Name your bottom 5 TV shows

[suninvited]

the shows that you accidentally watch once, and someone would have to pay you to watch again !!

[abq e streeter]

1. Ally Mc Beal, and Sex in the City--heard they were good , so checked em out

I don't know if I was more embarrassed for watching , or for the people involved in making the shows, or for the people, including critics, that actually thought they were good. In both cases, I still can't decide which was worse, the writing or the acting. Watched each a second time, just to see if I just caught em on a bad day, but equally horrendous. That Seventies Show would be a ( dis) honorable mention...Don't watch enough TV to really be able to think of five, but I'm sure there are plenty of possibilities, including probably about every "reality " show...

[suninvited]

2. I am with you, I really couldnt think of 5

I think my list would be

Jerry Springer
The PTL Club
COPS
Boston Legal
Married with Children

but there are so many more ! Maybe I am a TV snob...

[abq e streeter]

22. PTL means pass the loot, right?

Actually, Married With Children was, in my not particularly humble opinion, brilliantly , if inconsistently funny, for about its first five years. Unfortunately, it ran for about eleven, and the writers seemed to run out of ideas . If you've never seen the Christmas episode early on where the shopping mall Santa crashes into their yard, its typical of the subversive humor they had for awhile, a savagely funny rebuke to all the smarmy, maudlin Christmas shows everywhere else.. But ultimately they mutated to Al mugging for the camera, and pandering to the fans who saw Al as a hero instead of the clueless, coarser updated Archie Bunker he was . Two telling lines of their initial subversiveness: When their kids are locked out of the house , the yuppie neighbors come by looking for the parents. When Bud and Kelly plead for help because they're "cold, and hungry, please help us", the reply is: "We can't. We're republicans". And in a similar vein, when Peg walks into the living room and Al is watching a monster truck show or something like that on the TV, Peg looks at the TV and says" Wow, PBS really has changed since the republicans took over". Lots of other great commentary on lowest common denominator American culture for a few years ( and they WERE wildly inconsistent) before the show gave in and became part of that lowest denominator. Just my opinion. Have a good, mostly TV-less night.

[Skittles]

33. a friend had me watch Sex in the City

everything about it was just hideously bad - same with Desperate Housewives - just utter crap

[cbayer]

3. Oh, so many to choose from!

News Hour
Frontline
American Experience
Tavis Smiley
Charlie Rose

[suninvited]

6. I guess that I am happy to report

that I havent seen any of those shows !!! Maybe Frontline.

[cbayer]

7. Actually I was trying to be funny.

Those are actually the only shows I watch, pretty much. And they are all great.
Oh, and BBC news, too.

[suninvited]

8. I am missing good shows, then????

Give me channels and times, I can record them. I am always willing to expand my "to do list"

I just work a lot of hours and depend on DISH to record the good stuff.

[cbayer]

9. They are all on PBS stations. I am a news and documentary junkie.

Last night Frontline did a piece on the Haditha massacre and then Independent Lens did one on methamphetamine addiction in Tennessee. They were both excellent.

I don't get any cable or satellite stations, but I can live off PBS (which I get through the air - for FREE!!).

[suninvited]

10. I have watched Frontline, and was confused when it

made your bottom 5 list.

I should record it, maybe, sounds like it is very informational.

[cbayer]

11. I'm sorry. I was being a smartass.

There was an earlier post asking for your favorites and I listed opposites.

I think I'm funny but I guess you have to be there.

[suninvited]

12. This was a copycat thread of the earlier post

and I missed your opposites there ! I will go look for them now.

[suninvited]

14. Turns out I did see your earlier post, because when I saw it

I thought. How could anybody rate "jerry springer" as one of their top 5??

I dont like the court tv type shows either, except for Judge Mathis. I think he is so humorous, I just cant help but love him.

[cbayer]

16. Welcome to DU!

I come to the lounge for refuge. The worst anyone does to you is ignore you, and that's ok.

[suninvited]

17. I am totally okay with that ! And thanks for the welcome.

I hate to be involved in arguements, I can be a bit mugumpish. Therefore, I never post in GD-P, but occasionally in GD.

I like the lounge.

[Mojambo]

4. Extreme Makeover, Grey's Anatomy, CSI Anything, Survivor, and How I Met Your Mother. n/t

[suninvited]

5. How could I have missed those !!!

Very good choice of worst TV !!

[zanne]

38. I totally agree with you on those and here are a few others...

"Wife Swap", "Bridezillas" and "The Office". The Office is embarassing and makes me cringe, not laugh. And how in the world is that little doofus on "How I Met Your Mother" cast as some kind of chick magnet?

[WeRQ4U]

13. Trading Spaces, My Sweet 16, Deal or No Deal, Becker, and Nancy Grace...

I can't stand any of them. "My Sweet 16" isn't just a horrible show either. It's THE most horrible show on the planet. And it showcases the most horrible people.

[suninvited]

18. I have never seen it...

what is its premise?

[WeRQ4U]

21. Rich kids turn 16...

Parents slobber all over the "accomplishment". Family rents large downtown nightclub. TV crews showcase the child handing out invitations to select members of highschool and gatekeepers excluding others. Child is normally dressed in completely age-inappropriate clothing. Parents buy child car. Everyone in attendance or viewing at home is enticed to think that this is how it's supposed to be.

There are two things that REALLY piss me off though. The outrageous sense of entitlement the rich kids feel and the pathetic fawning shown by some of the other kids.

[suninvited]

24. Sounds titillaling, however

Glad I have missed it !!!

[mondo joe]

15. Gray's Anatomy; 24; Any CSI except for the original; Hard to say....there are so many

I have zero interest in even trying to find out I don't like it.

[Hippo_Tron]

19. The O'Reilly Factor takes up at least five slots

[suninvited]

23. One slot per disliked show

but I totally confer !!

[rurallib]

20. Glenn Beck monday - friday

[suninvited]

25. Obviously I am missing some very good shows

with my odd habit of working 9-5. I have never heard of Glenn Beck.

[rurallib]

42. he's on TV on headline news every night

I want to say at 8 or 9PM, not sure. He also has a real hate fest on radio daily. I mean he is full of hate and damned near incoherent.

[Bennyboy]

26. Jerry Springer

Judge shows
Big Brother
Dr Phil
Martha Stewart

[Initech]

27. Oprah x 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

[Skittles]

34. I catch bits and pieces while surfing, never seen a whole show

but it astounds me how people don't seem to see how egotistical and narcissistic she is

[BuelahWitch]

28. I'm going to get flamed, but...

1. The Family Guy-people I worked with seemed to like it, the animation looked cute, so I checked it out. Happened to catch the ep where the baby and the daddy spent quality time torturing the mommy. For some reason I didn't find that funny...

2. Seinfeld-watched part of an ep, said "WTF is this?" and never turned it on again.

3. David Letterman turned me off years ago by behaving like an asshole to his guests. Only watch him now when someone I like is on.

4. Friends-Gen-X angst. Who gives a shit?

5. Survivor-Mostly pretty people out in the wilderness getting naked, killing things and doing silly stunts. I'm waiting for the producers to kill one of them to give the ratings a boost.

Going to give an honorary to any sport shown on more than one network at the same time. :hide:

[gbate]

47. I hate Family Guy. I guess I'm humorless, but it always seemed like a cheap version of the Simpsons

Bad jokes and tasteless puns only go so far.

[Chovexani]

52. I hate Family Guy too

As David Eddings would say, it's a show far too impressed with its own supposed cleverness.

Seth Macfarlane is an unfunny hack who wishes he had a tenth of Matt Groening's (or even Parker and Stone's) talent. The worst part about that show, besides the animation, is the fact that it doesn't know how to let a joke go. On the rare occasions it's actually funny, they drag the joke out and beat it into the ground until the funny's gone.

[ashling]

29. I'm sure there are some that I've never heard of

that would be on this list if I had ever heard of them, which I haven't, so for right now it is:

Lost, Lost, Lost, Lost, EVOO

[Syrinx]

30. that's easy

CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: New York
CSI: Muncie
CSI: Toledo

Those shows are just disgusting. Especially the first three.

[Zavulon]

31. Since you said "you accidentally watch once," I have to exclude reality shows,

which really sucks. I've never watched one, and yet instinctively I know they all blow dog.

In the spirit of your question, here's my list of shows I've seen accidentally, going in order from the wretched to the absoltely intolerable:

October Road
JAG
Less than Perfect
Mad About You
Yes, Dear

[Skittles]

32. CSI, American Idol, Survivor, any dating show, Grey's Anatomy

garbage......I could easily go on and on....am seriously thinking of dumping cable

[Enrique]

35. Barney

I found it juvenile.

[NaturalHigh]

36. American Idol (man, I hate that show)...

Dancing with the Stars, Desperate Housewives, Oprah, and Dr. Phil.

All of the above are shows that I've been forced to watch with someone else, as some sort of virtual torture, I guess.

[Perry Logan]

37. "South Park." Execrable drawing vies with execrable writing.

[philosophie_en_rose]

39. 700 Club, Jan Crouch's show, the View, Tough Crowd, Drawn Together

Same disgusting trash in different outfits.

[grace0418]

40. Disregarding the shows I would never watch like Faux News, I would

have to say Everybody Loves Raymond, Seventh Heaven, Amnesia (Dennis Miller? GACK!), Reba, and 2.5 Men. I'm sure there are more.

[LanternWaste]

41. Simpson's, Family Guy, South Park, American Idol, Dancing with the Stars.

Simpson's, Family Guy, South Park, American Idol, Dancing with the Stars.

O-k. That was easer than I thought. The first five I thought of happen to be the worst five shows on television. :evilgrin:

[unpossibles]

43. oh jeez, there are so many to choose from

Everyone Loves Raymond, The Apprentice, Deal or No Deal, Sex in the City, Friends, Road Rules, Desperate Housewives, CSI....

[BlueIris]

44. HBO's Mind of the Married Man, Family Guy, Dawson's Creek, 7th Heaven and Grey's Anatomy.

Grey's Anatomy's popularity baffles me. It's awful.

[LeftinOH]

45. 'Friends' (they could've just called it "Marketable Sitcom")..has a permament place at the bottom..

[azmouse]

46. Family Guy, Deal or No Deal, Rome, and everything else on tv.

I'd rather watch movies.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

48. My choices

24 (OK I watched season 1 and season 2. It was sort of OK before it became a crypto-fascist masturbatory fantasy)

Joey

My Sweet 16 (sp?)

The O'Reilly Factor (I stumbled across this first in 2002, while looking through the news channels on Sky Digital in the UK, and couldn't believe how debased and unprofessional it was. It was the first time I'd heard of O'Reilly.)

Sunset Beach

[jakefrep]

49. Lost; 24; Jericho; Survivor; Family Guy

I can't stand the first three because it's impossible to fully understand what's going on unless you've watched EVERY episode since the beginning.

Survivor and Family Guy are just crass and vapid to me for different reasons.

[SteppingRazor]

50. My least favorite show is Sexy Cashmere Jungle Mafia in the City. n/t

[x-g.o.p.er]

51. How I Met Your Mother

Frank TV
Passions
New Adventures of Old Christine
Heroes

[KamaAina]

53. Last five Bush** press conferences

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