# 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:** 4
**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 22, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/61 "2011-01-22T19:01:01Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > _Two and a Half Men_ is really not good, and I don’t know how it has managed to even be nominated for awards, much less win them. I’ve seen several episodes, and it’s all the same unfunny dreck. Tons of tired cliches, and hammy over-acting. I wouldn’t call it the worst TV show of all time by any means, but it’s not Emmy-worthy, IMO. True. The only bright spots on that show are Conchatta Farrell and Holland Taylor. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/62 "2011-01-22T19:01:11Z")
Tom goes to the Mayor ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/63 "2011-01-22T19:22:50Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > i liked the man show. Ditto. It was stupid and offensive, but it was _supposed_ to be stupid and offensive. That was the joke. ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/64 "2011-01-22T23:01:55Z")
I ran across a show called _The Middle_ on ABC the other day. That’s show’s pretty awful. It’s like _Malcolm in the Middle_, but with anything funny about it removed. Shame on you, Janitor! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/65 "2011-01-22T23:08:23Z")
I have to agree with _Everybody [del]Loves[/del] Loathes Raymond_. I would also nominate _Married, With Children_ and pretty much every reality show past, present, and as yet unthought of. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/66 "2011-01-22T23:30:30Z")
Even as a 10-year-old I thought that [My Mother the Car](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Mother_the_Car) was pure shite. I remember watching a bit with my folks and remarking to them, “This is so stupid. PLEASE can we watch Combat”. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/67 "2011-01-23T00:04:28Z")
> [@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. Bad, yes, but it spawned two very good episodes of MST3K. > [@Omega\_Glory](#): > > Tom goes to the Mayor This drove me away from Adult Swim. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/68 "2011-01-23T00:07:09Z")
> [@regginbrow](#): > > I can’t tell, are you guys serious? This is like saying _Mad Men_ and _Breaking Bad_ are not only the worst shows on AMC, but the worst shows currently airing. Your opinions are objectively wrong by almost any measure, compromising your credibility on all things pop culture, and I say this as a ravingly rabid _Final Fantasy IV_ fan. Yes I’m serious. Are YOU serious when you claim P&R is the funniest show on tv? Because I sat through about 5 episodes (yes, I TRIED to give a chance!), and the Tammy Swanson ep was the only one I laughed at all (and even then, it was because of a secondary character who apparently isn’t even on most of the eps). Actually, that was the only episode where I wasn’t completely bored out of my mind for 30 minutes. And why does Rashida Jones hang around the office when she’s supposed to be a nurse? And for the record, Mad Men isn’t my thing, but I appreciate what it does. And Breaking Bad is just plain brilliant. And the funniest show currently airing is…actually, it might just be Community, now that Party Down’s been cancelled. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/69 "2011-01-23T05:37:07Z")
\*\*Cop Rock \*\*is the answer. I can never figure out how this thing got green-lighted. It was like some guys put together something as a joke and it continued to go up the food chain until it was too late. Wow that was bad. And I liked “ **Hello, Larry** ” for the same reason as someone up thread. Had a crush on Kim Richards. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/70 "2011-01-23T07:52:57Z")
> [@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.) > > (Mind you, I want [this t-shirt now.](http://www.8ball.co.uk/tshirts/thelittlesthobot-shirt-maybetomorrow_1_107573_brown-yellow-print_l.jpg)) I watched it as a kid early Saturday morning as a kid. But I couldn’t remember the title. It was the opening music that as stayed with me all these years. Eating at me. Now I am descending into the maelstrom of madness as the theme plays as an endless loop in my head. Thank you **Cat’s Whisker**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/71 "2011-01-23T08:15:33Z")
Mama’s Family and Alf. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/72 "2011-01-23T08:32:04Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > 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. This is how I feel about _How I Met Your Mother_. I’ve seen three episodes and it was so painfully unfunny I felt bad for the cast for being involved with something so stupid. And yet people who I know are not complete idiots like it. As hard as it may be to admit, I cannot judge people based on what TV shows they like. It is extremely tempting, though. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/73 "2011-01-23T08:39:03Z")
**The Ropers** was an incredibly bad spin-off from **Three’s Company**. This [Time article](http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1845866,00.html) ranks it #2 on its list of all time worst spin-offs. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/74 "2011-01-23T17:09:16Z")
This’ll always come down to personal opinion, but I think it’d be _possible_ to make a list of generally-accepted-to-be-truly-awful TV shows. But Malcolm in the Middle? Everybody Loves Raymond? Are these honest opinions about _the worst TV show of all time_? There’s plenty to criticize, maybe a wealth of stuff to criticize, but come on. I utterly DESPISE The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother – to the extent that I’d rather spend seven hours getting root canal work done than watch ten minutes of either – but I wouldn’t think of calling these the worst shows _of all time_. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/75 "2011-01-23T17:32:47Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > [Fuzz Bucket](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286639/)? Complete tangent: Looking up Fuzz Bucket on IMDB, I was amazed to see that [Joe Regalbuto](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm673873920/nm0005344) from “Murphy Brown”, now bears an uncanny resemblance to [Ed Harris](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3951461376/nm0000438). \ As a child who loved all things ninja-related. I actually liked “The Master”. It was a terrible, terrible show. But it was not as bas as the American remake of the British show “Men Behaving Badly”. Two words: Rob Schneider. Edit: Was there ever an earlier version of “Cop Rock” I swear I remember seeing it for the first and only time at my grandmother’s but she would have been dead by 1990. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/76 "2011-01-23T20:06:29Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > I watched it as a kid early Saturday morning as a kid. See? Whaddya I tell you? It’s starting, “Sometimes I think I’ll settle down…” ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/77 "2011-01-23T20:11:09Z")
Maybe not the worse, since it was a kids show, but I cannot believe that I liked [this show](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOPB2r7lWII) when I was little. :o ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/78 "2011-01-23T20:16:09Z")
The most painful show I have ever come across remains Mama’s Family. I suppose it may not be the worst, as there may have been some cornpone spinoff that even more execrable. It was just so far removed from my definition of comedy that I would sometimes watch it in fascination. ---
**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 23, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/79 "2011-01-23T21:02:49Z")
> [@fruitbat](#): > > The most painful show I have ever come across remains Mama’s Family. I suppose it may not be the worst, as there may have been some cornpone spinoff that even more execrable. It was just so far removed from my definition of comedy that I would sometimes watch it in fascination. The sad part of that is that the segments on the Carol Burnett Show that were the precursor to Mama’s Family were brilliant. ---
**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 23, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428/80 "2011-01-23T21:51:04Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > See? Whaddya I tell you? It’s starting, > > “Sometimes I think I’ll settle down…” The [_original_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFIj9oJmF6w&feature=related) was much better. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-of-all-time/568428.md?page=5)