i never saw it, no
i don't even own a tv
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
haha, sorry. but no, i didn't see it.
just shoot me was pretty decent. good cast. scored some laughs. that's about as much enthusiasm as I can muster up for any of these shows.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
some of these shows feel like ringers - mad about you a real hit that accorded a bizarre measure of respect at the time, just shoot me (which i'm surprised to see was only on thursdays for like two years apparently), caroline & the city, suddenly susan plausibly could be called hit shows whose continued existence wasn't dependant entirely on being on thursdays. so, somewhat arbitrarily, i'm limiting myself to the shows that were shockingly highly rated shows on launch on thursdays the first year and then got moved to another night the second year, saw their ratings plummet, and got quickly canceled. that plus the shows that couldn't even manage that. the shows they used to (maybe still do?) show on weekday mornings on usa network. of these the single guy is the quintessential 'we can throw any garbage on between friends and seinfeld and you suckers will lap it up' show but i'm voting for boston common just cuz i have a crush on traylor howard. surprised 'working' wasn't one of these, i guess it was on another night. lol at remembering how hard they tried to turn the naked truth into a hit, rework after rework, it was the up all night of its day. sad lol at seeing the first of many failed christina applegate vehicles up there. grant her this, at least she's not doing a tvland show. why they didn't put newsradio on thursdays still a mystery and an outrage.
― balls, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 14:51 (ten years ago) link
mad about you really was a mystifyingly big deal at the time. what I also remember was it was an incredibly square show and any laughs it had probably came from john pankow.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
I guess you've never seen Yes, Dear? It ran for an eternity on CBS and persists on TBS.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, April 2, 2014 10:38 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That's one of the worst tv shows to ever hit the airwaves.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 15:01 (ten years ago) link
Had a crush on Lea Thompson circa Caroline, so voting that.
I've never seen Yes, Dear itself but I feel like I saw enough commercials for it that I can hear the lead's terrible voice saying "yes, dear."
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
the only one of these that I regularly watched was Just Shoot Me
(don't look at me like that)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 15:30 (ten years ago) link
boston common was based on the college i went to and we used to heavily reference it when giving tours of the campus circa 2000-2001 ("notable alumni include jay leno...henry winkler...and anthony clark!")
i was about to say "i can't imagine the type of asshole whose college choice is influenced by anthony clark going there," but i can totally imagine it - i was surrounded by them for four years
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
Whenever Friends would come up in conversation, a friend of mine liked to joke at the time that "I don't like Friends, but I really like Jessie." Was the latter an obvious ripoff of the former or something?
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
Working just missed the cutoff periodwise iirc. And I kept the qualifying hits because I love the idea of someone seeing Just Shoot Me or mad about you on a best of poll and voting for it
― da croupier, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
Wait I'm thinking of Coupling. Yeah Working must have been on another night
― da croupier, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link
Wednesdays after the third rock from the sun it seems. Just found the Wikipedia pages for every years prime-time lineup. Sweet mama Jesus.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
Kevin nealon and Richard Lewis are comedy writers "Hiller And Diller", by Lowell ganz and babaloo mandel, initially after home improvement, once after Sabrina the teenage witch, last four episodes unaired but plot descriptions on the show page.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
Geez, and you still had to leave out a few shows to keep within the poll limits!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
No I didnt
― da croupier, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
Oh right - Thursdays only
― Nhex, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
Was "Jessie" the Christina Applegate one? If so, that.
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
Naked Truth totally stunk in its conversion from ABC to NBC
― Nhex, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
Don't worry falling into a wormhole of forgotten programming from every night now - a proto Big Bang theory in 1995 called dweebs with Peter scholari, Corey Feldman, Stephen tobolowsky and Farrah forke from wings, aired before Bonnie and Picket Fences...must close...wikipedia
― da croupier, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
mad about you
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 00:27 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 10 April 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
I voted for Veronica's Closet, but I've just gone to youtube and watched an episode for the first time in about 15 years and it's awful, I'd like to change my vote to Mad About You please
― soref, Thursday, 10 April 2014 00:37 (ten years ago) link
How'd I miss this poll. I swear I must have seen eps of at least 3/4 of these. Probably would have gone w/Mad About You cause every once in a while I see it on a nostalgia channel and it holds up surprisingly well.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 10 April 2014 00:50 (ten years ago) link