Welcome to the very first edition of What Was The Worst Thing You Watched All Week?, a free-for-all I hope will become an every-Friday way for us to blow off steam.
The premise is pretty self-evident: What was the worst—the most boring or offensive or insulting-to-your-intelligence piece of TV you watched in the past seven days? You don’t have to have watched the entire thing—in fact, you get bonus points from me if you figured out the show you were watching stunk and tuned away after a few minutes.
To get things started here are the three worst things that passed in front of my eyeballs this week:
- Real Housewives of Orange County. Really, is there a more odious collection of people assembled in one TV show? This week’s edition, which involved three of the decadent sluts—’scuse me, real housewives—going off on a 4th of July getaway, featured more sloppy drunkenness, more shrieking complaints, more grotesque exhibitionism (you’d think such pampered creeps would be able to afford better breast augmentation and cosmetic surgery than this, wouldn’t you?) than usual. I shut it off about half-way through, unable to watch it all, even to write this entry. I’ve seen enough in seasons past. Phooey.
- Momma’s Boys. Producer Ryan Seacrest’s mercifully low-rated new show continued to parade the moms who insult the female airheads who compete for the attention of the male airheads they call their sons. Ick.
- Deal Or No Deal, the Christmas edition. It wouldn’t be Christmas without Howie Mandel, would it? Well, yes it would: a better Christmas. A two-hour edition of the dumb-dumb guessing game, with its painfully rehearsed contestants. I’m glad the honeymooning couple with the young man who was awarded the Silver Star for his actions in Iraq won over $200,000. I also felt manipulated by the producers every step of the way.
How about you? What’s the worst thing you saw on TV all week?
NBC has an excellent comedy lineup, but other than Americas Got Talent, it doesn’t know how to do reality tv…Never liked Deal or No Deal..
Ken, I have to say, I’m right there with you on number 2.
I actually went a bit out of my way to catch “Momma’s Boys” out of a sort of morbid curiosity, but I couldn’t stand more than the first couple of minutes.
I know reality TV is junk, but there are certainly some reality shows I enjoy. What annoys me to no end and is insulting to viewer’s intelligence is when producers go out of their way to insert a certain “personality” into the show. Yes, I get that you want your show to be interesting and that the premise for this particular show is already heinous, but the show somehow managed to cross the line of good taste.
“Mrs. B”, the loudmouthed, racist-in-denial mother on “Mommas Boys” was so obviously inserted into this show as your prototypical “reality show villain”, that I’m surprised she’s not wearing black all the time and twirling a mustache. Awful, just AWFUL!
(Thanks for the forum for letting us vent here!)
I went back home for the holiday and my mother doesn’t have cable. So on Christmas Eve, we watched Jack Frost on CBC. So terrible. I told her the premise is stupid-Michael Keaton dies and becomes a snowman, but she insisted that it might be good. It was not.
Real Housewives as well. It’s so bad and the people are so awful, but I can’t take my eyes off it. I also turned on the movie Holiday Inn when Bing Crosby was singing in black face and was reminded why White Christmas is a much better movie.
Hands down, without a doubt, the worst thing I watched this week (maybe ever?) was Rediscovered on ABC. It was a train wreck of Osmond family proportions.
Whenever there’s nothing good on TV, I just watch whatever is on the Discovery, Travel or History Channels. Even repeat shows they air are better viewing than crap shows like Momma’s Boys. I mean, just yesterday the Discovery
Channel had a marathon on Mythbusters, which is fun entertainment & informative.
I think it was this week it aired, but it was Christmas in Wonderland on ABC Family, what a disappointment with such a great cast, but what can you say, ABC Family makes a lot of bad movies. Miser Brothers Christmas wasn’t that exciting either. Liked the original better.
Christmas week viewing is usually pretty bad anyway, but my brother flipped on – and laughed uproariously to – Two and Half Men. Awful, awful show. I left the room.
Home for the holidays this week, and my parents forced me to watch The Big Bang Theory because “The really nerdy guy reminds them of me in high school”. Thirty laughless minutes later and I realized that if I ever met high school me, I’d punch him in the face. That show is not funny at all, and it sets back all the work being done by Judd Apatow and Kevin Smith. Yes, even after the heyday of Seth Rogen, the nerds most people laugh at are still the gawky Dilton-Doily weirdos who populate this overrated, cliche-ridden show.
Thank god for How I Met Your Mother.
The worst thing was The maury show. Once again they did a paternity show. This time a fat girl was testing her fifth and sex man and neither one was the father. 6 men and no father! So much for feminism and the sexual revolution, not the mention sugar and spice and everything nice!
I second the Miser Brothers Christmas. Fond memories of the 1st one, horrible stuck in my head images from this latest one.
Television fare has gotten worse and worse as the years have gone by. Very little on the Tube is worthy of happy mention anymore. Most “major” network fare is fairly awful.
I think I’m only watching “Life” (Wednesdays at 9pm E/P on NBC) on any of the “Big Three”. But it won’t have a new show until February 4th, so I have to wade through televised garbage until then. I haven’t watched a sitcom in years, as they suck.
With very few exceptions, the once-peripheral stations like TNT, SciFi and others seems to possess the most thoughtful and interesting programs anymore. The multiple iterations of CSI and Law & Order got old long ago, and “reality” tv is awful.
The best thing I’ve seen this past week was Tim Hutton’s new show, “Leverage” on Tuesdays at 10 E/P on TNT. Other than that, tv just plained sucked for Christmas week.
Thank god for my DVR’s saved recordings, and our seasonal hall-decking and carol-singing, or this week would truly have been a nightmare.
Any and every Christmas movie my girlfriend watched on fa-la-la-la lifetime. What complete trash.
Momma’s Boys. OMG, I cannot believe that I’m admitting to that.
any and every lame Christmas movie my wife watched on fa-la-la-la lifetime.