Oh god, "Toddlers and Tiaras" was what tore it for me. For years I was thinking "Maybe American television does have a slim chance at redemption". I turn on the TV and watch 20+ minutes of T&T and I felt ill, literally fucking ill.
I mean, it's hard enough to deal with self-absorbed beauty queen slags as teenagers... but to find out they're breeding them so young prompted me to take an aluminum bat to my television.
I too try to avoid watching too much TV, and its surprisingly easy since there's nothing good on anymore. Since I lost my Comcast service, I realized I only actually watched the tube for commercial free movies and not for any actual shows. \
As for a list of shows I actively engage in disliking (and why):
Family Guy - I think every person that started watching Family Guy before 2003 now hates it because of it's lazy attempts to "push the envelope" by turning it's once dynamic and funny characters into sleazy, unfunny parodies of themselves.
South Park - Although South Park was never actually funny, despite the occasional witty attempt at self-mockery, I find it's preachy approach to trying to take on topical issues as opposed to just trying to make you laugh downright annoying.
The Drinky Crow Show - A deadly combination of sloppy writing and eye-blisteringly ugly CG animation. If you want to make a show with characters drawn in Lithograph, do what Fritz The Cat did and stop complaining that it's "too hard to animate"
Tosh 2.0 or whatever it's called - So basically some ugly, obnoxious prick looks on Youtube for an hour a day and presents his findings to a simulated studio audience. At least America's Funniest Videos required actual submissions and viewer involvement.
I have more, but before I submit them for your flaming pleasure I wanna get some feedback on these first.
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