# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/141 "2018-01-12T21:58:16Z")
> [@erysichthon](#): > > I still don’t understand the appeal of the old TV westerns, but I’ve watched some old episodes on streaming services, and was surprised to see that they are mostly little morality plays with minimal action and violence. As a kid, I thought they were nothing but guys riding horses and shooting at each other. My Grandpa would bug my grandma in their later years by watching so many old westerns (is there any other kind). Bless her soul, she’s complain about how he was always watching his “shoot em ups”. One time she called up practically in a nervous break down because the neighbor came over and grampa just sat there watching his shows instead of talking to the neighbor. In his defense, his hearing was going and he refused to wear his hearing aid, so he wouldn’t have been much for conversation anyway. I don’t doubt some early signs of dementia had begun as well. ---
**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 12, 2018, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/142 "2018-01-12T22:17:14Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 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! **TRICKY:** Teeth is “lip-syncing” **exceptionally well** tonight, don’t you think? **LOWLY:** \*\*We \*\*should talk! At least **he’s** mouthing to his \*\*OWN \*\*voice! **TRICKY:** That’s **right**! I wonder who they have singing for **us**? **LOWLY:** **I** can’t tell! I’m **tone deaf**! ---
**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 12, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/143 "2018-01-12T22:22:57Z")
> [@Grumbacher\_Red](#): > > Geritol! It was brought to you by Geritol. And remember: “Geritol” spelled backwards is “Lotireg.”\* 😃 \*No one under the age of sixty is going to get this joke! ☹ ---
**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, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/144 "2018-01-12T22:28:08Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > And remember: “Geritol” spelled backwards is “Lotireg.”\* 😃 > > \*No one under the age of sixty is going to get this joke! ☹ MOE: And remember: “Gritto” spelled sideways is “ottrita-guh”! 😃 ---
**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, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/145 "2018-01-12T22:31:03Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > I recall watching Night Gallery once when I was a lad and it scared the crap out of me. I had nightmares for days afterwards. I heard about an episode in which a man wished he could be in a picture on a wall in a gallery. He was thinking of a paradise scene but it turned out to be a crucifixion! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/146 "2018-01-12T22:31:34Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > My parents liked it too. It was horrible! My two are this and Hee-Haw (and it can’t have had a large black audience), which followed each other in local programming and were beloved to my grandparents. What’s weird is I can remember a crap-load of Hee-Haw bits 50 years later, but I’m damned if I can recall _anything_ about Lawrence Welk. The show we fought about most was “Good Times” though I wasn’t a fan of most of the Norman Lear shows as a kid. ---
**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 12, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/147 "2018-01-12T22:36:10Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > MOE: And remember: “Gritto” spelled sideways is “ottrita-guh”! 😃 What, a “Three Stooges” reference? :dubious: 😕 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/148 "2018-01-12T23:15:00Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > _The Lawrence Welk show_, which my parents inexplicably insisted on watching every damn week for years. Just sitting here thinking about it makes me want to kill myself from boredom. I thought Lawrence Welk was a soap opera. The intro had all those bubbles, and it was a music based show, and I was raised by self obsessed puritans. So there! Mr Rogers shot my paw! Actually, he was boring. So was Romper Room. Electric Company tho, now THAT was a show! I also liked the Hudson Brothers, Walter Cronkite’s You Were There, Disney nature shows, Star Trek (TOS first run and reruns), Mission Impossible, Get Smart, Hogan’s Heroes (which had nothing to do with sandwiches), and Petticoat Junction. ---
**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, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/149 "2018-01-12T23:15:22Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > I recall watching Night Gallery once when I was a lad and it scared the crap out of me. I had nightmares for days afterwards. > [@epbrown01](#): > > My two are this and Hee-Haw (and it can’t have had a large black audience), which followed each other in local programming and were beloved to my grandparents. What’s weird is I can remember a crap-load of Hee-Haw bits 50 years later, but I’m damned if I can recall _anything_ about Lawrence Welk. 1. Do you remember Charley Pride? 2. “An’ now, the Lennon Sisters sing-a, ‘Go away, Mother, You’re Gummin’ Up the Works!’ A-one, a-two…” ---
**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, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/150 "2018-01-12T23:17:04Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > My two are this and Hee-Haw (and it can’t have had a large black audience), which followed each other in local programming and were beloved to my grandparents. What’s weird is I can remember a crap-load of Hee-Haw bits 50 years later, but I’m damned if I can recall _anything_ about Lawrence Welk. 1. Do you remember Charley Pride? 2. “An’ now, the Lennon Sisters sing-a, ‘Go away, Mother, You’re Gummin’ Up the Works!’ A-one, a-two…” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/151 "2018-01-12T23:21:17Z")
I liked Sonny and Cher, the Dean Martin Show, and the Donny and Marie. I did not like Merve Griffin’s, Andy Williams’, or Art Linkletter’s shows. Diana Shore bored me too, but I liked game shows. ---
**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 12, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/152 "2018-01-12T23:57:00Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > “An’ now, the Lennon Sisters sing-a, ‘Go away, Mother, You’re Gummin’ Up the Works!’ A-one, a-two…” I caught these gems around 1969: When introducing the token Negro tap-dancer: “He’s a fine gentleman, and a credit to his race.”\* After the Lennon Sisters had finished “What the World Needs Now Is Love, Sweet Love”: “Thank you girls, I’ll certainly agree with that philosophy-um!” \*In other words, “He knows his place!” ---
**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 13, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/153 "2018-01-13T00:24:00Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > I heard about an episode in which a man wished he could be in a picture on a wall in a gallery. He was thinking of a paradise scene but it turned out to be a crucifixion! :eek: That was in the original hour-and-a-half pilot show. The middle episode (The adventures of blind Joan Crawford) was the maiden effort of some kid named Spielberg. The first had Roddy McDowall and Ozzie Davis and was the most fun. ---
**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 13, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/154 "2018-01-13T00:45:41Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > I recall watching Night Gallery once when I was a lad and it scared the crap out of me. I had nightmares for days afterwards. It was the [earwig episode](https://thewordwebzine.weebly.com/tv/night-gallery-earwig-episode-might-be-greatest-horror-tv-episode-ever), wasn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/155 "2018-01-13T00:53:55Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > What was your beef about Mister Rogers? I see nothing wrong with entertaining and educating children at the same time… > For the record, my ancestry is Southern too. I have found that I am distantly related to Robert E. Lee. What I didn’t like was Granny’s attitude toward the Confederacy vs. the North, and moonshining. Granny didn’t make moonshine. She was a doctor, so she was just mixing up her medicines. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/156 "2018-01-13T01:01:40Z")
> [@whitetho](#): > > How could you dislike “Dale and Gail” singing [_One Toke Over the Line_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg)? I loved Myron Floren’s “cough” when he was introducing it, as if he was lighting one up during the commercial break. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/157 "2018-01-13T01:08:57Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > I was four when Howdy Doody was on and I watched it, of course, they put me in front of the tv at supper time alone so I could watch it. But there was a live in-show commercial that sent me running in terror and covering my ears, for a good five minutes: A sponsor was, I think, Puffed Wheat ‘shot out of a cannon’ and I would watch in horror as they stuffed some cereal in, I guess. And Clarabelle the clown would climb in, and they would light the fuse on the cannon! The horror! I was only four and believed Clarabelle would not shoot out of the cannon in one piece, unharmed, but would come out in an explosion of blood and guts spraying all over the Peanut Gallery! Mixed with soggy puffed wheat. So I had to run out of the room when I saw that happen every. single. episode. ☹ _The one and only cereal that’s shot from guns. The one and only cereal that’s about from guns._ (Sung to the _1812 Overture_. ---
**Author:** ![schnebs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@schnebs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnebs)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/158 "2018-01-13T01:19:42Z")
Looking back, the biggest clue that I didn’t like a show was that the only thing I remember about it was its theme song. I was always happy to hear the closing music for “The Banana Splits” because it came on just before the good cartoons. I would get bored with “The Partridge Family” 30 seconds after the theme song ended. I couldn’t stand “Soul Train”, but I’d stick around to hear “T.S.O.P.” and try to mimic the announcer saying “The Sooooooouuuull Traaain”! Ah, but what the heck did I know? When I was a kid I thought “Batman” was brilliant! 😉 ---
**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 13, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/159 "2018-01-13T01:32:15Z")
> [@schnebs](#): > > Looking back, the biggest clue that I didn’t like a show was that the only thing I remember about it was its theme song. I was always happy to hear the closing music for “The Banana Splits” because it came on just before the good cartoons. I would get bored with “The Partridge Family” 30 seconds after the theme song ended. I couldn’t stand “Soul Train”, but I’d stick around to hear “T.S.O.P.” and try to mimic the announcer saying “The Sooooooouuuull Traaain”! > > Ah, but what the heck did I know? When I was a kid I thought “Batman” was brilliant! 😉 Me and my friends knew “Soooooooouuuul Traaaain”! was our cue to go outside and play cuz cartoons were done until next week. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346/160 "2018-01-13T01:34:21Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > 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. They did this quite often on the animated _Star Trek_ series, too. To save money, Filmation would animate Kirk or some other character speaking with their hand in front of their mouth so they could reuse the same animation over and over for different episodes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-hated-as-a-child/806346.md?page=9)