Shows that have gone on WAY TOO LONG

[XemaSab]

I nominate the X-Files. How did they think they could have a show without Mulder? And the crushing non-resolution of the arc episodes? Bees, clones, implants, Samantha... WTF? :shrug:

http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/telefile/2008/12/twop-10-shows-that-werent-canc.php#blog_comments

[Shell Beau]

1. ER!

:shrug:

[underpants]

3. I completely agree

Stamos??? I purposefully don't watch it now

Plus It's Always in Philadelphia is on against it

[Shell Beau]

6. I don't even know what night it comes on! I just know that it is still on.

House is enough for me as far as medical shows go!

Ok, I will admit I do occasionally watch Grey's! :wow:

[underpants]

2. Happy Days didn't go off the air until 1984

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070992/

[Bucky]

4. I feel the same way about the 10:00pm news

I mean, good God, people, I know people die in fires and horrible freeway accidents. Why do you have to keep on reminding me?

[fizzgig]

5. pretty much

i got so bored with it after mulder disappeared.

my bf and i watched the new movie a few nights ago and i had no idea what was going on

[madinmaryland]

7. Anything my wife records.

:hide:

[Danger Mouse]

8. The motherfucking Simpsons. It should've ended years ago...

while it was still good.

[cemaphonic]

13. Yeah, I loved the first 8 or so seasons, and still watch them regularly

But it's kinda sad that the show has been bad longer than it was good at this point.

Too bad Fox fucked around with Futurama so much. It really seemed like a lot of the creative energy from that crew moved there.

[Drunken Irishman]

17. Wrong.

[Danger Mouse]

23. Don't try to tell me you think it's still GOOD

[Drunken Irishman]

36. Yes I do.

It's not near the level it was in the early to mid-90s, but it's better than it was from 1999-2004.

Even with the downturn, it's still one of the best shows on television and trumps anything that airs on Sunday night.

[PeaceNikki]

57. I'm with you on this.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

58. You'll enjoy this review:

http://www.tvverdict.com/2008/12/08/the-simpsons-208-the-burns-and-the-bees/

The Simpsons 20.8: “The Burns and the Bees”

December 8th, 2008 by Erich Asperschlager | Fox, Reviews



This week’s Simpsons episode is brought to you by the letter B—as in “B” is for Billionaires, Burns, Basketball, Bees, and Bezos (amazon.com-founding special guest Jeff, that is).

“The Burns and the Bees” features the long-awaited rematch between Lisa and Mr. Burns, who last tangled in the eighth season episode “The Old Man and the Lisa.” I doubt there are two more opposite characters on The Simpsons. She’s young. He’s old. She has a family. He lives alone. She has her cat. He has his hounds. She cares about the environment. He cares about… nothing. They’re the perfect match. So why didn’t this episode work?

Part of me knows that the only way to enjoy the modern incarnation of The Simpsons is to stop expecting its stories to make sense. In “The Old Man and the Lisa,” Burns lost his money and Lisa helped him earn it back. Pretty straightforward. In “The Burns and the Bees,” Lisa finds out the world’s bee population is dying out and tries to give Springfield’s last colony a fighting chance for survival, while Burns goes to a Billionaire’s Retreat and wins a professional basketball in a poker game. Their stories intersect when Burns decides to bulldoze the bees’ habitat to build a new stadium for his team. Once the bee v. b-ball match-up happens, the story gels just long enough for Homer to come up with a wacky scheme that ends in such town-shattering devastation it’s guaranteed nothing that happened this week will ever be mentioned again. Not straightforward at all. It’s like sometime after the tenth season, The Simpsons writers started using Mad Libs to generate story ideas. In fact, I’ve got a sneaking suspicion the only reason this episode exists is because someone came up with the title “The Burns and the Bees” and just had to make it work.

[Ava]

9. Friends did

[Orrex]

10. Every so-called 'reality' show

Horrible. Every one of them.


Even the one that you like.

[XemaSab]

11. Project Runway is the LIVING SHIT

:o

[Orrex]

12. When you typed that, somewhere a cat stopped purring

How does that make you feel, you sadist?

[XemaSab]

15. I'm sure it was my cat, Koshie

And she stopped purring because she's BURIED THREE FEET UNDER THE LEONOTIS IN THE SIDE YARD! :o

There, you reminded me of my dead cat for the second time in as many days.

How does that make you feel? :cry:

[Liberal_in_LA]

37. love it!

[vixengrl]

18. Survivor's best season was the first--

all others were crap! And American Idol is so bad I can just about predict the winner from the early shows--you know, the ones with the crazy people trying out. When I picked it was either Reuben or Clay the one season, and had Taylor Hicks down the next one, I just gave up. I understood the pattern, and never needed to watch again. And Last Comic Standing is great--to see if I've already caught the act of one or two of the people participating already. Which I probaby have. Since comedy is a big subjective field with populated with go-getters. And also to see if it actually leads to someone being crowned or whatever, since it really hasn't ever broken anybody out. In any meaningful way. Just saying.

Oh, and I wonder if a reunion of "The Biggest Loser" would be the "biggest disappointment" in seeing how many people are really fat again. That might actually make a better show.

And any cable show about rich people or celebrity rehab is de facto, meaningless, bitchy, and wrong.

[alphafemale]

22. The first Survivor was pretty good, actually.

R. Hatch completely gamed that system. He was a wretched person in many ways but a wonder to behold. I couldn't help but root for him.

[ghostsofgiants]

59. Ugh. YES.

[Rob H.]

14. I'm surprised 'According to Jim' is still on the air

They canceled Boston Legal and Pushing Daisies, but for some strange reason this is the show that ABC just won't stop renewing.

[Drunken Irishman]

16. Roseanne.

They should have ended the series right after Dan's heart attack. Actually, that being the final episode (when he has it) would've been great.

Then they pushed it another season where they win the lottery and it became really, really stupid.

[Mollis]

19. I'm going to say reality shows

like The Hills, which should never have been created. Ever.
Or anything else on MTV, really.

On edit: Even though The Hills isn't reality. It's just retarded.

[Liberal_in_LA]

38. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. 'MASH'

Shoulda quit after the sixth or seventh season. Certainly the eighth.

[underpants]

29. I agree. As much as I love that show when Frank left the show was over

it got super preachy after that and was basically a vehicle for Alda.

[billyskank]

21. The Simpsons.

[Deja Q]

24. Are you Being Served?

Series 1-5 were sublime.

Series 6 was a letdown.

Series 7 and 8 were better, but not perfect...

Series 9 was flat...

Series 10 is pointless.

[elshiva]

45. What I didn't like is when they moved to that farm.

That was an awful idea. Didn't the call it "Are You Being Served? Again" or something?

[CreekDog]

48. That show was as obvious as Benny Hill

yet less funny. :shrug:

[HughBeaumont]

25. Family Matters.

DIE URKEL DIE!!! DIE URKEL DIE!!!

Most Idiotic Show Ever (not counting Spongebob Squarepants, which takes the word "annoying" to stratospheric measures).

[ccharles000]

26. The simpsons

[azmouse]

27. American Idol

It's like watching a train wreck... so why do I still watch? :banghead:

[rcrush]

28. Charmed.

Damn did that show suck.

[Wapsie B]

30. NYPD Blue

Never caught my interest as a cop show and just seemed to drag on, well past it's time.

[Zavulon]

31. CSI Miami.

I'm getting sick of the Vegas CSI as well; I watch it for the forensic angle, not for the Gil-Sarah crap. Laurence Fishburne has one three strikes with me, and if he's as bad as he was in the Matrix movies he'll probably get through them in three episodes.

[bbernardini]

34. I honestly don't understand how this is the most popular show in the entire world.

Obviously, it would be 10 times better without David Caruso, and the one woman's southern accent irritates me. It's pretty to look at, I guess (I've always likes the color palette of the show...each CSI franchise seems to have a different one), but otherwise...

I've been meaning to catch up on this season of CSI. Right now, I'm all about CSI:NY (although this whole pregnancy subplot may get a bit annoying).

[Zavulon]

41. I like the NY version best, myself.

However, the pregnancy subplot which you fear MAY get a bit annoying has already become annoying to me. Danny's proposal has already crossed the line for me, and that stupid exchange between Lindsay and Stella made my eyes roll so hard that they started to hurt.

I honestly think the best thing for the show is to kill off Lindsay now, and have Danny quit the lab out of grief. I see no other way to keep this show tolerable to me. This personal crap has already turned me off of the original and made me quit Miami once Horatio's wife / Delko's sister got killed and he went to Brazil with Delko to kill the killer.

Please, let a stray bullet find Lindsay or let a car bomb take out her and Danny in one fell swoop. I don't enjoy having such morbid wishes for a show, but I dislike these personal subplots even more.

[Crazy Dave]

32. Saturday Night Live

Except for the first ten minutes of the show and weekend update...the rest sucks

[graywarrior]

33. Law & Order

Jesus, what a mind fuck. I hate that show. I also hate Law & Order SUV or whateverthefuck it's called.

And judge shows. How the christ many judge shows do we really need? I mean, come ooooonnnnnnnnnn!

[Bertha Venation]

35. I think "Grey's Anatomy" is on the cusp of "too long" --

it's about to jump the shark.

[lizerdbits]

39. Yeah, once Mulder was gone

it kind of sucked.

[Kutjara]

40. "I Want to Work for Diddy"

Even one episode was too long for that odious man's self-obsessed ego-stroke vehicle. I didn't like him much before (especially after his simply precious "dear Arab brothers, please cut gas prices so I can fly my jet again" letter) but this show revealed him to be several orders of magnitude more of a douchebag than I ever thought possible.

[XemaSab]

43. You didn't know he was a douchebag before?

:shrug:

[Kutjara]

49. Oh I knew he was a douchebag, I just didn't know...

...the scale of his douchebaggery. I now understand that his douchebagness can be seen from orbit.

[TK421]

42. American Idol and the Simpsons

[Stuart G]

44. Howdy Dooty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdy_Doody

[CreekDog]

46. MASH went on too long

House is getting there, although I like that show.

[Liberal Veteran]

47. 24

After the first season, it got to be laughably ridiculous.

[BlueIris]

56. No kidding. After Season 3, it was basically DOA. nt

[Liberal Veteran]

61. Yep. I mean, it's one thing to ask me to suspend my disbelief...

.....it's another to ask me to poke out my disbelief's sight, hearing, perform a frontal lobotomy on it, drive a stake through it's heart, decapitate it, cremate it and salt the earth it is scattered on.

[jeff30997]

50. The worst one of all:

The Chimpy Horror Torture Show!!! 8 years! :banghead:

[latebloomer]

51. The Sopranos

Started out gripping, engrossing, funny, psychologically astute, then gradually deteriorated each season till the end when I could hardly stand to watch it anymore- and then that ENDING- what a ripoff.

[BlueIris]

62. I thought "The Sopranos" ran almost exactly the right number of years.

I actually though it could've been a tad longer.

[latebloomer]

63. Well, I couldn't abide the last season

but I was also seriously ill and it seemed so unrelentingly grim and violent- yes, more so than in earlier years, where there was more humor and psychological depth.

[IndianaJones]

52. Battlestar Galactica..I was watching that dumb crap back in the 70's and they're still making it. nt

[AnnieBW]

60. It's MUCH different than the 70's version

Basically, it's drama that's set in space, not the crappo Star Wars ripoff that you remember. Keep an open mind. I hated it at first, but it grew on me.

[Xipe Totec]

53. The Bush & Dick Show n/t

[lost-in-nj]

54. any reality show

that lasted more then week


they suck


lost

[BlueIris]

55. "ER." Right up there with "M.A.S.H." and "Buffy: TVS" as series that should have been about

half as long as they wound up being.

[jbane]

64. ER, the last season of The 70's Show and American Idol

You could throw Notre Dame football on NBC too.