IMDB lists exactly one memorable quote from that show:
It’s like poetry!
George was ALWAYS a black Archie - he just wasn’t the star of the show.
You know, I remember being twelve years old and thinking Ann Jillian was the sexiest thing going. I also remember not being able to stand Jennifer Slept Here, and being disappointed. I can’t for the life of me figure out how I knew who she was before that show. Magazine cover, maybe?
Anyway, having my memory jogged about that show once again confirms my suspicion that there’s a fetish page for every cussed thing you can imagine.
It’s A Living, also titled, at various times in production, Making A Living. That’s the point where I remember her jumping into public awareness (though I found out in doing IMDB research for this answer that she was the older June in Roz Russell’s movie version of Gypsy!).
I remember this show. One thing I recall was that they could never decide on just how big of a star Jennifer had been (same as Ginger Grant on Gilligan’s Island). In one episode she would be referred to as a B Movie starlet who never really got a big break, and in the next she’s on par with Marilyn or Valentino. As memory serves they also changed the era when she lived- sometimes she was recently deceased and other times she was from the 50s or 60s.
You may be right about Three And A Half Men with Charlie Sheen, but *Two * And A Half Men with Charlie Sheen makes me laugh every time. Conchatta Farrell absolutely cracks me up! Guess differences in taste are part of what makes the world go 'round.
Two other especially unfunny ghost themed sitcoms for the heap:
Down to Earth- a TBS sitcom starring Dick Sargent as the head of a wacky family whose maid is secretly a dead flapper trying to get her wings. Not only did it seem like they made it up as they went along, but they made it up while suffering from hangovers.
Nearly Departed- not even Eric Idle could help this lame attempt at a Topper remake (with, I remember, a super annoying and obviously sweetened canned laugh track). (Of course aside from Spamalot and The Rutles, few of Eric’s solo post-Python ventures have really been that good.)
The Nanny. I’d rather hear the death rattle of my mother than to hear Fran Drescher and her faux whine.
Dishonorable discharges:
Of course, afterMASH was horrendous too. They even brought Gary Burghoff (Radar) to guest star in a couple of episodes.
HBO also lifted its rightleg and let the fart of a show called “The Mind of the Married Man” out.
“Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” really is on bordertown for me. It’s on that it’s so bad it’s almost good kind of show.
But it was supposed to be! It was an over-the-top parody of soap operas. I don’t think that counts.
I happened to flcik the telly on one afternoon a few months back to find Bob Patterson.
It was the epitome of train-wreck television.
From sometime earlier this decade, What About Joan. It starred Joan Cusack, whose character was supposed to have been somewhat neurotic, which can be potentially funny. Cusack, however, played the character as borderline psychotic, which made the show mostly tragic and painful to watch.
It’s always odd to me when a show is cast with somebody who is painfully funny- a comedic genius almost (which imo Joan Cusack is- her Addams Family Values performance was one of the greatest of the 90s) and other good support but the show sucks and tanks, and it happens at least once a season. Other naturally funny people who’ve had dreadfully unfunny shows:
Bette Midler
Lucille Ball (though admittedly she had whipped that wacky redhead stuff until it frothed at the mouth, sweated blood, and had a 109 degree fever and was still trying to make it pull the cart even in 1980s)
Dudley Moore - had two just bloody awful TV shows
Katey Sagal
Jonathan Winters (several bad shows)
Randy Quaid (one was with Jonathan Winters)
Many others.
What was that show - I think it was in the '80s - about three overweight sisters living together, and the trials and tribulations of being three overweight sisters living together? It was just a series of fat jokes, repeated ad nauseum over each episode.
Wasn’t it Babes? Around 1990.
Oh God, yes. I can watch Full House if I have to, but America’s Funniest Home Videos is painfully, embarrassingly unfunny. The videos are just boring and pointless, but the sequences in between are pure torture. Bob Saget poorly delivers unfunny jokes, there is some stilted laughing in the background, and you are left with a feeling that the world just got slightly dumber.
Some shows are acquired tastes. I think Family Guy is the polar opposite. I loved it at first, but it got old fast. I watch it, as it still averages one brilliant joke per episode, but it’s no longer the enjoyment it once was. It isn’t anything close to the rewatchability of, say, Simpsons either.
Uh, yes, that is the show that I meant. Well, DesertGeezer, you’re obviously an individual of taste and intelligence (I’m not being sarcastic - I’m a fellow Steinbeck fan). Maybe I caught the one unfunny episode?
You are going to hell for this ststement.
Mamma’s Family – I can’t believe no one has brought up this horridly unfunny Vickie Lawrence spin-off of that horrible sketch from the Carol Burnette Show.
What’s Happenin’ – Rerun and Shirley I still can’t scrub this from my brain.
And to the person who nominated Beverly Hillbillies – you clearly don’t get it. It isn’t so much a show about silly hicks, it is a show about how silly society is in general. The hippie and social movement jokes are among the best things happening in the 60’s. Very sly and VERY funny.
I’ll be there waiting.