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Who said you can't coin your own term? What is "Boning the Fish"? It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite TV Show, Celebrity, Movie Series or Music Group has reached its peak. That instant you know from now on...it's all downhill. Some call it a climax of sorts. We call it "Boning the fish". From that moment on things will simply never be the same.

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Seinfeld - TV Shows
Friends and Seinfeld.. i guess the networks (that air them) must not think we can get enough.. Wrong!! -- Submitted By: (stryker73) on September 14, 2012, 5:39 pm

NFL Today, The - TV Shows
I think when they started playing "musical female hosts" it got a bit lame. I remember Phyllis George, then someone else, then Jayne Kennedy, then Phyllis again. Was there sexual harrassment going on that we weren't privy too, or were these women just underpaid? I remember Jayne Kennedy, who was briefly a pin-up thanks to her exposure on this show, left in a contract dispute and sank like a lead weight from public view after that. Then when Phyllis replaced her, they had her doing her bits from her living room while the rest of the guys were in the studio. Just seemed like they were bending over backwards to get "any nice looking woman" on the show. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 14, 2012, 5:07 pm

Nancy Grace - TV Shows
It's easy to figure out what Nancy Grace is thinking. It's always "guilty!" She's never seen an innocent person accused. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 14, 2012, 5:00 pm

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman - TV Shows
I remember this being on too late for me to watch when it was 1st run, but the acclaim it got seemingly everywhere led me to give it a chance when TV Land aired it decades later. I was expecting a lot better from a "sophisticated" Norman Lear show. I found the characters annoying, unsympathetic and overacted, and the plots ridiculously contrived. It was like this show was trying to be "Soap" before "Soap" happened, and while being about 1/100th as funny. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 14, 2012, 4:23 pm

Married with Children - TV Shows
I still watch this quite often in reruns, and I've determined this is a "Tale of Three Shows". There's the Steve episodes, the single / divorced Marcy episodes and the Jefferson episodes. When Marcy has a husband / Al's stooge, the episodes are mainly good. The episodes where she was between husbands, divorced from Steve, but pre-Jefferson, are insufferably bad with few exceptions. I think it boned when Steve left, but boned back when Jefferson took his place and Griff / No Ma'am were added as recurring characters. The only complaint about the Jefferson / No Ma'am ones is that they became very cartoonish. Still hilarious though. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 14, 2012, 4:17 pm

Malcolm in the Middle - TV Shows
To the people hating on Stevie........[inhale] you......[inhale] suck! -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 14, 2012, 4:07 pm

Makin' It - TV Shows
He never had a hit TV show unless you consider "My Sister Sam" to have been one. I always thought it was awful myself. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 14, 2012, 4:04 pm

Mad About You - TV Shows
So many boning moments in this one. How about the ep where a college professor, played by Nathan Lane, once had an affair with Jamie (Nathan Lane as a stud = automatic bone) before she ever met Paul, and he thinks Paul is "out to get him" as a result of this. I didn't realize caveman thinking was still that prevalent in the 1990s. Just a horribly unfunny episode, and what is it about married people on TV exploiting their ex-affairs? Most married people I know rarely bring those up. I sure don't. My wife doesn't need, or want, to hear about them and neither do I. It's the past. It's not my life anymore. If they were so great, I'd be there and not here. That's real life. Only TV life seems to struggle with that, but this particular episode was just cringe-worthy. Or how about the episode where Steve Buscemi blames Paul for him ending up a subway token clerk, because Paul forgot to wake him up in time to take an exam or something? My first Steve Buscemi exposure and it had to be this. Next thing I saw him in was "Reservoir Dogs", and thought, "wow, he CAN act!" -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 14, 2012, 3:57 pm

Lone Ranger, The - TV Shows
BTW, the episode was called "Bad Medicine". I had to google it to make sure it wasn't just a weird dream I once had. Here's the imdb link to the ep: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0635325/synopsis -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 14, 2012, 3:44 pm

Little House on the Prairie - TV Shows
Actually JayD, there was a "very special" episode involving a blizzard, and I'm pretty sure it was one of the early episodes with Mr. Edwards (in his first tour with the show - pre-Merlin Olsen). -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 14, 2012, 3:38 pm

Cosby - TV Shows
Parker, That was good but my fave was the one in which Rudy and her silent friend misused one of Cliff's useless kitchen gadgets and wound up accidentally trashing the kitchen. Let's just say this DID happen in our house when I was a small kid but I by no means got off as scot-free as Rudy did. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 14, 2012, 9:53 am

Baby, I'm Back - TV Shows
Parker, I read it,too, and have to admit that I'd had no idea that this went down much less that's what took it off the air instead of more audience members [like me] hating the concept. Kinda surprised because I always thought that 'Lamont' was the voice of reason on 'Sanford and Son'. Well, IMO the show's premise was awful and the 'star' played a creep but I have to admit that I thought the actress who played his long-suffering wife was gorgeous and the character of Luzelle [the mother-in-law whom the audience was supposed to hate and root against while considering the creep heroic] was played by the late Helen Martin who was ALWAYS good for laughs. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 14, 2012, 9:48 am

Hello, Larry - TV Shows
Parker, Please note that I said Mr. Stephenson had left 'M*A*S*H' to 'wind up' doing this show not that this was the very first thing he did thereafter. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 14, 2012, 9:40 am

Carol Burnett and Friends - TV Shows
Parker, IIRC, Mr. Korman left 'Carol Burnett' to do a sitcom called 'The Harvey Korman Show' in which he played this barely employed, obnoxious older actor who got on everyone's case. No surprise that it only lasted six weeks. In any event, he did NOT return to 'Carol Burnett' before it went off the air and the show limped along after the Van Dyke fail and departure with just the three regulars of Miss Burnett, Tim Conway and Vicki Lawrence. Thankfully, these three were by no means petty people and happily welcomed Mr. Korman back to join in several series' retrospects- not to mention a few episodes of 'Mama's Family' and Tim Conway and Mr. Korman worked together quite extensively until Mr. Korman's death to Miss Burnett's delight. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 14, 2012, 9:37 am

Bill Nye the Science Guy - TV Shows
I liked this show, pretty educational. I also enjoyed Beakman's World. Not so much for the educational value, as it was just so wacky. I think the creators of this show were definitely smokin' something. -- Submitted By: (Jp) on September 13, 2012, 10:04 pm

Designing Women - TV Shows
Wow, now I feel sorry for Dixie: "[Dixie] Carter was a Republican, a rarity in liberal Hollywood. So she made a deal with [Designing Women]'s producers. For every liberal tirade she had to deliver, she'd get to sing a song in an upcoming episode." So they forced Dixie Carter to soapbox beliefs she was very opposed to (on a freakin' sitcom!) and they fired Delta Burke for gaining weight. Series creator (and buddy of the Clintons) Linda Bloodworth-Thomason ain't lookin' to good to me. -- Submitted By: (Travoltron) on September 13, 2012, 6:27 pm

Baby, I'm Back - TV Shows
I read the wiki article after I posted below. I was literally shocked to find out this show was about to be picked up as it performed decently in the ratings, but Demond's ego got in the way of that by making unreasonable demands, so it was cancelled. It may have sucked. It sounds like it did, but that's not why they cancelled it. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 13, 2012, 4:49 pm

Honeymooners, The - TV Shows
I never wondered about that because it always seemed like something you would hear said rather than done more often than not, even then. I dont think wife beating was ever acceptable, although it might have been more acceptable to joke about at one time. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 13, 2012, 4:33 pm

Seinfeld - TV Shows
The elephant in the room that everyone who watches Seinfeld knows is that the real talent of this show was Larry David. Seinfeld himself is possibly the most overrated comedian of all time. When he was the lone voice of creativity, the show suffered, as was obvious during seasons 8 and 9. Also, after the Michael Richards "rant" and burnout of watching the reruns too many times, I've come to the conclusion that the show has boned. -- Submitted By: (kingbk) on September 13, 2012, 4:30 pm

Herman's Head - TV Shows
The all time dumbest episode of this was the one where Lita Ford guest starred, and Herman cheats on a girl he really likes with her. The girl finds out. He gets dumped, and Lita (big surprise coming here) never thinks of Herman as anything more than a one-nighter. I guess the moral is, if you cheat you stand to get dumped, even if it's with someone you think NOBODY would turn down......except NOBODY who was a Herman-type yuppie would have the opportunity to turn Lita Ford down in the first place. I think this was a season 2 episode and very indicative the writers were running out of ideas, which is why it wasn't picked up for a 3rd. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 13, 2012, 4:23 pm

Hello, Larry - TV Shows
In fairness, McLean didn't leave "M*A*S*H" to do this. "Hello, Larry" was about his 3rd or 4th failed sitcom after M*A*S*H. I think before this you had "The McLean Stevenson Show" and another one where he played a priest (lasted all of 3 episodes I think). You'll have to decide for yourself if this "revelation" makes his decision look better or worse, lol. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 13, 2012, 4:16 pm

Green Acres - TV Shows
Never! Didn't even bone when they did a reunion movie in the late 1980s, because they did it right, getting ALL of the surviving cast members together. Only Fred Ziffel and wife had passed on by this time. Unlike "The Odd Couple - Together Again", which made the brilliant move of re-casting Murray The Cop and the other poker players apart from Speed, Green Acres understood we wanted to see the same actors playing the same characters. The plot was a little contrived, and there were many nods to how much time had passed (like the Gorby reference and Eb's teen-angst riddled son who liked "Guns & Roses"), but it was the first new Green Acres episode in almost 20 years. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 13, 2012, 3:48 pm

Good Morning America - TV Shows
Maybe that's why I trace it back to David Hartman's departure. It seems he was a more "serious" host who could deliver the hard news without inundating it with fluff. I think they replaced him to make the show more "fluff oriented" and frankly, that doesn't work for me either. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 13, 2012, 3:41 pm

Price Is Right, The - TV Shows
I DVRed the 40th anniversary special and finally got around to watching it the other night. While it was cool that they brought back some old contestants and showed some great old clips, I'm a little baffled that they didn't bring Bob Barker back to join in the festivities. Drew Carey's response when asked was "the thought didn't even cross our minds." Whoa, low blow there. I have a feeling the show has been trying to distance themselves from Barker for the past few years now. Maybe because of his past lawsuits, maybe because he truly was dictator to the staff, maybe because of his increasingly vocal activism on animal rights, I don't know, but something tells me that both CBS and the TPIR staff don't want him around. I get it that he's been off the show now for 5 years and it's time to turn the page. Drew Carey's doing a good job as host, the last links from the Barker era, Rich Fields and Fingers Greco, have left, and the show isn't what it was in 2007 when Barker hung up his microphone. Mike Richards has taken over and changed the show, in some ways good (updated games, prizes, set pieces, special weeks), in some ways bad (too many celebrities, too rushed, games that are too difficult to win), but he's made his mark and the show, all things considered, is updated while still retaining the nostalgia of TPIR that we know and love. All that said, Barker hosted for 35 years and is a huge reason its still on today. Even if it was just remarks, he should have had some role in the anniversary. -- Submitted By: (kingbk) on September 13, 2012, 3:39 pm

Flo (Progressive Insurance) - TV Shows
Speaking of the "creepy ass guy", does anyone else think he says "this movie stars you and Satan....but mostly savings" in that recent one he did? I realize that's not what he supposedly says, but it sounds like that EVERY time I hear it. This isn't one of those deals where once you realize what he says you hear it right from then on. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 13, 2012, 3:20 pm

Flo (Progressive Insurance) - TV Shows
I think she's foxy. She's like the "Martha Quinn" of this time period. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 13, 2012, 3:16 pm

F Troop - TV Shows
I love that recurring gag where the cannon fails to fire, Dobbs kicks one of the wheels (what is that supposed to DO?), which falls off as the cannon abruptly fires and knocks down the lookout tower as a hapless Trooper Vanderbilt (of course the most nearsighted guy in the fort is the lookout) jumps out at the last moment to avoid being crushed inside it. That and "IT IS BA-LLOOOOOOOOOONNNN!!!!!" -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 13, 2012, 3:09 pm

Designing Women - TV Shows
Yeah, I agree. Next time Dixie Carter opens her mouth, someone stuff a sock in it. Unwatchable tripe, especially after that bottle blonde from Newhart replaced Delta. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 13, 2012, 2:48 pm

Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, The - TV Shows
I found both the lead actress and the show irritating. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 13, 2012, 2:44 pm

Cosby - TV Shows
The funniest episode of this was the one with Bill Shatner. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 13, 2012, 2:30 pm

Celebrity Deathmatch - TV Shows
Maybe I was too old when this premiered, but I can't fathom anyone actually needing to be home at a certain time so they can watch this. Seems juvenile. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 13, 2012, 2:16 pm

Carol Burnett and Friends - TV Shows
Pelirojo, correct me if I'm remembering something wrong here, but I thought Harvey Korman left before the final season because he got his own variety show, which also didn't work out and was cancelled after only a few episodes. I thought after his own show was cancelled that he returned to Carol Burnett to replace the short-lived Van Dyke and finish out the show's final season. Like I said, could be wrong. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 13, 2012, 2:06 pm

Cablevision - TV Shows
Cablevision still acts like a monopoly even though they are not. The latest sick Cablevision joke is their dispute with The Tribune Company which is currently depriving us of WPIX and Antenna TV. Next time Verizon FIOS comes a-calling again, I'll be inclined to take them more seriously this time. The Dolans, who run Cablevision, also own Madison Square Garden, The Knicks and Rangers. 'nough said. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 12, 2012, 11:34 am

As Time Goes By - TV Shows
Wow! 13 years on the air? Time really did go by for this one. I like it though. I think it's a good show. Just saw the first one on PBS the other night. Never boned. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 12, 2012, 11:32 am

Victorious - TV Shows
My kids eat this show up. One day, I had to ask my daughter "You DO realize that High School is NOT really like this, don't you?" We're cool. -- Submitted By: (Friedrich_Feuerstein) on September 12, 2012, 11:27 am

Battlestar Galactica 1978 - TV Shows
The worst episode in this series, IMO, was the one where they landed on the Cowboy Planet and there was this Cylon gunslinger everyone had aptly nicknamed 'Red Eye' essentially running the town. I am well capable of Suspending Disbelief for the sake of Science Fiction but this episode really took me to the limits of that skill. -- Submitted By: (Friedrich_Feuerstein) on September 12, 2012, 11:21 am

Enos - TV Shows
Wow! I didn't know they even had Crack back then because whoever dreamt up this stinker of an idea for a show was obviously smoking it at the time. -- Submitted By: (Friedrich_Feuerstein) on September 12, 2012, 11:14 am

Something So Right - TV Shows
Due to a resurgence in popularity of the iconic 1970's American family sitcom 'The Brady Bunch' in the 1990's, there were, at least, a couple of attempts, aside from Sherwood Schwartz's efforts with the actual Brady Bunch franchise, to create shows around the 'Blended Family' concept/formula and recapture that old television magic. One such attempt was the somewhat short lived family sitcom Something So Right. The ONLY reason I know anything at all about this show is that I was in the studio audience for the taping of the episode Something About Burning Bridges, Meat and Rugs with guest star Melanie Mayron. I had a professional acquaintance who worked crew on this show who was kind enough to get my wife and I tickets to a taping. At that time, I had never been to the taping of a real sitcom before and thought it would be an entertaining and educational experience (seeing as I was trying to break into the TV and Film industry at that time) and it was. Pardon the digression, but if you ever wish to attend a sitcom taping as an audience member, here are some pointers to keep in mind: A: If possible, familiarize yourself with the show, it's premise and the characters. You'll follow it so much better when you're in the studio live. That way you won't be saying to yourself "Now wait a minute. What's the deal with this family? Who is this guy? Is he a regular?", etc. B: Be sure you eat a meal BEFORE you go to the taping. Make it a filling meal, but not one that will make you uncomfortable or uhhhhh gassy. More on that in pointer C. C: Be certain it is a show you actually like. Believe me, if you can't manage to sit through a 30 minute episode of a show, making it through a taping of the same show as an audience member is sheer agony. Tapings are usually done in the evening, starting between 6 & 7, and can go upwards to 5-6 hours, possibly longer. That's why they typically have comedians who work the audience during setups to keep them fresh and entertained. Also, if you try to leave early, they will do everything in their power, short of bribing you with things of value, to get you to stay. D: Make sure you don't have anything planned early the next morning. Refer back to pointer C above. Anyway, back on subject. After attending the taping, I made it a point to catch some episodes on TV. It was pretty underwhelming to say the least and I can see why it was so short lived, on BOTH networks. It just wasn't a remarkable or terribly original show in my opinion. As I didn't follow the show outside the couple of episodes I caught, I can't really say for sure when the boning moment occurred. If anything, I suppose I could say that due to it being based upon a formula that had already been done, I'd go out on a limb and say Day One. -- Submitted By: (Friedrich_Feuerstein) on September 12, 2012, 11:01 am

Seinfeld - TV Shows
To this day, I'll never understand Seinfeld's appeal. It was stupid. Perhaps that was the point, I don't really know or care. I just don't like that show, nor Jerry Seinfeld's stand up. -- Submitted By: (Jp) on September 11, 2012, 9:57 pm

Step By Step - TV Shows
Day 1. I hated this show! I always passed on it during that whole TGIF programming, ABC would air. -- Submitted By: (Jp) on September 11, 2012, 9:53 pm

Bosom Buddies - TV Shows
I voted "Never Boned", but ABC boned for it. The network was this show's biggest problem. Cancelled, resurrected and moved around the schedule more than once. By the time it was brought back for the last time, I think the writers had the guys "out" themselves just to change things up and have Kip and Sunny take the next step in their relationship, but like people pointed out, the tension was gone. I think the whole thing was rushed because the writers were walking on eggshells, waiting for ABC to pull the carpet out from under them...AGAIN....which of course they did. At the end of the day, Bosom Buddies was a good show that was handled poorly by the network. The "Mountain Pine" episode with guest Russel Johnson (The Professor) was a classic! -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 11, 2012, 3:47 pm

Bonanza - TV Shows
OMG! Soggy really hit the nail on the head with that one! I know right away when Little Joe sees some chick and gets that "smitten look" on his face that I best be making a beeline for the remote and find a true crime story on ID or something. This is one episode bound to leave me bitterly disappointed. I've been through a broken engagement IRL. Everything isn't cool by the following week like on TV, so I avoid those episodes of BONE-anza like the plague. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 11, 2012, 3:37 pm

Blossom - TV Shows
Actually "Blossom" WAS the name of Tumbleweeds' horse in that comic strip, so the name fits. I get that she wasn't supposed to be hot. I found it annoying that she was so in demand in spite of this. What planet did this take place on? -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 11, 2012, 3:33 pm

Baby, I'm Back - TV Shows
Parker, They likely were trying to get milk anything possible for humor for the show- even something that back then couldn't have openly been joked about on TV back then. A comedy where the protagonist had abandoned his wife and tiny children without a backwards glance [much less a dime of support] -until he found out he'd been declared dead and she was about to marry someone else and THAT is why he came alive again? Not funny. Oh, and I should also mention that this gambling rogue made little if any effort to try to reform himself after his 'revival'. Fred should have put Lamont [the show's 'star''s iconic role] and the whole concept in the junk pile! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 11, 2012, 10:33 am

Step By Step - TV Shows
It was a rather forgetable show. I vaguely remember it. Heck, I don't think it was ever on DVD or even shown as syndicated reruns. Patrick Duffy will always be Bobby Ewing and Susan Sommers will always be Chrissy Snow or the Thigh Master lady. No one will remember them for this show. -- Submitted By: (JayD) on September 11, 2012, 12:19 am

Baby, I'm Back - TV Shows
They named Demond's rival on this show "Wallace Dickey". I wonder what THAT was supposed to be implying. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 10, 2012, 10:29 am

Baa Baa Black Sheep - TV Shows
Peter Frampton's hair is short enough now (groan!!!!!!!). -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 10, 2012, 10:27 am

Archie Bunker's Place - TV Shows
It started out OK, but when Martin Balsam left the show, it boned. The Murray Klein character was a decent "liberal foil" for Archie at the bar. When he left, they made Archie more liberal....probably too liberal for the audience's own good. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 10, 2012, 10:21 am

Angels in America (TV miniseries) - TV Shows
Should be renamed "P is for Pretentious". -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 10, 2012, 10:10 am

Seinfeld - TV Shows
It jumped in Season 7 when Larry David left and got bored, if not sooner. That's when we got bizarre (Or Bizarro) Seinfeld-humor about Soup-Nazis, man-hands, a mystical world of super-hot girlfriends, Bizarro-Jerry-- or the biggest joke of all: Terry Hatcher having supposedly-remarkable hooters. If the show started out with Season 7, it would never get picked up by NBC; but it seems that trained lemmings will watch anything if it has a popular label on it, so the show carried on for 2 more seasons. -- Submitted By: (SarahGoodwich) on September 9, 2012, 6:20 pm

Two and a Half Men - TV Shows
Season Six JUMPED THE SHARK. The writing just went to crap, and the show lost all chemistry among the characters as they went from dysfunctional to one-dimensional. Jake went from a slacker to an idiot, Alan went from a loser to a whiner, Charlie became a plain bully, and Evelyn actually cared about someone other than herself. Maybe this is why Charlie Sheen got in a fight with Chuck Lorre over the series, but it's a noticeable shift. This might have happened around Season 5, with the "Teddy Leopold" arc; Charlie was having a breakdown over Mia getting married, and then suddenly he's proposing marriage to Courtney/Jenny McCarthy. In any event, Season Six was where it jumped. -- Submitted By: (SarahGoodwich) on September 9, 2012, 5:59 pm

Black Dynamite - TV Shows
Loving this show so far. In most of the episodes they lampoon '70s celebrities with no mercy. They also made it OK to laugh at Michael Jackson again. -- Submitted By: (Travoltron) on September 9, 2012, 3:59 pm

Sale of the Century - TV Shows
jgf, that's the old version of Wheel of Fortune you're thinking about where you couldn't keep your money and had to buy things every round. The only time you bought things on Sale of the Century was during the Instant Bargains and Bonus Round. -- Submitted By: (kingbk) on September 8, 2012, 5:34 pm

Trailer Park Boys - TV Shows
The start of season 7 when Cory and Trevor are 'gone and never coming back'. Otherwise, up to that point, the show was comedy gold -- Submitted By: (jdmusky7) on September 8, 2012, 12:03 am

Tortellis, The - TV Shows
Parker, I agree with you about liking Dan Hadaya as a performer and Jean Kasem's character being too brainless to be endurable as more than a very occasional recurring character. Yeah, Lucy and Gracie Allen made good careers playing characters who often seemed to be the dullest tools in the drawer but Lucy's character was capable of being crafty [albeit these plans usually flew in her face] while Gracie's character had a logic out of synch from the rest of the world's. But Jean Kasem's Loretta just seemed too annoying to endure more than a few moments so this show was somewhat doomed. Oddly enough, though, Mrs. Kasem actually hold eleven US Patents for crib and canopy designs that she developed for her business so she may have acted too far in the opposite direction on the show. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 6, 2012, 12:16 pm

Simpsons, The - TV Shows
A family member forwarded me this blog. I like that this guy explains why the Simpsons was so good as well as how it went bad. Because there is a generation now that has grown up with the lousy Simpsons episodes and have no idea how the show impacted television. http://deadhomersociety.com/zombiesimpsons/ -- Submitted By: (Travoltron) on September 5, 2012, 11:46 pm

Finder, The - TV Shows
Rest in Peace, Michael Clarke Duncan.. great actor, especially in 'Green Mile'.. never realized he was in so many roles -- Submitted By: (stryker73) on September 4, 2012, 8:01 pm

Tortellis, The - TV Shows
Dan Hedaya is a decent actor, but Jean Kasem's character (and I've long suspected she wasn't acting) was too stupid to live. That kind of character is good for laughs guesting on one episode of someone else's show. It's not going to work as one of the main characters in a series. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on September 4, 2012, 4:56 pm

Drew Carey Show, The - TV Shows
I liked it at the beginning when it was the show about a lovable loser (Drew), his goofy friends and his too good for him girlfriend. When Kate left, the show took a sharp turn into unbelievable land. Outrageous musical numbers and side-show sketches took the place of somewhat realistic story lines and the show stopped building any kind of continuity with things happening one episode and never being brought up again. It was at its best as a straight forward sitcom instead of a variety show disguised as a sitcom. -- Submitted By: (kingbk) on September 4, 2012, 4:37 pm

Pyramid - TV Shows
This show has definitely boned back. The GSN version might be their strongest original series to date. Mike Richards is a good host, the set is awesome, the game remains the same, I like the way they up the grand prize throughout the game, the old sound effects return, and the contestants/celebrities seem to get the game. Way to go, GSN!!! -- Submitted By: (kingbk) on September 4, 2012, 2:35 pm

Drew Carey Show, The - TV Shows
It started out as a somewhat believable workplace sitcom kinda spoofing/saluting the "Dilbert" comic strip but wound up being more cartoonish and one-dimensional than "Dilbert" itself! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 3, 2012, 9:46 pm

Laff-A-Lympics - TV Shows
Does anyone remember what the intended prize was? I mean, if it was LAFF-a-Lympics, then maybe they should have made medals outta fools' good! Just sayin. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 3, 2012, 9:20 pm

Closer, The - TV Shows
I actually like this show, or should I say liked. I never got the whole "Brenda's a tramp" vibe like DolFan. I thought she was a strong, but flawed, character. She wasn't perfect and the show didn't make her out to be perfect. I enjoyed the mysteries and the characters. Now that Brenda's off the show, I've already sensed some boning. The show pretty much is the same show minus the protagonist. Rarely do shows last much longer once the main character leaves and I'll give this one 1-2 more seasons before its conclusion. -- Submitted By: (kingbk) on September 3, 2012, 9:18 pm

Riptide - TV Shows
i vaguely remember this show when it came on in the 80's.. it had cool theme music and wasn't there a robot on this show too? too bad it wasn't on that long -- Submitted By: (stryker73) on September 3, 2012, 5:00 pm

Dog the Bounty Hunter - TV Shows
Thanks, Dolfan316-I have strong opinions about some thing, and Dog is one of them-so glad they came up with this site, I really miss the old Jump the Shark but this is great, too! I see you are a regular communicant here! -- Submitted By: (Arkady) on September 2, 2012, 4:20 pm

Riptide - TV Shows
Good stuff! Was always aggravated because the opening credits of this show resembled Magnum, P.I., but watched it once, someone had kidnapped the hacker guy and some chick and he did all kinds of cool stuff like trace the imprint of a key with his computer,,,,then I was aggravated when it went off the air! -- Submitted By: (Arkady) on September 2, 2012, 4:15 pm

Office, The - TV Shows
Glad to hear this show is finally going to end soon.. it should've ended at least 2 seasons ago but yet they kept it going. it'll be interesting to see how they wrap up certain character storylines, and it's reported carrell might even make one more appearance -- Submitted By: (stryker73) on September 2, 2012, 4:02 pm

21 Jump Street - TV Shows
The movie! Although it had its funny moments, the movie, as a whole, was terrible. -- Submitted By: (Jp) on September 1, 2012, 4:05 pm

Dog the Bounty Hunter - TV Shows
LMAO@Arkady!!! I wonder how she can even move with all the back pain she must have. -- Submitted By: (DolFan316) on September 1, 2012, 5:42 am

Who's the Boss - TV Shows
i don't even know why they needed another kid.. it should've just lasted 5-6 seasons but overstayed its welcome.. it was an ok show at first though -- Submitted By: (stryker73) on August 31, 2012, 1:26 pm

Space Academy - TV Shows
Sorry, Arkady, but "Jason of Star Command" was a spin off of "Space Academy" since the opening narration clearly stated that the latter took place in 'a secret section of Space Academy' [obviously so to explain away using the exact same sets to keep their cheap budget even cheaper]. It was an okay time passer but I liked that Jonathan Harris actually got to play a respectable, heroic and honest leader even if Commander Gampoo was sometwhat pompous. At least the pomposity wasn't a dominant character trait- unlike with Dr. Smith. Oh, and the voice of Lucy Van Pelt [Pamelyn Ferdin] got to play to telephathic teen twin. Nowhere close to "Star Trek" or even "Space Ghost" but as I said it was an okay time passer. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 31, 2012, 10:17 am

Dog the Bounty Hunter - TV Shows
Dog is the biggest douche of all time-a has been/never was/wannabe cop,,,noticed how they will try to look as much like police as possible,,,just no guns! And his wife,,,,Eeek! She always jumps out with the line, "there's the guy who is taking food out of the mouths of my kids! Sorry, Beth, doesn't look like THEY are the ones eating, if ya know what I mean sweetheart! -- Submitted By: (Arkady) on August 31, 2012, 2:26 am

SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron - TV Shows
Good stuff! Had a lot more personality that most of the CRAP we see nowadays! -- Submitted By: (Arkady) on August 31, 2012, 2:11 am

Space Academy - TV Shows
One show was a spinoff of the other-I think "Space Academy" was spun off "Jason of Star Command". Not bad stuff for seventies programming-I loved how Jason would always program the Dragos' ship to explode! -- Submitted By: (Arkady) on August 31, 2012, 2:04 am

13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, The - TV Shows
Funny as hell-loved Vincent Price in this-remember the two ghosts scheming to get Scoob and Shag to open the chest and one ghost says to the other "don't worry-they'll do it-these two are among the STUPIDEST mortals on Earth! Hilarious! -- Submitted By: (Arkady) on August 31, 2012, 2:00 am

Batman, The - TV Shows
Batman rocks! Always has, always will. Even the campy sixties show is good-if only for laughs! -- Submitted By: (Arkady) on August 31, 2012, 1:58 am

Jersey Shore - TV Shows
Too bad the only reason for the cancellation is to make way for Snooki's show celebrating her being knocked up by what's his name. In other words, replaced by an even worse abomination. -- Submitted By: (DolFan316) on August 30, 2012, 8:12 pm

Jersey Shore - TV Shows
I just read that MTV is going to cancel this show. (http://tv.yahoo.com/news/-jersey-shore--canceled.html) -- Submitted By: (cartooner) on August 30, 2012, 1:57 pm

House - TV Shows
House was a pretty good show. I preferred the first 3 seasons. When they started the American Idol process of elimination, it was still watchable. I quit watching after season 6, not really sure why. -- Submitted By: (Jp) on August 29, 2012, 12:09 pm

House - TV Shows
I agree that he's good, but I'd rule out Asperger's syndrome, since he doesn't seem to be clumsy. Actually, I would just say that he's a genius who was psychologically damaged by his Marine colonel father. -- Submitted By: (hbrennan) on August 28, 2012, 8:49 pm

18 Kids and Counting - TV Shows
At the nameless person who protested my dislike of this show. 1. Yes, there are some over 18 but there are still other kids who are under 18 and ALL of them are under incredible pressure from their parents to keep toeing the parental party line at least in public [and I wouldn't be surprised if the network also put subtle if not open pressure to keep those kids from risking the cash cow]. Yeah, the 'media' could stir a storm if any of those kids openly rebelled but they'd have to come home to face a bunch of music. What's more there HAVE been other 'reality' shows in which it got shown up that the producers were willing participants in at least keeping the less appealing parts of the 'stars' lives from being broadcast via careful editing, etc. As I said, stories telling of actual problems would more likely happen after the show had long been off the air than while it's airing. 2. Yes, they all seem nice and polite[seem being the operative word]. However; while I'm no fan of rude or obnoxious folks, I get cynical when parents smugly claim to have perfect kids. Often this means that the kids have just learned what to say or do whatever it takes to get their overwhelming parents off their backs rather than actual contented conformity on the kids' part. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 28, 2012, 9:46 am

18 Kids and Counting - TV Shows
@Pelirojo: 1. Many of the kids are older than 18 now and could easily speak up if they wanted to. It's not like the media wouldn't eat that up. 2. As previously stated, if there was something awful to find about the family, it probably would've been found my now. 3. It really seems like TLC wanted this show to be another Kate Plus 8 or whatnot showing how horrible these people are, but I don't think they can find anything truly horrible to show about them. -- Submitted By: () on August 27, 2012, 6:30 pm

One Life to Live - TV Shows
With the apparent death of the soap opera as a TV genre, I'm wondering what will happen to all those actors and actresses now. For decades, they existed in this weird insular worlds where almost none of them ever seemed to age. Will they all of a sudden start aging 30 years overnight, like some special FX scene out of a scifi or horror movie? -- Submitted By: (DolFan316) on August 25, 2012, 5:29 pm

One Life to Live - TV Shows
One less soap left. -- Submitted By: (yoda) on August 24, 2012, 8:23 pm

18 Kids and Counting - TV Shows
Liva, Don't be surprised if one or all those kids tell VERY different stories than how they've been portrayed X number of years after this show is over. If adults want to make fools of themselves on 'reality' tv for all the world to gawk and jeer at the rest of their lives, that's their call but kids under 18 in those things are being EXPLOITED and I refuse to watch or support that. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 24, 2012, 10:22 am

Three Stooges, The - TV Shows
Joe Besser wasn't the worst, they made a few funny ones with him as the 3rd.. DeRita was probably the final BTF moment for this act..he wasn't funny, even though he said the same about Larry and Moe. @ParkerTillman, Curly died in '52, Shemp 3 years later -- Submitted By: (stryker73) on August 23, 2012, 10:18 am

Good Times - TV Shows
Death of a major character seems all too often to be the beginning of the end of a show. i can't watch too many post-James episodes of this show..it's like watching Alice without Flo -- Submitted By: (stryker73) on August 23, 2012, 10:11 am

Two and a Half Men - TV Shows
Miley Cyrus and her bad haircut will be on this show next season (the 10th) Break out the filet knives! -- Submitted By: (stryker73) on August 23, 2012, 10:07 am

Degrassi: The Next Generation - TV Shows
Jumps in and out. Season 12 is on fire, some brilliant stuff. Season 11 is pretty good if a bit filler-y toward the end. Season 10, the first Spinnerless one had some landmark moments and some so-so stretches. Stay away from the instrumental-theme-music era, and tell the later seasons apart at a glance by the changes of dress code: Season 10- early: Normal clothes as per previous years. Late: Strict uniforms, identical khakis looking like they're from the same supplier, blue Degrassi cardigans the only acceptable outerwear, school IDs displayed on lanyards. Season 11- Looser uniforms, any pants that are beige/khaki in color OK as are non-regulation hoodies. Season 12- Back to normal street clothes, retaining displayed IDs. -- Submitted By: (yoda) on August 22, 2012, 7:32 pm

Welcome Back Kotter - TV Shows
R.I.P. both Horshack and Epstein. Kotter's class just got a little bit more empty. -- Submitted By: (JayD) on August 14, 2012, 9:51 pm

Eureka - TV Shows
What a fun ride this show was. The characters had great chemistry, and the show was light and fun. I wasn't as thrilled with the final season, but overall, a good show. -- Submitted By: (imanalterego) on August 13, 2012, 7:36 pm

Seaquest DSV - TV Shows
"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" of the 1990's! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 13, 2012, 1:00 pm

Baywatch - TV Shows
Bobsuruncle is right. This is nothing more than a show that you shouldn't take seriously, just something that will entertain you for the length of the show, nothing more. Just like Walker, Texas Ranger, just like McGyver. -- Submitted By: (PYLrulz) on August 12, 2012, 10:23 pm

Bugaloos, The - TV Shows
This was one REALLY weird show whose only positive purposes were to show how far Martha Raye's career had fallen before she did those denture commercials AND it was alone amongst the Krofft shows did NOT deal with some kid/s trapped in another place against their will. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on August 12, 2012, 4:29 pm

Simpsons, The - TV Shows
To JayD, the answer is "you can't", but then I have another question....why make it worse than it already is by producing two blatantly conflicting story lines? -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 10, 2012, 4:58 pm

Boy Meets World - TV Shows
I used to watch this show when I was a kid. Of course I was young at the time, and in those days it was sometimes harder to notice the changes that were made to shows. Since there was no internet, we were pretty much limited to watching one-off re-runs here and there. Now almost 20 years after this show's debut I decided to check back at some of my favorite episodes on Youtube. The first thing that struck me was how drastically the show changed from season to season. The changes are more significant than the average show. It bounced around from being carefree, to feel good, to tragic, to touching. All in all I'd place Boy Meets World in the "generic 90's sit-com" category, but that being said it's still one of the better shows of that caliber. -- Submitted By: (brightsideofthemoon) on August 8, 2012, 1:11 pm

Lost in Space - TV Shows
To Parker Tillman - No, that actually added unexpected character depth to Dr. Smith. Like the movie (which sucked)- The only really good part of that movie was when Dr. Smith misdirected Will - so that he wouldn't see the grave sites of his parents... -- Submitted By: (hbrennan) on August 8, 2012, 8:16 am

Kid Nation - TV Shows
13 episodes is good for me. Pretty sure if they had a second season every kid would be trying to meta-game the show and they'd either keep it in which would just make it seem dumb, or they would try to fakely edit it out and make the kids seem super naive. So never boned at the point it made it to, but I'm pretty sure had a second season occured, some pretty horrible stuff would've gone down. -- Submitted By: (Liva148) on August 7, 2012, 10:41 pm

18 Kids and Counting - TV Shows
A much as I think it's ridiculous to have this many kids, you really can't complain with the way they turn out. ALL of them seem like polite, respectful children who have a heart to serve and I really don't see any problem with people continuing to have kids if they're all going to turn out so well. -- Submitted By: (Liva148) on August 7, 2012, 10:35 pm

Casshern Sins - TV Shows
The original 1973 Casshern series, which has never been released (legally) with English subs, was awesome and fun. Every few decades they do a remake and try to make it "darker and edgier". The '90s version was OK, but still fell short of the original. The 2004 emo live-action version completely sucked. Casshern spent more time moping than kicking robot ass. And there was a overly-blatant anti-Iraq war theme throughout the film that was a distraction. This show Sins was a bit better, but was still too emo for my tastes. I saw the whole thing, but the only thing I remember is Casshern walking through the desert whining about how the state of the world is all his fault. And that Braiking Boss hardly appeared. -- Submitted By: (Travoltron) on August 7, 2012, 11:49 am