Mores and values have changed since then, but Turn-On was a horrible concept for its time, and a comedy show with endless surrealism and double entendres doesn’t strike me as being a good concept even now. Looking at the jokes that did make it on I’d be afraid of the ones that didn’t. In fact, when I think about it I can come up with shows that have elements as described but not one that puts the whole package together, probably for good reason.
Well, I know your opinions. You know mine.
And the Americans were played by perverts.
Larry Hovis and Ivan Dixon were perverts?
Remaking The Rockford Files was a horrible concept. Luckily someone smartened up at the last minute.
Bridalplasty, a reality show competition for brides who compete to get the plastic surgery of their dreams for their big day
This article says it better than I can.
The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer. About a Black servant in the Lincoln White House. Lincoln is an idiot; his wife is perpetually horny and eats everything in sight (setting up every obvious fat joke ever invented).
Actually, Ivan Dixon had a pretty decent career, mostly as a Director.
The Adventures of Superpup. Little people dressed in dog costumes spoofing “Superman.” What’s not to dislike?
Also, and what was most offensive to me, the show was a shameless, poorly executed, and uncredited rip-off of Blackadder the Third from its basic concept (a British nobleman with literary ambitions who’s fallen on hard times is forced to become a servant for a dimwitted national leader) to its inclusion of a grimy Baldrick-type character as Pfeiffer’s assistant. I think even if controversy over its racial content had been avoided, it probably would’ve been sued off the air by Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, and Rowan Atkinson.
The worst I can think of is Who’s Your Daddy?. Sounds like a light hearted sitcom, right? It wasn’t.
(dis)Honorable mention for Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire.
Wow, some excellent candidates here, most of which I’ve never heard of.
Sounds like we could put together a great evening for “Nick at Night”
A review stated “as shallow as a plastic kiddy pool, and as full of whiny brats”.
Isn’t there something on MTV called “Date My Mom”? I haven’t seen it, don’t know what it entails, but just the title makes me shudder.
One of the all-time low points in television history. What’s more, I remember that when that program was broadcast my state was voting whether or not to allow same sex marriage (it was ultimately defeated). I had to hear all kinds of bullshit from every homophobe idiot about how same sex marriage would "destroy the sanctity of marriage, " while no one seemed to give a shit about programs like this one where, y’know, the sanctity of marriage wasn’t even factored into the equation. GMAFB!
I was going to mention Homeboys in Outer Space (wait. . ., I did just mention it) but these reality shows take the cake and the pie and all the cookies too.
Being a notable director does not mean that one is not a pervert Roman Polanski but Ivan Dixon apparently was a fine person as well as being a fine director. They’re just not mutually exclusive.
His best acting performance in my opinion was in the movie Car Wash. He gives a touching performance as an ex-con trying to get by on a crappy job. The last scene in this underrated movie is one of the best in movie history, and I mean that. And Ivan nails that scene.