Was Just Shoot Me truly a popular show?

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It did run for seven seasons so it's easy to assume that it was a hit. But it was still a show, that seemed to kind of get lost in the shuffle because it aired during a time when there were some all time great comedies on network TV. According to the Nielsen ratings, it actually grew every year before Season 7 and was by far the most successful in Season 5.

Rank among all shows each season:

• 64
  
• 13
  
• 37
  
• 53
  
• 19
  
• 20
  
• 107

It went through four different time slots during the last season.

• Tuesday 8:00
• Tuesday 8:30
• Saturday 8:00
• Saturday 8:30

David Spade also starred in Rules of Engagement, another 7-season show that somehow never made a lasting impression. Rules of Engagement was ranked: #25, #33, #24, #40, #49, #42, #52.

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10 TV Shows That Deserved To Become Cult Hits (That Didn't)

6. Just Shoot Me!

Another NBC sitcom smash that has somehow managed to almost entirely disappear from human consciousness in the years since it dropped off the face of the Earth, Just Shoot Me! initially made a name for itself as one of the networks biggest comedy hits in the late '90s and early 2000s.

Bringing together a collection of side-splitting entities in the form of David Spade, Laura San Giacomo, Wendie Malick and more, the show centered around a group of employees going about their business while working for a fictional fashion magazine by the name of Blush.

Joining NewsRadio as a workplace comedy sensation that definitely appeared to have found its audience, maintaining strong ratings throughout its seven-season run on the network, Just Shoot Me! unfortunately also accompanies that fellow largely loved '90s comfort watch as a well-received but generally unremembered camera flash in the pan.

That being said, the show's Slow Donnie episode from Season Three is still classed as one of the finest comedy episodes in TV history by many. Though that, and the fact the one-time NBC chuckle-generator is now readily available to binge on Hulu, hasn't been enough to establish the laugh-a-minute classic show as a cult go-to half-hour of joy for the streaming generation.