The Most OVERated TV Shows of all Time

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Gilligan’s Island, Family Feud, and Suvivor are my picks for the most overrated.
 
Maybe someone else can chime in here. To all fans of Southpark/Family Guy, have you noticed, that every time they make fun of a show or a famous actor, you think to yourself “that is EXACTLY what I was thinking!” Am I the only one? Think of all the TV shows they have panned, they always line up with the shows I can’t stand.

On the whole “Censoring Dick Van **** thing”. I was trying to convince my wife that the word Dike is the same as pliers, or cutters. I slipped one day and asked for a “set of dikes” as we used to say, and her jaw about hit the ground. I am always pulling her leg, and I had to google it to convince her I wasnt just making it up!
 
MAS*H wasn’t so bad. Many of the episodes had very pro-life messages.

Other good shows: Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Wild, Wild, West, Big Valley, (westerns were big in my house growing up), Dragnet, Monk, Psych, Wings

Rotten shows: Family Guy, any ‘reality’ show, House, Boston Legal, Glee, EVERYTHING
on MTV :eek:
 
I’d like to nominate three overated shows:
1960s: The Smothers Brothers Show. They just weren’t funny.
1970s: Three’s Company.
1980s: Hill Street Blues.
 
I used to watch Eastenders back in the 90s and got hooked on it for awhile. I admit to having some trouble with the accents.🙂 Even though I don’t like soapoperas this one was different because it was about relatively normal people with everyday problems. But, as you said it got to be ridiculous. No one can stay married on a soapopera for any length of time. The writers have to stir things up so they have to have lots of divorces and affairs. Not that real life is happily-ever-after but some people do stay married!
 
Too many to list for me, but my top would have to be Friends. I just never “got it”. OK, at times it was good for a laugh, but there is\was far better entertainment out there.

For me, the underrated would be more of a list. Mind you, I’m a geek, but I would really like to see the following still on the air:

Star Trek Enterprise - I thought the cast for this, and their interaction was excellent
Buffy\Angel - What can I say - Loved these cheesy shows, LOL
The X-Files - Maybe not underrated, but for me, if it was still on today, I’d still be watching 😃
 
Here’s a brandy-new one to add to the list and to serve as a warning. The worst of 2010 so far has to be The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town on CBC Tuesdays at 9 PM. The return of the kids has been on a wishlist of many Canadians, and US fans might be saying ‘those lucky canucks!’ at their return to TV. Well – this is a horrid, disgusting, vulgar show. My wife and I watched the first two episodes just now after recording them a few weeks back. As we watched it, we each turned our heads away a few times and said ‘ooh!’.When we were done, we looked at each and said – no more, this was a waste of a blank DVD.

And to think that the CBC really promoted this as being a smash to start 2010! Not funny in any way, shape or form. Just vulgar and profane.

God bless

Tony
 
agp2176 said:
Here’s a brandy-new one to add to the list and to serve as a warning. The worst of 2010 so far has to be The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town
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That’s really disappointing. OTOH, perhaps when the “Kids” get to be 47-51 years old, it’s too late to recapture the quasi-youthful feeling of 1988. (Yes, OK, I looked up their ages and the date of the original show rather than having it in my head, so I was probably never a “true” fan. ;))

Anyway, it’s too bad.

Although the mention of KiTH does remind me of a show I really liked: News Radio. It wasn’t edifying or uplifting, nor was it a show that I would have a child watch, but good grief was it funny. The whole cast was really funny, and when they added Patrick Warburton for a while, it was like putting the cherry on top of a sundae. 🙂

–Jen
 
OVERRATED

ITA about mash seinfeld and friends

UNDERRATED

King of the Hill! Love that show 👍
 
I’m with those that say Friends was an overrated show. They were such static characters and I could never see what was so appealing about Ross and Rachel physically or otherwise.
 
Over in the ‘jumped the shark’ thread there is a lot of mention of The Office. More than likely the US version. The UK version doe sit for me in the over-rated colum. I SOOOO wanted to watch this. I SOOOO want to like it. When I was in the UK on holiday, I bought the DVDs there, popped them in when I got back to the USA (IU have a multiregion player). Ugh – what a stinker!

Is Ricky Gervais supposed to be funny 🤷? Half the time I get a feeling that he’s making a fool of people and me as the audience. I tried to watch other stuff he’s been in, and it too left me flat. I generally like dry humour, but he leaves me cold.

Hmm – I wonder if La Job on Radio-Canada is any better. Thats teh French version in Quebec.

To balance it – excellent TV – Little Mosque on the Prairie on CBC! Ecumenism at its best! When the CBC does good it does great and when it is bad its horrid!

God Bless

Tony
 
agp2176 said:
Over in the ‘jumped the shark’ thread there is a lot of mention of The Office. More than likely the US version. The UK version doe sit for me in the over-rated colum. I SOOOO wanted to watch this. I SOOOO want to like it. When I was in the UK on holiday, I bought the DVDs there, popped them in when I got back to the USA (IU have a multiregion player). Ugh – what a stinker!

Is Ricky Gervais supposed to be funny 🤷? Half the time I get a feeling that he’s making a fool of people and me as the audience. I tried to watch other stuff he’s been in, and it too left me flat. I generally like dry humour, but he leaves me cold.

Hmm – I wonder if La Job on Radio-Canada is any better. Thats teh French version in Quebec.

To balance it – excellent TV – Little Mosque on the Prairie on CBC! Ecumenism at its best! When the CBC does good it does great and when it is bad its horrid!

God Bless

Tony
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I fell in love with British comedy when American comedy started downhill in the 1980s. I’ve noticed some of the newer Britcoms seem to be imitating American sitcoms, which I find disappointing.
BTW, my wife and I are two thirds of the way through Allo Allo. I haven’t laughed this hard in years. If you like Fawlty Towers, you will love Allo Allo.
 
In my opinion just about all American Prime Time television is overrated.

Besides PBS, and a very select few American television shows (Star Trek, TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY), the Office, Batman cartoon Series, Ren&Stimpy, etc. And many Brittish/UK BBC series (IT Croud, Ballykissangel, Monarch on the Glen, Monty Python, etc) most television is just junk.

My $0.02
 
JustaServant said:
I fell in love with British comedy when American comedy started downhill in the 1980s. I’ve noticed some of the newer Britcoms seem to be imitating American sitcoms, which I find disappointing.
BTW, my wife and I are two thirds of the way through Allo Allo. I haven’t laughed this hard in years. If you like Fawlty Towers, you will love Allo Allo.
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Oh yes – some of those older British comedies are so much fun. I love the way in Allo Allo Officer Crabtree always cracks me up when he says ‘Good moaning’ or refers to something being ‘up the drain po_op’ (don’t know if that word can be used here. Or LeClerc saying ‘It is I, LeClerc’

If you like it, I recommend, Open All Hours, To The Manor Born, The Darling Buds of May, and so many others. Truly great stuff

God bless

Tony
 
Friends, Simpsons, Family Guy, Gilligan’s Island.

Two and a Half Men–I don’t have any idea why this is a hit–I feel like I am in Charlie Sheen’s head and it is not a pleasant place to be.

Roseanne was beyond terrible. I’d rather spend a half hour in a sewage plant than watch that show.

And let’s not forget the most overrated show of all time–The West Wing. Absolutely amazing the way Hollywood tried to nobilize liberal Democrats. There is a giant chasm between their perception of the liberal Democratic elite and reality. And almost every single character, especially the females on the show, was excessively annoying and unappealing.
 
agp2176 said:
Oh yes – some of those older British comedies are so much fun. I love the way in Allo Allo Officer Crabtree always cracks me up when he says ‘Good moaning’ or refers to something being ‘up the drain po_op’ (don’t know if that word can be used here. Or LeClerc saying ‘It is I, LeClerc’

If you like it, I recommend, Open All Hours, To The Manor Born, The Darling Buds of May, and so many others. Truly great stuff

God bless

Tony
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Richard Gibson, who plays Gestapo Herr Flick on the show is a genius. He said he patterned the character on the Gestapo officer from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
 
I can’t think of a TV show that was ever more overrated than Friends, unless it was Seinfeld. I tried to watch both of those shows, and didn’t last five minutes with either one of them. Big yawnfests, both. :rolleyes:
 
My choices for most overrated:

Modern (post-1980s)

Seinfeld
South Park
Lost
Any “reality” show, especially Survivor, and Toddlers and Tiaras (which is child exploitation bordering on kiddie porn – should be yanked off the air, its producers horsewhipped then tossed in prison)
Desperate Housewives
Family Guy, American Dad
Baywatch
Dexter (sick premise)
According to Jim. I have no idea why that’s still on the air.

Older (80s and earlier)

MASH* (excepting the seasons with Trapper and Henry. In later years, I could watch it for Harry Morgan – funny guy!)

Happy Days. The first few seasons were good, 50s slice-of-life a la American Graffiti. But that’s the show that *literally *jumped the shark.

And I know I’m going to take real flak for this one…:stretcher:

I Love Lucy. I’m sorry, I just don’t find Lucille Ball funny.🤷
 
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