In light of that thread about the rubbish ITV show Teenage Kicks - suggestions for worst sitcom ever? I know it's been done before but what the hell
Bonus points if the answer is not Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.
Babes in the Wood on ITV in the 90s was pretty dreadful, as was that one on the BBC with Jasper Carrott and Meera Syal.
I doubt anybody saw this
But on BBC Three last year by chance my housemates and I caught a pilot for a sitcom called "Coming of Age," written by the winner of a competition for 18 year olds to write their own sitcom.
It was, without doubt, the worst thing I've ever seen. The highlight that sticks in my mind is the girl from Tracey Beaker playing a flute by sticking it up her arse.
And, I've recently discovered it's been commissioned for a full series. Just when you think BBC Three can't stoop any lower...
Oh God, I remember that.
It was painful to watch. Particularly considering the girl who played Tracey Beaker was clearly uncomfortable being in it. Truly terrible.
And they're making a series of it!
I'm fucking livid. This is not why I pay my license fee.
At first I didn't believe you.
No-one could commission an abomination such as this.
Then I checked Wikipedia (always a reliable verifier of facts), and it appears you're right. Also, half the cast from the pilot - including Tracy Beaker - aren't going to be in it. If most of your cast don't want to be in your show, surely that must tell you something?
The thing is
The more that people criticise the stuff that BBC Three commissions, the more the commissioners seem to want to stick to their guns and make even tackier, lower-brow shit.
It's such a damn shame. BBC Three could, properly nurtured, be a great way for new comedy talent to get onto the television. But the only talent they seem to want is that which plays to the Two Pints Of Lager crowd. It's a goddam disgrace, that's what it is.
its not really a disgrace is it
its only a telly channel
I wouldn't care
Except I'm paying for it, and it's clearly not doing what the BBC is meant to do - rise up above the ratings chase and focus on things with more considered 'quality'.
yeah i guess so.
i suppose the paying for it thing does change things. im just not overly bothered with television a lot of the time,
It is a disgrace.
And I agree, with the right commission, BBC Three could theoretically make some genuinely great, forward-thinking television. But, if there's a market for unforgivable shit comedies and documentaries about small penises, which it has undoubtedly cornered the market for, then I'd imagine it'd be quite difficult for them to completely dig themselves out of the niché they have created for themselves.
Also, I can only think of three successful (i.e., commerically and critically acclaimed) shows BBC Three has produced - Gavin & Stacey, The Mighty Boosh & Little Britain. And even they aren't particularly brilliant.
Ultimately, it either needs a complete re-brand, or it should just give up and broadcast an image of a tiny penis wearing a fake moustache 24/7. In HD, of course.
^*commissioner
Frank Skinner
The one that was on BBC a couple of years ago on friday nights. It starred the guy who presented "they think it's all over" after Nick hancock. Lee.....can't remember his name!
Eh?!
I must be tired cos i have no idea why i titled that "frank Skinner"!
Shane
Think the Frank Skinner one was called "Shane". I like Frank Skinner but this was crap
That was awful too.
Admittedly, I only watched one episode, but it appeared to be nothing more than a succession of smart-arsed puns and one liners.
Game On?
Somehow stumbled around in the dark without a clue searching for a joke for 3 series.
FUCK OFF
Along with This Life than proramme made my teens. You obviously weren't pubing in the mid 90s.
* that
^this
I'm agreeing with you at least once a week now, it's worrying!
high fives!
remember the episide where he joined the band and somehow amazed everyone. i dream about that.
doing some (wiki informed granted) maths
no I wasn't.
But I did watch this life despite being 11/12. That may explain a lot actually come to think of it.
Game On.....
...was shite. Their one joke was to slag off Ginger people
behave.
there was the him wanting to shag Mand joke, too.
TEA, MARTIN!
GAME ON IS AMAZING.
The Pitts
Without doubt.
LITTLE MISS JOCELYN!
thats a sketch show silly
but agreed, it's terrible
^ i find brown people laughing at brown people really funny.
just a 3 non-blondes rip-off, though, really.
^
agree with above. Not exactly a sitcom but it was, without a doubt, the worst thing i have ever seen on TV
LMJ is Important
beforehand i thought black people were just a homogenous mass, but LMJ taught me that there are numerous stereotypes within the world of blackness which can be exploited via the medium of extreme overacting and militant anti-humour
Big Bang Theory?
maybe that aint the worse there are loads more rubbish ones on random sky channels but I dont tend to sick around long enough to find there names...
As Time Goes By
The Big Bang Theory isn't that bad
it's just quite weak in a sweet way. As Time Goes By was more inoffensive than terrible.
no one's mentioned the one
with jasper carrott who played a father to a disabled asian kid yet??????????
It was on the original post.
But, yeah, truly shocking in every respect.
fuck off, that was brilliant.
the mongy delay made the show. he's the 00's version of that girl of Grange Hill.
That show was horrific.
I remember Charlie Brooker really slagging it off.
Everybody Loves Raymond
Terrible.
^this
I set my alarm for 7:55 so I wake up just in time to walk into the living room, miss Everybody Loves Raymond and not miss a single second of Just Shoot Me.
Yeah, I find planning these things fun.
How did the Ray guy
end up nearly getting as much money as Jerry Seinfeld, Frasier cast, Friends cast et al? I watched this several times to try and discover its secret.
I can't.
Everybody Loves Raymond
I'm very glad this didn't replicate its inexplicable US success over here. But yeah as mentioned below it's just mainly mediocre rather than awful.
King of Queens
Shite.
thats the fucker
flicked past it on digital man that sucked
Nah
Whilst ELR and KOQ are both, undoubtably, of utterly zero merit and terribly predictable and dull in every way, they are just the latest in a long line of that style of inoffensive sitcome. Occasionally, there's an OK joke, but mostly it is just terrible.
However, they're not utterly offensive to the eyes and soul like some shit that has been around. At least you can forgive things like Two And A Half Men. You can't forgive stuff like Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps.
Joey was pretty rotten no?
again, FUCK OFF with your stoopidness.
Joey's BRILLIANT. Pisses on Friends.
haha I like your passion for shit sitcoms
I can't imagine a world
where someone can raise the fervour to holler obscenities in SUPPORT of Joey.
joey was AWFUL
that one with Rab C Nesbitt and the hobbit
I also remember
a sitcom in the early to mid 90s on the BBC where some town or something declares independence and it just seemed to be some rabid EU-hater's wet dream on screen. Sort of like a half-arsed version of Passport to Pimlico.
who's the boss
dharma & greg
cybil
My Hero
My Family
Anything with 'My' in the title.
My Little Pony?
Nah, that was comedy gold for sure.
I liked the one with a shit witch and some goo
that was well funny
oh my days
My Hero ^ a million
Again, piss off.
My Hero's TV Gold.
WILL & GRACE
depends.
i like it if it's on really early, or if i'm alone, but if it's at night, or with company then i adopt a really deep voice and say 'Get this shiiiiiite, off, NOW'.
seriously?
think about that woman's voice.
Her voice is horrific
the annoying thing is she cropped up in an episode of Frasier a few years before Will and Grace started and her voice seemed OK there. So god knows what she was doing with that voice in the show.
Now THAT is something I can agree with
years or "ooooh he's gay! Isn't that FUNNY!"
*of damnit
it had two gay characters in it.
those weren't the only jokes though.
Desmonds
acctualy I quite liked that... dunno why
Desmonds?!
That certainly doesn't belong in this thread :(
no I regret that one
I will hang my head in shame...
I'm on the verge of killing DiS.
ALL OF THEM.
Desmonds is one of the all-time great British sitcoms.
What about spinoff
'Porkpie' but?
That was pretty shit
winning the lottery is a crappy plotline
But there's been a lot worse. Still it proves that spinoffs are usually a bad idea (Frasier apart)
Is there another good spinoff?
I can't think of many never mind good ones.
King of the Hill?
That is an interesting call
is it considered a spin off from Beavis and Butthead? I know Daria was. Either way I know Boomhauer cracks me up. Oh and Dale. and Khan Souipa...Supha...the guy who always calls Hank "redneck" next door.
Holby City?
Actually, no, you're probably right...
I have never seen so much anger
over sitcoms its brilliant. I said I quite liked it, from what I rember it was freakin ages ago now.
The War at Home
with that guy who was phoebe's cop boyfriend in Friends. Not just spectacularly unfunny but also really quite offensive.
^This
The way it handles some issues (i.e., homophobia) is shockingly immature, to the point of almost subliminally condoning it.
The few times I have seen this
I usually end up staring at the screen in horror/disbelief/incredulity/plain disgust.
How about Coupling?
From what I recall, wasn't it just a poor attempt to create Britain's answer to Friends? Either way, t'was appalling.
Coupling
Yeah, Coupling was pretty crap
some episodes were unbelievably good though
The one where Jeff tells a woman he has a wooden leg.
And the one where Jeff chats up a girl from Israel, then the entire conversation rewinds 4 minutes and you hear it all again being able to now understand what the girl is saying.
Any Jeff episode
Keeping Up Appearances,
and pretty much any sitcom shown on BBC One on a Friday night, like, ever.
has anyone said 'heil honey' yet?
how a sitcom based on hitler failed i'll never know
Chef
Lenny Henry thing. That was pretty darn mediocre.
Serious..
Serious proffe-sion.
Oh and that BBC3 one in a home for the disabled
where it seems they worked out the "cutting edge" thing they were going to do was used real disabled people and then promptly forgot to write the show.
the american sitcom
starring Sean Maguire. Quite recentish Cant remember what it was called, but it was quite dreadful...
As Time Goes By/Last Of The Summer Wine
on an early Sunday evening.
dark Dark DARK times!
Having grown up in
Holmfirth I can't put into words the loathing I have for Last of the summer wine.
big bang theory
is pretty bad
was just thinking about this one.
and maybe the IT crowd. dire.
Based on the 2 episodes I've seen
I'd say the current series of Peep Show. Are Mark and Jeremy both borderline retarded now? Their characters have become totally one-dimensional. Did I miss the part where they both received serious head injuries?
According to Bex
That was fucking shit.
Agreed.