with the exception of Larry David

If it was on, I’d leave the room.

My preteen granddaughter is ga-ga over that show. I could never see what the big whoop was about.

... times a billion.

One of the most homogenized, least diverse tv shows of the "modern" era. Over ten seasons and 236 episodes, there were less than 30 Black actors who ever appeared, most of whom were un-named extras; only one ever had any significant recurring role and that not until the last two seasons...

Any program that caused the Radical Religious Zealot Donald Wildmon of Tupelo, Mississippi to go apoplectic had its good points.

So he would agree with you

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as the John Ritter character (Jack Tripper) pretending to be gay.

so I made it about 3 seasons

It was just a middle of the road eh okay type thing.

Can't stand whiny voices of some men on these shows.

Don't like any of the characters. And the situations are ridiculous.

It turned into a mockery of the '50s married sitcoms and Sheldon became a real jerk.

and married. it wasn't funny anymore.

after Sheldon and Leonard got girlfriends, thereby destroying the basic premise of the series, which is that geeky weirdos don't have girlfriends because they're geeky weirdos.

I have seen a few shows from season 9 though 12 and they just remind me why I gave up.

Seinfeld was another one I could never understand. Just seemed to be arrogant New Yorkers being arrogant.

Seinfeld was exactly about self unaware selfish people that was the show.

Dumb, pointless, not funny, dragged on forever.

wasn't Interested.

became just boring. The good writers probably went to new areas with their talents. Have not had a tv in the house in over 10 years. But loved the laughs I got from many of them when they were new. Or perhaps it was me who was new or at least newish.

And our current day MAGAts are probably the ones who loved his show.

It was awful from the beginning, and never the least bit entertaining or interesting.
For the life of me I could never figure out why it was rated so highly.

Went back and disagreed with them.

Friends …. Big Bang Theory ….. Modern Family …..

If you know any Italian families, or grew up in one, Everybody Loves Raymond is hysterical. Some episodes of Seinfeld are funnier than others. The Apprentice is a given, yuk. I could never stand his personality.

even as a kid - I mean around 7 - I couldn't stand a grown woman acting like a child and being treated like a child. My mom loved it, so with our one TV we all watched it. Usually I read in another room.

No real reason. Lucy did give us Star Trek though.

Little House too. It was up against Monday Night Football when I was a kid

how women lived back then. But it was not really funny.

Ball and Arnaz jointly owned the majority stake in Desilu from its inception until 1962, when Ball bought out Arnaz and ran the company by herself for several years. Ball had succeeded in making Desilu profitable again by 1968, when she sold her shares of Desilu to Gulf+Western for $17 million (valued at $164 million in 2025[3]).[4]

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When I did watch it because my grandmother liked it, I thought it was not funny. Thank you rurallib.

Yes - I totally agree. Even as a little girl, I found that disgusting.

I would add that she would have agreed with you on the acting and being treated like a child

Hard to believe it was the most-watched television series in the world, with an estimated weekly audience of over 1.1 billion viewers across 142 countries.

Three’s Company would be #1.

Can not stand that show, and never could understand why it wasn't cancelled after it's first episode. Also dislike many of the spinoffs that came from it (southpaw comes to mind). Ugh, yuk, bleh.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

And if you can't see the greatness of many of the Simpsons episodes from the first 5 to 10 years of the show, then I feel sorry for you. Truly some of the greatest TV ever.

Not a Simpsons spinoff.

They do some real damage to the Piggy administration. Kinda rough, though.

I had understood that it was a spin off or inspired by the Simpsons. Glad some people enjoyed the simpsons, but to me it is one off the worst shows ever.

I met him back when he was doing standup in San Francisco. Nice guy. I guess he has had a lot of success and bless his heart. That show was awful.

I surprised my mother with tickets because Andy W was her favorite singer.

It was quite some time before I realized the comic we saw in Indiana was the same one on the TV shows.

Yuk

I liked the movie much, much more.

"Now, fair's fair Henry. If I nail Hotlips and hit Hawkeye can I go home too?".

When Fonzie literally jumped the shark it became the Fonzie show.
Then, when Ron Howard left that was it.

found it funny.

and hilarious.

I thought that show would gag a maggot.

I got pissed off about a show because a 10 yr. old boy was wearing a tie at suppertime. Who the heck has a kid wearing a tie in the house. I was shorts and t shirt full time at home. I don't like shows about people that live in apartments in a city. Grew up rural with land around me. The scene that most ticked me off recently Was Homeland where the woman got mad at the husband for doing dishes in the sink in stead of the washer. I enjoy doing dishes in the sink and make quick work of it. it is kind of meditation time for me. We have been watching French subtitled crime shows on streaming, SO's pick. I hated Tandem and almost all the characters and the writing. Watching Cassandre now and i like the greek name reference to the main character and the scenery.

Thank you very much for sharing with us. Maninacan.

and then come up with the most ludicrous ways out of it. Bring the dead back to life. Time travel. And my personal favorite, “Let’s put a big steering wheel in the basement (islands have basements?) and use it to move the island.

... which will not mention since it would not be in the Spirit of DU Lounge.

Other than that, would have to say the dreadful, mindless 2010 reboot of Hawaii 5-0

The Americanized version is an insult.

I feel bad for his fans after he died so tragically young. But I think John Ritter himself was overrated. I keep hearing about "beloved comedic genius John Ritter", and wonder sometimes what they're talking about. I never found him the least bit funny. He wasn't an appealing actor in any sense, at least not to me.

watched shows where he was a guest with Lucy. She loved him. John was more slapstick like Lucy.

I thought all the of the cast members were uninteresting. Except for Audra Lindley. And her clothes!

We went on a Royal Caribbean cruise about year ago, and there was a large group of older gay men who take trips together. One night some of the men dressed for dinner as Mrs. Roper. That was a hoot!

They have Mrs Roper parties in some circles.

Mork and Mindy

But you know people will almost go to fisticuffs for shows and actors they like.
I am a fan of Britcoms they tend to be a little more meaty.

After the first season, it just kept getting weirder and weirder without resolving any of the previous weirdnesses. After six seasons, it turned out that everyone is already dead.

It reminds me of the film Inception where the story is all about weird dreams interacting. At the end, the resolution was literally, “And then I woke up.”

Lousy story telling.

1. After the show, my daughter and I would get on the phone and discuss every aspect of the show. It was great fun; we could not watch it together since I am in Texas and she is in Arizona

2. Many DUers will remember that there was a Lost Group here. It was a real hoot too. There were great nicknames for many of the characters (as we all know DUers are hilarious) and great theory posts about whatever strange thing had happened in the show. (some of which were incredibly inventive and off the wall hilarious. My favorite nickname: the Smoke Monster was known as Old Smokey.

Almost singlehandedly killed music videos on MTV and launched "reality tv" which is by far the stupidest genre of television to ever exist. It's as if Idiocracy was a 25 year long tv show rather than a full length movie.

Loved Seinfeld and Everyone Loves Raymond though. Every few weeks something happens that immediately reminds me of something on Seinfeld. I also have a livelong friend who looks just like Ray Romano.

A few others I couldn't stand however were Roseanne, Good Times & Maude.

for my husband, especially complex plots. He watched old sitcoms like Everybody Loves Raymond and old westerns like Gunsmoke. We’d see the same episodes over and over, but he didn’t remember. I never said anything as long as it made him happy. But the one show I thought was overrated was Two and a Half Men. Charlie Sheen makes me gag.

I couldn't stand it.