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Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
For shows for actual children, Super Ted is right the gently caress up there.

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Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


if cartoons count then Johnny Test is aggressively bad

Killswitch
Feb 25, 2009
How I met your mother managed a nice steady decline, and by the end I was actively rooting against Ted. What a loving little bitch. 9 seasons of crying over his pissy insignificant problems, I actually laughed and cheered when his wife died of cancer .

gently caress that show. And gently caress you, Ted. Bitch.

lidnsya
Nov 14, 2007
<img src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-lidnsya.jpg"><br>All aboard the sleepy train!
The Wiggles

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

Killswitch posted:

How I met your mother managed a nice steady decline, and by the end I was actively rooting against Ted. What a loving little bitch. 9 seasons of crying over his pissy insignificant problems, I actually laughed and cheered when his wife died of cancer .

gently caress that show. And gently caress you, Ted. Bitch.

I just can't believe they stuck with it when everyone speculated that might be the ending and then laughed because it would be really dumb. They could have easily called an audible, but no, they just had to have that stupid ending.

laserghost
Feb 12, 2014

trust me, I'm a cat.

The Bold and the Beatiful

7,000 episodes jfc

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

laserghost posted:

The Bold and the Beatiful

7,000 episodes jfc

I have a friend who says he met someone who was in that show and they said they get two takes max for every shot. I have no idea if either party is full of poo poo, but I don't really doubt it.

PaletteSwappedNinja
Jun 3, 2008

One Nation, Under God.
Wasn't there some recent nothing sitcom that kept getting renewed even though noone was watching and noone wanted to keep making it, so the actors/writers deliberately kept adding all sorts of weird twists and poo poo just to see if anyone noticed?

EDIT: Til Death, a show starring the brother from Everybody Loves Raymond that went from being forgettable dreck to weird-but-probably-still-not-funny dreck when they realise noone was watching: http://www.avclub.com/article/nobodys-watching-the-strange-genius-of-the-fourth--42394

PaletteSwappedNinja fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Jan 5, 2016

Inzombiac
Mar 19, 2007

PARTY ALL NIGHT

EAT BRAINS ALL DAY


What's that show about the guy who is a doctor for rich people at resorts or some poo poo?
That was a bad show.

Inzombiac
Mar 19, 2007

PARTY ALL NIGHT

EAT BRAINS ALL DAY


What about the one about two FBI agents researching paranormal activity?
Was that the X Files? That was a good show.

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Flaps

SlickDealer
Dec 13, 2014

I can't believe you like money too. We should hang out.

PaletteSwappedNinja posted:

Wasn't there some recent nothing sitcom that kept getting renewed even though noone was watching and noone wanted to keep making it, so the actors/writers deliberately kept adding all sorts of weird twists and poo poo just to see if anyone noticed?

Sounds like Under The Dome

tuyop
Sep 15, 2006

Every second that we're not growing BASIL is a second wasted

Fun Shoe
My picks are like, Supernatural, Heroes, and the CSIs.

barnold
Dec 16, 2011


what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

tuyop posted:

My picks are like, Supernatural, Heroes, and the CSIs.

woah dude the og CSI with gil "motherfuckin" grissom was the poo poo. it fell apart when bruckheimer decided he hated having talent on his sets

and uh my choice for worst TV show ever was the short lived animated show "The Goode Family"

VR Native American
May 1, 2009
Gun Saliva
Pink Lady
The show that killed the variety show format on television.
Here are Sid and Marty Krofft explaining what happened with it.

Women in Prison
A show that might have worked if anyone talented had been involved.

Happy Bear Suit
Jul 21, 2004

what the gently caress

Family Matters is like the 2nd best Black Family sitcom

The American Dream
Mar 1, 2007
Don't Forget My Balls
Gotta go with Napoleon Dynamite. Great idea to make a cartoon based on a movie from 10 years ago that no one has cared about in 7 or 8 years.

1000 Sweaty Rikers
Oct 13, 2005

The Black and White Minstrel Show

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Tace Vim posted:

The Black and White Minstrel Show

facsinating

Pretty good
Apr 16, 2007



Fallen Skies was really loving bad. Took me like five episodes to realise I couldn't remember a single character's name and I didn't give a poo poo about anything happening in it

AfroKen
Dec 3, 2015
Surprised no one mentioned Here Comes Honey Boo Boo

Or Girls

Or Orange is the New Black

Sex and the City is a good choice though

13 year old girls posted:

and uh my choice for worst TV show ever was the short lived animated show "The Goode Family"



I watched the first episode of this and liked it enough, don't see why it'd be considered "the worst ever"...unless you're a vegan who donated to the Sanders campaign, or friends with that kind of person. It was definitely way less subtle than King of the Hill though, which probably turned a lot of people off. I dunno, I'm the kind of guy who laughs out loud over a kid being named Ubuntu

wiffle ball bat
Oct 2, 2015

by Shine

best tv show ever thread is that way ------->

Horniest Manticore
Nov 23, 2013

Hello, you!
Lipstick Apathy

AfroKen posted:

I watched the first episode of this and liked it enough, don't see why it'd be considered "the worst ever"...unless you're a vegan who donated to the Sanders campaign, or friends with that kind of person. It was definitely way less subtle than King of the Hill though, which probably turned a lot of people off. I dunno, I'm the kind of guy who laughs out loud over a kid being named Ubuntu

all the haters are linux nerds

Gaunab
Feb 13, 2012
LUFTHANSA YOU FUCKING DICKWEASEL
Lost girl

In fact a lot of original canadian tv shows just suck rear end.

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

The Fuzzy Hulk posted:





My wife watches all of these.

Any show specifically designed for women is usually really bad in my experience.

reagan posted:

primetime television in particular is embarrassingly bad, and it is tough for me fathom just how stupid the general public has to be in order to enjoy it

It really, really is. You can tell another adult is dumb by asking them if they enjoy The Big Bang Theory or The Walking Dead

I know that sounds really goony, but it's true :shrug:

Aesop Poprock
Oct 21, 2008


Grimey Drawer

Rolo posted:

I liked How I Met your Mother the first time through, because Jason Segal is cool and it was just playing on Netflix in the background while I did other things.

Now when I catch it on tv, I have a hard time standing any of it.

I also hate Seinfeld.

This show feels really out of time to me, like a mid 90s show that somehow came out a decade later and has a lot of fans for some inexplicable reason. Maybe that's the appeal but it's just confusing junk like when your dad tries to share something he liked as a young adult and it's just embarassing to sit through for both of you

Aesop Poprock
Oct 21, 2008


Grimey Drawer

AfroKen posted:

Surprised no one mentioned Here Comes Honey Boo Boo

Or Girls

Or Orange is the New Black

Sex and the City is a good choice though


Girls is good even though Lena Dunham is dumb and OisNB is good on and off. Seems like shows with a majority female cast just aren't your thing bub

Bob James
Nov 15, 2005

by Lowtax
Ultra Carp
Dog Police

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bfFNojAvI

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

sinking belle posted:

Fallen Skies was really loving bad. Took me like five episodes to realise I couldn't remember a single character's name and I didn't give a poo poo about anything happening in it

one of my coworkers apparently watches this he keeps trying to bring it up but nobody else knows what it is or has ever seen it so luckily the conversation ends there. of course it's bad.

Thursday Next
Jan 11, 2004

FUCK THE ISLE OF APPLES. FUCK THEM IN THEIR STUPID ASSES.
Transparent. Couldn't make it through the first season. All of the characters are loving terrible, and I can't believe the show is highly rated. Also, I get that it's supposed to be "real" or "raw" or whatever other loving term Hollywood screams in casting, but the actors playing the three kids are just hideously ugly. They look okay in other pictures, but that show seems to want to make them look foul. No, I don't think the balding scrawny guy with a homeless beard and sweatervests would be able to pick up a different underwear model every night.

How I met your mother. Tried to watch it based on hype. It's an old fashioned sitcom with soundstage and laugh track and everything. Maybe it would have been good when it originally aired? That old sitcom format just feels too flat and boring now.

The Killing. Worst loving show ever.

How to Get Away With Murder. What a goddamn waste of viola Davis.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


ChrisHansen posted:

Doctor who.


Because people who call themselves "whovians" deserve to die.

Could be worse. Apparently there's a split where some call themselves dweeks instead of whovians. I've seen lovely tumblr screenshots shared to Facebook with people arguing which is correct.

Blazing Ownager
Jun 2, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Len posted:

Could be worse. Apparently there's a split where some call themselves dweeks instead of whovians. I've seen lovely tumblr screenshots shared to Facebook with people arguing which is correct.

There's only one way to settle this, get them all in an arena to fight it out and decide the winner.

Then blow up the arena.

Whybird
Aug 2, 2009

Phaiston have long avoided the tightly competetive defence sector, but the IRDA Act 2052 has given us the freedom we need to bring out something really special.

https://team-robostar.itch.io/robostar


Nap Ghost
On ITV this year: the sitcom that asks the question "What if your neighbour... WAS A BLACK MAN?????"

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all

Professor Shark posted:

Any show specifically designed for women is usually really bad in my experience.


It really, really is. You can tell another adult is dumb by asking them if they enjoy The Big Bang Theory or The Walking Dead

I know that sounds really goony, but it's true :shrug:

This truth hurts. I know several perfectly likable, intelligent people, but their Facebook feed makes their obsession with The Walking Dead quite clear. I really tried to make it through season 1 so maybe I could chat about it with them. I tried so hard. It was very painful and I failed. I had the same problem with Lost and some other shows. It was just such horrible trash, I couldn't fathom wasting my time watching it it as popcorn entertainment, let alone anticipating episodes. I like trashy bad entertainment, I turn my brain off sometimes and watch an episode of Castle or NCIS or whatever horseshit happens to be on while I make dinner, but Christ almighty, I certainly haven't chosen one to follow. The especially bad ones are the "serious drama" network television shows that try to tell some overarching story when its clear that the writers hadn't planned more than halfway into season 1 (if even) because they didn't know if the show would make it past the pilot or even a few episodes, and had no idea if the studio would want to meddle for reasons after launch, like, "oh the one dude isn't polling high enough and is kinda similar to the popular character on the other network, kill him off." (the one dude is the main character of the show)

E: maybe part of the problem, is that I GM tabletop RPGs and also sometimes write lovely fiction, so I know when writers are stalling for time, scrabbling for ideas, and dealing with unexpected turns because I do that on a regular basis?

Pvt.Scott fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Jan 5, 2016

Superior Bastard
Jun 5, 2004

I wanna be on you.
This is one that hopefully is in its death throes.

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jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer
Roswell was certainly terrible.

Sponge Baathist
Jan 30, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
It doesn't fit being the worst for quality but


Titus was a mess that frequently touched(pun TBD) on controversial topics such as domestic abuse, rape, molesting, suicide, and homophobia, costarring grown-up Scut Farkus as the younger brother. There's a good writeup on wiki regarding the episodes that were banned/censored for being too edgy. It wasn't bad quality but the worst choices were made during production of the show leading to an early grave. It wasn't the choice to do a terrorism episode just months after 9/11 that killed the show but it didn't help its case.

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

Superior Bastard posted:

This is one that hopefully is in its death throes.



Is this the one where they guzzle wine at 8 AM? I've known some alcoholics that couldn't even start drinking that early...

Superior Bastard
Jun 5, 2004

I wanna be on you.

OctoberBlues posted:

Is this the one where they guzzle wine at 8 AM? I've known some alcoholics that couldn't even start drinking that early...

Nope. You're referring to these two on Today.

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Monkey Fracas
Sep 11, 2010

...but then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!
Grimey Drawer
Remember Mind of Mencia?

It was the first in a long line of desperate attempts by Comedy Central to replace Dave Chappelle's sketch-based show after he went crazy and refused to like sell out any longer man

hoooo boy it was bad

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