This is what I came in to post. Cop Rock was BAD, but I think they actually aired a few episodes before they pulled the plug. I simply can’t imagine the brain trust of a network giving this crapola the thumbs up.
Found it:
Facing stiff competition from the NCAA Basketball Tournament, the NBC telecast of the Chicago/NY-NJ game on March 31 received a 1.5 rating, at that time the lowest ever for any major network primetime television broadcast in the United States.
I remember because Conan did a skit about it, I never actually watched any of the games.
Well, you have to look at in a historical context. Shortly before *Cop Rock *came out, Steven Bochco was the golden-haired boy of the Hollywood TV industry. *Hill Street Blues *was a breakthrough cop drama (some people who weren’t around back then don’t remember that if it didn’t start the whole genre of the drama with story arcs, it definitely popularized it) and was winning bucketloads of awards. He had enough cred with the studio brass that pretty much anything he suggested would have gotten a greenlight.
He did go on to do *NYPD Blue *and *Doogie Howser MD *(among other less successful stuff) so *HSB *wasn’t his only success. But yeah, *Cop Rock *flopped hard. Everybody gets one oopsy.
Well, the only thing Slavegirl-ish in the episode was the title, so it kinda WAS all bad. (All the images from the linked article are safe for work, but there is one from a 1940s Buck Rogers Sunday comic strip that surprisingly close to not being safe for work, and there is a link in the article that is NOT safe for work, so I have spoilered the link.)
Heh I remember dreading Sunday mornings as a kid - all morning to watch TV, but all that was available for kids was either Hanna Barbera cartoons or Davey and Goliath.
Davey and Goliath was worse. Just horribly bad. And popular/long running, too.
Yeah, true. If you just looked at the premise you’d probably write it off as crap, but it was a surprisingly good show. I just watched the run of episodes recently on Netflix while leveling a WoW toon and for the most part they hold up pretty good. Neil Patrick Harris was a perfect choice for Doogie.
A while back I was stuck in an airport while a flight was delayed, and there was a TV in the waiting area playing an episode of The Jetsons (the '60’s edition). I had forgotten how mindnumbingly, wretchingly awful it was–it was beyond mere bad into “slow down and watch the car wreck” level of bad. Bad animation, bad dialogue, bad plotting, bad concept (the entire episode was based around the joke “women can’t drive”, and that dead horse was beaten until the ground no longer had measurable amounts of horse), bad everything.
And The Jetsons was considered the best of the Hanna-Barbera crap!
Aww, I used to love Davey and Goliath! And I wasn’t even religious. I just liked the Gumby vibe (it’s the same guy who did it) and the goofy adventures.
