Worst Decisions a TV show has made (characters, Family Guy, Cleveland)
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The finale to How I Met Your Mother has to be up there. All of that and he ends up with ROBIN? And the mother (and the reason we spent 9 years watching it) DIES?
The show was great with Trapper John and Colonel Blake. When those two left it became Alan Alda's Sermon of the Week. Especially when they started calling Loretta Swit Margaret instead of Hotlips.
Ya know I thought that too when I watched it in prime time back in the 70s. But I ended up liking the show more during the next phase, with Charles Emerson Winchester III and Col. Potter. BJ was just a real tool though. When Radar left was when it went downhill.
Writing off Zack Addy was done specifically to bring viewers back after the writers strike. They felt they needed something bold after the long hiatus.
How stupid. The Itchy and Scratchy executives on The Simpsons are obviously modeled on the idiot suits at Fox.
I STOPPED watching because you got rid of Zach Addy, morons at Bones.
How stupid. The Itchy and Scratchy executives on The Simpsons are obviously modeled on the idiot suits at Fox.
"We at the network want a dog with attitude. He's edgy, he's "in your face." You've heard the expression, "let's get busy"? Well, this is a dog who gets "biz-zay!" Consistently and thoroughly."
It's all food all the time now. Watch some guy eat a burger in some random town. Before that it had turned into the Las Vegas all the time channel.
I miss the travel channel being about travel. The world is so big and would love to see new places even if they are on t.v. Now it is just another food channel.
For half of these things the ratings never changed, so I don't know if you can really say they were "mistakes".
Felicity's haircut might be one of the few times a change effected ratings, but stuff like MASH getting preachy made no difference whatsoever.
TV ratings are no more a reflection of quality than record sales are a reflection of the quality of the music. Sure, good shows and music get good ratings, but we all can think of plenty of bad TV shows and music that were incredibly (and incomprehensibly) popular.
TV ratings are no more a reflection of quality than record sales are a reflection of the quality of the music. Sure, good shows and music get good ratings, but we all can think of plenty of bad TV shows and music that were incredibly (and incomprehensibly) popular.
Oh no I agree, it's just that if no one stopped watching then it's hard to declare a particular move a "failure", because all you have to go on are folk's opinions. I may think something was a creative failure but you can find someone who thinks anything ever done was a failure.
Not to say it's not a fun topic to talk about.
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