What tv show did you love but got tired of, or grew to hate...?

[bliss_eternal]

I was thinking about how I used to look forward to some shows that I later just lost interest in or got tired of. One such example was ER. I stopped watching long before George Clooney left the show--not sure why. I think with ER I just got sick of the pacing. Every week was a new, adrenaline charged effot to excite, shock or whatever, of course because it was based on an emergency room it tended to try to replicate that pacing. I just got burned out on it and never regained interest.

What televsion show was like this for you and how did it turn you off?

[LeftyMom]

1. The X Files

I coldn't watch the episodes with Mulder's replacement, they were deadly dull.

[Fox Mulder]

3. Agreed.

Robert Patrick is one horrible actor. The only reason I kept watching was Gillian Anderson.

[fujiyama]

8. He'll always be remembered for one role

The T3000 in Terminator 2.

I remember a funny part in one of those stupid Wayne's World movies where Patrick comes up and stops Mike Meyers and asks "Have you seen this boy" and then he rushes off....

[stanwyck]

118. I quit when David Duchovny left

just not the same show.
The intact "monster story" shows (not part of the long running conspiracy theory arc) were my favorites. And Gillian and David made a great team. Wonderful chemistry.

[XemaSab]

9. I loved the X-Files

but it was a show where they should have PLANNED an ending from the beginning.

[CanuckAmok]

19. Carter *did* have an ending planned...

It was only supposed to run for three seasons (that's the usual amount, because three seasons provides enough episodes of a series to warrant syndication). The original storyline was to have been wrapped-up by the 50th episode. I have some of the original first season script drafts around here, somewhere, and they're really different frfom the episodes.

But Fox really leaned on him to extend the storyline indefinately, because it was such a hit. They offered him money, the feature film, and an opportunity to run two more shows (Millennium and Harsh Realm) on Fox.

So he took it.

[BlueIris]

34. Only three seasons?

I was one of the original X-Philes and I've never heard that. Then again, I wasn't such an Internet junkie back in those days. Still--I'm shocked to learn it was only supposed to run for three years. I always thought it was supposed to stretch into at least the "Scully sorting out the ramifications of her abduction" arc and the "just what the hell was the purpose of the entire conspiracy" arc. Which Carter could have put to bed in five seasons if he'd really tried and definitely should have done in six. I'm actually really bitter that it went into the seventh year, especially without wrapping up the conspiracy arc in any kind of meaningful way, and then proceeded to become almost unwatchable. Eight was miserable and I didn't watch nine. Three? I can't even picture my t.v.-watching life without "Momento Mori" or "Post Modern Prometheus," not to mention the mythology episodes of seasons five and six.

[Mutley]

65. Oh I loved X-Files.

I watched it religiously from the first episode to the last. I agree about Mulder's replacement, though. That did suck. But I kept watching. :D

[enigmatic]

2. Northern Exposure

The first 2 seasons were as good as anything ever shown on TV, and I never missed an episode. Shortly after that the stunt casting started (and the writing got worse) and I stopped watching..

[bliss_eternal]

10. Don't you hate that?

I remember so many shows where that was the case--good stories, great writing or vice versa and then it just went downhill...

The Practice
LA Law

two that come to mind...

I didn't watch Northern Exposure but heard it was an incredible show. Sorry it deteriorated...

[fishwax]

27. I gave it a few more years

but I know what you mean ... it definitely lost it's impact ...

[Rob H.]

82. It didn't help that the network started moving it around the schedule

seemingly at random. I think during its final season it had three different timeslots on three different nights and it got pre-empted a lot, iirc.

[k_jerome]

4. dukes of hazzard.

i grew up.

[bliss_eternal]

13. LOL!

So what are you trying to say--too old for the same story, car chase and stunt car flip week after week? LOL! :hi:

[Shine]

5. The Brady Bunch.

Th Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Charlie's Angels...

Mostly, I just outgrew them. ;)

[Pool Hall Ace]

69. Yeah, same here.

I don't even remember Cousin Oliver on the Brady Bunch, or little mop-haired Ricky on the Partridge Family. I was in junior high by then and had other distractions.

[Fox Mulder]

6. ER.

I used to watch it religiously, but around 2000-2001, I just grew tired of it and stopped watching it.

[BlueIris]

12. Season seven was the last watchable one.

Season eight was...endurable, but I'm glad I made that my last. REALLY glad.

[bliss_eternal]

15. Was that before or after Clooney bailed?

I checked out before he left, so I'm not sure...got so tired of it.

[Fox Mulder]

22. After.

I actually quit watching the show on Anthony Edwards' (Dr. Green's) last episode.

[Mutley]

63. That's one of mine, too.

The last time I watched it with any regularity was the season Dr. Green died. After that it just didn't seem like the same show anymore -- pretty much all new people except Carter.

[hfojvt]

7. ALF

also JAG and NCIS

JAG got too current and kept going out of the courtroom into battle and such. NCIS killed off a character and seemed like it was too much about Gibbs and his arch-enemy. ALF just got stale and obnoxious.

[BlueIris]

11. I've reached that point with 24.

I just...I feel a strange desire to watch for the rumored content of the remainder of season 5, even though the quality is--non-existent. I'm really going to try not to watch anymore, though. It's SO terrible. Watching tonight made me feel dead inside.

[bliss_eternal]

17. That sounds awful.

I couldn't watch it beyond season 1--oh I tried! I watched season 2 on and off, and just...well, you know--got tired of it.

It was such a great idea for a show. Rumour had it they were ONLY going to do one season, still can't believe they took it beyond that.

[BlueIris]

32. Yeah. And I mean I'm really dead inside right now.

It's mostly because I have the extreme misfortune of knowing how the larger arc of 24 was supposed to work out post-season one, and the process through which pressure from Bush-supporting FOX executives kept that arc from the air (while crushing the rest of the show's quality) is just one more reminder to me of the way in which the ascention of Bush seems to have killed everything good about the world. I'm kidding, of course. (Sort of.)

[Jamison]

14. Family Ties

I loved watching it when I was younger in the 80's. I wasn't political at all at that time, so Alex P. Keaton didn't bother me. Now I see what a pathetic freeper that character was.

[fishwax]

28. but he was meant to be a freeper, to contrast

(and be ridiculed in light of) the liberal post-hippie parents.

The problem was, michael j. fox had so much more charisma than stephen gross or meredith baxter birney, and so sometimes the freeper character came off looking good ...

[hyphenate]

85. And the funniest thing is that

Michael J. Fox is anything BUT a repub--a true liberal, through and through!

[fishwax]

105. very true :)

[CanuckAmok]

16. The abomination "Archie's Place" that came of the brilliant...

... "All in the Family".

Actually, I'm a firm believer in series ending sooner than they usually do.

AITF should have ended when Mike and Gloria moved to California.

M*A*S*H* should have ended when Larry Linville left.

Happy Days should have ended before Fonzie started wearing white t-shirts.

[bliss_eternal]

18. Archie's Place was bad.

:thumbsdown:

I'm still wishing Friends had not spun off to Joey...god help us all...when will it end?

[mitchum]

57. A waste of the talents of O'Connor and Balsam

[bliss_eternal]

129. Agreed!

And Anne Meara was reduced to some sort of female stereotype... Another great comedic talent, just wasted.

[bliss_eternal]

20. I'll probably be flamed for this but--Desperate Housewives.

Sorry. It got old, fast for me. I've tried to watch once or twice since it's been back, just hasn't held my interest at all.

For me another big show turn off is when EVERYONE seems to have jumped on the bandwagon. Don't know why that bugs me, but it does.

[BensMom]

75. I am right along with Desperate Housewives

I can not even cope watching it for the humor.

It's like a beach novel - read it once and toss it.
Every week - no way.

[bliss_eternal]

108. I'm SO surprised!

I thought the whole world was watching and enjoying that show. Actually, I'm relieved to not get flamed over it (lol).

:hi:

[I Have A Dream]

131. I only watched it once, and I hated it. Same way with "Sex & the City".

Somehow, I just don't get what the draw is/was.

[stanwyck]

120. Left after the first season

Very funny show during the first season. And fell quickly and horribly. Really deflated. Don't know what happened, but the show is now unrecognizably stupid.

[bliss_eternal]

130. Yes--

it's like they were trying too hard to be 'controversial or daring.' Just made it tedious for me. So glad I wasn't the only one! LOL! :hi:

[RevCheesehead]

21. Law and Order

It lost all its magic after Jerry Orbach left the show. :(

[Rob H.]

84. I agree

It's never quite gelled (to me) since he left. I start watching it every once in a while but usually lose interest and tune out before the end.

I also don't watch 'Law & Order: SVU' any more, either. One, because it's on opposite Boston Legal, and two, unless it's changed radically recently, Munch & Tutuola are now relegated to supporting characters--I think Munch is one of the more interesting characters and they never do anything with him!

[RevCheesehead]

88. Munch is one of the reasons I watch the reruns.

I think he's damned funny, and they could really do a lot with his character. But hey - if Chris Noth can come back as Mikey on Criminal Intent, maybe they could have Belzer come to the original series and take over Lennie's place.

Damn - I should be making money on these ideas!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

94. I totally agree.

I still watch the reruns with him in them, though, on TNT. :D

[njdemocrat106]

23. I think the Simpsons has gone drastically downhill...

The "Lisa dates Nelson" was the first episode I found unfunny, for the most part, and I think the show started going downhill after that. Of course, classic episodes of the Simpsons is still some of the best TV programming out there.

[WindRavenX]

24. seconded

After season 5 (which is the season I think Conan O'Brien left the writing staff) it took a sharp nosedive. It remained the most consistently funny show on tv up until a few years ago, but now it's just dreadful.

FOX never should have axed Futurama though.

[Fox Mulder]

26. That's another one that I'm tired of.

[azmouse]

67. I thought the Lisa/Nelson episode was the last funny one.

After that The Simpsons has done nothing but stink up the airwaves.
I have the first five seasons on DVD so I can remember the show when it was still funny.

[Initech]

81. No, the last truly funny one was where Homer was a food critic.

[sakabatou]

98. Yeah, SImpson's has been going downhill

Though I'm glad Family Guy is back up.

[flamingyouth]

102. I'm so sick of that show

I can't even watch the funnier older episodes now.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

25. Oh, God. M*A*S*H

started dying when Henry Morgan came aboard.

By the time Larry Linville was gone, it was almost an unbearable Alan Alda jerk-off

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. You beat me

But I disagree on the timing. The first season or two with Potter was the best stuff they did. After that, it started turning into the Alan Alda Ministries, and the writing and direction went into the latrine.

Also, "Happy Days" — from which the term "jumped the shark" was coined. When it became The Fonzie Show, it got bad in a hurry.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

30. Must agree to disagree

Can't stand a MASH episode with Henry Morgan. It ended w/ Wayne Rogers and McLean Stevenson.

Kinda what happens to ensembles when half the ensemble bolts.

[Oeditpus Rex]

31. I'll agree to disagree, but

The last couple weeks, a SF station that runs MASH at 12:30 a.m. has shown the early Potter episodes. Watching them reminded me that the writing was sharpest then — IMO, of course — and Harry Morgan was still quick enough to deliver a line as it was intended without all the "Sweet Nefertiti!" crap.

That's when I really started to hate it — when everybody started talking in puns. :puke:

I'll concede one thing, though: By the time Potter got there, the preachiness had already started. More subtly, but it was there.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

33. My real cut-off

is Wayne Rogers. Such shame.

Never did know if he was pushed or jumped.

[Oeditpus Rex]

35. Pushed

Edit: Jumped because they leaned on him, I guess.

Why did some of the actors decide to leave the show?

Because of the success of the show McLean Stevenson became a frequent guest and host on the 'Tonight Show" Throughout the run of M*A*S*H he was constantly arguing with the studio about the conditions the actors had to work in so when NBC offered him the chance of a long term contract he decided to leave.

Wayne Rogers wasn't happy with the way his character was developing. Pretty early on it was obvious that Hawkeye was the main character and Trapper was just his sidekick.

Gary Burghoff said that doing the show had become a strain on his family life. After the first 3 years he was in fewer episodes and decided to leave after year 7. He came back in year 8 for a two part good-bye show.

http://www.mash4077.co.uk/faq.html

[CanuckAmok]

71. There's more to the Gary Burghoff story...

Burghoff is a complete bastard. He basically assholed himself out of M*A*S*H, and out of the industry in general. His tantrums are legendary.

[fishwax]

74. I'd always heard that too. Do you have any more details?

[CanuckAmok]

80. Only what I've heard, second-hand.

I've worked with Jamie Farr and with David Ogden Steirs, and they both have no love lost for Gary Burghoff.

[fishwax]

99. interesting

i've only (and always) heard that through the usual hollywood media/rumor route, never through direct contact with people involved :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

96. I remember something from a TV Guide story

During one tantrum, a cast or crew member reportedly said to him, "You can dish it out but you can't take it," and an apparently flustered Burghoff replied, "Yeah, and I'm getting tired of dishing it out."

The writer concluded a summary paragraph with "Love Radar, hate Burghoff." Cast members challenged that and other parts of the story in a letter to TV Guide, but the magazine cited its sources and said, "We stand by our story."

[fishwax]

48. alan alda ministries

:rofl:

i liked it, even in it's latter days, but that analysis is spot on and hiliarious :rofl:

[Skittles]

46. it started dying when Klinger stopped wearing dresses

yes indeed

[CanuckAmok]

72. I disagree about Harry Morgan.

I think the brief overlap after Morgan Joined and before Larry Linville (Burns) left was some of their best work.

Morgan's character was one of the most complex in sitcom history, IMHO. And a couple of his performances are nearly tearjerkers. The one that springs to mind is the ancient bottle of brandy episode, in which he toasts his WWI regiment, the members of whom he outlived. Another one is when he gives his horse to the elderly Korean cavalry officer.

[hyphenate]

86. Yes

"The Tontine" was one of the best episodes. I always found something to like about MASH even as it ended--as many of the actors also pointed out, the real Korean War lasted fewer years than the series did.

[CanuckAmok]

87. I also liked his pre-Potter guest appearance.

I haven't seen it in years, but he plays a Colonel who is completely nuts. He charges Hwakeye (?) with some type of insubordination-based crime, and starts singing an old show tune at the Court Marshall, and dances right out the door.

[Oeditpus Rex]

100. General Hamilton Steele

Told Burns to trim his nose hair and went around "quoting" people like Black Jack Pershing.

Hawkeye told a black chopper pilot to take off, countermanding Steele's order, so Steele hauled him up on insubordination charges. The pilot was called as a witness, and Steele told him he wasn't charged with anything, he was merely there to testify.

"But first, a number."

"Sir?"

"A musical number. You've got it in your blood, boy! Just let it out!"

Steele then soft-shoed out of the mess tent, singing "Mississippi Mud."

Played it absolutely straight all the way.

:rofl:

[MissHoneychurch]

36. Ally McBeal

the last two seasons were boring. The original cast left more and more and that was just sad.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

37. Drew Carey.

[bliss_eternal]

41. Oh I KNOW! Drew Carey

for me got bad fast when the Kate character was moved from friend to friend...that really bothered me. No respect at all for the only female character on the show that wasn't a total punch-line (ie. Mimi). So glad when the actress that played Kate left entirely.

It gave one the sense it was some weird fantasy of Carey's to 'share a girl with his friends.' :puke:

I had a hard time even following the stupid stories with the whole Kate thing, I found it distracting.

[baldguy]

55. When they had Rush Limpballs on talking about freedom of speech.

:puke:

[Richardo]

73. The show really 'jumped the whale' in that episode.

:)

[bliss_eternal]

127. I can't tell you how GLAD

I am that I missed that. Thankfully, I had already checked out and was no longer watching when this happened.

:puke:

[sarge43]

38. The West Wing

When it went soap opera at the end of the fourth season.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

39. Welcome to DU.

[sarge43]

44. Thank you, m'lord n/t

[Hoooweee]

89. i hated it from there until this season

The writing is back to its old self, with the exception of the daughter getting married. Very corny/smarmy.

[bliss_eternal]

40. I wouldn't say I HATE it, but I'm tired of South Park

Just not funny to me anymore. The funniest one to me this season was Gingers--but the rest--meh. Sucked. If they are going to challenge celebrities to 'come out of the closet' I think on of them should go first...

[pokerfan]

42. That 70's Show

Started going south a couple of seasons ago. Then the redhead turned blond and a couple of major characters left.

They should hire Ted McGinley and put it out of its misery.

[bliss_eternal]

43. LOL!

I stopped watching that one a while ago. I saw Laura Prepon(the redhead) on Conan O'Brien after she went blonde(for a film role). I wondered if she was going to go back to her natural color.

I honestly didn't think they would last very long once Kuthcher and Grace stating they were leaving.

[BlueIris]

47. Ah, yes, St. McGinley.

And I haven't seen him in a while, so that would be great.

[bridgit]

45. millenium...

they should have never killed kathryn x( but tv messes up allot of good storyline :shrug:

[bliss_eternal]

50. They do, don't they?

I'm hearing strains of Moonlighting while remembering how the sexual tension between the show's leads was interesting and fun. The second they allowed the characters to take the relationship a step further (sex), it was forever ruined...

[bridgit]

53. yup, that's correct alright, we come for the tension; we leave for the...

pablum so as to say, when most everyone, reasonable people; certainly people who've had it done to them understand, that in real life the release of the tension = the discovery of the 'having' of the sex can rend all that sordid, tawdry, and predictable or hurtful.

they approached it on the seinfeld show, "have sex to save the relationship...", very funny stuff, but that is what i think they were addressing; perhaps even behind the scenes/network forces to have jerry & elaine have sex...but no.

jerry was in the rack with a bevy of attractive woman on a recurring, every week basis so that point was made without having to have sex with his woman friend let alone kramer. which would have generated a whole other demographic altogether :eyes:

:rofl:

and the show ran until they thought it was over and not their audience :thumbsup: you know what i'm talking about

[BlueIris]

49. Friends, post season seven.

For some masochistic reason, I watched through Rachel's pregnancy--all twenty-two bizarre, horrowshow eps of it--then bailed. I'm told little Emma was barely even a part of the storyline after that.

[Bucky]

51. Family Ties - the premise was clever, if cutesy, but it got old fast.

Every week Alex would learn a new reason why he should be more liberal. I applaud the message--we should all be more liberal, I feel--but if the characters don't have integrity, the message is for crap.

[Vidar]

52. Mash & X-Files

[Atmashine]

54. Star Trek: TNG

I got tired of it when they started playing it everyday instead of once a week. Then it was just overload. I never watched another Star Trek series after that cause they'd play it to death.

[mitchum]

56. NYPD Blue just became more and more of a soap opera...

I understand that the show was never supposed to be a mere police procedural and that the characters were post-Wambaugh cops, but it just tipped too far. A shame.

[bliss_eternal]

111. I agree. I stayed with it

past the departure of Caruso and well into Smits arrival--then got bored with it. I tuned in again only to watch the Smits character die. That was one of the most agonizing, sad episodes ever filmed for television. Then I was done with it again...

[annonymous]

58. The West Wing

The campaign between Santos and Vinnick bored me to tears. I stopped watching Cheers after Shelly Long left the show. I absolutely hated Kristie Alley's character.

[speedoo]

59. Saturday Night Live.

What once was the best thing on TV is now the worst.

[bliss_eternal]

112. It has it's moments doesn't it?

One season they'll have a great cast--and a few good years with them. Then as people start to 'become stars' and leave the show it all falls apart again.

[hippiechick]

60. 'One Life to Live'

:shrug:b Soap storylines and characters can suck me in for a short while, but then they start to get really irritating.

[lpbk2713]

61. Jay Leno.

It probably wasn't the show so much or the frequent RW guests like Penis Miller. I think what really drove me away for good was Leno being a stooge for the Boosh and Ahnold campaigns. He proved himself an asshole in my book by doing that.

[GalleryGod]

62. I Agree, 100%

and his wife, Mavis, is such a human rights activist.:crazy:

[Maccagirl]

64. Roseanne

It kicked ass the first three seasons-I'd even call it important-but became unwatchable.

[fishwax]

76. I totally agree

it got so bad and I got so turned off that I don't even like watching the reruns of the good years ...

[1gobluedem]

93. Yes, Roseanne really went over the top

Which is too bad because the first few seasons WERE terrific.

Designing Women was another; should've ended when Delta Burke and Jean Smart left.

[bliss_eternal]

115. Roseanne--

I can't watch any episodes of that season just prior to winning the lottery the following season. It was horrible--truly unwatchable!

[aclog]

66. Frasier

Dunno why

[Hoooweee]

91. they were trying to drive the plot too far instead of just writing comedy

They were doomed with the whole Daphne and Niles thing. When they ran out of jokes about the tension, they decided to try and revolve the series around their courting.
What made the show work was the chemistry between the brothers and their dad, not the saucy whatever-her-job-was.

[stanwyck]

117. I quit because of the inane

pairing off of Niles and Daffney plus stunt casting...Lilith reappearing. Mercedes Ruehl making an uninspired match with Frazier. The improbable Sela Ward/Frazier hookup.
The earlier shows were less gimmicky.
And Nile's offstage wife Marist was one of my favorite characters.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

68. ER & Ally McBeal certainly

I gave up on ER around the fourth season & Ally not long after Tracy Ullman came on board. I came back to ER last year (initially to see how Parminder Nagra was doing) and found most of the cast pretty uninteresting and the storylines repetitive (although the Ray Liotta alcoholic episode was excellent).

X-Files grew to really irritate me as the characters never seemed to develop from season to season. I can't really remember when I gave up for good, but I think it was before the movie.

[bliss_eternal]

116. ER--

how many doctors on that show have to go through drug addiction? Geez--get a new story or end the damn thing!

Btw, I haven't watched in many years (see my posts on it above). But if you watch anything on nbc prior to ER airing, you see the ads--it's rather obvious from the commercials they are trotting out the same old stories.

[stanwyck]

122. ER went from being a "don't miss" to a

can't switch the channel fast enough. That show became excrutiating. It was like torture to watch. The most annoying actors ever and the worst writing.
Better to watch old reruns of St. Elsewhere and wait for Grey's Anatomy to show up.

[bliss_eternal]

132. A dead on assessment

in the beginning some situations were implied but not shown--as they needed more to 'shock' viewers they started to show too much, to the point of making situations seem ridiculous.

The doctor walking out of a room wiping his face saying it's flu season and some kid projectile vomited on him is far more interesting and even funny than actually having to see it. There were far too many bodily fluids being shown for my taste...

[REDKING]

70. Friends.

Roseanne,ER.
When anything is new it may hold my interest for a while then it starts to slide into the usual
scraping for storylines.I have to confess I watch so little TV these days.Cant watch the news these days just in case Bush or co are on.I just end up shouting at the TV like a madman.

[Beware the Beast Man]

77. "House" is starting to reach that level.

I loved it last season. This season wasn't too bad, but my suspension of disbelief is slipping quickly. NO hospital, no matter how good he is, would hire a guy that assholish and risky.

[stanwyck]

124. Agree completely.

I kept hearing buzz about the show so I gave it a chance. Belatedly..using Tivo and On Demand. I've seen about 6 shows. And 3 were really excellent. But the last two I've watched were tedious.
It's off the Tivo.
The good news is, there's so much good stuff out there, we can be selective. And "House" has slipped.

[Rabrrrrrr]

78. Cosby became intolerable it's last two seasons

[datasuspect]

79. i never had a relationship with a television program.

teevee makes you weird.

[NNadir]

114. Thank you. I have not seen any of the shows listed here.

Everyone kept telling me that I had to see Seinfeld.

Finally I was sitting in someone's home, and an episode came on, so I watched it.

I guess it's about low expectations.

[hyphenate]

83. Now that you mention it

I stopped watching ER as well after awhile. But I can also say that Seinfeld was also one show I watched from the beginning and just grew bored of it after awhile.

I also stopped watching The West Wing because I was never home when it was on, and since the show works with a lot of multi-episode story arcs, it was hard to keep up.

The X Files is another one--when Duchovny left, I don't think I watched more than a half dozen episodes after that. After all, much of the original story was about him and his quest. And besides, the stories started to jump sharks every other week at some point, too.

[terrya]

90. "Will and Grace"

Oh, it pains me to say it, but I LOATHE that show. I'm glad this is the last year.

[Reverend_Smitty]

92. ER

that was the first show that came to my mind even before opening the thread. I was fanatical about that show and slowly I started to lose interest. I think it started initially after Clooney left, then my interest started to slide once Anthony Edwards died and I don't think I've watched an episode since Noah Wyle left. I do enjoy watching the re-runs of the classic episodes. Sometimes a network just has to let a show bow out gracefully and unfortunately they didn't let that happen to ER

[bliss_eternal]

123. With ER

I think the network was just making too much money. After losing Friends, they just didn't want to see that one go. Shame though, as they ran out of interesting things to say a loooong time ago. I hate to see shows over stay their time.

[NoPasaran]

95. Startrek: Enterprise

I enjoyed the first couple of seasons. Couldn't stand it after the plot went all 9/11.

[Initech]

97. King Of The Hill

I got extremely tired of it when they started preaching RW values.

[stanwyck]

125. Yikes! When did THAT happen?

I used to love that show. But I let it slip away. I hate to hear that it went rightwing.
But now I don't feel as though I'm missing much.
(though I do miss Peggy)
And Bobby.
"There's some milk about to go bad.
And there it goes."

[bliss_eternal]

126. I thought that King of the Hill only 'preached' rw values

when they are simultaneously poking holes in them. Was I wrong?

The shows creator is a Dem, he and his wife donate money to Dems, I learned on this board during a King of the Hill thread last year.

[mzteris]

101. West Wing and Law & Order

West Wing: I didn't like it when they added Smits/Alda and after the day change I never watched it again.

L&O - after Jerry Orbach left, I quit watching. I never really liked that other guy in anything else anyway.

[hopein08]

103. "Lost" & "West Wing"

Halfway through season one of "Lost" it got a little dull and predictable for me. Should I start watching again?

"West Wing" I just can't explain.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

104. Married, With Children

I thought the show was one of the funniest things ever on television in the early and middle years of its run, for its plain outrageousness. But I got tired of watching it in the last couple of seasons as the writing just didn't seem to measure up anymore.

[Patiod]

106. Alias

Never loved loved it, but my SO made me watch it and I enjoyed it. This year, I can't even watch in order to humor him.

[Jamastiene]

107. Becker was a great show, but then

Reggie left. Then worse than that Bob left. I loved Bob. Bob was adorable. I hated Chris and the new frizzy haired guy they used as a replacement for Bob. My aunt continued to watch. I hated it once the best supporting characters left. Bob leaving, now that was the last straw for me. I heard later that there was talk of Linda leaving. Nopity. :thumbsdown:

[Left Is Write]

110. I stopped watching after Reggie left.

The dynamic of the show was all wrong.

[Jamastiene]

113. Yeah, it pretty much sucked then, but I loved Bob so much.

He was a sweetheart in his own bumbling way.

[Left Is Write]

109. Frasier.

They should have ended it when Daphne escaped from her wedding to Donny in order to run away with Niles.

[bertha katzenengel]

119. The West Wing.

Sad, but true.

[6000eliot]

121. "The Wonder Years"

After one season, it turned into a self-parody.

[Orsino]

128. The original Star Trek.

Oh, some of it is still classic TV, but the better acting and writing in the sequel and prequel series left the original behind, for the most part. Some of KirkTrek is too embarrassing to watch anymore.

[I Have A Dream]

133. "South Park".

I actually got an additional cable option (costing more money) so that I could get Comedy Central. After the first year or two, it just didn't make me laugh anymore.

Also, I initially liked "Will & Grace", "Friends" & "Seinfeld" but, over time, they just became mean-spirited. I felt as though they brought me down. (I need inspiration towards good not bad.)

[bliss_eternal]

134. Yes, it's played itself out.

Doesn't help that one of the two is a repub. and uses some of the shows to push his agenda, or make fun of ours.

[haydukelives]

135. M*A*S*H

was like that for me.
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