As someone who watches…three to four hours of television a day, it’s hard for me to acknowledge that any television is bad television: I watched every single episode of Suddenly Susan. But, obviously, some television is terrible, even if we are confining ourselves to, say, sitcoms and dramas, and not taking into account the magnificent scope of reality television.
To spark a sprightly morning conversation on this topic, I invite you to peruse Wikipedia’s “List of television series notable for negative reception” and to do so quickly, as it is unjustly slated to be condensed.
What is the very worst series OR single episode of a series, in your very personal opinion?
Also, the government shut down, which we can discuss as well.
P.S. Did you know that the much-maligned My Mother the Car was the brainchild of two dudes who picked themselves up, dusted themselves off, and went on to create The Mary Tyler Moore Show? True story. Let it never be said there are no second acts in American lives.
Tags: badness, my mother the car, television, two and a half men
The American version of The Inbetweeners.
Im sorry but, just no.
(Obviously other Amercian programmes are very good but this particular one just didnt work.)
Hmm. Well, I don’t know if this counts since I never watched it, but I heard about a show called Amos & Andy that was taken off air because it was too racist, so I’m gonna go with that.
I am similarly undemanding in my opinions of television shows, but pretty limited in what I actually have time to watch so I have a very short list.
also Nestor Carbonell is super hot
Wait where’s Nestor Carbonell where where help he is the one I need
On “Suddenly Susan.”
I don’t watch a lot of television; definitely less now that we don’t have cable/satellite.
Some may disagree but I could not make it past the first epsiode of The Tudors. I’m not even sure I finished the first episode.
two and a half men
Somebody noting they like Two and a Half Men is a friendship-ender.
Maybe not the worst show (I heard it got better), but I could not make it past episode 3 of Revolution. I really wanted to love it, but it was just so dumb. “We have to bring back the USA!” is not a viable plan when you do not have high speed communication. Sure, the US was initially formed prior to a lot of technology, but at that time it only consisted of 13 states along one coast. And if you’re rebels bent on restoring America (whatever that means), it would probably be smarter if your secret gang tattoo wasn’t the American flag.
The Dome was soooo bad. Sooooo bad. My gentleman friend is forever grieving his Lost, so we sometimes check out these ridiculous shows, and I have to say having seen the first episodes of both Revolution and the Dome, I would watch 3 episodes of Revolution to any one of the Dome, and you couldn’t begin to make me watch another episode of Revolution.
Under the Dome had me screaming at the TV in frustration from time to time (“If you’d elected a new council and set up communism on day one, you wouldn’t have this looting/rioting/staple shortage issue!”) but I enjoyed it a lot more than Revolution. However, I am a bit disappointed that they decided to renew something that was billed as a miniseries, because I do enjoy a story with a beginning, middle, and end.
Plus that cow getting sliced in half in episode one was badass.
Community.
*gasp*
This is probably going to be unpopular but I despise and loathe Everybody Loves Raymond.
Take away the laughter track and it’s just an awful man being mean to his wife.
omgggggg file under Shows So Bad You Have Physically Injured Yourself Diving for the Remote
It makes me feel better knowing this has happened to other people too
I don’t think your statement will be that unpopular. You do realize the title is aspirational, at best?
I prefer to think of it as narcissistic at worst.
Because clearly Im a grump.
I Don’t Even Like Him as a Friend.
“I HATE Raymond.” -me
I. HATE. THAT. SHOW.
It really surprised me that you thought this would be an unpopular comment, I thought that show was universally hated by everyone. I guess except middle aged straight White men who fantasized about being loved for being mean to their wives, but who the hell gives a shit what they think. That show is terrible.
I really hate Full House. I just do.
I would also like to nominate Deadliest Warrior, which my husband likes to claim has historical merit.
OMG Deadliest Warrior. The very premise, the mere memory, is causing me to clench.
Aww, I sort of love Deadliest Warrior. It’s adorably childlike, in its way. Its way that involves lots of pig-carcass hacking …
Cut. It. Out.
You’re right, though. It was terrible.
Dragnet, though that might have been my fault- as a kid (like 7 or 8), my mom told me about this really funny cop show on Nick at Nite (she was talking about Get Smart) and so the next time a cop show came on Nick at Nite, it was DRAGNET and I watched it and I tried forcing myself to laugh because it was supposed to be funny… wasn’t it…
anyway, what the fuck is a dragnet.
Try re-watching as an adult: some of the eps (anything involving drugs or hippies) ARE pretty funny, though not intended that way.
60s shows with hippies is such a neglected trope, see: that Star Trek episode with hippies
No, Dragnet is RIDICULOUSLY terrible. The most asinine, unrealistic dialogue and delivery paired with clueless, reactionary politics. As a huge M*A*S*H fan, I was horrified to see that Colonel Potter was on that show…it’s just so utterly joyless.
That said, it can be fun to watch for snark purposes while intoxicated.
They started showing Bridalplasty on TV here in the Netherlands, and it is just horrific in every single way.
Oh my God, that show. A friend made me watch it because he found it funny-bad but it just upset me.
I can’t handle Big Bang Theory. When I’m home and my parents turn it on, I leave the room immediately. Without the laughtrack, some of the things they say to Penny… Good lord.
No but what you’re not understanding is that she’s a dumb woman and they’re smart men. Science!
Even worse is when you have the two scientist women join the cast and half the jokes are about how one is a bimbo and the other is an ugly nerd. 🙁 And they’re both as smart as the men, and very likely to actually be engaged in geeky pursuits, but they’re not allowed to join the Boys’ Club, so their role is to do girly things (and be funny because they’re Hollywood Ugly, so don’t deserve girly things) and fawn over the men. (or be that awful hectoring wife type) /ragerageragerageragerage
The worst show on TV is C-SPAN. It’s just a bunch of useless idiots being useless all the time plus shots of empty rooms.
OMG I want to watch Supertrain, is it on Netflix??
It’s on Youtube, or you can torrent it or something, because I have seen it.
“So it’s basically Love Boat but on a NUCLEAR POWERED SUPER TRAIN…”
“Hmm this budget you gave me, it would make this most expensive show we’ve ever done.
OK LET’S DO IT!!!!”
Man they had so much cocaine in the 70s.
I hate Big Bang Theory a lot you guys. And I often feel like the party pooper because so many people just LOVE IT.
Also if you want to torture me I suggest putting on Family Guy for any amount of time. I will relinquish any information you need to make that shit stop.
Actually I hate most cartoons and ALL CLAYMATION. Claymation is nightmares. A few cartoons can stay. Archer is good.
I highly recommend Clone High for a non-shitty cartoon tv show.
Wait, but…Rex the Runt?
You are me! Both of those shows are terrible! ETA: also i hate claymation! Can we hang out together?
Big Bang Theory is such a disappointment. It’s just completely bog-standard network comedy jokes dressed up with geek culture references and people LOVE IT for some reason.
BBT’s punchline is “nerdy thing!”, Community incorporated the nerdy things into the storyline to reach a bigger point. Both have involved D&D, one didn’t make people who play D&D the punchline. God, I hate BBT so much. Like, fiery passion.
Yeessssss feel the hate flow through you.
I hate Family Guy with heat of a thousand suns. Hate hate hate hate it. I’ve never watched Big Bang Theory because I’m pretty sure I would hate that, too.
I have a serious problem with any cartoons made for adults. I keep trying to give them another chance, but I just get a headache. This includes The Simpsons (I KNOW, leave me be), Family Guy, South Park, American Dad, Archer, Futurama… I just can’t.
I had college guy friends who always wanted to make me watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force and…whatever else is on Adult Swim, and I just…yeah. I don’t know. I’m sorry. I can’t.
It’s so … loud and brash.
So… no anime for you then?
My bf loves anime. I’m not so into it. Except Howl’s Moving Castle is great, does that count? Is that anime? Is that made for adults or kids? (Because, see, I love kids movies like Disney/Pixar etc but those are different than cartoons for adults)
In my opinion, Miyasaki’s work is made for both adults and kids, so I’m not sure how that shakes out for you. I don’t know if I’d consider it anime or not, but I like anime/cartoons/comics so I’m not really pressed on figuring out which box it should go into.
I do think cartoons/comics as a storytelling medium isn’t taken seriously enough by Americans, which makes me sad.. but as I’m thinking about it, all of the American shows you guys are naming aren’t exactly high works of art. Hilarious, but… yeah.
I like comics and graphic novels. I’m just a little put off by a lot of animation and I can’t put my finger on why. It’s more of like…a visceral thing? The often just kinda creep me out? I dunno!!! It’s weird!!!
I also hate The Simpsons. I am glad I’m not alone in this.
I hate most of those shows, but Futurama is good!
As the family-designated “smart one”, I get “Oh, do you watch Big Bang Theory? It seems like a thing you like.” SO MANY TIMES from well-meaning aunts. It’s probably better to smile and nod and not mention that you prefer comedies without laugh tracks, thanks.
I haven’t watched it on princple because it’s a Chuck Lorre show disguised with geek culture references, and when I tell people who love it this, they are genuinely surprised.
BBT is just so generic, just like all CBS shows. They characters have little depth, the plots are formulaic. In the beginning, it was mildy interesting because the characters were not completely typical examples of masculinity, but now it’s just devolved into your basic girlfriend nagging boyfriend hi-jinks. BORRR-RING.
mad love was fascinatingly bad.
ACTUALLY the answer has to be the US pilot for a remake of the IT crowd. just intensely awful. but it never got made into a series so maybe it doesn’t count?
i feel like the german remake (das iteam- the boys at the mouse) probably trumps the US one. probably.
Ahhh, that Wikipedia page links to one of my very favorite lists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_s…. Which includes Heil Honey I’m Home!, “British TV’s Galaxy comedy that spoofed American sitcoms of the 1950s and 1960s by featuring caricatures of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun who live in matrimonial bliss until they become neighbours to a Jewish couple.” What the actual fuck!
The Secret Life of the American Teenager made me cringe so hard, both as a feminist and as a lover of unbelievable and soapy television dramas. I’m still surprised that this show has outlived other awesome ABC Family shows like Huge and Bunheads.
It’s been a while since I attempted to watch SLotAT, but I seem to remember terrible acting, lots of pro-life guilt, and constant sexual partner swapping.
I was a little bit into it the first season, and then recently read the subsequent season’s episode summaries—it got sooooo weird. And I do think it is still on for one last season.
The one thing I’ve ever truly enjoyed about that show was a recap I read that described one of the male leads as “a block of wood with Danny Zuko’s hair stapled on top.”
I dropped SLotAT when I realized they weren’t going to let her have an abortion. Perfectly good drama right there! Also, it kind of defeated the whole show premise to me if she’s pregnant and then later with a frigging baby. How secret is that?! I mean, if she actually went cloak and dagger to hide her child, then maaaaybe, but it was obvious that wouldn’t be the case.
(okay maybe a completely petty reason to drop the show, but it was all tied up with the feminist frustration)
My problem is that I always find truly awful, repugnant or otherwise miserably bad television shows to be fascinating rather than unappealing. Case in point, a show like King of Queens, which ran for nine years, and which featured shockingly mediocre acting, dismal writing in which the entire aim is to maintain the status quo at all costs, the underlying and apparently unassailable premise that it’s both believable and silly that a super hot skinny chick would marry a fat guy, and all the formal and narrative innovation of a box of rocks. Why was it so popular? How (how??) could it make as much money as it did, and stay on for so long? How do you keep writing new episodes of that show without giving away that you’re basically recycling four scripts over and over?
I assume the same people who loved that one were also the people who made “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” the no.1 movie in America for some god-awfully long time.
There’s a prank show from Brazil in which unsuspecting people go into an elevator, the lights go out. Then, the lights flash back on again and seemingly from nowhere a creepy little girl has been planted in the elevator and is shrieking her head off.
I’ve never seen this show, but it seems all kinds of wrong and dangerous for the kid and for the people being pranked. But I just Googled it now and it seems people think this is hilarious? Am I just old and easily horrified?
I have a problem with prank shows in general, and I would like to count “What Would You Do?” as one of them. A clip of the show was being passed around on social media. The premise: a white man was harassing a Muslim clerk in a deli. Unsuspecting patrons were filmed.
In the clip, a member of the military leaps to the clerk’s defense. And yes, the army guy was great and awesome, but the setup bothered me so much. In fact, I get so steamed that I can’t articulate clearly what exactly it is I hate about the whole thing. Part of it is that I object to using a person as a prop for a stupid show so that people can pat themselves on the back over what a liberal society we live in.
Yep, prank shows are the WORST. And there were probably WAY more people that let it go or even applauded the white guy.
bergy, I love you and I believe we have a TV-less date on your couch with a six-pack of romance novels. Between my kid and yours, we’ll have those Cheerios cleaned up in no time.
<3 !
When I was a kid there was a reality show on UPN that took Amish people on Rumspringa to some big city and gave them a bunch of money. I think it was called Amish in the City! The fact that it’s not on that list makes me wonder if it was actually good and I should have been watching it.
UPN also had a really crappy Charlie’s Angels knockoff called She-Spies that I did watch sometimes, shamefully.
ALSO on UPN, clearly a fine network, Blind Date and Elimidate. They both sucked but I still watched them late at night. I also vaguely recall some marriage reality show where the woman had to guess which of her suitors were secretly gay.
I watched WWF Raw and Smackdown while I was middle school but I was fully aware of how bad they were.
Finally, everyone should go watch clips from Cop Rock on youtube!
I watched She-Spies–I really kinda liked it. Also, I watched Pepper Dennis, which was extremely short-lived but entertaining in the same way She-Spies was.
My kind of cool co-worker really likes Amish in the City, in a so-bad-it’s-good way, but he also enjoys Storage Wars and Duck Dynasty, so.
Y’all, I have no idea why Merlin gathered such a huge and fervent fan following, because I watched the first episode and it was DIRE.
Slash, obviously.
Ayup.
Slash PLUS it’s got Giles from Buffy! That alone is enough to make me happy.
The first episodes were terrible. For unknown reasons I started watching again in the second season and it was much better.
I hate GIRLS. I watched all of seasons one and two, and I don’t think I enjoyed a single moment.
The SNL sketch from this week featuring Blerta as their new friend is the closest I have gotten to laughing about it.
Yeah. I hate watched the first two seasons and I only slightly, just a little bit like Shoshanna but mostly just want to see bad things happen to Hannah and Marnie.
Yep, I hate-watched 1 and most of season 2, and just could not finish the season. I wanted to like it so much but I wouldn’t want to be around people like them in real life, so why elect to spend my spare time watching them on tv?
Seinfeld. I’M NOT SORRY.
Solidarity.
I’m not alone in the world!
If they removed Jerry from Seinfeld it would be so much better. And I actually like Seinfeld! I just can’t stand watching him break character every single scene.
Family Guy was catchy the first couple seasons, but when it came back, it became something I hate with an unyielding and fiery passion. “ladies lol black people lol meg isn’t someone i’d fuck lol” It’s just unrelentingly terrible. Comedy aims up, MacFarlane! Up!
Also? I’m glad there’s a safe place here to talk about my love of TV. I justify it because the shows I watch are cloaked in prestige/critical approval, but when it comes down to sheer volume, it makes me seem super lame. Glad to see I’m not alone.
Caroline in the City was a formative thing for me, though.
Private Practice was so, so bad. None of the characters were at all likable. Every time I watched it I got so mad at myself for voluntarily watching something so awful, and I used to vent about the dumb plot lines to my friend (who didn’t watch). Then I realized that all those problems would go away if I just didn’t watch the show, so I stopped. Pretty much the same thing happened with me and Grey’s Anatomy around the same time, so I’ve just avoided Shonda’s shows since then. (By the bye, yesterday’s post on Shonda Rhimes lines was on. point.)
Also? I’m glad there’s a safe place here to talk about my love of TV. I justify it because the shows I watch are cloaked in prestige/critical approval, but when it comes down to sheer volume, it makes me seem super lame. Glad to see I’m not alone.
Viva Laughlin is a hilarious contender. All I’ve really seen of that show is the clips they used constantly on The Soup, and it looks so so bad, but possibly in a funny way.
I’ve seen Supertrain! It’s awesome!
I did watch one episode of the North American Skins, and good lord it was bad. I was like NOPE! And never watched it again. I really hate The Newsroom, I had a similar experience with that. I watched The Crazy Ones pilot last week and it was cringe-worthy.
THERE WAS AN EARTHSEA MINI!? AND IT WAS BAD!? I think we are in the right era of television to get an Earthsea miniseries right, don’t you think?
Seeing as how getting an Earthsea miniseries right would entail casting every non-Kargish character as a POC, I don’t think we’ll be in the right era of television for at least another 20 years. :/
Truth.
I guess this thread made me realize that I don’t actually watch a lot of bad TV! I do tend to stick with good shows until they become terrible and unwatchable, though, so I guess… the later seasons of Weeds?
Oh, and in college I watched House of Carters (greeeeatt pun) which was a reality show about Nick & Aaron Carter and their siblings all living in the same house. It was like watching unsuccessful family counseling and was ultimately pretty depressing.
Other really terrible shows:
All incarnations of America’s Funniest Home Videos. THESE VIDEOS ARE NOT FUNNY. They are usually of people getting injured or falling or cats doing weird things. A lot of times, the only “humor” in the videos are the superimposed sound effects. How did this every become a thing for so many years?
In the 90’s, there was a Saturday morning live action version of Sweet Valley High that my pre-teen self was positively obsessed with. It featured Brittany and Cynthia Daniels as the twins and a bunch of people who never made it out of obscurity. Last year, for the sake of nostalgia and perhaps amusing trashy television, I netflixed it. HOLY SHIT, it was bad–the dialogue, the pan shots of girls’ bodies, the really terrible plot lines, the insufferable characters. IT made California Dreams look like fucking Mad Men. Does anyone else remember this show? The worst part is that I still remember ALL of the words to the theme song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhXOVQprYxk It’s my secret shame.
Re: America’s Funniest… it’s kids. In particular, boy kids. I have 2 boys and they both LOVE that show.
I’ve learned as an adult that the key to enjoying AFV lies in not being sober.
CALIFORNIA DREAMS…. “don’t wake me up!”
Embarassingly, ‘cats doing weird things’ works to lure me, at least when I’m bored.
Look right down in the crowded hall
You’ll see there’s a beauty standing
Is she really everywhere
Or a reflection?
One calls right out to you
The other’s shy and quiet
Could there be two different girls
Who LOOK THE SAME
SWEEET VALLEY
SWEEEET VALLEY
HI-gh
-ig-igh-igh-igh-igh
SWEEET VALLEY
SWEEEET VALLEY
HI-gh
-ig-igh-igh-igh-igh
I didn’t have to watch the youtube clip to type that out. No matter how hard you try, some things you just can’t forget.
I heart you so much right now. I AM NOT ALONE.
I own the first season of SVH on DVD. I’ve seen that multi-part Coma episode more than once. It truly is a terrible terrible piece of work.
So terrible! But 11 year old me thought, on some level, this was what high school was going to look like and SHE LOVED IT. I’m so glad I am not the only one who remembers this.
Also, of all the actors, I vote that Winston was the least worst performer. It’s a low compliment, but a compliment nonetheless.
After a brief mental survey I think I will agree re: Winston as least worst. I had/have strong feelings regarding Lila’s depiction onscreen. Why would Lila Fowler be hanging out with Todd & Enid? The mind boggles.
Right when I started working a full-time job, there was this show where Kelsey Grammer lost his job and, I think, had to work at an ice cream shop with his teenage daughter? God, that show was awful, but it came on right when I came home from work and I was exhausted and it made me understand why bad TV exists.
I really hate King of Queens. Also Everybody Loves Raymond.
If you want to talk about old shows, whenever All In the Family came on, I would jump up and turn the TV so fast it would make people’s heads spin. And I suspect I was around 10 when that was on. I hated that show, too.
Haha, Maury’s on that list like I knew it would be. It’s one of my favorite shows, though! It is just so cheesy and melodramatic.
I’m not sure I knew that If I Did It was supposed to have a TV special. I still can’t believe that was an actual thing that came into existence.
I’ve finally gotten around to watching Angel the series on netflix, more than 10 years after it aired. As a big fan of Buffy, I had hopes – somewhat tempered by my sister’s warnings that Angel wasn’t *as good* as Buffy, but hopes none the less.
Well, it’s AWFUL. I say this as someone with a great deal of affection for the fictional universe, and all creative minds involved. Not, okay-ish, but downright terrible. Especially seasons 2-4 (so most of it.) It reminds me of the fanfiction epics, 400 000+ meandering words long, that my friends and I used to write about Buffy in junior high school.
You hush. Angel is amazing.
I know. So much of it it subjective – what I value in a story isn’t always what someone else will value in a story. After all, I watched Stargate SG1 for 10 years which isn’t exactly top quality writing/acting.
But I’m sincere when I say Angel disappointed me. I wanted to like it SO badly.
I like Angel more than Buffy…possibly because I was an adult in the 90s and could relate better to an office full of demons than vampire-related high school drama.
Also possibly because of the parade of super-hot guys.
I never watched more than a random episode or two of Buffy back in the day, so when I recently decided to watch it on Netflix, I really wanted to love it… Didn’t happen. Maybe the first episodes are something that need to be pushed through (I only made it through episode 1), but something about it just did not work for me.
Which is funny, because I love the original pilot (http://youtu.be/WR3J-v7QXXw), possibly because it doesn’t take itself particularly seriously.
Yes, the first season (and the first bit of the second) absolutely has to be pushed through. It is terrible. Sort of charming, in retrospect, once you grow to love the characters. But mostly just terrible. In my opinion, it doesn’t really get good until 206, “Halloween.”
I’ve got a conservative uncle who shows up for holidays and commandeers the TV. We let him do it because it’s easier than holding a conversation with him. He left it on the outlands of basic cable – something called Tru TV – and they were showing a marathon of “World’s Most Terrifying Mechanical Malfunctions” or something like that.
The show is basically smarmy, AFV-type voiceover over slow-motion grainy security cam footage of people getting REALLY BADLY HURT. And the show is not about their miraculous recoveries! There is no assurance that the people in question lived, so for all I know they’re showing snuff film marathons to industrial accident junkies and I find that totally reprehensible.
Also, Tim & Eric. I know “worst television show ever” is what it’s going for, but I don’t care. I just don’t care.
I started watching The Killing because I have an affinity for mystery/crime procedurals. Thirty miserable, sexist, racist, homophobic, ableist, poorly-paced episodes later, it got cancelled without the main characters ever getting it on (the only reason I stuck it out) and I realized anew the pointlessness of life in general.
(“SOMEONE GET THESE CHARACTERS INTO THERAPY!” I screeched fruitlessly into the void. The void did not answer. The void only consumed.)
I realize that this dead horse has been so thoroughly beaten that it has been pulverized into horse burgers which were then fed to people, who were then summarily also beaten to death.
BUT.
For the crimes of wasted potential, unbearable smugness, bringing the word “mash-up” into the mainstream, and broadcasting harmful, offensive material masquerading as progressive helpful guidance for the Youth Culture These Days, I summon GLEE to the chopping block.
My husband is a music teacher, and everyone raved about Glee so much that we watched the first episode with high expectations. We turned it off in the middle.
For single episode, Love and Monsters from Doctor Who. EUCH.
(Also, Home from the X-Files)
For a show that I like overall, Doctor Who does have some individually BAD episodes (Love and Monsters being one of them for sure). But maybe that’s a feature of any show that has monster/case-of-the-week-type episodes – some of them are bound to suck.
iiiii really liked love and monsters. i also liked fear her. don’t look at me.
Small Wonder. I remembered occasionally watching it as a kid, so tried watching an episode on youtube recently, and it was so bad I think my ears started bleeding.
It was so awful. My ex liked it and I could never understand why.
My ex used to watch 7th Heaven, and it had the most godawful writing I’ve ever seen on TV. From what I recall, every episode consisted of characters having conversations about things that other characters did offscreen, without the audience ever actually seeing any of those events take place. It was like the writers heard “show don’t tell” and went, “Yeah, no, we’re going to do the opposite of that.”
YES. And not only was the writing awful, the acting was awful too. My friend watched it regularly, and I finally had to tell her when I was at her house to either tape it and watch later or I’m going home.
Tosh.0
that is all.
Why can’t I thumbs-up this more than once?
I can’t remember if I watched the first episode of Joanie Loves Chachi or if I’m thinking of the J&C-centered episode of Happy Days where they tested the idea. Either way, it was bad.
I do not understand the appeal of Big Bang Theory. Some of my friends really like it too, and they're like "Oh you should totally watch it! You'd love it!" and then I feel bad because they don't know me at all.
Two and a half men. dumb. stupid. bigoted. misogynistic and boring.
The Big Bang Theory is a stupid person's idea of how smart people talk.
Wanna go way way back? I’ve always hated “I Love Lucy.” She’s a manic idiot, Desi is a misogynistic asshole, and the neighbors were dour and negative. Ick. Not funny, not even the chocolate factory scene. In fact, especially not the chocolate factory scene.
I really enjoyed watching Full House as a kid, and I am never rewatching it because there is no way it holds up. I even remember thinking "this is a stupid problem" during multiple episodes (but I think first grade me got a kick out of feeling smarter than television characters).