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The Last Man On Earth, I think this recent show lasted 4 seasons. A sci-fi comedy that was really bad in both genres.
I loved that show.
And I'll add "The Good Place" - which sounded absolutely ridiculous, and I really doubted it would last even ONE season. Turns out I was wrong, as it's now in Season 3 and one of my current favorite shows. Also didn't think "Blackish" and "Fresh off the Boat" would last, due to our current (overly-sensitive) culture. Both are flourishing and excellent, imo.
This thread seems to be yet another one where people just list examples that they don't like, because if they didn't like them it's inexplicable to them that anyone else does. There are many series that don't interest e in the slightest, yet I am not at all surprised that others do. I don't think my personal viewing tastes are some sort of gold standard by which the masses must be measured.
Yes, exactly. Thanks for saying that so well.
I don't care for 90 percent of television these days, but the 10 percent I watch includes soap operas, so what do I know?
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The Patty Duke Show with its weird “identical cousins” conceit. Lasted three seasons.
That premise set up some pretty fun hijinks, for sure. The target audience was tweens and teens. The show did a good job at aiming its writing squarely at them. I watched the show as a tot - I was 4-5 when it aired originally - and loved watching reruns when I was a teenager.
Three years isn't bad for a kid-focused prime time show. Kid trends change faster than anyone else's.
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Several of the teen and kid appeal shows like The Brady Bunch, Welcome Back Kotter, and The Partridge Family also qualify. Five, four, and four seasons each for these three. Unwatchable then, unwatchable now.
Were you in the target audience for these shows? If not, they were unwatchable. If you were, they were great fun. And isn't that all that really matters?
(re The Patty Duke Show) That premise set up some pretty fun hijinks, for sure. The target audience was tweens and teens. The show did a good job at aiming its writing squarely at them. I watched the show as a tot - I was 4-5 when it aired originally - and loved watching reruns when I was a teenager.
Hijinks aside, is there really such a thing as “identical cousins?” Identical brothers or sisters as part of twins or a larger grouping, sure.
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(re Welcome Back Kotter, The Brady Bunch, and The Partridge Family)Were you in the target audience for these shows? If not, they were unwatchable. If you were, they were great fun. And isn't that all that really matters?
I was within reasonable expected age for the target contingent. Couldn’t stand any of these shows.
My favorite line from the movie Tin Men (responding to a character who is a big fan of Bonanza):
"I'm starting to think this show isn't very realistic. You've got a fifty year old guy living with his three forty-seven year old sons. No wonder everybody gets along so well: they're all the same age".
In fall 2007 I watched a few episodes of a brand new show. I thought it was a really bad show and the premise was ridiculous. The show was The Big Bang Theory. I thought to myself, there's no way a girl like that would ever hang around with a bunch of awkward nerds, its so unrealistic, I am an awkward nerd and this just would never happen. I stopped watching the show until catching up with it in reruns around 5 years later, when I discovered I was wrong, its a good sometimes great show that I often enjoy despite the flawed premise.
In fall 2007 I watched a few episodes of a brand new show. I thought it was a really bad show and the premise was ridiculous. The show was The Big Bang Theory. I thought to myself, there's no way a girl like that would ever hang around with a bunch of awkward nerds, its so unrealistic, I am an awkward nerd and this just would never happen. I stopped watching the show until catching up with it in reruns around 5 years later, when I discovered I was wrong, its a good sometimes great show that I often enjoy despite the flawed premise.
Have heard similar opinion about "Penny with nerds" being unrealistic, but I'm not sold on the idea.
When the show opens, she has been seen as having very unsatisfying relationships with guys one might expect her to date (hunky, not especially smart). It's also clear as things go along that she likes -- and is in fact attracted to -- guys who are smart, that she ultimately finds intelligence sexy. And she's not dumb, either, though of course she's not as smart as Leonard and company.
She's a good-hearted sort, and the guys she had been dating often weren't, in fact taking advantage of her in at least one case. Not a problem with Leonard, for one.
While Leonard isn't hunky, he's certainly attractive enough out of the group of four guys, probably the most such.
She also likes being in a relationship where she wears the proverbial pants in the family, which Leonard will gladly allow.
In early episodes, Penny is also shown to be good at playing video games once she tries to, to the point where she gets obsessed with a particular one.
I'll second this one. Loved Bull when it first came out, but after you've seen the same plot line 2-3 times you realize there isn't much they can do with the concept. Yet, it continues.
My Mother The Car is another one that went on longer than I would have guessed. Didn't go into a second season, so I guess it doesn't qualify for the OP's topic. But I'm amazed it even lasted beyond 1-2 episodes.
C'mon, 6 pages and I can't believe I didn't see one mention of, "The Dukes of Hazard". Boss Hogg schemes, Dukes foil.
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