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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: oldbike54 on October 19, 2015, 08:52:55 PM
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No cable here , but with all of the retro channels available for free , there are many shows I was never aware of . Good grief , some are so bad , obviously better to have missed them first time around , now watching them as background they provide comic relief . This Walker Texas Ranger thing was apparently purposely bad , even if Chuck is from Oklahoma , he ain't no Will Rogers or Ben Johnson :rolleyes: What is your choice for the worst TV show from the past , and why ? Bad overacting , bad underacting , bad writing , maybe just plain ridiculous ? Hmm , are some of these shows meant to be campy :huh:
Dusty
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Dukes of Hazard?
but that well is DEEP.
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I remembered one that was as bad as it gets, in my opinion. "Sugarfoot". Just looked it up and it was on from '57-'61. Star was a guy named Will Hutchins, and it was painful to watch an actor that bad.
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I think "Crossroads" must be a strong contender. It was an English soap opera.
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George Jefferson could always put me in a crappy mood in about 15 seconds. :afro:
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As cool as the idea of the show was, it's painful to watch in the 21st Century.
Then Came Bronson.
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The Mod Squad
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Petticoat Junction.
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Let's here some whys , details please :laugh:
Dusty
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Rats!
I didn't particularly like the Dukes but Daisy was to die for.
Then Came Bronson had a great hat.
Petty Coat Junction had Billie Joe, Bobby Joe and Betti Joe -- you've gotta like those joe's.
For me it was Green Acres. I just kept thinking of making Bacon out of the Pig.
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Hee-Haw.
/end thread/
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Benny Hill. BBC 1990's. Low brow humour, misogynist pantomimes capped with ineloquent socially repugnant skits.
He had no qualms about having actresses flash skin... which is why I watched. :) Twice.
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The current show "2 Broke Girls." If not for Kat Denning's spectacular rack, there wouldn't even be a show. Like, imagine a show as bad as What's Happening!, except the unfunny Shirley Hemphill was a white girl with, you know, a spectacular rack. Just awful.
Except, of course, for Kat Denning's spectacular rack. Damn.
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The current show "2 Broke Girls." If not for Kat Denning's spectacular rack, there wouldn't even be a show. Like, imagine a show as bad as What's Happening!, except the unfunny Shirley Hemphill was a white girl with, you know, a spectacular rack. Just awful.
Except, of course, for Kat Denning's spectacular rack. Damn.
Now the whole forum will be googling Kat Denning :grin:
Dusty
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I despise any show with canned laughter. Especially with a social engineering theme: Parents are idiots, white people are squares, teacher knows best. Meh.
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Shows that cut corners after a couple of seasons ... usally the point where the actors are reused in many episodes as "doppelgangers" or evil copies of themselves. Star trek, Gillian Island, Car54, even The Munsters did it! :shocked:
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Herman had a twin? Who knew? After a while I could tell which laugh track tape they were using in each episode.
The Gong show?
Lawrence Welk?
Hogans Heros?
Soaps like "General Hospital" (basically soaps were radio show scripts on the tv for houseworkers to listen to during the day)
So Many! :thumb:
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Dusty: You want Retro? You really want Retro??
Hawaii 5-0. The original, with Jack Lord, Kam Fong, James MacArthur, Zulu, gals with lacquered, bouffant hair-dos, guys with lamb chop sideburns and polyester jackets...I still watch them whenever I can. I must be sick..
Ralph
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Kojack
Anything from fox news programing
The Ghost and Mrs Muir
Kung Fu
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3's Company
and for absolute worst acting ever in any media or genre: DRAGNET
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F Troop!
(Turn right at the rock that looks like bear, then left at bear that looks like rock.)
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In the fabulous 80's never missed Magnum P.I.Hawaii, a Ferrari, babes on the beach, buddy with a helicopter... watched sn episode a couple of weeks ago on a Encore station. Same plot week after week and the acting was pretty bad.
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Benny Hill. BBC 1990's. Low brow humour, misogynist pantomimes capped with ineloquent socially repugnant skits.
He had no qualms about having actresses flash skin... which is why I watched. :) Twice.
I loved that show, I used to watch it with Pappa (my Italian grandfather) when I was like 5. I didn't know why I loved it, but I did. :boozing:
Now MY VOTE?
Good question, as Foto said the well is indeed deep.
The first thought that comes to mind, way worse than anything mentioned (with which I'm familiar) is The Jersey Shore.
(http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/tvbanners/7923974/p7923974_b_v7_ab.jpg)
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As bad as many of the shows from my youth were (examples: Gilligan's Island, Beverly Hillbillies, Dallas), nothing from the past can compare with some of the current reality shows, the worst of all being Keeping up with the Kardashians: what a bunch of worthless, self-absorbed, pampered characters. My wife watches the show, and when I hear the affected, metallic voice of any of the K girls from a distance, I usually head for the garage.
Other current bad ones: any of a number of Looking for Bigfoot shows. They always conduct their searches at night: "Did you hear that sound? It must be a Squatch".
Jon
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I tried to watch an episode of Two Broke Girls and couldn't.
But I'm going with the Greatest American Hero. It came out right when I was in college and I guess for my demographic it didn't work. Then you had to be reminded constantly that it didn't work when they constantly played "Believe it or Not" on pop radio.
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The epitome of unrealistic & bad TV westerns, "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp".
No explanation needed, "The Brady Family Variety Hour".
GliderJohn
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Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. would be tough to watch now, but I watched it quite a bit back then.
"Let's hear it for Henshaw!"
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I agree with Black Buell....I really find the reality shows to be gag-inducing. Of course, Ms. LD loves them.
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Petticoat Junction.
But the scenery was NICE!
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Good Times.
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As bad as many of the shows from my youth were (examples: Beverly Hillbillies ),
Jon
d00d. Beverly Hillbillies is some of the best comedy. EVER!
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d00d. Beverly Hillbillies is some of the best comedy. EVER!
Yeah, Max Baer should have won an Emmy for his dual portrayal of Jethro and his twin sister, Jethreen; what an acting achievement!
I actually did get a kick out of some of the episodes; the billiard room pot-passers come to mind.
Jon
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Emergency is hard to watch now. I remember more that I like than don't. Likes include:
Green Acres (watched it with my dad)
Beverly Hillbillies (especially the first couple of seasons. The cultural differences were more focused)
Carol Burnette Show
Dragnet
Rowan and Martin's Laugh In
Pat Paulson's Half a Comedy Hour
Gomer Pyle (dad WAS Sgt. Carter)
Andy Griffith Show
I Dream of Jeannie :food: :drool: :drool:
The Avengers
Tobit
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Emergency is hard to watch now. I remember more that I like than don't. Likes include:
Green Acres (watched it with my dad)
Beverly Hillbillies (especially the first couple of seasons. The cultural differences were more focused)
Carol Burnette Show
Dragnet
Rowan and Martin's Laugh In
Pat Paulson's Half a Comedy Hour
Gomer Pyle (dad WAS Sgt. Carter)
Andy Griffith Show
I Dream of Jeannie :food: :drool: :drool:
The Avengers
Tobit
Those are all still my favs too. Although not crazy 'bout Andy Griffith w/o Barney, Warren wasn't all that funny.
Barbara Eden was hotter than donut Greece!
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Those are all still my favs too. Although not crazy 'bout Andy Griffith w/o Barney, Warren wasn't all that funny.
Barbara Eden was hotter than donut Greece!
American TV had a fascination with witches and genies for a while .
I submit Bewitched as a REALLY bad show , although like Miss Eden , Liz Montgomery was , hmm , well , extremely attractive :bow:
Dusty
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Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. would be tough to watch now, but I watched it quite a bit back then.
d00d. Beverly Hillbillies is some of the best comedy. EVER!
Some of the old shows are funnier to me now than when I saw them in their first showings. We recently watched the whole Green Acres series, one episode per dinner. The plots are stupid, of course, but the background humor can be pretty funny. On Gomer Pyle, Frank Sutton did a great job as Sgt. Carter, portraying a guy on the verge of exploding at all times.
The least watchable shows for me are the ones that have painfully obvious plots, hip music that competes with the dialog, and very bad acting and directing. Or the "reality" that follow the "real" lives of "famous" people.
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I really liked Miami Vice when it was on but happened across a rerun and God it was bad.
I always likes Rockford Files and Magnum P.I.
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The first time I really watched TV was in the Air Farce . Most day rooms had a TV , and in the early 70s the AF was rife with stoners , (not me of course) . Pot probably made those shows seem much funnier than they really were , maybe that is the secret .
Dusty
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I'll give a second vote to "Dragnet". How can anyone be THAT boring?
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And let's not forget some of the old game shows. When I was a little kid my mother always watched "Queen for a Day" and the "Price is Right".
GliderJohn
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Two that were pretty bad "back in the day", but still fun to watch were "Quark" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(TV_series) (obvious draw here was the Barnstable twins) and "Sledge Hammer!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sledge_Hammer! (just so stupid it was funny).
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I actually enjoyed most of the stuff listed.
Haven't seen any of them in a while, though.
Any of the current crop of "reality" shows, well they just make me shudder. Wife watches, dunno why, but she does.
Now, for some really bad martial arts moves, it has to be Mrs. Peel. I love her to death, but she wasn't much of a martial artist.
Now with that being said, ( a small hijack here ), what is the correct answer to:
you're stuck on the desert island, is it Ginger or Mary Ann ?
....of course the correct answer is.......
.....Mrs. Peel.
You may now return to your regularly scheduled programming.
( oh yeah, outer limits had some bad acting, good story lines, but bad acting)
kjf
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"Sledge Hammer!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sledge_Hammer! (just so stupid it was funny).
Yes, but "Sledge Hammer!", like "Police Squad!", was supposed to be stupid.
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I really liked Miami Vice when it was on but happened across a rerun and God it was bad.
I still watch it when I catch a re-run.
Angry night time driving to a Genesis soundtrack! lol.
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The least watchable shows for me are the ones that have painfully obvious plots, hip music that competes with the dialog, and very bad acting and directing.
Which is most of the "serious" shows of the 1970s.
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Which is most of the "serious" shows of the 1970s.
I'm afraid it spans all the decades of TV, including the present one. :sad:
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The Partridge Family, it was just so phony, but a lot of shows from that era were too. It had to be one of the worst. :boozing:
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In the fabulous 80's never missed Magnum P.I.Hawaii, a Ferrari, babes on the beach, buddy with a helicopter... watched sn episode a couple of weeks ago on a Encore station. Same plot week after week and the acting was pretty bad.
Everytime I see BOATDETECTIVE s user name I picture him like Magnum PI big moustache, winking at camera etc.
On the subject of Boat Dectectives I never realised the real reason why you actually need so many Carrier Battle Groups,I was told one at sea, one getting ready, one refitting, per ocean but after watching NCIS realise it's one at sea, rest murdering each other.
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ok so I have to admit to watching modern, reality TV. I think it's corny and fake but I don't know I like it. It started for me with The Real Life I guess but I also watched some of all of them except Big Brother and the Bachelxxx. The first season is always the best and then goes down from there; first season of Ozzie was great!
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Just what the hell makes those Kardashians worthy of being on television anyway? I don't get it.
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Petticoat Junction. I know it's probably used for something else, but I can't shake the thought of the 3 hot babes bathing in the town's water supply...
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Upon finding this pic, I was reminded that the dog was in there also!
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Just what the hell makes those Kardashians worthy of being on television anyway? I don't get it.
Dunno , broadcast TV can't even show their best work :evil: Ask Galveston Dave how we feel about the sisters from California and their marriedintas :grin:
Famous for being famous
Wait , maybe we could do a reality show ,
Big John and his friends
Watch as these old guys sit around a campfire and poke relentless fun at each other :laugh:
Hey , better than 99% of what's on at the moment :rolleyes:
Dusty
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but I can't shake the thought of the 3 hot babes bathing in the town's water supply...
Pretty sure that tank was for the locomotive steam engine.
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Why didn't I think of that? Nevermind... Funny how my mind lost all ability for logical thought about that...
Had to dig deeper:
The train stop is nicknamed "petticoat junction" because the Bradley sisters often go skinny-dipping in the railway's water tower and leave their petticoats hanging over its side. The opening titles of the series show their petticoats hanging on the tower while they are swimming. The theme song has the double entendre "Lotsa curves, you bet, and even more when you get to the junction: Petticoat Junction," while shots show the train on a curving track, the petticoats, and the three naked sisters seen from shoulders up in the water tower.
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Those are all still my favs too. Although not crazy 'bout Andy Griffith w/o Barney, Warren wasn't all that funny.
Barbara Eden was hotter than donut Greece!
Yeah, where else can I hear a good looking female say "yes master' those many times.
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I'll give a second vote to "Dragnet". How can anyone be THAT boring?
Just the fax ma'm, just the fax.
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I saw the new installment of FARGO last night. It reminded me that for a perfect storm of clumsy acting, situations beyond suspension of disbelief, mad-libbed dialog and the most horrible accents ever recorded -- BURN NOTICE.
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Yeah, where else can I hear a good looking female say "yes master' those many times.
These days it's not difficult, what with the Internet and all. :laugh:
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Pretty sure that tank was for the locomotive steam engine.
Yep. It's the railroad's water tank...
Something like this:
(https://railtown1897.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/jamestown-water-tank-sept-1971-id19392.jpg)
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I saw the new installment of FARGO last night. It reminded me that for a perfect storm of clumsy acting, situations beyond suspension of disbelief, mad-libbed dialog and the most horrible accents ever recorded -- BURN NOTICE.
The first couple of seasons of Burn Notice weren't that bad but the more spy lessons they had to come up with the harder it got to take.
If you want to watch a bad show then try the Bastard Executioner. Kurt Sutter's Son's of Anarchy jumped the shark around Season 4 and he seems to have started BE about where SOA ended in Season 7.
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The first couple of seasons of Burn Notice weren't that bad but the more spy lessons they had to come up with the harder it got to take.
If you want to watch a bad show then try the Bastard Executioner. Kurt Sutter's Son's of Anarchy jumped the shark around Season 4 and he seems to have started BE about where SOA ended in Season 7.
Yeah, the 'lecture mode' narrative of BURN NOTICE was tedious. It was especially hard to take when the narrative was factually wrong about what it was discussing. The artificially forced directions of the plots were also painful to witness.
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Yep. It's the railroad's water tank...
Something like this:
(https://railtown1897.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/jamestown-water-tank-sept-1971-id19392.jpg)
Well....you ruined it for me.... :grin:
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Did anybody see Impastor? it was pretty good, short season however.
Best series lately was Breaking Bad.
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Best series lately was Breaking Bad.
Great series, like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
I love Walking Dead and the recent spin off. My wife hates it and usually walks into the room when some ghoul is chewing on someones face.
The best and most chilling dead characters were on last season's show of Game of Thrones. It was over the top.
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I'm confused! Isn't this thread about the worst TV shows ever? But there's been some great TV mentioned here! :grin:
I used to think Jeannie and Bewitched were great, but I remember it always drove me crazy that Tony and Darrin never took advantage of what they had! I mean, come on! What would you do if your wife/girlfriend had magic powers? Was all that "no magic!" some twisted seventies moral thing? :wink:
How about a poll on Barbara Eden vs. Elizabeth Montgomery :cool:
John
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I saw the new installment of FARGO last night. It reminded me that for a perfect storm of clumsy acting, situations beyond suspension of disbelief, mad-libbed dialog and the most horrible accents ever recorded -- BURN NOTICE.
I think this series is better than last season. Yeah, I am Fargo fan. Only three series that I am watching: The Good Wife, Manhattan, and Fargo. Yeah, I'll DVR Gold Rush.
I watch SNL, HBO stuff, Daily and Nightly Shows, Colbert, Rachel Maddow, Velocity/Discovery car and bike stuff when they are on but they aren't serialized.
Rotten shows are just about everything else.
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I got tired of those "Rebuild a friends car into a rad Customized show car without his knowledge and will we ever meet the Deadline whine whine sob" Shows where everbody talks to somebody invisible off camera........ zzzzz What drama??
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Tanks guys for repainting mah kar!
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Yep. It's the railroad's water tank...
Something like this:
(https://railtown1897.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/jamestown-water-tank-sept-1971-id19392.jpg)
As an anecdote, I once read somewhere that the origin of the word 'Jerk' comes from that guy in the picture tipping the water in the locomotives.
Taxi was a show I didn't get. Supposed to be a sitcom but it wasn't funny. The intro music was alright though
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Question: If your wife/girlfriend wanted you to watch 'Dancing with the Stars,' what would you do?
Rich A
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I found the Gong Show a real Hoot, but a mainly watched to see J.P. Morgan. Of course it could be what I was smoking at the time.
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Question: If your wife/girlfriend wanted you to watch 'Dancing with the Stars,' what would you do?
Rich A
Leave the room.
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No one has mentioned the Monkeys.
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What about Jerry Van Dyke in "My Mother The Car"?
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Yeah, the 'lecture mode' narrative of BURN NOTICE was tedious. It was especially hard to take when the narrative was factually wrong about what it was discussing. The artificially forced directions of the plots were also painful to witness.
Let's face it, the only reason anyone watches Burn Notice is to watch Gabrielle Anwar. If you turn down the volume, you can almost smell her through the screen.
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The evening news,
doesn't matter which network, or which country etc....
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Gomer Pyle, Gilligan's Island...mind numbingly stupid! I'm sure others will come to mind soon as well.
I did love Benny Hill...especially his linguistic abilities...he was very good with accents! Monty Python was stupendous, Fawlty Towers also quite good!
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I noticed that my neighbor's very young kids all talked in a strange way.
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Imprinting the next generation.
They sounded like these characters. Multi-lingual sighs and squeaks.
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The kids are all not right! Their bent! :shocked:
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Gomer Pyle, Gilligan's Island...mind numbingly stupid! I'm sure others will come to mind soon as well.
I did love Benny Hill...especially his linguistic abilities...he was very good with accents! Monty Python was stupendous, Fawlty Towers also quite good!
Kev M said as a 5 year old he loved watching Benny Hill. My guess is he enjoys peer to peer humor. I'd not say Benny lacked talent: but he was devoid of taste. IMO :)
Anything from Cleese and crew is light-years ahead in sophistication. Actually funny.
Try on Red Dwarf for thoughtful slapstick, Lexx for some Zev based hot scifi, or Prisoner if you need a sedative. 'BBC is ceasing broadcasts for this evening.'
Or we could wind up with a tape of the Banana Splits... the thought I know of that show makes me cringe.
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Now the whole forum will be googling Kat Denning :grin:
Dusty
:laugh: I just did! :laugh: (not having been enticed to watch the show.
I despise any show with canned laughter. Especially with a social engineering theme: Parents are idiots, white people are squares, teacher knows best. Meh.
I'll second that!
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Question: If your wife/girlfriend wanted you to watch 'Dancing with the Stars,' what would you do?
Rich A
I would grab the :popcorn:
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My ex loved DWTS, and every time it was on, i'd head out of the room... until the time I sat thru the opening sequence and actually saw who was dancing and what they are wearing...
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Kev M said as a 5 year old he loved watching Benny Hill. My guess is he enjoys peer to peer humor. I'd not say Benny lacked talent: but he was devoid of taste. IMO :)
Anything from Cleese and crew is light-years ahead in sophistication. Actually funny.
Try on Red Dwarf for thoughtful slapstick, Lexx for some Zev based hot scifi, or Prisoner if you need a sedative. 'BBC is ceasing broadcasts for this evening.'
Or we could wind up with a tape of the Banana Splits... the thought I know of that show makes me cringe.
Taste?
With regards to slapstick?
Missing the point????
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I would grab the :popcorn:
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My ex loved DWTS, and every time it was on, i'd head out of the room... until the time I sat thru the opening sequence and actually saw who was dancing and what they are wearing...
Awww hell, wouldn't it just be easier to Google porn together at that point and drop the false pretenses?
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the worst show ever is Hogan's Heroes BTW... WTF is going on there, how is that on television now or then or ever??? What's next, a sircom in the hold of a slave ship or in front of a sledge dragging stones to foot of the pyramids?? Oh I know, how about a fun-loving madcap group of buddies pulling pranks and discovering the true meaning of friendship during the Bataan Death March?
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Grady
Hogan's Heroes
Family Ties
Arnold Ziffel made Green Acres worth watching.
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Awww hell, wouldn't it must be easier to Google porn together at that point and drop the false pretenses?
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well I sure wouldn't sit through the Bachelor or Real Houswives of Atlanta, but at least the costuming (or lack thereof) on DWTS makes it tolerable.
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basically it all sux with a few exceptions. 3000 channel + Netflix and nothing's on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5scpDev1qps&list=RD5scpDev1qps#t=5
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There are many bad ones - but I will agree that two broke girls is beyond bad, and the Katdashians....a'm glad someone watches the show - but I can't imagine why.
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Jay mentioned three's Company , a real stinker :laugh:
Dusty
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Awww hell, wouldn't it just be easier to Google porn together at that point and drop the false pretenses?
I was thinking of how to phrase my post when I read yours, which covered it nicely. When I was a kid, there were a few shows that my parents watched, that I didn't hate too much. One was Petticoat Junction, one was The Love Boat (etc.) No Internet back then, just all the TV images I could store in my brain. Well, Dad did have a few Playboys in his magazine cabinet.
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I was thinking of how to phrase my post when I read yours, which covered it nicely. When I was a kid, there were a few shows that my parents watched, that I didn't hate too much. One was Petticoat Junction, one was The Love Boat (etc.) No Internet back then, just all the TV images I could store in my brain. Well, Dad did have a few Playboys in his magazine cabinet.
Yeah , and even PB is gonna turn into a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue :laugh:
Dusty
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Jay mentioned three's Company , a real stinker :laugh:
Dusty
Yea, but John Ritter was one funny dude, his part in Bad Santa and slingblade was hilarious!
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Pat Woodell of Petticoat Junction will be sorely missed and I'll look for her towel at a Sotheby's auction.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/arts/television/pat-woodell-petticoat-junction-actress-dies-at-71.html?_r=0
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The shows I watched in the 60s and early 70s were all great. I guess that means that I wasn't much of a critic then. Three's Company was the first show (I think late 70s) that I remember thinking that this wasn't watching TV for. I must have watched too much TV. Three's Company was terrible because it was just trying to be edgy (sexy?) in a lame way for me.
Now, don't have TV, don't watch TV except ordering through Netflix. But when at a hotel, a deep recess of my brain says TURN IT ON and I'm left mesmerized by the bright lights and loud sounds and weird goings on. (Can you believe TLC stands for The Learning Channel? I heard Elijah Daniel say that the letters now stand for Toddlers, Lunatics, and Cake.) In my distorted memory and perception, everything from the 60s was much better than anything you will randomly get turning on a TV now but when I think about it, the BEST TV now is the best TV ever by far if you include the HBO and AMC shows.
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Taxi and Hogan's Heros were both funny, they were satire not unlike MASH taking a bad situation and looking for the humor in it. HH in particular probably had a cathartic effect and represented maybe a point in history where we began to nice past the collective memory of hate. Kinda like a discussion I've recently had on when in popular culture were the Japanese accepted again in our society and how their products went from crap that we hated to quality of which we can't seem to buy enough.
Three's Company was another one I liked as a kid. Dumb, but amusing. Now here's a trippy note. John Ritter is currently the voice of Clifford The Big Red Dog on the PBS Children's Show of that name.
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Taxi and Hogan's Heros were both funny, they were satire not unlike MASH taking a bad situation and looking for the humor in it. HH in particular probably had a cathartic effect and represented maybe a point in history where we began to nice past the collective memory of hate. Kinda like a discussion I've recently had on when in popular culture were the Japanese accepted again in our society and how their products went from crap that we hated to quality of which we can't seem to buy enough.
Three's Company was another one I liked as a kid. Dumb, but amusing. Now here's a trippy note. John Ritter is currently the voice of Clifford The Big Red Dog on the PBS Children's Show of that name.
Isn't John Ritter dead?
Dean
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We don't have cable or dish ...my wife likes to watch the old shows on the low buck stations...I never cared much for TV but some of the old shows are interesting at a glance ....A few were quite "tense" with shadows , sweaty foreheads and disreputable characters..But most were simple themes with predictable humor and ended with proper moral lessons.....
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Isn't John Ritter dead?
Dean
Yeah, sorry, badly phrased. One of the things he did later in life was record the voice for the PBS Children's Show Clifford The Big Red Dog and that is CURRENTLY being shown daily on PBS Kids.
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We don't have cable or dish ...my wife likes to watch the old shows on the low buck stations...I never cared much for TV but some of the old shows are interesting at a glance ....A few were quite "tense" with shadows , sweaty foreheads and disreputable characters..But most were simple themes with predictable humor and ended with proper moral lessons.....
One thing that has changed dramatically from the 60's and 70's is the "simple themes with predictable humor".
There are more shows like BSG (the SyFy/NBC BattleStar Galactica remake) or Game of Thrones etc. that have far more complicated plots and themes, and raise more complicated moral questions.
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One thing that has changed dramatically from the 60's and 70's is the "simple themes with predictable humor".
There are more shows like BSG (the SyFy/NBC BattleStar Galactica remake) or Game of Thrones etc. that have far more complicated plots and themes, and raise more complicated moral questions.
Game of Thrones... I understand the sex and violence but need my wife to explain who is who and the complicated plots...In the evening our TV is Netflix or Amazon ...Gratuitous sex, violence and profanity...
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In a previous post I mentioned the old Wyatt Earp TV series being the worst of the westerns. Not because of western accuracy but because of the story lines, dark emotions and characters and the number of actors that later became famous I have always enjoyed "Gunsmoke".
GliderJohn
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Taxi and Hogan's Heros were both funny, they were satire not unlike MASH taking a bad situation and looking for the humor in it. HH in particular probably had a cathartic effect and represented maybe a point in history where we began to nice past the collective memory of hate. Kinda like a discussion I've recently had on when in popular culture were the Japanese accepted again in our society and how their products went from crap that we hated to quality of which we can't seem to buy enough.
Three's Company was another one I liked as a kid. Dumb, but amusing. Now here's a trippy note. John Ritter is currently the voice of Clifford The Big Red Dog on the PBS Children's Show of that name.
Some of the cast of Hogan's Heroes were holocaust survivors, I found it interesting they could still have a sense of humor about the Nazis.
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Some of the cast of Hogan's Heroes were holocaust survivors, I found it interesting they could still have a sense of humor about the Nazis.
I did not know that, but that's excellent trivia and puts a lot of the minutia we bitch about with our first world problems in perspective.
Maybe the fact that the Nazis portrayed in the show were made to look like bumbling idiots constantly helped.
Or maybe they had moved on (as much as one ever does).
Like the Auschwitz survivor (woman, twin, her and her sister were experimented on my Mengele) who recently testified at a guard's trial and asked the jury NOT to jail him (but to give him community service talking about the camp), and also reportedly hugged and forgave him.
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How can Baywatch be omitted from the lot???
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I did not know that, but that's excellent trivia and puts a lot of the minutia we bitch about with our first world problems in perspective.
Maybe the fact that the Nazis portrayed in the show were made to look like bumbling idiots constantly helped.
Or maybe they had moved on (as much as one ever does).
Like the Auschwitz survivor (woman, twin, her and her sister were experimented on my Mengele) who recently testified at a guard's trial and asked the jury NOT to jail him (but to give him community service talking about the camp), and also reportedly hugged and forgave him.
Frenchie was a survivor.
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My mother and her friends used to watch "The Golden Girls". The oldest one used to recite some non-clever wise crack and then look into the studio audience for a reaction. Maybe that show gets my vote.
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My mother and her friends used to watch "The Golden Girls". The oldest one used to recite some non-clever wise crack and then look into the studio audience for a reaction. Maybe that show gets my vote.
The oldest one, Estelle Getty, was actually the youngest cast member.
Beatrice Arthur, was a Marine in WW2.
I still like Betty White, not really pretentious, just good at acting that way....
The Wikipedia site for Hogans Heroes, the Jewish actors entry is interesting.....
...but hey it's all just T.V. ( is that even a word anymore?)
Still voting for Mrs. Peel. :bow:
kjf
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In a previous post I mentioned the old Wyatt Earp TV series being the worst of the westerns. Not because of western accuracy but because of the story lines, dark emotions and characters and the number of actors that later became famous I have always enjoyed "Gunsmoke".
GliderJohn
Worst Western TV show, for me, is "Laredo"
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I did not know that, but that's excellent trivia and puts a lot of the minutia we bitch about with our first world problems in perspective.
Maybe the fact that the Nazis portrayed in the show were made to look like bumbling idiots constantly helped.
Corporal Louis LeBeau (portrayed by Robert Clary)
Robert Clary is a French Jew who was in the Nazi concentration camps Ottmuth and Buchenwald and still has his serial number tattooed on his arm. Clary is the last surviving original Hogan's Heroes cast member.
Jewish actors
The actors who played the four major German roles—Werner Klemperer (Klink),[60] John Banner (Schultz), Leon Askin (Burkhalter), and Howard Caine (Hochstetter)—were Jewish. Furthermore, Klemperer, Banner, Askin, and Robert Clary (LeBeau) were Jews who had fled the Nazis during World War II. Clary says in the recorded commentary on the DVD version of episode "Art for Hogan's Sake" that he spent three years in a concentration camp, that his parents and other family members were killed there, and that he has an identity tattoo from the camp on his arm ("A-5714"). Likewise John Banner had been held in a (pre-war) concentration camp and his family was killed during the war. Leon Askin was also in a pre-war French internment camp and his parents were killed at Treblinka. Howard Caine (Hochstetter), who was also Jewish (his birth name was Cohen), was American, and Jewish actors Harold Gould and Harold J. Stone played German generals; Jon Cedar played a camp guard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogan%27s_Heroes
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Corporal Louis LeBeau (portrayed by Robert Clary)
Robert Clary is a French Jew who was in the Nazi concentration camps Ottmuth and Buchenwald and still has his serial number tattooed on his arm. Clary is the last surviving original Hogan's Heroes cast member.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogan%27s_Heroes
Hey Rocker, what state is Bugtussell in anyway?
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Hey Rocker, what state is Bugtussell in anyway?
I know several States want to claim The Beverly Hillbillies, but they were from Arkansas...
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I heard that now that Joe Biden isn't running for President, they want to make him "Uncle Joe" in a new version of petticoat Junction!
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I heard that now that Joe Biden isn't running for President, they want to make him "Uncle Joe" in a new version of petticoat Junction!
He's a movin' kinda slow, @ the junction........... ...
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I know several States want to claim The Beverly Hillbillies, but they were from Arkansas...
I don't know man, granny hails from Tennessee in some episodes. Sometimes they claim to go back home and go to silver dollar city, close to Arkansas but not quite. Nobody ever struck oil in either state that I know of.
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Hey Rocker, what state is Bugtussell in anyway?
I know several States want to claim The Beverly Hillbillies, but they were from Arkansas...
Bug Tussle is actually in Oklahoma . We certainly had an interesting discussion re the BH's at CV :shocked: :laugh:
Dusty
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Jewish actors
Jewish actors in Hollywood? Who woulda thought that? :grin:
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Hey Rocker, what state is Bugtussell in anyway?
it's Bug Tussle my friend.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bug+Tussle,+OK+74501/@35.0290972,-95.7110065,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x87b501af2965d62 5:0x34b06b9bd908c758
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I don't know man, granny hails from Tennessee in some episodes. Sometimes they claim to go back home and go to silver dollar city, close to Arkansas but not quite. Nobody ever struck oil in either state that I know of.
Yes. She's Jed's mother-in-law who came to Arkansas to live with Jed to help with the young-uns.
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it's Bug Tussle my friend.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bug+Tussle,+OK+74501/@35.0290972,-95.7110065,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x87b501af2965d62 5:0x34b06b9bd908c758
Well, I guess that settles it. Amazing the important things you can learn here on Wild guzzi!.
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They've got Bug Tussles in Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, and Kentucky...
But, the "Bug Tussle" of the show was in North Arkansas near Oxford and Timbo. Not far from Eureka Springs.
You know, down where the Ox fords the river? Oxford Arkansas.
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They've got Bug Tussles in Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, and Kentucky...
But, the "Bug Tussle" of the show was in North Arkansas near Oxford and Timbo. Not far from Eureka Springs.
You know, down where the Ox fords the river? Oxford Arkansas.
Well of course :laugh: The thing to remember , probably none of the folks involved in the show ever set foot out here in our part of the country , or the Hillbillies would have been from Eastern OK where there are hills AND oil :rolleyes:
Dusty
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Uh.......Dusty, you should work on your Beverly Hillbillies' trivia a bit. There were a few episodes filmed @ Silver Dollar City (Branson Mo.) Also starring talented actors like Shorty Kellums and Granny's arch nemesis Elverna Bradshaw.
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Uh.......Dusty, you should work on your Beverly Hillbillies' trivia a bit. There were a few episodes filmed @ Silver Dollar City (Branson Mo.) Also starring talented actors like Shorty Kellums and Granny's arch nemesis Elverna Bradshaw.
Well dangit , that important piece of cultural history slipped right past me :grin:
Dusty
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Well dangit , that important piece of cultural history slipped right past me :grin:
Dusty
Don't forget the ever talented Jasper "Jazzbo" Depew. Just couldn't keep his mind off the LOVELY Jethrine :laugh:
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag65/guzzistajohn/jazzbo_zpshawst896.jpg) (http://s1299.photobucket.com/user/guzzistajohn/media/jazzbo_zpshawst896.jpg.html)
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Well after all , who could :rolleyes:
Dusty
Pretty sure it was the yodeling that won him over :grin:
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Well of course :laugh: The thing to remember , probably none of the folks involved in the show ever set foot out here in our part of the country , or the Hillbillies would have been from Eastern OK where there are hills AND oil :rolleyes:
Dusty
Not true. The idea for the show came from Paul Henning not long after he took a float trip on The Buffalo River in Arkansas.
Paul was from Independence Missouri.
Eva "granny" Henderson's home near Jim Bluff, on the river, was said to have inspired him. I can see how it would. I stop by there pretty often, when riding the horses on Old River Trail.
(https://rocker59.smugmug.com/Animals/2012-June-2-Steel-Creek-Ride/i-kwdrtkk/0/M/DSCN3238-M.jpg)
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Winter must have come early in the Northern Hemisphere. I didn't expect to see threads like this, and the Genie vs. Samantha thread for another month or two.
There are still plenty of nice riding days out there (today is definitely one around here) -- get out there and ride! :bike-037:
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Not true. The idea for the show came from Paul Henning not long after he took a float trip on The Buffalo River in Arkansas.
Paul was from Independence Missouri.
Eva "granny" Henderson's home near Jim Bluff, on the river, was said to have inspired him. I can see how it would. I stop by there pretty often, when riding the horses on Old River Trail.
(https://rocker59.smugmug.com/Animals/2012-June-2-Steel-Creek-Ride/i-kwdrtkk/0/M/DSCN3238-M.jpg)
That's some Hillbilly trivia I was un aware of. I'm humbled by your vast knowledge Mr. Rocker :bow: :bow: I'll have to float in to that area next summer for some photos :thumb:
A little film of Jim's Bluff area. 'tis a privilege to live in the Ozarks!
https://vimeo.com/21535495
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Winter must have come early in the Northern Hemisphere. I didn't expect to see threads like this, and the Genie vs. Samantha thread for another month or two.
There are still plenty of nice riding days out there (today is definitely one around here) -- get out there and ride! :bike-037:
Winter seems to be a state of mind for some. :wink:
I'm playing hooky tomorrow and getting the Morini out for a nice long ride. :bike-037:
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Really has nothing to do with the season, just campfire conversation that's all. Just friends chatting :grin: I don't have any Guzzi problems to whine about, I have a 1980 & a 1983 model, they run perfectly :thumb:
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Walker Texas Ranger,
Not to bad at first, then Chuck started singing and letting his family produce...
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the worst show ever is Hogan's Heroes BTW... WTF is going on there, how is that on television now or then or ever??? What's next, a sircom in the hold of a slave ship or in front of a sledge dragging stones to foot of the pyramids?? Oh I know, how about a fun-loving madcap group of buddies pulling pranks and discovering the true meaning of friendship during the Bataan Death March?
It has to be said that "Hogan's Heroes" was aired from 1965, when WWII veterans were in their 40s. The audience laughing at the show were exactly those who fought that war. And infact many in the cast were veterans, and several, as already said, were Jews that fled from Germany in the '30s or that were even interned in a real extermination camp and had relatives that died there.
Both the actors and the audience had the right to do and enjoy that show, much more than us to criticize it cause it makes fun of a POW camp.
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It has to be said that "Hogan's Heroes" was aired from 1965, when WWII veterans were in their 40s. The audience laughing at the show were exactly those who fought that war. And infact many in the cast were veterans, and several, as already said, were Jews that fled from Germany in the '30s or that were even interned in a real extermination camp and had relatives that died there.
Both the actors and the audience had the right to do and enjoy that show, much more than us to criticize it cause it makes fun of a POW camp.
THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
According to Wikipedia, Hogan ran from 65 to 71, someone must have liked it! Frauline Hilda alone made it worth watching!
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That Brit guy later hosted the Family Fuel game show for over 50 years. :rolleyes:
I hated that show.
And I had to listen to this PBS British Soap play in the background for a few years.....
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/Penderic047/1419_zpsyson6nw1.jpg)
Bloody Hell.
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Can't believe nobody mentioned "One Day at a Time." It was truly bad, but then it did give us Valerie Bertinelli, so I guess it wasn't all bad.
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Shows that cut corners after a couple of seasons ... usally the point where the actors are reused in many episodes as "doppelgangers" or evil copies of themselves. Star trek, Gillian Island, Car54, even The Munsters did it! :shocked:
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/Penderic047/munsters-family_zpshudmnno0.jpg)
Herman had a twin? Who knew? After a while I could tell which laugh track tape they were using in each episode.
The Gong show?
Lawrence Welk?
Hogans Heros?
Soaps like "General Hospital" (basically soaps were radio show scripts on the tv for houseworkers to listen to during the day)
So Many! :thumb:
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I found those call in question and answer shows for physics (remember Jo-Jo, she knows!) unbelievable.
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/Penderic047/physic_zpspzyjmxzb.jpg)
And those silly "Maybe the answer to these ancient mysteries were......." In search of series narrated by Leonard Nimoy or Richard Basehart.
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/Penderic047/m2216496_zpsdakxitoi.jpg)
:rolleyes:
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I only saw one of these shows.
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Overhauling.
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I can't believe some of you guys spend any of your memory on crap like this. I delete 95% of badness in my life. :bike-037:
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According to Wikipedia, Hogan ran from 65 to 71, someone must have liked it! Frauline Hilda alone made it worth watching!
I've got a Hogan's Heroes story, I heard it first hand and you're getting it second hand.
When I went to work in 1980, there was a senior engineer there in his late 50's named Ed Luce. He had two hearing aids and a few scars, and he and I would talk sometimes over lunch.
He was an infantryman in Europe in 1944. He got the scars and lost his hearing in the Ardennes in winter 1944 when the Germans broke through the American lines in what became known as the Battle of the Bulge, when his rifle squad was cut off by the German advance, and an "88" shell landed right in amongst them.
When he woke up, most of his squad was dead, he was deaf and bleeding, and was surrounded by Germans, who captured him and eventually took him to a Luftstalag (I cannot remember which one). I didn't ask more than I had to, but he was willing to talk about it. He said that the German guards and officers were decent to them, and, although they were often cold and hungry, they were better off than most people in Northern Europe in the winter of 1944, which was the coldest anyone could remember. They at least got regular food rations and fuel rations to heat their squad bays, which was more than your average German civilian got.
ANYway, when I asked what the camp looked like he said "I won't have to describe it to you; if you watched 'Hogans Heroes', you know exactly what it looked like. They must have had a whole crew of POWs as technical advisers, because they got it all just right - the German headquarters, the prisoner barracks, the fences, the guard towers, the bunks, the stoves .... "
Of course, there was no Colonel Klink or Sergeant Schultz there, but it's interesting that they got the set right, anyway .....
Lannis
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Of course they could have referred to the actual blueprints and photos.
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Of course they could have referred to the actual blueprints and photos.
Could have! It was Ed's opinion that it was so well done that someone who had BTDT must have been involved; on the other hand, there are some mighty smart cookies in the "set" business in Hollywood ....
Lannis
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Could have! It was Ed's opinion that it was so well done that someone who had BTDT must have been involved; on the other hand, there are some mighty smart cookies in the "set" business in Hollywood ....
Lannis
I like the 'Ed' theory. He earned his support.
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Worst show ever has to be Jersey Shore, I felt offended everytime I seen it on a TV.