# 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:** 6
**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, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/101 "2018-01-11T19:05:22Z")
> [@pdhenry](#): > > Jim Fowler is American. Perhaps you’ve conflated him with Steve Irwin? Really?!? :eek: My memory must be flawed, because I recall him speaking with that accent long before I ever heard of Steve Irwin. I’ll take your word for it, but I prefer to remember Jim as Australian. Much more adventurous that way! 🆒 ---
**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, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/102 "2018-01-11T19:10:28Z")
I remember when the first toy story came out and because they based buzz lightyear on roger ramjet cartoon network decided to run it for a while … it was a sort of military based rocky and Bullwinkle parody …tho gary owens narration provided most of the humor (which most would of would be protested today) ---
**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 11, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/103 "2018-01-11T19:33:24Z")
Count me in with the “Didn’t like Mr. Rogers” crew. Even as a kid, I knew this guy was a complete square. I used to ridicule him for putting on his “sneakers”. :rolleyes: > [@ftg](#): > > The first thing among prime time I think of is _The Lawrence Welk Show_. Do I have to say why? > (Flame proof suit on.) _Scooby Doo_ was the epitome of bad cartoons. Crappy animation, repetitive and predictable “story” lines. A friend of mine came up with a “system” for Scooby Doo. I forget what it was exactly, but something like, _“It’s always the second person they meet”_ that turns out to be the bad guy. I seem to recall it was pretty accurate, for the most part. > [@Balthisar](#): > > _Soul Train_. WTF? Perfectly good Saturday morning cartoons followed by this crap? 😃 This is hilarious! So true! When that show came on, you knew Saturday morning was over, and it was time to turn off the TV and go outside. Like an alarm clock, it was! > [@JohnGalt](#): > > 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. No kidding. Those telethons were unbearable! > [@Sefton](#): > > 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. My sister loved that show. What the hell was that crap about? And The Banana Splits? God, I hated that! ---
**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, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/104 "2018-01-11T19:40:25Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > Nope, [Tewt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mighty_Hercules), the satyr. Suffering Psyche and Great Zeus! Wrong again! ☹ As for _ **Clutch Cargo** _, I remember hurrying home to watch it in the afternoon when I was in first grade. (It was on _ **Axel’s Treehouse** _, WCCO, Channel 4.) Even then I knew something wasn’t quite right, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I saw an episode years later and said “Holy shit! That’s a real mouth on that sucker!” :eek: The theme music is a real earworm, though. Almost sixty years later, I still sing it sometimes while I’m doing the dishes. ---
**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, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/105 "2018-01-11T19:43:31Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > A friend of mine came up with a “system” for Scooby Doo. I forget what it was exactly, but something like, _“It’s always the second person they meet”_ that turns out to be the bad guy. I seem to recall it was pretty accurate, for the most part. … And now it’s used every week on _ **NCIS** _. :smack: ---
**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, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/106 "2018-01-11T19:47:31Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Count me in with the “Didn’t like Mr. Rogers” crew. Even as a kid, I knew this guy was a complete square. I used to ridicule him for putting on his “sneakers”. “Welcome to my neighborhood. God dammit, someone stole my sneakers!” ---
**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, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/107 "2018-01-11T19:48:04Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > 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. He sounded like Tony Soprano with his “Whatchgonnado, Herc? Whatchugonnado?” :smack: ---
**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:** [January 11, 2018, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/108 "2018-01-11T20:11:16Z")
The Three Stooges (I was never a fan of slapstick, even as a kid). Laugh-In (still can’t stand that show. My dad used to watch it. I didn’t see the point as a kid, and now that I’m grown up and \*do \*see the point, I still think it’s stupid). At least it helped me [understand a gag](https://pm1.narvii.com/6599/a79fe7467f41b23b904eb64ba906432a6bba2b81_hq.jpg) on one of my favorite current cartoons, Milo Murphy’s Law, though, so that’s something. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/109 "2018-01-11T20:15:54Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > most of the 50s and 60s tv > see in early 80s in Indiana if you didn’t have cable you had 8 tv stations the big 3 2-3 indy stations and 2 (wgn and one other one) from Chicago… > > and WTBS… Sounds great, like a lot of stations without cable. In 1989 in MD, when we moved from our apartment to a house with land one of the biggest trade offs was no more access to cable. That meant ONE channel - CBS - that came in clearly, fuzzy MPT (PBS), and occasionally very fuzzy ABC when the conditions were perfect and the antenna was angled just so suspended in midair. So my most hated show was Rescue 911. ---
**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, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/110 "2018-01-11T20:42:49Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > I still cannot understand Lawrence Welk’s appeal either. Lawrence Welk is an example of how to perform music with great technique, but no passion. I include Liberace in that genre, and Celine Dion to some extent. There’s a definite nostalgia effect at work; partly because that style used to be more popular, but it also conjures memories of big bands that used to play with great technique _and_ passion. > [@terentii](#): > > Really?!? :eek: > > My memory must be flawed, because I recall him speaking with that accent long before I ever heard of Steve Irwin. > > I’ll take your word for it, but I prefer to remember Jim as Australian. Much more adventurous that way! 🆒 Could you be confusing Jim Fowler with [Hank and Roy Spim](https://youtu.be/cZvT3MHpffk)? > [@terentii](#): > > As for _ **Clutch Cargo** _, I remember hurrying home to watch it in the afternoon when I was in first grade. (It was on _ **Axel’s Treehouse** _, WCCO, Channel 4.) Even then I knew something wasn’t quite right, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I saw an episode years later and said “Holy shit! That’s a real mouth on that sucker!” :eek: There was an old Dick Tracy cartoon that was cheap in a completely different way. Every episode started out with the same few minutes of animation, and mostly the same dialog. And then when Tracy would contact one of his partners on his wrist radio, the radio would be in front of his mouth. That way they could dub in new dialog and not have to reanimate his mouth. It was sort of clever, in its own way. ---
**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, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/111 "2018-01-11T21:02:22Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > There was an old Dick Tracy cartoon that was cheap in a completely different way. Every episode started out with the same few minutes of animation, and mostly the same dialog. And then when Tracy would contact one of his partners on his wrist radio, the radio would be in front of his mouth. That way they could dub in new dialog and not have to reanimate his mouth. It was sort of clever, in its own way. Danger Mouse did that quite a lot, too – they frequently reused animation, and would often have the characters speaking while their mouths were obscured (or in the dark). Apparently the creators acknowledged that it was a cost-saving measure. ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/112 "2018-01-11T21:26:34Z")
Didn’t like Sesame Street - reason was basically that I liked cartoons, not puppets, as I recall. My sister says she found it repetitive. I only remember it because we watched it in class in kindergarten, and I didn’t like it. I didn’t like Bozo the Clown, either. I think I was probably grown before I ever heard of Mr. Rogers. Sister liked Muppet Babies, I did not. I guess. I only remember this because I remember we split up our tv watching for half hour and I watched Jem and the Holograms. So at least I liked Jem better. Did not like the Three Stooges at all. But all we had of them was one video tape. Don’t think I ever finished an episode (movie? don’t recall). I’m sure being black and white didn’t help me like them. I mostly didn’t like old crappy cartoons at the time. I liked contemporary cartoons that were mostly equally crappy (early to mid '80s). I did watch Scooby Doo, but it wasn’t a favorite. Don’t know that I watched any other older cartoons (until years later when cartoon network came on the air), but when I saw them, I mostly didn’t like them. Never cared for Looney Tunes or Merry Melodies or the like except an odd fondness for Woody Woodpecker for some reason. I have no recall of what the content was or what era of the character I was watching back then. Not sure how long I watched those. For my parents’ shows: I didn’t like Hee Haw. Don’t recall why. Same with Magnum P.I. And Equalizer. No idea why - could have just been for being boring, grown up shows that my parents watched. The first grown up shows I recall watching were 1987 and later. But these did run that late, and I wonder if I was just in that phase where I was starting to check out non-children’s tv, but these were some my parents watched that I didn’t, at a time when I only like one or two one-hour shows. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/113 "2018-01-11T21:31:08Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Lawrence Welk is an example of how to perform music with great technique, but no passion. I include Liberace in that genre, and Celine Dion to some extent. There’s a definite nostalgia effect at work; partly because that style used to be more popular, but it also conjures memories of big bands that used to play with great technique _and_ passion. Oh yes, Lawrence Welk made me think I hated Big Band music because he was so treacly and unimpassioned. Some of it is both of those, but not always at the same time like LW, and I avoided big band for the longest time thinking it all was. ---
**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, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/114 "2018-01-11T21:53:59Z")
> [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#): > > So my most hated show was Rescue 911. What, The Shat?!? :eek: No way! ---
**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, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/115 "2018-01-11T22:13:45Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Lawrence Welk is an example of how to perform music with great technique, but no passion. He was a guest on David Frost’s syndicated talk show around 1970, and they let him conduct the studio orchestra in playing Frost’s catchy theme. “Dreadful” is the only word I can think of to describe it. > [@](#): > > Could you be confusing Jim Fowler with [Hank and Roy Spim](https://youtu.be/cZvT3MHpffk)? Oh, no. It was definitely Marlon and Jim. I just don’t remember Jim being American, that’s all. > [@](#): > > There was an old Dick Tracy cartoon that was cheap in a completely different way. Every episode started out with the same few minutes of animation, and mostly the same dialog. And then when Tracy would contact one of his partners on his wrist radio, the radio would be in front of his mouth. I had a girlfriend whose favorite partner in those cartoons was “the doggie policeman.” After she said that, it dawned on me just how odd Dick’s associates were.\* I wonder whatever happened to little Kim…? ☹ \*Kind of like the anthropomorphic dog-faced characters in Carl Barks’ Disney art. ---
**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, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/116 "2018-01-11T22:20:50Z")
I have _ **The Partridge Family** _ on right now. Back in the '70s, I never watched it much beyond the first season, so I missed the last one with four-year-old Ricky Segall, its version of “Cousin Oliver.” Holy crap! :eek: What the hell were the producers smoking the day they decided to add him to the cast?!? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/117 "2018-01-12T05:37:03Z")
> [@whitetho](#): > > How could you dislike “Dale and Gail” singing [_One Toke Over the Line_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg)? Let me count the ways… ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/118 "2018-01-12T05:40:03Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I have _ **The Partridge Family** _ on right now. […] Last evening I woke from sleep in horror 'Cause I’d had an awful nightmare That I was just a nameless average kid Not famous, God forbid With lots of girls not screaming I’m glad I was only dreaming 'Cause I dig that I’m so big! I think I love me! I think I love me! ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/119 "2018-01-12T05:41:55Z")
I did not like _Green Acres._ I referred to the actor who played the con man on the series as Pat Butface. ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/120 "2018-01-12T07:12:08Z")
> [@whitetho](#): > > How could you dislike “Dale and Gail” singing [_One Toke Over the Line_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg)? This is one of the gossamer threads that connects me to life these days. 😛 As far as the rest. Hmm. I remember liking the Cosby Show and Perfect Strangers. I detested Married with Children (I sort of understood satire, but I still hated it). I did, however, like Roseanne. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346.md?page=7)