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Post by bibboid on Jan 27, 2023 22:56:35 GMT -5
American Idol. When they rebooted it on ABC, they screwed up the format. Eliminating two or three or four people a night makes it feel like they are just rushing to get it over with. Combining the performances, voting, and elimination all into one show pretty much prevents the entire west coast from being able to participate. The show was a bit hokey to begin with but now it is barely watchable.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jan 28, 2023 3:41:13 GMT -5
The Muppets 2015 tv show, the first half of the season was great, but people complained because it wasn’t “family friendly”, even though it was no worse than episodes of the Muppets Shows, the Muppets don’t change just the world around them. They retooled the show making it more PG and focused on tropes like Kermit’s and Piggy’s relationship and it just got bad. I wasn’t surprised when they canceled it. I was never much of a Muppet fan, if they were on, I'd watch, but I gotta say, it kind of bothers me how we've all entered into this silent agreement as a society that the Muppets are actual living beings. It's just really weird.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Jan 28, 2023 8:50:05 GMT -5
Did anyone mention Best Week ever? I didnt watch it but Paul F Tompkins has a bit on one of his comedy specials about the format change and fans hating it.
Edit. I did on page 3.
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Jan 28, 2023 14:48:34 GMT -5
Anyone remember Square One, on PBS? The Children's Television Workshop decided to make a middle-school-oriented math show, with fantastic actors and writers (I still hum some of those songs to this day). They taught basic mathematical concepts clearly using fun sketches. It was great. And then in the last season, things changed. Instead of having the sketches and songs focus on teaching anything, they just sold the idea over and over that math is useful and worthwhile to learn, seriously, I promise. They went from telling us what an acute angle is to having people say things like "you mean I can be a PLUMBER and still use MATH?!" And even as a kid, the tacit behind-the-scenes drama here was just too depressing to handle. Something in their research or focus groups or whatever had led them to just completely give up in despair. I remember the show and there are a BUNCH of full episodes on the tubes. I remember when they changed things up and I hated it. Give me Dirk Niblik helping Fluff and Fold, give me Mathman finding multiples of 3 and dammit, give me Al Yankovic singing about patterns over a 9 minute "sketch" about EVERY SINGLE JOB EVER uses math.
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Post by thechase on Jan 28, 2023 15:18:11 GMT -5
Sliders went through several retools annually. None of them beneficial.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Jan 29, 2023 18:33:17 GMT -5
The Muppets 2015 tv show, the first half of the season was great, but people complained because it wasn’t “family friendly”, even though it was no worse than episodes of the Muppets Shows, the Muppets don’t change just the world around them. They retooled the show making it more PG and focused on tropes like Kermit’s and Piggy’s relationship and it just got bad. I wasn’t surprised when they canceled it. I was never much of a Muppet fan, if they were on, I'd watch, but I gotta say, it kind of bothers me how we've all entered into this silent agreement as a society that the Muppets are actual living beings. It's just really weird. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA muppets live on another LEVEL to humans DON'T YOU KNOW ANYTHING MAN!!!
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Post by fw91 on Jan 29, 2023 19:12:14 GMT -5
Anything that goes against the original incarnation of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
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Post by Milkman Norm on Jan 29, 2023 23:17:55 GMT -5
The TNT season of Babylon 5 which was after the war storyline was wrapped up and several cast members were reoccurring guests stars if they were on at all.
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 29, 2023 23:24:36 GMT -5
I said something like this earlier, but almost anytime a character changes jobs. Of course, there are some exceptions (looks at Perfect Strangers).
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