T.V. Show That Overstayed Their Welcome [Archive]

Young Avenger

05-09-2006, 09:05 PM

Which T.V. show do you think has overstayed it's welcome on the airwaves? You know, those shows that were great in their eariler seasons having one great episoder after another. As the series continued the quailty started to drop. It wasn't as good as it used to be and have become a shadow of it's former self. Even to the point that it flat out sucks now. For me, this show is 7th Heaven.

I got into 7th Heaven rather late. I think it was probably two years ago that I started watching it. I usually see the reruns on ABC family and despite being somewhat dated I really enjoyed those eariler seasons. I believe the show went downhill when that Martain guy was introduced. After that, it wasn't as good as it was in the eariler seasons and the dialogue have become terrible. Never been the same since.

I would also give an honorable mention to The Simpsons.

StoneGold

05-09-2006, 09:06 PM

Every TV show is on at least one season too long.

The Humanist Hero

05-09-2006, 09:09 PM

The Simpsons
That 70's Show
King of the Hill

Legato

05-09-2006, 09:33 PM

The Simpsons: It's like 7th Heaven whare it was good during the early seasons but you could tell that the writers have lost steam and it's just not as good as it once was.

Pinnacle

05-09-2006, 09:41 PM

Legato

05-09-2006, 09:50 PM

Star Trek after DS9

DrewTheXenocide

05-09-2006, 10:02 PM

E.R., while I haven't seen it this season the quality in the last few seasons has dropped dramatically from its first few years with the original cast. The fact that the show carries on without Carter as a character, the last of originals (continuous I know Susan came back) and to me the main character of the show even if he wasn't my favorite but because the first show was about his first day, proves that the show should end or at least be turned into a spin-off like Boston Legal. What's on television is not E.R.

Damn skippy. It's pretty sad watching the reruns of it, and seeing how good it used to be, and then back to the crap.

Although, I do have to say, what they're currently doing in Darfur is pretty good. It's kinda ironic that nowadays, ER is at it's best when not in the ER, and it was the complete opposite around season seven or so.

In a perfect world, it would've ended when Dr.Greene died. Going to Carter leaving (which was total bullcrap how the pulled it off, anyway), was a bit of a strech but it was fittting. Now, it's just beating up on a dead horse.

To be fair though, it does have it's good moments. For instance, when Ray first came on the scene, I was predisposed to totally hate him. Why? Merely in spite of all the chicks who liked A Walk to Remember. Now, he's probably my favorite character, and I love his chemistry with Neela. Much better fit than stupid 'ol Gallant.

Pól Rua

05-09-2006, 10:27 PM

Star Trek after about third season TNG (with the exception of a few bright moments in DS9).
Seriously, I'm a big wooly lefty liberal and even I was disgusted with the tree-hugging give-peace-a-chanceism of this series. Seriously... how can you have an adventure series where there's no adventure? How can you have drama without conflict? Answer: You can't. It becomes an exercise in hand-wringing, rational discussion and impenetrable technobabble wrapped in a kind of soporific haze designed to dull your senses to the point that you think you're still watching something marginally entertaining.
It's enough to make me want to stab a bunny.

Babylon 5 Season 4.5 - 5. I know that Straczynski's plans were derailed by the networks, but seriously, 'Get out of my galaxy'? Psychic space Fabio? The sheer balls-out manifest-destiny-spouting arrogance of John Sheridan and of course, DeLenn, the Linda McCartney of outerspace. Not to mention week after week of treading water and talking heads. Gah. Horrors upon horrors.

The X-Files after it decided that it wasn't gonna be Kolchak-style silliness and would try and become 'relevent'. The 'mythology' episodes may have been entertaining had the creators had ANY IDEA WHATSOEVER of what the conspiracy was all about, but instead chose to make it up on the fly, turning it into some sort of weird psychotic frankenstein/hydra with a hundred heads, none of which know what the hell the others are doing. Basically any episode after season 2.
I hated that show so much.

Buffy season 6 on.
Seriously. The series as it stood was based on character interaction and a kind of light, entertaining banter. What the hell made the series creators decide on misery as a season theme? 'Cos yeah, there's nothing to make me tune in week after week like endless rounds of crushing despair, sexual frustration, angst and misery heaped on misery.
Oh and as a contrast, let's make the funny nerd villains the featured baddies.
What the..?
Seriously, if I want stories about sad, miserable people with serious sexual disfunctions and wretched love-lives, I'll read my diary, I don't need it on a show where a super-powered girl and her friends fight demons and monsters.
And as for season 7, well, it gets the treading water award too.
How often do we need to be told that "This is the direst threat ever" without the baddie doing anything before we start to think... "Waitasec! There's nothing happening? Wtf!?"
Poo to it with nobs on, I say.

Legato

05-09-2006, 10:36 PM

Buffy season 6 on.
Seriously. The series as it stood was based on character interaction and a kind of light, entertaining banter. What the hell made the series creators decide on misery as a season theme? 'Cos yeah, there's nothing to make me tune in week after week like endless rounds of crushing despair, sexual frustration, angst and misery heaped on misery.
Oh and as a contrast, let's make the funny nerd villains the featured baddies.
What the..?
Seriously, if I want stories about sad, miserable people with serious sexual disfunctions and wretched love-lives, I'll read my diary, I don't need it on a show where a super-powered girl and her friends fight demons and monsters.
And as for season 7, well, it gets the treading water award too.
How often do we need to be told that "This is the direst threat ever" without the baddie doing anything before we start to think... "Waitasec! There's nothing happening? Wtf!?"
Poo to it with nobs on, I say.

The saddest part about Buffy was that it's spin-off show Angel was ten times the better show than Buffy was but that show got canceled while it still have a few good seasons left.

Buffy should have ended when Buffy died and have a Faith spin-off in it's place.

Your Imaginary Pal

05-09-2006, 10:42 PM

You know when they add new cute & cuddley characters to keep a show fresh it's time to let it go.

Cosby Show brings in Olivia. And Nelson & Winnie.

The Smurfs get some new Hillbillie smurf cousins, Hillbillies in the European Middle Ages?

Pinky & The Brain becomes Pinky Elmyra & The Brain, why God , WHY?????

ragnarok_2012

05-09-2006, 10:43 PM

Happy Days: let's just say everything from the point that Fonzi jumped the shark on. :D

Night Court. iirc, they wrapped everything up, then were given a tremendous amount of money to crank out one more season. Hillarity did not ensue.

Drew Carey: I wasn't a huge fan, but I enjoyed the early episodes. After Kate left, it was horrid.

Dan Apodaca

05-09-2006, 10:44 PM

Every TV show is on at least one season too long.

Arrested Development?

The Critic?

Duckman?

Strangers with Candy?

The Upright Citizens Brigade?

Legato

05-09-2006, 11:23 PM

Pinky & The Brain becomes Pinky Elmyra & The Brain, why God , WHY?????

God dont remind me of that. Brilliant idea to have two of the most popular characters paird up with Tiny Toons most annoying character ever.

the film freak

05-09-2006, 11:34 PM

The Simpsons: It's like 7th Heaven whare it was good during the early seasons but you could tell that the writers have lost steam and it's just not as good as it once was.

I thought this season was pretty good. I dug the Ricky Gervais episode, the Ocean adventure episode (The Poseiden Adventure parody was hilarious), the Marge amnesia episode, Lisa posing as a boy episode, and the crazy flashback episode (where there was a story within a story within a story). And was this season where they had that crazy Grandpa and Santa Claus WWII story.

ElijahS23

05-09-2006, 11:54 PM

Simpsons, as mentioned earlier. C'mon, non-sensical "comedy" has its limits. And those limits should be outside this Universe.

Married w/ Children: My fave comedy ever. It went out w/ a whimper. Jumped the shark when that dumb kid Seven was dumped on the cast.

Seinfeld: My second fave comedy. I haven't seen ALL of the later episodes, but the finale was "eh" for me, and the later episodes I've caught in syndication don't have the same feel as earlier Seasons. Their just too out-of-character and far-fetched...

Brady Bunch: When cousin Oliver was crapped on 'em. (see MWC "Seven")

Three's Company: It got too controlled and less-wacky/spontaneous by the tail end AND spawned that horrible spin-off when Jack got married. And most importantly, the girls lost their looks ;)

R.I.P. John Ritter

KenK

05-10-2006, 07:01 AM

Three's Company: It got too controlled and less-wacky/spontaneous by the tail end AND spawned that horrible spin-off when Jack got married. And most importantly, the girls lost their looks ;)

Damn, that's cold! Especially if you're including Priscilla Barnes, who had a pretty damn good topless scene in Mallrats almost 15 years after the show ended!

DDM

05-10-2006, 09:26 AM

Laverne & Shirley: The show should have been cancelled when the girls move to California.

Mork & Mindy: Show should have been cancelled when Mirth was born.

Waltons: Should have been cancelled when the original John-Boy left the show.

X-Files: Should have been cancelled after one more season following the 1997 movie.

Three's Company: Never should have been used a vehicle for the disaster, Three's A Crowd.

Golden Girls: Should have been cancelled instead of using it for vehicle for Golden Palace.

Eliseu Gouveia

05-10-2006, 09:35 AM

Smallville - they wasted a whole season with Witch-Lana, Clark´s in college and he STILL can´t fly on his own?

Plus, don´t get me wrong, Erica Durance is hot as all hell but she´s just wasted here.

It there was to be a Lois in this show, it should have been Chloe.
The world stopped on its tracks in that episode where she decided to start using "Lois Lane" as her pen name.
Clark should have shown his powers to Lana AGES ago.
Too many people have seen his face, too many reocurrences of mass forgetfullness as a way to retcon things, too much "cute" jabs at things to come ("- This boy is a Man of Steel!")

Stop milking the cow and do like Cheers did, wrap it up and leave on a high note.

Heck, follow Cheers´tracks and you might even end up with a spin-off too.

JDogindy

05-10-2006, 10:46 AM

The Simpsons- The show is the ultimate example of how something can go from a high note to on fumes. Granted, it is trying to rebound, but there are some episodes that either try to revert back to the Golden Age ("Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore" &, clearly, "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife") of the show, in which they are good and well written.

Then, you got the episodes that show off Seasons 11-15, in which I call "The Abomination Period". Mostly every episode I hate from my favorite show ("Saddlesore Galatica", "Simpsons Safari", "Pokey Mom", "On A Clear Day I Can't See My Sister", "The President Wore Pearls", & that episode where Marge was "usurped") come from this period. They have poor writing, bad plots, bizarre and unfeasible gags (notably from the Worst Episode Ever: "Simpsons Safari"). Another example of bad problems include episodes that have the "All Singing, All Dancing" bits ("My Fair Laddy" and "The President Wore Pearls"), and the "I Was There... kinda" stories ("Margical History Tour", and "The Wettest Stories Ever Told").

So, unlike film freak, who seems to love every episode, Season 17 is a mixed bag, but better than the last two years.

Seinfeld- I just got hooked, but I've seen about 150 of the 180 episodes. To me, it started when Susan was killed off. Then the characters devolved from just being prone to bad luck & irritation to the point where they were mere louts. They still owe us a good finale.

7th Heaven- Went from "Drama/Comedy" to "Drama/Drama" after a while.

Then, there are shows I don't get. "Smallville" and "Alias" are a few. But that's another matter.

KenK

05-10-2006, 10:46 AM

X-Files: Should have been cancelled after one more season following the 1997 movie.

I think the movie made for a good enough finale without the following season. There was just a lot of closure there; Mulder seeing that MASSIVE spaceship leaving Earth, Scully somewhat believing him after, and the bad guys still up to their old tricks, but realizing that they're still gonna have to put up with Mulder and Scully.

Cactusakic

05-10-2006, 12:26 PM

Friends: Anything past season 4 was terrible

X-Files: Other than the occasional stand-alone episode anything past season 5 was a bit crappy

Simpsons: Could'nt tell you the exact season when it lost me but for the last four or five years I have been less and less impressed with each new episode.

Buffy: It started to bore me a little after season 3 but went all-the-way-crappy after season 5.

Millennium: Seasons 1 and 2 were good stuff, wtf happened in 3?

Shows that did'nt stay around long enough:

Firefly
American Gothic
Firefly
Twin Peaks
Firefly

Black Atom

05-10-2006, 12:37 PM

Simpsons owns this. I think there are actually more crappy seasons than good ones at this point.

Smallville needs to go, too.

LordEd1976

05-10-2006, 12:39 PM

X-Files post-movie and especially when David Duchovny wanted to leave so they brought in Robert Patrick.

Friends when Ross and Rachel had a Vegas wedding and Ross refused to get divorced.

Star Trek at the start of the Dominion War in DS9 and the Borg were robbed of their invunerablity on Voyager.

Dennis K

05-10-2006, 12:42 PM

Married With Children
N.Y.P.D. Blue
M*A*S*H
Hill Street Blues
Seinfeld
ER
Arrested Development

Zero Hunter

05-10-2006, 04:32 PM

That 70's Show and ER are the current top two that should have ended 2 years ago. Even a bad Simpsons is better than those two shows have been in the last few years.

Deathstroke

05-10-2006, 05:17 PM

I know one show that is going to be in consideration for this thread in a couple of years.

Lost.

I'm telling you the show is so damn boring I'm thisclose to dropping the thing entirely.

Magneto_X

05-10-2006, 10:06 PM

Charmed, Buffy (it should have ended in season 5), the Simpsons, every Star Trek series post-DS9, 7th Heaven, E.R., The X-Files, Friends

shades of eternity

05-10-2006, 10:08 PM

What I can't understand is how the simpsons lasted so long and yet didn't know when to stop while ahead.

Dude how many shows last over a decade.

Scorpion13

05-10-2006, 10:09 PM

The Simpsons gets a bad rap nowadays. The show isnt as good as in the old days, but while not every season is a winner, there are several great episodes sprinkled without.

Magneto_X

05-10-2006, 10:11 PM

T
Buffy should have ended when Buffy died and have a Faith spin-off in it's place.

The thing is Faith was never an option spin-off because Dushku didn't want to do the show.

IIRC rumour has it if Faith was ever made it would have been about her and Spike travelling around America on a motorcycle or something.

I'd like another spin-off be made about the Buffy-verse eventually. Their universe still has so much untapped potential left in it for a tv show.

Magneto_X

05-10-2006, 10:16 PM

The Simpsons gets a bad rap nowadays. The show isnt as good as in the old days, but while not every season is a winner, there are several great episodes sprinkled without.

1 in 10 eps being good isn't enough to keep a show on the air. Even the good Simpsons eps currently are medicore at best compared to the better seasons, and the bad eps are mind numblingly awful.

Scorpion13

05-10-2006, 10:20 PM

1 in 10? No way. Id say 6 out of 10.

Legato

05-10-2006, 10:36 PM

1 in 10 eps being good isn't enough to keep a show on the air. Even the good Simpsons eps currently are medicore at best compared to the better seasons, and the bad eps are mind numblingly awful.

Also the current episodes dont make you laugh nonstop like the ones in the early seasons did. Im talking about tears coming out of your eyes type of LOL.

Your Imaginary Pal

05-11-2006, 12:18 PM

Married w/ Children: My fave comedy ever. It went out w/ a whimper. Jumped the shark when that dumb kid Seven was dumped on the cast.
i forgot all about that. Seven, but what's worse is when it all turned out to be a dream.....

shows that cou;d have stuck around:
Freaks & Geeks
Arrested Development...after like 20 Emmys?

spideyrules99

05-11-2006, 12:39 PM

I think that Mash went on just a bit too long.

I have a feeling that Prison break will go on longer that it should. I mean how long can a show like that last anyway?

I think 24 is over and done with. It was a cool concept for one or two seasons but I think now its just old.

Forefinger

05-11-2006, 01:04 PM

Grazzt

05-11-2006, 01:07 PM

1 in 10 eps being good isn't enough to keep a show on the air.

That's a lie and you know it. There are a number of series that manage without any good episodes at all. :p

The Humanist Hero

05-11-2006, 01:14 PM

I think the problem is that most TV networks still operate under the belief that the best thing that can happen to a show is that it runs for as long as possible (FOX seems to have had this philosophy since day 1, applying it to Married with Children, for example). And I used to think that as well. Whereas I now think that the best thing may be to cancel a show after just a couple of seasons, or better yet, design shows that are meant to only run for a two or three seasons before ending, thus putting off the inevitable and often steep decline in quality.

Some more shows I think have now gone well past their glory days:

Law and Order and L&O:SVU: these are both shells of their previous selves. I watch the new L&O episodes on Wednesday nights and I lose interest by the midway point. They are just not compelling. The previews for the season finale look interesting, but who knows how it will turn out. And of course this show is going to go on for a while longer. I feel even worse about SVU. Although the decline hasn't been that bad, I really think they've ruined the chemistry that they had with the cast on that show. Losing Stephanie March seems, in hindsight, to have been the beginning of the end. I prefer watching the reruns on USA to the first-run episodes, with few exceptions. That said, I do think they can turn SVU around easier than fixing L&O.

Nip/Tuck has probably outlived its usefullness by now as well. There is a decline every season.

Athena Bast

05-11-2006, 01:22 PM

J.A.G.

If was one of those shows for me that have me scream "Just DIE ALREADY!"

Survivor and any other clone there of. Amazing Race doesn't count because your inabilities come into account there not your abilities that frighten others.

Grazzt

05-11-2006, 01:29 PM

Saturday Night Live.

Please die.

spideyrules99

05-11-2006, 01:32 PM

Saturday Night Live.

Please die.

AMEn

That show stopped being funny years ago.

The Humanist Hero

05-11-2006, 01:33 PM

J.A.G.
Not that I ever watched it, but when JAG premiered in the fall of 1995, I thought it would last a season at best. I am amazed it lasted, what, ten seasons?

DDM

05-11-2006, 01:40 PM

Saturday Night Live.

Please die.

I can't believe I forgot Saturday Night Live! How can a once ground-breaking, edgy show lose it? Simple. It overstays its welcome. Saturday Night Live needs to be cancelled. The show is running on stale fumes.

Deathstroke

05-11-2006, 07:04 PM

J.A.G.

If was one of those shows for me that have me scream "Just DIE ALREADY!"

Have to disagree with you. I'd still be tuning in for years to come if it was still on.

Ontir

05-11-2006, 07:31 PM

Ravenheart

05-11-2006, 07:33 PM

Seinfeld after the first episode.

Scorpion13

05-11-2006, 07:38 PM

MASH.

By season 10 it was way, way too preachy and had gotten too far away from the formula that had made it successful.

Oh and MadTV. Good god, that thing is like SNL's stupid, juvenile kid brother.

Lord of Denial

05-11-2006, 07:39 PM

24 still kicks ass.

Yes! I hope to see The Bauer kick terriost ass for many many years to come!

The Humanist Hero

05-11-2006, 07:46 PM

Oh and MadTV. Good god, that thing is like SNL's stupid, juvenile kid brother.
That's another show that I thought would last a year and it's been around a decade already.

Magneto_X

05-11-2006, 08:12 PM

Saturday Night Live.

Please die.

Mad TV dethrowned them *years* ago.

spideyrules99

05-11-2006, 08:40 PM

Mad TV dethrowned them *years* ago.

Mad tv is not near as good as SNL. And that sad.

rondre sleazde

05-11-2006, 11:49 PM

tHe simpsons-god this show is like the most overated show of all time in my opinion

Charmed after Prue and Cole left it was a wrap.

SNL
7th Heaven
Smallville
Law and Order

Legato

05-12-2006, 12:10 AM

Family Guy: It's trying too hard to be funny right now.

ragnarok_2012

05-12-2006, 01:14 AM

SNL is the comedy equivalent of the living dead, and has been since the last 2 years the Mike Myers et al were in the cast. I've not made an attempt to watch it since the incredibly torturous Myers/Patrick Stewart "Scottish" skit, but occassionally cross paths with it, whilst changing channels, or when at the home of less discerning friends. Each time, I'm overcome by one thought: "How is this crap still on the air?!?" I suppose it could be worse though - it could be Joey!

Saturday Night Live has no real competition in its time slot. I get the feeling that it's relatively inexpensive to produce. Plus, it's been around so long that people probably figure that even when it's bad it'll probably turn around eventually.

What I don't get is why people buy, much less air, reruns from the crappy seasons. They've got decades of programming to choose from. At least have some taste.

grrr23

05-12-2006, 04:19 AM

SNL...its tried for so long to come back as a part of popular late night tv. i think only old nostalgics still watch it.

Friends is an example of a show that ended at just the right time. no wearing out its welcome there...

spideyrules99

05-12-2006, 09:03 AM

I just thinkm that SNL needs new cast and a new writting staff. Close the show down for a year that have it come back. That may do the trick.

Cephus

05-12-2006, 09:41 AM

The X-Files after it decided that it wasn't gonna be Kolchak-style silliness and would try and become 'relevent'. The 'mythology' episodes may have been entertaining had the creators had ANY IDEA WHATSOEVER of what the conspiracy was all about, but instead chose to make it up on the fly, turning it into some sort of weird psychotic frankenstein/hydra with a hundred heads, none of which know what the hell the others are doing. Basically any episode after season 2.
I hated that show so much.

X-Files had tons of problems with the format, just like Kolchak did. The biggest problem is "how many times can Mulder and Scully prove there are monsters and aliens before people start believing them?" It didn't take long until it got painfully stupid. Mulder has the heads of aliens and mutants and monsters hanging on the wall in his office and everyone thinks he's crazy. Um... yeah.

The thing that really bugged me is that they almost never actually SOLVED anything. Outside of some good episodes, most of them left me wondering why I wasted an hour of my life.

The mythology got really stupid. Oh look, it's Mulder's sister. She's an alien. She's a clone. She's a mutant. She's a cloned mutant alien. Make up your mind!

The show never should have gone 9 seasons.

Cephus

05-12-2006, 09:47 AM

I think 24 is over and done with. It was a cool concept for one or two seasons but I think now its just old.

This season is excellent, arguably one of the best they've done and the show just got renewed for another 3 seasons, plus they're going to be doing a theatrical movie, although that's going to be put off until after the show goes off the air.

DDM

05-12-2006, 09:48 AM

ER needs to be cancelled.

Cephus

05-12-2006, 09:49 AM

DrewTheXenocide

05-12-2006, 03:03 PM

ER needs to be cancelled.
Y'know, while I do think so, I enjoyed last night's episode a lot.

Alex Dragon

05-13-2006, 08:39 AM

I just thinkm that SNL needs new cast and a new writting staff. Close the show down for a year that have it come back. That may do the trick.

The whole concept needs a overhaul. Back in the 70s or whenever SNL started I'd imagine the whole idea and concept of a live late night edgy show was groundbreaking considering what tv was like at the time. Now none of that seems to be that big a deal.

I don't see rushing to put on a "live" show as any sort of positive. I'd rather a "taped" show where the actors/comedians have time to learn their lines, be properly outfitted and get a chance to have their best takes air. Plus being able to take your time and air only the best stuff and toss the garbage that's weak instead of making the weekly mad scramble to come up with sketches to fill the time slot of that week.
I think that's one reason why MAD TV and IN LIVING COLOR blew SNL out of the water back when they first came out. Yeah, SNL can be more up to date and topical than those other shows but what go is that when the skits are so lame?

I think the biggest reason SNL is still on is because there's real network competition for it in that time slot and major stars still do it help promote their latest gigs.

Xero Kaiser

05-13-2006, 09:14 AM

Seinfeld after the first episode.

You shut your heathen mouth

TMC1982

05-13-2006, 10:23 PM

"All That" - Nickelodeon should've ended it after Season 6 instead of trying to continue it with a completely new cast. The show after that, became pretty much a caricature of itself. "In Living Color" is another example of a once good sketch comedy program that transformed into a sad shell of itself towards the tail end of its run.

FanboyStranger

05-14-2006, 09:19 PM

I've found the last two seasons of South Park to be a shell of the show's former self. Not that it's bad, per se, but it's just merely adequate for a show that was so radically good for so long. I think Parker and Stone have just been phoning it in lately, probably because they're burnt out on it. I look at Team America, which I though was fantastic, then watch a recent episode of South Park, which gives me generally two decent laughs, and I wonder why they don't just move their talent to greener pastures.

I felt the same way about Mr Show. The first two seasons were absolute brilliance, the third still topnotch, but by season four, diminishing returns had definitely set in. It was still a good show, but just not as radically good as it had been. Of course, HBO then cancelled it for Sex and the City, which only added insult to injury.

choptop

05-14-2006, 10:14 PM

wow The Simpsons is get'ing a bad rap but i love the show.........my vote go's to SNL.

Rachel Grey

05-15-2006, 01:56 AM

Every TV show is on at least one season too long.

Mortal Kombat: Conquest only ever got one season. Mutters bitterly.

phoenixrising

05-16-2006, 02:19 AM

The X-Files - it should have ended when Mulder left.

Will & Grace - should have ended after even my grandma realized it didn't actually have a shred of truth about gay people in it

The Simpsons - is absolutely horrid these days. It should have ended with some dignity three years ago.

Flawless P

05-16-2006, 02:41 AM

Charmed, Buffy (it should have ended in season 5),
I say nay.

Flawless P

05-16-2006, 02:45 AM

tHe simpsons-god this show is like the most overated show of all time in my opinion

Charmed after Prue and Cole left it was a wrap.

SNL
7th Heaven
Smallville
Law and Order
Charmed took a serious up turn as soon as Prue died

Rachel Grey

05-16-2006, 02:49 AM

I say nay.

Still, we wouldn't have to deal with seasons 6&7 if it had.

Totoro Man

05-16-2006, 03:21 AM

the shows I wish would die instantly (or possibly travel back in time and kill them off sooner)

Saturday Night Live
Star Trek
MASH
Simpsons

Corrina

05-16-2006, 06:02 AM

Still, we wouldn't have to deal with seasons 6&7 if it had.

But then we wouldn't have had Buffy, the Musical episode. As far as I'm concerned, all of Season 6 was worth it, if only for that show.

Xiroteus

05-16-2006, 07:45 PM

Edit.........

Ontir

05-19-2006, 01:49 AM

the Cosby Show For such a titan of a show, it went on a few years too long. They kept adding kids, first Denise's step-daughter, then a niece. By the time it ended, I was really glad to see it go.

Given how Just Shoot Me ended, I'd have to say that one went at least a year too long.

Friends, as much as I wanted it to stay, probably should've ended with Monica and Chandler's wedding. What followed just wasn't nearly as good. That last episode was truly disappointing, and the way it was bungled lead to the flawed premise that made Joey into AfterM.A.S.H. instead of Frasier.

the Naked Truth was a great show, created by the late, great Drake Sather. When it came back for its second season, he was gone, someone else got the "created by" credit, and the show just lumbered slowly toward an increasingly painful-to-watch demise.