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Post by slayrrr666 on Mar 23, 2009 10:08:46 GMT -5
Which TV shows (and I'll stress this here at the beginning: I'd rather this be about already-cancelled shows rather than still-airing ones, so that way we can get more discussion going rather than everyone just listing The Simpsons) do you look at/think of and say "They were on the air way too long?"
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Mar 23, 2009 15:13:01 GMT -5
I know it's still on the air, but I have to say "Saturday Night Live" (It's almost always been "hit or miss", but nowadays, it's way more "miss" than "hit". This past Saturday I caught a few minutes of the rerun of the one Steve Martin recently hosted, and it was painful to watch. Any show that can make Steve Martin unfunny truly needs to call it a day.)
As far as shows that are already gone, it's always easier to list shows that were caanceled too soon other than that went on too long, but for the sake of staying on topic, I'll say "The Dukes of Hazzard". I was never a big fan of the show to begin with, but when they brought in the two lookalike cousins to replace Bo and Luke, you knew the show had overstayed it's welcome.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Mar 24, 2009 10:10:04 GMT -5
I always think of two shows when it comes to this: King of the Hill and Will and Grace. King of the Hill just got axed so it's close enough to count, but back in the late 90s when my Simpson fandom made me watch everything on FOX, I tuned into that one and after three episodes, started looking for something else to watch in that timeslot. It was stupid, boring, and completely unfunny, and how it lasted this long just amazes me as no one else was really watching it.
Will and Grace was one my parents used to watch in the wanning months before we got cable, and they said it wasn't that great. For those that are clueless, that was back in the late 90s as well, at the same time, and I knew enough of TV to know it was still on around 2003 or so, much longer after it was supposedly funny as you could hear them laughing at it a couple times a month.
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Post by Fenril on Jan 17, 2011 23:29:11 GMT -5
Also known as "Seasonal rot": tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeasonalRotLet's see: - That 70's show. Especially the last season, when they had gotten rid of the main character. - Maybe, The X Files. Again, it lost a main character and the later seasons started shifting in tone. - Heroes. One great first season, an okay second, a truly atrocious third, and two ho-hum more. I'd list Lost, but then, I think that one was a special case: it's not that it took too long for the writers to "get there", it's that it's clear they didn't know where they were going. |
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Post by slayrrr666 on Jan 18, 2011 11:02:19 GMT -5
That 70s Show was another fine one, it started going downhill around the 6th Season and never really recovered. Too much Kelso for my liking. Once he left it got better, but it was still in a pretty steep hole it couldn't climb out of.
One more I'll add here: Joey, the Friends spin-off. Giving the most-annoying character on the show his own series was just insanely moronic and other for the fact that the girl kept on wearing practically nothing, I found little reason to stay tuned in week after week.
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