Favorite crappy TV?

**Angie** · 11-09-2012, 08:38 AM

Originally Posted by MNCyGuy

I haven't been home Thursday nights to watch, but it sounds like The Office has kind of rebounded from the complete disaster of last season and is going out on somewhat of a high note. Reviews have been positive enough that I'll probably actually go back and watch this season on Netflix once it's done.

That's really encouraging. I wonder if I would be totally lost if I just picked back up there and skipped the last season and a half.

**MNCyGuy** · 11-09-2012, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by Angie

That's really encouraging. I wonder if I would be totally lost if I just picked back up there and skipped the last season and a half.

I'm sure you'd catch up quick. And I'm sure it's still not glory days good, but if it at least gets back up to pre-baby Jim & Pam or Michael Scott Farewell tour levels it's probably at least a watchable goodbye run for those characters.

**Cyclone06** · 11-09-2012, 08:56 AM

I can't quit Real World/Road Rules Challenges or the Jersey Shore, and if this wasn't a mostly anonymous forum, I probably wouldn't say it.

Very happy that JS is over after this season. But like a train wreck, I cannot look away until its over. RW/RR challenge is highly entertaining. Not good TV at all, but highly entertaining. In the big picture, how much "good" TV is there?

**MLawrence** · 11-09-2012, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by Al_4_State

How I Met Your Mother

They keep recycling the same jokes, the show has drug on far longer than the story necessitates, but I'm too invested to quit.

To me it's not the fact they keep recycling the same jokes, it's the fact that the keep going back into story lines that they have already done in the past seasons. The biggest one that disappoints me is Ted trying to get back with Robin every so often. Then last season it was Ted getting back with Victoria. It just seems like the writers are getting lazy or they can't think of any new story ideas.

**Knownothing** · 11-09-2012, 09:01 AM

Orange County Choppers. It got interesting again when it was Senior vs. Junior. Now the show has run it's course basically but I can't stop watching now.

**Al_4_State** · 11-09-2012, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by Angie

I've heard that about that show - I've never seen an episode, which is dumb because I know it started off awesome, but at some point you've GOT to meet the mother, right?

I don't follow it on a weekly basis, I just wait for Netflix to release a new season and then kind of run through it.

One would think that the mother would come into play eventually, but in typical (and unfortunate) network sitcom style, they just keep dragging it out and insulting the viewer's intelligence. The story lines get more ridiculous, which isn't a good thing when one of the attractive aspects of the show was the fact that characters were fairly believable at first. Its still entertaining at times, but the initial draw to the show was the story of this group of friends and how they evolved from one stage of life to the next.

**ajk4st8** · 11-09-2012, 09:13 AM

I regularly throw in DVD's of the TV show coach. Some call it crappy, I call it comedic gold.

**Al_4_State** · 11-09-2012, 09:16 AM

Originally Posted by MLawrence

To me it's not the fact they keep recycling the same jokes, it's the fact that the keep going back into story lines that they have already done in the past seasons. The biggest one that disappoints me is Ted trying to get back with Robin every so often. Then last season it was Ted getting back with Victoria. It just seems like the writers are getting lazy or they can't think of any new story ideas.

I think its the latter. Which is why they need to just end the series.

**Angie** · 11-09-2012, 09:16 AM

Originally Posted by Al_4_State

I don't follow it on a weekly basis, I just wait for Netflix to release a new season and then kind of run through it.

One would think that the mother would come into play eventually, but in typical (and unfortunate) network sitcom style, they just keep dragging it out and insulting the viewer's intelligence. The story lines get more ridiculous, which isn't a good thing when one of the attractive aspects of the show was the fact that characters were fairly believable at first. Its still entertaining at times, but the initial draw to the show was the story of this group of friends and how they evolved from one stage of life to the next.

Sounds like it has the same syndrome Scrubs did? Started off really creative and with solid characters... but then they became caricatures of themselves as the seasons went on? And because the characters are no longer believable, they have to morph the story lines into asinine situations that fit the characters? That's too bad.

**longtimeclone** · 11-09-2012, 09:20 AM

Originally Posted by MLawrence

To me it's not the fact they keep recycling the same jokes, it's the fact that the keep going back into story lines that they have already done in the past seasons. The biggest one that disappoints me is Ted trying to get back with Robin every so often. Then last season it was Ted getting back with Victoria. It just seems like the writers are getting lazy or they can't think of any new story ideas.

I also liked the show a lot more when they would have story lines merge with past story lines or they would have a lot of build up of a future story line. I wonder if they do this less because the writers haven't finished writing for the future or the they have but the story will be ending soon.

**longtimeclone** · 11-09-2012, 09:28 AM

Originally Posted by Angie

Sounds like it has the same syndrome Scrubs did? Started off really creative and with solid characters... but then they became caricatures of themselves as the seasons went on? And because the characters are no longer believable, they have to morph the story lines into asinine situations that fit the characters? That's too bad.

Woah there! I believe Scrubs hit their stride in the around season 5-6. My Lunch in season 5 is probably one of my favorite episodes of any show I have seen. I agree that it started to go down hill with the writers strike and then got even worse when Braff was leaving.

Edit: Also I stuck by and watched the new scrubs what ever it was called even though I knew it was pretty bad and the show was going to be cancelled.

**Angie** · 11-09-2012, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by longtimeclone

Woah there! I believe Scrubs hit their stride in the around season 5-6. My Lunch in season 5 is probably one of my favorite episodes of any show I have seen. I agree that it started to go down hill with the writers strike and then got even worse when Braff was leaving.

Ah, see, I thought the characters started becoming caricatures around season 4 or so. Kind of one-line personalities that all of the jokes revolved around:

JD - wildly effeminate, prone to not living in reality, clumsy
Elliott - hyper, shrieky when angry, clumsy, overly attached to whatever boyfriend
Turk - macho guy with a soft spot for JD, and then Carla
Carla - no-business Latina woman who was going to tell you off
Cox - Cox

The show could still make me laugh, but it sort of condensed the actual relationships that were developed in the first two seasons to those punchlines. JMO, though. I still watched through the end. :)

**LindenCy** · 11-09-2012, 09:34 AM

Ok, I'll go out on a limb (and it's cancelled now), but Ringer. It was basically a soap opera and somewhat formulaic, but had decent actors and a lot of soap-twists.

**Al_4_State** · 11-09-2012, 09:36 AM

Originally Posted by Angie

Sounds like it has the same syndrome Scrubs did? Started off really creative and with solid characters... but then they became caricatures of themselves as the seasons went on? And because the characters are no longer believable, they have to morph the story lines into asinine situations that fit the characters? That's too bad.

Yeah, that's actually a really good analogy. I've never watched much Scrubs, but that description is exactly what I would say about HIMYM.

**DistrictCyclone** · 11-09-2012, 09:38 AM

Originally Posted by Angie

Sounds like it has the same syndrome nearly all TV shows encounter after 4-5 seasons did? Started off really creative and with solid characters... but then they became caricatures of themselves as the seasons went on? And because the characters are no longer believable, they have to morph the story lines into asinine situations that fit the characters? That's too bad.

FIFY. It's so easy to "jump the shark".