# TV Shows you wish ill on.... **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/21 "2006-04-12T00:40:35Z")
So, **An Arky, silenus** – what do you watch once you’ve taken off all the shows currently running? ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/22 "2006-04-12T00:43:44Z")
American Idol because it preempts House way too often. And I tend to dislike people singing other people’s songs, unless they can make it sound different and good or better. CSI: Miami and NY. Without these spinoffs, I think CSI would have kept running stong (good episodes like seasons 1-4). If I remember correctly, some of the writing and staff from the original CSI left for the other shows, and the ideas are stretched so thin. I used to watch CSI religiously but I haven’t watched an episode all season, and last season I started not caring. Crossing Jordan because I think it’s stupid but my roommate always watches it, and living in the same room (dorm) I have to watch it too. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/23 "2006-04-12T00:51:43Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > So, **An Arky, silenus** – what do you watch once you’ve taken off all the shows currently running? Baseball!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/24 "2006-04-12T01:02:46Z")
There are plenty of shows I dislike and avoid, but the only one upon which I wish flaming horrible painful death is American Idol. It is a blight on our culture and society. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/25 "2006-04-12T01:17:15Z")
I know it looks like I hate everything on TV, but I don’t. I didn’t list very many sitcoms. The big thing for me, besides “reality TV”/American Idol-type stuff, is that I dislike TV dramas. I don’t dislike drama as a whole, it’s just that most TV dramas bug me. I usually only get to watch TV after the kids go to bed, and it’s time for me to wind down and to go to bed, as well. TV dramas, especially stressful work-related dramas, are just the last thing I want to watch before going to sleep when I have to get up and go to work in the morning. I also don’t like cops and Drs. shows because they’re too stressful, as well. So that probably makes up a huge part of my list right there. What do I like? I like comedies, as long it’s not too formulaic. I like documentaries and such, as well. Add in Music, Sports and News, and I have plenty of other things to watch besides those shove-it-down-your-throat shows. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/26 "2006-04-12T01:19:20Z")
Anything dealing with basketball. Games, shows, whatever. Aside from that, I may dislike shows, but I don’t wish ill on any of them. The viewing public deserves **According to Jim** , if it is actually going to watch it in such numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/27 "2006-04-12T01:22:14Z")
**Seinfeld!** It didn’t deserve a first run. It doesn’t deserve syndication. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/28 "2006-04-12T02:04:50Z")
**Duckster** is now my worse enemy :mad: ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/29 "2006-04-12T02:25:18Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > **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. People hate Arrested Development? It just doesn’t make any sense to me. Its smart and funny and the most amazing sitcom to come along in years. In my opinion that is. I’m really burnt out on Family Guy and anything that comes on MTV or VH1 ---
**Author:** ![Stinkum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Stinkum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stinkum)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/30 "2006-04-12T02:35:42Z")
Has anyone caught a glimpse of _Housewives of Orange County_ on Bravo? Gah. I’m afraid if that show was the victim of a shotgun blast to the head or chest, the backspatter of collagen and silicone would coat the state of Rhode Island. And _Blow Out_. Good god, those shows need to die, and everyone associated with them should be banned from ever THINKING about creating a TV show. Unto the 7th Generation. _Wife Swap, Supernanny, Nanny 911, et. al._ are wretched. Especially the child shows. That should be REQUIRED viewing for anyone thinking about having children. The birthrate would plummet. Who thought it would be a good idea to inflict private dysfunction on the general public as an “educational” tool? Most network TV is boring and derivative, but doesn’t need my ill will. I’d just rather flip to HBO or pick up a good book than watch “regular” TV. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/31 "2006-04-12T02:45:26Z")
**The Apprentice**. The almost total incompetence of the contestants amazes me. Trump should just pick 12 homeless people off the street. There’s no way they could do a worse job. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/32 "2006-04-12T02:49:18Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > 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.” I liked Drawn Together’s take on “Supernanny” [Foxxy]Oh Lord, here goes Capt. 'Tardo again, every time he hears about something else being Super, he goes a little bit nuts, like when he first heard of a Supermarket [Capt. Hero]\ You’re not so Super _now!_ are you? (pan down to rubble of supermarket) [Foxxy]…and Superglue [Capt. Hero] \ Damn you SuperGlue!! [Foxxy]…and that incident with the “soup or salad” [Capt. Hero] SHOW YOURSELF, SUPERSALAD!\ [Waiter]Sir, i was asking if you wanted soup _OR_ salad, i was giving you a choice between the…\ as far as the other “nanny shows”, i’ve succesfully (until now) blocked their existence from my mind, due to my extreme loathing and hatred of screaming brats, the nanny shows are enough to make me want to take my 12-gauge to the TV… thanks for reminding me of those stupid shows, i must go bleach my brain again… ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/33 "2006-04-12T02:50:39Z")
I think this comes down to what shows you like versus what shows you hate–personal preference. The only show I ever felt truly nauseous watching was that _Swan_ thing, with all the plastic surgery and beauty makeovers, and that’s pretty much the only show I’d wish ill on. The rest, I just change the channel or switch off the TV. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/34 "2006-04-12T03:07:19Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > **The Apprentice**. The almost total incompetence of the contestants amazes me. Trump should just pick 12 homeless people off the street. There’s no way they could do a worse job. That was my second choice - not because of the contestants, though. The first season of that show was mildly interesting, with a mildly interesting concept. Since it took off, though, they barely bother pretending there’s a contest going on. I stopped watching halfway through the second season, though I’ve caught bits and pieces since then. They’ve taken product placement and run with it to the point you can’t even really call it product placement. Nowadays, every episode is an hour long infomercial, and for some reason, we’re all supposed to pretend that it’s entertainment. Bleh. They’d have to pay ME to watch it. ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/35 "2006-04-12T04:30:30Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > I think this comes down to what shows you like versus what shows you hate–personal preference. > > The only show I ever felt truly nauseous watching was that _Swan_ thing, with all the plastic surgery and beauty makeovers, and that’s pretty much the only show I’d wish ill on. The rest, I just change the channel or switch off the TV. see for me its like if those people want to have surgery thats so NOT my problem. I’m not the one with insane body image. They are. And I watch it with the same morbid curiosity I would about a documentary about a serial killer. If thats not your mindset, its just not your problem. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/36 "2006-04-12T05:19:26Z")
> [@lobstermobster](#): > > People hate Arrested Development? It just doesn’t make any sense to me. Its smart and funny and the most amazing sitcom to come along in years. The hype it’s gotten probably has a lot to do with that. People who didn’t get into the show - and I’m not talking about myself, I’m absolutely nuts for it - must be turned off by hearing the chatter about how brilliant it is. I sure got tired of hearing similar things about Family Guy. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/37 "2006-04-12T08:34:12Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > all reality shows, home shopping channels, and religious channels (oh, c’mon, you know this was a given) Many people like those channels and types of programming. No one will force you to watch it if you don’t want to. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/38 "2006-04-12T14:09:12Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > Many people like those channels and types of programming. No one will force you to watch it if you don’t want to. Not **yet**. . . ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/39 "2006-04-12T14:14:00Z")
I just wish they would get rid of American Idol so I wouldn’t have to hear about it on CNN every freaking morning. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277/40 "2006-04-12T16:22:19Z")
The Daily 10, the latest gossip-fest on E! I watch E! News Daily now and then because they are relatively subdued and I do enjoy celebrity gossip. But The Daily 10 is a rehash of the same info in the hideous shout-at-you style like ET. With has-beens who are pretending to be hip or whatever the kdis call it these days. Grrr. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-ill-on/352277.md?page=3)