Awful Television Programs
 

What are some television shows that strike you as/having been awful? I ask this because I just recently saw the Sarah Silverman Program and....jeez, there isn't a word in anyone's vocabulary to describe how utterly terrible it is. I mean, I like stupid humor as much as anyone, but when that humor isn't...well, funny, to any degree, it doesn't work.

How about you folks? What shows don't you like, and why don't you like them?

I haven't seen tSSP so I can't really comment, however..

How is it that a completely unfunny hack like Carlos Mencia who steals jokes and his only original jokes are badly done attempts at racism(chapelle did it better) gets THIS many seasons when an actually funny show like Stella only got one?(was it one? Maybe 2, I forget)

Drives me nuts. :(

Small Wonder and What A Dummy come to mind...And that one where the cop's soul went into the family dog when he went down in the line of duty.

One show that I felt was a waste of time was the downright disgusting Mr. Meaty of the now desperate network known as Nickelodeon.

Nick made a horrible mistake to greenlit this show; the humors consisted of only gross-out and toilet humors, the puppets are not only horrendous, they are nothing like the ones on Seasame streets and finally, the plot for the show was anything but impressive.

Nick never was very good at making proper business decisions.

I miss the days of Pete and Pete, Salute Your Shorts and You Can't Do That On Television. :(

The incredibly unfunny Frank Caliendo (Fox's NFL pre-game) is getting his own show on TBS in November. Apart from that, any reality TV show will fit the category just fine.

Moonlight

What a freaking embarrassment to vampires everywhere. This show screws with the vampire rules just as much as the Blade movies did, only without the entertainment factor. The vampires are cheap, "Smallville" refugees who shoot blood up their veins like drugs and the acting is as dead as they are.

This is a crappy, cheaply made, and cheaply written wooden show that is nothing more then an "Angel" knock off and a crappy one at that. Which is an insult because I thought Angel was a magnificent show.

Yeah, Nick really made a flop with Mr. Meaty. Gross humor's only funny to some wxtent, Nick!
And another show on the gross subject, permit me to bring up...
My Gym Partner is a Monkey. As I said, many of the people that it was aimed at can only take gross humor to some extent, and both MGPIAM and Mr. Meaty push that extent far too much.

I have a hard time to believe that My Gym Partner's A Monkey made it with three seasons, let alone, be part of CN, of all network.:jk:

Anyway, I agree, Bloonan, both Mr. Meaty and Gym Partner went too far with their gross humor.

I know I'm risking my life by saying this, but I think the Highlander series was an awful show. The sword fights are just ridiculas what with all the sparks and silly choreography. Pair that with lame acting, writing, and the most oblivious bystanders ever (people walking around in public with swords hidden under their trench-coats and battling to the death on a very regular basis and never seen by passersby? Yeah right!), and you have one awful show.

There are four shows I just recall that I felt stands our as the worst on television right now:

Johnny Test-The show glorifies stereotypes of all kind, reusing unoriginal plots from other shows, and attempts to be a Dexter's Laboratory/ Fairly Odd Parents knock-off in the process.

Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island-This has to be one of the lamest show I have seen, with uninspiring characters, being a SpongeBob Squarepants rip-off, and mediocre animations in the process.

South Park-I have no interests in the show to begin with, and despite its popularity, the program has very crude animations, the plot of each episodes not reaching to the point and the characters, especially Cartman, just gets on my nerves.

Wayside-I don't want to offend anyone who enjoys the book that the show is based on, but I honestly don't like this show just for its weirdness around the characters and the plot itself.

firt of all whats this "shaolin showdown". i think the ninja cowboy thing has to be the stupidest thing iv eber seen in my life. *channel changer for sure

and this yu-gi-oh is just a wanna be pokemon

code lyoko-they try to make it look cool...but they have a long way to go

class of 3000- you got that show cus you're popular, didnt you~

my gym partners a monky: seem like im the olny one that likes it

as for lazlo, ben 10, naruto, robot boy i jus love

as for non CN-

Sarah Silverman...dont make me laugh (serously, cus you cant). cant see this show up for another 4 weeks

Here's my more organized "list" of awful shows:

Class of 3000 - Why does this show even exist when such better shows like Teen Titans or JL: Unlimited were canned and yanked off the air? The characters are bland, the humor is crappier then your local outhouse, and the music isn't even that good.

Anything on MTV - MTV doesn't even show music anymore outside of awards. They disgraced themselves with the same crap, reality, semi-celebrity related shows that you can't even remember when MTV used to be a top name channel before it was buried by all the garbage they air now.

Catdog - When this Nicktoon first came out I was really interested in seeing it because it was a very unique concept. Then after a while, I really hated it and continue to hate it. Nothing in the show was funny and all it ended up was continuously beating up the cat character and passing off cheap character bashing as some kind of humorous content to kids.

Sonic X - For the first animated Sonic show to come out of Japan since their anime OVA movie, they blew it with this show. The dialog is god awful, the villain is a mentally defected joke, and the characters are so one dimensional, its embarrassing to the characters people grew up with in video games and BETTER animated representations. How could the home country of Sonic make such a crappy show? It boggles my mind still to this day.

X-men Evolution - Say what you want to me, I didn't like this one bit. They butchered the X-men characters from the movies and the classic 90's toon. Blob turned into a hillbilly, Rogue is a gothic southern vampire, Wolverine looks nauseating in orange, and we get watered down versions of Jean Grey, Cyclops and Magneto. Not to mention worst of all: a pathetic lame new mutant in Spyke's character, and disgracing Gambit by making him a villain.

The ONLY thing that show did right (in my opinion) was how they handled Nightcrawler and Shadowcat.

Tremors the series - How could such a good movie series spawn a stupid show? Maybe it would have been better if there was MORE THEN ONE WORM! Come on people, how can Tremors exist with one worm? Even worse, they mixed it up with mutant toxic gas clouds, crappy conspiracy and criminal characters and plots, and bringing in those stupid miniature flying ones topped it all off.

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl - the old show really had the magic. They had classic characters and simple pleasures with Team Rocket and the original 151 Pokemon. Now this show has totally whizzed on the very good name Pokemon once held, the voice actors of old are long gone and now the show completely sinks lower with repetitive, brain dead plots and stupid characters/situations that have been beaten and cliche'd to absolute death.

Of course, Sonic fans don't care, the show was made in Japan, and to a lot of people, anime = automatic win. Kinda sad really...

Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z
Oh yeah... I'm going there. I remember the old PPG when it first came out, my brother and I thought it was AWESOME. I remember hearing that this Japanese redo was supposed to be an April Fool's joke that became real only due to popular demand. Unfortunately, this show does not even come REMOTELY close to capturing the spirit of the original. It's littered with so many anime stereotypes, and the fight sequences weren't as intense.

Out of Jimmy's Head
Yes, Re-animated was a supposed "hit" but that was only because people were curious. It should be obvious with how Master Control is going that nobody's really that into the show. Don't get me wrong, I see the potential in this show, but the only way they could recognize that potential would be to make this show 100% cartoon because most of what happens in this show, does not work well in a live action format.

Almost Every thing mentioned here. Plus Anything that airs on the Dizney Channel.

Really? Because I thought cancelling Invader ZIM, Rocko's Modern Life, Hey Arnold!, and Angry Beavers was genius. :(

I have to admit...when I was younger, I was just kind of bored by Pete and Pete. Nowadays, however, I really see what it was about and enjoy it. I also loved Salute your Shorts, and I'm surprised anyone remembers You Can't Do That On Television before it was replaced with All That. I also miss Hey Dude!

That's the thing...it's already on its second season. :wiltshock:

Reality bites
 

There have been so many horrid shows over the years, it's hard to make a short list. One that immediately comes to mind is American Idol. As far as I'm concerned this program is one of the most overhyped, overblown, and overrated shows ever to hit the airwaves. I tried watching it when it first aired but I just couldn't stand anything about it. Then there's The Bachelorette, which pretty much proved that all the polls saying that looks aren't important are lying. What a hurtful joke that show was. And let's not forget Who Wants To Marry A Multimillionaire?, which I can only describe as either a slave auction or a meat market, oh my stars it was awful. Thankfully it aired only once. Too bad the same can't be said for The Simple Life. The first season wasn't too bad, if one enjoys watching brain-dead debutantes adjusting to life on a farm where people do actual work, but it was all downhill from there. Same story for The Real Gilligan's Island; started out sort of interesting, ended up sucking. Finally, there's Survivor. They can call it, and all of the above, a "reality" show all they want, it has about as much to do with reality as Foster's and far, far less entertainment value. You want to impress me with survival skills? Give each contestant a bagged lunch, twenty bucks, and a flashlight, then drop them in the middle of Baghdad. First one to find an army base wins.

You hit the nail on the head with American Idol, Cass. I really think people only watch that show for Simon, but that's a horrible reason if there ever was one. I'd hate to have to be in the same room as that guy.
And Survivor is a show I watch since it's my dad's favorite show. It gives us something to talk about. I agree that it's not the most compelling program in the world. It's far from it. It really just boils down to a bunch of know-it-all's arguing and rolling in mud.
Food has never been a factor on that show either. every other day they get to stuff themselves on a huge pile of goodies that the host makes them fight over. One of the contestants this season is so thin that she actually looks like she's anorexic. She likely only got on the show so they could make it look like the contestants are going hungry.8D

YES, YES, YES. This is EXACTLY how I feel about today's Pokemon. Whatever happened to the FIRST pokemon, like say...Vulpix, Paras, Mankey, Kadabra, Diglett, Ponyta, Charmander, and most of all....EEVEE, and the episodes where the TERM pokemon was pronounced "Poke-a-mon"? All there is are new random characters popping up, who are never seen again, MISTY is always the one who's replaced by some ditz character, (She was once even replaced by TWO characters at once)Team Rocket always loses (Man, can't they get away with ANYTHING, for at least ONE time, and THEN lose in the next episode?) and etc etc etc. I miss Misty and her fear of bugs. D=

how about "big brother"?

i cant wait to get home so i can watch a bunch of people stuck in a house!

way to popular for what it is. all of the reality shows suck to me. fear factor and shows like dog eat dog arnt so bad. i did get into degrassi and hanna montana at on time.(shoot me) and then she got pregnant and degressi went a bit too far for me.

i have to ask, has any one seen any of that new cartoon called chadder? its supposed to be on CN soon. it looks stupid but it was really funny from what i watched.i think its on the CN site if you want to see it. it made me laugh (but thats not hard)

^ Yeah, the guy who made it wrote for Spongebob & Billy & Mandy. He's also the voice of Fred Fredburger.
Ditto.

Ditto-er.

I have no problem with your first part, but I however strongly disagree on the second part. 90% of Disney channel is total ass garbage however Kim Possible is no such thing. Kim Possible was the single greatest modern Disney toon Disney channel ever created and that show truly was a diamond in the rough.

Every other Disney channel can choke on its own crappyness but Kim Possible is the best thing (in my opinion) to ever come out of that channel.

I truly gave up when Misty left. At first, she pissed me off to high Hell, she was constantly ripping on Ash and she was snotty, crabby brat in the beginning. However she evolved into my very first toon crush (one of them anyway) and I found her character to be the most emotionally developed.

None of the characters evolved (pardon the Poke-pun) as deeply as she did and even with all the stupid, repeated plot gags, I had some comfort knowing she and Ash were keeping the show fresh. I also don't care what ANYONE says, those 2 SO LOVE EACH OTHER! Its written all over the internet.

Of all the rumors, hints, and winking I've seen in a TV show, I have NEVER seen a larger supported romance then Ash and Misty. Pokemon's earlier days were amazing. The Magnemite and the Muk, the Pokemon tournaments, seeing Ash battle Sabrina the psycho psychic with the ghost Pokemon and etc.

Even when they came out with the music CDs and the movies, all of their original content was incredible. Pokemon 2000 totally kicks ass in my book :berry:. But sadly Pokemon Pearl has become the outhouse of Pokemon's glory days, recycling the same old crap with little difference other then new Pokemon and some lame new characters.

I tried REALLY hard to stay with this show to the end, but I just couldn't take the crap spiral any longer.

Seconded. I despise Big Brother, and I despise it all the more for its tainting of such a great and influencial Orwellian icon with its use of that name. How rapidly must the author of "Nighteen Eighty Four" be spinning in his grave right now.

I can't say I had a great deal of interest in the show to begin with...I never really bought any of those early pretenses that it had merit has a viable sociological experiment, and what really bugs me about Big Brother is not merely its obstinate refusal to die - it keeps resurfacing, year after year, in the UK at least, eager to buff itself up as the "hip" and "edgy" reality show that no sensible young person should be able to resist - but also its inflated sense of self-importance. The way it insists on imposing itself upon the rest of the media throughout its annual duration rather implies that it seriously believes that the entire world revolves around whatever mundane and eye roll-inducing exploits go on inside that house for ten weeks. No matter how ardent your determination to avoid all forms of contact with it within that time, you can guarantee they'll find some way of shoving it down your throat with each passing year. It makes me want to groan - and worse - whenever I switch on my radio in the summer to hear them discussing the implications of the latest Big Brother "controversy"... invariably nothing more than overblown sensationalism designed to generate further publicity, and thus vitality, for the show.

In conclusion, I'm pretty sure that horse is dead, Channel 4. So quit flogging it. :P

The rate reality TV is going, I suspect we're only a few degrees away from such a show right now. At least the one about the kidney donor turned out to be a hoax.

Most awful show ever in my opinion: The Girls Next Door. There is no measure of my hate for that show. It's pretty much just an excuse to get Playboy bunnies on TV without having to pay for the Playboy channel. This show has absolutely no meaning... I mean, even Big Brother has conflicts and stuff, but The Girls Next Door is pretty much just a camera inside the Playboy mansion. Boring as hell.

Unfortunately, it's gone several seasons because don't ya know, sex sells. Gross!

There's no sex in that show.
Naruto's the worst show ever.....Beleive it!

I agree with you there. There are PLENTY of better animes' that don't focus on "Becoming the best ninja/Pokemon Trainer/Fighting dude in the WORLDS!" Plus, my sister likes it. :P

I do enjoy some of the characters in the show(shikimaru <3) but Naruto really is just another GOTTA GET STRONGA anime.

i love that show so much. what dont you like about it?

The Life & Times of Juniper Lee-If there's anything I don't like about this show, it is too campy, some inaccuracies with the monsters and few little developments of both the characters and the theme.

I like a lot of the CN network cartoons, I particularly liked Juniper Lee I thought it was a great show.

However, I find Sunday Night on Adult Swim the worst show linup. It is the only night I do not even channel surf past CN.


Monty :-[

Drawn Together

Say what you want about Sarah Silverman, but at least she can bring out a laugh. This show here is just terrible. Being beaten over the head over and over again with terrible pop references, dismal jokes, annoying voice acting and a generic animation style that doesn't even make it fun to watch. I'd rather watch a 8 hour marathon of Carlos Mencia and MADtv than this for its 22 minute runtime.

Some say it's the most offensive show they've ever seen. Which is all well and good if the show actually attempted to be funny. I mean it's on Comedy Central, but its tries for laughs are about as ineffective as Stephen Hawking attempting to walk.

This stays on three seasons while Stella is taken off the air? There is no justice in television.

I disagree with virtually everything you just said, considering I never had a problem with Mencia or MAD TV. And certainly not Drawn Together because I love that show no matter how offensive it is.

I find it to be the most offensive I have ever seen and that is exactly why I watch it. It's a hell of a lot funnier then Metalacolypse which despite a few funny moments, relies on exploding jaws has so many times to be funny..but doesn't.

I wouldn't say its an awful show but the humor is so few and scarcely placed.

I have no problem with offensive humor. But it has to be funny. Something that I don't even believe the show is capable of. It seems to be one of those shock humor shows. And not a good one at that.

To monitech, it's good to know that someone else misses Juniper Lee. The show was pulled off the air just as it was really hitting its stride.

Some people find that "freakshow" comedy central made funny, I sure as hell didn't. Humor is relative to the viewer, which is one of the reasons its hard to rank anything on this thread considering humor is quite a hard thing to judge.

Some people don't find Monty Python to be funny at all and I think there some of the most brilliant comedians ever. Another show i really didn't care for: Lilo and Stitch the series. I tried to enjoy this show, I REALLY did try to like it.

But it was just too mentally degrading. The morality lessons suffocate the show, the escaped alien experiments have pretty stupid, unoriginal nicknames, and the villains are a whiny hamster alien and the actually dangerous bad guy is reduced with such brilliant insults as "dumb, dumb head".

Not to mention the only time things really got interesting in the show was when they crossover Lilo with Kim Possible, Proud Family, and American Dragon and any show that needs THAT many crossovers can't be doing well ratings wise. I only watched the KP one because I'm a die hard KP fan for life.

Deal or No Deal? The New Zealand version.

I've seen it once and just hated it, trying to take a real good Australian gameshow and turn it around, making it real bad.
I mean, they show the banker for starters, a whole pushing the button thing, and a real bad host.

The Australian version is way better, especially with Andrew hosting it (Can't remember his last name)

I would really watch that. :D

*cough*(And if there's a voting option for it I would vote for people I hate to be blown to bits.)*cough*

When I was in elementary school, Dragon Ball Z, or any of that crappy toonami stuff would make me want to run outside and punch a bunch of babies. From what I could tell, Dragon Ball Z was about constipated men with big hair. :0 And when you put anime on mute, it looks like they are eating. just like one mouth movement for every word.

AAAAND despite what everyone else thinks, I think My Gym Partner is a Monkey is a clever show. :]

I find newer episodes of Kids Next Door to be pretty crummy. The only season I can stand is Season 1.

Other than that...no.

8D That should be engraved on a plaque. 8D

"Fear Factor"-no contest. That is THE stupidest and most-revolting show I've ever seen. There's a HUGE difference, folks, in being AFRAID of something and being DISGUSTED by it! I'm disgusted by the notion of eating fried hog brains with ketchup, something that my grandfather considered a breakfast delicacy, but I'm not SCARED of 'em! I'm not going to run screaming my head off, or puke, for that matter, if I see a plate of that particular Southern dish(you can buy canned hog brains in many supermarkets here, by the way). I'm SCARED witless of tornadoes, on the other hand, having experienced those first-hand. That doesn't make them gross or disgusting, though-far from it: I'll sit and watch an all-day "Storm Chasers" marathon on the National Geographic Channel without flinching!

What I REALLY despise, with every fiber of my existance, about "Fear Factor", though, is the way they treat live animals on that show. They try to make the tarantulas and Emperor scorpions that are victimized by their stupidity out to be these deadly, vicious killing machines, all so the people doing horrible things to them will seem all the more brave. The last episode I watched, and the one that really did it for me, involved contestants having to sort a vat of Corn Snakes by color(Corn Snakes come in hundreds of colors and patterns, the result of domestic, selective breeding by humans to produce PETS)in the shortest amount of time. The people were picking up these gentle snakes, flinging them around, and slamming them into walls and stuff, resulting in several snakes winding up with badly broken jaws, broken backs, hemorraging from their mouths and noses from internal injuries, etc. Snakes actually have MORE pain receptors than most mammals, yet I have to wonder what would have been the outcry if those had been kittens or puppies, instead of snakes. We had one guy on Arachnoboards who claimed to know the people who supplied the animals to that show, but he refused to divulge who it was, since he knew that there were a LOT of very angry folks who'd love to get ahold of that person or persons.

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