# TV Shows you wish ill on....
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 11, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277 "2006-04-11T22:03:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/1 "2006-04-11T22:03:54Z")
What current TV shows do you wish would get cancelled, shows that _to you_, have no redeeming traits and are a simple waste of broadcast time?
For me, the list is rather short, but i don’t watch much TV anyway, here’s my picks;
all reality shows, home shopping channels, and religious channels (oh, c’mon, you know this was a given)
to get more specific though…
Stargate; Atlantis, sorry, just can’t get into this one, even if it does have Space-Zombie…errr Wraiths, it’s just too mediocre, then again, i haven’t been following the Stargate storylines anyway
i _was_ going to add SG-1 to the list, but since John Crichton and Aeryn sun…oops, make that Ben Browder and Claudia Black came on board, i’ve been giving it a chance, and it’s not too bad, Ben and Claud still have their chemistry and they play off each other well, no it’s not up to the standards of BSG or Farscape, heck, it’s not even Doctor Who, but it’s passable, however, if not for Ben and Claud, it’d go on the list
one show i want to die a screaming, painful death; the war at home, it’s just…not…funny…, it’s a sad, pathetic show “trying” to be hip and modern, and it just fails on all counts, i liked the show better when it was called “Married; With Children”
but, since it panders to the lowest common denominator, Fox is bound to run it forever
what shows do you pray to Og get cancelled?
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/2 "2006-04-11T22:11:15Z")
That crappy show after _Simpsons_… _The War at Home_, I think. _Futurama_ got clobbered so Fox could run _this_ crapfest?
(well, not really, _Futurama_ got clobbered because Fox insisted on running it in a timeslot easily grabbed by overlong baseball games, but nevertheless)
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/3 "2006-04-11T22:19:30Z")
I WAS going to say there are none - I just don’t watch show I don’t like.
Then Bryan proved me wrong. Oh, how I loathe that stupid show.
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### Author:  [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/4 "2006-04-11T22:29:50Z")
the main reason I didn’t capitalize “TWAH” in my OP was due to my distaste for that waste of broadcast time, it’s so stupid that it doesn’t deserve capitalization…
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/5 "2006-04-11T22:37:44Z")
> [@MacTech](#):
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> the main reason I didn’t capitalize “TWAH” in my OP was due to my distaste for that waste of broadcast time, it’s so stupid that it doesn’t deserve capitalization…
Huh, I hadn’t even noticed _TWAH_ was mentioned in the OP because I was too eager to blast the show myself.
As such, I also can’t stand… hmmm, there really isn’t any show that irritates me as much as _TWAH_, simply because I don’t watch shows I dislike. _TWAH_ just reminds me of its suckitude every time I set the VCR to record Fox’s Sunday lineup. I watch _Simpsons_, then fast forward, occasionally hitting “play” to see if I’m in _Family Guy_ country. I sometimes instead get a two-second spasm-inducing onslaught of Michael Rappaport saying “Well, when I was a kid, my old man used to say…” that sends red-hot spears of agony into my eyes and ears, banished only by my blind tortured groping for the fast-forward button.
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### Author:  [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/6 "2006-04-11T22:42:17Z")
Deal…or No Deal?
It seems to be a variation of Joey Tribiani’s “Guess My Finger!”, which scares the living crap out of me. My kids love it, naturally. Howie Mandel tapdances all over my last nerve.
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/7 "2006-04-11T22:55:51Z")
\*\*American Idol
Survivor
The Amazing Race
Extreme Makeover
The Apprentice
Fear Factor
The OC
Desperate Housewives
CSI: wherever
Deal or No Deal
Lost
Cold Case
Law & Order
N.C.I.S.
The Unit
E.R.
Grey’s Anatomy
Scrubs
America’s Next Top Model
Project Runway
The Tyra Banks Show
The West Wing
Without a Trace
Las Vegas
Trading Spouses
Wife Swap
Th King of Queens
\*\*
…would be a good start.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Clam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Clam)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/8 "2006-04-11T23:09:08Z")
**Big Brother**. There are few shows that make me feel physically sick. This is one of them.
Has it made it’s hideous and twisted way over to your still-verdant shores yet? If not, immediatly kill every network executive in the land, that you may be free of BB’s vile taint. If it has- well, suicide sounds the best option.
Lousy TV shows broadcasting exhibtionism and celebrating the degredation of the human spirit…
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### Author:  [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/9 "2006-04-11T23:40:25Z")
God, “The War at Home” is TERRIBLE. Completely unfunny with no redeeming qualities except for the thick, jiggling ass on that wife of Rappaport’s. Ba-dunk-a-DUNK!
The thing is, Michael Rappaport can be HILARIOUS, but this is just some of the worst writing I’ve ever seen in anything.
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/10 "2006-04-11T23:50:29Z")
I beam waves of resentment at _Ghost Whisperer_ because I wanted whatever show that CBS put in place of _Joan of Arcadia_ to fail miserably. But it appears that Jennifer Love Hewitt and her sweater puppies have found their niche.
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### Author:  [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/11 "2006-04-11T23:52:17Z")
Those nanny shows. \*Supernanny \* and _Nanny 911_.
Sixty minutes each, packed wall-to-wall with screaming, wailing, whining, bawling BRATS and their brain-dead spineless parents that don’t know how to say “No, you need to go to bed now” or “No, you can’t hit your sister with a golf club.”
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/12 "2006-04-11T23:55:29Z")
> [@Happy Clam](#):
>
> **Big Brother**. There are few shows that make me feel physically sick. This is one of them.
>
> Has it made it’s hideous and twisted way over to your still-verdant shores yet? If not, immediatly kill every network executive in the land, that you may be free of BB’s vile taint. If it has- well, suicide sounds the best option.
>
> Lousy TV shows broadcasting exhibtionism and celebrating the degredation of the human spirit…
I think it was here in the states for a few seasons, but I think it’s gone now. But then, I also think it was a CBS show, and I have not watched anything on CBS for almost ten years.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/13 "2006-04-11T23:55:41Z")
Reality shows. One shot to the back of the head for the whole fucking genre.
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### Author:  [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/14 "2006-04-12T00:06:33Z")
Of the shows which a lot of people actually like, I’d say **My name Is Earl** (I watch it occasionally because it’s on before _The Office_, but I’ve never laughed at it once), **South Park** (I keep hearing about these “great” episodes like the Scientology one or the one where Chef leaves, then I watch them and find the jokes are just as obvious and lowest-common-denominator as I’d feared), all the **CSI** (just overall weak, and with annoying actors) and **Law & Order** franchises (the original was the only watchable one, but it’s lost its way), and **American Dad** and **King of the Hill** (neither of which is remotely close to _The Simpsons_ back in its prime).
Of the stuff that’s pretty generally agreed to be shit, I’d pick **Teachers, Two and a Half Men** , and of course **The War at Home**. Oh, and any sitcom on ABC in the past 25 years.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/15 "2006-04-12T00:10:49Z")
Almost all of them. But _The War at Home_ makes me foam at the mouth. The jokes I see in previews are painfully bad and small-minded, and they’re usually rehashes of something I saw somewhere else. There are maybe a dozen shows I _don’t_ hate, and when I see ads for the rest I usually wish them some non-specific ill. The only sitcom mentioned thus far that I would save is _My Name is Earl_, which I watch occasionally.
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### Author:  [@FenneF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FenneF)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/16 "2006-04-12T00:18:01Z")
American/Australian Idol, specifically the early episodes.
My family LOVES it, and religiously watch (or in some cases rewatch) every episode. The audition stages, where they seek out the worst possible singers/biggest assholes to make fun of, gives me migraines. When they narrow the field to people who can at least (mostly) sing in key, it’s not so bad. Then the next season starts…
South Park, which simply isn’t funny. I don’t understand why people like it so much.
And Big Brother, the very concept of which makes me extremely uncomfortable.
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### Author:  [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/17 "2006-04-12T00:27:39Z")
American Idol
Big Brother
The Amazing Race…
hell, just about any reality show except perhaps Survivor.
Besides that…
CSI: Miami.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/18 "2006-04-12T00:30:52Z")
**An Arky** , you are dead to me. Dead, you hear? 😃
**Scrubs** and **Lost** are great television, and **Las Vegas** has boobs. I’ll give you the rest of your list, however, and add **Arrested Development** , any day-time talk show ( **Oprah** , **Ellen** , etc.), and all broadcast hockey and soccer games.
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### Author:  [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/19 "2006-04-12T00:34:52Z")
I know this will make me a heretic around here, but my number one choice is **Lost**. I watched the entire first season and the first couple of episodes of the second season. I will never, NEVER in my life understand why this piece of moronic stupidity is so popular. It is just dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, and dumb. The characters are the stupidest people ever to inhabit a TV show, and the writers are so clearly just making it up as they go along that I can’t get myself to care what happens.
I cannot stand hearing people talk about that pile of garbage like it’s the best show that ever hit TV, that it’s so creative and inventive and wonderful and talking about it like it’s real and seriously going on about what might happen if they don’t enter the code in time and AAAAAHHHHHH!!! I just want that show to DIE!
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/20 "2006-04-12T00:38:35Z")
> [@RikWriter](#):
>
> The Amazing Race…
> hell, just about any reality show except perhaps Survivor.
Explain, please.
See, I rather like _The Amazing Race_. I’ve seen _Survivor_ once or twice, and it didn’t particularly appeal to me, but I don’t harbor any bad feelings for it. And from what I’ve seen, the primary difference between them is that TAR is a more objective competition (be the fastest, smartest, strongest, whatever) and _Survivor_ involves deception and plotting against the other contestants. I’m curious why you’d hate the first and not the latter.
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