Madness. I am not Canadian so far as I know, and I like Corner Gas, not least because of the scrumptious Gabrielle Miller.
Corner Gas is always amusing, if rarely laugh-out-loud funny. That puts it above 98% of American television.
Don’t forget The Dish.
Think about it. Somebody has to watch that Kendra/Kardashian/Hills/Housewives crap in order to mine the clips. Pity those people.
Woops! This aired on FOX back in 1992 and lasted a few months.
The premise was that a small group of people had lived through a nuclear holocaust (one by simply being in a Volvo), and now they had to band together in order to survive. But the characters were obnoxious, the jokes weren’t funny, and the premise itself was just creepy. I caught a couple of episodes when it first aired–I wondered if the second one I watched could be as bad as the first, and it was–and consider it the worst show I have ever seen.
The amount of concentrated douchebag on The Soup exceeds the legal limit on a weekly basis. If life were fair, those writers would make more money than anyone in Hollywood.
Nobody wants to defend these listings?
Shame on you!
I’ll defend the first few seasons of Survivor. It started out really good, with enough changes between seasons to make each one memorable.
Then it became the same thing over and over, the same stock castaways, the same challenges… I loved it when it started, but now I haven’t watched it in about two years.
Really, you people aren’t even trying. Can you believe that something called Heil Honey, I’m Home! - a sitcom about Adolph Hitler’s homelife - even got past the “you were drunk, right?” stage of development?
But I think the record has to go to Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos, which was pulled off the air 34 minutes into it’s 90 minute timeslot by the TV network owner Kerry Packer, who rang his station to say - or more likely, scream - “Get that shit off the air!”.
I will try to defend Jerry Springer. It really is not the worst that TV programs could be. In fact to some, it may be as good as it gets. The show has had nudity, profanity, and violence. Added to that, one episode featured a man marrying a horse. Set in Chicago guarantees that there would always be a couple hundred people available to insult the freaks on the stage. I can’t see the show working in Connecticut.
You may not like it, and I may not like it, but it is the television equivalent of a cold cheeseburger and fries. Also, it gives the average viewer, sitting a home at a time when most people are out earning a living, a chance to see people worse off than they are. It gives people a chance to say to themselves, I may be eating ding-dongs in a run down trailer park at noon on a Tuesday, but at least I haven’t impregnated my wife’s 300 pound great-grandmother.
SSG Schwartz
But that’s not what they say! They identify with the impregnator or the impregnatee!
And as for nudity, if it had that uncesored for American TV, then it wouldn’t have qualified for an “worst of all” list.
Carry on, SGT.
that damn sitcom/drama/crap Cavemen or whatever it was called loosely based on the commercials.
The commercials are funny as hell though.
Skald, I’m afraid I let you off too easy in my rush to defend Cop Rock. I cannot let the desecration of *Dynasty,*Dallas, and Melrose Place go unattended. Those were some of the best night time soaps ever.
Now, I admit, if you’re not a daytime soap fan you’re probably not going to like the prime time sudsers. However, the presposterous story lines and the over the top characters made these shows a very guilty pleasure. I do not apologize one bit for loving them.
I did like your subtitle for Hotel, I always called it Love Boat in Dry Dock.
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I Love New York** (and all later incarnations with that vapid whore)
What do I win?
I’ll come up with more but Rowan and Martins Laugh in and the old Andy Williams show immediatly spring to mind as being memorably dire.
Also Big Brother and any "People"show as in members of low life families airing their real and/or imaginary relationship problems in public.
A lifetime supply of penicillin and rubber gloves.
“Oohh, we’ll show that liberal Daily Show! Conservative humor is just as funny!”
Heh. This show needs to be smacked around more – it got off easy.
Wow, talk about an inappropriate laugh track.
“I’m worried DJ might be sick!” laughter “She hasn’t eaten anything in three days!” uproarious laughter
I couldn’t disagree with you more. A terrificly funny show, and Coach McGuirk, voiced by Brendon Small, is one of the all time greatest tv characters, imho.
*Coach McGuirk: [looking at a bald child with an oxygen ventilator] I love this kid. He’s like a chipmunk with a disease.
Coach McGuirk: [drunkenly] So I said to her “You want it clean? HUH? You want it CLEAN? YOU CLEAN IT! CLEAN IT YOURSELF! CLEAN IT YOURSELF!”… and I haven’t spoken to my mother since. *
Cash for clunkers? 
I nominate:
- The Beverly HillBillies–classist, sexist and stupid, all in one! (or Green Acres–fairly interchangeable, no?)
- Didn’t 3’s Company have a spin-off? If not, then 3’s Company.
- Chachi-the Happy Days spin off. (no idea how to spell his name; don’t care)
- Tie for 4th: George Lopez Show, Carlos Mencia (anything with him in it) or that Dimitri Martin show.
- Any Judge show.
I have heard tell that Teletubbies was watched by HS and college kids whilst high or on acid/ecstasy–apparently there is a lot to be gleaned from the show when one is altered in some way.