NewsRadio
Scrubs
Boy Meets World
Charles In Charge
Married with Children

What are some others?

I'd add 8 Simple Rules; when they decided to cast David Spade as Kate's nephew. That totally ruined the show for me!

Andrea

That 70s Show (last season)

Boy Meets World (Eric becoming dumber and just constant whining)

Family Matters (really strange with all the inventions and the France kidnapping--weird)

The Beverly Hillbillies
Laverne & Shirley
Mork & Mindy
Welcome Back, Kotter

The final seasons of all these shows were pretty dismal, in my opinion.

Last 2 seasons of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

I agree with NewsRadio. I also think Wings got really silly after Joe and Helen got married. The Simpsons also got a lot more silly with all of Homer's crazy adventures.

Happy Days just got dumber and dumber, the more they featured the "Fonz"

Just add "Every ABC Show" to this list. Think about it - it seems like every hit show on ABC eventually got cumbed down by the network. Roseanne, Full House, Family Matters, Boy Meets World, Step by Step, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, 8 Simple Rules, Hope and Faith, The Drew Carey Show, even Home Improvement, just to name a few.

The only that kind of avoids this list is Three's Company - that pretty much maintained its quality the entire series, without getting crazier by the season.

Soaps like "Dallas" and "Dynasty" have a tendency to get sillier with time. I guess they started running out of better ideas.

Charmed.

Just add "Every ABC Show" to this list. Think about it - it seems like every hit show on ABC eventually got cumbed down by the network. Roseanne, Full House, Family Matters, Boy Meets World, Step by Step, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, 8 Simple Rules, Hope and Faith, The Drew Carey Show, even Home Improvement, just to name a few.

The only that kind of avoids this list is Three's Company - that pretty much maintained its quality the entire series, without getting crazier by the season.

One exception: Danny Arnold decided to end Barney Miller while it was
still on top.

Family Matters
7th Heaven
Full House

As much as I hate to say it...Seinfeld. Although, even those episodes had their moments.

Just add "Every ABC Show" to this list. Think about it - it seems like every hit show on ABC eventually got cumbed down by the network. Roseanne, Full House, Family Matters, Boy Meets World, Step by Step, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, 8 Simple Rules, Hope and Faith, The Drew Carey Show, even Home Improvement, just to name a few.

The only that kind of avoids this list is Three's Company - that pretty much maintained its quality the entire series, without getting crazier by the season.
That's very true...of course, 3s Company couldnt really get much sillier than it already was!

The only that kind of avoids this list is Three's Company - that pretty much maintained its quality the entire series, without getting crazier by the season.
I agree. The only way in which they were guilty of anything related to that was in regards to individual characters like Chrissy and Mr. Furley.

Much as I love Bewitched, it became sillier and goofier as time went on. Compare the first two seasons to the last few years and you'll see what I mean.

Much as I love Bewitched, it became sillier and goofier as time went on. Compare the first two seasons to the last few years and you'll see what I mean.

Definitely...it almost became unwatchable, which is sad.

"Roseanne" after they won the lottery it was never the same, also "the simpsons" the story lines are crazy now instead of simple everyday but funny stuff.

mash got siller and sillier in seasons 9 and 10 some times to the point of being unwatchable with eps where the whole plot revolved around things like klingers goat eating the payroll the pouring of cement in the or and a bowling match actully now that i think about it season 11 had some werid silly eps too

Much as I love Bewitched, it became sillier and goofier as time went on. Compare the first two seasons to the last few years and you'll see what I mean.
Not only sillier, but a lot of recycled scripts.

not a sitcom, but Charmed is a perfect example. Watch episodes from the last three or four seasons and you'd be hardpressed to realize this show once appealed to adult audiences

Personally, I think Married With Children was much funnier in the later years, with Al getting beat up and knocked around like a crash test dummy, Peg with her giant hairdo and Kelly as the uber bimbo idiot. It was slapstick at it's best. Much better than the boring first season.

Not only sillier, but a lot of recycled scripts.
You said it!!

Personally, I think Married With Children was much funnier in the later years, with Al getting beat up and knocked around like a crash test dummy, Peg with her giant hairdo and Kelly as the uber bimbo idiot. It was slapstick at it's best. Much better than the boring first season.

In recent years I've come to enjoy the later years more, for the reasons you've mentioned. I remember when FX went from the final season back to the first and it was a little boring. Even though I've always said I like Steve better than Jefferson. The later years are more laugh out loud funny.

I just wanted to state that this thread isn't about shows that got crappier or "jumped the shark". All the shows I list, I loved all the way through. It's just some shows tend to go silly. Watching seasons 1 - 6 of "Scrubs" in about three weeks made me think about that. That show got extremely silly. And when you go back to the beginning, it's so different.

That's very true...of course, 3s Company couldnt really get much sillier than it already was!

Exactly - it was silly to begin with, but never went off the edge with its storylines as time progressed.

The Lucy Show

By the time Viv left and Lucy moved to LA, it became the "BIG GUEST STAR MEETS LUCY" episode almost every week and the writers threw out any sense of continuity it had with the Danfield era. Lucy at times forgot she had kids, forgot she graduated college (as they had her go back to high school to get her diploma), forgot she had a brain!!

Quatam leap. he strating to leaping intofamouse people. i didn't like the ending of it to much.
I love lucy I DIDN'T LIke when they moved to the country.i do like some epsidoes.

Quatam leap. he strating to leaping intofamouse people. i didn't like the ending of it to much.

Yeah, they even broke the rule about Sam leaping just within his lifetime. As in one episode, he leaps back to the Civil War.

Both Xena and Hercules got MUCH sillier as time went on. I found those later episodes really entertaining though.

Batman
Lost In Space-Went from serious sci-fi to camp to compete with Batman.
The Munsters-It was somewhat serious to silly during the 2nd season.

Both Xena and Hercules got MUCH sillier as time went on. I found those later episodes really entertaining though.

Without a doubt the best Hercules/Zena episodes were the ones that went for laughs.

The British sit-com Are You Being Served became a bad parody of itself by the last two seasons. The show was always a tad silly but the basic plots were believable. By the end, if they were not recycling a script, the plots were just painfully silly and unrealistic.

Alice
Mr. Belvedere
The Brady Bunch
Facts of Life
Golden Girls
The Jeffersons
Laverne & Shirley

Happy Days got more unrealistic as time went by. For example when Fonzie survived when he was in the garage explosion :rolleyes:

Without a doubt the best Hercules/Zena episodes were the ones that went for laughs.
I agree. It was especially great whenever Xena would beat guys up with fish! And then there were those times everyone started bursting into song.... :lol:

Personally, I think Married With Children was much funnier in the later years, with Al getting beat up and knocked around like a crash test dummy, Peg with her giant hairdo and Kelly as the uber bimbo idiot. It was slapstick at it's best. Much better than the boring first season.
I agree with this too. Married With Children didn't really pick up until the third or fourth season. I liked when the show put everything it had into being as ridiculous and absurb as it could be. And it was beyond trashy. I loved it!

Exactly - it was silly to begin with, but never went off the edge with its storylines as time progressed.
If anything, Three's Company became somewhat of a smarter show as the years went by.

If anything, Three's Company became somewhat of a smarter show as the years went by.

That's true - I think once Terri came in, the "stupidity" factor of the show kind of stopped, and the show became more about the storylines, which is one reason I always liked the later seasons better.

If anything, Three's Company became somewhat of a smarter show as the years went by.

That's true - I think once Terri came in, the "stupidity" factor of the show kind of stopped, and the show became more about the storylines, which is one reason I always liked the later seasons better.

If anything, Three's Company became somewhat of a smarter show as the years went by.

That's true - I think once Terri came in, the "stupidity" factor of the show kind of stopped, and the show became more about the storylines, which is one reason I always liked the later seasons better.

Good Times - It fell into the trap once most of the eps. became too focused on JJ and his antics

Moonlighting - it really got sillier as the run went on after S3.

Nurses - It went from being semi-serious and comical to just downright slapstick-ish in S3.

Good Times - It fell into the trap once most of the eps. became too focused on JJ and his antics

Moonlighting - it really got sillier as the run went on after S3.

Nurses - It went from being semi-serious and comical to just downright slapstick-ish in S3.
Nurses only lasted 3 seasons, didn't it?

Nurses only lasted 3 seasons, didn't it?

Yes it did. Septemeber 1991 until 1994.

And when S3 rolled by, the show became really slapstick-ish with the entrance of Loni Anderson.

S2 was sometimes silly when David Rasche first came along, but S3 was just god-awfully outright silly and slapstick-ish.

I remember Nurses. That show never had much of a chance. The last season was awful.

I remember Nurses. That show never had much of a chance. The last season was awful.it sure was

Yes it did. Septemeber 1991 until 1994.

And when S3 rolled by, the show became really slapstick-ish with the entrance of Loni Anderson.

S2 was sometimes silly when David Rasche first came along, but S3 was just god-awfully outright silly and slapstick-ish.
Thanks for clarifying!! The saving grace of the last season - the guest appearances of Gregory Sierra (:eyes:) as Gina's father.

Married with children for sure. I mean they even had one episode where aliens come to steal Al's socks. That was very odd.

Married... With Children

The early years were more dialogue-based; eventually, the physical comedy came into focus.

Also, Peg and Al acted more as a couple then before they poked fun at one another. Yes, in the early years they were saying things to each other in nasty ways, but as they progressed in the later, they were at each other throats and going at every direction they were going at.

Also, Peg and Al acted more as a couple then before they poked fun at one another. Yes, in the early years they were saying things to each other in nasty ways, but as they progressed in the later, they were at each other throats and going at every direction they were going at.
That was a trend that happened to ELR's Ray and Debra in later years as well.