Multiply 365 Day 13 - Things I didn't want to see

Just sat through another episode of "Community", which is what passes for comedy these days I guess.  Not sure.  It is one of those shows where maybe there is a joke in there and I am just not in on it.  It is more of a placeholder for me, something to eat up 30 minutes than something I can say I actually get any enjoyment out of.    But it did inspire me to blog about something, so I will go ahead and list "10 TV Shows That Sucked During My Lifetime".  Yes that means that there are some qualifications, shows before 1969 that I am not familiar with obviously can't be on the list.  And because I am coming up with this list off of the top of my head, there is no statistical ranking involved.  Maybe if I had given this some more thought there would be, instead these shows are just listed because they stood out for their awfulness.

1. "Mama's Family" - Between a brief network run on NBC, and after that a run in first run syndication, this show somehow managed to survive 7 years.  Originally a sketch comedy from the old Carol Burnett Show, someone thought that this would make a good stand alone show, but it felt like most of the SNL skits that get turned into movies.  The "Family" were such an annoying brood, that Mama probably could have kicked them out of the house after 6 episodes and the show would have been better for it.

2.  "Voyager" - By far and away the worst of the Star Trek franchise.  To formulate this show, take one part franchise (Star Trek), add some political correctness (a female captain), mix in some Gilligan's Island (they are lost and can't get home), and add a little Gen X whininess and you have the recipe for a show that all but killed the Trek frachise on the small screen.  

3. "Matlock" - Andy Griffith stars as an attorney who somehow manages to always end up defending innocent clients.  But being simply a defense attorney isn't enough, he also takes it upon himself to be out solving the crime as well, thus racking up plenty of billing hours.  One would think that with all of the money he was able to make this way he would be awash in cash, yet he always appeared in court in the same suit.  This, not Janet Jackson's nipple slip, is the ultimate wardrobe malfunction.

4.  "America's Funniest Home Videos" - Proof of the cheapness of television entertainment.  Rather than come up with a viable script and actors to entertain, instead it is simply people sending in videos in hopes theirs is selected for a cash prize.  The fact this show is on TV is only further evidence of how society as a whole is getting dumber by the second.

5.  "The Lottery" - The show consisted mainly two guys, one from the lottery who would issue checks to winners and another from the Internal Revenue Service to make sure taxes were paid on the winnings. The show would then cover how the lottery winners were affected by their new found fortune.  Typical people coming around begging for money to harass the winners type stuff.  As an added minus, one of the episodes graced us with an early appearance of Corey Feldman.

6.  "Joanie Loves Chachi"  - Thankfully I am not a TV trivia guy, otherwise I would have to wonder if what happened to this show was a first.  That being, while originally a spinoff of "Happy Days", the show was so bad and had such a short run that many of the characters ended up being available for the last season of "Happy Days".

7.  "The Michael Richards Show" - An example of what happens when a person gets typecast in a role (see Kramer-Seinfeld) and then tries to breakout on their own in a different series.  His standup "n@gg$r" rant (a former Asshat winner) probably didn't help things.  

8.  "Joey" - Trying to suck the last bit of money off of the teat that was the cash cow "Friends", Matthew LeBlanc takes his Joey character west to Hollywood.  A grateful New York says thank you.

9.  "Keeping up with Khardashians" - People who have no talent, and whose money came from such noble causes as keeping OJ Simpson out of jail for murder are documented like they are actually important.  As an added bonus the show takes former Olympic hero and Wheaties box icon Bruce Jenner and makes him look like a complete buffoon.

10.  "Cop Rock" - "Glee" without all of the glee.  Instead it was a musical police drama.  Yes, it was as bad as it sounds.