Television Turkeys - The Worst TV Shows of All Time

[BAYLOR]

To be fair none of us were / are the target age for either show. I have never seen PeeWee's Playhouse so can't comment, but I know my kids were entranced by the Teletubbies when they were wee.

I would nominate Starhyke a totally unfunny, puerile, British adult 'comedy' show which managed to rope in actors from Star Wars, Babylon 5, and Stargate SG1 to bolster its SF credentials - and having blown its budget on hiring them shot the remainder of the show in the alley behind the village hall they used as a studio space.
Here's the official trailer. This is them selling it, making it look as good as possible. And, to be fair, having watched the whole series they almost got some of the good bit in.

It looks like crap.

 

[BAYLOR]

Charmed. Just a really lame attempt to be another Buffy, with everything that's stupid about Buffy but none of the funny characters that made Buffy watchable.

It actual stated out good and went steadily downhill .

 

[Vladd67]

Charmed. Just a really lame attempt to be another Buffy, with everything that's stupid about Buffy but none of the funny characters that made Buffy watchable.

To me Charmed seemed to be the daily struggle of three sisters with only one bra between them.

 

[JunkMonkey]

It looks like crap.

It was. I'm having a very strange urge to watch it again. I still have the discs...

 

[BAYLOR]

It was. I'm having a very strange urge to watch it again. I still have the discs...

Claudia Christian's career really tapered off after Babylon 5.

 

[BAYLOR]

To me Charmed seemed to be the daily struggle of three sisters with only one bra between them.

The biggest problem is even when they came up with good story ideas , they would inevitably screw things up.

 

[BAYLOR]

I cannot look at episode of the Brady Bunch , and worse , Filmation did an animated version of this wretched tv show.

 

[JunkMonkey]

gv

I cannot look at episode of the Brady Bunch , and worse , Filmation did an animated version of this wretched tv show.

I have never seen an episode but the first movie is one of my favorite guilty pleasure, feelgood treasures. If nothing else for that moment of ultimate mansplaining where Gary Cole, as Mike, the dad, after hearing some trite aphorism from another family member, says, "I couldn't put it better myself... but I'll try... "

 

[BAYLOR]

gv

I have never seen an episode but the first movie is one of my favorite guilty pleasure, feelgood treasures. If nothing else for that moment of ultimate mansplaining where Gary Cole, as Mike, the dad, after hearing some trite aphorism from another family member, says, "I couldn't put it better myself... but I'll try... "

The man produced the Brady Bunch was Sherwood Schwartz who gave us Gilliagan's Island and Its about Time.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer I would classify this one under the head " what the hell were they thinking ?"

 

[Swank]

The local classic TV station has been showing Designing Women repeats. Poorly written jokes poorly delivered.

 

[CupofJoe]

Big Top - it ran for 6 episodes. I remember it being a completely unfunny show about a Circus.

 

[Toby Frost]

Top Gear. Of course, it's not a turkey in the sense of being unsuccessful - millions of people somehow enjoyed this pap. Old Top Gear is like watching three slightly resentful dads being forced to perform a comedy act at very short notice, whilst trying to burn the BBC's entire budget with stupid pranks. I have a particular hatred for Jeremy Clarkson's delivery, which reminds you of the deep unfunniness of his schtick by frequently pausing as if for a punchline.

"Cyclists, eh?"
"Oh yes, haha, cyclists!"
"Germans, eh?"
"Oh yes, haha, Germans!"
"Now I'm going to drive a Bugatti Royale full of stew over the Mona Lisa....





...because I can."

 

[CupofJoe]

Top Gear. Of course, it's not a turkey in the sense of being unsuccessful - millions of people somehow enjoyed this pap. Old Top Gear is like watching three slightly resentful dads being forced to perform a comedy act at very short notice, whilst trying to burn the BBC's entire budget with stupid pranks. I have a particular hatred for Jeremy Clarkson's delivery, which reminds you of the deep unfunniness of his schtick by frequently pausing as if for a punchline.

"Cyclists, eh?"
"Oh yes, haha, cyclists!"
"Germans, eh?"
"Oh yes, haha, Germans!"
"Now I'm going to drive a Bugatti Royale full of stew over the Mona Lisa....





...because I can."

I especially "liked" it when they did an American road trip [Miami to New Orleans?]. Somewhere in the deep south, they wrote [very near if not actually] homophobic things on each others cars and then had to run out of town before they got shot at...

 

[Toby Frost]

Good to see the licence fee being used for something useful!

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Top Gear... I have a particular hatred for Jeremy Clarkson's delivery, which reminds you of the deep unfunniness of his schtick by frequently pausing as if for a punchline.

You are not alone...

 

[Swank]

It seems like the key to hating Top Gear is to like it enough to watch a considerable amount of Top Gear.

 

[JunkMonkey]

It seems like the key to hating Top Gear is to like it enough to watch a considerable amount of Top Gear.

I loath the show and I think I've seen about about 45 seconds of one. As a wise man once said, "You don't have to eat a whole sh*t sandwich to know you won't like it."

 

[Toby Frost]

Yep, same here! That is indeed wise!

 

[paeng]

Definitely Star Trek: Picard and Discovery (mentioned earlier), but also Lovecraft Country, Ring of Power, recent seasons of SNL, older shows like AfterMASH, Galactica 1980, and Manimal.