I have just seen the worst TV show in history: "Dance Moms."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

A new channel popped up on my TV today. It's channel 9.4, on DC's WUSA, which carries the Twist network.

Remember JonBenét Ramsey? Imagine a TV about dozens of girls like JonBenét Ramsey and their moms. That's what this is.

Dance Moms

[soothsayer]

1. Love Dance Moms

It’s a hoot

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. I'll have what you're having.

You must not watch TV over the air. I suppose you're one of those "cable people."

I watch TV the way gawd intended -- over the air. I've never seen 9.4 until this afternoon. I had to rescan a set top converter to bring it in.

[budkin]

3. My wife and I were obsessed with it years ago

Abbey Lee Miller was a great villain

[Butterflylady]

4. I've watched that for years and no the girls are not like

JonBent Ramsey. The moms are pushy I will say that.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. I should be more precise and say it's the moms who are awful.

I feel sorry for the kids.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. What was that show from a few years ago, Baby-something or other?

That might as well be Shakespeare compared to this.

[soothsayer]

7. Here comes Honey booboo was just silly (in a watchable way sometimes)

Dance Moms has everything you need (if vicious stage moms are what you need). Plus Maddie and McKenzie. Plus some pretty fun choreography.


Here’s a little Bob Fosse tribute

[George McGovern]

8. Your title, mahatmakanejeeves, "worst TV show in history,"

reminds me of all the bad TV I've seen growing up in the fifties and sixties. And of all the commercials, too many to count, to which I've been subjected. I cannot speak to "Dance Moms;" but there has certainly been a lot of terrible TV after its invention.

My best friend across the street when we were kids was raised in a house without TV. He had three older brothers and a younger sister and I have sometimes wondered how the development of his mind differed from mine. All other input, environmental stimuli aside in comparison with my upbringing, for him to have grown to young manhood minus any influence from television I believe helped produce a highly creative, intelligent, honest, down to earth young man. His brothers and sister all went on to professional careers and he has been successful as well.

And I wonder to what degree TV has affected my own development through the years, as reruns of "F Troop" slide through my mind . . .

[DBoon]

9. People think 60s TV was classic ...

... only because they have blotted out "My Mother the Car" from their memory

[cinematicdiversions]

10. Queen for a Day. NT