The 13 Most Ridiculous TV Shows to Ever Get Green-Lit
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This fall, ABC will air a new show featuring the cavemen from those GEICO commercials. For those of you that haven't seen those ads, their premise is basically this: 1) There's these cavemen, see. 2) But they live in the present day. 3) Instead of being primitive and stupid, they're actually quite intelligent and erudite. 4) They get upset and prissy when people think they're primitive and stupid. If your first thought after reading that is: "That's the stupidest idea for a show I've heard all day," then you're 100 percent correct. (We'd also give full credit for "It can't be any worse than The King of Queens.") But if you read that and thought, "That's the stupidest idea for a show ever," you're actually wrong. There have been at least 13 shows stupider than that one-probably more if we were considering Mexican TV. We're not, so here for your amusement are the 13 stupidest non-Mexican TV shows. #13. Automan--ABC (1983-1984)
#12. Beauty and the Beast--CBS (1987-1990)
You'll probably remember Beauty and the Beast as that early '90s Disney cartoon about the dancing candlestick and the gay clock, and the adventures they had selling merchandise imprinted with images of themselves. But it turns out that wasn't the original Beauty and the Beast at all. The original was a 1987 live-action television show set in modern day New York. It featured a hideous man-beast in a relationship with a beautiful woman while they worked together solving crimes. Memorable story arcs include the time they got in the fight about who used up the last of the conditioner, and the time the Beast got upset after being left alone in the house all day and flung his feces all over the walls and ceiling. #11. Bosom Buddies--ABC (1980-1982)
Also known as "That show where Tom Hanks dressed up as a woman so he could stay in an ladies-only apartment building." Between this show and Three's Company, it becomes readily apparent that if you were unfortunate enough to be a landlord in the '70s and '80s, your life must have been one neverending maze of deceit and betrayal. #10. Cover Up--CBS (1984-1985)
Dani Reynolds is a fashion photographer whose life gets turned upside down when she finds out two things: 1) that her undercover CIA agent husband was killed on a secret mission, and 2) that her husband was an undercover CIA agent. The CIA-evidently being short-staffed that day-decide to offer her husband's old job to her. So she hires Mac Harper, a former green beret (now male model) to travel around the world and help her while they fight international crime. If you've noticed a common thread here of unusual teams fighting crime, congratulations. You have all the skills necessary to be a producer for a major television network, the most highly paid group of mouth-breathers imaginable. |
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I can actually see how these bad shows were green lit....but leaving Cop Rock and Manimal off of the list seems a little criminal.
I'm a bit late to the party but I had to say it's unbelievable that you missed out on mentioning "Small Wonder", a show that, as wikipedia puts it, "chronicles the family of a robotics engineer who, after he secretly creates a robot modeled after a real human girl, try to pass it off as their daughter."
By far the geatest "wtf" memory I have from 80's sitcoms
Actually the original Beauty and the Beast was a f*****g fairy tale, b***h.
actually the original beauty and the beast was a silent movie in the 20s that was very famous
i loved greatest american hero- in fact, i saw a costume this halloween that recalled that one to me. and misfits of science, i had decided years ago that i must have dreamt that one, because NO ONE remembered it. at the time, i thought 'maybe this will open up shows for comics i read, like the x-men' i liked that ice cream dude, but tat that time, i thought courtney cox was the hottest girl i'd ever seen (i was like 12) everyone credited 'dancing in the dark vid w the boss as her breakout, but i remembered misfits. now i am validated. oh, and cox is a loony b***h, now.
The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage?
or
100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd?
Y'know .. I might understand "Fall Guy" but why didn't "TJ Hooker" make the list?? I mean really .. Capt. Kirk as a cop??
My god... So many shows I used to love... Beauty and the Beast, Bosom Buddies, The Fall Guy, Out of This World, and of course, TGAH!!
That, and the fact that for some reason I want to see The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage, shows me that... I have no taste at all.
Oh yeah, before I forget.... Shasta McNasty, which was basically bathroom humor taken to levels so low, Barbados Slim of Futurama fame couldnt limbo under it.
Speaking of Futurama, a show that I love.... it aired on Fox, which is responsible for a whole slew of horrible sit-com attempts.
Life on a Stick
That 80's Show (Lasted 4 episodes)
Married By America
Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire
Happy Hour
My Bare Lady (Fox Reality)
As Marge Simpson once said.... "You know, Fox turned into a hard-core sex channel so gradually, I didnt even notice"
Also, I misspoke earlier about Nowhere Man. It was the 2nd most popular show on the fledgling UPN network, and was cancelled.... despite receiving better ratings than Voyager on some nights. It was replaced by Homeboys In Outer Space eventually/sadly in their schedule.
Oh Lord, There are SO many....
Lets see.... Homeboys in Outer Space, a show that perpetuated a WHOLE bunch of negative cultural stereotypes and was the choice of UPN to cancel "Nowhere Man"
Cop Rock.... Certainly different, I'll give them that. Still, a COP Musical ???? I was waiting for a soprano GSW to the groin solo.
Lush Life.... it was about two drunk women who lived in LA if I remember correctly. It was canceled 11 minutes into the first episode. Maybe they should've made it a "reality show" on MTV or VH1 with B-Grade celebrities instead of a scripted sit-com. :p
I guess thats enough for now....
Let's not forget about "It's About Time", the proto-caveman series. Two American astronauts end up in Hollywood "caveman times", where people and badly animated dinosaurs co-exist and everyone speaks Hollywood "Tarzan English". Hilarity ensues. At least in someone's mind it did. Once all the hilarity was burned up with that premise, the astronauts returned to the 1960's and brought the cavepersons with them. More hilarity ensu... never mind; it sucked.
I know this is an old article but I LOVED Beauty and the Beast! Ron Perlman looks SO MUCH BETTER as a lion! Maybe it's too much of a chick show for cracked....
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A little bit of trivia: Jon-Erik Hexum, who played Mac Harper on Cover Up (and also played Phineas Bogg on Voyagers!, which I can't believe didn't make this list, though to give it it's due, it did have a character named Phineas Bogg) later pulled a "Terry don't-worry-it's-not-loaded Kath" and accidentally shot himself to death.
The Greatest American Hero was actually a really good TV show. For the first two seasons.
in fact, i wrote beauty and the beast on a long weekend back when i was eight years old. i dont know where you got all that 'jean cocteau' stuff from
actually, beauty and the beast was a 17th century fairy tale, later adapted into a film by Jean Cocteau in 1946, then obviously used for that travesty of a TV show, before being made into a cartoon :D
tvs supposed to be unrrealistic thats why i like it you want real life watch the news(not me)
donnie thorsonMisfits of Science?! Holy crap...I thought I was the only one that saw that show. I was laid up in the hospital in a steel back brace when that was on. Courteney gave me wood back then (that, and the story of her and her sexual relationship with her first cousin while living in NY when she was modelling)...but I lost said wood just as quickly the day I heard she chose the least talented guy in Hollywood to marry and push around. Way to go Court...dumbass!
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I'm probably older than most of the posters, but the short-lived "My Mother the Car" takes the case for most ridiculous premise.
Wikipedia: "In 2002, TV Guide proclaimed it to be the second-worst [television show] of all time, just behind The Jerry Springer Show. In 2009 the O'Reilly Factor voted it the worst TV show of all time, with Jerry Springer second.