what do you think?
Chief’s Domain - http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi
You know, I haven’t caught a lot of the new shows this year, but I think two bad ones are:
“Veronica’s Closet” and “Jesse”
That show V.I.P. with Pamela Anderson. Ever try and watch some of this show? Only possible with sound turned off.
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
Go to the WB networks website. click a link at random. That one.
Any show on MTV. I live with a thirteen year old girl and she’s smart and intelligent and really a good kid, so WHY does she watch that idiocy?
~Kyla
“You couldn’t fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine.”
I vote for That 70’s Show.
The parents are annoying, the kids are even more annoying, they use the standard sitcom plot lines, a hyperactive laugh track, and, of course, the stereotypical foreign exchange student whose every sentence begins : "In my country … "
I see now that it has been renewed until 2002 . sigh
[list][li]“Suddenly Susan” - it really took a nosedive after they changed venue and management. It’s headed where “Caroline in the City” went, Cancelled City.[/li][li]“Veronica’s Closet” - ditto. (though I do like their new opening credits)[/li][li]“It’s Like, You Know…” - how lame is it to have an actress (Jennifer Grey) play herself, and poorly. :)[/li][li]Any of the TNBC shows on Saturday. Totally fomulatic; blatent clones of “Saved by the Bell”.[/li]“The Man Show” - the theme is funny for a stand-up routine. But show after show?
“Live from New York…”
JMcC, San Francisco, JJM’s page from the Bay
If I were a baseball player, and I got beaned by a fastball, I wouldn’t want medical attention. I’d want my limp, lifeless body flung to 1st, cause, dammit, I earned it!
Kyla, I agree that %99 of MTV is complete crap, but you gotta make an allowance for The Tom Green Show. OK, so maybe it’s not genius, but it really cracks me up sometimes…
“Teaching without words and work without doing are understood by very few.”
-Tao Te Ching
COPS. I just don’t understand why anyone watches this, but then I don’t understand why people slow down on the freeway to get a better look at someone pulled over and getting a ticket.
I tend to ignore the bad shows and concentrate on the good ones. That means I haven’t seen many new bad shows. A few I have run across:
- Veronica’s Closet. Used to be tolerable, now the TV equivalent of nails on chalkboard.
- Saturday Night Live. When I’m home on Saturdays, I watch and PRAY for a good sketch. I want it to be funny, but it just isn’t.
- The List. VH-1’s answer to Politically Incorrect, minus the wit and substance.
- The X Show (I believe). A bunch of moronic ``guy’s guys’’ and skimpily dressed models talking about strip-club etiquette and how to get comped in Vegas. Please.
There’s a lot of good stuff on TV, but crap like this drowns it out.
Up, up and away!
For sheer tenacity and consistency of dreadfulness, there has never been and never will be a worse show than Saturday Night Live. Boy Meets World is right up there, too – and now he’s married! Ick!
Catrandom
Presidential press conferences
Putrid, pretty much ALL press conferences are dull. Although The Daily Show’s clips of the P.C. in New Hampshire (?) were pretty good. They asked Sen. McCain a Trivial Pursuit question about “What rock star from Iceland became famous in the 1990s?”, which he couldn’t answer. McCain was highly amused by the question, so I’ll give him credit, but I don’t know if I want a president who can’t even guess Bjork.
Another knock on MTV…they’re showing some thing on 100 Greatest Videos of All Time, and I admit it, I’m a sucker for these lists, so I watched for about five minutes, until I realized they weren’t even showing the entire video! MTV is now so short-attention-span-oriented that they can’t even show an entire fucking video!
Oh yeah, and pretty much all the shows here mentioned suck. You’ve all forgotten the worst of the worst, though: Baywatch. The best part is when they show lifeguards running and running and running to some lame ass song, probably sung by David Hasselhoff.
I’d watch an early 90’s SNL any time, though.
~Kyla
“You couldn’t fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine.”
Is Baywatch still on? Dear Lord, I thought it was re-runs.
BTW, I know a lot of people like it, but I hate Dharma and Greg. I think “Greg” is boring, and I loathe Jenna Elfman. It’s irrational, I know. She’s just too freakin’ cheerful or something.
Politically Incorrect. It is anything but. The show should be called bash the right and that smug bastard Bill Maher is a lousy comedian, actor and show host.
The only way this show could be any worse would be if Bob Saget hosted it. Maybe.
The MAN SHOW AKA the X. Show. {Get real!}
Howard Stern {Ugly, obnoxious, sexist, worn out commentary, really, really obnoxious and homely staff.}
Rikki Lake
Frasier
Queen LaTifa (pardon my spelling)
Dr. Judy
The late night QVC MANLY knife sale with those guys who seem to have to yell about everything.
Cooking with Emil {One more ‘Kick it up!’ or ‘Whoooo!’ and I’ll barf!}
Boy Meets World
Veronica’s Closet
Hank Hill {It was good at the beginning, but now it’s going down hill fast.}
Talk Soup
90210
You mean there is still such a thing as “television”?
Unless one of my favorite teams is playing a game on broadcast TV, I don’t watch TV. I do make exceptions for The Simpsons Halloween specials and The X-Files. Everything is CRAP! So I read or surf.
“Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’”
E A Poe
Have you caught “World’s Scariest Car Crashes” yet? Boy, if that ain’t worth the price of cable, I don’t know what is!
I have really lost interest in t.v. lately. There aren’t many programs where the humor isn’t sickeningly corny or the acting so bad that I want to turn the set off and turn on the radio. But then Celine Dion comes on and chases me right back to the boob tube. Maybe I should just get out my 45’s and the Victrola.
In the little bit of free time that I have to watch t.v. any more I prefer 80’s & 90’s SNL, All In The Family, Golden Girls, Star Trek, and maybe an occasional Speed Racer. It’s really hard to watch anything now because you have to put up with 18 minutes of actual program (chopped all to hell), and 12 minutes of commercials.
Anybody remember when cable t.v. was first introduced to the public, the justifcation for having to pay for it was because there were no commercials. What happened there??
To paraphrase Dave Barry: Anyone attempting to run a beauty pageant should be shot through the lungs without a trial.