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post #51 of 115
Oh wait, you're a dick and you're nitpicking shit that no one cares about. I believe you're a lawyer after all.
post #52 of 115
He's no Denny Crane.
post #53 of 115
It seems easy to strike a nerve these days.
post #54 of 115
Another show I wasn't too fond of was "She's The Sheriff." Not a fan.
post #55 of 115
My Hero is the worst sitcom ever made.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Hero_%28TV_series%29


It sucks because the concept is clever, the actors are all brilliant (in other things) but the actual show is worse than watching your dad pretend he is a superhero.

The second worse sitcom ever is keeping up appearances...

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

Which just goes to show although we brits make the best comedy programs we also make the worst.
post #56 of 115
My Hero's entire premise was to get Ardal O'Hanlon some work after Father Ted.

He was a terrible lead.
post #57 of 115
"Charles In Charge"? "It's A Living"? How dare you bastards desecrate the shows I loved whilst growing up. And I enjoyed "Jennifer Slept Here" as well. I had a huge thing for Ann Jillian at one point in my life.

As for Mama's Family, I enjoyed the skit on Carol Burnett, but I hated the series.
post #58 of 115
While I do hate both My Hero and Keeping Up Appearances (as well as My Family and Coupling), the worst (and yet somehow brilliantly so) sitcom of all time is Heil! Honey, I'm Home. I can't youtube at work, but look it up and you will know beautiful agony.
post #59 of 115
Wow...
post #60 of 115
Maybe not the worst of all time, but the twee preciousness of Scrubs makes me want to punch cats.
post #61 of 115
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Originally Posted by Martianman View Post
I had a huge thing for Ann Jillian at one point in my life.
I'll echo. She was way sexy.
post #62 of 115
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Originally Posted by sackley View Post
While I do hate both My Hero and Keeping Up Appearances (as well as My Family and Coupling), the worst (and yet somehow brilliantly so) sitcom of all time is Heil! Honey, I'm Home. I can't youtube at work, but look it up and you will know beautiful agony.
Holy shit! Finally, someone else who remembers that show. I never saw it, but I remember an MTV news report from WAY back talking about.

I'll third the Ann Jillian love. She was hot.
post #63 of 115
I'm assuming FDR and Churchill were the nosey next-do neighbors...
post #64 of 115
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...and the up-to-that-point tolerable M*A*S*H* started its slow swirl down into the sewer.
I got the Martinis and Medicine set a while back and I had the chance to revisit a lot of the series. Yeah, the first three seasons are great (with probably season two being the best), but season 4 isn't terrible, and season six and seven are actually fairly good.

After that though, it's all dogshit.
post #65 of 115
"Mr. Belvedere"??? I'll stand idly by and let you cast aspersions on my family, my country and my lord and savior, but you've gone too far when you desecrate the good name of Mr. Bob Eucher. The nerve!

And to whomever remarked about black face in the 30s, check out this scandalous image from a 1940s Merrie Melodies short:


Or, sans black face, this racially sensitive piece: Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs.
post #66 of 115
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Or, sans black face, this racially sensitive piece: Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs.
That's the Birth of a Nation of animated films -- it's widely regarded as the best thing Bob Clampett ever did and as one of the best cartoons ever made, yet it's rife with the racial iconography that was accepted at the time.

And Overlord, there's a difference between making a list of bad films from one year and making a list that purports to be "of all time" yet only covers about 20 years.
post #67 of 115
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I'm assuming FDR and Churchill were the nosey next-do neighbors...
No, it was a Jewish couple. They only shot 6 episodes and only 1 or 2 ever screened, but you can see the pilot on youtube. Its unfathomably lame, yet fascinating.
post #68 of 115
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I fucking hate Friends. HATE THAT SHIT.
I fucking hate Seinfeld. HATE THAT SHIT.
I fucking hate Everybody Loves Raymond. HATE THAT SHIT.
I fucking hate Frasier. HATE THAT SHIT.

Pretty much every sitcom ever made, I fucking despise because they fail to make me laugh. Except Spaced
Ever try Black Books?
The Spaced lot always regarded it as a sister show, and the casts cameoed both ways quite a few times.
post #69 of 115
Where's Full House?
post #70 of 115
I read this entire list asking myself "But where's Small Wonder?" and there it sits, correctly, at number one. Seriously, this was a dark and ugly show, with a grotesque and unsettling premise and the ugliest and least charismatic central cast I've seen in anything, ever, including community theater. It's like AI as written by the mentally impaired. I remember they made the Vicki bot sleep in the closet.

Full House deserves inclusion, no doubt. And what was that syndicated piece of shit where fairy tale characters tried to make it in the real world?
post #71 of 115
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And what was that syndicated piece of shit where fairy tale characters tried to make it in the real world?
I think you're thinking of "The Charmings", but that was no syndicated piece of feces, my friend. Oh no, that was part of ABC's mighty TGIF lineup.
post #72 of 115
Was it? It sure felt syndicated. The only one I remember is where they get credit cards and buy more things than they can afford. I think the magic mirror helps them out. Mega shit.
post #73 of 115
Yeah, don't know where The Golden Girls was either.
post #74 of 115
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Originally Posted by Mattioli View Post
I think you're thinking of "The Charmings", but that was no syndicated piece of feces, my friend. Oh no, that was part of ABC's mighty TGIF lineup.
Then there was Hi Honey, I'm Home!, which had the same premise but used a 1950s TV sitcom family instead of fairy tale characters. That had the honor of airing on TGIF and then immediately re-airing on Nick at Nite the following evening.
post #75 of 115
Between "The Charmings" and "Hi Honey, I'm Home!" I'm discovering all sorts of things I would rather not have known about. Thanks, guys.
post #76 of 115
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This does raise that age old question... would you fuck your robot sister?
The answer is yes.
post #77 of 115
Speaking of shitty sitcoms on TGIF Fridays, Teen Angel and You Wish anyone?
post #78 of 115
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The answer is yes.
So you would in fact slip your tubesteak into your robot sister?
post #79 of 115
I always enjoyed the rumor that the little boy in Small Wonder grew up to be Billy Corgan. It's almost as good as the rumor that Paul from The Wonder Years grew up to be Marylin Manson.
post #80 of 115
Speaking of which, what actually happened to Paul? I've yet to see him on a VH1 "reality" TV series...
post #81 of 115
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Speaking of which, what actually happened to Paul? I've yet to see him on a VH1 "reality" TV series...
Maybe he had the common decency to not piss away his life and do something. You know, kind of like Wayne from the Wonder Years.

And I had never heard of that Billy Corrigan rumor but damn if it doesn't make sense. And speaking of which what happened to that pain in the ass neighbor Harriet and her asshole parents?
post #82 of 115
What was the show that was a ripoff of Married with Children, except the guy talked to a puppet in the basement, and the puppet was voiced by Bobcat Goldthwaite?

Also, are we intentionally leaving out spinoffs like "Flo" and "Empty Nest" and "The Tortellis" and, for the love of crap, "Enos?"
post #83 of 115
Happily Ever After. It was created by one of the co-creators of Married with Children. But christ was that show terrible.

Ah yes Enos, the show where the dumb hillbilly deputy from Hazard County gets his own show in which he's a member of the LAPD. Man doesn't that just reak of comedy?
post #84 of 115
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And speaking of which what happened to that pain in the ass neighbor Harriet and her asshole parents?
Don't know about Harriet but her mom went on to annoy Steve Martin in PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES while also serving as secretary under Ed Rooney. Later she delighted us all as Mrs. Poole on The Hogan Family.

Harriet's father interviewed and exposed the world to Clayton Bigsby on Frontline.

I should probably be ashamed I know this but I'm really not. I'm fine with it.
post #85 of 115
I'm noticing a theme, here. Anything involving robots or genies or other campy shit sucks.

How about Out Of This World, or Aliens In The Family? Anyone else remember this dreck?
post #86 of 115
Alf? Mork and Mindy?
post #87 of 115
By the way, if you have any fond memories of Alf, never ever watch it again. It is long, slow, and thuddingly-unfunny, full of pun-heavy topical humor from 25 years ago, delivered by a catch-phrase shouting puppet to ashamed-looking theater actors.
post #88 of 115
Not to mention one if its major writters had a huge smack habit. See Permenant Midnight.
post #89 of 115
Would your fuck your alien sister?
post #90 of 115
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Don't know about Harriet but her mom went on to annoy Steve Martin in PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES while also serving as secretary under Ed Rooney. Later she delighted us all as Mrs. Poole on The Hogan Family.
Not to mention quietly ignoring Juliette Lewis' sexual abuse by her father for years before being burned alive in her bed by Lewis and beau Woody Harrelson.
post #91 of 115
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Would your fuck your alien sister?
Dude, I don't know what happened with you and your sister, but I think you should talk to someone who can prescribe you something.
post #92 of 115
I gotta throw "Silver Spoons" in there. I think it is at least on the level of "Webster."
post #93 of 115
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I gotta throw "Silver Spoons" in there. I think it is at least on the level of "Webster."
I'm so tempted to make a joke about Silver Spoons having a short run or something. So...very...tempted.
post #94 of 115
I can't believe I forgot to mention this earlier . . . Every morning, my wife wakes up and turns on FX to watch Dharma & Greg. Holy shit. Jenna Elfman, wherever you are, I hate you.
post #95 of 115
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Originally Posted by Arjen Rudd View Post
By the way, if you have any fond memories of Alf, never ever watch it again. It is long, slow, and thuddingly-unfunny, full of pun-heavy topical humor from 25 years ago, delivered by a catch-phrase shouting puppet to ashamed-looking theater actors.
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Originally Posted by EdHocken
Not to mention one if its major writters had a huge smack habit. See Permenant Midnight.
It also turned Max Wright into a hobo-molesting crackhead. Plus the puppet wanted to eat cats. That's not cool.
post #96 of 115
I was wondering when someone was going to bring up Max Wright.

Alf Also tried to make a comeback on TV land with some kind of talk show. I don't think anyone cared.
post #97 of 115
I see a lot of 80's first-run syndicated crap there, especially garbage that had stakes put through their hearts by networks only to be resurrected as local TV station time slot filler. Mama's Family and Charles in Charge, for instance. Hackwork churned out on the cheap with flailing and mugging in lieu of actual acting, sets that looked like they were about to fall over at any second and bargain basement production values that made small town public access cable look polished and competent.

She's the Sherriff, What A Dummy!, Small Wonder of course, low-rent revamps like The Munsters Today, The New Gidget, The New WKRP in Cincinnati - a parade of loathsomeness.

I'm not surprised to see Homeboys in Outer Space there either. Cheap, tacky, "actors" who hammed it up intolerably and they seemed to have stolen Married With Children's laughtrack, especially the "Ooooooooooooooooh!" Hell, you could have filled this list up with UPN and WB's various comedy failures over the years, a collection of two-season time fillers, six-episodes-and-out losers and total bombs on which the plug could not have been pulled fast enough.

Why confine the list to American sitcoms? Somebody mentioned My Hero, yeah the list of horrible UK sitcoms could go on and on and on. Canadian sitcoms too. There are not enough hours in the day to list them all.
post #98 of 115
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Speaking of shitty sitcoms on TGIF Fridays, Teen Angel
Created by Al Jean
Mike Reiss

The fuck?
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post #100 of 115
Al Jean hasn't been worth shit in years - look at how The Simpsons has crap under his watch starting in 2001.
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