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Wayne Brady’s variety show as also terrible and awkward. Far from the worst show of all time, but it was really bad.
Well, Jerry Springer’s show has been on forever and it is total garbage. And Maury, too, though I only know Maury for the “not the daddy” thing.
Scripted shows that ran multiple seasons that are the worst ever? Hard.
I mentioned Under the Dome, but I do realize worse shows have existed.
I’ve never seen 2 1/2 Men, but it was a huge hit and was awful. Was it good at one point? Was it at least adequate?
Remember** Baby Bob**, based on those ad with the talking baby? It ran two short seasons and was reallllly dumb. Talking baby was its only joke.
And yet they keep trying to revive the genre. This past year, Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris lasted all of 8 episodes.
When you got 3 channels (if you were lucky) and the whole family watched together on the one set in the living room, variety shows had a niche.
Not anymore. Variety is dead, specialty is in. Even Sábado Gigante is done.
Most American cartoons from the 1960s up until the very end of the 1980s, reaching a nadir in the 1980s. The confluence of a demand for pro-social messages (“The power of friendship!” “The power of going along to get along!”) and the deregulation of the industry leading to half-hour toy commercials really hit American animation hard. The first cartoons after that which were actually funny and intelligent (“The Ren & Stimpy Show”, “Beavis and Butt-Head”, “The Simpsons”) sparked quite a bit of controversy.
Most sitcoms are pretty stupid, but Three’s Company stands out as a particularly bad example of what moral depravity a culture can be pushed to when normal porn is artificially scarce.
Get a Life was imaginative and a bit surreal unlike most formulaic sitcoms.
Near as I can tell, the folks at Buck Rogers were going for fun and kid-friendly sci-fi with lighthearted swashbuckling and sexy chicks in skintight outfits and the occasional wink to the audience, and they hired plenty of folks from the Adam West version of Batman just in case anyone missed the point – after a pilot episode that was so good a popcorn movie that they wound up releasing it in theaters and making a healthy amount of money; they weren’t shooting for great art, but they hit what they were aiming at.
Get a Life was imaginative and a bit surreal unlike most formulaic sitcoms.
I went to see that movie with bunch of SF fans the weekend it came out. We all had high expectations, and wound up groaning after about the first 20 minutes. Since it was a matinee, the cinema was packed with little kids who were just plain bored and antsy to leave.
Afterwards, I caught some later episodes on TV and found them equally as bad. I make no apologies for my opinion, and I see no reason to alter it.
Just for the heck of it, I watched the series from beginning to end when they matinee stripped it on cable a few summers ago. Pretty lame and repetitive (like many sitcoms, there were only four or five basic situations and permutations thereof), but I don’t know if I’d go so far as to refer to it as “moral depravity.” That sounds too much like Mr Roper or Mr Furley (or even Basil Fawlty).
By far the worst part was the disco pavane, which inspired a parody on my part, titled (surprisingly enough) “The Disco Pavane.” 
You want bad? I’ll give you bad. My Mother the Car, starring Jerry Van Dyke who owns an automobile that is the reincarnation of his dead mother! She talks to him through the radio. This was, of course, a comedy. :eek:
I guess it’s like picking the low-hanging fruit by nominating an old soap opera for worst ever, but while idly clicking around YouTube, I happened to stumble on this:
Aside from being all-around bad (acting, dialogue, directing, sets, etc.), this has the single-funniest death scene I ever saw (at the end of it.)
Now I know you’re joking…but I also know that there are posters here who will see something like this and try to stretch the rules by calling others “trolls” seriously, but put it this way to get away with it. So let’s just try to avoid doing it even joking like.
I’ll raise you It’s About Time. Never mind astronauts and cave people running around on the sets from Gilligan’s Island, when they came back to the 20th century, they were all sharing an apartment in Los Angeles! Not around Cape Canaveral or Houston where astronauts would normally be based.
Hey, I can still sing the theme song fifty years later! 
On MTM, ***My Mother the Car *** was always on the WJM schedule, I presume because of the Dick-and-Jerry van Dyke connection.
I can still sing the theme song for this one too after fifty years!
Of course they had the same sets as Gilligan’s Island; both shows were produced by Sherwood Schwartz!
It’s been less than 50 years for me. My Mother the Car and It’s About Time both run on weekends on Antenna TV.
I think My Mother the Car was unfairly slammed at the time. Sure, the premise was bad, but so was the premise of a lot of shows. Bosom Buddies anyone? (For that show they dropped the idiot drag premise at the end.)
But it was just a regular so-so sitcom otherwise. Except: It had the glorious voice of Ann Sothern!
Maybe people just didn’t get the Sonny Tufts references.
And writers such as Allan Burns and James L. Brooks more than made up for it later.
I thought Captain Manzini always trying to acquire the car for his collection was pretty over the top. Although if they remade the show today, he could be played by Jay Leno.
Rewind
Manchester Prep
Septuplets
The Ortegas
Murder Police
Our Little Genius
These shows were so bad that they never even aired - and none are just “failed pilots”; every one of them was announced on a network schedule at some point (and at least two - Septuplets and Our Little Genius - aired commercials).
Okay, Our Little Genius gets an asterisk - it wasn’t pulled because it was thought to be bad; it was pulled because it was a game show where, two weeks before its premiere, the executive producer discovered that some low-level producers may have violated federal game show tampering laws by giving “additional information” (consisting of, depending on which version of the story you hear, being told that the questions would be limited to a subset of the announced category (e.g. the show says the category is “opera,” but all of the questions will be about Wagner operas), being told some of the questions in advance, or even being told the answers) and had the show pulled.