What do you feel was the most overrated television program? Mine is "Three's Company" Use any genre.

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[lapfog_1]

1. Seinfeld

with the exception of Larry David

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8. Thank you very much, lapdog_1. I agree the characters were very annoying.

[biophile]

52. Absolutely my first pick as well

If it was on, I’d leave the room.

[EYESORE 9001]

2. Friends

My preteen granddaughter is ga-ga over that show. I could never see what the big whoop was about.

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10. Thank you very much, EYESORE 9001. That is one show that I have never seen.

[EYESORE 9001]

16. Wish I could say the same

[OmegaX]

36. THIS...

... times a billion.

One of the most homogenized, least diverse tv shows of the "modern" era. Over ten seasons and 236 episodes, there were less than 30 Black actors who ever appeared, most of whom were un-named extras; only one ever had any significant recurring role and that not until the last two seasons...

[House of Roberts]

3. I beg to differ on Three's Company.

Any program that caused the Radical Religious Zealot Donald Wildmon of Tupelo, Mississippi to go apoplectic had its good points.

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12. HAHAHAHAHA. thank you very much, House of Roberts.

[efhmc]

18. Was not aware of that but good point.

[Lifeafter70]

27. That is one of my hubbys favorites

So he would agree with you

[efhmc]

43. Why did he hate it so much? As I recalled he was only pretending to be gay. (Sorry but do not remember the character's

name.)

[House of Roberts]

58. It was as much about Suzanne Somers' bouncing

as the John Ritter character (Jack Tripper) pretending to be gay.

[efhmc]

83. Oh, thanks for the answer.

[Ritabert]

4. "Everybody Loves Raymond." Can't stand it.

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13. Thank you very much, Ritabert. I watched it once and never watched again.

[rurallib]

24. After I watched it a few times I realized ray is a real jerk in the show

so I made it about 3 seasons

[underpants]

30. As with Three's Company I don't see that even being rated

It was just a middle of the road eh okay type thing.

[Ritabert]

57. Agreed.

[Maninacan]

60. Whiny Voice

Can't stand whiny voices of some men on these shows.

[Ritabert]

71. Exactly and everybody yells all the time.

[The Blue Flower]

101. For me, it's unwatchable

Don't like any of the characters. And the situations are ridiculous.

[Ritabert]

113. Agreed.

[rurallib]

5. "Big Bang Theory" from season 7 on

It turned into a mockery of the '50s married sitcoms and Sheldon became a real jerk.

[Ritabert]

9. I didn't notice before but you're right.

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14. Thank you very much, rurallib. I liked it at the beginning when it was just the guys. Once they got girlfriends and

and married. it wasn't funny anymore.

[Ocelot II]

17. Agree. The first few seasons were pretty clever, but the series got trite and lame

after Sheldon and Leonard got girlfriends, thereby destroying the basic premise of the series, which is that geeky weirdos don't have girlfriends because they're geeky weirdos.

[rurallib]

21. I hung in for a couple of years but finally gave up around the end of season 8

I have seen a few shows from season 9 though 12 and they just remind me why I gave up.

Seinfeld was another one I could never understand. Just seemed to be arrogant New Yorkers being arrogant.

[Woodwizard]

104. Well

Seinfeld was exactly about self unaware selfish people that was the show.

[efhmc]

19. Loved the first ones but as with many that become popular, lost its zing.

[Coventina]

33. It jumped the shark when Penny cut her hair. n/t

[Ocelot II]

6. Seinfeld and Friends.

Dumb, pointless, not funny, dragged on forever.

[efhmc]

22. Agree. Beyond stupid.

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94. I stopped watching when the "gang" got too annoying. I have honestly never seen Friends. But with the online clips I

wasn't Interested.

[Nanuke]

7. Miami Vice

[efhmc]

25. Never even saw an episode. Just the opening made me nauseous.

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97. I was too old for that. Opening was loud and not my taste.

[efhmc]

112. So agree. Thanks. I prefer nuance. This is why I do not have a tv anywhere around me. I liked many sitcoms until they

became just boring. The good writers probably went to new areas with their talents. Have not had a tv in the house in over 10 years. But loved the laughs I got from many of them when they were new. Or perhaps it was me who was new or at least newish.

[KS Toronado]

11. HANDS DOWN....The Apprentice

[UpInArms]

15. That was my choice, also

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34. He showed back then that he was an ass.

[KS Toronado]

51. Exactly

And our current day MAGAts are probably the ones who loved his show.

[yellowdogintexas]

107. I never watched even a small portion of it. nt

[FakeNoose]

42. I only watched the first episode ... and never again

It was awful from the beginning, and never the least bit entertaining or interesting.
For the life of me I could never figure out why it was rated so highly.

[KS Toronado]

49. Watched part of one only because coworkers were bragging about it

Went back and disagreed with them.

[Diamond_Dog]

20. Most of my choices have already been mentioned.

Friends …. Big Bang Theory ….. Modern Family …..

If you know any Italian families, or grew up in one, Everybody Loves Raymond is hysterical. Some episodes of Seinfeld are funnier than others. The Apprentice is a given, yuk. I could never stand his personality.

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26. Thank you very much, Diamond_Dog for your choices

[rurallib]

23. Let me throw in one from my childhood - I Love Lucy

even as a kid - I mean around 7 - I couldn't stand a grown woman acting like a child and being treated like a child. My mom loved it, so with our one TV we all watched it. Usually I read in another room.

[underpants]

28. I have never seen a full episode of Lucy. The Waltons either.

No real reason. Lucy did give us Star Trek though.

Little House too. It was up against Monday Night Football when I was a kid

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31. Underpants. that was Desilu that gave us Star Trek. It was the production company. The show "I Love Lucy" was perhaps

how women lived back then. But it was not really funny.

[underpants]

55. Desi and Lucille equal Desilu

Ball and Arnaz jointly owned the majority stake in Desilu from its inception until 1962, when Ball bought out Arnaz and ran the company by herself for several years. Ball had succeeded in making Desilu profitable again by 1968, when she sold her shares of Desilu to Gulf+Western for $17 million (valued at $164 million in 2025[3]).[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desilu

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118. Thank you , underpants.

[ProfessorGAC]

116. Quit Bragging!

The fact that you've never seen any of those 3 shows, you should wear it as a badge of honor!
My mom liked Little House. When it was on while I was still living at home, it was my cue to go play piano, watch something on my little portable in my room, or go play pool in the basement.
Had zero interest in it after seeing the first 15 minutes of the first episode.
Complete dreck!

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29. Yes , I disliked "I Love Lucy " also. I saw it in reruns--not when it first came out. Didn't feel it was funny. Even

When I did watch it because my grandmother liked it, I thought it was not funny. Thank you rurallib.

[3catwoman3]

105. "I couldn't stand a grown woman acting like a child and being treated like a child."

Yes - I totally agree. Even as a little girl, I found that disgusting.

[yellowdogintexas]

108. My mom hated it, because Lucy's character was very manipulative and devious

I would add that she would have agreed with you on the acting and being treated like a child

[sop]

32. Baywatch

Hard to believe it was the most-watched television series in the world, with an estimated weekly audience of over 1.1 billion viewers across 142 countries.

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119. I agree with you, sop, woman life guards in tight red swimsuits. "running " around the beach.

[Freddie]

35. If there was a category for "shows that did not age well"

Three’s Company would be #1.

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98. Yep, The two jiggle shows

[pandr32]

37. I am with you on that one.

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50. Thank you very much for sharing with us. pandr32 That show was way overrated.

[mwmisses4289]

38. The Simpsons.

Can not stand that show, and never could understand why it wasn't cancelled after it's first episode. Also dislike many of the spinoffs that came from it (southpaw comes to mind). Ugh, yuk, bleh.

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48. Thank you mwmisses. I agree with you.

[Wiz Imp]

56. There has never been a single spinoff from the Simpsons.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

And if you can't see the greatness of many of the Simpsons episodes from the first 5 to 10 years of the show, then I feel sorry for you. Truly some of the greatest TV ever.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

89. You mean South Park?

Not a Simpsons spinoff.

They do some real damage to the Piggy administration. Kinda rough, though.

[mwmisses4289]

91. Yeah, I guess that is it.

I had understood that it was a spin off or inspired by the Simpsons. Glad some people enjoyed the simpsons, but to me it is one off the worst shows ever.

[Cirsium]

39. Seinfeld

I met him back when he was doing standup in San Francisco. Nice guy. I guess he has had a lot of success and bless his heart. That show was awful.

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46. Thank you very much, Cirsium for sharing with us. I thought the characters were annoying.

[yellowdogintexas]

106. I saw him in Evansville Indiana. He was opening for an Andy Williams concert.

I surprised my mother with tickets because Andy W was her favorite singer.

It was quite some time before I realized the comic we saw in Indiana was the same one on the TV shows.

[4TheArts]

40. Survivor

Yuk

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45. HAHAHAHAHAH. Thank you very much, 4TheArts.

[OC375]

41. M*A*S*H

I liked the movie much, much more.

"Now, fair's fair Henry. If I nail Hotlips and hit Hawkeye can I go home too?".

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44. Thank you very much for sharing with us, OC375

[boonecreek]

47. Happy Days.

When Fonzie literally jumped the shark it became the Fonzie show.
Then, when Ron Howard left that was it.

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95. I couldn't agreet more. It was the Fonzie Show even before that. It lost me as viewer.

[OLDMDDEM]

53. Rosanne

[Ritabert]

76. Agreed. The kids and Dan were tolerable. She was a loudmouth.

[debm55]

79. Thank you OLDMDDEM . I watch the show the first year it was on. The second year , she was so irritating. I no longer

found it funny.

[yellowdogintexas]

109. I would catch her occasionally mostly for the Halloween shows which were very creative

and hilarious.

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120. Thank you very much for sharing that with us. yellowdogintexas.

[get the red out]

54. Friends

I thought that show would gag a maggot.

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75. I haven"t watched that show. I guess I was older and couldn't relate to it. Thank you for sharing, get the red out.

[Maninacan]

59. American Sitcoms

I got pissed off about a show because a 10 yr. old boy was wearing a tie at suppertime. Who the heck has a kid wearing a tie in the house. I was shorts and t shirt full time at home. I don't like shows about people that live in apartments in a city. Grew up rural with land around me. The scene that most ticked me off recently Was Homeland where the woman got mad at the husband for doing dishes in the sink in stead of the washer. I enjoy doing dishes in the sink and make quick work of it. it is kind of meditation time for me. We have been watching French subtitled crime shows on streaming, SO's pick. I hated Tandem and almost all the characters and the writing. Watching Cassandre now and i like the greek name reference to the main character and the scenery.

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74. I know of no kid that wears a tie to the dinner table. I have been streaming the British channels Better stories. acting

Thank you very much for sharing with us. Maninacan.

[rsdsharp]

61. Lost. People worship that show, and it just seemed to me that they would write themselves into corners,

and then come up with the most ludicrous ways out of it. Bring the dead back to life. Time travel. And my personal favorite, “Let’s put a big steering wheel in the basement (islands have basements?) and use it to move the island.

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69. Hahahahahhahah. I agree . I watched the first episode. and it turned me off. Thank you rsdsharp

[DinahMoeHum]

103. The comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates did a song on it.

&list=RDcIl0rYbW_hU&start_radio=1

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117. HAHAHAHAHHAHA. Thank you DinahMoeHum.

[Bluestocking]

62. Full House

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67. Agree, Bluestocking. I liked the littlest girl. But that was all I liked about the show.

[SorellaLaBefana]

63. Well. There is one Very Obvious choice ...

... which will not mention since it would not be in the Spirit of DU Lounge.

Other than that, would have to say the dreadful, mindless 2010 reboot of Hawaii 5-0

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65. Thank you very much, SorellaLaBefana. I agree I really liked the original Hawaii 5-0

[Ritabert]

77. I liked TC, Rick and Kumu. Magnum and Higgie not so much.

[retread]

64. Most all of them. Sticking with present times, Best Medicine comes to mind. We were huge fans of Doc Martin.

The Americanized version is an insult.

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66. Thank you very much for sharing, retread. I find myself watching more of the British shows.

[gopiscrap]

68. Apprentice

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70. That was a shit show. just like his Presidency is. It was so fake. Thank you for sharing, gopiscrap.

[Aristus]

72. I think "Three's Company" is a good place to start.

I feel bad for his fans after he died so tragically young. But I think John Ritter himself was overrated. I keep hearing about "beloved comedic genius John Ritter", and wonder sometimes what they're talking about. I never found him the least bit funny. He wasn't an appealing actor in any sense, at least not to me.

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73. Thank you very much, Aristus. for sharing.John Ritter was a good comedian. But I wouldn't call him a genius.I watched

watched shows where he was a guest with Lucy. She loved him. John was more slapstick like Lucy.

[enid602]

78. Audra

I thought all the of the cast members were uninteresting. Except for Audra Lindley. And her clothes!

[Dear_Prudence]

81. Mrs Roper at sea!

We went on a Royal Caribbean cruise about year ago, and there was a large group of older gay men who take trips together. One night some of the men dressed for dinner as Mrs. Roper. That was a hoot!

[enid602]

84. Mrs Roper

They have Mrs Roper parties in some circles.

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88. That's funny. Thank you very much,Dear_Prudence.

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87. Agree. Thank you enid602.

[Keepthesoulalive]

80. I welcome your hate

Mork and Mindy

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86. HAHAHAHAHAHHHA, Keepthesoulalive. I liked ONLY because of Robin Williams. ---the rest was terrible.

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93. I don't hate any these shows , I just think they were overated.

[Keepthesoulalive]

100. It was not directed at you

But you know people will almost go to fisticuffs for shows and actors they like.
I am a fan of Britcoms they tend to be a little more meaty.

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115. I am the same way. Keepthesoulalive. I have been watching British shows, too. Thank you.

[PJMcK]

82. Lost

After the first season, it just kept getting weirder and weirder without resolving any of the previous weirdnesses. After six seasons, it turned out that everyone is already dead.

It reminds me of the film Inception where the story is all about weird dreams interacting. At the end, the resolution was literally, “And then I woke up.”

Lousy story telling.

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85. Thank you, PJMcK. I didn't last anywhere six seasons.

[yellowdogintexas]

110. There were two things about Lost that I enjoyed

1. After the show, my daughter and I would get on the phone and discuss every aspect of the show. It was great fun; we could not watch it together since I am in Texas and she is in Arizona

2. Many DUers will remember that there was a Lost Group here. It was a real hoot too. There were great nicknames for many of the characters (as we all know DUers are hilarious) and great theory posts about whatever strange thing had happened in the show. (some of which were incredibly inventive and off the wall hilarious. My favorite nickname: the Smoke Monster was known as Old Smokey.

[JustKay]

90. I'm aging myself, but Gilligan's Island always seemed so ridiculous to me.

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92. Thank you, JustKay. Gilligan"s Island was ridiculous to me too.

[flvegan]

96. The Real World.

Almost singlehandedly killed music videos on MTV and launched "reality tv" which is by far the stupidest genre of television to ever exist. It's as if Idiocracy was a 25 year long tv show rather than a full length movie.

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99. Agree, fivegan. Is MTV even a channel any more

[MichMan]

102. Star Trek

Loved Seinfeld and Everyone Loves Raymond though. Every few weeks something happens that immediately reminds me of something on Seinfeld. I also have a livelong friend who looks just like Ray Romano.

A few others I couldn't stand however were Roseanne, Good Times & Maude.

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114. Thank you for sharing with us, MichMan.

[Ziggysmom]

121. The last year of his life, the dementia made it difficult to understand many shows

for my husband, especially complex plots. He watched old sitcoms like Everybody Loves Raymond and old westerns like Gunsmoke. We’d see the same episodes over and over, but he didn’t remember. I never said anything as long as it made him happy. But the one show I thought was overrated was Two and a Half Men. Charlie Sheen makes me gag.

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122. I agree with you Ziggysmom. And may the moemories of your husband be a blessing to you.

[LNM]

123. Seinfeld

I couldn't stand it.

[debm55]

124. Agree. the characters were very annoying.