Most Overrated TV shows ever!

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I'm accustomed to being in the minority on this particular issue. One of my Aspie friends thought it was hilarious too.

SEINFELD!

Jersey Shore. It's stupid. I don't see why ANYONE would want to watch that show.

Then again, most of the shows on MTV are crap naowadays.

I have never watched a single episode of Jersey Shore, so tell me if I'm wrong here - Jersey Shore is supposed to be a mock reality show about stereotypical, working class Jewish and Italian twenty somethings living on coastal New Jersey, who are mouthy, low browed, and drink too much. Is that about right?

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Yes, only it's not Mock and the people are real and literally as dumb as s**t.

Anything on MTV or the local Fox station would probably qualify. I don't watch enough TV to know, really.

A few that come to mind for me:

1. Friends. Why was this show so popular? It WASN'T FUNNY.
2. Any of the CSI shows. Seriously? THIS used to be the most popular show on television? It's about as compelling as a bowl of oatmeal. Though perhaps I shouldn't be so surprised, seeing as how it's on CBS, who have got the art of producing safe, by-the-numbers, yet somehow popular drivel down to a science.
3. Futurama. It has its moments from time to time, but I just don't see what the fuss is about.

I'm not going to say Glee, even though I don't like that show either, because that's more a taste of it just not being my cup of tea as opposed to failing to accomplish the things it sets out to do.

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Friends, 2 and a half men, big bang theory and other american sitcoms like those.
Oh and family guy, I just find the humour really poor and naff and you don't have to have much brains to appreciate the jokes.

Friends
Anything by Seth MacFarlane
Seinfeld
Glee
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Gilmore Girls
The X Files
The Office
All the shows on premium cable TV.

Jersey Shore. Stupid, pointless show. It's about party animals that are going to fake bake themselves to death. And they live in the rudest state.

I don't get why people watch that reality show crap. In my opinion, most reality shows are the only way talentless, connectionless people to become famous.

Yup. Pretty much.

The Hills

Jersey Shore

Doctor Who - all series of it

I like it, but in this country, I think it's a more popular sci fi than Star Trek - because it's 'homegrown'. The last series had lots of stupid 'meet famous people from the past' episodes. I don't like time-travelling to meet Shakespeare or Churchill or whatever in any sci fi series. I just don't like it as much as some people.

Star Trek DS9. It's not the best series of Star Trek. I don't think there is one, they're all different. I like all the series except Enterprise. I like DS9, but I love Babylon 5 - and DS9 is kind of like 'Diet Babylon 5'. Voyager and TNG were more 'classic Star Trek', being about exploration.

Heroes
Lost
24
Mad Men
Desperate Housewives
Sex in the City

On British tv:
Shameless (I come from a rough part of Manchester and it just depresses the crap out of me because it really is like that )
Skins

I didn't like the British version of The Office when it originally aired, but having watched it as a re-run, I was impressed. Now that I've left school and actually had a job, and learned to read subtle behaviour a bit better, it's funny.

MAD MEN!

30 Rock

For me, it's hard to say. I only watch shows I really like so because I like them, I don't think they're overrated. If I don't watch a show, I have no basis to make an informed opinion on it and therefore, can't say with any accuracy whether or not it's overrated.

Agreed. But I do have some shows I have either come across or had to see because of people I live with.

SEINFELD

As so many have already said. It's interesting to see how often this has been mentioned so far. Imagine a show that displays illogical, inconsiderate jerks doing stupid things and never learning one stinking thing from the disastrous consequences... Imagine it NOT appealing to people who spend huge amounts of time trying their best to be nice and getting some pretty disappointing results. I hate shows that show people acting in a stupid, inappropriate and embarrassing way. And yet, sometimes the ridiculous behavior I see on tv is funny. I still haven't quite worked out what the magic ingredient is that makes the ridiculous become more comfortable to watch. And obviously, neither have the people who make TV shows.

Also:

Hannah Montana (we kept seeing her horrible facial mugging during commercials while waiting for the far superior Phineas and Ferb to continue... I couldn't figure out how a tween kid could be stupid enough to think she's worth watching.)

And GLEE!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

I have only "watched" one episode of Glee. It was not voluntarily. I was at the laundromat and they had it playing SO LOUD that my ear buds could not block it out. Here's what I got from the parts that forced themselves to be heard:

Pensive caterwauling montage.
A lot of serious jabber
For reasons I could not fathom (I didn't know what show it was yet) another montage
Teen griping
Howling, shrieking, wailing show-stopper musical performance
Surely it must be over
Another blaring, blasting show-stopper
Man, I hate network TV.