The Worst Television Show

[Symarip]

Poll question: The Worst Television Show

... Like there even needs to be a poll.

[mcctatas]

1. I am one of the few women I know who always hated that show...

so good on ya!

[Symarip]

2. Your stock is rising

It really was horrible from the get-go. If I had friends like that, I'd slit my wrists.

[SacredCow]

20. I remember the cast saying they were glad to get rid of the monkey...

because it was a PITA to work with... But truly, I think they were worried about being upstaged.

I will say that Lisa Kudrow is comedy-capable, and has been in some great supporting roles ("The Opposite of Sex" with Christina Ricci comes to mind).

[QueenOfCalifornia]

45. Count me in

I tried to watch that dumb-assed show and I went mental...

When it was popular, I was writing TV comedy... I had to watch other shows... I never "got it." Never.

[Symarip]

46. It really is intolerable

The characters are shallow and predictable and the jokes aren't funny. It's telling how mindless Americans want their comedy to be.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

50. I believe

that if given the chance, most people actually like a well written show that uses actual humor - Seinfeld was funny. It managed to be funny for years and years and the ratings were always way up there... Here are some other picks of mine:

The Dick VanDyke show - Incredible.

The Andy Griffith Show. One of the all time best shows

The Daily Show - It speaks for me.

SCTV - O' Canada! What a great show this was.

Kids in the Hall - Another hit from our friends to the North.

Taxi - Had lots of great moments

No list is complete without "I Love Lucy"

Barney Miller

The Bob Newhart Show (Psychologist in Chicago.)

The Honeymooners

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

All in the Family - first several years - last 2 years sucked

I could have LOVED M*A*S*H - it was good for the first 2 or 3 seasons - then it became "The Alan Alda Show" Written by, produced by, starring, lit by, filmed by, edited by... It became mono-dimensional when Alda sucked the life out of it. :popcorn:

[IndianaJones]

3. that new Battlestar Galactica crap. nt.

[Deja Q]

37. Agreed. It's "Friends" in space, but actually funny

[redqueen]

4. I liked it so

PBTHBHTTHBHT

[Symarip]

5. Name something funny that happened on Friends.

That's right. You can't. Because it never happened.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. I guess all dramas suck then...

:eyes:

[Symarip]

8. Ah,

But Friends was marketed as a comedy. So. It should be pretty simple request. Think of something memorable and funny that happened on Friends.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. I thought Smelly Cat was a funny song

memorable...Rachel and Ross doing it in the Museum...dude...you know you would SOOOO remember that if it happened to you!

to be honest, I watched it as I watch a lot of other stuff on TV...to escape from the suck of my life.

like a lot of stuff in TV Wasteland it is not the greatest nor the worst. YMMV.

[Symarip]

14. Friends represents everything mediocre with Television

At the time, the viewers continually watched in fascination. In retrospect, people should be gushing over it and telling timeless one liners (The Jeffersons or Seinfeld come to mind) and bringing up plots that are funny just in description. Instead, it's remembered for the 'smelly cat'.

The show sucked. And it was on for far too long. Making it the worst show ever.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. ok

have it your way.

[Shell Beau]

39. Dude let it go!

[redqueen]

16. Remember when Ross wore the leather pants?

Or when he got his teeth whitened? :rofl:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. and I know I shouldn't ...but, I laugh everytime Joey says:

How YOU doin'....:D

[redqueen]

31. Heheh... same here.

At least a little chuckle!


Remember Ross & Monica's dance routine? :D

[Tuesday Afternoon]

34. No,,,but remember when Monica lost her job and was training

Chandler? and Brooke Sheilds was a nut case. Rachel's sisters (Reese Witherspoon and Christina Applegate were hysterical, too :D

[redqueen]

38. Yep...

I thought the episodes with Christina Applegate were great.

Remember Ross's dirty girlfriend?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

43. yeah, and Ursala and what about when Rachel talked Ross's

girlfriend into shaving her head. :D

[redqueen]

47. I don't remember the shaved head...

what about Ross's horrible tan? :)

[Symarip]

54. Is that the one where Rachel can't figure out if she's hot for Ross?

OMFG?!??!?!?! They should really get together.

[redqueen]

55. I was seriously caught up in that drama.

I actually hung up on a guy who called during the show where they finally did get together.

[redqueen]

9. My favorite thing was Phoebe's wacky running.

Or when Joey locked himself in that entertainment center thing.

:P

[Symarip]

10. A man locks himself in an entertainment center.

He can't get out.

This is fine humor worthy of years of show contract renewals?

[redqueen]

12. No he was really dumb in every episode.

I love the dumb characters.

:)

[Dr. Strange]

30. Backpacking in Europe.

Choke on it, Symaripper!

[Broken_Hero]

63. The Denise Richards one, were

Ross tried getting it on with his own cousin...the kicker was how Phoebe reacted at the end.

[rurallib]

7. and it will be around to haunt us for etenity in reruns

BUT Jennifer Anniston is hot.

[Orsino]

13. Not old enough to remember the Captain & Tenille's show?

Friends may have been utterly inane, but it can legally be sold as entertainment.

[Symarip]

15. How long was Captain and Tenille on

I mean, I'm sure it was horrible. But was it on for 6-7-8-10 years?

[Orsino]

19. That's an important point.

The truly horrible shows usually disappear rapidly, leaving a vaguely fecal taste in the mouth. The merely bland ones can go on and on and on....

But at what point does pointlessness become the point? Does the timeless nature of Friends open some sort of gaping hole in time itself? Does merely sucking time on an epic scale become the same thing as epically sucking? YMMV.

[Bertha Venation]

27. If you ever wonder why that show was even conceived, let me tell you:

It was the 70s. Enough said. :)

Of course, being an utterly obsessed groupie, I never missed it. I cut the listings out of the TV guide and kept them with all of my other C&T crap. (PS I was 12-13 years old)

[Orsino]

28. Honor demands that I admit to having watched it.

And I knew it was bad.

[redqueen]

21. Over an hour - only four votes so far.

Is it too early to say fail?

[Symarip]

25. Give it time

And, most people can agree that the show is awful. Just some don't find it the worst. Which is beyond me.

[ceile]

22. Everybody Loves Raymond

has Friends beat by a mile.

[Initech]

41. Ding ding ding ding ding ding!!!!

I absolutely HATE Ray Romano. To paraphrase a quote from Family Guy - "That show enforces a stereotype that Ray Romano is funny."

[racaulk]

23. I can't say that it's the worst TV show...

But it ranks pretty high on my "crappy TV programs" list.

[LanternWaste]

24. Nine seasons of the Love Boat

Nine seasons of the Love Boat (plus three TV movies) eclipses all in my own narrow opinion of what a bad TV can be...

But fifteen plus years of the Simpsons are fighting hard for that number one spot.

[unpossibles]

26. agreed, although Raymond, the World according to Jim, and some others I'd lump in there too

never cared for Sex & The City or Seinfeld either.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

29. There are worse

What about that lame sitcom with the incredibly homely kid with his pants pulled up to his armpits who talked through his nose? I never watched it, but received glancing blows periodically as I surfed the clicker. Ouch.

Or what about that Nanny crap? Same deal, only with a bad accent.

Friends was lame and increasingly annoying, but I'm sure I could come up with a much longer list of worsts to top it.

[LibDemAlways]

32. Hands down the worst show is a piece of shit that

is carried by MTV called Date My Mom. You have to see it to believe it. Three women humiliate themselves by going out with a moron they try to convince to take out their daughters sight unseen. At the end the young stud informs two of the women he does not want to date their daughters, whom he then meets for the first time - usually with some nasty, snarky commentary. He then informs the third woman he does want to date her daughter, who then emerges from a limo and skips down a beach parking lot with him.

It's all scripted, but none of the people can act worth shit. I can't believe it occupies space on the airwaves.

[Symarip]

33. It won't be on for 10 years

The suck maybe great but it won't wane on our collective consciousness over time like Friends.

[underpants]

35. Friends--with no laugh track

47 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLvB_ybcKt0

10 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIKWWxTqA9o

[Symarip]

40. Oh wow

The suck is unbearable. I lasted about two minutes of the ten minute segment.

[underpants]

42. The first one is much better done

You can look on Youtube there are several of them.

It just wasn't really funny.

[Symarip]

44. The show would have to be funny

In order for laughter to occur.

[DarkTirade]

61. I laughed twice.

Once at Chandler, he was the only funny character on the show.

And the second time was when I got distracted and remembered something funny.

[underpants]

36. Unhappily Ever After- a Married with Children ripoff

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112206/

"E" from "Entourage" played the brother
Basically the purpose of this show was for Nikki Cox to show off her spectacular body

Bobcat Goldthwait did the voice of the stuffed animal in the basement that the father went and talked to

the set is exactly the same as Married with Children

[jobycom]

48. You are blissfully ignorant of 99.9% of everything ever made for television

if you think Friends even came close to being bad by television standards. I envy you. I admire you. I want what you are drinking.

[Symarip]

49. There are worse shows

But they are on for shorter durations. Friends wasn't the biggest turd to go down the toilet, it just happens to be the longest.

[jobycom]

51. Hogwash. Hell, the last fifty years of Mash were absolute garbage.

Married with Children, The Simpsons, just about anything on FOX for that matter. Some had good years but slow, lingering deaths.

Friends was decent. Not many others were.

[kwassa]

58. "Friends" is fine art compared to most television

Not that it is saying much. I still don't find most of Seinfeld funny, and that was a good show by comparison with many now.

Television is on an endless march to the lowest common denominator, and then making the great effort to drive it lower.

I think "Flava of Love" on MTV is a serious contender for the worst. The reality show about Ozzy Osborne's family life. The one about rich girl's 16th birthday parties. And on and on.

[av8rdave]

52. You left out American Idol!

[Symarip]

53. Idol had Sanjaya

That was redeeming and truly funny. Unlike Friends.

[Danger Mouse]

56. Oh god yes. Everything about that show was toxic.

It was hideous.

[XemaSab]

57. I am proud to state that I have NEVER seen an episode of Friends

:D

[jeff30997]

60. I almost watched an entire episode.

Well not really one episode.What I mean is that if I accumulate all the times I fell on that show

over the years while zapping it should pretty much add up to an entire episode.:D

Challenge:Try to watch this 10 minute video with the recorded laughing taken off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIKWWxTqA9o

I lasted about 40 seconds.:scared:

[elshiva]

59. Friends is not funny.

:( Friends scares me actually. :scared:

[Auggie]

62. "Rosie Live." All. Time. Worst.

[Phredicles]

64. You left "Family Ties" off.

[sohndrsmith]

65. oh heck... thanks for making me laugh so hard my face hurts... I've never watched

Friends... and I may ensure that as a constant from now on.. the poll is priceless. Thanks for the laugh : ) too good.

[bigwillq]

66. Friends is not the worst.

Full House was worse.

[Tabasco_Dave]

67. One Day at a Time

I hated every character on that show, especially the apartment manager. I wanted to flush him down the toilet. :hurts:

[Robeson]

69. That one was pretty bad.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

68. as bad as Friends was, Full House is the worst thing ever produced by humanity

-unfunny comedian who thinks he's hilarious playing the wacky uncle? check.
-Annoying kids? check.
-Annoying catch phrases? check.
-Twins used for the purpose of getting 'awwwws' from the audience? check
- Bob Saget? check.
-John Stamos? check.
-Did my siblings watch it religiously when I was growing up? check.