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In honor of the cancelation of Rosanne, it’s time to look at the train wrecks of television. Recent twitter news has sparked up Rosanne’s leading character has made some racial comments on her account. This has led to the shows cancelations despite its success. TV shows are everyone’s favorite pass time. Sitting on the couch catching up on the latest episode of their beloved sitcom or thrilling crime show. However, with all the success of television, there have been some shows that haven’t been so lucky. Most of these shows many haven’t even heard of because of their little time on the screen while also being a lost cause that no one will remember. And frankly, for many of these shows, it’s probably a good thing we forget. Here are our choices for the worst TV shows that ever hit our screens.
The Brady Bunch Hour (1976)
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When something is successful, especially a TV show, a network will do anything to create more hype for that one show. Enter the spinoff shows like The Brady Bunch Hour. The original show ending with good reviews, the network decided to create a reunion show and planned to have thirteen episodes. However, the show was such a bust that they only aired 9 of the thirteen. It was bad enough that most of the cast had no real musical talent, add in that the storyline was boring to keep up to date. It was a lost cause, to begin with, they should have just pulled the plug with the original instead of making it suffer by putting it through life support.
A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila (2007-2008)
MTV has done very well with reality TV. Looking at other networks that have had the success with their reality TV shows such as the Real Housewives, 16 and Pregnant, and our beloved favorite The Bachelor. A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila was a reality dating show with the spotlight hog Tila Tequila. Tequila was a social media celebrity on MySpace, that old social media sight before Facebook. She was pursuing her career as a model, singer, and actor. She was openly bisexual and put on this show that had straight men and lesbian women competing for her heart. The show got a lot of backlash from people who were against the gay community. There were also reports of Tequila already having a boyfriend during the show. The show was a train wreck not just in the content but Tequila herself. She ended up in rehab recovering from drug addiction and in a group that believes the Earth is flat. I think the contestants were lucky they never ended up with Tequila.
Small Wonder (1985-1989)
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Robots and sci-fi don’t scream comedy. So, you can imagine what happened with Small Wonder, a comedy that was one of the worst series of the decade. The shows follow an engineer, Ted Lawson, who creates an android that looks human. To keep a good watch on the machine, he creates the android as a preteen girl and pretends that she is his daughter. You are probably slapping yourself in the face right about now, this is perhaps one of the worst ideas ever created for a comedy. Problems came to effect during the episodes when using an actual girl who, yes, do grow up. Their solution was to say that she would get “an upgrade.” With the awful idea and lack of direction, the show did pretty well during its time. It wouldn’t do so well today, but for what it created, it survived longer than most of the other idiotic TV shows.
$#*! My Dad Says (2010-2011)
There comes a time when Hollywood doesn’t have any more good ideas. Usually, the best trick is to recollect a person’s mind and come up with a few ideas and bounce them off other creative thoughts. That’s not what CBS did, their idiotic brains decided to go to Twitter for help. Whoever came up with that idea should be on time out. Don’t get me wrong, Twitter has some good ideas but trying to get a successful sitcom idea is like asking your friend who thinks all the fruit loops are different flavors, you are better to come up with something yourself.
Moving back to the show, the idea came from Justin Halpern who would document his father’s daily humor and rambling and post them on twitter. Halpern ended up with a book deal and the television show, $#*! My Dad Says. The stars William Shatner as the father of two adult sons as they go about their daily lives listening to their father ramble about things he likes and dislikes. The show only lasted for one season thanks to Shatner’s comedic styling’s, other than that the shows were a complete bomb.
Blind Justice (2005)
Titles mean everything for a TV show. You match the tone of and wording of a title to the show. Blind Justice reads like a comedy title but is actually a crime drama. The show follows Detective Jim Dunbar who won’t let his loss of sight stop him from doing his job. There was very little success in the show which only aired thirteen episodes. With the lack of progress in the blind entertainment category, cough couch Daredevil, it wasn’t a shocker this didn’t attract viewers.
Cop Rock (1990)
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Musicals are found on Broadway and in Movies, rarely do we see them in TV shows. There are some successful shows that bring out the other creative gifts their actor’s posses and make them sing a few songs for that one episode but not a full series. ABC released a musical police drama series, one that only lasted eleven episodes. With the lack of success in the difficult field of musical TV show dramas and it’s many listing of the worst show in TV history, Cop Rock managed to be nominated for 5 Emmys, two of which they won.
Caveman (2007)
Do you remember those cavemen from the old GEICO commercials? Surprisingly, those cavemen sparked an idea to create one of the worst comedies that ABC ever created. The idea was created to point out racial stereotypes by putting in a comedic twist. With the idea of pointing out these social problems out, the show did a poor job and ended up making racial jokes that a lot of people took offense too. With poor metaphors and bad jokes, the show only aired 7 episodes from the thirteen they filmed. Let’s hope that the show stays extinct.
Duck Dynasty (2012-2017)
Congratulations are in order for the Robertson family, they officially beat the Real Housewives for one being the best at absolutely nothing and two for having dimmer minds than a dumb blond. Who thought filming a family at disgustingly bearded men who are married to redneck wives was a good idea? The show got good ratings from its obnoxious family dynamics. We all know all reality shows are scripted, but at least the housewives can remember their lines. No wonder there is a lot of awkward silence in the show. Do these men even know how to make duck calls? Well, we know one thing they are good at, making complete fools of themselves.
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (2012-2014)
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Thank you, Toddlers & Tiaras, for introducing one of our favorite train wreck family. TLC took a jump at Honey Boo Boo finding a reality show with the redneck family. The show found mix reviews during the 4 seasons that were aired. The show was canceled due to Mama June’s boyfriend being registered as a sex offender. With its cancelations, the family was still followed by its many fans of the crazy family. Many memes were created, including our favorite chocolate eating Honey Boo Boo gif.
I Wanna Marry Harry (2014)
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The famous dating shows of The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, and Bachelor in Paradise are our favorites for blow up girl fights and crying men. However, what if you mix in a fake prince and twelve dim headed girls? You get the show, I Wanna Marry Harry. This show had twelve bachelorettes compete for the heart of who they thought was Prince Harry but was really a look-alike who was in search of love. Now, you would think that someone would speak up and say it isn’t Prince Harry, but I guess the women were too blinded by the word “prince.” Now, let’s give the girls credit, there were hints at how the Harry look alike, Matthew Hicks didn’t seem right. Luckily, some of the smarter girls did speak up causing the show to fall flat on its royal face. The show only aired 4 episodes and canceling it’s remaining 4 others. As for the winner, Kimberly Birch, and fake Harry, they ended up staying friends instead of partners. And for the real Prince Harry, I think it’s safe to say he is living a perfectly happy life with his wife, Meghan Markle.
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