Your least favorite old TV show.
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That Girl.
Family Affair.
Lawrence Welk.
The Brady Bunch.
Lassie.
The Odd Couple.
Green Acres.
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I also hated Lassie. Most people don't realize that Lassie really let herself go in later years. After the show ended, she cut off all ties to little Timmy, and moved into the forest, a bitter shell of her former self.
I may catch some flak for this, but i always thought the popular TV show "Friends" was unwatchable dreck.
Boring plots, poor acting, predictable humor, and that was the best part of the show.
I never could sit thru an entire show without excusing myself to do something "urgent" such as taking out the garbage. LOL
you won't catch any from me, because i totally concur. i never understood the popularity. but then again, i'm a huge Seinfeld guy and there are people out there who don't get its popularity either.
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friggin gunsmoke! how was that mess on for 20 years?
"Friends" was garbage. I would rather stare at the floor for 30 minutes, than watch an episode of that trash.
Rachel was ok , joey was ok , the rest were awful
There are too many. Even the ones you liked, don't go back and watch them because they were probably way worse than you remember
We had a blizzard last year and my family had pizza and watched METV. It was the old Wonder Woman - terrible acting, terrible sets, terrible writing. We had to change the channel.
Golden Girls by far
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lynda carter was wonder woman so we will have to assume your wife posted this or was looking over your shoulder
Never cared for Cheers
We were lucky, our old TV had a knob so that you could change the channel. If that failed it had an off switch.
Having said that, Green Acres was insipidly stupid.
No, the show was just plain horrible.
Maybe this answer belongs in the other thread, but oh well.
I was born in the mid 70s. So I was too young or missed some classics. But as a young kid, iirc, Nickelodeon ran A LOT of older shows. Maybe other channels did too. So, for instance, I probably saw every episode of Lassie, which is mentioned above as being disliked. I liked it. I loved Dennis the Menace. Saw every one. I can say the same for The Donna Reed Show, My Two Sons, Hazel, and a few others.
And The Brady Bunch. Loved it. Slightly before my time, but saw every episode. When I got to be college aged, I met a lot of other kids who liked to reminisce and laugh about these shows. But my heyday was definitely 80s sitcoms.
As previously discussed, my username comes from a line from Seinfeld.
Funny story, my mother and stepfather are snow birds. 4 months in Florida, escaping Massachusetts. They stay in a condo, and a lot of their fellow residents are their age or older. My Mom and I used to love watching Seinfeld together, and often when I'm talking to her I let her know how these little stories she tells me sound like snippets of Seinfeld plots, reminding me of Jerry talking to his Mom in Florida, because after all ......."this is the show".
Anyway, I was talking to her yesterday. She says, "I'm glad you called. I haven't heard from you."
(We talk and text all the time, but if three days goes by without a call she's concerned).
I say , "I called you yesterday and it just rang and went to voicemail."
She says, " oh yeah, I was helping 'Mildred' in 209. Real sweet lady. Lives here all year. She likes me to help her go out to the market, get some fruit, check her mail. She has a hard time lifting things. "
I guess Mildred is about 90. My mother will be 80 in a few months. She is very fit with no cognitive decline, thank you God.
So I say, " Remember we talked about you needing to carry your phone with you all the time?"
She says, "The weather's so nice, I don't even have a coat or pockets. Only my back pocket. I see all the girls with their phones in their back pocket. I can't do that. I don't have anything to keep it there. It's the Irish blood. You know when I go to quilting I have to bring a cushion to sit on. 🤔 But I'll make sure I bring it next time"
So I joke and say, " Maybe we can get you something for your arm, like people use when exercising. I don't want you carrying it around in your bra. That's not classy. "
And she says, " Remember about 10 years ago, when I had to get a new phone because mine fell in the toilet. That's how it happened. Never doing that again. "
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I liked Golden Girls.
True story. I was watching it with my grandmother. She loved it. I don't remember what year this was. Blanche says something about menopause. Now I was 10 when the show came out. Don't know the season, but I asked my grandmother " What's menopause?"
She turned to me, without hesitation, and said " That's when women take a pause between men." 🤣😂😂🤣 I don't remember that, but my Mom reminded me of the story. That same grand mother introduced me to coin collecting. 😥🥰
Well Bewitched wasn't all that good, but I tuned in to see what Samantha was doing each week.
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a one, and a two...
I can't stand any TV show that forces you to watch a fictional romance in bloom.
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oh yeah, friends was populated by douche-bags like no other show I can think of, pathetic whiners that gave NYC a bad name. if I had a circle of "Friends" like that I'd move.
You hated the X-Files? Blasphemy.
I liked Seinfeld back in the day, but can't tolerate most of the episodes on rerun these days. The humor just doesn't work now with the exception of a couple.
Well, I can tolerate a fictional romance when they sprinkle in a lot of weird creepy stuff.
As someone else said, don't go back and watch shows you liked in the past. I loved Kotter when I was a kid, then made the mistake of watching it on Nick at Nite or whatever a few years ago. My God, it was bad. Aggressively terrible.
Munsters are still good. Addams Family was always too dry, though Coogin was great.
Agree that Seinfeld did not hold up well. Sort of like a quality bottle of wine left open in the fridge for a couple of months.
Seinfeld is a classic, four actors working together as good as any other show since All In The Family.
I liked Friends and Seinfeld...….both different but very funny to me.
Liked Friends also, but didn't care for the Seinfeld humor. I'd watch from time to time, wanting to like it but just didn't think it was that funny.
Also liked Happy Days.
I didn't like a lot of junk from the 80's like ALF, Webster, To Close for Comfort, The Greatest American Hero, Benson, to name a few.
Friends, Golden Girls
Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!
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Lawrence Welk.
My parents always had to watch it, and I thought it was boring as hell. The only time I enjoyed any of it was when he did a concert version of a popular song. Some of those were pretty good until they stopped everything so that the old organ player, who was one of the few musicians in the band whom my father didn’t like, could chop out a few notes, and I mean “chop.” He was so corny, he had the corn tassels growing out of his ears.
Gail and Dale were pretty hip!
I think we need to give Ole Larry some props for having this beauty sing from time to time...when she came on, I was glued to the tube!!! The one and only Anacani:
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Had to look up who that was. In some pics, she and Giada De Laurentiis look quite similar.
I dare not inquire as to what kind of glue.
I bought one of the seasons, I don’t remember which one. Like any series, some episodes were better than others. It probably got bad at the end when the best writers had left, and the new ones ran out of ideas.
didn't care for the Seinfeld humor. I'd watch from time to time, wanting to like it but just didn't think it was that funny.
Other than Kramer, not much humor there, just people being irritated and irritating.
"Soup Nazi" was pretty funny.
That was one of the few episodes that was very funny. The other one I remember was the one where they were waiting in the Chinese restaurant waiting for their table to be called.
I love Lucy was probably ok a hundred years ago, but damn, they were on all the time in the 60's and 70's and got irritating as hell. Frawley was great though.
One thing I couldn't stand on Gunsmoke, was when Festus wore his hat, his ear would be pushed forward.
And again ....
And again...
Google Ken Curtis, interesting man.