# Worst TV show watched in your household **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 6, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975 "2014-08-06T20:09:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/21 "2014-08-06T22:26:47Z")
I was visiting relatives when I discovered that someone I used to love spending time with now watches TruTV pretty much whenever possible unless “Supernatural” is on. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/22 "2014-08-06T22:45:20Z")
My GF and her sister watch a lot of trash TV. We used to have BIO on all the time. We renamed it ‘the Murder channel’. Now, her sister watches \*\*‘Ghost Hunters’ \*\*religiously. Her IQ drops with each viewing. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/23 "2014-08-06T23:01:00Z")
My dad watches telenovelas every night. This is usually the worst thing on, unless you count my Sunday marathons of\*\* Bar Rescue\*\* and the occasional episode of **Cops**. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/24 "2014-08-06T23:36:11Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > My husband likes true crime type shows. I can’t watch, because the violence and horrible things are too much for me. I was watching a little program called interesting enough, _Forensic Files_, where they waste 20 minutes of your time (not counting commercials) talkin’ about fibers and DNA and fingerprints. You know how they convicted the guy on the episode I watched? He turned himself in and confessed. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Cell\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Cell\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cell_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/25 "2014-08-06T23:42:09Z")
**Double Divas** was thankfully cancelled so it’s a tie between **Restaurant Stakeout** and **Mystery Diners**. I sometimes wonder about my wife. I don’t complain, though, as it gives me ammo when she calls WWE fake. Compared to those shows WWE looks like Shakespeare. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/26 "2014-08-06T23:51:19Z")
My wife has been known to watch “Long Island Medium” and before that she used to sometimes watch “Rescue Mediums”. I have watched a few episodes of Gail Vaz-Oxlade’s shows “Prince$$” and “Money Moron” while lounging in bed. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/27 "2014-08-07T00:39:05Z")
My wife watches Judy Judy and Dragon’s Den/Shark Tank (we get both US and Canadian channels). I can feel brain cells dying. Of course, I’m in no position to kick… I like cheesy sci-fi/horror movies - even on SyFy. ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/28 "2014-08-07T00:41:07Z")
I’m inexplicably still hate watching Under the Dome. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/29 "2014-08-07T01:19:17Z")
Joel Olsteen. I have to leave the room. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/30 "2014-08-07T02:54:30Z")
Virgin Territory. MTV’s latest reality show following the lives of (gasp) actual virgins. I’m so ashamed. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/31 "2014-08-07T03:06:40Z")
_Criminal Minds_. I love it because it’s **so** stupid. The science is terrible, and it makes my husband crazy, but that’s why I love it. It’s accidental comedy. I also watch _Switched at Birth_, because of the Deaf characters and all the signing. I know it’s a teen show, but I still love that there’s a Deaf show. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/32 "2014-08-07T03:07:20Z")
We don’t watch TV. If the sets on, it’s just BBC TV news by default. Any shows we watch are on DVD, as we don’t subscribe to cable. When I was growing up in West Texas, the worst show my parents watched was probably Lawrence Welk. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/33 "2014-08-07T07:56:17Z")
WWE…anything. My husband watches it all the freaking time. ---
**Author:** ![bmasters1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/34 "2014-08-07T09:01:43Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > Joel Olsteen. > I have to leave the room. I feel likewise about Ralph Sexton, Jr., a TV preacher from Asheville, NC. He used to be on WLOS, but has recently moved to FOX Carolina. His messages are recorded at 8 on Sunday mornings, and every time my mother puts one of them on, I have to leave the room. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/35 "2014-08-07T09:08:59Z")
My trashiest viewing is a tie between _Hoarders_ and _Supersize vs Superskinny_. My son watches something about a man who travels the US and seems to nothing but eat. I have no idea of the name but it does seem to be a competition (with himself?) to eat more than a human being ought. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/36 "2014-08-07T10:19:24Z")
My husband surfs thru all kinds of crap TV - but one of the worst has to be _Parking Wars_. Seriously? A reality show following meter maids or showing idiots trying to get their cars out of impound?? He also loves the various tattoo shows - whether it’s people getting new tats or covering up old ones. I’m usually in the next room on line, but I hear enough of these to feel like it’s the same show over and over. But then I used to be heavily into HGTV porn, altho now I can’t stand that channel at all. ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/37 "2014-08-07T10:44:53Z")
I’m sure my wife would point to my (very occasional) watching of Monday Night Raw, but I have to put all her interchangable HGTV/Lifetime shows about selling a house or flipping a house or keeping a house. I consider them all one big program. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/38 "2014-08-07T12:50:00Z")
My kid likes to watch the sitcoms on the Disney channel. What do I win? Oh, wait… in this thread, we’re all losers. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/39 "2014-08-07T12:54:28Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > My kid watches some awful shit as well, but, he’s a kid. My dad used to get so frustrated with me for watching Rawhide and The Rifleman, but looking back they weren’t so bad. So I try and cut my kid some slack too when she’s got junk on, but Say Yes to the Dress, The Kardashians and The Bachelorette are really pushing it. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/40 "2014-08-07T13:03:56Z")
My husband likes Nascar. Cars going around in circles for hours and hours. He also like fishing shows. Seriously, is it any wonder I’m bored out of my mind? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975.md?page=3)