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Shows You No Longer Watch

"The Simpsons"
Bailed out around season 8, but I was only cathing it on/off then, really bailed out at the end of season 6. I continued to watch the Halloween special for a few years, because even when the show sucked balls powerfully, the specials were still good, then one day, the Halloween specials started sucking balls, so I gave up.


"Family Guy"
Shortly before the O.J. Simpsons episode, I was already tuning out -- especially withat litterally three minute long cutaway to Conway Twitty singing a song. I didn't turn back, as I recall. When I saw the O.J. episode, I tuned out partly threw it. That was fucking enough. I have not watched a new episode since, and since then I've only watched probably about half a dozen repeats of re-runs. The new episodes were so bad, it made me hate the re-runs of good episodes!

"Pysch"
Watched all the first season. The show offered nothing, was merely "passable", and was honest just kind of boring. And are the cops so fuckign stupid they can't see what some lazy lying guy can with clues? And the scoring was pretty bland. Don't miss it at all.


"Heroes"
I tried to watch it, but sometiems into the first season, or second, I found myselkf homeless again, so I didn't have access to TV, then I had spotty access, then no access again, then I finally decided to give it a try by watching the remaining seaons last season. Was okay, but it made me realize: three years later and the show has accomplished pretty much dick. And Hiro was still the same babbling character. In fact, just about no one made any real character advancements. Three fucking years. Dropped the show.


"Scrubs"
The whole point of the show was J.D. and mentor Co. The final episode was disappointing. Not interested even in a tiny bit to watch new characters. Dropped it like a cracking brick.


On the opposite side of hte spectrum, the last two seasons of "American Dad" were vastly more funny and interesting than the first season, and I actually enjoy watching it now.
 
The Simpsons. I grew up watching this show, have watched many episodes literally hundreds of times, and I can still quote whole segments verbatim.

I also haven't seen a new episode in years. If there's ever a series that should have quit while it was ahead, this is the one.
Same here. I'm 25, and I still have the pictures somewhere I drew of Bart Simpson on a skateboard when I was in infant school. It's strange to think how long it's been around.

Of course everyone has their own idea of when it started to go downhill. For me I stopped watching around Season 14 I think. I love the wackiness style of humour of Seasons 11-12 for example, I got the Season 12 DVD last week and have been watching it laughing my head off, its brilliant.
But for some reason it just stopped being funny any more a few seasons after that.
And I thought the movie was utter dog shit too.
 
I realy gave up on the Simpsons when Homer went from Caring, but not the most intelligent or patient father in the world, to a dangerous retard (oddly, about the time FG came back) and now it seems with this season that they need to advance the charaters a few years to make some of the plots make more sence
 
I bailed on The Simpsons and Monk a long time ago. I bailed on 24 for that season that was bad (S6?) but came back the next season. I might have to give up on Mad Men out of sheer unmitigated boredom.

But this is unusual. My viewing pattern is that either I bail very early (usually during the premiere) or I'm in for the duration. It doesn't take long for me to tell whether a premise and characters of a show grab me. Premises and characters don't usually change in any significant way over a show's run, so if I like em in the first episode, I can be assured they will remain, even if their potential is never developed in the way they should be (eg, Heroes).
 
I normally don't give up on shows, I tend to be a loyal viewer and stick with them through rough-patches in the hope that they'll get better. Sometimes they do (Frasier, Scrubs, The West Wing) but when the rough patch shows no signs of abating after two or three years I reluctantly stop watching.

The Simpsons is the main one I gave up on. That show was a part of my life since my early childhood and I freaked out once when I missed an episode (the one where Lisa became a Buddhist) and spent about a year checking the TV guide to see if it was being repeated. I was that big a fan. But even then it was going horribly downhill until it reached the point where only every one in three episodes was even worthwhile to watch. There came a point in season 17 when I had to choose between watching the show or spending that time with my gf, and after See Homer Run (where Homer dresses up as a salamander and becomes mayor) my choice was made for me. I've seen several episodes since then, but I don't think I've seen any in the last two years.

I gave up on South Park twice. I loved the first season as a kid, but I found seasons 2&3 to be lame and gave up on it. About 3 years later I was convinced to try it again and I thought it was brilliant so I started watching new episodes and caught up with most of what I had missed. But around season 10 the show stopped being as funny and I gave up on it soon after.

I gave up on My Name is Earl shortly into season 2, I felt the premise had a limited shelf-life and it was becoming repetitive.

I really looked forward to Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, but I gave up on it half-way into its only season because the show kept focusing on the non-relationship between Matt and that blonde woman despite the fact that it wasn't interesting.

I used to love Friends, but after the third season I felt it went downhill. Each season got progressively worse until I gave up on it early in season 7.
 
Lost. Checked out after season 2. Now, the very thought of the show is irritating to me. Never have I felt so manipulated by a T.V. show with no point to make (Ent's "These are the Voyages" notwithstanding).
 
American Dad: I gave it more than a fair try.

Family Guy: It's strange, I can watch reruns of earlier episodes and still enjoy them. Current ones have maybe one funny bit, and that's it.

South Park: I was never a big fan. It had its moments. But it became too gross-out happy for me, and I hated the animation from the get-go.

Reno 911: I lost track of it after some season, and never found it again. It's cancelled now, anyway.

Saturday Night Live: Is that still on?
 
The Simpsons - It started to repeat things and get boring ages ago, Infact I don't know how its still keeping afloat, Especialy with all the competition from Family Guy.

Family Guy - The later seasons just got worse, and worse until it became Unwatchable. Now I change the channel when they do Re-Runs.
Also I found American Dad ;) .

X - Factor - It was good at first but now I'ts just annoying, Also most of the time the votes are Rigged, Remember Rhydian and Leon :rolleyes: .(British People Will Know).

And no I don't watch alot on T.V, I'am more of a Movie Person Myself.
 
Fringe... was totally diggin' it, but they lost me a few times. It was like dozing off and snapping awake, I was always feeling like I missed an episode. I'd get into it but not enough to remember to tune in every week. Tried to keep up with it thru Hulu, but lost it totally at the end of the first season. I tried to pick it up again after I heard about some of the more complex plot twists... but it still isn't burning into my memory enough to catch it, it's more like a post-it note that keeps blowing away in the wind... and at this point, I might as well just wait for the season 1 and 2 DVD's. Ugh!
 
HIMYM - This show just doesn't interest me anymore.

House - I watch it every now and then but it isn't must see TV anymore and I don't know why (I still enjoy it).

L&O SVU - Started tuning out last year and haven't tuned back in. I did watch the season opener though last night on USA.

Lie to Me - I watched three episodes and never turned it on again.

Monk - When they got rid of Sharona I lost interest (and I like Natalie more ironically).

NCIS - I just stopped caring. It's not that good and it's become too predictable.

Private Practice - I don't really care about Addison, she was better with the Grey's cast.

Survivor - It's the same bloody thing each year!

The Mentalist - I'm a Monk rip off.
 
"Reno: 911!"
Oh yeah, I forgot about this. Funny show the first few seasons, but the second to the last was boring, and this final seasons with new characters (after some were killed off): SUCKED. Totally unfunny. I stopped watching it. Don't feel bad about the cancellation. It was time to go.


"Saturday Night Live"
I love [n]Norm MacDonald's[/b] humor and jokes; can't get enough. Seeing him shit canned because of some dickhead NBC guy who was friends with O.J. Simpsons, sucked. I kept viewing afterward, but the new actors were just not funny, and Colin Quinn sucks some powerful ass. Eventually it became bad sex jokes and pop culture shit no one but teenagers care about, so I dumped the show like hte piece of shit it became. [n]Norm's[/b] opening monologue when he hosted the show two years later after being fired, was sweet, sweet, sweet revenge:

When the people here asked me to do the show, I've got to say, I felt kind of weird. I don't know if you remember this, but I used to actually be on this show. I used to do the "Weekend Update" news routine, you remember that? That's where I did the make-believe news jokes. That was me, you know? So then, a year and a half ago, I had sort of a disagreement with the management at NBC: I wanted to keep my job. Right? And they felt the exact opposite. They fired me because they said that I wasn't funny. Now, with most jobs, I could have had a hell of a lawsuit on my hands for that, but see, this is a comedy show. So, they got me. But, now, this is the weird part -- it's only a year and a half later, and now they ask me to host the show. So I wondered, how did I go from being not funny enough to be even allowed in the building, to being so funny that I'm now hosting the show? How did I suddenly get so goddamn funny?! It was inexplicable to me, because, let's face it -- a year and a half is not enough time for a dude to learn how to be funny! Then it occurred to me, I haven't gotten funnier, the show has gotten really bad! So, yeah, I'm funny compared to, you know ... what you'll see later.

Okay, so let's recap: the bad news is: I'm still not funny. The good news is: The show blows! Alright, folks, we've got a realy bad show for you tonight! Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggie Dogg and Eminem are here. We'll be right back!
 
Law and Order: SVU

It's simply been on the air too long. I used to love it, but it's creatively dead. It happens.

Lost.

It lost me during season 2. Always with the questions and no answers, and I don't care about that waste of oxygen, Kate. I never went back.

Heroes

They killed Nathan and not Sylar. Last straw. Bye.
 
Never really watched The Simpsons all the time but when it was on BBC 2 here quite a bit with the odd episode from Sky One but now I don't watch it virtually ever dunno why I just feel theres so much of it I can't be bothered to jump into it maybe after its done.

Considering giving up Family Guy after this season bar any special themed episodes and if it wasn't already the final season of Heroes I would of given up on that. Heroes is the sort of show best to watch in one go I think I remember watching all of season 1 (23 episodes) in a Fri-Sun marathon.

I've paused CSI into its 6th season don't know when I will get back into it.

The X Factor over here in UK, I watched series 1-3 but then got annoyed with the voting patterns of people voting for there own countrymen/women no matter how shit they were and the last straw was when Leon Jackson beat Rhydian due to Scotland having a bigger population and voting all for him even though he should of gone out in the early rounds - his career went downhill after 1 song because he as SHITE.

Big Brother UK - Watched series 1 & 2 it was new fresh and brilliant. Then reality tv became a full blown genre it was virtually all shit and Jade put me off series 3 and then after that Channel 4 just put half wits into the house instead of the more normal people of series 1-2.
 
Heroes - i never cared for it to start with, but i gave it a chance because everyone said how great it was... everyone was wrong.

Dollhouse - officially gave up on it half way through the second episode of the second season... how long am i supposed to wait for it to get better?

Simpsons - i dont know when i gave up on it... probably soon after futurama started because i thought that was a much better show.

24 - after season 1 i gave up... actually after the explosive amnesia bit i gave up on the show. another show everyone talked about being great... thanks for wasting my time everyone. amnesia, grrrr....

Teen Titans/JLU - i gave up on them because i could never remember when they aired. JLU i eventually finished on dvd

lots of other shows that i havent given up on, i just dont care to go out of my way to check out... if i had the opportunity to finish 6 feet under, or weeds, i would. but i dont (i have other shows i'd rather watch first).
 
Teen Titans/JLU - i gave up on them because i could never remember when they aired. JLU i eventually finished on dvd

That's a good point. There were a few shows where I gave up on them for similar reasons (I could never find them).
 
Survivor: The show keeps trying to get the most despicable people possible and I'm tired of it. Coach/Russel characters just upset me.

The Simpsons: No need to beat a dead horse with an explanation...

CSI: I quit early on after the "Furries" episode. The show just got too weird and gross.

Prison Break: I enjoyed the first season. But then they got out of prison during the season finale and I had absolutely no interest in tuning in for the second season.
 
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