The worst show on TV?

Ahaugen · Post by **Ahaugen** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:18 pm

hell yes! if there was any proof that pop music was fake, it's Clay Aiken and American Idol.

Johndar · Post by **Johndar** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:38 am

My friends say that, quote, "Train 48 is the biggest piece of shit ever."

Apparently, its a canadian Tv show, where ppl who commute too work just sit on a train and talk.

Exciting.

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:59 am

I'll try and find the name, but there's some new cartoon where they took all the Warner Bro classics like Wile E. Coyote, Daffy, Bugs, etc, and turned them into super heros with black suits and glowy eyes. THATS the worst show ever.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:03 am

Subhuman wrote:Degrassi: The Next Generation. Thank you and goodnight.

Aw...I only caught a few episodes of the first series of that Down Here, but it's nothing offensive and quite humourous in lots of little ways. Or maybe I'm just viewing it through the eyes of someone who grew up with The Kids of Degrassi, Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High...I loved those shows.

For bad television...you've mentioned American Idol and Big Brother. Unfortunately those two have invaded our lounge rooms too, and this proves a point I am loathe to admit, but the Australian public are stupid because our local versions of these shows have been on for six or seven years...and don't look like ending.

To be honest though, the most boring sitcom I ever sat down to watch was actually Seinfeld. I haven't sat deadpan through a show like I sat deadpan through that drivel.

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:04 am

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=4794080

Here's the show I was talking about *shudders*

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:58 am

Frasier, Friends, and Everybody loves Raymond.

RemusShepherd · Post by **RemusShepherd** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:07 am

The Neko wrote:12oz. Mouse.

I second this nomination. They make and show this only to spite their audience.

By the way, I loved Cop Rock. I'd buy it on DVD if I could. It was a quality show if you liked cop drama and musicals.

Tyras · Post by **Tyras** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:11 am

I say, with absoltuely no racist intention, that MTV's "Yo Momma" might be the worst concept of a television show I've ever heard of. The same can be said for a lot of what's on MTV, but this one, I think, may reign supreme.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:03 am

Why is it always so hard to pick the worst something?

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:05 am

mcDuffies wrote:Why is it always so hard to pick the worst something?

Because there's so much crap.

Czar · Post by **Czar** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:14 am

PeppermintAfterlife wrote:
mcDuffies wrote:Why is it always so hard to pick the worst something?
Because there's so much crap.

Swedish saying: "Pest eller kolera?" (Plauge or cholera). Pick one or the other, neither are desireable.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:23 am

Similarly, my favorite phrase is: It's a tie — they both lose.

It was said by Geoffrey, the butler from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:55 am

Dutch! wrote:
Subhuman wrote:Degrassi: The Next Generation. Thank you and goodnight.
Aw...I only caught a few episodes of the first series of that Down Here, but it's nothing offensive and quite humourous in lots of little ways. Or maybe I'm just viewing it through the eyes of someone who grew up with The Kids of Degrassi, Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High...I loved those shows.

I have to admit, the first show that came to mind when I read this thread was Degrassi. And here's the reason. While MSS16 is offensive to anything with more than 2 braincells, it's obvious that all of it's shows revolve around kids that are given everything by parents who are filthy rich. Even though it trys to portray a horrible image to try and make kids want to be that way, the reality is those kids know that the apartment they live at is not exactly a mansion. The thing I hate about Degrassi is that it trys to be 'real' It trys to portray life of the 'real teenager' and then begins an angst-fest. How about giving some of these kids some real fucking problems instead of 'Oh no, I've got a big test coming up and I didn't study.' or 'My boyfriend talked to another girl. I think he's cheating on me. Oh noes.' I swear to god, every time I see one of these shows where the biggest problem in some kid's life is that they have a zit before prom night, it makes me want to scream and throw something at my TV. But I know I can't afford a new TV, so I don't. At least MSS16 is intended to be over-the-top and doesn't even pretend to have a shred of realism to it, it's shows like Degrassi that turn kids into self-centered, self-serving pricks who are so wrapped up in their piddly problems that they can't take the time to care what might be happening in the real world.

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:02 am

The sad thing is I think Degrassi is really only a slight exagguration of how dumb the average teenager is. I've met plenty of people in my academic career who could have been ripped straight out of the show.

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:05 am

Terotrous wrote:The sad thing is I think Degrassi is really only a slight exagguration of how dumb the average teenager is. I've met plenty of people in my academic career who could have been ripped straight out of the show.

That's my point. Where as MSS16 is has the average teenager going, "That would be cool, but that will never happen to me." Degrassi makes them go, "You know what, I'm sorta like that kid there. My life is exactly like this." and then run with it. I think the fact that MSS16 is so over the top it's practicly fiction works to it's advatage, where Degrassi is fiction that's so close to reality people sometimes forget that it's not real. It's just that they take a simple problem that's not really that big of a deal and blow it so out of proportion that it makes it seem like the end of the world. Then kids take that attitude into the real world and find out that, no, they aren't that important.

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:14 am

IF they really do find out they're not that important, then that's fine. It just has them finding out later than most. However I think a lot of people never actually come to that realization.

Tellurider · Post by **Tellurider** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:12 am

Ed, Edd, n' Eddy, and Camp Lazlo.

When I have TV I usually try to find movies or watch Comedy Central or Cartoon Network, so I've never seen a lot of the shows you people are talking about, but those two cartoons... I cannot watch them. And I can sit through almost any cartoon. Those just hurt my brain, so, so much.

Also Pimp my Ride is pretty bad, but I do admittedly find it occasionally fascinating. Still, it's like, if I were driving a hunk o' junk like some of those people, I'd just want to get a new car that didn't suck.

But the most ridiculous MTV show I've ever seen was called "Pimp mein Fahrrad" or "pimp my bike." Not bike as in motorcycle. Bike as in bicycle. It's a German MTV show, and just think about that concept. Take a crappy bicycle and pimp it. What the hell.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:16 am

I think the idea of pimping one's bike is funny. I still wouldn't watch it though.

Yeah, I always had bad feelings for Ed Edd 'n Eddy

PieceOfSkunk · Post by **PieceOfSkunk** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:29 am

My vote: Flavor of Love. It's on VH1. Basically, it's The Bachelor with a grody, old, washed up gangsta rapper as the target of the contestants affections. I can't see a single redeemed quality that would attract any discerning female to this individual. I pretty much pity everyone involved with that show, especially myself for having watched a few minutes of it.

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:36 am

I don't know, Degrassi is pretty over-the-top. Pregnancy, school shootings, drug use, probably bulimia...all handled with the subtlety of a jackhammer, and performed by the most annoying cast of tweens since Kids Incorporated (and they had Fergie). Like a lot of teen drama, the show is a funhouse-mirror version of how life is for "kids today". My Super Sweet 16 is just vapid, but at least it's a bit more grounded in reality. Sadly, those girls (and their parents' credit cards) do exist.

Flavor of Love would be vile if it weren't so boring. Seriously, who cares?