Daddio, sitcom that starred Michael Chiklis.
The Tracy Morgan Show.
Whoopi.
Any of those shows would make Small Wonder look like Seinfeld.
Two awful stand outs from my college years:
She helps me through everything I do
And I’m so glad she’s here.
Hey! What’s everybody staring at?!?
“You’re scooching away, children. Don’t make me tell you about the scooching again.”
As for children’s shows, anyone remember Rugrats: All Growed Up?
Animal Cops: Detroit. The name is misleading; while they are in Detroit, they lack police powers. As a result, they can’t really do very much about the animal abuse they encounter.
Does “Channel One” count as a TV show? I remember getting in trouble for reading National Geographic during “Channel One” time in high school.
Greatest American Hero; though I’ve never actually seen it, I’ve certainly heard about it. Twenty-eight years later, my mother is still complaining about having to “drop everything” so Dad could see this show.
And on behalf of my late grandfather, I’d like to nominate Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Arrested Development
Just watch The Soup for a weekly roundup of suckitude of monumental proportions. Kendra? (Fill in the blank) of Love? Kardashians? Take your pick, because if it’s on The Soup, it sucks. (But man, it’s funny!)
You know I respect you, Skald, and I look forward to your posts, but c’mon. Cop Rock was someone’s attempt to do something different with television. The only program that could pull that off consistently was Monty Python’s Flying Circus. The rest of the world wants their TV to be the same thing that has worked in the past. Hell, look at the world appeal of Baywatch. Hot bodies, bouncing breasts, and moronic dialogue, none of which was found on Cop Rock. Hell, I’d give Hacks a thumbs up before Cop Rock.
But as usual, YMMV.
SSG Schwartz
Me And The Chimp (he should’a stayed on That Girl…)
We Got It Maid (made Three’s Company look clever.:smack:)
One In A Million (Shirley from What’s Happening does Solid Gold Cadillac. Ecch)
Several years back, TV Guide called The Brady Bunch Variety Hour the worst TV show ever. Having seen a small clip of it, I’m inclined to agree. The Simpsons did an excellent parody of it in the “Simpsons Spin-off Showcase” episode.
This Cracked article on 6 shows canceled after one episode may be relevant:
Ah, it was okay. I don’t remember the purple dude, but Abe Vigoda was pretty good in it. I didn’t care for that Wojo guy though.
You nominate something that does not exist.
Heresy! Any show that opens with Bill Clinton breastfeeding a puppy and introduces the world to the Ambiguously Gay Duo has earned my respect. As far as the sponsor thing goes, that was a planned joke about selling out, in which each show had a different title sponsor from the Pepsi family. The second episode was the Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show if memory serves.
Pistols at dawn, sir.
Tobias Fünke: Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world’s first analrapist.
Tobias Fünke: No, no, it’s pronounced a-nal-ra-pist.
Buster: It wasn’t really the pronunciation that bothered me.
Gob: [talking about his new boat] The Seaward.
Michael: You’re not getting a boat.
Gob: [doing rock, paper, scissors] One, two, three.
Michael: You’re not gonna do it…
[does rock]
Michael: .
Gob: Paper covers rock.
Michael: Fine, but rock sinks boat.
Lucille: [entering room] Michael.
Michael: Just a minute mom.
[to GOB]
Michael: . Get rid of the Seaward.
Lucille: I’ll leave when I’m good and ready.
I don’t know if these are the worst, but they are very disappointing.
Spaceballs the Animated Series. Each episode is a pop culture parody done unfunny. A shame, too, in that it stars Mel Brooks, Daphne Zuniga, Joan Rivers.
Bob and Doug (McKenzie) the animated series. Stars Dave Thomas. Rick Moranis is retired. Such potential wasted. Caught Strange Brew the other day and it still holds up. This one is terribly lame.
This is like going to a garbage dump and having someone tell you to pick out the five most disgusting things there.
Off the top of my head:
Suddenly Susan
Maury
Whatever soap opera that always seemed to be on when I turn the TV on in the middle of the day, that involved some sort of witch and her midget sidekick
Thanks - This was short lived sitcom involving 17th century Puritan family. On the one hand, at least it wasn’t sitcom number 137 about a dumb fat guy married to an attractive woman, but on the other hand, it was painfully unfunny.
And, a dark horse: Corner Gas. Sorry, it just isn’t funny. I know Canadians seem to like it, but they also willingly live in Canada so their taste is obviously questionable.
I’m sure those aren’t the five all time worst, or even the five worst that I’ve seen, they’re just the first that came to mind.
Survivor
Jerry Springer
The Bachelor
MTV Real World
All soap operas
After you die, and come back as a car, I am going to sell your parts for scrap. And then maybe that song will be out of my head forever.
Regards,
Shodan
Entirely worth the pain for the revelation that George Harrison had killed a man once…(the show, that is, not that particular clip)
Not true. There was another run in the late 60s. I recall watching this a couple of times as a kid. Even as a small child I found it annoying, and also recall a Mad Magazine parody of the show.
The problem with this question is that there is so much bad television and so many channels these days that most of us never stop to take notice of the stuff. In the olden days, there were far fewer options, so most everyone would have seen even one or two bad eps.
I remember summer reruns, every year on TBS, that was a steady diet of Gilligan’s Island, Hazel, Father Knows Best and the Little Rascals. There just weren’t a lot of options, so we watched Gilligan not get off the island a thousand times. Now we’d have 100 other channels of bad stuff to choose from.