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post #101 of 115
6/19/08 at 10:57pm
Yeah, but he and Reiss seemed to work well together on The Simpsons and The Critic.
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post #102 of 115
7/7/08 at 4:41am
I caught the pilot of "Poochinksi" back in the early 90s and even with the limited taste of a young teen I hated every second, but strangely I had to keep watching due to the badness being something like a train wreck in slow motion. The soul of a dead detective somehow goes inside a dog (named Poochinski), and it helps police solve crimes via barking.

Its the worst sitcom I've come across and to this day the worst thing I've ever seen aired on TV, and this is from someone who watched Pauly Shore in his MTV days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poochinski
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post #103 of 115
7/25/08 at 4:35am
Does anybody remember when a still-young TBS started cranking out original programming in the mid-80s? They had a block of shitcoms that played around 6-8PM on Wednesday nights. There was DOWN TO EARTH, about the dancer from the 20s who gets hit by a trolley and then comes to Earth as an angelic housekeeper to Dick Sargent. Then there was SAFE AT HOME, a show about a dude living in Chicago (I think) who finds out he has a teenage sister, and she comes to live with him, prompting wacky adventures in mediocrity. There was also ROCKY ROAD, where a family is orphaned and takes over the family ice cream parlor in SoCal.

Fucking terrible shows...and yet, as I write about them, I find myself wishing there was a way to revisit them...
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post #104 of 115
9/10/10 at 2:02am
I had a blast reading through this thread. There's an amazing amount of shitty television shows out there. It boggles my mind how some of these ever got to the small screen.

I was expecting "Step by Step" to be on the list, but was sort of glad it wasn't included. Yes, it was terrible, but dammit, I loved it as a kid and thought Christine Lakin was the prettiest girl on the planet.

The show was basically "Full House," but with sex jokes. Then again, both shows shared the same producers.
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post #105 of 115
9/10/10 at 2:35am
That was a read and a half. Hilarious.

Anyone remember Bronson Pinchot's post-Perfect Strangers classic, The Trouble with Larry? My friend and I watched the agonizing opening of the first episode on YouTube. Also, Charlie Kaufman of all people was apparently a writer on the show.
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post #106 of 115
9/10/10 at 11:27am
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Wait wait wait. How is Mr. Belvedere on this list and not Step by Step or according to Jim? I call B.S.

Although listing Whoops was pretty funny.
Bob Uecker can do no wrong... Mr Belvedere does not belong anywhere close to that list.

How was Titus not on that list?
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post #107 of 115
9/11/10 at 4:13am
Guy clearly didn't research anything that came before he was old enough to watch TV-- there was a ton of awful stuff before the 80's (and I say that as someone who liked My Mother The Car). I'd start with that pathetic sitcom the Smothers Brothers did (with Tom as the angel)-- even as a kid, that never made me laugh.

Did Captain Nice or Mr. Terrific ever make it into syndication? At the time, I sort of knew they were crap, but hey-- superheroes. My recollection is that they were both on at the same time, too; I think I more or less settled on Captain Nice. Either way, they were gone pretty quickly (for the period, the cancellations were almost instantaneous).

ETA: I think someone mentioned this upthread, but given the relatively contemporary slant, how did The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer fail to make the list? Nowadays, I sort of regret not tuning in to see if it was as bad as people said.
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post #108 of 115
9/11/10 at 4:36am
You know when you prejudge a show based on seeing bits and pieces and the opinions of people you trust? And then you give some time and it's actually kind of good?

Well, that didn't happen with Two And A Half Men. Due to some recent bouts with insomnia I run into a couple of episodes of this playing late at night and decided to stop being a judgmental prick and give it an honest shot. I mean, it can't be all bad if it's that successful. Nope. It was worse. Coupled with the fact that I was already kind of pissed off from not being able to sleep, I was ready to fly to the US and just beat everyone involved with this to death. It must have been a character building episode, because it involved just one joke, about the douchebag Sheen plays, sleeping around a lot because he has emotional problems. There wasn't a single smirk worthy instance during this whole thing. It actually made me feel a bit dirty watching it, like it was a real life version of the "I'd buy that for a dollar" sitcom from Robocop.
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post #109 of 115
9/11/10 at 11:41am
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How was Titus not on that list?
Titus was good, due to the awesome Stacey Keach. So fuck off Pee-bitch.
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post #110 of 115
9/11/10 at 11:51am
Blossom was pretty damn terrible. The insufferable credits sequence more or less summed it up.
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post #111 of 115
9/11/10 at 11:56am
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Blossom was pretty damn terrible. The insufferable credits sequence more or less summed it up.
I love the opening credits of Blossom. Dr. John's theme song is wonderful. No memories of the show, though.
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post #112 of 115
9/11/10 at 5:38pm
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Titus was good, due to the awesome Stacey Keach. So fuck off Pee-bitch.
yeah, you would like Titus....
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post #113 of 115
9/11/10 at 6:00pm
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Well, that didn't happen with Two And A Half Men. Due to some recent bouts with insomnia I run into a couple of episodes of this playing late at night and decided to stop being a judgmental prick and give it an honest shot. I mean, it can't be all bad if it's that successful. Nope. It was worse... It actually made me feel a bit dirty watching it, like it was a real life version of the "I'd buy that for a dollar" sitcom from Robocop.
Two and a Half Men is gnawing rectal cancer. So of course its star has the highest salary in television.
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post #114 of 115
9/11/10 at 6:58pm
The problem with a topic like this is that so much of the truly awful stuff is deservedly forgotten and its witnesses conveniently dead. But somehow I still remember the three minutes I saw of a show with Jeffrey Jones as a wacky, wacky cartoonist...
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post #115 of 115
9/11/10 at 7:58pm
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Two and a Half Men is gnawing rectal cancer. So of course its star has the highest salary in television.
Hey now, Charlie Sheen was The Rookie! But yeah, it's a shit show. The only episodes I know of are one where Sean Penn and Elvis Costello had cameos as themselves and the one where the kid takes too much Viagra. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's funny! Well, if it's pulled off right.

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The problem with a topic like this is that so much of the truly awful stuff is deservedly forgotten and its witnesses conveniently dead. But somehow I still remember the three minutes I saw of a show with Jeffrey Jones as a wacky, wacky cartoonist...
The People Next Door, co-created by Wes Craven of all people! Don't remember jack shit about it, but I've heard the name. And here's the intro to the show at 8:04.
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