TV shows you hate, that everyone else seems to love

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Big Bang Theory
How I Met Your Mother
Family Guy or anything Seth McFarlane
Two And A Half Men
Friends
The Office

Btw, 24 is the best show on TV, and Jack Bauer would kick anyone's a** for saying otherwise.

It's very true about Cap'n Jack. As amiable and likable as he can be at times, still in him they have managed to create a level of promiscuity so extreme that the most liberal, tolerant individuals could look at his behavior and say, "Oh, that's just not right..."

For what it's worth, I'm a 37-year-old female, no doubt well within the intended demographic group for shows like Sex in the City, and I can't stand such rubbish. If I'm going to be so silly as to watch someone and aspire to their lifestyle, I'll be setting my sights a heck of a lot higher. I've seen the results of the weak-minded copying the lifestyles of those they see and it's ugly; my son's school is absolutely filled with children whose mothers drive white SUVs, have "blond" hair in practically the same style, and dress like trollops. It's the sheer number of them that's mind boggling.

Back to the original topic, since I wandered... I'd like to add any show that starts out with commercials that run like trailers for a violent action movie. They're hour-long dramas, and there's always some tough character, usually ugly, and some sleazy lady, and they keep looking at the camera as though they're planning to vampire-chomp the camera man, and a wizened older person with eccentric habits and sloppy clothing who dispenses the wisdom of the ages whenever the hero is discouraged or on the wrong track (it is usually this person who comes out of retirement to help when the hero is laying shot in a ditch and everyone bands together to save him), and you see it all in these upsetting flashes, mixed with the obligatory flash shot of someone ramming someone else in a dimly lit bedroom, and still other shots involving waving around large handguns, which is really the same thing in a way. And you wonder who thought this would make you want to tune in.

But that may be all night time dramas.

Anything that is not made by the BBC should be banned.....especially CSI, Greys Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, sport and any reality TV show.

With the exception of House, occasions of Sheldon from Big Bang Theory(he is great!), anything with vampires in it(even the crappy,
non-intellectual rubbish), United States of Tara, City Homicide, Rush and East West (brilliant Aussie crime), Lie to Me, True Blood, Six Feet Under and Spongebob Squarepants.

And so the list goes on....

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ALL reality television programs! Waste of time.

American Idol (and actually all popular "reality" shows)
Any cop show that's title is a bunch of initials and sometimes followed by the name of the city it takes place in (CSI, NCIS, etc)
Every doctor show
Every lawyer show

Those are all just so over done.

"The Office." It's so stupid and boring. Not a clever show at all. Also "Dharma and Greg" but I don't know too many people who love that show.

IrishWhistle, I'm glad I'm not the only one to think that about Captain Jack! You're right, he can be very likeable, which makes it harder to say he makes you want to heave. Also, I completely agree with your description of generic mini action movies after the watershed.

And I'd completely forgotten the office. Maybe I don't get it because I'm on the spectrum, but I can't think of a more boring show on the face of this blue earth.

I agree with many of the shows previously listed, especially Family Guy! It is such a blatant rip-off of the Simpsons. It lacks the subtlety of the earlier seasons of the Simpsons. I stopped watching the Simpsons when the quality of the writing seemed to be gone

All celebrity news shows...who cares?

My husband loves The Office, but I'd figured there was a good reason. He's NT, Guardian type personality (on the Myers-Briggs scale) and works in... yes indeed... an office. So he's be in more of a position to like it, whereas I like Miyazaki movies (he does too, just not as much as I do). We both like Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Red Dwarf and a lot of old movies, so the marriage works.