# Worst TV show of all time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 21, 2011, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428 "2011-01-21T06:37:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/21 "2011-01-21T16:23:23Z")
> [@tingbudong](#): > > Short-lived early 80’s television series [The Master](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_%28TV_series%29). > > Strangely enough Tim Van Patten went on to become a fairly good writer. Strangely enough, this show has a rather devoted cult following as well. Lee Van Cleef as a ninja is worth the price of admission alone! ---
**Author:** ![Smitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Smitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smitty)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/22 "2011-01-21T16:27:02Z")
I stumbled across **Two and a Half Men** once, not knowing what it was. I honestly thought it was a dead pan parody of bad sitcoms. Once I realized that they were actually trying to be funny with the material as presented, I knew I had seen the worst show ever. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/23 "2011-01-21T16:27:50Z")
> [@Dorjan](#): > > I would say it’s a tie between [Homeboys in Outer Space](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115206/) and [The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168373/). Both best forgotten, IMO. Homeboys in Outer Space is what I came here to say. I have no idea about the other one, but if you put the two shows in the same category, then I can only imagine. I think I was like 12 when Homeboys in Outer Space made its triumphant debut, and even then I remember wondering WTF? Now, the other WTF show that I remember, I don’t even know the name, I just remember that for some reason we had the pilot on a beta tape in the early-mid 80s. I know it didn’t last long. But I liked it at the time (I was like 3 or 4, but for some reason I remember it to this day). Anyway, there was a boy and an alien type thing named Fuzzbucket. Does anyone know what I’m talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/24 "2011-01-21T16:34:00Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > the holy grail of bad TV: > > My Mother The Car. That was the show that taught me, as a kid, that cars can be crushed into a cube\*. That and the fake ventriloquist act are nearly the only things I remember from that show. I remember really liking knowing that cars can be crushed into cubes. - or rectangular cuboid for the picky ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/25 "2011-01-21T17:37:34Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > That was the show that taught me, as a kid, that cars can be crushed into a cube\*. That and the fake ventriloquist act are nearly the only things I remember from that show. > > I remember really liking knowing that cars can be crushed into cubes. > > - or rectangular cuboid for the picky I was just a kid but I remeber the show as well, good call on the cube! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/26 "2011-01-21T17:45:07Z")
> [@Blackberry](#): > > Now, the other WTF show that I remember, I don’t even know the name, I just remember that for some reason we had the pilot on a beta tape in the early-mid 80s. I know it didn’t last long. But I liked it at the time (I was like 3 or 4, but for some reason I remember it to this day). Anyway, there was a boy and an alien type thing named Fuzzbucket. Does anyone know what I’m talking about? [Fuzz Bucket](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286639/)? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/27 "2011-01-21T17:51:02Z")
Did y’all have a collective case of Repressed Memory Syndrome? What about [_Manimal_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manimal)? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/28 "2011-01-21T17:51:52Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > Parks & Recreation, aside from the Tammy Swanson episode. How did this unfunny dreck get renewed AGAIN???\ That’s almost word-for-word what I say every time I see a commercial for _Parks and Recreation._ I watched most of an episode when it was new to see if it was good - it wasn’t. It was awful. It was embarrassing for anyone involved with it. And then it was renewed. And my faith in humanity slipped one more notch. Are we talking tv shows from all over, or just American tv? I’d put the stuff Canadian tv puts out up against the worst American tv can put out any day - for example, [The Littlest Hobo.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=banXT6azA-4) (A show about a German Shepherd dog who roams the countryside, doing stuff.) (Mind you, I want [this t-shirt now.](http://www.8ball.co.uk/tshirts/thelittlesthobot-shirt-maybetomorrow_1_107573_brown-yellow-print_l.jpg)) ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/29 "2011-01-21T17:54:30Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Sorry. If you honestly think _The Man Show_ is the worst TV show of all time, you either have an axe to grind or haven’t seen enough truly awful TV. It was crude, juvenile, and frequently sexist, but also had some legitimately hilarious bits. It wouldn’t even rank among the worst shows Comedy Central ever produced, let alone across the entire history of television. > > A cultural gem compared with excrement like _Small Wonder_ or _Cheaters_, shows with absolutely no redeeming value on any level. I am willing to concede that _The Man Show_ is merely the worst TV show I have personally ever seen. Sure. I’ve never seen either of the two other shows you mentioned, for example. Also, if I recall correctly _The Man Show_ immediately followed _The Daily Show_ and suffered massively in comparison, so maybe that’s influencing my opinion a little bit. I can tell you that of the few episodes I watched, I didn’t laugh once. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/30 "2011-01-21T17:55:22Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > Which itself is still way better than Tim & Eric’s “Awesome” Show. Tim & Eric is hit or miss, but at least once in a while it’ll show something that’s fall-on-the-floor funny (like [“B’Owl”](http://video.adultswim.com/tim-and-eric-awesome-show-great-job/bowl.html)); and when it’s bad, at least it’s short. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/31 "2011-01-21T17:58:26Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Are we talking tv shows from all over, or just American tv? I’d put the stuff Canadian tv puts out up against the worst American tv can put out any day - for example, [The Littlest Hobo.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=banXT6azA-4) (A show about a German Shepherd dog who roams the countryside, doing stuff.) I came _this_ close to Pitting you…until I found out that you were referring to _The New Littlest Hobo._ ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/32 "2011-01-21T18:05:20Z")
I came here to post (and was sure someone had beaten me to it) Pink Lady and Jeff. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/33 "2011-01-21T18:12:51Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > In the first couple of seasons The Man Show could dumb, and it could also be a funny sendup of masculinity. After Kimmel and Carolla left, the satire went away and it was just awful. Yeah, I was referring to the Kimmel/Carolla episodes. I never watched it after they left, but I heard it sucked. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/34 "2011-01-21T18:29:30Z")
_Cavemen_, based on the Geico commercials, was pretty bad. I saw one episode. I have not seen most of the others mentioned here. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/35 "2011-01-21T18:33:22Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Did y’all have a collective case of Repressed Memory Syndrome? > What about [_Manimal_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manimal)? I liked Manimal… but in my defence I was 7 or 8 at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/36 "2011-01-21T18:53:37Z")
Will and Grace. An old Adult Swim show called “Sealab 2021” (one of the greatest tv shows of all time) did a parody of it where it had the three characters just looking at each other and saying “gay gay gay gay gay gay” “gay gay gay?” “gay gay gay gay”. And that’s all the show was, gay jokes and whatever the hell the short fat one was talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/37 "2011-01-21T18:54:08Z")
[Quitcherbitchin’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWXUA9vyKEg&feature=related) the answer is obviously **Cop Rock** even as a kid seeing the commercial I knew it would be cancelled. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/38 "2011-01-21T19:50:52Z")
According to Jim ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/39 "2011-01-21T19:52:39Z")
> [@Dr.Rieux](#): > > According to Jim Oh, god…I was flabbergasted when I came across it a couple years ago and thought, “This thing is STILL ON?!” It has since, mercifully, become defunct, but damn…even Courtney Thorne-Smith fappers can’t really explain the length of its run. ---
**Author:** ![Galileo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Galileo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galileo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/40 "2011-01-21T20:14:59Z")
How about one of the [worst talk shows](http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2009/11/06/worst-talk-shows-tv-history/), or one of the [worst reality shows](http://realitytv.about.com/od/realitytvnewsgossip/tp/bad-reality-shows.htm)? Okay, winning a few Emmys doesn’t mean that the show is the best ever, but I suggest that it eliminates the show from being the “worst of all time”. > [@Nobody](#): > > I can’t decide between “Malcolm in the Middle” and “Everybody Loves Raymond”. > [@Smitty](#): > > I stumbled across **Two and a Half Men** once … > I knew I had seen the worst show ever. > [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Will and Grace. Not sure if the first quote is serious, but it seems to be. (Or it’s some kind of inside joke.) _Malcolm in the Middle_ was nominated for 33 Emmys and won 7. _Everybody Loves Raymond_ was nominated for 63 Emmys and won 14, including Outstanding Comedy Series, twice. _Two and a Half Men_ was nominated for 30 Emmys, and won 4. _Will & Grace_ was nominated for 83 Emmys and won 16, including Outstanding Comedy Series. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428.md?page=3)