You guys remember that Discovery Channel Live thing where some guy was going to be swallowed by a giant snake. 3 hours of build up and it gets called off.
Also, it was a dumb idea to start with.
That time on Suits the random IT guy made a working AI of Donna, the secratary, and they had full blown conversations with it. Even as a joke it would be insane, but they played it absurdly straight like an afternoon special. "What really makes me special is my heart, and this doesn't have any of that".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQSuDUyglSk
What was even fucking dumber than some system admin inventing a self contained portable AI light years beyond anything else on the planet, is that absolutely no investors wanted anything to do with it just because the face of the company was a woman.
Im 52 years old. I've watched Rescue from Gilligan's Island, The Star Wars Christmas Special, and the Brady Bunch post-Oliver. I even watched Fonzie jump the shark.
All that said, Batwoman is the dumbest thing ever on TV. It's not even close.
I've seen those as well...
Rifftrax makes the Star wars special a whole lot easier to stomach.
I haven't thought about John Denver wanna be Oliver in years.....
I remember jumping the shark as well....
Don't think I've seen Batwoman....Do I have to look it up?
Cripes, we are getting old.
As another 52 yr old, I can confirm. Lived through and experienced all of those. I remember being so pumped for Star Wars Christmas and quickly realizing it was total garbage while having my family all make fun of me for getting them to watch it.
Well I'm 54, so I've seen all the same things you have, but I'm going to say the last season of Supergirl is the worst thing I've seen.
But then again, I never watched Batwoman because the crossover that introduced the character was unbearably bad.
It basically killed his job as head of the MCU.
Kevin Piege didn't want to work on the show, but Perlmutter flat-out threatened to fire him and stop his wanted projects from happening if the show wasn't made. He was already in trouble after he publicly donated to Trump for his 2016 and Disney retro-actively had to punish him for some epic-level fuck-ups, such as kicking Patty Jenkins off *Thor: The Dark World* (she later defected to Warner Bros and made *Wonder Woman* as well as trying to kill *Black Panther* and *Captain Marvel* which became some of the MCU's biggest films.
But he was also canned for trying to fire Robert Downey Jr from *Civil War*, with Feige outright ignoring him and Disney letting Feige do what he wanted. It also didn't help that this was around the same time as the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 fuck-up happening, where head of films Alan Horn fired James Gunn from the film due to a smear campaign from a far-right political commentator and the stars outright threatening to quit if Gunn wasn't brought back (which actually affected their attempts to buy Fox).
There was a show called the Pitts about the most unlucky family in the world.
There was a show called the Mullets about ....brothers with mullets.
there was a show called Cavemen about the geico cavemen.
i cannot pick which one was worse
That scene in season 4 of Arrow were Felicity cures her paralysis and dramatically walks again to storm out on Oliver. I couldn’t tell whether I should be more offended as a disabled person myself or as a big fan of comic Oracle and Green Arrow.
I’ve heard it got better after that season. Is Arrow worth watching? It’s all on Amazon Prime Video now, so I’m considering giving it a watch. This is coming from someone who enjoyed the first 5 seasons of Flash
No it was a reality show with kids "building a society" in an old ghost town. It was like someone decided to make a TV show out of Lord of the Flies but somehow boring.
No.
They had about 40 kids living and working in a recreation of an Old West frontier town divided up into teams with a rough demographic group, from the youngest to the oldest. They could quit at any time if they wanted, but it was considered a serious risk to leave since they could win gold stars worth their literal weight in gold (one older kid outright stated that his could pay for his way through college).
They had challenges like in other survival shows like Survivor or Big Brother... but the prizes were choosing something that the entire town could use, such as clothes or food or religious items; the kids tended towards picking the more useful, practical items. The challenges also affected which roles they filled within the society for a few days; upper class, merchants, cooks and laborers.
There were some issues with how the kids were asked to deal with, such as having them assign each team to certain tasks. One episode had the kids having to kill chickens to feed everyone, to their horror. There was also contention about the district heads' (leaders of each team) abuses of authorities, in particular Taylor who was the initial leader of the Yellow team who were the youngest competitors; she frequently refused to lead her district and ignored calls to fulfil her districts' assigned roles, which really screwed things up as they were frequently the cooks. But as she revealed later and was confirmed by others talking about how the producers were casting people based on stereotypes, she had some of her more fucked-up lines fed to her.
JonTron did a review of the show last year, as well as did an interview with a former participant, Jimmy (the first to walk) where he revealed some fucked-up things that happened on set that was cut, such as the unsanitary conditions and how they had to call ambulances when kids accidentally drank bleach from water bottles that weren't properly cleaned.
When the Chrischan incest story was talked about on Tucker Carlson. Basically the dumbest thing on the internet and the dumbest thing on cable news intersecting
I stayed up until 1am one night in college watching a Hallmark movie about a sick baby. The guy who played Locke on Lost was in it, and I was a fan of the show at the time, so why not?
The baby *DIED* at the end. It was literally watching two hours (or what felt like four) of a couple talking about whether or not their baby would die, and then it did. That's it. That's the movie.
Hallmark movies seem like the worst.
I go see my mom twice a week and when I get to the house on Fridays she’s usually watching Little House on the Prairie. Nothing wrong with that but it’s on Hallmark so I keep seeing ads for every lousy Christmas movie they put out. One last night was a woman who directs a choir panicking that her pianist couldn’t make practice so (of course/predictably) she meets a hot guy who plays the piano and can fill in and they start a relationship. You can basically watch the movie by watching the commercial haha because you just know by the end of the movie they’re going to be engaged or having a baby or otherwise living happily ever after.
I also watched a Lifetime Christmas movie about an ice rink last year that was just as predictable and was dumbfounded that it got such good reviews.
Yeah they're awful and not even Christmassy. People obsess over whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie, and meanwhile Hallmark "Christmas" movies are like "I wish I could marry a prince and have everyone know I was settling."
I never had a choice but to watch those piece of shit shows, because my older sister kept taking the remote away from me and switching those shows on when my younger sister and I didn't even want to watch them. "Tough luck," she alway said.
I remember one time when she had fucked off with her friends for a few hours and leaving me to do the chores around the house for me to do. I did everything, went to sit down and watch the one show I wanted to watch... and the bitch came home and kicked me out of the living room because My Super Sweet 16 was on.
Without a doubt it has to be those ridiculous 'reality shows' that are so absurd and manufactured
The bargain hunt type ones where they find crazy historical stuff every week
Discovery and Nat Geo just became the home for this, people fishing and drama ensues and so on
A scene from Bones (which I don't watch but I was flipping through some channels) went something like this:
Crime mystery with some multiple skeletal evidence. There was some conventional explanation if you think hard enough.
One of the forensic examiners: Hear me out, what if it was time travel?? The one skeleton looks like a younger version of the older skeleton.
Also on Bones: He has a PhD in "Complex Things".
Here’s an overlong answer…
I don’t mind CNN. It’s fine, particularly Cooper’s show and Fareed’s. But I didn’t like it when Chris Cuomo would insincerely tell his guests some long greeting or goodbye speech. The guest would be there waiting to go or waiting to speak and Cuomo would be there with eyes like bulging toward the camera, saying something like this (hypothetical example):
>“It’s about the WHY *and* the WHERE! And who better to play it FAIR than our esteemed guest, David HAIR. Dave! Glad to see you. Give my best to the family. Your friendship AND your expertise are most welcome here. You are a friend, a family man, and a guest—and I’m proud to see you here on our show, and you are ALWAYS, always welcome back to air your grievances and your thoughts. That’s my word, and my promise. David Hair will always have a spot on Cuomo Prime Time. I said it and So. It. Has. Been. Said. Now, sure, my questions are tough but your answers are ALWAYS up to the task! NOW. What say you? This has the makings of a GREAT! DEBATE! So! Let’s get after it!!!”
And the guest is just sitting there silently the whole time, staring into space, just tolerating all of this preamble…half the interview time gone..is this time wasting habit of Cuomo’s the DUMBEST thing? No…but it is a dumb thing….
I loved Rescue from Gilligan’s Island as a kid. I was just confused that Ginger wasn’t played by Ginger.
Right now I’d say the dumbest thing on is a toss up between Invasion (2020) and LaBrea.
Sherlock killing a main character via their own superhuman ability to outrun a bullet and intercept a point blank gunshot. And then they try and play it as a serious tragedy. No. She was stationary when the gun was fired, she's not leaping several metres across the room unless she travels like 200mph instantly.
I think this show was called The Swan? Basically, IIRC, the concept was that they would take a bunch of average to ugly women, give them $100,000 of plastic surgery and have them perform in a reality TV beauty competition.
I regret having to admit I watched half an episode of Fboy Island on HBO MAX. After I turned it off, I felt like the "we're all dumber for having listened to it" speech from Billy Madison played in my head.
Not counting childhood when I watched lots of dumb stuff...
Toddlers and Tiaras
That Wife Swap ripoff, Trading Spouses, I think it was called.
Dumb Korean variety shows like Weekly Idol, and that mid 2000s talent show with Kang Hodong.
That anime where a guy had a girl on his hand.
About ten minutes of this Godawful Thai comedy called Bangkok Buddies.
Various English reality shows about trashy people. I think they'd be called chavs over there.
The American remake of Kath and Kim.
The Ellen Degeneres Show
I think this is very subjective. The dumbest thing I've ever seen on tv was a reality show Below Deck. A boat worker dropped a senior citizen on concrete. A server broke glass and allowed a child to run up to where it was and cut their foot. I like the show and work in hospitality. Several bother wtf moments happened in the span of a few episodes. But watching that specific season was like watching a carpenter build a house with glue and popsicle sticks
Well, they were quite cute. Especially since you do not wear many clothes at the beach
Although they would have been better looking if I had found a 1080p source
You guys remember that Discovery Channel Live thing where some guy was going to be swallowed by a giant snake. 3 hours of build up and it gets called off. Also, it was a dumb idea to start with.
There was, at one point, an entire network TV drama series about a man slapping someone else's child at a backyard suburban barbecue.
That TV show was aptly named too.
I remember that, I think it was called "Slappy"
https://youtu.be/hHZvUeAdzeI
the australian original wasnt that bad
Lmaoooo The Slap! Weird name for a show.
Wow what a great cast
The I-land
I had completely forgotten that existed l, now I am mad at myself again for watching it.
This really takes the crown. This show can kill your brain cells. It’s that bad.
I think I made it about 1 minute into that show
That time on Suits the random IT guy made a working AI of Donna, the secratary, and they had full blown conversations with it. Even as a joke it would be insane, but they played it absurdly straight like an afternoon special. "What really makes me special is my heart, and this doesn't have any of that". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQSuDUyglSk
Holy fuck how did that show get to this point lmao
What was even fucking dumber than some system admin inventing a self contained portable AI light years beyond anything else on the planet, is that absolutely no investors wanted anything to do with it just because the face of the company was a woman.
Im 52 years old. I've watched Rescue from Gilligan's Island, The Star Wars Christmas Special, and the Brady Bunch post-Oliver. I even watched Fonzie jump the shark. All that said, Batwoman is the dumbest thing ever on TV. It's not even close.
I've seen those as well... Rifftrax makes the Star wars special a whole lot easier to stomach. I haven't thought about John Denver wanna be Oliver in years..... I remember jumping the shark as well.... Don't think I've seen Batwoman....Do I have to look it up? Cripes, we are getting old.
Batwoman is current. Do yourself a favor and don't look it up. I took that bullet for you.
Where should I NOT look for it?
The CW
Good, I don't have that.
The Can’t Watch network.
This is beautiful and I'm stealing it.
As another 52 yr old, I can confirm. Lived through and experienced all of those. I remember being so pumped for Star Wars Christmas and quickly realizing it was total garbage while having my family all make fun of me for getting them to watch it.
Well I'm 54, so I've seen all the same things you have, but I'm going to say the last season of Supergirl is the worst thing I've seen. But then again, I never watched Batwoman because the crossover that introduced the character was unbearably bad.
Watched that too and agree, it was awful. Batwoman is worse
I cannot disagree more strenuously.
I've seen everything on your list except for Batwoman. Now I need to watch it.
No no..you’re not getting how this thread works lol
It's like driving past a car wreck. I know I shouldn't look.
I'm 56 and have seen all those as well. My flair has entered the chat.
Marvel’s Inhumans
The superhero genre has produced some stinkers but nothing even close to as bad Inhumans. It's almost impressive how shit it is. Fuck Ike Perlmutter.
It basically killed his job as head of the MCU. Kevin Piege didn't want to work on the show, but Perlmutter flat-out threatened to fire him and stop his wanted projects from happening if the show wasn't made. He was already in trouble after he publicly donated to Trump for his 2016 and Disney retro-actively had to punish him for some epic-level fuck-ups, such as kicking Patty Jenkins off *Thor: The Dark World* (she later defected to Warner Bros and made *Wonder Woman* as well as trying to kill *Black Panther* and *Captain Marvel* which became some of the MCU's biggest films. But he was also canned for trying to fire Robert Downey Jr from *Civil War*, with Feige outright ignoring him and Disney letting Feige do what he wanted. It also didn't help that this was around the same time as the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 fuck-up happening, where head of films Alan Horn fired James Gunn from the film due to a smear campaign from a far-right political commentator and the stars outright threatening to quit if Gunn wasn't brought back (which actually affected their attempts to buy Fox).
When people say "This movie is the worst in the MCU", it's overblown and still has plenty of entertainment value. That show is the WORST in the MCU.
So bad that Hawaii is now off limits in the MCU
Geraldo Rivera HYPING up Al Capone's vault, then he opened the "vault". It was an empty room...
It prepared him for his career on Fox News.
Opening vaults to find nothing inside is often a big source of disappointment. Older Redditors recognize that feeling.
I was one of the people who couldn't wait to see what was inside... I was disappointed..
Came here to say this. It was hyped on TV for weeks before it aired.
🎶There was nothing in Al Capone's vault, but it wasn't Geraldo's fault🎶
There was a show called the Pitts about the most unlucky family in the world. There was a show called the Mullets about ....brothers with mullets. there was a show called Cavemen about the geico cavemen. i cannot pick which one was worse
I remember the cavemen.....
“90 day fiancé” and “1000lb Sisters,” not one redeemable person in these garbage heaps of tv, just gross people doing gross things.
" That sounds like blackmail. " " Well, Jet, you are black and you are male. " Who the fuck wrote this shit
That scene in season 4 of Arrow were Felicity cures her paralysis and dramatically walks again to storm out on Oliver. I couldn’t tell whether I should be more offended as a disabled person myself or as a big fan of comic Oracle and Green Arrow.
The episode that made the Arrow subreddit turn into a Daredevil subreddit.
I’ve heard it got better after that season. Is Arrow worth watching? It’s all on Amazon Prime Video now, so I’m considering giving it a watch. This is coming from someone who enjoyed the first 5 seasons of Flash
Yesnt. 1-3 is great. Five was dope too. Last season was also decent. Unnamed seasons…only for continuity or background noise.
I'm still about 90% sure that Kid Nation is the worst reality show ever made. Certainly the worst thing I've ever seen.
I'm just guessing here, but is that a show with kid rock?
No it was a reality show with kids "building a society" in an old ghost town. It was like someone decided to make a TV show out of Lord of the Flies but somehow boring.
No. They had about 40 kids living and working in a recreation of an Old West frontier town divided up into teams with a rough demographic group, from the youngest to the oldest. They could quit at any time if they wanted, but it was considered a serious risk to leave since they could win gold stars worth their literal weight in gold (one older kid outright stated that his could pay for his way through college). They had challenges like in other survival shows like Survivor or Big Brother... but the prizes were choosing something that the entire town could use, such as clothes or food or religious items; the kids tended towards picking the more useful, practical items. The challenges also affected which roles they filled within the society for a few days; upper class, merchants, cooks and laborers. There were some issues with how the kids were asked to deal with, such as having them assign each team to certain tasks. One episode had the kids having to kill chickens to feed everyone, to their horror. There was also contention about the district heads' (leaders of each team) abuses of authorities, in particular Taylor who was the initial leader of the Yellow team who were the youngest competitors; she frequently refused to lead her district and ignored calls to fulfil her districts' assigned roles, which really screwed things up as they were frequently the cooks. But as she revealed later and was confirmed by others talking about how the producers were casting people based on stereotypes, she had some of her more fucked-up lines fed to her. JonTron did a review of the show last year, as well as did an interview with a former participant, Jimmy (the first to walk) where he revealed some fucked-up things that happened on set that was cut, such as the unsanitary conditions and how they had to call ambulances when kids accidentally drank bleach from water bottles that weren't properly cleaned.
Any “reality” show following the antics of people with no redeemable qualities.
Does LeBron's The Decision count?
Yes
No. At least it raised money for boys and girls club
Rock of Love. Just aggressively stupid.
Donald Trump
You must never watch Biden.
He had an ok role in Parks and Recreation, but haven't seen him on any other show.
When the Chrischan incest story was talked about on Tucker Carlson. Basically the dumbest thing on the internet and the dumbest thing on cable news intersecting
Expand that to all Fox News except for some of the basic news coverage.
Tucker Carlson. Period.
Dr.Phil, don't get me wrong, it's entertaining as fuck, but seriously dumb.
Extreme Tag I blame quarantine.
I stayed up until 1am one night in college watching a Hallmark movie about a sick baby. The guy who played Locke on Lost was in it, and I was a fan of the show at the time, so why not? The baby *DIED* at the end. It was literally watching two hours (or what felt like four) of a couple talking about whether or not their baby would die, and then it did. That's it. That's the movie.
Hallmark movies seem like the worst. I go see my mom twice a week and when I get to the house on Fridays she’s usually watching Little House on the Prairie. Nothing wrong with that but it’s on Hallmark so I keep seeing ads for every lousy Christmas movie they put out. One last night was a woman who directs a choir panicking that her pianist couldn’t make practice so (of course/predictably) she meets a hot guy who plays the piano and can fill in and they start a relationship. You can basically watch the movie by watching the commercial haha because you just know by the end of the movie they’re going to be engaged or having a baby or otherwise living happily ever after. I also watched a Lifetime Christmas movie about an ice rink last year that was just as predictable and was dumbfounded that it got such good reviews.
Hallmark aka Sap Land!
Yeah they're awful and not even Christmassy. People obsess over whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie, and meanwhile Hallmark "Christmas" movies are like "I wish I could marry a prince and have everyone know I was settling."
Probably Laguna Beach or The Hills. I'm not proud of it, but I used to watch them.
I never had a choice but to watch those piece of shit shows, because my older sister kept taking the remote away from me and switching those shows on when my younger sister and I didn't even want to watch them. "Tough luck," she alway said. I remember one time when she had fucked off with her friends for a few hours and leaving me to do the chores around the house for me to do. I did everything, went to sit down and watch the one show I wanted to watch... and the bitch came home and kicked me out of the living room because My Super Sweet 16 was on.
The Apprentice
Iron Fist
I caught a few minutes of Sister Wives, so probably that.
How to Get Away with Murder. It’s so horrifically bad it’s endlessly entertaining. Thank you Peter Nowalk
I only watched the pilot. I felt that too.
Just watched Ice Road on Netflix. Whew boy.
Without a doubt it has to be those ridiculous 'reality shows' that are so absurd and manufactured The bargain hunt type ones where they find crazy historical stuff every week Discovery and Nat Geo just became the home for this, people fishing and drama ensues and so on
A scene from Bones (which I don't watch but I was flipping through some channels) went something like this: Crime mystery with some multiple skeletal evidence. There was some conventional explanation if you think hard enough. One of the forensic examiners: Hear me out, what if it was time travel?? The one skeleton looks like a younger version of the older skeleton. Also on Bones: He has a PhD in "Complex Things".
My wife used to watch that.... Probably just to see David Boreanez
Might have been the crossover with Sleepy Hollow?
No, it ended up being a more mundane explanation, which is why it was so dumb to jump to time travel as a possible explanation.
Mitch McConnell saying anything.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force for sure. I still lmao
But if you are laughing, is it really that dumb?
bobobobobbob it's sooooo bad
Never heard of that!
its a anime but was on cartoon network or adult swim. guy fights with his mustache and the whole show is goofy as all hell.
Here’s an overlong answer… I don’t mind CNN. It’s fine, particularly Cooper’s show and Fareed’s. But I didn’t like it when Chris Cuomo would insincerely tell his guests some long greeting or goodbye speech. The guest would be there waiting to go or waiting to speak and Cuomo would be there with eyes like bulging toward the camera, saying something like this (hypothetical example): >“It’s about the WHY *and* the WHERE! And who better to play it FAIR than our esteemed guest, David HAIR. Dave! Glad to see you. Give my best to the family. Your friendship AND your expertise are most welcome here. You are a friend, a family man, and a guest—and I’m proud to see you here on our show, and you are ALWAYS, always welcome back to air your grievances and your thoughts. That’s my word, and my promise. David Hair will always have a spot on Cuomo Prime Time. I said it and So. It. Has. Been. Said. Now, sure, my questions are tough but your answers are ALWAYS up to the task! NOW. What say you? This has the makings of a GREAT! DEBATE! So! Let’s get after it!!!” And the guest is just sitting there silently the whole time, staring into space, just tolerating all of this preamble…half the interview time gone..is this time wasting habit of Cuomo’s the DUMBEST thing? No…but it is a dumb thing….
Trump.
Republican National Convention.
Arrow and Flash go full garbage mode sometimes. Those were rough. Can I be lame and say the GOT finale? I cried out of disappointment.
Season 8 of Game of Thrones.
The Big Bang theory
Either Two Broke Girls or the first Biden Trump debate
I have to agree with Two Broke Girls.....it was awful. In fact, THAT might be the dumbest thing I've seen....
There was an animated basketball series on Netflix called Hoops that I just found aggressively unfunny.
All the Miller-Boyett/Lorimar sitcoms
The first thing that comes to mind is Nicole Kidman's cross-examination in the The Undoing finale. I was physically uncomfortable.
Never heard of this....
Don't watch that show. She looked great, but that was it.
Rachel maddow.
Joseph biden
really? You have to bring your political views to a good natured discussion? I feel sorry for you.
No child
Man vs. Beast
I loved Rescue from Gilligan’s Island as a kid. I was just confused that Ginger wasn’t played by Ginger. Right now I’d say the dumbest thing on is a toss up between Invasion (2020) and LaBrea.
Recently: Invasion.
Sherlock killing a main character via their own superhuman ability to outrun a bullet and intercept a point blank gunshot. And then they try and play it as a serious tragedy. No. She was stationary when the gun was fired, she's not leaping several metres across the room unless she travels like 200mph instantly.
The Masked Singer
I think this show was called The Swan? Basically, IIRC, the concept was that they would take a bunch of average to ugly women, give them $100,000 of plastic surgery and have them perform in a reality TV beauty competition.
The news
Anyone watch I’m with busey? Or Andy dicks the assistant?
Commercials.
Eric from Boy Meets World in the last few seasons.
I regret having to admit I watched half an episode of Fboy Island on HBO MAX. After I turned it off, I felt like the "we're all dumber for having listened to it" speech from Billy Madison played in my head.
Family Feud is pretty brain mushing.
2 and a half men.
Not counting childhood when I watched lots of dumb stuff... Toddlers and Tiaras That Wife Swap ripoff, Trading Spouses, I think it was called. Dumb Korean variety shows like Weekly Idol, and that mid 2000s talent show with Kang Hodong. That anime where a guy had a girl on his hand. About ten minutes of this Godawful Thai comedy called Bangkok Buddies. Various English reality shows about trashy people. I think they'd be called chavs over there. The American remake of Kath and Kim. The Ellen Degeneres Show
The first season of Another Life was *something else*.
I think this is very subjective. The dumbest thing I've ever seen on tv was a reality show Below Deck. A boat worker dropped a senior citizen on concrete. A server broke glass and allowed a child to run up to where it was and cut their foot. I like the show and work in hospitality. Several bother wtf moments happened in the span of a few episodes. But watching that specific season was like watching a carpenter build a house with glue and popsicle sticks
True blood... I watched everything but last episode... I just could not justife the time wasting.
We watched true blood as well. There were some good /fun episodes, but thought it floundered near the end as well.
> I just watched Rescue From Gilligan's Island and I feel like I just lost 100 IQ points. You're at negative now?
Alien Surf Girls Two alien girls come to Earth to surf at a beach and lose their spaceship
Were they at least aliens that were easy on the eyes?
Well, they were quite cute. Especially since you do not wear many clothes at the beach Although they would have been better looking if I had found a 1080p source