Patricia Heaton and Brad Garrett were already fingernails-on-the-chalkboard levels of aggravating. Then the show's creator hired his relative to play Brad Garrett's wife, or girlfriend, or whatever she was. It's not like I had to suffer through it or anything - no one in my household watched it. But I was amazed that it was a watched enough show to survive for 6 or 7 seasons, or however many godawful years it polluted television.
Dragon Ball Z. The Z is the keyword/letter here. I initially enjoyed Dragon Ball as a trippy adventure show. Then Goku grew up, the Z was thrown in and it became a series of macho stand-offs with an oversized crowd of secondary characters gawking and commenting. Boring and unimaginative as hell. The fact that every other kid in my school watched it and quoted from it made me hate it all the more.
The standoff and try to be cool aspect while side characters comment has been a staple of Shounen anime ever since. I wonder if that was before or after DBZ though, certainly DBZ helped popularize it. So... I suppose i'll share a bit of your dislike there.
OT: I'm going to cheat and say a genre rather than a show. Reality TV... all of it.
Honorable mentions go to NCIS and every other cop drama out there that phones it in.
It is a pretty genius show.
They take an ordinary event like a hockey game and turn it into one of the better episodes.
Seinfeld has some of the best characters I have ever witnessed...or was told about. David Putty is hilarious, Jackie Chiles, Bob Sacramento, I mean come on now.
I find it hard to hate a show because if I don't like it I... don't watch it.
I guess Battlestar Galactica is something I "hated" because I realized how much of my time I wasted watching that circular mess plot wise. Too many tropes, too many moments of "I know you're not the audience but you must be able to see something is wrong here".
I liked it the first time I watched it, but my little brother became a huge Godzilla fan when he was young.
Toys, movies, and all that shit.
This was way back when we only had a television in the living room. He watched that shit ALL the time, which wasn't so bad, I could do other stuff.
When I was, like, five or six, however, I got my own TV for the first time, as well as a SNES. "Awesome!" Thought young me.
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My parents kept allowing my younger brother to watch that FUCKING MOVIE. Whenever he wanted. ON MY TELEVISION. I recall for at least a month at one point he'd watch it EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. If I were watching something, half the time I'd get to finish watching it (if it was new), the other half not. Too bad. Playing a game? Too bad. It got to the point where I grew so sick and tired of that damned movie that it ruined Godzilla for me forever. To this day I can barely stand the big lizard. I'd leave my room because I couldn't stand the movie anymore. Finally, I'd had enough and told my parents it wasn't fair that they always let him watch that on my TV and that I was basically kicked out of my own room. it was in my room, where I liked to be, where I would like to watch MY OWN TV or play my damned Super Nintendo. It had been a birthday present for me and yet he was actually getting more use out of it than I was.
They finally agreed and got him his own TV.
I swear if I ever come across that cassette tape I will fucking break that shit over my knee and burn the remains, no joke.
"Look at these people who live extremely athletic living styles, constantly are plagued by natural disasters, are always getting in problems with their parents, and live in a much more exciting location than you."
I can't pin down a good reason why I didn't like it than it was always about some athletic thing. I want to go skating but there's a hurricane. A new skating park opened but someone I know didn't fess up to an accident so now the park is closed. I want to go kayaking in the ocean but I don't want to be chaperoned with my dad. I want to play hockey but the only way I can play is by extraditing one of my friends.
"Look at these people who live extremely athletic living styles, constantly are plagued by natural disasters, are always getting in problems with their parents, and live in a much more exciting location than you."
I can't pin down a good reason why I didn't like it than it was always about some athletic thing. I want to go skating but there's a hurricane. A new skating park opened but someone I know didn't fess up to an accident so now the park is closed. I want to go kayaking in the ocean but I don't want to be chaperoned with my dad. I want to play hockey but the only way I can play is by extraditing one of my friends.
Oh god that fucking show. That thing was horrible. It had an overarching and demeaning tone of going "HEY! HEEEEEEY! LOOK AT ME! BECAUSE I'M INFINITELY MOAR INTERESTING THAN YOU AND EVERYTHING ELSE!" It just felt like they were trying waaay too hard to be EXTREEME! TO THE MAX! It was so '90s that it was migraine-inducing.
I'm right there with you. Newman and the Soup Nazi were the only two characters throughout the entire show that I didn't want to bludgeon to death with a rusty sewage pipe. I despised the other characters, especially Jerry (both the actor and the character). There was nothing remotely likeable about them whatsoever.
But for the first show that I ever truly hated, that would have to be the fucking 'Brady Bunch'. That show was so incredibly, mind-numbingly idiotic and cheesy.
Man i was sure it would be the first show to be mentioned here but somehow no one mentioned it yet:
Big Bang Theory, of course. I know, it's kind of an obviious anwer but it just get on my nerves. It's just so pretentious... it's a retread of a bunch of twenty year old sitcom clichés but all the nerds watch it anyway because they can pat themselves on the back whenever they recognize a reference... and as a nerd it frustrates me that that is all it needs to attract our audience.
I mean, Two and a half men is just as generic but at least it doesn't try to pander to me in such an obnoxious way.
I detested the care bears and gummy bears type shows as a kid. My fav's were G.I. Joe, Transformers and He-man, but as a male child I would watch Gem but I always rooted for the bad guys in any show I watched. I just didn't like the overly happy life is great shows they made for kids, but compared to the drek I see on tv now it was miles better.
I detested the care bears and gummy bears type shows as a kid. My fav's were G.I. Joe, Transformers and He-man, but as a male child I would watch Gem but I always rooted for the bad guys in any show I watched. I just didn't like the overly happy life is great shows they made for kids, but compared to the drek I see on tv now it was miles better.
First show I ever actively hated was Glenn Martin, DDS. There are shows that I think are boring, (Hey Arnold!, Doug) there are shows I think are just obnoxious (The Nanny) and shows that I think are just plain dumb and lazily written (everything currently produced by the Disney Channel).
But nothing, NOTHING brings more bile to my throat than Glenn Martin, DDS. The animation is ugly, the characters are annoying and the "humor" is so incredibly unfunny or trite that it boggles the mind how anyone thought this show would do well. Oh, and to make things worse, the first few episodes used a laughtrack.
However, there is a show that... I really cannot explain. A show so unbelievably terrible, so offensive to the senses that it's a wonder how it was even legal to air it on national television.
I gave this show a shot. I knew it would be terrible, but I gave it a shot. And what happened? I got a headache within the first two minutes and couldn't even finish the episode. I felt like those Japanese children who watched the Porygon episode of Pokémon.
None of those things ever really showed up in more than one episode. They just happen to be popular moments from the series.
I'm not entirely sure what you're criticizing about it, other than unlikable characters. Which is kind of the point actually.
The series actually ends with them being arrested as a result of them being apathetic, self-centered people.
Most of the draw for the show comes from the supporting cast, because the main four are unlikable on their own. You'll notice that most episodes focused around a person or event that is not Jerry, Elaine, Kramer or George. It's not about them, it's about the things happening to and around them.
"Dawson's Creek" -- I grew up in a house with two older sisters and only two TVs with cable. Guess who got screwed out of watching cartoons when primetime rolled around?
You think that's bad? When I was a kid and visiting grandma, I got to watch the opening titles of my favourite kid's show, and then she'd change the channel to watch 'The Bold and the Beautiful.'
Nothing even happens in one episode, it's not like she would have missed anything.
I think Firefly was the first show I actually sat down and watched (as opposed to merely glimpsing it now and again on TV) and ended up really, really disliking.
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