What's the worst television show you've ever seen? Mine is..

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Jerry Springer is probably going to be the cause of the apocalyptic event that destroys the entire earth one day.

That's today's All That. Apparently, you didn't watch All That back in the early to mid-nineties, when they had much better stuff. They had Keenan and Kel (which became its own show), the Milkman, and a whole bunch of other cool stuff that I don't remember.

Daniel Handler is wrong. It's healthy for kids (and adults!) to view beyond the looking-glass. It gives people a positive sense of self and allows them to enter a world of fantasy. Fantasy is generally healthy in adults if it is not confused with reality. Dropping the bomb of reality on children is simply wrong, because it messes up their imagination and self-esteem. Why burden children with stories of people being murdered, raped, and blown to bits and of people greedily trying to make as much money as they can or with them going after sex? Let them have their innocence.

Yes, but it'll probably only involve trailer trash types, so the rest of us will be OK

- Anything imported from Japan except Adult Swim
- Anything featuring grown men in giant fuzzy costumes (Barney, Teletubbies, Bananas in Pajamas, Bear in the Big Blue House, etc.)
- Anything featuring a grown man named "Steve" who is looking for blue pawprints while getting repeatedly outsmarted by a pre-recorded track of twenty toddlers shouting things in unison.
- Dora the Explorer ("map... chair... book... map... chair... book... map... chair...")
- Chappelle's Show ("hey, look at me, I'm racist! Haha! I'm more racist than everyone else in the world! OMG I'm so funny...")
- Degrassi TNG
- The past few seasons of Power Rangers (the first ten seasons were kinda okay...)
- Those guys who try to convert you to Christianity at 3 AM



Don't diss Jerry. Jerry Springer is cool. If you insult him, he'll have a 400-pound inbred transvestite hooker beat you up with a foldable, breakable chair.

Why does everyone underestimate my powers? Let him come. i can use 1/256th of the magical energy i control to blast him across three parallel dimensions.

Archmage

there have been soooo damn many sucky shows over the years, but i cant remember them all, but for now i guess i have to say "Barney, and Teletubbies"

Haven't had TV for over a year. Don't miss it!

Just because you don't miss the TV doesn't mean you haven't missed out on some pretty good stuff. The new Battlestar Galactica is especially notweworthy; easily the best show currently on TV, and shaping up to be the best science fiction show ever.

pmsl!

yes - give them all a gun as they go on stage, and with a bit of luck, they'll shoot each other.

i haven'y had a telly for 15 years, fuzzychickens, and i haven't noticed any gaping holes in my life yet. think of all the books i've read instead...

Film is a more time-efficient and often clearer way of telling a story than the written word... our language is so poorly suited for describing three-dimensional objects and places. I think the conversion rate between pictures and words has been estimated on the scale of about a thousand to one, if I remember correctly

Do you mean "A picture is worth a thousand words"?

No. I was referring to "a stitch in time saves nine."

What the hell does that mean, anyway? Stupid archaic cliches...

"A stitch in time saves nine" means not to procrastinate to fix a problem. If you have a hole in your jeans, which can sometimes take 10 stiches, you have to so it up. If you only sew one stitch, and it takes ten stitches to fix it, you still have nine left to go, but that number will increase if the rest is not repaired right away.

"A picture is worth a thousand words" means that a picture is very descriptive and allegedly tells you as much as a thousand words. Moneywise, pictures are not worth a thousand words as words have no retail value, so you can see at once why this makes little sense.

In the 2nd grade Christmas play at church, there was this stupid tour guide who was very messed up. She got her sayings mixed up. She would say things like, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him gather moss.(It should be "drink")" and "A stitch in time... means nothing because what's a stitch in time?" and my personal favorite: "Haste makes your arteries harden." She said her grandfather told her all that.

My rant is now over. Tee hee!

Personally, I always avoid cliche like the plague....

OHHH. So it's basically synonymous with "an ounce of preventon is worth a pound of cure" (though westerners like to add that six ounces of lead beats them both)?



Worth comes in non-monetary forms, too. For example, my spelling bee experiences were NOT worth the time that I spent memorizing thousands of random words.