# What do you think was the strangest t.v show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 15, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254 "2003-02-15T13:57:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@bong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bong)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/1 "2003-02-15T13:57:19Z")
What do you think? I have to say cybersix. It has the most ridiculous character ever( a robot that seems to have a gender identity crisis and is related to a robot panther.WTF?) who goes around killing just about everything, and the bad guy was an insane kid with orange glasses. It was on teletoon(canadian cartoon station). Anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![NardoPolo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NardoPolo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NardoPolo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/2 "2003-02-15T14:25:16Z")
There’s something about **Max Headroom** that’s different and very very strange, which I have never been able to put my finger on. I mean, beyond the fact that it is about a… I don’t even know what… in an age that is dramatically different yet so much the same as today (how did they say it? 10 minutes into the future?). It was also bizarre that it was such a success and such a failure at the same time. Oh, how I miss that show. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/3 "2003-02-15T15:14:40Z")
**Manimal** was sort of strange, but I liked it. I think you’re going to have to specificly exclude children’s shows, otherwise you have the whole **H.R Puffinstuff, New Zoo Revue, Great Space Coaster** giant costumed society thing to deal with. There was a show a few years back called **Grand** that was supposed to take place in a town where the only industry was grand pianos or something. I think it only lasted maybe two episodes but I don’t recall if that was because of weirdness, awfulness, or a combination of both. And of course, how could we forget **Small Wonder**? ---
**Author:** ![SadTomato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@SadTomato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SadTomato)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/4 "2003-02-15T15:47:00Z")
_ **…The A-ddams Fa-mi-ly…** _ _(snap, snap)_ ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/5 "2003-02-15T15:53:56Z")
**On the Air** ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/6 "2003-02-15T15:54:00Z")
I would think that “Greg The Bunny” has to be in there. Any show plot that includes replacing a dog’s testicles with Sammy Davis Junior memorial eyeballs that play “Mr. Bojangles” so that he won’t eat a stuffed sentinent rabbit . . . That’s kind of strange. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/7 "2003-02-15T15:54:34Z")
TWIN PEAKS and THE PRISONER ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/8 "2003-02-15T15:58:27Z")
Cop Rock. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/9 "2003-02-15T16:01:30Z")
Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE THE SHOW, but Red Dwarf must have had the strangest pitch meeting ever. “. . . Okay, it’s a sitcom, but it’s set in a giant spaceship the size of a city. There’s only one person on the ship, but he’s accompanied by a hologram, the ship’s computer, and a creature that’s evolved from cats. . . No, wait! Listen. The man who evolved from cats is a smooth, James Brown type. No, _young_ James Brown. He dances and sings sometimes. He’s a cat! The hologram is a total smeghead. . .” Another weird one would have to be Hogan’s Heroes. I mean, come on!! It’s a sitcom about nazis!!! That’s f#cked up! ---
**Author:** ![23skidoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f04885/32.png) [@23skidoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/23skidoo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/10 "2003-02-15T16:07:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by voguevixen \* > \*\ ***Manimal** was sort of strange, but I liked it. > > There was a show a few years back called **Grand** that was supposed to take place in a town where the only industry was grand pianos or something. I think it only lasted maybe two episodes but I don’t recall if that was because of weirdness, awfulness, or a combination of both. > \*\* Grand was a great show. It lasted more than two episodes, but was shuffled around too much, I think. Strangest TV show? I’ll nominate “Herman’s Head”, “Cop Rock”, and “Hogan’s Heroes”. How did they pitch those shows? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/11 "2003-02-15T16:21:26Z")
The four-episode run of **No Soap, Radio** from the early 80s, which was mainly a series of non-sequitirs. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/12 "2003-02-15T16:24:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mjollnir \* > \*\*The four-episode run of **No Soap, Radio** from the early 80s, which was mainly a series of non-sequitirs. \*\* I never even heard of that one! ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/13 "2003-02-15T16:26:14Z")
I can’t change the channel fast enough when I accidentally surf across the **Teletubbies**. Now that’s creepy! ---
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/14 "2003-02-15T16:40:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alias \* > \*\*Red Dwarf…Hogan’s Heroes. \*\* Red Dwarf was a riot. But still thunking upon strangest. Hogan’s Heroes was loved by a friend of the family that was a POW during WWII. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/15 "2003-02-15T16:58:45Z")
Huh, what about _Green Acres_? Personally, I found it almost unbearably disturbing, from poor Eddie Albert’s continual inability to make himself understood to anyone, even his (inexplicably) Hungarian wife, to Mr. Haney’s flat wheezing inflections, to that deeply twisted relationship between Mr. Ziffel and Arnold the pig. Sort of a cross between _Waiting for Godot_ and Kafka at his most nightmarish. Everything about that show creeped me out, frankly. And those puppets in _Thunderbirds_. They got to me too. ---
**Author:** ![bong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@bong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bong)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/16 "2003-02-15T17:13:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by voguevixen \* > \*\ ***I think you’re going to have to specificly exclude children’s shows, otherwise you have the whole H.R Puffinstuff, New Zoo Revue, Great Space Coaster giant costumed society thing to deal with.** Um… I think cybersix MAY have been a kid’s show, since it was a cartoon, and I don’t think it was anime. Of course, it was on at 9 p.m, so… I miss that show. Another wierd one was reboot.(when it was in canada) After all, the top bad guy was a computer virus with a targeting reticule on its head. And there were a LOT of video game parodies in there. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/17 "2003-02-15T17:14:44Z")
“The Gong Show”, of course. Bizarre host, bizarre panel, bizarre recuring acts, and bizarre contestants. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/18 "2003-02-15T17:32:39Z")
No mention yet of **My Mother the Car**? Have you people no memories? OTOH, maybe it is best forgotten. . . . ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/19 "2003-02-15T18:03:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \* > \*\ ***On the Air** \*\* This is what I came into this thread to mention as well. Short lived, but very weird. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254/20 "2003-02-15T18:18:00Z")
Well, **The Monkeys** has always been one of my watchwords for strange TV. But I was 9 or so when it aired, so it may have just warped my young mind. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-was-the-strangest-t-v-show/155254.md?page=2)