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00:00Uh, don't tell me, uh, greatest showman?
00:03I'm clearly Murphy Brown.
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at the situation comedies considered most distasteful,
00:10unfunny, and unsuccessful.
00:12Great. Why do you have to be a caveman?
00:14Of course it's a caveman. They only put it on TV when it's a caveman.
00:20Number 30, Bleep My Dad Says.
00:22Outrageous quotes from Justin Halpern's dad were such a sensation on Twitter that
00:26CBS made a fictionalized sitcom.
00:29Come on, Barb, stay with me!
00:33Why can't someone do a good impression of me?
00:36William Shatner plays the loudmouthed namesake in Bleep My Dad Says,
00:39whose son turns his rants into a column after moving back home.
00:42Broadcast TV was already the wrong platform for Sam Halpern's infamous profanity.
00:47Still, the thoughtless father-son farce had nothing more to say than embarrassingly lowbrow gags.
00:52Okay, well, I'm not going to look up horses and beautiful women because I did that once,
00:56and I'm still trying to un-see it.
00:58It was cancelled after one season,
01:00with ratings suggesting that it was mostly known for its bad reputation.
01:04If anything, controversy surrounding the title gave Bleep My Dad Says a boost.
01:08What really silenced the show was actual viewers seeing that it was,
01:12let's just say, a piece of junk.
01:14Number 29, Hello Larry.
01:16Yes? Oh boy, we're back on the air with I didn't know we were on the air lair.
01:21McLean Stevenson struggled for a hit after MASH.
01:24There was much buzz about Hello Larry,
01:26in which he plays a newly divorced talk radio host.
01:30It sounds like the creators of Frasier were listening to that premise.
01:33Hello, Martin. This is Dr. Frasier Crane. I'm listening.
01:37But the critics agreed that NBC's tediously unfunny sitcom was dead air.
01:41Some even misinterpreted its desperate crossover with different strokes,
01:45believing it set up a spinoff which was already on the air.
01:49NBC's own Johnny Carson even joined in the trash talk.
01:52After the network shockingly gave the flop a second season,
01:55with more focus on the lead's daughters, it was goodbye to Hello Larry.
01:59Decades later though, its failure is still being talked about.
02:04She was smashed, Ruthie. She fell asleep while I was talking to her.
02:08Gee, Dad, you don't have to be drunk to do that.
02:12Number 28, Dads.
02:14A pair of successful but immature video game developers
02:17suddenly have to adapt to their fathers moving in with them.
02:20Yeah, things are going great now, but...
02:22Dad.
02:23What? I was just gonna say someday they won't be.
02:26The makers of Family Guy do have a knack for edgy family dysfunction,
02:30at least in animation.
02:31Fox's Dads, on the other hand,
02:33could not salvage its unlikable characters on shock value alone.
02:37The politically incorrect humor is all the more offensive
02:40for how uninspired and obnoxious it is.
02:42It especially didn't work in the bland multicam format,
02:45whose laughs could not have been from a live audience.
02:48Well, at least he died in the line of duty.
02:54Contrary to the premise,
02:55nothing ever really grew up in the forgettable-at-best Dads.
02:59With catastrophic reviews and ratings already reducing the episode order,
03:03it's game over after just one season.
03:06Number 27, Ferris Bueller.
03:14This is television. This is real.
03:18Teen comedies don't get much cooler than Ferris Bueller's day off.
03:21The high school hero of John Hughes's instant classic
03:24would continue his adventures on TV.
03:26Unfortunately, NBC's Ferris Bueller was way off.
03:30It featured none of the original cast or crew,
03:32and relocated the story from Chicago to Los Angeles County.
03:36The often blatant disrespect for the original
03:38would be more forgivable if not for the cheesy writing.
03:41Once-beloved characters were reduced to their most obnoxious tropes.
03:45What do you have against me, genie?
03:47You're a scrawny, immature pile of dog dew,
03:51and you hang around with my brother,
03:53who is the king of scrawny, immature dog dew.
03:57Meanwhile, Fox's Parker Lewis Can't Lose
03:59debuted to much more favorable comparisons to Ferris Bueller's day off.
04:03The movie's technically official successor was thus cancelled after one season,
04:07with no nostalgia for the few who remember its existence.
04:11Number 26, George.
04:13Heavyweight boxing legend George Foreman
04:15is larger than life in personality as much as stature.
04:18He seemed ideal to lead his own sitcom about a retired boxer
04:21running a program for at-risk high schoolers.
04:23Hey, he couldn't be less qualified for this noble enterprise
04:26than Foreman is of being an actor.
04:28And according to your highly skilled professional counselor,
04:31you're a select group of students who have a proven talent
04:35to be a pain in the behind.
04:37But the harder blow to ABC's George
04:40was its corny writing around such a limited premise.
04:42From painful humor to trite schmaltz,
04:45it was heavy-handed enough to qualify for a championship belt.
04:48No, there you go.
04:49I was trying to do something right and you don't even notice.
04:52You should try listening.
04:53Listen? Who do you ever listen to?
04:55Whoa! Time out.
04:58Instead, the poor reception from a small crowd
05:00put the show down for the count after a single round.
05:03George has since faded into legend itself,
05:06mostly for the grilling it got from critics.
05:08Number 25, She's the Sheriff.
05:11And good morning to you, Max.
05:13Yeah, how are you, sweetheart?
05:16As disappointed as Three's Company fans were by Suzanne Somers' departure,
05:20her big comeback to TV was totally unqualified.
05:23She's the Sheriff follows a Nevada lawman's widow
05:26as she takes up the star of her deceased husband.
05:28What sounds like an empowering romp
05:30ends up turning the lead's ditzy incompetence into the main joke.
05:33A stranger here was not all that convinced to do so.
05:36Isn't that true, Sheriff?
05:38Well, I suppose.
05:42There is no excusing that on the rest of the show's lack of imagination.
05:46There wasn't even much crime to fight.
05:48The series did get a second season, ostensibly for the initial hype,
05:51but was left to waste in a weekend time slot.
05:54In a decade overrun with first-run syndicated sitcoms,
05:57She's the Sheriff was expected to stand out.
05:59And it did, in all the wrong ways.
06:02Number 24, We Are Men.
06:05Dumped at the altar,
06:06some slacker moves into an apartment with three divorcees
06:09also trying to get on their feet.
06:11This was my defining moment.
06:13But there's nothing actually grown up in CBS's We Are Men.
06:16The likable likes of Cal Penn, Jerry O'Connell and Tony Shalhoub
06:20are wasted on unlikable characters,
06:22cracking lazy jokes and having derivative adventures.
06:25It's like a male-centered version of Sex and the City
06:27that doesn't have any real insight.
06:30Yo, I'm home.
06:33Oh my God.
06:34His wife caught him having the world's worst affair.
06:36The character's stereotypical boorishness
06:38is just offensive to both women and men.
06:41The themes may have matured over time,
06:43but we'll never know.
06:44The ratings and reviews for We Are Men were so bad
06:47that it was pulled after airing just two of the eight episodes produced.
06:51Number 23, Aftermash.
06:53Excuse me, Mike, but I spent too many years in the cavalry
06:56not to recognize the gentle thud of stable droppings.
07:01CBS's MASH is considered one of the greatest, biggest TV shows ever.
07:05Its blend of wacky comedy and uncompromising war drama
07:08is not just hard to replicate,
07:10it was impossible to continue.
07:12Aftermash depicts some veterans of the original
07:15returning to civilian life after the Korean War.
07:18The less funny moments admirably tackled themes of PTSD,
07:21veteran services and mainstream healthcare.
07:24The thing is,
07:24there are hardly any funny moments between the clunky commentary.
07:28I married a wonderful girl overseas.
07:31Wonderful.
07:32But believe me,
07:33Eva Braun wouldn't get the kind of look she gets over here.
07:36Aftermash came under such high standards
07:39that MASH fans landed it a second tour.
07:41With that though,
07:42outrage over the show's quality cut its deployment.
07:45You'd be honoring a classic show's memory
07:47by forgetting that its battle-worn sequel ever happened.
07:51Number 22, The Paul Reiser Show.
07:53By 2011, sitcom veteran Paul Reiser was so desperate for a hit
07:58that he created a show about that ordeal.
08:00The Paul Reiser Show was a semi-improvised,
08:02semi-autobiographical comedy
08:04in the vein of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
08:06Well, nobody seemed enthusiastic about it.
08:08Yeah, so it was a lovely show business experience.
08:10We're gonna give you no lead up
08:12and we're not spending literally a nickel on the promotion
08:14and you'll be up against American Idol.
08:16And I said, might that be problematic?
08:19It was reported that the show
08:20had the worst premiere episode ratings in NBC history.
08:24The unlucky few who did see it
08:26said that its self-deprecating humor was painful
08:28and it didn't have much plot
08:30besides what was stolen from Larry David.
08:32Oh, what are you, out of your mind?
08:34To ask me that question?
08:35That's all right, never mind.
08:36Sorry I asked.
08:36No, no, wait a second.
08:37After an even worse performance the following week,
08:40the remaining five episodes of The Paul Reiser Show were pulled.
08:44Reiser's comeback would come eventually,
08:46but he could not have been happy about this disastrous attempt.
08:49Number 21, The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer.
08:53Desmond, how are you this glorious morning?
08:56Fine, Mrs. Lincoln.
08:58I see you've finally gotten around to opening that Christmas present
09:00from the Jamaican ambassador.
09:02A sitcom based on sensitive history needs to be smart and funny.
09:07The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer, the P is not silent,
09:10had its work cut out with the exploits of President Lincoln's
09:13black British valet during the American Civil War.
09:16UPN faced massive controversy over potentially making a joke
09:20out of this tragedy and slavery.
09:21In fact, it was closer to a lazy allegory for Bill Clinton's presidency,
09:26among other contemporary pop culture topics.
09:28Just because you're a world leader doesn't mean you automatically get a mistress.
09:32So much for my presidential aspiration.
09:35There was no edgy satire to the crass humor and thin storylines.
09:39The arbitrary backdrop just happened to be uniquely costly for a sitcom
09:43in both production and reputation.
09:45Pulled from the air after four episodes,
09:47Desmond Pfeiffer would stay a secret if not for its historic misguidance.
09:52Number 20, Work It.
09:54Work It was an awful sitcom that ran for two episodes back in 2012.
09:58The show featured two guys who, because of the awful economy,
10:01had to dress like women in order to get a job.
10:04But just one more thing I have to say.
10:07It's me.
10:10Lee.
10:11Lee?
10:11Yeah.
10:12This is what I had to do to get a job.
10:15Okay, my eyes are up here.
10:18Given how women have historically been treated with less respect than men in the workforce,
10:22the premise of the show is beyond insulting.
10:25But also, as a pure situation comedy,
10:27the show was pretty much completely lacking in the comedy department as well.
10:31How'd it go?
10:31I blew it.
10:32Why didn't you tell me she was so hot?
10:34My ace bandage was holding on for dear life.
10:38Just because bosom buddies kind of worked back in the early 80s
10:41doesn't mean men dressed as women is going to work every time.
10:44As one critic wrote,
10:45Work It was, quote,
10:46"...witless, tasteless, poorly acted, abominably written,
10:50clumsily directed, hideously lit, and badly costumed."
11:10ABC's Happy Days had a great early track record with spinoffs.
11:14Chachi Arcola and Joni Cunningham moved to Chicago
11:17in search of their own hit with a music career.
11:19The couple did produce some catchy tunes in the style of 60s pop,
11:22but dreams of replicating Happy Days' nostalgic style
11:25were broken by shameless anachronisms.
11:27Otherwise, it was a campy, unfunny rom-com
11:30that became a permanent pop culture punching bag.
11:32And we're talking about the franchise that inspired the term Jumping the Shark.
11:36Let me tell you something.
11:38The fines don't fake nothing.
11:39Never has, never will.
11:43This time I will.
11:45Nostalgia for the original show allowed Joni Loves Chachi
11:48to fall in the charts for two seasons.
11:50The characters then returned to Happy Days like nothing happened,
11:53but their raw solo note still resonates today.
11:58Both the 2005 Are We There Yet movie
12:01and the similarly titled television show that came out five years later
12:04were pretty successful.
12:14The movie grossed over $97 million dollars on a $32 million dollar budget,
12:22and the series ended up running for three seasons and 100 episodes on TBS.
12:27They also both had something else in common.
12:29They weren't very good.
12:31We like Terry Crews,
12:32but even his big muscles couldn't lift the sitcom
12:35beyond the generic family comedy it was.
12:39It left us asking ourselves,
12:41is it funny yet?
12:42And more often than not,
12:44the answer was no.
12:48To our Australian viewers,
12:49before you jump angrily into the comment section,
12:51let us be clear that we are not talking about
12:53the very funny hit sitcom that aired in your country
12:56from 2002 to 2007.
12:58What?
12:59Don't be a fool, Kim.
13:00You're not as young as you used to be.
13:02You've got a chooky neck.
13:03What?
13:04And crow's feet.
13:05What do you mean, chooky Kim?
13:07I'm not criticizing you, mum.
13:09I'm just saying you look bad.
13:10We're talking about the poorly written and conceived
13:13American version of Kath & Kim
13:14that the San Francisco Chronicle called,
13:16quote,
13:17a contender for worst remake ever.
13:19Kim, I really like it.
13:21You're very serious and businesslike on the top with a scarf,
13:24and then you stand up from the news desk and bang!
13:27Keep some guessing, right?
13:28And while a decent-sized audience
13:30showed up for the series premiere,
13:32it didn't take long for them to realize the show sucked.
13:35By the third episode,
13:36the audience was already one-third smaller.
13:42A 14-year-old girl,
13:44a family restaurant,
13:45a passion for cooking,
13:46and magical spices all came together
13:48to create the meal that was 40 episodes
13:50of Talia in the Kitchen on Nickelodeon in 2015.
13:53Wow.
13:55Yeah.
13:56That's...
13:58That's huge.
13:59I know.
14:01But you can't tell anyone, though.
14:02Don't worry.
14:03I won't.
14:04And while 40 episodes might sound like a lot,
14:06it should be noted that it was just one season,
14:09after which the series was cancelled due to low ratings
14:11and less-than-stellar critic reviews.
14:14Seriously?
14:15Oh, you see?
14:16I told you.
14:17Now we waste the time.
14:18On IMDb,
14:20the teen telenovela comedy
14:21holds a rather paltry 3.3 rating out of 10,
14:24with one review using the right-to-the-point headline,
14:26quote,
14:27God awful.
14:31When Veronica's Closet made its debut in 1997,
14:34Variety said in their tepid review of the show
14:36that it had potential.
14:38That is a lousy thing to say.
14:41Well, it's true.
14:44Maybe.
14:45Well, all we can say to that is,
14:46it definitely didn't live up to whatever potential
14:49the magazine saw in it after that pilot episode.
14:51Being sandwiched between Seinfeld and ER
14:54on must-see TV Thursday nights for two seasons
14:57made the show a top 10 hit.
14:59But once NBC moved it to a new night,
15:01season 3 saw a 50% audience drop.
15:05And that was that for Veronica's Closet.
15:13A talking baby!
15:14How funny is that?
15:15Well, in commercials it works,
15:17but in sitcom form,
15:18it's not funny at all.
15:20Well, at least that was the case for Bob the Talking Baby,
15:23who got his start in ads for FreeInternet.com in 2000.
15:27The character's popularity led TV execs
15:29to build a show around him.
15:31And in 2002,
15:32the world got Baby Bob.
15:34Mommy, don't be silly.
15:35Cows don't talk, they just move.
15:45And nine episodes later,
15:46they lost Baby Bob.
15:48Although,
15:48all one had to do
15:49was watch the first five minutes of the first episode
15:52to know it wasn't gonna last.
15:59We're not being overdramatic
16:00when we say it's truly painful to watch.
16:03After the end of the show,
16:05Bob went back to commercials.
16:07This time for Quiznos.
16:11We have to admit that a spinoff of That 70s Show
16:13that takes place in the 1980s
16:14with some of the same characters and storylines
16:17sounds like it would be awesome.
16:18How do you get it to stand up?
16:23How do you get it to stand up?
16:27Unfortunately, we'll never know
16:29because that isn't what That 80s Show was.
16:32Instead, it was a brand new show
16:33that took place in the 80s
16:34with brand new characters and storylines.
16:37And while much of the team behind That 70s Show
16:40was also at the helm of the 80s one,
16:42whatever magic they sprinkled on the former
16:44was all used up when they went to make the latter.
16:46Can you just be a little careful about who you pick?
16:49Why?
16:51Because if it doesn't work out,
16:52I'll never get the end of it.
16:54The 80s coined the use of the word bad to mean good.
16:57But when it comes to That 80s Show,
16:59bad just means bad.
17:04Based on the moderately successful 1987 film
17:07of the same name,
17:08The Harry and the Hendersons TV show
17:09ran for 72 episodes over three seasons.
17:12Oh, we can't let anybody know he's here.
17:14Before you know it, he'll be in a cage,
17:16he'll be tested and gawked at,
17:18he'll have his blood drawn and his brains wired.
17:19But while the series was also somewhat successful,
17:22you know what it wasn't?
17:23Any good.
17:24It was as if the creators figured
17:26that a Bigfoot living with a family was funny enough
17:29that they didn't need to put any effort
17:30into creating interesting characters
17:32or writing good jokes.
17:33Oh, Harry, I don't know if you were ever a teenager,
17:37but you can't take anything they say personally.
17:39They're very emotional.
17:40I am not emotional!
17:45See?
17:46And to be blunt,
17:47they were wrong.
17:48Even the canned laughter of the laugh track
17:50could barely muster up any enthusiasm
17:52for what passed as humor on the show.
18:01Since a sitcom for YouTube veteran Lucas Cruikshank
18:04didn't work the first time,
18:05Nickelodeon decided to try again.
18:07And you can barely tell I'm different.
18:10This time they tried their hand
18:11at a Mork and Mindy ripoff
18:12where Lucas plays Marvin,
18:14an alien taken in by a human family
18:16who tries to fit in disguised as a teenager.
18:19Except he makes Invader Zim look subtle.
18:22Can't get rid of me that easily.
18:24There's probably a deeper meaning
18:25of how you shouldn't be afraid to be yourself,
18:27but said moral,
18:28along with the supporting cast,
18:30are drowned out by Marvin's quirky overacting
18:33and heavy reliance on gross-out humor.
18:36Thankfully,
18:36both the series and Lucas's time at the network
18:39had run out,
18:40burying this mess for good.
18:4710. I Hate My Teenage Daughter
18:51What's going on?
18:53Oh my God, who's pregnant?
18:54Single mothers Nikki and Annie
18:56have inadvertently turned their teenage daughters
18:58into their worst nightmare,
19:00a pair of spoiled popular monsters.
19:03A domestic satire like this sounds good on paper,
19:06but ultimately flops in execution.
19:09The characters are unbelievable and unsympathetic,
19:12even the ones we're supposed to sympathize with.
19:14And it's difficult to truly get invested in any of them.
19:18You told me this started two hours ago.
19:20It's what I do.
19:21The writing is completely toothless,
19:23with the premise feeling more like a setup
19:25for feeble punchlines.
19:27Fortunately,
19:28plummeting ratings finally ended the show,
19:30and we all learned a valuable lesson.
19:33Don't be Annie or Nikki
19:35and discipline your children.
19:36That's really not that bad.
19:419. Homeboys in Outer Space
19:43I knew I should have listened to my horoscope.
19:45It said I'm going to die.
19:47A sci-fi parody sitcom can be hilarious if done right.
19:51If only UPN knew that when they greenlit this.
19:54Flex and Daryl Bell star as the fun-loving Tiberius
19:58and the straight-laced Morris,
19:59two 23rd century astronauts
20:01traveling through the cosmos in their winged car.
20:04The series boasts some memorable guest star appearances,
20:07but not so much humor,
20:09mostly relying on rather forced sci-fi references
20:12and racial stereotyping.
20:13You, me, and a nuclear warhead.
20:16A menage a boom!
20:19Following a long line of low ratings and criticism,
20:22including protests from the NAACP,
20:25the show was cancelled and rightfully forgotten
20:27in the black void of space.
20:29But I must warn you ladies,
20:30I don't perform well under pressure.
20:338. Blockbuster
20:35Haven't Netflix humiliated their would-be owners enough?
20:38And we will once again be fighting for freedom,
20:41not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution,
20:44but from annihilation.
20:46Is that from Independence Day?
20:48Yes!
20:49Blockbuster fictionalizes misadventures
20:51at the last remaining store of the fallen video rental giant,
20:54relocated from Oregon to Michigan.
20:56The streaming giant was clearly capitalizing
20:59on their successful run of the 2020 documentary
21:01The Last Blockbuster.
21:02There was potential with a showrunner
21:04whose workplace sitcom resume includes Brooklyn Nine-Nine
21:07and Superstore,
21:08but it all feels like an outdated format
21:10that nobody was asking for.
21:12You're all gonna feel bad when they find my body
21:13under an avalanche of wedding crashers.
21:16I'm here, I'm here, let me help.
21:17Oh, actually, no, that's not what I meant.
21:19No, I don't...
21:22Uninspired nostalgia couldn't make up
21:24for the atrocious writing and bland stories
21:26that led to the show's cancellation after one season.
21:29Blockbuster ironically represents everything wrong
21:32with Netflix's business model in original shows.
21:34Whether that will one day kill the company,
21:37subscribers should leave this title on the shelf.
21:39Number seven, Mulaney.
21:41They're like, does that work?
21:42I'm like, it didn't not work.
21:46It's not uncommon for stand-up comedians
21:48to land their own sitcoms
21:49as fictional versions of themselves.
21:52While some thrive like Seinfeld,
21:54others like Mulaney, not so much.
21:56To better explain, comedian John Mulaney
21:58portrays himself being hired to do work
22:01for a comic legend
22:02while trying to make time for his roommates,
22:04a wound-up trainer and a fellow stand-up comic.
22:07There's no such thing as ghosts.
22:10Hey, Andre.
22:11Hey, Mulaney.
22:12What ultimately dooms this sitcom
22:14is how dated it all feels.
22:16It follows a similar formula to 90s sitcoms
22:19and comes off as a Seinfeld rip-off.
22:22With nothing new to offer,
22:23you'd be better off like motif
22:25and binge-watching Friends
22:26instead of one episode of this mediocre program.
22:29Oh, I remember these faces on TV.
22:31I always thought it was a noose.
22:33Number six, dog with a blog.
22:35No, wait.
22:36I didn't get to that part of my blog yet.
22:38I'll do that after my new product review.
22:40In recent years,
22:41Disney's had a reputation
22:42for producing horrible teen and tween sitcoms,
22:45and this is just one example.
22:48This blight of a series
22:49follows three step-siblings
22:51adjusting to life as a new family
22:53and living with a talking dog named Stan
22:55who runs his own blog
22:57because, of course, he does.
22:59It makes me so mad.
23:00I just wanna...
23:02I wanna...
23:06While there is a heartwarming feeling
23:07with the dog bringing the family closer together,
23:10the sentiments feel cheesier than intended,
23:12especially when mixed with the hokey acting,
23:14unimaginative writing,
23:16annoying characters,
23:17and generous amount of cliched jokes.
23:20And in the story,
23:21a bad, bad thing happens.
23:24And I'm talking butts scooting on hot asphalt bad.
23:28As you probably guessed,
23:29Disney screwed the pooch with this show.
23:31Pun intended.
23:32But at least it was given a fitting ending.
23:35Did Stan just talk?
23:38Uh, no.
23:39I mean, woof.
23:46There's a lesson to be learned
23:47about giving a beloved TV character
23:49their own spinoff.
23:50Make sure they can pull off the leading man.
23:53After the finale of Friends,
23:54our favorite dim-witted ladies' man,
23:56Joey Tribbiani,
23:58moved on to Los Angeles
23:59to focus on his acting career.
24:01Longtime Friends fans loved Joey
24:03and his chemistry with the rest of the gang,
24:05but now he's on his own
24:06and down on his luck,
24:08making the experience feel empty.
24:09I totally lost it.
24:11I'm never gonna get this.
24:12While the premiere had successful ratings,
24:15it was all downhill from there.
24:17And trying to compete with American Idol
24:19didn't help either.
24:21The series concluded after two seasons,
24:23but Matt LeBlanc is not out of the sitcom game yet.
24:27Ask your mother.
24:27Not now.
24:28Do it later when I'm not around.
24:32Love you, Daddy.
24:33See?
24:34Katie thinks I'm doing great already.
24:37The Caveman Geico commercials
24:39are truly some of the smartest
24:40and funniest television commercials of all time.
24:43It's so easy to use Geico.com,
24:45a caveman could do it.
24:47What?
24:48Oh, no.
24:50Not cool.
24:50I did not know you were there.
24:53Unfortunately for all those involved
24:55with the Caveman television show,
24:57based on those commercial characters,
24:58the series is not remembered as fondly.
25:01While there might have been a few moments
25:02of actual wit and humor,
25:04the attempt to translate the ads
25:06to longer form storytelling
25:07was pretty much an abject failure.
25:10Really?
25:11That's Nick.
25:12He's Joel's best friend.
25:13Oh, my God.
25:14No, he's all right.
25:15A little pushy.
25:16I'm standing right here.
25:17The Chicago Tribune even called it
25:19one of the 25 worst TV shows ever.
25:22Not just sitcoms, but shows.
25:24Turns out that making a quality sitcom is so hard,
25:27even a caveman can't do it.
25:28Yeah, I'm done.
25:32Are you serious?
25:33Number three, Fred the Show.
25:35Yeah, you're right.
25:36This one's terrible.
25:39Be careful of what you adapt to TV
25:41from the internet.
25:42It could be something great and hilarious,
25:44or it could be Fred the Show.
25:47What's wrong?
25:49The door won't open.
25:50It must have locked behind us.
25:52That's right.
25:53Someone over at Nickelodeon greenlit
25:55three TV movies and a sitcom
25:58for Lucas Cruikshank's character
25:59slash YouTube sensation Fred Figglehorn.
26:02Not unlike the web videos,
26:04the series follows Fred's misadventures
26:06while he talks to us and shrieks at us.
26:09Wow, you look so cool.
26:12You can't make me wear this, Figglehorn.
26:13His annoying behavior and aggravating voice
26:16wore thin on critics' nerves,
26:17and ratings plummeted until Fred was finally
26:20put to rest after one season.
26:23Thankfully, after this and Marvin Marvin,
26:25Lucas cut ties with Nickelodeon
26:27and retired the Fred character,
26:29and we couldn't be happier.
26:31I've decided a change in scenery
26:33is definitely necessary.
26:35Number two, My Mother the Car.
26:37Hello, Davey.
26:38Hello, Mother.
26:41The series follows attorney David Crabtree
26:43as he buys a 1928 Porter
26:46that ends up being the reincarnation
26:48of his departed mother.
26:49David, it's very sweet of you
26:50to put a lock on the door,
26:52but I'm perfectly capable
26:53of taking care of myself.
26:55Spoken like a true mother.
26:56For the rest of the series,
26:58David tries to protect his mother
26:59from a shifty car collector
27:01fresh out of a silent film.
27:02There have been plenty
27:03of gimmicky sitcoms over the years,
27:05but this one takes the cake.
27:07The concept is ridiculous,
27:09the characters are unrelatable,
27:11and the whole thing didn't stand
27:13a chance with the critics.
27:15Luckily, the crew moved on
27:16to more acclaimed projects,
27:18but it's hard to forget
27:19something this unreal.
27:20If that's what my son wants,
27:22that's fine with me.
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27:49Britain has boasted its fair share
27:51of vulgar comedies,
27:52but this was just in poor taste.
27:55The premise for this disaster
27:57is basically The Honeymooners
27:58meets The Third Reich.
27:59Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun
28:01as a typical sitcom couple
28:03with dull Jewish neighbors.
28:11Obviously a controversial topic,
28:13the series was designed
28:14as a spoof of the idea
28:16that anything and everything
28:17could be a sitcom.
28:19Even having the German characters
28:21speak with Brooklyn accents.
28:25I'm the Fuhrer.
28:27I'm a busy man.
28:28I can't just walk off the job
28:30at five o'clock.
28:30Even with the corny jokes
28:32and cliched sitcom characters,
28:33you just can't overlook
28:35Hitler being the protagonist.
28:36Thus, the series was pulled
28:38after one pilot episode.
28:40It's for the best anyway,
28:42as there are far better ways
28:43to parody the Nazi leader.
28:52Have you seen any of these
28:53terrible sitcoms?
28:54Can you think of any others?
28:56Laugh it up in the comments.
28:57You must be real mad at me, honey.
28:59I'm a very, very bad Hitler.
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