Bad TV Shows

[Mimi]

I take back what I said about the other show.

If you need more info: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/202 ... ed-outrage

Interesting. Making Hitler into a joke is still being done, but I don't know. A movie is one thing. A whole series?

Part of the problem is the Archie Bunker effect. AB was clearly a bigot and an asshole, yet he was also the star of the show, which means audiences are supposed to sympathize with him in some manner. And that's what happened, with the show ironically fuelling the bigot reactionaries to the social revolution underway. By the end of the decade, his character had been softened considerably because audiences liked him so much. A sitcom centred on Hitler would require audiences to sympathize with him to some degree in order to keep coming back, week after week. Which, no.

Yeah, no is right.

[revbob]

The Big Bang Theory

That has a decent argument for being the sitcom with the widest gap between quality and popularity.

Two and a Half Men would like a word.

Probably a lot of overlap on those audiences

[Kimmelweck]

The Big Bang Theory

That has a decent argument for being the sitcom with the widest gap between quality and popularity.

Two and a Half Men would like a word.

Full House also deserves mention in this conversation.

[Dr. Medulla]

The Big Bang Theory

That has a decent argument for being the sitcom with the widest gap between quality and popularity.

Two and a Half Men would like a word.

Definitely comparable quality, but I think BBT was more popular. Plus it had a Barenaked Ladies component, making it even more contemptible.

[Kimmelweck]

[matedog]

There was a lot of trash produced in the 80's and 90's ... but wow, might this be the worst ever?? It's like they weren't even trying.



I'm glad that Stephen Dorff's career wasn't killed off in this mess because I think he's a great actor.

Wow that is bad.

This is the worst show I've ever seen during its original run during The Blessed Decade:

[Kimmelweck]

The whole Growing Pains-Family Ties-Who’s the Boss genre kinda sucked and those shows in particular had more popularity than they deserved. Married with Children blew them all away.

[Dr. Medulla]

This is the worst show I've ever seen during its original run during The Blessed Decade:

Pauly Shore not spending his life anonymous is utterly unjust.

[Low Down Low]

I take back what I said about the other show.

If you need more info: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/202 ... ed-outrage

Interesting, never knew about that. Allo Allo was another WW2 romp that was inoffensive and extremely popular for reasons I could never quite fathom.

[Kimmelweck]

This is the worst show I've ever seen during its original run during The Blessed Decade:

Pauly Shore not spending his life anonymous is utterly unjust.

“Comedy wasn’t something I chose – it chose me.” - actual Pauly Shore quote

No, it didn’t Pauly. It really didn’t.

[Dr. Medulla]

This is the worst show I've ever seen during its original run during The Blessed Decade:

Pauly Shore not spending his life anonymous is utterly unjust.

“Comedy wasn’t something I chose – it chose me.” - actual Pauly Shore quote

No, it didn’t Pauly. It really didn’t.

Comedy … chose poorly.

[Dr. Medulla]

I take back what I said about the other show.

If you need more info: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/202 ... ed-outrage

Interesting, never knew about that. Allo Allo was another WW2 romp that was inoffensive and extremely popular for reasons I could never quite fathom.

Hogan's Heroes is a show I loved as a kid but now find really uncomfortable. The presence of Jews in the cast who have close connections to the Holocaust complicates it all, yes, but it's still skeevy.

[Kory]

I learned a great deal from Matthew Perry's autobio, but chief amongst my new knowledge is that he did a pilot for a sci-fi comedy in which he worked as a customs agent for a space airport, with all the hilarity that comes from giving space aliens cavity searches, I assume.

I would have hoped for a show where the studio audience is invited to beat him with baseball bats.

He beats himself plenty. Very sad guy.

[Dr. Medulla]

I learned a great deal from Matthew Perry's autobio, but chief amongst my new knowledge is that he did a pilot for a sci-fi comedy in which he worked as a customs agent for a space airport, with all the hilarity that comes from giving space aliens cavity searches, I assume.

I would have hoped for a show where the studio audience is invited to beat him with baseball bats.

He beats himself plenty. Very sad guy.

He attended the same prep school as Justin Trudeau (fun fact: I live about five blocks from it) and supposedly tormented JT during their time there.

[Kory]

I learned a great deal from Matthew Perry's autobio, but chief amongst my new knowledge is that he did a pilot for a sci-fi comedy in which he worked as a customs agent for a space airport, with all the hilarity that comes from giving space aliens cavity searches, I assume.

I would have hoped for a show where the studio audience is invited to beat him with baseball bats.

He beats himself plenty. Very sad guy.

He attended the same prep school as Justin Trudeau (fun fact: I live about five blocks from it) and supposedly tormented JT during their time there.

He mentions that in the book. His mother was Pierre's press secretary and I got the sense he was resentful that her job took her away from him frequently.