TV shows you can't stand.

[jackfaire]

It's gonna sound weird but it's not the shows I hate. Honestly I can't think of any shows that I hate. Plenty I couldn't get into but none for the reason that they were crappy just mostly weren't my thing.

What I hate is the fans.

I watched the entire show of Arrested Development and honestly it wasn't that good. I love Jason Bateman and Michael Cera but most of the actors made me want to smack them around a bit.

But if you say that to a pseudo intellectual hipster that discovered reading in college and now looks down on anyone for watching "dumb shows" they will talk about what a moron you are even if your IQ is higher and have forgotten more books than they have ever read. I mean that literally. I at one point was reading at a rate of a book a day.

[draco664]

I watched the entire show of Arrested Development and honestly it wasn't that good. I love Jason Bateman and Michael Cera but most of the actors made me want to smack them around a bit.

Well, from what I remember, that was the whole point of the show. Those two were the only main characters with any redeeming features whatsoever. The thing I liked most about Arrested Development was that it *finished* correctly. So many shows leave unanswered questions at the end of a series to try and get the next season funded, which royally pisses me off.

[jackfaire]

Well, from what I remember, that was the whole point of the show. Those two were the only main characters with any redeeming features whatsoever. The thing I liked most about Arrested Development was that it *finished* correctly. So many shows leave unanswered questions at the end of a series to try and get the next season funded, which royally pisses me off.

It wasn't that I didn't like the characters it was that the characters were unbelievable the actors portraying them didn't give them a believable performance. It's like they weren't even trying like somehow their contracts had forced them into the show and they're trying to be as horrible as possible.

[blas87]

Honestly, watching the new Beavis and Butthead and listening to their little commentary on "Jersey Shore" and "16 and Pregnant" just cracked me up.

It's just sad that two cartoon idiots share the same views as me.

[jackfaire]

Beavis and Butthead Do America was the best bonding experience me,my brother and our dad ever had.

[kamn]

The Simposons and all of its spinoffs. I just find it to be too crude and forced.

Most if not all reality shows. While I like the idea, the heavily scripted scenes go directly against it.

Chef Ramsey. I hate this guy and his tirades. He does have a lot of valuable information, he CAN help when he wants to, but it seems that he gets off verbally abusing others. Thats why when my brother watches him, I just leave the room for the 20-minute or so tirade he throws, then come back for the advice.


NCIS:LA. I love the original NCIS (mainly due to Abby and her open mind), but the LA one just seems like a copy with fake tits and more action scenes. NOT a good idea.

The Office. The over the top humor never realy goes well with me. I'd rather be forcing glass shards up my rectum than watch it.

[XCashier]

Chowder and Flapjack....seriously.... Cartoons named after food, look weird, stupid have no plot and make me feel like it'll lower my IQ by 100 points just by watching 5 minutes of it.

A lot of today's cartoons are just like that. The Regular Show, Gumball, Almost Naked Animals, pretty much most of Cartoon Network's schedule. Stupid plots, horrid artwork, characters that are blatant assholes.

[jackfaire]

The worst part of chowder is watch the clothing. It's like they basically made cutouts were the clothing and then put a solid pattern on the back of each page of animation so as the character moves you see a diiferent part of the pattern.

[Gravekeeper]

Chef Ramsey. I hate this guy and his tirades. He does have a lot of valuable information, he CAN help when he wants to, but it seems that he gets off verbally abusing others.

Blame Fox. His UK shows are very engaging and thoughtful, his US shows are edited down to nothing but him yelling. Or more specifically thats all Hell's Kitchen US is now ( He doesn't yell on Kitchen Nightmares, just looks appalled. ) Its gotten worse every season to the point where I'm pretty sure Fox is surrounded him with idiots just to see what will happen.

I must now, however, now nominate Fringe. Not that I can't stand it per say, but that its infuriating me. I've only just started watching it, and its driving me crazy because it wavers drukenly between being rather smart and being utterly pants on head retarded. It seems to be the writers, the show has so many of them and a couple of them are insufferably bad. Its ability to go from good to bad in the span of 2 episodes is amazing. It'll swing from a scientific mystery based on actual technology to Internet pop ups that liquify your brain ( Oh come *on* ).

The female lead is a raging idiot too, not the actresses fault, but the character herself is awful and has to be the single most unqualified FBI agent in existence. With the show trying to build her up to be some special psychic child or something I'm not sure how much longer I can watch. >.>

[DrFaroohk]

I must now, however, now nominate Fringe. Not that I can't stand it per say, but that its infuriating me. I've only just started watching it, and its driving me crazy because it wavers drukenly between being rather smart and being utterly pants on head retarded. It seems to be the writers, the show has so many of them and a couple of them are insufferably bad. Its ability to go from good to bad in the span of 2 episodes is amazing. It'll swing from a scientific mystery based on actual technology to Internet pop ups that liquify your brain ( Oh come *on* ).

The female lead is a raging idiot too, not the actresses fault, but the character herself is awful and has to be the single most unqualified FBI agent in existence. With the show trying to build her up to be some special psychic child or something I'm not sure how much longer I can watch. >.>

If you just started watching it, it won't get much better. I LOVED season 1 minus a few things. Then season 2 just stalled, season 3 starts out good but then goes somewhere else i'm not even sure of...and then we're on season 4. It's basically a different show now. It's all the same actors, but we're not watching Fringe anymore. I think the writers don't understand the whole "Fringe" thing. It's supposed to be about things on the "fringes" of science. And I appreciated a lot of that stuff, like using the massive dynamic technology to examine a dead woman's eyes to see what she saw last. I can sort of buy that. I can't really get into a lot of the star trek stuff. No problem if they wanna do that, but maybe on a show called "Totally Out There!" Instead of "Fringe".

[Rageaholic]

Fringe always freaked me out. Just the adds were enough to give me nightmares.

[Gravekeeper]

I LOVED season 1 minus a few things. Then season 2 just stalled, season 3 starts out good but then goes somewhere else i'm not even sure of...and then we're on season 4. It's basically a different show now.

Well, saves me going past season 1 then.

And I appreciated a lot of that stuff, like using the massive dynamic technology to examine a dead woman's eyes to see what she saw last. I can sort of buy that.

Yeah, that's my problem. Half the episodes were based on actual interesting science and possibilities. The other half rely on a crutch plot device that either makes me go "Ehhhh...." such as the eye reader and Walter's amazing brain tank that can link consciousnesses or pulls a total deus ex machina plot device out its ass with no basis whatsoever in science. Like Walter's "Oh, that's right, I invented A GOD DAMN TIME MACHINE TELEPORTER a while back" that's just suddenly tossed in out of no where, then never really mentioned again.

[jackfaire]

I love Fringe but I can see how people who started watching it for the Science would get bugged.

For me it's about the characters.

As far as unqualified FBI agents it's not just her.

Every show with cops of any kind they are conveniently stupid.

For example if there is a break in and when asked if anything odd happened that day before the break in the cops are told, "Well our system went down and the regular technicians that come into fix it were out today so there were some new guys that came in to fix it."

In the real world a child of 5 would point at that and scream, "oooooo investigate the hell out of those guys"

In a cop show apparently that doesn't register as out of the oridnary enough and is ignored. Of course later after taking the long way around to IDing the bad guys they find out the bad guys are the ones that posed as the technicians leaving the audience to say, "Uhm doy!!"

Honestly any show that does that bugs the hell out of me I can usually watch for other reasons and if they keep that to a minimum but stupidly ignoring clues that a blind man is tripping over screams bad writing.

[Gravekeeper]

I love Fringe but I can see how people who started watching it for the Science would get

bugged.

It starts out with the science, which is the problem. Some of the writers are aware science exists, but a couple of them aren't and take the Star Trek route. So the show flipflops between being grounded in reality and being total and complete fantasy. Its such complete fantasy though that the viewer can't buy it in any way shape or form. The tone is too different so the show falls apart. If the show was one or the other it would be fine, but it can't be both without making people groan and roll their eyes.

Death by Internet pop up was probably the absolute worst episode of season one so far. Seeing as it basically ignored even the simpliest rules of technology and went "COMPUTERS R MAGIC". Wish I had a wifi connection that could download a 600 meg file in under 10 seconds like everyone in the show. =p

For me it's about the characters.

I like the Bishops, John Noble is especially good in it. But Olivia is an awful, awful character that buttered herself up and rolled around on a pile of Tv Tropes. She's a terrible FBI agent not just in procedure ( Which she regularly tosses out the window ), but in temperment and character. She's risked investigations a number of times based on her own immature feelings and is painted as a character that does whatever it will take to get things done. Yet doesn't.

In one episode especially, she risks the whole investigation by doing something incredibly stupid her boss told her not to do, her boss chews her out for it ( and the show tries to get us to be on her side while he's doing it ) she argues she'll do whatever it takes to save the hostages life ( Risk the entire investigation ). Then turns around and refuses to do whatever it takes to save the hostages life ( Ask the woman at Massive Dynamic a question ). Leaving it to Peter to do instead.

On top of that she constantly puts herself in danger by not calling for back up and chasing people/creatures by herself ( something either dumbluck or another character has to save her from ). Then the show started giving her a new Tragically Dramatic Backstory every other episode and now I'm suppose to believe she's the psychic Chosen One too? I think not.

Its like Scully and Wesley Crusher had a kid. >.>

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Not a show, but an entire network...

I was on vacation for the last week and a half, and the cable package in the hotel had the CNN sister network Headline News. I watched the channel for a little while, and had to shut it off because of the headache it gave me. All of the news 'anchors' seemed to be shouting at the screen.

And I didn't even try to watch Nancy Grace, either.