TV shows that don't hold up as well...

[charl_huntress]

lol...I never liked Alf. I thought it was stupid when it was originally airing. However, I LOVED Small Wonder when it was on. I happen to run across a clip on Youtube a while ago and it's just...so bad. The opening credits....lololol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukSvjqwJixw

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Speaking of old cartoons that didn't date well. I would say the old South Park before 2008 don't hold up well. The newer ones do, but not the old ones. You really see how horrible the animation is and it's hard to overlook.

Wait... wasn't the crude animation part of Southpark's charm? It was supposed to look like paper cut-outs. I completely disagree with SP being aged. In fact I think SP has completely blown the last few years. Maybe it's aged in the sense it's run out of ideas, like Simpsons and Family Guy. But it's first few seasons were gold.

 

[charl_huntress]

Wait... wasn't the crude animation part of Southpark's charm? It was supposed to look like paper cut-outs. I completely disagree with SP being aged. In fact I think SP has completely blown the last few years. Maybe it's aged in the sense it's run out of ideas, like Simpsons and Family Guy. But it's first few seasons were gold.

I'm not talking about he subject matter just the animation itself.

The crude animation was kind of cool...back then. Today it just looks crude and silly. I can hardly watch the older episodes. The animation for the newer episodes stands up better. I don't know what changes they made, but it's obvious they made some.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

I agree. Buffy hasn't aged nearly as gracefully as Angel has.

y'know, I haven't watched Angel in a long time but I can see how it would hold better. It was a little bit like the Vertigo to Buffy's DC.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Seinfeld is still decent, but the callous characters don't seem quite as shocking. And the laugh-track is really grating. Still enjoy it, but it has aged.

That's one thing I don't understand about Seinfeld, everyone saying the characters were callous/jerks. They may have been a little self absorbed, but they really weren't jerks, I think it was a really weird decision about the final episode to paint them in that light. Hell, one of the characters they used, Jerry tried to help repeatly.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

That's one thing I don't understand about Seinfeld, everyone saying the characters were callous/jerks. They may have been a little self absorbed, but they really weren't jerks, I think it was a really weird decision about the final episode to paint them in that light. Hell, one of the characters they used, Jerry tried to help repeatly.

I think relatively speaking, the Seinfeld were total jerks compared to pretty much every single other sitcom out there at the time.

By modern day sitcom standards they're all really decent characters.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

That's one thing I don't understand about Seinfeld, everyone saying the characters were callous/jerks. They may have been a little self absorbed, but they really weren't jerks, I think it was a really weird decision about the final episode to paint them in that light. Hell, one of the characters they used, Jerry tried to help repeatly.

You obviously don't remember George's celebratory romp through the park after his fiancée died licking wedding envelopes he had ordered.

 

[Sawyer]

Wasn't that before he knew she died?

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Don't remember, but I do remember he was happy about her death. I remember a lot of viewers were angry at the time and thought the show had gone too far. They thought George had crossed a line from callous to sociopathic.

 

[Sawyer]

Perhaps they did go too far. But I'm glad they did. Otherwise, we'd still be watching **** like Full House or My Two Dads.

 

[Mace Dolex]

I'm not talking about he subject matter just the animation itself.

The crude animation was kind of cool...back then. Today it just looks crude and silly. I can hardly watch the older episodes. The animation for the newer episodes stands up better. I don't know what changes they made, but it's obvious they made some.

I know what you mean for example the first season of The Simpsons feels like I'm watching a cheap Hanna Barbera cartoon.

And as for South Park I remember a special on Comedy Central showing the animators doing the episodes now on computers which improved the show.

 

[sethypants]

greys anatomy. i used to be a huge fan. lol.

 

[Lantern Venom]

....whether you either watched them as a kid with rose tinted glasses and thought it was cool at the time or maybe the show wasn't good to begin with so I'll start, and this can pertain to sitcoms, hour long dramas/adventure/mystery.

ALF - as a teenager on the late 80's/90's I thought it was amusing but watching reruns on The Hub after so many years off TV I can't believe such an idiotic idea ever came to pass, the laugh track is clearly tacked on and the jokes are so excrutiatingly bad that I can see now how tough the actors had it.

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Alf is a good one. I just watched a few eppys recently since I was a big fan as a kid. The jokes were bland and repetitive.

A few more that come to mind:

The Incredible Hulk. This is an easy one, of course. Watching Lou Ferrigno in a bad wig and fading paint, moving in slow motion, playing a mute moron is impossible for me to watch now.

Married with Children- mean-sprited, dumb, and didn't care about it's characters doing anything worthwhile.

Saved by the Bell- even when this show tried to be serious, it now comes off as slapstick fluff more suited to the current Disney Channel.

The Dukes of Hazzard- a series of endless car chases and poorly structured, sloppy fights. Horrible to watch.

 

[Mace Dolex]

I've been watching reruns of Full House on Nick At Nite and I still can't believe I used to look forward to TGIF for this crap, so many 90's references and an abundance of stupid writing from Uncle Jesse's Elvis obsession to Joey's lame jokes to Danny's anal cleanliness it's just a horrible mess.

And of course you get the audience going "awww" everytime Michelle does or says something that the writers think is cute or "oohhh" when DJ gets her first high school crush.

Shows like Wizards Of Waverly Place and The Suite Life are better written.

 

[dozer2025]

Hey, I like Knight Rider!Any '90s computer-animated show is hard to watch-but that's probably because modern technology has spoiled me.
Oh, and The Incredible Hulk.

 

[PyroChamber]

Almost every show from TGIF.

 

[Mace Dolex]

Hey, I like Knight Rider!Any '90s computer-animated show is hard to watch-but that's probably because modern technology has spoiled me.
Oh, and The Incredible Hulk.

Knight Rider was only good when it had episodes dealing with Michael Knight's previous past or whenever KITT was damaged and upgraded and when the evil KARR would make an appearance.

 

[misjuevos]

the transformers. tried to introduce them to my nephew. after watching some episodes i regretted it. we had to skip around to certain episodes. it really doesn't hold up.

 

[Mace Dolex]

^ Really, were you showing him G1 Transformers? I would think the action would grab him right away.

 

[misjuevos]

yea it was G1. the first episode with them on cybertron then coming to earth was good to a point. the humans were really annoying. my nephew noticed right away spike was always in trouble. at one point in an episode spike tries to attack a decepticon, then immediately screams for help. we laughed so hard. he is 10 and i showed it to him since we played the fall of cybertron recently. he wanted to see what happens after they leave cybertron.

i showed him bruticus, the dinobots, the constructicons episodes. the show for me though doesn't hold up, it really is just a kid show. my nephew though did like it. but for me i don't think it holds up at all.

the animated movie on the other hand holds up. i still like it alot. we watched that next. he didn't want to see the rodimus prime seasons after we saw an episode and the animation was nothing like the movie.

 

[Mace Dolex]

lol...I never liked Alf. I thought it was stupid when it was originally airing. However, I LOVED Small Wonder when it was on. I happen to run across a clip on Youtube a while ago and it's just...so bad. The opening credits....lololol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukSvjqwJixw

LOL! yeah was that typical of 80's theme intros with the awkward freeze frame of the actors.

Small Wonder is actually still watchable if a bit goofy but the good thing was that it was aired in syndication without restrictions of network TV so the show didn't feel obligated to get preachy and didn't suffer from "a very special episode" syndrome where the audience goes "awww".

 

[superion]

Seinfeld is still decent, but the callous characters don't seem quite as shocking. And the laugh-track is really grating. Still enjoy it, but it has aged.

Cheers is worse. Used to love it, but can't sit through a full rerun now. The jokes are stale, the punch-lines predictable and the plots don't hold my interest.

Seinfeld is still great and probably the best comedy ever. Cheers I agree hasn't aged as well but is still OK.

 

[superion]

Married with Children- mean-sprited, dumb, and didn't care about it's characters doing anything worthwhile.

That's what made it so great. It just makes me sad to see Al Bundy on that lame ass Modern Family.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I can't say I'm that crazy about either shows.

The thing about Married With Children is that its crudeness was rather novel for the time (the only thing close was Roseanne). Compare it to some other horribly hokey sitcoms of its time (late eighties, early nineties), and it's incredibly refreshing.

As for Modern Family, it has some good lines, but overall the show is rather boring. There is never any real conflict, and what little there is resolved at the end of every episode.

 

[Pepsiguy2]

B:TAS' animation is bordering this line.