor ads was awesome. Those days where the report had no tractor ads were wasted. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/96 "2018-01-11T16:49:09Z")
**Small Wonder** : One of the worst pieces of shit to ever get green-lighted, starring 5 of the worst actors to ever get cast in anything. Completely unsurprising none of these peoples’ acting careers lasted very long past the end of this unbelievably awful show. ETA: Yes, I realize this is the lowest of the low-hanging fruit, but even as a kid it was obvious that every single person involved with this show in any capacity was an idiot. . ---
**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 11, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/97 "2018-01-11T17:18:26Z")
> [@flaming\_yawn](#): > > I logged in just to say the same thing! > > As a country born girl this show should of fascinated me… I hated it. > > When I was a teen and it was in repeats the commercial was Mary and Laura going thru a blizzard to or from a christmas party and Laura yelling “Mary my present!” That is one of my screen names from years ago and to this day every time it snows I will scream it. I adored LHoTP, but my father didn’t like it at all. I remember he came in the room once when I was watching and changed the channel and said, “Everybody is always crying on this show! Turn the damn thing off!!” :rolleyes: We started calling it the Crying Show. I think mainly my father was uncomfortable that the men were often the ones doing the crying. ---
**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, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/98 "2018-01-11T17:22:28Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > that creepy Syntha-Vox technique, where the superimposed footage of someone’s actual lips moving over the drawing Syncro-Vox, and it’s the only reason those cartoons are remembered these days. It’s still used in a comedic fashion (or, well, a fashion _intended_ to be comedic) in some modern works, such as the pseudo-1960s cartoons which were special features in _The Incredibles_ DVD and on Conan O’Brien. > [@](#): > > **The Adventures of Felix the Cat** – “From Trans-Lux” , as the closing credits said. This was my childhood intro to Felix. I had no idea that he had a long prioer history in comic strips and cartoons (and televisdion – he was arguably the first TV star, being roadcast in the 1920s!!). So to me, Felix the Cat was a character who had a Magic Bag of Tricks and said “Right-ee-o!” His opponents included The Professor and his bulldog-headed henchman, Rock Bottom, and also the evil robot The Master Cylinder. I’ve seen these cartoons, and I agree they’re good. They don’t match the silent cartoons in sheer weirdness, but as strange little adventure-comedy pieces they’re good. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/99 "2018-01-11T17:22:30Z")
> [@flaming\_yawn](#): > > Hated 8 is enough too. Agreed, I could find no redeeming value in that show, the characters seemed nice enough but the plots were mind-numbing. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/100 "2018-01-11T18:58:19Z")
> [@Grumbacher\_Red](#): > > Geritol! It was brought to you by Geritol. And lots of Polygrip ads. 😛 > > In our area it aired on Sunday evenings and my Grandmother would watch it and for some reason I would walk over to her house on those night and watch it with her. She loved that Champagne Lady older woman singer. > > It didn’t seem like an out-of-place show to me since it was the era of the variety show. To me, it did. Even though it was categorized as one, calling _Lawrence Welk_ a variety show was a stretch. Variety shows had things like guest comics doing stand-up routines, sketches, occasional miscellaneous acts like magicians or acrobats, and musical numbers. _Lawrence Welk_ was pretty much all musical numbers. Even _Hee Haw_, which also bored me to tears, at least sometimes had quick cartoons, cornpone comedy skits, and recurring funny musical bits (“Gloom, despair, and agony on me!”) to break up the monotony. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346.md?page=6)