# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/41 "2014-08-07T13:09:04Z")
If my wife has a duvet day (I work from home mostly) then her penchant for _ **Homes Under the Hamme** _r makes my brain leak out of my ears. I suppose I should be grateful she doesn’t record it… ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/42 "2014-08-07T13:13:34Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > 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. That sounds like _Man vs. Food_. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/43 "2014-08-07T13:23:27Z")
Naked and Afraid ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/44 "2014-08-07T13:45:32Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Naked and Afraid I don’t consider N&A trash TV. I give everybody who’s done it a lot of credit. Being naked aspect only adds one more jolt to the whole survival aspect. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/45 "2014-08-07T13:47:09Z")
Wipeout. Has no redeeming social value other than to make your laugh. ---
**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, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/46 "2014-08-07T13:48:37Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > 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. My child loves this Disney show called “Dog with a Blog”, which I always refer to as “Mutt with a Butt.” Drives me _insane_. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/47 "2014-08-07T13:52:59Z")
If I gave you all a rundown of what we watch on TV all day long (home and bar) you’d never, ever, EVER speak to me again. Never Ever Again. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/48 "2014-08-07T14:00:32Z")
I’m the only one who watches TV. (I like Judge Judy! I don’t watch it at home, but if it’s on when I visit a relative, I’ll watch it.) I don’t think this is trash tv, exactly, but it’s kind of pointless (unless you’ve lived through it): The Weather Channel weather reenactment shows. It used to be all hurricanes, all the time. Now they are advertising a Sunday night ‘survival’ show! So when I take a look at the TV hoping to glimpse an actual WEATHER forecast, I’m forced to watch the reenactment of tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods. Otherwise, I will admit to watching The King of Queens. Kind of a dumb show but I often laugh. I watch every night, even though they repeat the same two shows they put on the night before. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/49 "2014-08-07T14:17:18Z")
Real Housewives of \. My wife is a huge fan. I have to leave the room when it’s on. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/50 "2014-08-07T14:19:14Z")
> [@Missy2U](#): > > If I gave you all a rundown of what we watch on TV all day long (home and bar) you’d never, ever, EVER speak to me again. Never Ever Again. > > Seriously. Hey, I’m not talking about crap _I_ like to watch (some of it mentioned here by other posters). Only _other people’s_ crap…the kind that sucks! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/51 "2014-08-07T14:22:33Z")
Just about anything Mrs. Homie watches when I’m not in the room. _Hoarders, Horading: Buried Alive_, etc. Mrs. Homie thinks she may have a hoarding problem (and she is probably a Stage .25 Hoarder), and apparently seeing these people makes her feel better about herself. _Big Brother_: My vote for the most ridiculous show in the history of network TV. But to each his own, I guess. _Honey Boo Boo_: I. Can’t. Even. But at the same time, I watch some stuff that can most charitably be described as crap. I could watch _TruTV Presents: World’s Dumbest_ all day long. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/52 "2014-08-07T14:44:17Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Hey, I’m not talking about crap _I_ like to watch (some of it mentioned here by other posters). Only _other people’s_ crap…the kind that sucks! 😃 Well then that would be almost everything my husband watches. Let’s see. Starting around 4 AM. News. Then news. Then news. Then news. Then news. Then news. Then Price is Right. Then news. Then news. Then, if we’re home, what I want from 1 - 2 (he puts Bonanza on the other TV and watches it on mute), if we’re at the bar, whatever is on TruTV. Then TMZ Live or more TruTV if we’re at the bar. Then at 3:00 we watch stuff we agree on, then at 4:00 (while he watches - wait for it - NEWS - muted) I watch what I want. 5:00 TMZ again (I read or work), 5:30 - 7:00 PM stuff we both agree on. From 7:00 - 10:00 - we either agree, or he goes to bed. And watches something on the bedroom TV (usually news.) What I don’t understand about all of it is that while he’s got this never ending NEWS loop thing going on, he’s reading the damn newspaper! Honestly. He baffles me sometimes - even after almost 19 years! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/53 "2014-08-07T14:52:55Z")
If non-current stuff counts (ie shows on DVD), I had to bail out after a couple of episodes of ‘I Am Not an Animal’ – just couldn’t get into it (and the animation bugs me). Sample clip: [- YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-oUbazj-hU) We’ve dipped a toe into revisiting the waters of a childhood fuckaroo of Mr Fridgemagnet’s called ‘Sky’ but dunno if we’re going to pursue that more than one of two episodes. ‘Sky’ ( product of the minds of Doctor Who writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M50f-_oIebQ) The kid with no eyes is the _good guy_. Comedies with laugh tracks/live audiences – I’m out of the room. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/54 "2014-08-07T14:55:08Z")
I love SWMBO dearly. But lately, she has gotten addicted to all sorts of property shows: Property Brothers, Love It or List It, etc. She’ll turn one of those on and I head to my computer in the back room and close the door. Egads, those shows are annoying and boring. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/55 "2014-08-07T17:51:19Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I love SWMBO dearly. But lately, she has gotten addicted to all sorts of property shows: Property Brothers, Love It or List It, etc. She’ll turn one of those on and I head to my computer in the back room and close the door. > > Egads, those shows are annoying and boring. Mine too… she’ll watch all this HGTV crap, interspersed with terrible reality TV like the various Real Housewives shows and the various wedding dress shows. The perplexing thing is that she also likes decent TV that we watch together- Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad and several other shows that maybe aren’t awesome TV, at least they’re not as abysmal as the Real Housewives shows. Most of the time when she’s watching that junk, I just go into my little hole with the computer and either surf the web or play video games. ---
**Author:** ![Osiris\_the\_1st](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9de0a6/32.png) [@Osiris\_the\_1st](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osiris_the_1st)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/56 "2014-08-07T20:38:43Z")
My kids love “The Super Mario Brothers’ Super Show”. Starring Captain Lou Albano as Mario. Yes, of WWF fame. With at least one guest appearance by Cyndi Lauper. Who showed up asking Mario for help because Captain Lou Albano was missing. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/57 "2014-08-07T23:18:55Z")
Any of the Ice Crab Fishermen Busters Pawn Pickers. I wish them all harm. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/58 "2014-08-08T00:30:37Z")
I will sometimes watch _Hoarders_ or similar programs if I come across them and I’m just watching TV because I’m bored. Probably the worse TV show I watch on purpose on a regular basis is _Kitchen Nightmares_. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/59 "2014-08-08T01:10:44Z")
I think our list is pretty good. I watch The Walking Dead, which my wife gives a big rolleyes. She likes property porn like Property Brothers, which I find boring and repetitive. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975/60 "2014-08-08T19:25:23Z")
_Grey’s Anatomy_ (wife watches it) Ugh, I hate this show. I hate every one of the self centered characters on it. I wish they’d kill them off one by one so I’d have a reason to enjoy the show. I hate the format of the show too with the “strings being plucked” background music to denote that you are watching a humorous quirky dialog scene. Or the emo background song of the week by upcoming artist. And apparently everyone is horny all the time working in a hospital around sick people. By the time I have to hear Meridith’s preachy message of the week I’m ready to hang myself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-show-watched-in-your-household/694975.md?page=4)