History Horrible / LiveActionTv

* ''Turbocharged Thunderbirds'', a half-hour version of British classic {{Thunderbirds}} produced for [[{{Fox}} FOX]]. Thirteen of the original ''Thunderbirds'' episodes were [[{{Macekre}} hacked into a half-hour format (with space opened for commercials), re-titled, and dubbed over with new voices]]. The Tracy family fought supervillains, and the action took place on "Thunderworld". Oh, and the Tracy family took orders from a pair of live-action teenagers who lived on the inside of [[CoolStarship Thunderbird 5]] (or something, they didn't explain it well) and called Jeff Tracy [[TheATeam "Mr. T"]] ([[MrT WHAT THE HELL, FOOL!?]]). Worst of all, the dialogue was completely edited out and replaced with "ironic post-modern" jokes. Creator Gerry Anderson was so furious when he found out what had been done to his creation that FOX pulled it immediately... and thank God for that.

* The bleeding {{Star Wars Christmas Special}}.

* The bleeding [[Star Wars Christmas Special]].

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* ''{{Victorious}}''..just...Victorious. I don't care how charming the main actress is, this show is just bad. And the little status updates as screen transitions? It makes it look so..tacky, I guess would be the word.

* ''Emeril''. No, not the cooking show -- the sitcom based on him. Imagine watching that beloved chef trying and failing miserably at acting. Also, if you will, imagine those lame jokes being repeated over and over again every episode. The series barely lasted 8 episodes and the chef's career went steadily downhill afterwards. It is very often featured on "Worst Of All Time" lists. And it was one of the last roles Robert Urich (who co-starred this show) he was in. Poor Robert.

* ''Emeril''. No, not the cooking show -- the sitcom based on him. Imagine watching that beloved chef trying and failing miserably at acting. Also, if you will, imagine those lame jokes being repeated over and over again every episode. The series barely lasted 8 episodes and the chef's career went steadily downhill afterwards. It is very often featured on "Worst Of All Time" lists.

** Sadly, it co-starred Robert Urich in one of his last roles. Poor Robert.

* Michael Landon, best known for his work on 'Little House On The Prairie', Wrote and directed the semi-biographical film ''The lonelest Runner''(1976), concerning - bedwetting. The story is about a child who has a disorder that causes him to sleep so deeply that he looses bladder control during the night. His mother (DeAnn Mears) is a horrible shrew of a person who hangs the boy's soiled bedsheets out their front window, just to shame him. And this inspires the boy to become an Olympic track star. The acting is wooden, the character of the mother is just painful to watch. Who green-lit this film at ABC, and how much cocaine was involved?

* In an attempt to bring the ratings gold of MTV's ''The Osbournes'' to network TV, FOX created ''Osbournes: Reloaded'', a variety show starring the first family of metal. The first (and only aired) episode consisted of a guy being tricked into kissing an elderly woman woman blindfolded, a "randomly-selected" audience member given the prize of marriage to his long-time girlfriend (they were married on-air), painfully long and unfunny sketches with little kids dressed as Ozzy & Sharon - the joke is that they swear - and Ozzy & Kelly working in fast food. The show was canceled after one episode. It didn't help that multiple FOX affiliates pre-empted the show from getting aired in the first place.

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* ''Freddy's Nightmares - [[ANightmareOnElmStreet A Nightmare on Elm Street]]: The Series'' had very, ''very'' few episodes that could be (really generously) described as good.

'''''Important Note''''': Merely finding a show offensive is not enough to justify a work as So Bad It's Horrible. What offends you might not offend everyone else. ''It has to fail to appeal even to that niche'' to qualify as this.

** Personally, I'd fine them for pixelling out the only good thing about this piece of crap show.

** I'm pretty sure that the show's writers, producers, and whichever jack came up with this idea were on the sauce anyway.

** She also had a CHAPERONE ON THE WEDDING NIGHT. As one talk show host put it: "I'm just trying to imagine...how creepy that must have been".

'''''Important Note''''': Merely finding a show offensive is not enough to justify a work as So Bad It's Horrible. What offends you might not offend everyone else. It has to fail to appeal to ANYONE to qualify as this.

* ''Freddy's Nightmares - [[ANightmareOnElmStreet A Nightmare on Elm Street]]: The Series'' had very, ''very'' few episodes that could be (generously) described as good.

->''"In Beverly Hills ... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."''
-->-- '''Woody Allen'''

* ''[[YoureInThePicture You're In The Picture]]'' is almost a byword for bad ideas executed badly -- or would be if it was better known. It was a panel show hosted by Jackie Gleason in which celebrities would stick their heads through pictorial cut-outs and try to guess what picture they were in. Within five minutes of the first episode, it was clear that the game was nigh-impossible and not interesting. The following week consisted of Jackie Gleason shotgunning "coffee" and apologizing to everyone who watched the debut. (That episode was the PoorlyDisguisedPilot to a Jackie Gleason talk show.) Incidentally, this 30-minute apology may be the CrowningMomentOfFunny in Gleason's long and illustrious career.
* The comedian Peter Cook was riding high with his comedy show {{Not Only But Also}} when he was offered his own vehicle with absolute creative control. Foolishly, he decided to do a combination of a chat show, sketch comedy and music show. The first show featured Peter interviewing S J Perelman, who just sat in his seat yawning while Peter couldn't think of anything to ask. An interview with Kirk Douglas featured an inebriated Peter asking Kirk 'Who are you?' followed by a long awful silence. The show also featured the unedifying sight of Peter Cook ripping into an audience member who had complained about a sketch he had performed and phoning up a viewer at home who had pondered whether Peter was on drugs (the phone call took over 5 minutes as the complainant was in the bath.". Peter also insisted on performing a song in each show (he was a notoriously bad singer). 'Where do I sit' lasted for three episodes before being cancelled and the tapes wiped.

** For reference, "naughty" videos were, as far as the content of the show proved, defined as "''containing scenes of animals humping each other''".
* "Married By America", on {{FOX}} in 2003. In the first half of this miniseries, a series of men and women are matched up with potential spouses; their families and viewers' call-in votes ultimately arranged their engagements sight unseen. The second half of the series follows the 10 couples thus created to a retreat where they spend the next few weeks "preparing for the wedding" and competing to avoid getting "voted out." In one episode, {{FOX}} sent a bunch of strippers into the resort for the grooms' "bachelor party" to try to see if any of the guys would break -- if they did, they were voted out. In the last episode, it was down to two couples and two weddings -- and if either couple had agreed to say "I Do" at the altar, they would have won a ridiculous sum of money. Neither of the couples agreed to go through with it. Even though those who heard about it found it twisted -- one {{FOX}} affiliate found the whole thing so distasteful that they ran reruns of "The Andy Griffith Show" instead -- most people just didn't hear about it, and it got bad ratings... The FCC did fine {{FOX}} over the strippers, claiming that the {{pixellation}} didn't mask things as well as it should have.
** Personally I'd fine them for pixelling out the only good thing about this piece of crap show.
* ''{{Queen for a Day}}''. This 1950s precursor to modern reality shows featured a group of female contestants, all selected because they'd had absolutely miserable lives. The host would interview each woman and openly snicker as she described how her husband had died, or she'd lost her house and had to move into a tiny apartment which was too small for her family, or some other thing had gone horribly wrong. Then the studio audience would vote on who they felt the most sorry for. She got to be "Queen For a Day", which meant she got a cheap costume robe and crown, got seated on a plastic throne, and was given a modest prize of her choice (for example, a wheelchair for her son who was crippled with polio -- and that may be one of the more generous examples). The other contestants? They got nothing at all. Additionally, the host appeared to be inebriated on multiple episodes...although one wonders if anyone could do that sober anyway.
** I'm pretty sure that the shows writers, producers and whichever jack came up with this idea were on the sauce anyway

* Yet another one from {{FOX}} -- the insipid reality show ''Who's Your Daddy?'' A person who had been adopted as an infant was forced to pick out his or her biological father from a group of 25 men. The prize for picking the right man was $100,000; if the person guessed incorrectly, then the $100,000 would go to that person instead. Yes, you read that correctly: somebody at {{Fox}} thought it would be a bright idea to take the paternity tests from ''{{Maury}}'' and build an entire reality show around them. After being hit with poor ratings, massive public backlash, and the Raleigh-Durham affiliate (WRAZ) refusing to broadcast the show, FOX cancelled it after one episode... and then aired the other five episodes they had filmed on their Fox Reality cable channel. ({{Fox}} can be stubborn.)

** She also had a CHAPERONE ON THE WEDDING NIGHT. As one talk show host put it: "I'm just trying to imagine...how creepy that must have been"

* The SciFiChannel ([[NetworkDecay now]] SyFy) made an "adaptation" ([[AdaptationDecay that's what they called it, anyway]]) of ''A Wizard of Earthsea''. That film was blasted by [[UrsulaKLeGuin Ursula K. Le Guin]] herself -- though, admittedly, she was assuming ''Tehanu'' was a good work in the same breath. Still, the SciFiChannel production killed much of the subtle cultural stuff [=LeGuin=] had tried to put in her original work. Talk about wasting Isabella Rossellini. Worse, SyFy then used the fact that they had the American rights to produce Earthsea media to keep Studio Ghibli's ''TalesFromEarthsea'' movie from coming out in America for some time[[hottip:!:which, barring any further complications will finally see a release in August 2010]].

'''''Important Note''''': Merely finding a show offensive is not enough to justify a work as So Bad It's Horrible. What offends you might not offend everyone else. It has to fail to appeal even to ANYONE to qualify as this.

'''''Important Note''''': Merely being offensive in its subject matter is not enough to justify a work as So Bad It's Horrible. Hard as it is to imagine at times, there is a market for all types of deviancy (no matter how small a niche it is). It has to ''fail to appeal even to that niche'' to qualify as this.

* The ''Puppy Bowl''. A special that airs every Superbowl Sunday on Animal Planet. The special? Just a bunch of puppies playing in a pen designed to look like a football field. Why is it so bad? It's not offensive, it doesn't contain bad acting...It's just '''boring'''. Sure, they try to make things "flashier" by adding psuedo-football commentary and inlcuding a "Kitty Half-Time Show". But, most of the time, the puppies (and kitties) are pretty much doing nothing. That's right. No cute frollicking. No curiously tilting their heads to one side. No playfully pawing at their toys, or happily munching on their treats. They just...lie there as if about to fall asleep at any second. Even if you're a die-hard puppy/kitty lover, you're pretty much better off watching real cats and dogs rather than this poorly thought-out "special".