TV Dustbin: You Once Watched It Religiously. Now, You Couldn't Care Less

[stopbush]

How to explain this strange phenom? You start in on a TV series, get hooked, and find yourself clearing your schedule to watch some must-see-TV.

Fast forward a few years - or months - and you've lost all interest. You're even surprised to learn the thing has yet to be canceled.

What shows have done this to you? Personally, it happened to me with Frasier (stop watching 3-4 years ago), X-Files, NYPD Blue (lost interest even before Jimmy Smits got killed off) and Everybody Loves Raymond.

Oh, yeah, and my wife used to watch ER all the time. That stopped 3 years ago as well.

Anyone else got similar stories?

[mac56]

1. "Will And Grace".

Used to be must-see TV for me. Now I find them all annoying.

[skypilot]

2. "Frasier" was the one...

...I was going to say. I just stopped watching it sometime last year. I think it kind of jumped the shark when Frasier and Roz slept together. And frankly, Frasier's histrionics are just tedious anymore.

[BurtWorm]

34. Me too.

I admit, finding out Kelsey Grammer was a Repub didn't help. But I don't understand why Niles and Daphne had to get together. Why keep watching when there's no irresistable tension.

[philosophie_en_rose]

46. Frasier used to be great. Now it's trashy.

I used to like the show a great deal, especially Niles, Lillith, and Martin. However, the show is out of ideas and Kelsey Grammar is more and more a caricature. Watching the first season versus the newest episodes really brings out the difference.

[fudge stripe cookays]

47. When I found out what a freeper fuck Kelsey Grammer was....

that did it for me.

[northzax]

3. West Wing

I watched it religiously for the first two seasons, and now only watch the repeats at 11:30 sunday night. Strange, once you get out of the habit of TV watching, you never go back.

[tigerbeat]

4. 24

i even stuck it out through the "spawn-of-keifer gets threatened by a mountain lion" subplot last year.

this year, even after seeing commercials with super-hot sarah clarke looking all dominatrixed out, i couldn't give a flying sexual act. and you know you're in trouble when plots involving the president are more interesting on CNN than they are on fox.

now i just watch "that 70's show" and "the simpsons".

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. X-Files went on too long after having jumped the shark.

David Duchovny getting an acute case of Sting-Morrisey Syndrome didn't help either.

[Coventina]

9. X-Files

I lived for that show.

Then, it went into the crapper.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

44. I lived for that show also...

And then I realized that it was just easier to download pictures of Gillian Anderson off the internet than watch the last couple of seasons of X-Files.

[BiggJawn]

6. Is "Hill Street Blues" still on?

I haven't watched that in years..Nor "ER", nor "St. Elsewhere",

but I really miss "WKRP" and "Maxx Headroom"...

[geniph]

7. Farscape - except *I* didn't lose interest,

the fscking Sci-Fi Channel did! I'll never forgive them for canceling that show.

[Xithras]

10. Happens to every sci-fi type show I like

Farscape
Dark Angel
Firefly
John Doe
Jake 2.0

and on and on and on. It even looks like Enterprise may join the heap (thoug I won't grieve for that one TOO badly).

What is it with sci fi shows...the BAD ones run their full story arcs (think Voyager) and the good ones get canned before they can relly find an audience.


But just to stay on topic: "24". I was a religious "24" watcher the first two seasons, but lost interest in the show by the third ep this season. Same old, same old.

[Kamika]

8. Simpsons and Enterprise, OH and CSI

Just isn't that funny anymore.

Oh and Enterprise.

edit: and CSI damn talk about same old same old

[PragMantisT]

11. PTL

Tammy was sooooo hot.

[devilgrrl]

12. St. Elsewhere...

Watched the first few seasons and blew it off when David Berney left.

[KCDem]

13. Friends

Part of me thinks I should watch the final episodes... but I don't really care enough to. :shrug:

Frasier would be another, as would X-Files. That one really went downhill.

[Dulcinea]

26. Friends has been on about 5 years too long!

I haven't gone out of my way to watch a sitcom since Seinfeld. Most of them bore me to tears.

[htuttle]

14. CNN

The whole damn network.

Used to watch several hours a day. Now, I haven't watched it at all since last May. Too much propaganda gave me a stomach ache.

[Anaxamander]

15. Xena: Warrior Princess

I watched the first two seasons and lost track of the rest due to a busy schedule. I still hope to watch them all eventually.

[TheMightyFavog]

16. Boston Public

The last two seasosns have been plain shit.

[arwalden]

17. Sopranos

After last season... I now REFUSE.

-- Allen

[Anaxamander]

23. I started watching season 4 but got bored after a few eps...

...did I miss anything?

[LynneSin]

18. Friends and ER

Yes, I use to love those shows. Now I watch Survivor on Thursday and then go to bed.

If Survivor isn't on then I just go to bed.

[Love Bug]

19. Star Trek

Love the Original Series, Next Generation and Deep Space 9. They started to lose me with Voyager and I don't even bother with Enterprise, even though I love Scott Bakula.

I'm a SF geek and even used to belong to a Star Trek fan club and even I won't watch it any more, so what does that tell you?

[Kamika]

22. You are my twin soul

I loved TNG and I worship DS9, I only saw some voyager stuff mostly the borgish stuff.. I watched season1 of ENT and pretty much just sporadicly after

[Love Bug]

27. Trek pretty much sucks now, which is pretty bad

I think they've restricted the writers so much regarding what they can do, they just continue to recycle old Next Gen scripts. I think Babylon 5 is awesome and what Trek could be if they just got some good writers and set them loose. You really cared about those characters because you never knew if they would die or not! Actions had consequenses in the B5 Universe but Trek just hits the "reset" button during the last act. How many times did we see Voyager get trashed but they miraculously had all the parts they needed 70 years away from the nearest Starbase to fix the ship! Every time! Bah.

[Deja Q]

42. Ditto! though...

I started to waver during TNG (well, season 7 was a vast improvement over the previous 2 years) and I sporadically watched future spinoffs. They just aren't as good, and I must've consistently tuned in during the week when they had an episode that was way too similar to a TNG plot. I hate it when they re-use material, especially when TNG got it right to start with...

Enterprise is 100% unfettered doggie doo though.

[Liberal Christian]

20. Most of "Must See TV"

I still like Friends, heaven help me for being shallow. But the rest of NBC Thursday night has become a snooze. ER jumped the shark long ago.

NYPD Blue I used to love, now I have so lost track of their season that I don't know when to watch.

I still watch West Wing, but less attentively.

I've never been able to stand Everybody Loves Raymond or the rest of the CBS Monday lineup.

==

I DO like Joan of Arcadia and Monk, when I remember to watch them.

[DrWeird]

21. ER.

I remember in one of the early episodes, Clooney walks into the break room and chats with the nurses who are watching General Hospital on the TV. Clooney says something like, "so does that doctor still have that brain tumor?" To which the nurse replied, "no, that got cured when he was struck by lightning."


Unfortunately ER has turned into the kind of show where the doctors get brain tumors and are saved by lighting, or suddenly killed by falling aircraft, depending on the whim of the god in the machine.

[Blue_Tires]

24. WWE, NBA

[Pithlet]

25. ER, Frasier, Trading Spaces

Friends, although I'll probably watch the last episode since I was a fan for so long.

[Love Bug]

29. I have some Trading Spaces gossip

My hairdresser knows one of the women who had her house done in Minneapolis last summer. She had Doug as the decorator, and "had" Doug in other ways, too, if you get my drift. ;-)

And in case you think she was making it up, apparently there were witnesses to some face-sucking. Now, I thought Doug "played for the other team," so this was a surprise to me. A surprise for my hairdresser, too, because he DOES "play for the other team" and was pretty dashed by the whole thing.

[Pithlet]

39. Ooh, interesting.

Have they aired that episode, yet?

[catzies]

28. Every single sitcom on every network ever. Save the Simpsons.

I used to watch new sitcoms until they jumped the shark. Now I assume every show is going to jump the shark sooner or later so now I don't even bother starting to watch them in the 1st place.

But the Simpsons is, are, were, used to be and always will be funny. New shows, old shows, favorite repeats, whatever. All of them.

[blondeatlast]

30. "Law and Order." I'm the first to mention it?

I was totally hooked; time stopped when it was on. Now I barely ever have the tube on, cause I'm too busy here! :eyes:

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32. Friends. I loved it the first two seasons then I just stopped watching it.

[musiclawyer]

35. The NBA

I know a bit off topic, but I used to watch basketball all the time. Grew up in LA with Jerry West, and Wilt, all the way through Magic and Bird. Then moved away. And once I started watching basketball again, there was Jordan (Boring!); and now you have a bunch of selfish teenagers with posses and hyperactive tv analysts. There are so many way more interesting, more compelling sports leagues than the NBA right now. Perhaps if they banned Americans....

[catzies]

38. Welcome to DU, musiclawyer!

:hi:

I'm with you. I was a mad hoops fan since 1988 for a team in the Western Conference which you as a Lakers fan would naturally despise.

Hint: one of its two superstars is now a Laker and the other superstar is retired. Said retired superstar is a god to me.

Perhaps if they banned teenagers who dunk... ;)

[Feanorcurufinwe]

36. Everything.

TV sucks.

[Endangered Specie]

37. I shall never stop watching Trek

[Terwilliger]

40. anything on Nick

;-)

I used to watch NYPD a lot but lost interest :shrug:

[TrogL]

41. Queer as Folk

First season was excellent, edgy, pushed the envelope of TV.

Last season was a complete yawn.

[terrya]

43. Amen on that.

I stopped watching after season 2.

I don't have the slightest idea what's going on with that show. Don't really care.

And Hal Sparks's character has to be one of the whiniest characters ever created.

The British version of "Queer as Folk" was about 1 trillion times better in terms of quality.

Terry

[KG]

45. TV it's ownself.

except for pro football, TV has outlived its usefulness. :)