What would you say was the most boring spin-off in TV History?

I didn't care for Maude.

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I can't really sit through more then one episode of "Good Times"- "Maude" was ALOT Better then this show, AKA "The JJ Show"

I didn't really like Mayberry R.F.D. I love The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., but I just hated Mayberry R.F.D.

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My apologies to All in the Family people, but I thought "Gloria" was boring. I like it and am able to watch it, but it was lacking a lot of things from the show. I didn't care for the character Clark.

Originally posted by Jenny:
I didn't really like Mayberry R.F.D. I love The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., but I just hated Mayberry R.F.D.



Mayberry R.F.D didn't do much for me either.
I didn't mind Andy Griffith too much. The theme song was kinda cool.

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The most boring spin-off I have seen was "Maude". I just could not stand anything about her (i.e. her show, her voice, her face, her hair, ect).

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My vote goes to "Checking In", a spinoff from "The Jeffersons" with Marla Gibbs' character, Florence, taking a job as the "Executive Housekeeper" at a New York Hotel. Larry Linville (best known as "Frank Burns" on M*A*S*H) played her chief adversary, Lyle Block, another executive at the hotel.

Can I change my previous vote? I just remembered the show "After M*A*S*H". A better title would have been "Beating a Dead Horse".

maude was a great show.!!!!

It was "The Tortelli's"

I could never get into Frasier. I loved Kelsey Grammer on Cheers, but I don't see why they had to give the character his own show.

"The Art of Being Nick" was terrible.... a spinoff of Family Ties

The Ropers
The Cleveland Show
Frasier (I never once saw Cheers but I never understood why Frasier lasted so long)
Joey (don't know how the most idiot character of Friends could get a spin-off)

for me its a 3 way tie between phylls the ropers and the tortellis

The Cleveland Show)


WHAT????

AITF Spinoff Gloria and the Friends Spinoff Joey. Both were unwatchable couldn't sit through both without changing the channel.

I was going to mention the All In The Family spinoff, Gloria, it just wasn't very funny. Very dull.

Does anybody else remember Just The Ten Of Us? It was a spinoff of Growing Pains, they spun off the character of the gym teacher at Mike Seaver's high school (played by Bill Kirchenbauer, I can't remember any of the character's names right now sorry). I'm not sure why they picked that character for a spin off, he didn't even appear in that many episodes of Growing Pains. He had a wife and a big family, several daughters mostly teenaged, and one son. Oh wait, I think in the show I remember they had just had another baby who was a boy but anyways. I think it lasted about 2 seasons. I liked it at first, but then the story lines and plots got to be all about the teenaged daughters and ridiculous stuff they'd get into and I lost interest in it. Oh, I just remember the coach's name was Graham Lubbock, but I'm still not remembering any other characters' names from the show. I'll have to go look it up.

Ed.

Just the 10 of Us lasted 3 years.

Sam and Cat. That was just horrible. Trash.

Thanks king of comedy, I knew it was around that number.

Ed.

Sam and Cat. That was just horrible. Trash.

Ugh, that show was god-awful. Glad it got cancelled.

I'd have to disagree. I don't think Sam And Cat was so bad. Not the greatest thing ever but it was OK viewing ocassionally.

Ed.

Holy thread necromancy, Batman!


I'd go with Checking In. Marla Gibbs was clearly bored herself, so...yeah.

Does anybody else remember Just The Ten Of Us? It was a spinoff of Growing Pains, they spun off the character of the gym teacher at Mike Seaver's high school (played by Bill Kirchenbauer, I can't remember any of the character's names right now sorry). I'm not sure why they picked that character for a spin off, he didn't even appear in that many episodes of Growing Pains. He had a wife and a big family, several daughters mostly teenaged, and one son. Oh wait, I think in the show I remember they had just had another baby who was a boy but anyways. I think it lasted about 2 seasons. I liked it at first, but then the story lines and plots got to be all about the teenaged daughters and ridiculous stuff they'd get into and I lost interest in it. Oh, I just remember the coach's name was Graham Lubbock, but I'm still not remembering any other characters' names from the show. I'll have to go look it up.
Ed.
It was one of my favorite shows and was actually funny.

Yeah id say Joey was my biggest disappointment :(

"Mayberry R.F.D."
"Gloria"
"Joey"

"Mayberry R.F.D."
"Gloria"
"Joey"
Never saw any of these 3 and I'm glad I didn't.

Way to go reviving a thread from 2001.

Anyways, Joey was also the name of Mike and Gloria's son. He made his last TV appearance on 704 Hauser Street (a very boring spinoff), even though this Joey was born 14 years before the All In The Family Joey.

I wold consider a spinoff a show made from a character or characters that were a regular part of another show and because of the popularity of the first show got their own show, like The Jeffersons. Maude, who only appeared on All in the Family once, wouldn't qualify.

"Mayberry R.F.D."

This one's a toss-up, some consider it to be a continuation rather than a spinoff while Wiki claims it's both. I say continuation because the last episode of TAGS is entitled "Mayberry RFD" and in the debut episode Andy & Helen get married and move leaving Sam Jones as the lead character.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayberry_R.F.D.

What does R.F.D. stand for?

Rural Free Delivery (of mail)

Ugh, that show was god-awful. Glad it got cancelled.

you gotta be kidding me, Sam and Cat was great

I wold consider a spinoff a show made from a character or characters that were a regular part of another show and because of the popularity of the first show got their own show, like The Jeffersons. Maude, who only appeared on All in the Family once, wouldn't qualify.
Maude was on AITF twice not once.

There's different types of spinoffs. More to the point, though, Maude was on AITF twice. The second time the Bunkers went to Carol's (not played by Adrienne Barbeau) wedding. It was pretty clearly intended as a pilot based around Maude.
when a show does that the episode's called a "back-door pilot"

I'd say JOEY also AFTER MASH

Joey the spinoff of Friends. Why they gave the dumbest and most boring character his own show I'll never understand. But I'm not really a Friends fan either.

Ed.

Three's a Crowd (Three's Company spin-off)

For me it's Mayberry R.F.D A better name for it would be Mayberry D.O.A.

I could never get into Frasier. I loved Kelsey Grammer on Cheers, but I don't see why they had to give the character his own show.

I can see why this guy got banned. :lol: Anybody that says "Frasier" is the most boring spin-off ever is clearly trolling.

The other Cheers spinoff was awful, (but mercifully short lived), The Tortellis. It was about one of Carla's ex-husbands Nick Tortelli and his new, much younger but dumber than a box of rocks airhead wife and I don't remember her name but she was played by Jeanne Kasem, the recent widow of American Top 40 host Kasey Kasem, and I did think she was funny as the character sometimes. But the show was bad. What made it even dumber is that these characters weren't even Cheers regulars and were on maybe 2 or 3 episodes that I can remember. So why somebody thought they should get a series of their own beats me.

I like the Mary Tyler Moore spinoffs Rhoda and Lou Grant, but I didn't like Phyllis. Boring, I'd have more fun watching paint dry. But I'm not a big Cloris Leachman fan.

Ed.

I didn't really like Mayberry R.F.D. I love The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., but I just hated Mayberry R.F.D.

Agreed, RFD was not the greatest, what a disappointment!

I can see why this guy got banned. :lol: Anybody that says "Frasier" is the most boring spin-off ever is clearly trolling.

Quite so! I have the CBS DVD full release of Frasier, and I'm almost through three seasons' worth, and it's been far better than Cheers ever was.

Joey the spinoff of Friends. Why they gave the dumbest and most boring character his own show I'll never understand. But I'm not really a Friends fan either.

Ed.

No, Joey, the spin-off from All In The Family :crazy:

There never was a Joey spinoff from AITF.

I never cared much for Laverne And Shirley

I never cared much for Laverne And Shirley
I will take that over Happy Days.

You're right there wasn't a spinoff from All In The Family called Joey. I'm pretty sure Visaman666 is thinking about the spinoff Gloria, who was Archie and Edith's daughter. In the show Gloria has divorced Mike "Meathead" Stivic and moved away from New York City and is a single mom. Joey was the name of Mike and Gloria's son.

Ed.

Are you KIDDING?? I couldn't stand Maude, smh

I couldn't stand Laverne & Shirley either, but I prefer Happy Days to that

I couldn't stand The Golden Girls, Petticoat Junction, Maude, Mayberry RFD, The Andy Griffith Show, All in the Family

JOEY the spin-off of FRIENDS

Mayberry RFD

marsoes place in the 90's rip off barely hills 90210
the crap i watch on tv back in the 90's as a teenager

what was MAROSES PLACE and BARELY HILLS 90210 about? I don't remember them.

what was MAROSES PLACE and BARELY HILLS 90210 about? I don't remember them.

both marose splace and barely hills in the 90's got boring too quiclky
both come out at same time
it was M15 rated beourse of too many sexical seans in one eps
were about teenagers been out of controll alone
dating/cheating on each other while been drunk
having s-e-x on their secound date
having a their own car at the age of 16
take the wrong drugs for the wrong reasons

then come a real good spin of in 1993-94 that PG rated last for 2 seasons i think it was called the hights with better storys to watch theam song is how do you talk to angel

I nominate the Australian spinoff of Are You Being Served? for worst spinoff. The new characters are just watered down versions of AYBS cast and the majority of the scripts is just rehashes of previously done episodes of AYBS (Only one original episode done for the Australian version was made and it was just as bad as the rehashes) The only saving Grace is John Inman as Mr. Humphries, and even he seems to be struggling with the poor material.

A big problem with the Australian series (aside from it being as unoriginal as all get out) is the lack of social structure (and accents) the original show merciless parodied. To represent working class you had Miss Brahms, Mr. Mash, and Mr. Harmon with their common Cockney accents, you had Mrs. Slocombe trying to sound posh but always slipping into a northern accent when angry or surprised, you had Mr. Lucas and Mr. Humphries speaking with a Middle English accent representing the Greek Chorus, and you had Captain Peacock, Mr. Grainger, Mr. Rumbold, and Young Mr. Grace speaking with upper class accents to show how far they had their heads up their asses. All of the Australian actors sound the same, which defeats the purpose of having a show that parodies class structure.

both marose splace and barely hills in the 90's got boring too quiclky
both come out at same time
it was M15 rated beourse of too many sexical seans in one eps
were about teenagers been out of controll alone
dating/cheating on each other while been drunk
having s-e-x on their secound date
having a their own car at the age of 16
take the wrong drugs for the wrong reasons

then come a real good spin of in 1993-94 that PG rated last for 2 seasons i think it was called the hights with better storys to watch theam song is how do you talk to angel

They had their own cars at 16?!?! What has this world come to!?

Team Knightrider
The Bradys
Galactica 1980

Maybe I'm wrong but I thought The Heights was on for only one season.

Ed.

I'm glad some of these weren't picked up. There's a reason why comic relief characters (Ralph and Potsie, Lenny and Squiggy, etc.) are the comic relief. They add that lightheartedness to the plots. Make them the stars, and they can become rather irritating. I'd even argue that "Happy Days" would have been a better show if the Fonz stayed in a supporting role.

I'm glad some of these weren't picked up. There's a reason why comic relief characters (Ralph and Potsie, Lenny and Squiggy, etc.) are the comic relief. They add that lightheartedness to the plots. Make them the stars, and they can become rather irritating. I'd even argue that "Happy Days" would have been a better show if the Fonz stayed in a supporting role.


They eventually went over the top with Fonzie but through most of the run he made the show what it was. That being said, the show revolved around Richie Cunningham and when Ron Howard left the show they should have packed it in.

I liked Gloria and wished it could have been on longer.

The Cleveland Show, nothing but a white version of Family Guy.

I could never get into Frasier. I loved Kelsey Grammer on Cheers, but I don't see why they had to give the character his own show.
This is an old post, but here's a reply:

Frasier aired on NBC from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004, broadcasting 264 episodes over eleven seasons during its initial run. During the series' run, the show received critical acclaim for its writing and humor. The series amassed 318 nominations for a variety of industry awards, including 108 Emmy awards (with 37 wins), 24 Golden Globe Awards (with two wins), 26 Screen Actors Guild Awards (with 2 wins), 11 TCA Awards (with five wins), 9 Writers Guild of America awards (with six wins), and 9 Directors Guild of America awards (with two wins).

In addition to the awards for the series, several individual cast members received acclaim for their performance on the series. David Hyde Pierce stands as the most decorated cast member on the series, winning 4 Emmy awards, 5 Q Awards, 2 TCA awards, 2 SAG awards and 6 American Comedy awards. Kelsey Grammer also won 4 Emmy Awards, 4 Q awards, 2 Golden Globes, 2 Satellite awards, 2 American Comedy Awards and a SAG award. Several other actors and crew members in the series received many awards and nominations, including Jane Leeves, John Mahoney, and the creators of the show.

Frasier is one of the most successful spin-off series in television history and one of the most critically acclaimed comedy series of all time. In 1994, the episode "The Matchmaker" was ranked No. 43 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2000, the series was named the greatest international program of all time by a panel of 1,600 industry experts for the British Film Institute as part of BFI TV 100. In 2002, Frasier was ranked No. 34 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2006, a poll taken by the British Channel 4 of the sitcom industry voted Frasier the best sitcom of all time.

Personally, I rank this as the top comedy show of all time. The jokes are witty and clever. Often the best part was how a joke or situation was set up, sometimes from several sub plots or angles, where you couldn't see it coming until it came. It was never about stupid, insipid sarcastic characters "besting" each other with insipid sarcastic one-liners

I could go on, but you get the point. If you found this show boring, believe me, the fault lies with you. What is it that you find funny?

Friends spin-off Joey was terrible.

It was "The Tortelli's"
I really hated that show!

The Cleveland Show, nothing but a white version of Family Guy.
The Cleveland Show was a BLACK version of Family Guy.

This is an old post, but here's a reply:

Frasier aired on NBC from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004, broadcasting 264 episodes over eleven seasons during its initial run. During the series' run, the show received critical acclaim for its writing and humor. The series amassed 318 nominations for a variety of industry awards, including 108 Emmy awards (with 37 wins), 24 Golden Globe Awards (with two wins), 26 Screen Actors Guild Awards (with 2 wins), 11 TCA Awards (with five wins), 9 Writers Guild of America awards (with six wins), and 9 Directors Guild of America awards (with two wins).

In addition to the awards for the series, several individual cast members received acclaim for their performance on the series. David Hyde Pierce stands as the most decorated cast member on the series, winning 4 Emmy awards, 5 Q Awards, 2 TCA awards, 2 SAG awards and 6 American Comedy awards. Kelsey Grammer also won 4 Emmy Awards, 4 Q awards, 2 Golden Globes, 2 Satellite awards, 2 American Comedy Awards and a SAG award. Several other actors and crew members in the series received many awards and nominations, including Jane Leeves, John Mahoney, and the creators of the show.

Frasier is one of the most successful spin-off series in television history and one of the most critically acclaimed comedy series of all time. In 1994, the episode "The Matchmaker" was ranked No. 43 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2000, the series was named the greatest international program of all time by a panel of 1,600 industry experts for the British Film Institute as part of BFI TV 100. In 2002, Frasier was ranked No. 34 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2006, a poll taken by the British Channel 4 of the sitcom industry voted Frasier the best sitcom of all time.

Personally, I rank this as the top comedy show of all time. The jokes are witty and clever. Often the best part was how a joke or situation was set up, sometimes from several sub plots or angles, where you couldn't see it coming until it came. It was never about stupid, insipid sarcastic characters "besting" each other with insipid sarcastic one-liners

I could go on, but you get the point. If you found this show boring, believe me, the fault lies with you. What is it that you find funny?
Frasier was way better than Cheers.

I could go on, but you get the point. If you found this show boring, believe me, the fault lies with you. What is it that you find funny?

I loved Frasier. I went through the whole series on Netflix, and then started over at the beginning.
But remember, everyone has their own opinions and reasons why they like or dislike a show.

Unbelievably lazy TV spinoffs (http://www.looper.com/107524/unbelievably-lazy-tv-spinoffs/)

There's something compelling about getting to explore a new corner of an established fictional universe, and TV spinoffs sate that curiosity about as well as anything. From*Frasier*to*Better Call Saul, a great TV spinoff can expand on the inner lives of supporting characters, flesh out the world the showrunners have built, or just give fans more of what they love. Unfortunately, given that spinoffs tend to come with a built-in audience, it's easy for network executives to lazily crank out a haphazard cash grab instead of a thoughtful, well-crafted extension of a property viewers love. Here are some of the most egregiously lazy TV spinoffs of all time.

Friends spin-off Joey was terrible.

LOL! I never cared for Friends but I enjoyed Joey.

Benson
Lou Grant
Joanie Loves Chachi
Empty Nest
The Ropers
Three's A Crowd