What is the most terrible, awful, and just plain boring television series ever thought up?

I'd need to say Small Wonder. It's a wonder (lol) why the robotic female was never used by her brother as a toy for mating purposes, nor do I understand why his friends would not do so either... as I recall now wasn't there an episode where she was somehow supposed to be shut down only to be "pretend decomissioned" or something. Her dads boss found out he was using the parts I thought, and he came to see what he was doing? I could swear he was trying to take the daughter for study, but it makes no sense because the man who built her was employeed by them?!

Also imagine when she grows up, she'd be a robotic female that's 18 :D

So yea that series was pretty out there, I don't know what it was supposed to be...

Also the worst of all TV series in history must be without a doubt Mama's Family. That show was just sick lol

Wait no wait, do you recall that one with those girls that all lived in the same house with some aunt of theirs? What the hell was it.... that was terrible too... ummmm damn-it! What the hell was it, a black girl and a few whites lived in the house with their aunt, it was stupid...

Let this refresh your memories

http://www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/seriesListA-B.html

Oh wait, let me modify this abit.. the worst ever series is either CHEERS or MASH. These shows made me so sick and feel just disgusting that I wanted to throw up, they are by far the worst series in television history (take that to the bank!).

The winners are MASH & CHEERS, don't argue they sucked!

What is the most terrible, awful, and just plain boring television series ever thought up?

Also imagine when she grows up, she'd be a robotic female that's 18 :D
Did you leave your common sense at home today? She's a robot. She won't age. Even when she's chronologically 200 years old, she'll still look like an 8 year old girl. Sorry but I if I were to ever buy a virtually human like blow up doll, it would be one of an adult. And was she even anatomically correct anyway?



Also the worst of all TV series in history must be without a doubt Mama's Family. That show was just sick lol
Maybe a bad show collectively but I loved Mama's bitchy attitude.

Wait no wait, do you recall that one with those girls that all lived in the same house with some aunt of theirs? What the hell was it.... that was terrible too... ummmm damn-it! What the hell was it, a black girl and a few whites lived in the house with their aunt, it was stupid...
"The Facts of Life"
How old are you darkside?

My mom would make me watch(only one t.v) murder she wrote. Well didn't make me but I was so bored out of my skull in the 80s I used to watch it. I wanted the final episode to be solving Lansbury's decapitation.

26 years old mofo! I am god here!

The Facts Of Life, that was it! That show's so bad I feel like throwing up, but MASH and CHEERS are worse!

anything that somewhat resembles days of our lives I hate those shows.

MindOrb. That really sucked.

MindOrb. That really sucked.

I demand you speak more in the threads, you usually have only 1 sentence and are gone afterward! Write more!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Fast Forward
There was an awesome TNMT cartoon series started in 2003 that was similar to the original comic books. Last year at some point, someone decided to modernize the series, and change the format to a painfully absurd poorly written version (similar to the Original cartoon series from the 80s).

Spiderman Unlimited
Just like TNMT, and except involving the spiderman cartoons. It takes the protagonist, puts them in the future, and gives them all kinds of 'future-enhanced' weapons and gizmos. They also used a cheaper animation style, and changed the voice actor for Peter Parker.

Oddly enough, both Spidey Unlimited and TNMT FF have the characters immersed in worlds where many of the background-characters are corny human-animals.

I demand you speak more in the threads, you usually have only 1 sentence and are gone afterward! Write more!

OK.

MindOrb really sucked. I mean it was just awful! Terrible! I mean how did it even survive the pilot screening? Surely someone would have had the decency to actually end the series, but no, it went on for 6 whole years. Thankfully those kind of shows will never grace our TV screen again.

Can you provide a link to this?

Trust me, its not worth it.

The Charlotte Church Show is pretty high up there. It's a series, in a way, right?

I'm no stranger to taking things to the limit, but she was just painful to watch. And every live act on the show was ruined by her shitty singing. She was cute when she was a pert little teen, innocent and hadn't ruined her voice with booze and ciggies, but now she's pretty rotten.

Saying that, I'd probably still give her one.

Kenan and Kel. The first 3 times it was kind of funny, but then it started to grate. The only proper black US teen thing that was on UK TV regularly was the Fresh Prince, which is a precious gem compared to the steaming pile of shit that was Kenan and Kel.

Chas and Dave.

Baddiel and Skinner

pop idol/american idol,
big brother, reality shows,
celebrity shows,
any soaps, i.e home and away/east enders



peace.

There are more candidates than I can name. That's So Raven only comes to mind because I saw an episode of it last weekend. In fact, almost the whole of the Disney Channel's live-action sitcom lineup needs to be put down. Beyond that, nominations include Friends, Designing Women, Dharma & Greg, and any number of WB/UPN blaxploitation comedies whose titles escape me, but led to the rather appropriate Family Guy joke about three large black women sitting around and saying, "Mmm-hmm", "Nn-nnh," "Mmm-mm-mmm-mmm-mmm!"

Reality television needs to sink, as well. I can't fathom the litany, except to say that we should have been more worried after the COPS decision, when executives promised a flood of reality television.

What is the most terrible, awful, and just plain boring television series ever thought up?

Well, it's hard to beat the first two you mentioned (small wonder and mama's family). Those were two horrible shows. Might I also add: Cop Rock

pop idol/american idol,
big brother, reality shows,
celebrity shows,
any soaps, i.e home and away/east enders



peace.

My thoughts exactly, i have not owned a tv for 18 months now because of the total lack of content.

Whatever one is most popular at the moment.

Lost, heroes, jericho, prison break, desperate housewives, did I miss any?
Those open ended perpetual cliffhanger shows which never have satisfying pay offs of any kind were the worst idea in tv history and the most annoying part is how popular they are.
They just have millions of people around the world waiting for something to happen and they don't even know what they are going to do, they just figured out how to hook people and that is good enough to make money, so they string it out as long as they can with bullshit.

It's like they(bad robot or whatever the fuck the production company is) had a research team watch other successfull shows, like degrassi junior high, and one said "imagine if erika never had an abortion... or a baby"
"ha, you couldn't do that, why we'd be left in this excited state of suspense on the edge of our seats ... forever..." and then they all paused, before scrambling and writing stuff down and making calls.

But no, if erika never had the abortion it would have wore real thin real fast, they have the one cliffhanger with the abortion protesters holding up the pretend baby and making erika feel guilty and reluctant and then in the next episode she gets a fetus vacuumed out of her promiscuous little chunt.
Thank you, I wasn't sure there for a while but now I know, great.
That's some quality viewing right there.

Fuck lost and co, they are fucking bullshit and still nothing has ever happened.

My mom would make me watch(only one t.v) murder she wrote. Well didn't make me but I was so bored out of my skull in the 80s I used to watch it. I wanted the final episode to be solving Lansbury's decapitation.

I wish. My folks used to watch that crap. Luckily I had a crappy B&W portable for my Acorn Electron computer. With a bit of luck and a coathanger, I could watch TV too.

I'm surprised the character never got arrested, as soon as she checked into a hotel, someone got whacked. If I saw her in reception, I'd get the F! out of there, before there was a chalk outline around me.

I'm leaning towards a split-decision between Automan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automan) and Manimal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manimal).

Even at the tender age of 10 years old, I realized that these shows stunk. (Yet I remember them to this day, and not, for example, calculus...WAY TO PRIORITIZE, STUPID BRAIN!!)

Numberwang was pretty awful too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOZtWZ56lc

Identifying the worst TV show in history is like trying to identify a specific grain of sand on a beach.

It's not that bad a programme, but why does Teller never speak in Penn and Teller: Bullshit?

It's not that bad a programme, but why does Teller never speak in Penn and Teller: Bullshit?

Teller never speaks on camera or on stage. That's his schtick in their magic act (and elsewhere). He's like Harpo Marx, but he's really the better of the two at actually performing the magic tricks.

Seinfeld.

Then of couse there's the news. TV news is for people who can't read.

Numberwang was pretty awful too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOZtWZ56lc

Numberwang was a brilliant piss-take of daytime TV quiz shows - incomprehensibly stupid rules and totally disinterested presenters. And I loved the German edition - I saw the "Great Escape" reference coming before they actually did it.

Seinfeld.
WHAT!?! That's one of my favorite shows ever.

The first thing that popped into my head when I say thing thread title was "Small Wonder". I was fairly young when this was on and even then I could recognise just how bad it was.

From the US: Frasier.
Pompous, gentle, unfunny crap.

From the UK: Anything with Ricky Gervais in it. One-trick pony that wasn't funny to begin with.

There's plenty of others but I have a hangover and I'm just killing time in an internet cafe whilst my girlfriend shops for shoes or bags or some such shit.

From the UK: Anything with Ricky Gervais in it. One-trick pony that wasn't funny to begin with.
You're right. 'Extras' was a steaming pile of poo.

The Office was funnly, but as a piss take on documentary style TV, I prefered People Like Us (http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/p/peoplelikeus_66602770.shtml)

Funnly? Knobhead.

The Office was great. Ricky Gervais is great. Extras was so-so.

Worst tv series in history:

Champions league.

I liked extras way way more than the office and I liked the office.
Series two of extras was just another level to all gervais work which preceeded it.

David bowie episode was unbelievably good. The song he broke into, my god.
Arguably the best thing ever, and yes "thing" is purposefully that vague, that's how good it was.

Fraggle saying seinfeld is the worst show ever was the worst post ever from fraggle. Seinfeld is the best sitcom ever by a country mile.
I hate jews and new york with two seperate passions, but that is how good seinfeld was, it still somehow managed to be flawless despite it's readily apparent flaws.
And the amazing thing is, every one of the actors has since proven to be somewhere between not that funny and downright pathetically unfunny, including jerry himself (who is not that funny, michael richards is pathetically unfunny ofcourse).
Larry David is funny, and he made everyone funny, and he continues to make unfunny people extremely funny on curb your enthusiasm, he is a true genius of our time. And a jew, but that's not in any way contradictory.
Now if I tried to argue he was a good person, well, even he would disagree.

american idol

Fox News. It comes on every day, hour after hour after hour!

:(

Chuck Norris - Texas Ranger was pretty hilarious

Dr. Lou is right on Seinfeld. Fraggle, explain why you chose seinfeld.

I chose I Love lucy as worst.

Im pretty postive that the worst ever tv series is Nick and Jessica Newlyweds. That shit is the pits.

Rubbish suggestions so far, probably. Not even close.

Let's start the ball rolling proper with... Howard's Way:

http://www.lovefilm.com/visitor/product/63840-Howard's-Way-Series-2.html

A Customer from London , 7th November, 2006

I'd never watched Howards' Way when it was broadcast 20 odd years ago. I rented it purely for the wife (she has to put up with the foreign films I rent).

Well, this is pure rubbish! It's absolute tosh. Terrible costumes, awful sets, wooden acting, and intrusive incidental music throughout.

It is sooooo bad it's good. Really. I hated the first episode so much that I had to see just how much worse episode 2 could be. Think 'Accorn Antiques' but without the acting skills...

And if you rent the second series, the continuity errors are highly amusing - hair that has grown 6 inches in the space of 12 hours, a car that was blue turns to red, 6 weeks turns to 1 day...

Brilliant. Rent it.

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There we go. Stop naming the first programmes that come into your collective head and, instead, focus on raising the bar on that. I'm only sorry that I don't have a clip to show you. :(

Triangle!
The (non) fascinating soap opera about the crew and passengers on a UK-Netherlands passenger ferry.

Can't say I've ever seen that one. Sounds promising though:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/titles/triangle.shtml

Kate O'Mara worked in the glamorous world of North Sea ferry travel from 1981 to 1982. Triangle is famed as one of the BBC's all time turkeys, the writers obviously forgot that the North Sea is a cold, grey miserable place.
How about... Eldorado? Awful, awful, awful. Nowhere near as bad as Howard's Way though, so forget I ever mentioned it.

Considering that (in her day) Kate O'Mara was a bit of a sex bomb the series was total shite, and no one would watch even to get a glimpse of her.

Aye, she were fit as a butcher's dog. I'll bet good money that at least half the audience consisted of fat hubbies with their hands down their pants while their wives were out at the bingo.

That was NOT a picture I wanted in my head!
F*ckin bingo...

Star Trek

Not enough sceince in it for you?

stop following me haha

Misconception. You are preceding me.
And psychic powers aren't sceintificalishy proven. So it's your fault. Or something.

lol

Sceintificalishy.

Sceintificalishy.

And? You never used a spull chocker?

Prisoner Cell Block H: Why O why did none of the seven (I'm estimating) inmates ever realise that the entire prison seemed to be constructed from low-grade cardboard?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0EanRDGSRY

Star Trek

I curse you, all your family, and generally anyone around you :p

Two Words - Big Brother