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Doctor Kird Ape · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject: Bad TV

Who wants to chat about good shows when there have been so many bad ones.

The first offering - Small Wonder

I don't know how many of you remember this treat. It was a wonderful family tv show, on ABC I believe. It was about a family that had a robot. A little girl robot. It made me want to remove my mind (and I was in the target demographic). In reality I think the ugly beat of nepotism somehow came through on this one. I think this must have been how the show was created:

Anonymous executive, "I want my daughter in a tv show."
Producer, "Yes sir!"
Executive leaves.
Director, "She acts like a machine for crying out loud!"
Producer, "That's it shes not just a precocious little girl, she's a ROBOTIC little girl. Summon the writers!"

All I have to hear is mention of that show and I want to shriek.

Who has some others?
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Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2066 Location: Chambersburg

Anyone watch John From Cincinnati? What was that all about? I love HBO as much as the next person, but this show pushed some boundaries of weirdness and boredom that I wasn't willing to cross. And I watched... and watched hoping, like most HBO series, it could only get better.

I'd much rather something weird and interesting, like the pre-maturely canceled Carnivale than shows about levitating surfers and insufferably annoying characters. If I wanted that, I could just watch Cavemen (which I assume is relevant to this rant in some way).

I don't want writers to think I'm badmouthing them though; please come back... please! I can't take another show of lie detectors, celebrity bickering and randomly pointing at suitcases to randomly win money.

Doctor Kird Ape · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject:

Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2066 Location: Chambersburg

Doctor Kird Ape · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject:

Torgo · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 6:34 pm Post subject:

I haven't had a cable subscription for about six years, for many of the reasons y'all are citing.

So I'm gonna stay outta this one, unless universally-loathed groaners like Mama's Family and that Simpsons rip-off with the family of dinosaurs also apply...
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.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2486 Location: Chambersburg

Torgo · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 6:58 pm Post subject:

Whoops!
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Doctor Kird Ape · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject:

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2486 Location: Chambersburg

Because morons thought an extra long GEICO commercial would be a good thing
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Doctor Kird Ape · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:59 pm Post subject:

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2486 Location: Chambersburg

Doctor Kird Ape · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject:

This may be one of the worst shows, and I have only caught glimpses of it from The Soup and Best Week Ever and that was enough to leave me running in fear.

The Hills.
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Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2066 Location: Chambersburg

Next they'll make a commercial about the Verizon guy or those slow Comcast turtles.

Doctor Kird Ape · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:21 pm Post subject:

I could come up with a wonderful show about the Verizon guy.

It could be an HBO series. Kind of like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest meets Who's the Boss.

Its the tale of a young man who works for Verizon. After a major account he tries to land falls through he goes on a bender. At 7 am he climbs a pole and bites a fiber optic line and nearly dies.

After his hospital stay, he moves to New England and works as a house keeper, but believes he is assisted by his Verizon posse.

Once his boss realizes he is communicating with the Verizon crew, she has him institutionalized. However his crew seems very real! So are they imaginary, or did they come to life?

The series will end when Comcast decides.
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The Anti-Life Equation= Loneliness + Alienation + Fear + Despair + Self-worth / Mockery / Condemnation / Misunderstanding x Guiltx Shame x Failure x Judgment; N=Y Where Y=Hope and N=Folly, Love = Lies, Life = Death, Self = Dark Side