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andy80
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
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 Posted - 01/24/2006 : 12:14:14 AM
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| Malcom in the Middle had a few funny years at the beginning, but went downhill quick after the kids all started hitting puberty. |
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Food
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
342 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2006 : 12:38:40 AM
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Every show about families slides when the kids start maturing. The Cosby Show, Diff'rent Strokes, Malcolm in the Center, etc.
Diff'rent Strokes was exceptionally painful, because Gary Coleman was sooooo cute until he started wearing facial hair, and Danny Cooksey was just plain irritating. Dixie Carter was fun to see, though. She introduced me to the concept of MILF.
The Simpsons (which I never have liked anyway) is an exception, because animated kids don't have to grow up. |
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MikeC
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
749 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2006 : 04:25:13 AM
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FYI: THAT GIRL actually ended before she got married
(in the last season, she was engaged to Donald).
Don't ask me why I know this. I just do.
Biggest mistake(s) for me are all of the Brady updates,
from their 70's variety show to the TV Drama they did
in the late 80's.
Oh, and GALACTICA 1980, which also had Robbie Rist, so
it could count as an extended Brady mistake. GAL80
was perhaps the apotheosis of Hollywood's lack of
respect for SF fandom (something that has only somewhat
diminished in recent years: see the hash that the
STAR TREK franchise became, as well as the cavalier
treatment of FARSCAPE by SFC).
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Culfy
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
United Kingdom
113 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2006 : 09:45:24 AM
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Well, I think the A-Team lost the plot when they went from being vigilante soldiers of fortunes to being a sort of Mission Impossible working for the government in the form of the Man from Uncle.
Don't know if this counts as a mistake but I was always incredibly irritated by Hanna-Barbara's desperate attempts to squeeze the last remaining drops out of their franchises, (e.g Scooby and Scrabby Doo, Young Scooby Doo, Young Flintstones, The Flintstones meet Scooby Doo, Goober and the Ghostchasers (i.e Scooby Doo), etc. etc.)
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sister mary dispair
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
USA
35 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2006 : 10:24:58 AM
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The Nanny when Fran married Max, one of the running, plotlines was that Fran's love for Max and her constant frustration at never getting him. (and she was good for him too)Then they decided to have a friggin' baby, and the show really went downhill.
"Hmmm...It says here that if a person is not married by the time they are 35 they have a better chance of being robbed at gunpoint by a desperate and somewhat bloated Christian Slater." Harvey Birdman |
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ELOrocks17
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
131 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2006 : 10:29:31 AM
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War of the Worlds-when they killed off Col Ironhorse.
NYPD blue--when they killed off Andy's wife
Cheers-despite bieng in Boston, not 1 character had a New England accent. |
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AnnGora
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
252 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2006 : 10:34:39 AM
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Rhoda marries Joe.
She was bred in old Kentucky, but she's just a crumb up here. |
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Dirk
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
237 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2006 : 12:23:13 PM
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The Simpsons, when the family started winning trips to foreign locales. In the first eight seasons or so, the writers at least put some effort into sending the Simpsons on zany adventures. Does Homer even go to work anymore? Do the kids have to attend school?.
When Peter had that second ten-minute fight with the giant chicken on Family Guy. At that point it became clear just how painfully self-conscious the show had become.
The first two seconds of American Dad.
On the continuing theme of poorly thought-out marriages on TV shows: Max and 99 getting married on Get Smart, and Lee Stetson and Amanda King getting married on Scarecrow and Mrs. King. |
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Tork_110
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
360 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2006 : 1:34:09 PM
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2006 : 3:13:28 PM
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Max and 99. Dang! Wish I'd thought of that one.
Wasn't there a Get Smart update where they gave Don Adams Edward Platt's old job and made Andy Dick the new Agent 86? Crikey. |
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John Doe
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
USA
91 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2006 : 4:39:12 PM
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I got one. In Greatest American Hero Ralph gives the suit to that strange female.
my eyes!! the goggles do nothing!! |
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R. Dittmar
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
420 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2006 : 8:07:34 PM
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How about the new version of "The Night Stalker"? It was an absolutely terrible idea to remake the show as some ersatz "X-Files", and the thing disappeared practically overnight.
I subjected myself to a couple of episodes at the start and then the thing vanished like some money-saving invisible alien from the original show. Even its page listing times on ABC vanished only to be replaced by a page-not-found notice. |
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Hinda
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Israel
229 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2006 : 12:40:59 AM
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Originally posted by Greenhornet
M*A*S*H did some pretty good episodes where they experimented with the story-telling, (think of the episodes where they did a "TV documinatry" or the one where the viewer saw things through the eyes of a wounded solder) but the damn thing just went on and on, people were mocking it in the last few seasons.
Remember the surrealist episode, where the whole unit was overworked and they all had those hallucinations and nightmares? |
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Hinda
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Israel
229 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2006 : 12:46:26 AM
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Originally posted by Dirk
the continuing theme of poorly thought-out marriages on TV shows: Max and 99 getting married on Get Smart,
What was wrong with that? |
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CobraCmdr
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
70 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2006 : 08:57:05 AM
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Originally posted by Dirk
When Peter had that second ten-minute fight with the giant chicken on Family Guy. At that point it became clear just how painfully self-conscious the show had become.
Really? This is when I started to love this show! I thought the whole fight squence (and later rematch in another episode) was freakin hilarious. I hate American Dad though.
I also have to point out that the Simpsons and Family Guy are the only shows mentioned in this thread that I have actually watched (Well, also the A-Team, but I was like 5). |
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