I sort of watched part of it last night because I was in the room where someone left the television on that station and I was working on something too far from the TV to reach the remote so I thought it would help me work faster so I could get away from it. It did.
The main reason I think this concept does not work now is because cross-dressing and transgender are too mainstream now so I don’t think those two “women” would fool anyone. Admittedly, I was far away from the TV but it also looked to me like the darker one was sporting some obvious 5 o’clock shadow.
I decided to give it a try. I turned it off after seven minutes. But I think my watch was a little fast.
As far as egregiously bad TV shows having long runs, you have According to Jim; Yes, Dear (a show whose own network programming head agreed that it sucked), and older shows like The Brady Bunch (a show whose star detested it), Matlock, The Love Boat, and many others.
I liked Yes, Dear. I didn’t really discover it until syndication, but it was pretty funny. Not surprising since it was made buy the same guy who made My Name is Earl and Raising Hope, which I also like.
Ah, Work It, we hardly knew thee: ABC has cancelled the controversial cross-dressing comedy Work It after two episodes. I like how the article mentions that the Human Rights Campaign was one of the groups that took out a full page ad against the show. I’m pretty sure it was over transgender concerns, but I hope that the real reason was because the show was so bad that they deemed it a crime against humanity.
I loathe Jim Belushi and any show or film that inflicts his ugly mug on an audience. I had no desire to watch 8 Simple Rules… But I protest the slur against Cavemen. It was subversively funny and intelligently written. I think it suffered by being bounced around the schedule and then being put on hiatus during the winter holiday specials. It’s available on video hosting sites if you want to give it a(another) try.
I never got a chance to watch the caveman show because the local station time-shifted it to 2 AM so they could air their weekly interview show with the local NFL coach. Or as some of us called it, “that other caveman show.”