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Post by arrogantmodel on Mar 22, 2020 11:20:44 GMT -5
Dharma and Greg (granted, it was like the Nickelback or Creed of sitcoms...so this makes sense) Came here to say this. I never watched it and I don't think I know anyone who did, but while it was on for some reason it was omnipresent. I watched all those dumb shows for some reason. Dharma & Greg, It's Like, You Know, Madigan Men, The Geena Davis Show, and my personal favorite...Two Guys, A Girls, And a Pizza Place. That show was never the same after the pizza place left. And I wonder whatever happened to the guy who played Berg and the jukebox repair guy. 😉
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Post by Bo Rida on Mar 22, 2020 11:29:01 GMT -5
Game of thrones feels like it ended years ago. Watching leaders squabble while failing to react to real threat about to breach their borders seems so long ago.
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Post by J. Hova on Mar 22, 2020 14:00:07 GMT -5
Dexter? It seemed like everyone was watching it until about season five (the greatest season it had was season 4 with John Lithgow putting in the performance of a lifetime and then jumped the shark in the season finale). I still have yet to watch anything from season 6 on and I know how the show ended is generally thought of as one of the worst series finales ever.
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Post by Stone Cold Eleanor Shellstrop on Mar 22, 2020 15:58:36 GMT -5
The non-Avengers Phase 3 movies. The characters are popular enough to still talk about, but the actual movies themselves in which these characters appear less so.
Oddly enough, all the complaining about Avatar, specifically, about how it no longer has any popular culture relevance, *is* exactly its popular culture relevance, than, say, how good or bad Captain America: Civil War was, for example.
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Post by karl100589 on Mar 22, 2020 16:53:59 GMT -5
A British centric one.
In the mid nineties London's Burning was pulling 18 million viewers an episode and ran for over a decade, yet no modern goer could tell you a storyline, a character or an actor who appeared in it.
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Post by Ryushinku on Mar 22, 2020 17:04:15 GMT -5
There's a genre of shows that die out culturally because they either have a really bad season, or have gone on too long and have flamed out with a majority of fans. Yes, there's definitely something to that, too. It's easy to say that it's all about the journey and you can have many excellent episodes of a show along the way. But some shows end in such a damp squib way or, worse, flame out spectacularly at the end that it retrospectively hurts everything that came before. That hot show suddenly becomes a punchline. No matter how good the trip may be, if it ends with your bus taking a plunge off a cliff, no wonder that's what everyone is gonna focus on. A British centric one. In the mid nineties London's Burning was pulling 18 million viewers an episode and ran for over a decade, yet no modern goer could tell you a storyline, a character or an actor who appeared in it. I remember London's Burning a lot - Tea Leaf, Sick Note, all that bunch - but that's just me. I know I'm an outlier, and that's a great shout.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Mar 22, 2020 17:07:30 GMT -5
A British centric one. In the mid nineties London's Burning was pulling 18 million viewers an episode and ran for over a decade, yet no modern goer could tell you a storyline, a character or an actor who appeared in it. A character called sick note I watched it all the time, that's one of the few things i remember about it
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 22, 2020 17:26:51 GMT -5
Police Academy. Not only did it bring us a franchise of six more movies, a Saturday morning cartoon, Kenner toy line, Marvel comic and a live-action television show, but it boomed a cinema subgenre of "comedies about groups of untrained misfits stuck in a new vocation" that Stripes had inspired a few years prior. Tons of movies jockeyed to do the same thing. Stewardess School, Ski School, Vice Academy, Moving Violations, etc.
Now it's barely remembered except as the occasional Simpsons or Family Guy reference.
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Post by RadcapRadsley on Mar 22, 2020 18:31:35 GMT -5
The Drew Carey Show
Spent 9 years on tv and was a top 20 show for many of them,hasn't shown up on any streaming service and has been absent from cable and syndication since it ended 16 years ago. Feel's like something completely forgotten
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Post by wildojinx on Mar 22, 2020 18:54:34 GMT -5
The Drew Carey Show Spent 9 years on tv and was a top 20 show for many of them,hasn't shown up on any streaming service and has been absent from cable and syndication since it ended 16 years ago. Feel's like something completely forgotten I think it's still on Laff, but that's a digital subchannel that not everyone has. Shame as it still holds up well (on that note, the Drew version of Whose Line hasnt been seen on tv since the late 2000s).
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Post by Spider2024 on Mar 22, 2020 19:05:04 GMT -5
Came here to say this. I never watched it and I don't think I know anyone who did, but while it was on for some reason it was omnipresent. I watched all those dumb shows for some reason. Dharma & Greg, It's Like, You Know, Madigan Men, The Geena Davis Show, and my personal favorite...Two Guys, A Girls, And a Pizza Place. That show was never the same after the pizza place left. And I wonder whatever happened to the guy who played Berg and the jukebox repair guy. 😉 I heard Berg married one of them gossip girls. Hey, that's another good one for this thread: Gossip Girl.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Mar 22, 2020 19:05:45 GMT -5
The Drew Carey Show Spent 9 years on tv and was a top 20 show for many of them,hasn't shown up on any streaming service and has been absent from cable and syndication since it ended 16 years ago. Feel's like something completely forgotten Drew Carey talked about it in an AVClub interview I read. The Drew Carey Show was a good performer, but their production company, Warner Bros, had a big hit in Friends at the same time and that's what the executives at WB were focused on. Even it being a very popular show in syndication didn't get the people at WB to care about them. I also think that because it wasn't an in-house production, it's network, ABC, didn't care that much about Drew Carey Show. It got good ratings, they just promoted it just enough. By the last 3 seasons it dropped to the bottom 100 and then bottom 200 in ratings. But the show's timeslot kept switching, they had to drop some cast members. I think that it lasted that long with even that many people watching was due to it's loyal following.
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Post by BRV on Mar 22, 2020 19:58:03 GMT -5
Scrubs and Community. When they were on, they were beloved shows with cult followings that spawned tons of memes, gifs, and quotes. Now both of these shows seem sort of forgotten. Given the outrage it garnered every time it was canceled, delayed, or moved to a different time slot, you would have thought "Community" would have had this real staying power. But it was one of those chief examples of "the internet is not real life." It had a niche following online but it drew very little in the way of actual ratings. It was forgotten about the moment it left NBC and went to Yahoo! Video. And it has zero staying power, as it has none of those memorable moments or quotes that you see talked about in reaction talking points/gifs like you see from "The Office" or "30 Rock" or "Parks and Recreation."
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Post by Paul on Mar 22, 2020 20:00:06 GMT -5
Ally McBeal and the Dancing Baby:
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Post by Citizen Snips on Mar 22, 2020 20:30:43 GMT -5
I have this fear that the incredibly lengthy breaks between seasons will lead to this fate for Atlanta
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Post by wildojinx on Mar 22, 2020 21:39:51 GMT -5
Scrubs and Community. When they were on, they were beloved shows with cult followings that spawned tons of memes, gifs, and quotes. Now both of these shows seem sort of forgotten. Given the outrage it garnered every time it was canceled, delayed, or moved to a different time slot, you would have thought "Community" would have had this real staying power. But it was one of those chief examples of "the internet is not real life." It had a niche following online but it drew very little in the way of actual ratings. It was forgotten about the moment it left NBC and went to Yahoo! Video. And it has zero staying power, as it has none of those memorable moments or quotes that you see talked about in reaction talking points/gifs like you see from "The Office" or "30 Rock" or "Parks and Recreation." And we never even got our movie!
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Post by Gummydavidson on Mar 22, 2020 22:26:51 GMT -5
CSI - In the mid-2000s it seemed like everyone watched it, I didn't even know all forms of the show ended until I googled it there now.
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Post by koreycaskets on Mar 22, 2020 22:28:22 GMT -5
WWE??
EEWW YA I went there lol
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Mar 23, 2020 2:54:39 GMT -5
Scrubs and Community. When they were on, they were beloved shows with cult followings that spawned tons of memes, gifs, and quotes. Now both of these shows seem sort of forgotten. Given the outrage it garnered every time it was canceled, delayed, or moved to a different time slot, you would have thought "Community" would have had this real staying power. But it was one of those chief examples of "the internet is not real life." It had a niche following online but it drew very little in the way of actual ratings. It was forgotten about the moment it left NBC and went to Yahoo! Video. And it has zero staying power, as it has none of those memorable moments or quotes that you see talked about in reaction talking points/gifs like you see from "The Office" or "30 Rock" or "Parks and Recreation." Whatever, Community was streets ahead!
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Mar 23, 2020 5:00:08 GMT -5
A British centric one. In the mid nineties London's Burning was pulling 18 million viewers an episode and ran for over a decade, yet no modern goer could tell you a storyline, a character or an actor who appeared in it. I'd add in Solider, Soldier and Men Behaving Badly. Massive shows, Soldier Soldier got Robson and Jerome a number 1, that'll occasionally be played with no reference to where it came from. Men Behaving Badly was almost our Friends in being the defining mainstream sitcom about people in their 20s, but it never gets mentioned, not sure it even gets shown on repeat. Compare that with something like Spaced just a few years later which has held up a lot better and had far more impact when it was just some cheap little Channel 4 show at the time.
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