http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/11/25-least-funny-sitcoms-of-all-time/

This Wednesday, NBC's brazenly unfunny sitcom Whitney returns, in all its anachronistic tired battle-of-the-sexes glory. Despite being one of the most critically panned series, let alone sitcoms, of the 2011-2012 TV season, star Whitney Cummings has inexplicably been given another chance to bore you to death with her and co-star Chris D'elia's oh-so-wacky couples' banter. If that sounds strange given the vitriol, don't be so impressed by the renewal.

TV has long awarded disgustingly large episode orders to some of the worst, most groan-worthy situational comedies (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?p=4768688#post4768688). Complex has counted down the 25 Least Funny Sitcoms (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=308686) of All Time for your side-splitting pleasure.

Hey, I like "8 simple rules" and "According to Jim". I haven't seen any of the rest.

I thought 8 Simple Rules, According to Jim, Still Standing, and What I Like About You were pretty darn funny!

After all these years, I finally saw My Mother The Car! The whole single season is available on HULU. I think its worthy of a DVD release! :lol:

When I posted this article on IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000012/flat/213768319?p=1), somebody suggested that Life with Lucy, Lucille Ball's final TV series should've been included:
Life With Lucy (1986), starring Lucille Ball, who may have been inspired by the success of The Golden Girls into doing another sitcom featuring an elderly actress. But instead of sharp, witty repartee that appealed to all ages, as with The Golden Girls, Miss Ball thought she could get away with the same kind of wacky slapstick routines and broad mugging that made I Love Lucy such a hit, in order to attract the nostalgia-loving crowd
whom she figured would watch her just to see that she was still among the living. Her co-star was the equally geriatric Gale Gordon, who was reluctant
to leave retirement and do another series unless he was paid upfront for an
entire season, just in case the show flopped and was cancelled quickly (wise
man). Nobody wanted to see Lucy attempt to cavort, accompanied by the wild applause of the studio audience who were just grateful she could still move around, while the bland co-stars who played her children and grandchildren looked on bemusedly. Painful to watch.

Wow, they spelled the "S" word out for #13?

This list is supposed to be the worst sitcoms of ALL TIME? 18 of the shows are post 2000, 3 from the '90's 3 from the 80's and 1 from the 60's. So there were no bad sit-coms in the '70's, and only one from before 1980?

This list is supposed to be the worst sitcoms of ALL TIME? 18 of the shows are post 2000, 3 from the '90's 3 from the 80's and 1 from the 60's. So there were no bad sit-coms in the '70's, and only one from before 1980?
I think whoever made that list hasn't watched that many older shows.

Friends, Seinfeld and Raymond will always be on my short list of the worst comedies ever. I can't say it enough!

I like Sitcoms, but honestly I never really laugh along.

For instance, I loved M*A*S*H, but I can't ever recall laughing at anything that happened.

I'm not a curmudgeon, it just takes a lot to get me to laugh.

When I posted this article on IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000012/flat/213768319?p=1), somebody suggested that Life with Lucy, Lucille Ball's final TV series should've been included:
I watched Life With Lucy and it was in no way one of the worse sitcoms of all times.

I personally never delighted too much in the highly touted series "Will and Grace" and "Frasier".While the Kelsey Grammer character went from snob to regular guy on "Cheers" only to be relegated back to the former,"Grace" strived entirely too much on high school level bathroom humor.Also,not too far after inception,"Laverne and Shirley" began to rely far too heavily on the various physical "stunts" the single females would find necessary to purport in order to achieve various personal goals.

"My Mother the Car" and "Small Wonder" to me will be the campiest shows out there.

I think "How I Met Your Mother" and "Two and a Half Men" should be on that list, it's nothing but humorless sex and annoyance by the characters!

I like Whitney, but with the exception of "**** my Dad Says", most of the sitcoms featured were pretty unwatchable.

I think they could have added The George Lopez Show, The New Girl, Everyone Loves Raymond, and *anything* Tyler Perry related.

I like Whitney, but with the exception of "**** my Dad Says", most of the sitcoms featured were pretty unwatchable.

I think they could have added The George Lopez Show, The New Girl, Everyone Loves Raymond, and *anything* Tyler Perry related.

And Perfect Strangers and Family Matters as well.puke: puke:

A lot of the shows you guys are listing are successful shows with radiant fanbases. With the exception of a few shows on the list, most of these are notorious failures that had very little following. No one is going to list Friends and Seinfeld because for all of the people that don't like those shows, there's legions of people that love them.

And Perfect Strangers and Family Matters as well.puke: puke:

Perfect Strangers was fine! I really disagree on adding that!

In that era, a show like that was successful in a much more competitive environment for primetime sitcoms than you have today -- it had its share of fans (and still does!). FM was okay too for that matter.

i can't stand
mash
cobsy show
leave to to beaver
married with chidern
all in the family
every one love raymond
senielfield one of my friends like it i never saw the whole thing i only seen parts of its funny i never watched the whole thing
rosseann i think this is the most unfunny sitocm
desning women
the andy gritth show
leaver & sherly
mad about you
the nanny
friends

Perfect Strangers was fine! I really disagree on adding that!

In that era, a show like that was successful in a much more competitive environment for primetime sitcoms than you have today -- it had its share of fans (and still does!). FM was okay too for that matter.

We are all entitled to our own opinions, BB.

I think people are more likely to cut a show slack if it was something that they grew up with. I adore "Laverne & Shirley", but I also know that it had a lot of flaws and a lot of people don't care for it. However, it was my Tuesday night staple growing up. My *ahem* younger friends who came of age in the late 80's/early 90s have warm fuzzies for Perfect Strangers, Family Matters, Boy Meets World, et al that I do not share because it wasn't part of my childhood/adolescence.

Sullivan & Son doesn't belong on this list, it's pretty good. And I don't like 8 Simple Rules as much as I used to but it's certainly not one of the worst.

I think whoever made that list hasn't watched that many older shows.

Why didn't they make the list, the worst sitcoms of 2000 and beyond, instead "of all time", since whoever put this list together knows nothing about sitcoms before 1990. They just threw My Mother The Car on there, because it is known to be the worst sitcom of all time.

I liked "Rob!" (#9) except that Rob wasn't funny. Cheech was (and is always) a hoot, and I liked the weird brother in law. I can't help that it could not been retooled some way. It actually ranks as one of the highest rated shows to ever get pulled.

I have watched "Sullivan and Son" (#20) and it is not a bad show, and something that could be a lot better if it was retooled. It is basically the story of a white American man who married a Korean woman and has two children. The woman playing the Korean wife is a hoot and spot on. I wish the show was more about their relationship as a mixed white/asian family rather than to be a bad remake of Cheers. Except for Brian Doyle Murray and Christine Ebersole, I would fire the other side players (especially the dork who plays Ebersole's son)

I thought "8 Simple Rules" was a pretty good show until John Ritter died. I never saw it and wanted to see it less after Ritter died. Shows where the lead dies obviously dies too.

Saved by the Bell: The New Class should be on the list of "Least Funny Sitcoms":
http://web.archive.org/web/20090201125649/http://homepage.mac.com/ijball/SbtB/TNC/history.html

While I do not have or could not possibly come up with a fair list of the "The 25 Least Funny Sitcoms Of All Time", it certainly would not include 8 Simple Rules, What I Like About You, My Mother the Car, Still Standing, She's the Sheriff, or According to Jim.

I'm kind of surprised that the article suggested that 8 Simple Rules... wasn't funny even when John Ritter was alive. I'm not necessarily saying that I disagree, but I kind of figured that 8 Simple Rules just because it was the last TV show that John Ritter starred on (he was even nominated for a Best Sitcom Actor Emmy), gets some sort of special exemption.

The guy who did the list seemed a bit of a hardass. Btw, what about Emeril? Remember that show with Emeril having a comedy show? I think it was on in 2001 although I'm not sure.

There's a lot of shows you could put on the list. Most of them, I've never watched but I do have a question. I've never watched According to Jim but if a show is on for 8 yrs. how is that a bad show? I mean wouldnt they have cancelled it right away if it was that bad?

I never watched Work It or that Cavemen show. That didnt look appealing at all.

Many posters actually like "According to Jim" too. But that doesn't mean that everybody does.

Wow, they spelled the "S" word out for #13?

http://splitsider.com/2013/06/the-pile-of-h-that-was-h-my-dad-says/

Writers adapt all types of stories to the screen. Whether they be based on works of fiction, like novels, comics, or plays; myths, handed down from generation to generation; or even real stories that happened to real people. All of them, however, communicate the subtle and not-so-subtle moments of everyday life, explaining the human condition in ways that can be as effective as they are entertaining.

Adaptation can be a tricky $#@!er, though, especially when some of the most important aspects of our lives, whether they be love, art, and/or family, come from 140-character perspectives. As every Twitter draft folder shows, such a short slice of life requires some finessing.

Social media platforms like Twitter introduced that finessing, creating a world where people said things like platform and became acutely aware of something called “web presence.” “@****MyDadSays” was one of the earliest Twitter phenomenons, with hardcore tweeters and computer-illiterate web crawlers taking a peek at the ramblings of the Internet’s new favorite crazy old man. Quick one-liners popped out every few hours, and hungry eyes ate them up. Soon after, CBS stepped in to cook up the main course.

Still the only Twitter-based sitcom, out of an astonishing 555,000,000 accounts, CBS’ $h*! My Dad Says adapts the original feed in the only way it can: through a series of terrible decisions, starting with, but exclusive to, a title change that makes reviewing this show a spell check’s nightmare — a preemptive strike on critics, no doubt. CBS casted William Shatner as the show’s mouth piece, with his co-stars lobbing him setup after setup.

There are several reasons as to why $h*! My Dad Says deserves inclusion in the Brilliantly Canceled canon, aside from the idea of a TV show based on some rage-fueled twitter ramblings being kind of half baked. The show, for the most part — or more precisely, for the whole part — remains altogether forgettable. Here it is in three easy bits, so you don’t have to bother finding a copy. The situation: a broke writer moves in with his father. The catch: His dad is ka-ray-zee! The question: Will this splintered father and son relationship repair itself, despite the father’s best attempts to disown his loser child? Sounds like a winner that unemployed millenials everywhere can relate to.

On the surface, this is another case of sitcom conventions gone awry. The withered father and son relationship embedded itself into TV’s core long ago, as did the character of the crotchety old man. While we all love when Grandpa Simpson and Fred Sanford point out the stupidity of the modern world, $h*! overplays its hand, and the $h*! Shatner says fails to bring the laughs.

The really interesting parts of the show lie in its very existence and very distinct place in time. Just like how everyone was surprised that David Fincher was going to be making a “Facebook movie,” most critics were skeptical of things having to do with social media, because, honestly, it all looked like a fad just waiting to go the way of the Furby. However, while the Social Network (and I can’t believe I’m comparing the two) directly engages with the website that inspired the art, $h*! primarily ignores it. There’s no mention of tweets, updates, or blogs, they only serve a vehicle for dad in another dimension.

Oh, wait, this happens:

What’s even more remarkable is how unremarkable this show made the once funny twitter feed. After the show’s premiere, “@****MyDadSays” had reached its zenith and proved that finding a strained father and son relationship was a lot a less exciting and funny when filmed before a live studio audience. More than that, the show showed how cliche the whole thing was; what seemed fresh in a new medium, felt tired in another.

But that’s the nature of adaptation. Writers must find a reason to change mediums, because if its being adapted, the original work must’ve had some value, impact, or connection to its original form.

What does $h*! My Dad Says offer? Nothing you can’t get for free on the Internet.

After all these years, I finally saw My Mother The Car! The whole single season is available on HULU. I think its worthy of a DVD release! :lol:

http://splitsider.com/2013/06/my-mother-the-car-tried-too-hard-to-not-be-my-mother-the-car/

It was only a matter of time before My Mother the Car made its way to Brilliantly Canceled: TV Guide in 2002 printed a rundown of what they determined to be the fifty worst television shows ever made, long before the internet would make such lists daily. Despite it being a few years after the apex of its cultural significance, The Jerry Springer Show managed the top spot. Number two on the list – and number one when it came to comedies – was My Mother the Car. Many contemporary shows including The Simpsons and Arrested Development – viewed by many as the polar opposite of quality on the comedic spectrum – have used Mother as the butt of a joke, viewing it as the epitome of dated, stupid, campy, embarrassing, lowest common denominator television. And they were not wrong to do so.

The premise of My Mother the Car was exactly what you would assume it was based on its title: attorney David Crabtree drives a car that is both a vehicle and his deceased mother Gladys. Her voice comes through the radio, which she can turn on and off regardless of whether the engine is running or not. She can actually drive without any help; honk the horn to signal discomfort or a need; and strangest of all, watch television. She does not however wish to speak to anyone but her son, which complicates everything and drives a fair amount of marital strife between David and his wife Barbara. When the hybrid car-woman says to an exasperated David "I came back to help you, not to get you into fights with your wife," it is probably the funniest line of the entire series, and it was not funny intentionally.

What is surprising about the sitcom that NBC put on the air for one thirty episode season from September 1965-April 1966 is how successful the men behind the scenes would later become in the television business. Co-creator Allan Burns ended up as the co-creator of Rhoda, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Lou Grant; Chris Hayward, the other gentleman labeled responsible for inventing Mother, found himself producing and writing on Get Smart and Barney Miller. James L. Brooks wrote two episodes in his first job on a sitcom, and now has his name on virtually every great comedy program that ever existed, including executive producing Taxi and the aforementioned animated series from The Tracey Ullman Show. Another surprise? The prime example of hackneyed, brainless situation comedy did not have a laugh track for most of their episodes. This helped result in a lot of really tonally confusing work. Look at this Rod Amateau-directed scene from the first episode "Come Honk Your Horn," where dramatic close ups and other cinematic techniques are used to document the moment when Jerry Van Dyke tries to tell his family why the piece of **** car he just purchased is something special:

That wasn't funny, as much as it was completely and utterly heartbreaking. The patriarch of this wholesome family has gone insane, and has made his wife cry and his children and dog embarrassed. The only two aspects of that scene that betrayed the alleged genre of the show was the composed and conducted music of Ralph Carmichael and Dick Van Dyke's brother's direct-to-camera moment. What were Burns and Heyward going for? If they were attempting to undercut and mock the utter absurdity of the show's concept with the serious visual cues, why the unsubtle breaking of the fourth wall? If they wanted to let the emotional heft that would be inherit in the actual situation reveal itself and give the seemingly ridiculous show some multidimensionality and gravitas, why the "isn't this guy a Wacky Mcwackerson?" horn section?

Another confusing and kind of cool scene that is worth watching comes from "TV or Not TV." A seemingly successful attempt to connect a television remote to a car battery and a rogue toy of little Cindy's led to this David Lynchian moment:

It did not seem to make a difference if everybody involved ever agreed on what they were going for or not, because any blatant attempts at comedy were not successful. The transgressions however can mostly be rationalized by the time period in which all of these episodes were taped and aired. In "The De-Fenders", there was a running gag where David repeatedly stepped on a rake. However, there was some restraint shown for such physical humor: David only stepped on it and hit his head twice, and when he failed to do so for a third time, Barbara joked that he had forgotten to do it. I wonder though if it would had been so bad if he had kept doing it, because a recurring character on Mother was a villainous car collector by the name of Captain Bernard Manzini who only existed to convince and trick Van Dyke into selling the 1928 Porter car to him. The character, played by Avery Schreiber, can be best described as ridiculous, someone who had somehow escaped a Wacky Races cartoon in three dimensional form. "The Captain Manzini Grand Prix" was a particular lowlight, which concluded with Manzini's masterplan (that he didn't even think up on his own!) failing on account of the invisible ink pen being used on the wrong contract. Even in that installment, there was no laugh track, not letting audiences completely let go of any possibly pretensions and enjoy something silly.

The series finale, "Desperate Minutes," is awfully telling of what the writers were feeling at that point in time: the plot of the episode found a jewelry store robber breaking into the Crabtrees' house and holding David and Barbara at gunpoint. Since NBC would have had a heart attack if a comedy during Family Hour showed a man walking around with a gun without a laugh track, this episode was one of the ones that featured the phony sound of people chuckling at completely different, more amusing jokes, during far more appropriate moments. Unfortunately, the .1 percent of the time that accompanying piped in laughter was not the right call for Mother was there. Consider the old "not realizing the person you are talking about is right behind you" gag:

Jerry Van Dyke and Robert Strauss could have worked on dozens of movies together, building a chemistry while studying countless hours of Abbott and Costello footage in each others' trailers to prepare, but that scene never would have worked as comedy because Bullets Morgan is pointing a gun to David Crabtree's head while his wife is being held hostage in the next room, to the laughter of a bunch of weird strangers.

Because Burns, Heyward, Brooks et al. wanted to continue working in show business, or because they simply still showed some affection for their characters, or because they didn't want to send millions of viewers to lifelong therapy sessions, they didn't go all the way with their frustrations at the dumb concept they committed themselves to and have Bullets Morgan murder the entire family and Moon the dog. One of the final moments of the series was still not without some symbolism: mother — who had very little screen time in "Desperate Minutes" — drove Bullets and his partner in crime around in a circle, over and over and over again, that damn car going absolutely nowhere.

Weirdly, that silly spectacle was one of the few times My Mother the Car wasn't suffering from an identity crisis. It's important to know who you are.

In my lifetime (I'm 35), Family Matters and pretty much anything that was on the WB, especially when it debuted, are high on my list.

According to Jim
The George Lopez Show
The 2005 caveman show on ABC.

Life with Lucy

http://splitsider.com/2013/06/the-pile-of-h-that-was-h-my-dad-says/

"Sh*t My Dad Says" creator recalls his sitcom disaster (http://splitsider.com/2013/07/justin-halpern-on-the-rough-time-he-had-turning-****-my-dad-says-from-a-twitter-account-to-a-tv-show/)

Justin Halpern, who's coming out this fall with the new Fox sitcom "Surviving Jack," says: "Even when we shot the pilot I thought, "f********ck. This is not my book. This is not working for this character."
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/tv-tattle#IxouecTjuMHp5EXz.99

That list is complete garbage, Cavemen and Work It are the only 2000s sitcoms that actually belongs on there.

Joey, 8 Simple Rules, Whitney, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, Sullivan And Son, What I Like About You, Big Day, Bill Engvall Show, Kath And Kim, Rob, Still Standing, House Of Payne and According To Jim are all great shows.

I can't take any worst sitcoms list seriously that excludes "The Pitts", easily the worst thing FOX has ever aired.

Homeboys From Outer Space is a guilty pleasure of mine admittedly.

Desmond Pfeiffer deserves it's place though, you'd be hard pressed to find a worse show then that one.

I thought it would be fun to list my all-time "unfunny" sitcoms and then look at the list above to see how my list compares.

Here's my list of 10, in no particular order:

1. Hogan's Heroes
2. M*A*S*H
3. The Office
4. Caroline in the City
5. The Hughleys
6. The Jamie Foxx Show
7. Arrested Development
8. Everybody Hates Chris
9. My Name Is Earl
10. Modern Family

I thought it would be fun to list my all-time "unfunny" sitcoms and then look at the list above to see how my list compares.

Here's my list of 10, in no particular order:

1. Hogan's Heroes
2. M*A*S*H
3. The Office
4. Caroline in the City
5. The Hughleys
6. The Jamie Foxx Show
7. Arrested Development
8. Everybody Hates Chris
9. My Name Is Earl
10. Modern Family

While I love "The Office" (and therefore don't agree that it's unfunny), it is refreshing to see someone who isn't claiming "Arrested Development" to be the funniest show ever made. Seriously, that show is on so many favorite sitcom lists I see, it's annoying. I think it was a decent show but it seems that its cult status has made people feel closer to it or something and thus go on about how it's one of the best sitcoms ever made.

I like "M*A*S*H" but I agree it's really not a funny show. I don't watch it for the comedy. Although I think Henry Blake and Frank Burns were funny characters.

I don't have an entire list fleshed out but a few unfunny sitcoms to me are (I'm only listing popular shows):
Two and a Half Men (both with Charlie Sheen and the current version)
The George Lopez Show
The Nanny
According to Jim (I agreed with this one)

I don't have an entire list fleshed out but a few unfunny sitcoms to me are (I'm only listing popular shows):
Two and a Half Men (both with Charlie Sheen and the current version)
The George Lopez Show
The Nanny
According to Jim (I agreed with this one)

I agree about "Jim" and "2 1/2" but I always loved "The Nanny". I somewhat agree about "Lopez", if it weren't for Benny I wouldn't really care for the show.

Here are some shows that I LOVE but find "unfunny":
The Simpsons
Family Guy
Bewitched
I Dream of Jeannie
Taxi
Benson
Coach
Happy Days
Mad About You
Get Smart
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Frasier
Malcolm in the Middle

I know that "2 ½ men" has a large hatedom, but I say it's funny some times. "According to Jim" is rather good too, and I love "The Nanny".

I don't exactly hate The Office or Arrested Development, but I do find them awfully overrated and not that funny, same with My Name Is Earl, never got what the big deal about that show was.

Though I do enjoy Jamie Foxx Show, The Hughleys, George Lopez(one of the first sitcoms I ever watched, so I have a soft spot for it), Everybody Hates Chris. Caroline In The City, The Nanny and Modern Family.

I'll be brutally honest that I never really laughed at I Love Lucy, if you ask me Life With Lucy was a superior show, shame it didn't last longer.

Here are some shows that I LOVE but find "unfunny":
The Simpsons
Family Guy
Bewitched
I Dream of Jeannie
Taxi
Benson
Coach
Happy Days
Mad About You
Get Smart
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Frasier
Malcolm in the Middle

Out of your newest list these are my thoughts...

The Simpsons - This used to be a really funny show. I loved it but stopped watching around season 9. I still collect the DVDs but what little I've seen of the newer seasons, it's really not funny anymore (to me, of course).

Family Guy - I like this show AND think it's funny. It's not a show I keep up with, though. I'm behind a couple volumes on the DVDs, too.

Bewitched - I like the show but agree it's not the funniest. To me, the best part of the show was Dick York as Darin. When he left, so did the funny.

I Dream of Jeannie - I own the DVDs and think it's an okay show. I don't recall it being that funny to me, though.

Taxi - I LOVE this show AND think it's one of the funniest shows out there. This show had a great blend of really funny mixed with heart and real human emotions.

Benson - It's been too long since I've seen it. I can't comment on it.

Coach - I seem to recall this show being funny but I haven't seen it in decades. My dad loves it though.

Happy Days - I like this show and thought it was funnier when I was younger. It's still a show I enjoy and wish Paramount would release the rest of the seasons on DVD... even the "crappy" later years.

Mad About You - Not a big fan but I own all the DVDs. Go figure.

Get Smart - This was a show I didn't like as a kid (when Nick at Nite reran it). When I bought the DVDs, I watched a few episodes and thought it was funny.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show - While I think the show's funny, I mostly remember it as just being a pleasant, enjoyable sitcom.

The Dick Van Dyke Show - I'm not a huge fan and I don't know why. Every time I watch this show I laugh.

Frasier - Not a fan but what little I've seen of it, I thought was amusing.

Malcolm in the Middle - I actually hate this show, lol.

Not a MASH or Hogan's Heroes fan.

Simpsons- Personally I still think this show is great, i've kept up with every episode to date and it still manages to make me laugh.

Family Guy-Love this show, one of my favorites. I also think Seth's live-action show "Dads" is pretty underrated, don't quite get all the hate it's got from critics.

Mad About You-Somewhat funny, but not that memorable.

Coach-OK show I guess

Happy Days-My mom loves it, I don't, and I HATED Joanie Loves Chachi.

Frasier-I actually liked it better then Cheers, which I found rather overpraised, though it did go on a bit too long and the series finale could've been better.

Taxi-OK I guess, not the best not the worst

Malcolm In The Middle-Decent show, but I didn't care that much for the series finale.

I'm not really a fan of 50s-60s sitcoms, so stuff like Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore dosen't really do it for me.

Another show I never found that funny is Seinfeld, that show is definitely way overpraised and it had one of the absolute worst series finales in TV history.

You want real bad? Check out these two foreign sitcoms:
Trouble With Tracy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFLEvAhSTwQ), a Canadian sitcom from 1971. A daily(!) production schedule, scripts rewritten from 40s radio comedies, no production values.
Heil Honey, I'm Home, British sitcom from 1990. Has Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun survive WW2, move to London, and scheme against their wacky Jewish neighbors. I cannot even begin to grasp how this idea made it to air.

I've never found The Office all that funny- or Seinfeld, for that matter. (Though the latter has its moments.) But this is an incredibly subjective question- it's all up to people's individual tastes. There are also a number of shows that some have deemed "unfunny" that I particularly find pretty funny and enjoy. It's all good. There are some shows that I don't always laugh out loud at or anything that I still LOVE watching in any case.:) :cool:

After all these years, I finally saw My Mother The Car! The whole single season is available on HULU. I think its worthy of a DVD release! :lol:
Senfield
All In the Family

I never got the hype or appeal of Modern Family. I find it completely humorless and dull.

I never got the hype or appeal of Modern Family. I find it completely humorless and dull.
That's exactly how I feel about The Office, how it lasted so long is beyond me.

I sort of like Modern Family, though I generally prefer sitcoms with laugh tracks or a studio audience, so that way I know what i'm actually supposed to find funny, which is the main problem I have with The Office, I honestly can't tell what i'm supposed to find funny in that show most of the time.

Though the award for least funny sitcom of all time has to go to "The Secret Diary Of Desmond Pfeiffer" it was like a really bad April Fools Day joke that somehow persisted, not only were the jokes terrible, the show was also was highly offensive to boot, when I watched some episodes on Youtube out of morbid curiosity, I was like "no wonder the NAACP hated this show". I felt really embarassed for Chi McBride, who is a pretty good actor, he must've been pretty desperate for money to sign on to that show.

Cavemen was also dreadfully unfunny, what moron thought making a sitcom based off a character in a commercial was in any way a good idea?

I also remember Oliver Beene being pretty unfunny, it wasn't aggressively bad, just extremely bland and dull with really weak humor, poorly written dialogue and incredibly monotone acting.

Though the award for least funny sitcom of all time has to go to "The Secret Diary Of Desmond Pfeiffer" it was like a really bad April Fools Day joke that somehow persisted, not only were the jokes terrible, the show was also was highly offensive to boot, when I watched some episodes on Youtube out of morbid curiosity, I was like "no wonder the NAACP hated this show". I felt really embarassed for Chi McBride, who is a pretty good actor, he must've been pretty desperate for money to sign on to that show.Yeah that's what you said before, but I completely disagree. First, his acting sucks, at least it does here.
Second, offensive? That's what that "complex" list said but is it really? Unlike most people who cry that, you've actually seen it. What is the offensive thing about a black guy as the real brains of the civil war white house?
Third, although it's a bit dated now, I'm pretty sure worse things have been allowed to stay back then. Look for example at "Thanks". Same concept (historical sitcom), also from the late '90s, same sort of humor (let's call it that at least for the moment). Few remember it and it gets twice the IMDB rating Pfeiffer has, but you couldn't honestly claim that its jokes are any better.

That list is just repeating second hand information and missed a change to come up with anything original. I feel kind of sorry for "Pfeiffer". Even though it wasn't brilliant, it was probably the closest the US can get to their own Blackadder. But it is hugely underrated, that is, its badness is very much overrated. It's become a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy now.

My list:

Andy Richter Controls The Universe
Full House
Fresh Prince
Family Matters
George Lopez
Who's The Boss?
Growing Pains
Saved By The Bell
Selfie
Cristela
Joey
Emeril
The Hughleys
Sean Saves The World
Rules Of Engagement
The Munsters Today
Martin
The Wayans Brothers
Two Guys A Girl & A Pizza Place
The Tortellis
The Mindy Project

Yeah that's what you said before, but I completely disagree. First, his acting sucks, at least it does here.
Second, offensive? That's what that "complex" list said but is it really? Unlike most people who cry that, you've actually seen it. What is the offensive thing about a black guy as the real brains of the civil war white house?
Third, although it's a bit dated now, I'm pretty sure worse things have been allowed to stay back then. Look for example at "Thanks". Same concept (historical sitcom), also from the late '90s, same sort of humor (let's call it that at least for the moment). Few remember it and it gets twice the IMDB rating Pfeiffer has, but you couldn't honestly claim that its jokes are any better.

That list is just repeating second hand information and missed a change to come up with anything original. I feel kind of sorry for "Pfeiffer". Even though it wasn't brilliant, it was probably the closest the US can get to their own Blackadder. But it is hugely underrated, that is, its badness is very much overrated. It's become a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy now.
It was hard for me to judge McBride's acting in that show, I couldn't tell whether he was really bad if the script was just so terrible that no actor no matter how good could possibly make it sound good(i'm leaning heavily towards the latter)

What made the show so offensive was how it tried to downplay how truly awful slavery was and mine it for jokes, it was just one of those shows that makes me think "WTF were they smoking when they came up with this crap?"

I've never even heard of "Thanks" until now, but it sounds pretty damn awful(historical sitcoms in general are a bad idea, "Heil Honey i'm Home!" was also beyond awful).


Personally I don't really care for 50s and 60s sitcoms in general, most of the humor is just way too outdated for me to laugh at, and I definitely think there are several terrible shows from that era that should absolutely be on the list(I.E. The Hathaways, the show with the chimps)

We've probably just forgotten about the older ones because they've been out of sight for so long.What made the show so offensive was how it tried to downplay how truly awful slavery was and mine it for jokes, it was just one of those shows that makes me think "WTF were they smoking when they came up with this crap?"Except that they don't! There wasn't actually any joke about slavery. Everybody apparently said it was, but they did so before they ever saw any episode. The title role is a valet in the white house, not a slave. In one of the 3 episodes on youtube they do end up in the South, true, but there it's the rednecks who literally get kneed in the groin. Kind of like The Producers takes the piss out of the nazis, but not the holocaust. Or Life of Brian being on the fanatics who misread the message - there are no Jesus jokes in Life of Brian.

OK, those examples are probably funnier, and you don't have to personally like any of it. But I'm also taking into consideration that the first few episodes of any comedy are never the best, and that by now the '90s humor has aged.
So for me that makes it just weird to claim that 'Pfeiffer' was somehow the unfunniest thing ever. I don't think it was fundamentally below the level of silly '90s American sitcom humor.

The list is dumb, According to Jim was hilarious in it's first few seasons.

We've probably just forgotten about the older ones because they've been out of sight for so long.Except that they don't! There wasn't actually any joke about slavery. Everybody apparently said it was, but they did so before they ever saw any episode. The title role is a valet in the white house, not a slave. In one of the 3 episodes on youtube they do end up in the South, true, but there it's the rednecks who literally get kneed in the groin. Kind of like The Producers takes the piss out of the nazis, but not the holocaust. Or Life of Brian being on the fanatics who misread the message - there are no Jesus jokes in Life of Brian.

OK, those examples are probably funnier, and you don't have to personally like any of it. But I'm also taking into consideration that the first few episodes of any comedy are never the best, and that by now the '90s humor has aged.
So for me that makes it just weird to claim that 'Pfeiffer' was somehow the unfunniest thing ever. I don't think it was fundamentally below the level of silly '90s American sitcom humor.

I don't think it's "weird" to claim that at all considering that the show is in many other "worst TV shows of all time" lists besides this one, (and it definitely deserves it). I can't remember a show I found less funny then that one(even Cavemen had some laughs, albeit not very many), it was the opposite of funny in every single way, I simply could not find one single redeeming factor for the show.

I don't remember exactly which episodes I saw(and I have no desire to find out, but I vaguely remember there were more then three episodes on Youtube back when I saw it) but I'd rather not waste my time trying to track down the rest of the series and torture myself watching them(especially when I have so many other better sitcoms to get through), there are some shows that never improve in quality and this seems to be one of them.

I don't think it's "weird" to claim that at all considering that the show is in many other "worst TV shows of all time" lists besides this one, (and it definitely deserves it). I can't remember a show I found less funny then that one(even Cavemen had some laughs, albeit not very many), it was the opposite of funny in every single way, I simply could not find one single redeeming factor for the show.

I don't remember exactly which episodes I saw(and I have no desire to find out, but I vaguely remember there were more then three episodes on Youtube back when I saw it) but I'd rather not waste my time trying to track down the rest of the series and torture myself watching them(especially when I have so many other better sitcoms to get through), there are some shows that never improve in quality and this seems to be one of them.And you don't suppose lists copy each other, forming a kind of self-fulfilling reputation? I wonder how many of them actually saw the episodes before writing about the series; they haven't been on youtube for always. Come to think about it, only this list said it was racist but all other mentions that you can google just think it wasn't funny.

Well, anyway, you have a right to your opinion. Just don't pretend that it's in any way close to facts, that's all I'm saying.

And you don't suppose lists copy each other, forming a kind of self-fulfilling reputation? I wonder how many of them actually saw the episodes before writing about the series; they haven't been on youtube for always. Come to think about it, only this list said it was racist but all other mentions that you can google just think it wasn't funny.

Well, anyway, you have a right to your opinion. Just don't pretend that it's in any way close to facts, that's all I'm saying.
I wouldn't go that far, there's no way to prove whether or not they did or did not see the show.

I never said it was a "fact", but it does seem that the general consensus for the show is that it just wasn't very good.

In the end it just comes down to personal preferences as humor is subjective, though you're the first person i've ever come across to actually defend that show.

I wouldn't go that far, there's no way to prove whether or not they did or did not see the show.

I never said it was a "fact", but it does seem that the general consensus for the show is that it just wasn't very good.

In the end it just comes down to personal preferences as humor is subjective, though you're the first person i've ever come across to actually defend that show.That's because most people won't have ever seen the show. I checked a few boards, the topic just gets replies from people who saw Clerks: TAS and say "holy f this show's REAL??". Cracked.com drew some attention to it but their review is mostly incredulous, rather than exclusively negative, although they get a few facts wrong (like they always do). Some eps. have been on youtube for 8 years now but they've not been watched by that many people.

So it's very random to me. People might as well say the same thing about that "Thanks" series I mentioned earlier.

Plus, well what I said earlier: I do not believe that this is racist but I do believe that it's OK to make fun of Lincoln. But then again, I like things like Blackadder, which I'm guessing, no offense, that you don't.

That's because most people won't have ever seen the show. I checked a few boards, the topic just gets replies from people who saw Clerks: TAS and say "holy f this show's REAL??". Cracked.com drew some attention to it but their review is mostly incredulous, rather than exclusively negative, although they get a few facts wrong (like they always do). Some eps. have been on youtube for 8 years now but they've not been watched by that many people.

So it's very random to me. People might as well say the same thing about that "Thanks" series I mentioned earlier.

Plus, well what I said earlier: I do not believe that this is racist but I do believe that it's OK to make fun of Lincoln. But then again, I like things like Blackadder, which I'm guessing, no offense, that you don't.
Cracked doesn't "always" get facts wrong, but what exactly did they get wrong about this show?

I've never seen Blackadder so I can't comment on that(I likely never will see it as it doesn't look like my cup of tea, in general i'm not really big on British humor, stuff like Fawlty Towers just doesn't do much for me)

Cracked doesn't "always" get facts wrong, but what exactly did they get wrong about this show?

I've never seen Blackadder so I can't comment on that(I likely never will see it as it doesn't look like my cup of tea, in general i'm not really big on British humor, stuff like Fawlty Towers just doesn't do much for me)It isn't very important, but whenever I read a cracked article about a subject that I know something about, they almost always get their facts wrong. For example, one said something like "yeah and the great wall of China is f-ing visible from f-ing SPACE", which is rubbish. (I know that they check online sources. But sometimes that source can be just a tabloid which got things wrong because they didn't care to be precise. So then they just copy the errors, like I saw in a recent article about lost TV shows that really missed some interesting points as well as getting the facts wrong.)

In this case I think cracked spends a bit too much time thinking about "the complicated premise", and why it did NOT(!) deal with history and race. Makes me wonder if they didn't know it was just a knob gag comedy when they started writing about it. The premise was after all really just a background that didn't matter (just like The A-Team isn't about Vietnam). Well, I didn't see the first episode, but neither did the author unless he has really good connections.

But yeah, I like this kind of British comedy. It's meant to be about antiheroes and failures so that means inverting history. One Blackadder special makes fun of Queen Victoria, I guess that's sort of the same as what they do to Lincoln in Pfeiffer. So that's why I don't really see what all the fuss is about. I won't ask you to watch an episode, but just check the ratings and reviews of "Thanks" on the IMDB.

It isn't very important, but whenever I read a cracked article about a subject that I know something about, they almost always get their facts wrong. For example, one said something like "yeah and the great wall of China is f-ing visible from f-ing SPACE", which is rubbish. (I know that they check online sources. But sometimes that source can be just a tabloid which got things wrong because they didn't care to be precise. So then they just copy the errors, like I saw in a recent article about lost TV shows that really missed some interesting points as well as getting the facts wrong.)

In this case I think cracked spends a bit too much time thinking about "the complicated premise", and why it did NOT(!) deal with history and race. Makes me wonder if they didn't know it was just a knob gag comedy when they started writing about it. The premise was after all really just a background that didn't matter (just like The A-Team isn't about Vietnam). Well, I didn't see the first episode, but neither did the author unless he has really good connections.

But yeah, I like this kind of British comedy. It's meant to be about antiheroes and failures so that means inverting history. One Blackadder special makes fun of Queen Victoria, I guess that's sort of the same as what they do to Lincoln in Pfeiffer. So that's why I don't really see what all the fuss is about. I won't ask you to watch an episode, but just check the ratings and reviews of "Thanks" on the IMDB.

I don't know which Cracked articles you're referring to(though the "great wall" thing sounds like a joke), but most of the ones i've read have been pretty accurate(though they do have some very stupid opinion pieces, like the one that tried to defend that horrid shrew Nancy Grace which most users rightfully called out as being total BS)

I pretty much agree with Cracked in that "Desmond" would work far better as a drama then a comedy, as the jokes they had were all incredibly lazy(from what I remember anyways).

I don't think making of Lincoln was the issue most people had with "Desmond"(the network owner of UPN making some asinine statement about how "hip" the show was certainly help it's case).

How exactly did their article on lost TV shows get facts wrong? I saw no glaring errors there.

I don't know which Cracked articles you're referring to(though the "great wall" thing sounds like a joke), but most of the ones i've read have been pretty accurate(though they do have some very stupid opinion pieces, like the one that tried to defend that horrid shrew Nancy Grace which most users rightfully called out as being total BS)

I pretty much agree with Cracked in that "Desmond" would work far better as a drama then a comedy, as the jokes they had were all incredibly lazy(from what I remember anyways).

I don't think making of Lincoln was the issue most people had with "Desmond"(the network owner of UPN making some asinine statement about how "hip" the show was certainly help it's case).

How exactly did their article on lost TV shows get facts wrong? I saw no glaring errors there.It depends on the author, and also on the subject and what I know about it. They omit an item that definitely should have been mentioned, or a really interesting point of view. Or, like I said, they can get their facts wrong because they've used an official online source... but it's an unreliable tabloid newspaper.

When lost TV is discussed people almost always talk about wiping tapes when it's really junking film that's the point of no return. But I admit freely that that's not limited to cracked. (Just like (POV) it wasn't just the BBC who destroyed their own shows, and Doctor Who is actually pretty well off if you look at percentages and audio tapes remaining for every lost episode.)
Some other things that I remember off the top of my head...
* NASA did not actually wipe the moon landing. Sure it makes a nice headline, but the fact is they simply had no special reason to keep data tapes. Many years later they could've been used to get better quality video but that's hindsight.
* The alternate ending of the movie Blade looks unconvincing because the effects were never completed. It was included as an extra on DVD but wasn't really finished. One article reversed the whole thing, claiming it wasn't used because it looked so bad, instead of the other way round.
* With historical articles it's a lot of applying our standards to completely different times - sometimes not on purpose. There was for example one that should have included the Peking Man, but no matter what I try I can't find the link.

I know that it's meant for amusement, not as an encyclopedia. It's of course deliberately written in its own popular style ("Galileo Trolls the Pope"). That's all fine with me. But when the writers are reporting all this amazing stuff in science and history (and they get paid for it), they are not that careful about getting the facts right. Just try to find a page on a subject that you know a lot about.