TV Shows You Love to HATE

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Food Network. and Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives.

My wife and I will occasionally go off onto riffs describing something plebian we've made for supper in Guy's glowing terms 'Man this beef hot link was microwaved to perfection, I'm getting the real Earl Campbell vibe here, and the low carb tortilla 'waved for 18 seconds with the Sam's Choice habenero jack brings it all together, I'd eat this everyday' (which in my case I do).

[Diamondback]

Seriously, before my folks gave up travel I had every DD&D joint plotted out on my laptop's mapping software. "Oh, we're headed up to Goshen today? South Side Soda Shop's up there, might be a good spot for lunch..."

Too bad DeLorme decided that the PC navigation market was no longer worth serving.

[MountainRaven]

3. Food Network. Used to be good ideas, then they went to "how else can we repackage the already stale Chopped concept?" Exceptions for Burgers, Brew & 'Que, Guy's Grocery Games and Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives.

Cut-throat Kitchen is pretty good, too.

[Diamondback]

Cut-throat Kitchen is pretty good, too.

Sorry, Alton Brown's dialed-to-eleven douchebaggery kinda killed both it and the Iron Chef reboot for me. (He ain't the guy from Good Eats anymore... ) I'm not really much of a fan of "reality TV," which I include almost all these "Survivor in the Kitchen" things as... Beat Bobby Flay's another I make an exception for, even with all the smacktalk that if I was cooking would get somebody served a Dirty Sock Special.

[Arik]

Anything "reality", especially on the learning channels. I'd rather watch the same show about Hitler that's been on practically every day since 1998 than hear "Oak Island" one more time. Or AxeMen, Alaskan Bush People...etc.. There have been a few kinda interesting shows but would make a good 2hr special vs a whole show.

[SteyrAUG]

Anything "reality", especially on the learning channels. I'd rather watch the same show about Hitler that's been on practically every day since 1998 than hear "Oak Island" one more time. Or AxeMen, Alaskan Bush People...etc.. There have been a few kinda interesting shows but would make a good 2hr special vs a whole show.

No kidding. I can remember when you'd actually learn something watching The Learning Channel or Discovery, I remember when actual history was on the History Channel. 20 years ago I could leave the History Channel on all day long and see something I wanted to watch, the only thing I had to mute were the f-ing Miss Cleo commercials.

[Evel Baldgui]

My television viewing is a bit limited, SyFy, Comedy Channel, Movie channels, and occasional Fox News. I did catch a few episodes (reruns) of ‘The Office’ . Initially it was pretty funny, but after a few episodes almost all the characters, with maybe 1-2 exceptions, were vile useless pathetic souls who just should have hung themselves.

[OldState]

I always hated Friends and Seinfeld. I realize I’m in the minority here. I found Friends very predictable and I just hated Jerry Seinfeld as a comedian.

There used to be an A&E show called “Evening at the Improve” in the late 80’s. It was all standup and several people ended up making it big. Several of my friends watched it and we would often debate who was good and bad in my 11th grade homeroom class. Seinfeld was universally hated in that group and I remember being in shock the he made it big.

Another terrible comedian that made it big was John Stewart. I actually saw him get booed at college show. He was freaking horrible.

[Firefly]

I wish they would just call TLC The Sideshow Channel.

Thirsty chumps buying foreign whores to marry and 600 lb land Orcas.

Oof

[BoringGuy45]

I could discuss things I hate all day.
It keeps me warm....

As a kid, I learned about the cathartic value of pure unadulterated hatred early on. And one of my favorite hate sinks was something called Zoobilee Zoo. In fact, lingering memories of it might help explain my extreme hostility toward the "Furry" community as an adult.

I also couldn't stand the live-action Winnie the Pooh series on Disney called Welcome to Pooh Corner or another similar show called Dumbo's Circus. Both had characters portrayed by actors in big stupid costumes

The only good kid's show in that vein was Sesame Street. And I say was because Sesame Street has gone way downhill since the early 90s when I was still watching it as a little kid.

Of the kids that were so infuriatingly stupid that it made you want to kick a puppy, I think the worst I've seen was Lazy Town. The first time I saw it, there was a thing with this puppet named Stingy, who was, like his name suggests, a cheap, selfish little bastard. He was supposed to buy a present for one of the other character's birthday, but he was such a tightwad that all he gave was an empty box. To not make him feel bad, all the other characters pretended that the box was filled with toys and went outside pretending to play with them. Stingy felt guilty and started crying, but the main character told him not to feel bad because he actually gave the best gift of all: The gift of imagination. You've gotta be ****ing kidding me! That's what this teaches kids? How about it ending with the message of 1. Don't be a cheapskate 2. Be thankful if you have tactful friends who understand that you're an asshole and put up with you anyway.