# Worst concept for a TV special or series ever?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-concept-for-a-tv-special-or-series-ever/566011>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 1, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-concept-for-a-tv-special-or-series-ever/566011 "2011-01-01T01:44:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Noel\_Prosequi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Noel\_Prosequi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noel_Prosequi)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-concept-for-a-tv-special-or-series-ever/566011/101 "2011-01-13T04:42:42Z")

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Britain’s Missing Top Model. Premise is to get 8 girls who are variously missing limbs, or are wheelchair bound, or have cerebral palsy, and make a “next top model” show. Utterly exploitative, with a frisson of ghoulish voyeurism and a thick overlay of sanctimonious faux-“empowerment”. Even the title is ick.

And I agree with the Hogan’s Heroes = good argument. One of Mel Brooks’s greater insights was that Hitler is defeated by laughing at him.

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