Top 10 WORST Sitcoms of the 21st Century (So far)

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There are funny sitcoms, and there are unfunny wastes of time! Welcome to
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aired after the year 2000.

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00:00 Hey, guess who was begging me to come to work again today?
00:02 Oh, well, who would know more about video games than your 65-year-old dad?
00:06 Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most awful sitcoms that
00:12 aired after the year 2000. I'm overthinking this. I haven't seen him in two years. Maybe
00:16 he's a different guy. Maybe he's mellowed. You know what? I bet he's changed.
00:20 Number 10, Rob. I got a good one.
00:25 Ten people hear a joke, and only nine of them understand it. Rob, that's really not funny.
00:34 Saturday Night Live is a launching pad for comedians and actors, and Rob Schneider was
00:38 no exception. Schneider even found some solid success on the big screen in movies like Deuce
00:43 Bigalow, Male Gigalow, a success he wasn't able to replicate when it came to television.
00:48 And he even got two chances at it within a three-year period. In 2012, he starred in Rob
00:54 on CBS, about a man marrying into a Mexican-American family. They think they can get
00:59 away with it because I don't understand a word they're saying. They can, because you don't.
01:03 Let's just say that words like "second-rate" and "stereotypes" were used in various reviews
01:09 of the show, and it was cancelled after one season. Then in 2015, we got two seasons of
01:15 Real Rob on Netflix. That one currently stands at a zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
01:22 What's this? The bonus features. You want me to sign a bootleg Deuce Bigalow bonus features?
01:27 Yeah, it's a set.
01:28 Number nine, We Are Men.
01:30 Sometimes you get the girl, and sometimes you get the guys.
01:36 A man, left at the altar, makes friends with a bunch of divorced dudes he meets at his new
01:41 short-term rental apartment complex. This sounds like a situation ripe for smart comedy or
01:46 dumb, predictable, bordering on misogynistic humor that could barely be called funny.
01:52 And we are four exits from Hollywood. Actresses come through here all the time.
01:57 Given that We Are Men is on this list, you can probably guess which one it was. In fact,
02:03 they produced 11 episodes, but the show was so bad, CBS cancelled it after only two had aired,
02:10 leaving the other nine on a shelf somewhere, never to be seen.
02:14 Hey, everybody. The bride's just got a little case of cold feet. She'll be back. Let's party!
02:21 Number eight, Fred, The Show.
02:24 Hi, guys. It's Fred.
02:25 Down, boy, down.
02:29 Lucas Cruikshank created the annoyingly-voiced character Fred Figglehorn in 2006, and he soon
02:35 became an online hit. The subsequent Fred YouTube channel even became the first on the platform to
02:40 reach over one million subscribers. This online popularity got him noticed by Nickelodeon,
02:46 and his own show debuted on the network in 2012.
02:50 So, come to the school often? You know, I'm usually not this forward, but you are the most
02:55 beautiful, elegant, refined, amazing creature I have ever met.
02:58 And while the character's popularity did translate to over three million viewers for the first
03:03 episode, that number dropped to 2.4 million for episode two. While the show has developed a cult
03:09 following, the overall consensus is harshly negative. Many critics, not just us, called it
03:16 unfunny, obnoxious, poorly written, and one of the worst TV shows ever.
03:20 It wasn't so bad.
03:22 Told you.
03:27 Feel better.
03:29 Number seven, Caveman.
03:31 Jamie, don't put the empty waffle box back in the freezer, alright? It gives me the impression
03:35 that we've actually got waffles.
03:37 Have you ever watched a really funny television commercial and thought, "Hey,
03:40 that would make for a great television show"? Well, that's what someone did back in the
03:45 aughts, and that's how he got Caveman. Following a series of hysterical Geico commercials featuring
03:51 the cavemen, BBC decided to develop a sitcom based on said commercials.
03:56 You don't even know these people. No, I do know these people.
03:58 They've been oppressing our people for 750,000 years.
04:02 Unfortunately, the attempt failed on both levels. It failed to attract many viewers,
04:07 and it failed to garner much, if any, praise from critics. There are some reviewers who
04:12 pointed out the wittiness of some of the writing, but overall, that was few and far between.
04:17 Only seven of the 13 episodes ever aired in North America. All 13 aired in Australia.
04:24 I can tell by your wide-eyed stares and slack and jaws that you've never been
04:28 taught by a caveman before, so let's go through the basics, shall we?
04:31 Number six, My Big Fat Greek Life.
04:34 If you thought the wedding was fun, wait till you see what happens after the honeymoon.
04:39 The 2002 film, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, became one of the highest-grossing movies of the year,
04:44 and one of the most profitable of all time. The following year, creator and star Nia Vardalos,
04:50 along with executive producers Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, attempted to parlay that movie's success
04:56 to the small screen with My Big Fat Greek Life. I told my family before we left that we would
05:01 be time to ourselves. Oh, thank God.
05:03 Surprise! To put it bluntly, it didn't work.
05:07 The sitcom had a very strong premiere with viewership numbers over 22 million.
05:12 However, ratings declined from there and the critics hated it.
05:15 The series only lasted seven episodes and has a zero score on Rotten Tomatoes.
05:20 I'd like to hear this pretty lady's story.
05:22 Pretty? Check out Yachty.
05:27 Number five, St. George.
05:29 Harper, this is authentic, man. This is the real deal. This is getting back to your roots. I mean,
05:34 do you feel it, son?
05:36 I feel it's greasy.
05:37 In 2002, comedian George Lopez got a sitcom on ABC. And while it wasn't a ratings juggernaut
05:43 or anything like that, it was pretty well received and lasted an impressive 120 episodes before
05:49 getting cancelled in 2007. In 2014, he got another shot, this time with the FX Network.
05:56 And this time, his show, St. George, was given a 10-episode order and a guarantee of another
06:01 90 episodes should the initial run hit specific ratings numbers.
06:05 What kind of Mexican are you? You should have all kind of kids showing up out of nowhere
06:10 with luggage.
06:11 Needless to say, those numbers weren't hit. Understandable given the 0%
06:15 critics score on Rotten Tomatoes and the 31% audience score. St. George maybe should have
06:21 done a little praying to the patron saint of televisions, St. Clair of Assisi, to boost the
06:26 ratings.
06:27 Let me tell you something. They're putting a chain link fence around this country.
06:30 You should be concerned with that if you ever want to see your wife again.
06:34 Not really.
06:35 Number 4. Tucker
06:37 This is gonna be so cool. I'll finally have someone to sleep on top of.
06:40 Moving on.
06:45 If only they'd premiered the sitcom 11 months earlier, it would have never made our list.
06:51 We're not saying it would have been a better show, just that 11 months earlier was 1999 and
06:57 therefore it would have been ineligible. The show is about a young teen boy who moves in with his
07:02 aunt and her family when his parents get divorced.
07:05 The show was a pretty obvious attempt to cash in on the success of Malcolm in the Middle,
07:17 which premiered earlier that year. However, unlike Malcolm, Tucker wasn't even close to
07:23 his good, got half the ratings and was cancelled after airing only 4 episodes.
07:29 Number 3. Dads
07:39 Two successful guys have their world turned upside down when their dads move in with them.
07:47 And hilarity ensues. That describes the Fox sitcom Dads. Well, everything except the part
07:54 about the ensuing hilarity. Dads premiered in 2013 and starred a couple of well-known faces
08:00 in the form of Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi. Despite the stars, it was the unoriginal racist
08:14 and stereotyped jokes that got most of the attention, and not in a good way. Which in turn
08:20 led to the show's 15 rating on Metacritic, which, as the site explains, equates to "overwhelming
08:26 dislike". The audience agreed with ratings dropping 32% between the first and second episode.
08:32 And the whole thing was over after one season.
08:35 Number 2. Sh*t My Dad Says
08:49 If you ever thought creating a series based on a television commercial was a bad idea,
09:02 it seems like genius thinking compared to this one. A sitcom based on a dude's Twitter account.
09:08 That dude was Justin Halpern. And his Twitter account was a collection of quotes from his
09:13 father. On Twitter, and 140 character bursts, the feed was actually pretty funny. However,
09:28 in long-form 20+ minute episodes, it didn't work. The stunt casting of William Shatner as the
09:34 obnoxious and opinionated father was intriguing, but the critics hammered the show and the ratings
09:39 weren't good enough to get it a second season. Before we continue, be sure to subscribe to our
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10:02 your settings and switch on notifications. Number 1. Work It
10:08 So I got a chance to look at your resume and I have to say I'm intrigued.
10:12 You sold Pontiacs? Oh yes, yes. Believe it or not, that is my actual resume.
10:18 A couple of laid-off male autoworkers decide that men are being adversely affected by the
10:22 rough economy more than women. So naturally, they decide to dress up as females in order to get a
10:28 job as pharmaceutical sales reps. Putting aside the cringe misogyny and complete lack of understanding
10:35 of women's decades-long struggles for equality in the workplace, Work It simply is not funny.
10:40 Multiple reviewers went so far as to question how the show ever even made it to air. The series
10:57 premiered on January 3, 2012 and was cancelled on the 13th. If you want some great 21st century
11:04 Work It, let's all put our things down, flip it and reverse it with Missy Elliott.
11:08 Which of these awful sitcoms have you had the non-pleasure of watching? Let us know in the
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