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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWorst TV show of all time...
Leaving out news or evangelists.
"My Mother, The Car."
I saw ONE and only one episode, it wasn't as bad as people said.
It was worse.
mucifer
(23,576 posts)Meadowoak
(5,562 posts)RockRaven
(15,020 posts)DBoon
(22,401 posts)... and immediately guessed "My Mother the Car'
Funtatlaguy
(10,889 posts)Zambero
(8,974 posts)Once past the cornball stuff. Roy Clark in particular was jaw-dropping good.
Lochloosa
(16,072 posts)David__77
(23,553 posts)Pink Lady and Jeff- variety show with two Japanese singers who didnt understand the English lines they delivered along with an American male comic. I found it charming.
Aristus
(66,474 posts)I thought the Japanese singers were cute. But even I, at about twelve years old, found the whole thing a little surreal. I found out later that, however weird it might have been for American viewers, shows like that are pretty common in Japan.
griffi94
(3,733 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,435 posts)Honey Booboo
teen pregnant mom - type shows
and any of the crap I see commercials for now, real housewives, bachelor etc.
I'd rather watch ANY old tv show than that kind of garbage, if just for the peek into the past.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)no plot and less point.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)We came to the same conclusion.
Raven123
(4,878 posts)Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)So many people think they are actually watching unscripted reality.
I really think it has helped to produce so many people (MAGAs) who can't tell the difference between good information and obvious nonsense.
IA8IT
(5,565 posts)Mister Ed
(5,944 posts)I was only eight. But the residual effect is the that I can still sing the theme song in its entirety.
no_hypocrisy
(46,230 posts)In the episode featuring "Zombo" in The Munsters, Zombo "comes out" and shouts that he was meant for better roles than the one he was portraying on television, (Hamlet, Macbeth, "My Mother The Car".)
Delarage
(2,186 posts)The original Battlestar Galactica was SO GOOD---but too expensive for TV; fan outcry led to a low-budget revival, with less returning characters, less space battles, and a ridiculous kiddie focus. It was such a letdown...........
roamer65
(36,747 posts)LessAspin
(1,156 posts)Midwestern Democrat
(806 posts)A lot of outright junk like "The A Team", "Knight Rider", "T.J. Hooker", etc. just proliferated the airwaves. Even the somewhat better shows were nothing to write home about: "Magnum PI" was just OK, IMO and "Simon & Simon" was really mediocre.
multigraincracker
(32,733 posts)Did I ever say I hate drama. Of coarse the night times ones too, like Dalles.
Different Drummer
(7,651 posts)PJMcK
(22,056 posts)... my first thought was, "My Mother, The Car."
It was on when I was a kid
Hysterical and awful!!!
This is TV sit-com at its worst:
Wednesdays
(17,442 posts)but one show that I remember seeing as a kid was "Turn-On," a clone of the then-popular Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, in 1969.
Trust me, that was one horrid show. There was no laugh track, and nothing was remotely funny. I don't remember my station cutting out early, but there were reports that stations across the country cutting to other programming before the first show was ever finished (one was said to have cut it during the first commercial break!). It was the one show to have not even lasted one complete episode, and well-deserved IMHO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn-On
LudwigPastorius
(9,190 posts)Doc Sportello
(7,533 posts)Flame away, I don't care. Don't care that it was popular or that people love it. I hate it. Ugggghhh. What a terrible show and what makes it worse is the smugness in thinking it is good. It's not.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)a Seinfeld. Can't stand either show...What horrible characters!
Doc Sportello
(7,533 posts)Seinfeld hasn't aged well in some ways but still funny, despite the characters being horrible sometimes. I will say I have never taken to Curb Your Enthusiasm even though I believe people when they say it is good. I just can't watch a whole show of George.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)so we'll have to agree to disagree on Seinfeld.
wnylib
(21,648 posts)Some DUers - The Honeymooners, with Jackie Gleason. It portrayed a husband's verbal abuse and threats of physical violence to his wife as acceptable.
Also, from the 60s, The Dean Martin Show. Frequent portrayed older adult male sexual interest in teenage females as humor.
underpants
(182,942 posts)I agree. Even before I was really aware of it I cringed when he attacked her. The set always looked dusty to me too.
The Honeymooners is the template used for The Flinstones, The Simpsons, and other shows.
Sneederbunk
(14,309 posts)LW1977
(1,237 posts)Guess the common denominator.
IngridsLittleAngel
(1,962 posts)I'm kidding.. You're speaking of Bott Scaio, of course.
Trueblue1968
(17,240 posts)lees1975
(3,888 posts)just bad. No other explanation.
underpants
(182,942 posts)and it was really horrible.
The only difference was that the hot daughter was Nikki Cox and the dad went down to the basement to talk with a stuffed animal voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...I remember Spider Robinson reviewing it at the time. He said something like, "I can't bear to describe the premise of the show. Ask any science fiction fan about it, and wait until they finish laughing. Bring a lunch."
Doc_Technical
(3,527 posts)edbermac
(15,947 posts)Utter garbage.
Celerity
(43,582 posts)Auggie
(31,204 posts)Boomerproud
(7,969 posts)I can't believe it's still on.
lastlib
(23,316 posts)Aristus
(66,474 posts)What a horrible, unwatchable mess.
It aired on Armed Forces Television when I was stationed in Germany; and all I could think was, if any Germans are watching this shit, what can they possibly be thinking about American entertainment culture?
MissMillie
(38,587 posts)Absolutely the first thing that came into my head.
Aristus
(66,474 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,317 posts)Last edited Tue Jul 26, 2022, 02:38 AM - Edit history (1)
...his father was 2nd unit director on My Mother The Car.
Which means he directed stuff like the opening title scene and other stuff that was not the scripted show content.
He was also the director of some first season (the black & white episodes) Gilligan's Island episodes.
ON EDIT:
The worst TV show ever may very well be "Cop Rock."
GReedDiamond
(5,317 posts)BluesRunTheGame
(1,621 posts)I cant imagine anything worse than that.
Shrek
(3,984 posts)IngridsLittleAngel
(1,962 posts)The show itself is bad enough. Another ugly "reality" show that portrayed anything but reality. Another show where "winning" happens thanks to backstabbing, ruthlessness and cutthroat "competition" pumped up on steroids. More ugly TV for ugly Americans - millions of people would react with glee when the host would scowl and say "YOU'RE FIRED!"
So, just the show itself was ugly and a harsh example of what's wrong with "reality" TV and why I hate it.
But let's talk about the consequences of the show. The host was seen as a morally and financially bankrupt oaf before this show came along and convinced people he was a a smart businessman and a walking ball of money... and, of course, a STRONG MAN! His reputation got rehabbed thanks to this show. Thanks to NBC and Mark Burnett, he went from a pathetic joke that America laughed at in the 90's to a hero to millions of people.
Thanks to this show, the host ran for president.
We all know how that turned out...
None of it happens without this fucking show.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Just because I cant stand him.
XanaDUer2
(10,759 posts)Mosby
(16,378 posts)Most Underrated sitcom, Soap.
Most overrated, Friends.