Have you ever loved a TV program as a kid, then recently watched a rerun of it

[low-key]

and it was so bad you couldn't finish

Charlie Angles and Night Stalker , I knew they were never great literary works of art, but oh my, they stunk

 

[disneychrista]

Yes. I watched a few episodes of Silver Spoons. It was nice to watch an old show that I enjoyed as a teenager but it was not so good. I don't see me watching any more.

 

[low-key]

Yes. I watched a few episodes of Silver Spoons. It was nice to watch an old show that I enjoyed as a teenager but it was not so good. I don't see me watching any more.

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lol, all the sitcoms back in the day, were like cookie cutters of each other

 

[Praying Colonel]

The 6 Million Dollar Man. Loved it when I was 12. It's laughable.

 

[kiddo76]

The 6 Million Dollar Man. Loved it when I was 12. It's laughable.

Bionic Woman. While I was watching it with my teen nephews recently they asked "If she has bionic hearing, why does she meed to tuck her hair behind her ear to hear better?"

 

[L&Lfan]

Actually for me I still love all the shows I used to love.

 

[low-key]

The 6 Million Dollar Man. Loved it when I was 12. It's laughable.

I still remember the sound it made when he used his bionics

 

[BrianL]

Actually for me I still love all the shows I used to love.

I generally do too. I mean, I know they aren't great works, but they're fun. They are what they are. Now some I probably wouldn't want to binge watch or anything, but I still appreciate them.

 

[Kaleidodad]

I’m not sure how Street Justice would hold up after all these tears, but then again, Carl Weathers is so hot right now.

 

[scrump]

I haven't seen them lately, but I suspect Love Boat and Fantasy Island would be on my list. Really, I am cracking up laughing at myself as I write this.

 

[Diznygrl]

Small Wonder. Oh man, my brother and I used to WORSHIP this show. Watching it again as an adult some years ago after the first two seasons were released on DVD, I saw how absolutely terrible the show really is, but I will continue to love it for nostalgic reasons. Unfortunately the DVD sales were apparently so poor that they never finished releasing the series, LOL.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

The acting was sooo bad on a lot of shows. I will land on a soap opera and watch 2 seconds of it. Why in the hell did I rush home from school everyday for that crap?

I used to adore Courtship of Eddie's father. I had such a crush on Eddie. Plus the theme song was my favorite to sing. I am sure if I watched it today I would cringe..

 

[RamblingMad]

Star Trek Voyager. I liked it when it came out. It's terrible.

Right now, I'm binge watching the West Wing, and it's great.

 

[DuskKodesh]

I rewatched Night Court recently and honestly it holds up! Especially the episodes with John Astin still had me laughing!

Most of the animated stuff I watched when I was small though... terrible. Watching through the old She-ra and just... UGH.

 

[bcla]

It wasn't that recent, but I remember once was able to stream Hawaii Five-O and S.W.A.T. episodes for free on Hulu when they had ad-supported service. As a kid they were so awesome, but as an adult I realized how bad the production value was and how horrible the acting was. I actually sat through them, but then realized they weren't very good.

The other one was the short-lived ABC series Supercarrier. I'm not sure where it's streamed but I found some video site that had a few full episodes and I realize how bad it was. However, there was this one episode I remember (even in high school) where one scene was just horrible. They wanted to show a scene of a Soviet Air Force pilot defecting and trying to land his plane on a carrier using an emergency net. The plane was some fictional Mig but was portrayed with a US Navy F-16N (which can't realistically land on a carrier anyways). They didn't have too many special effects so they cobbled a composite of a botched landing using archival footage of real planes using an emergency net and one of an ejection off the side of a carrier. The planes were clearly different, and the footage showed ejection from a two seat aircraft with two parachutes opening when the plane in question was a single seater.

 

[barkley]

actually i am really enjoying watching some older shows, not nesc. ones from when i was a kid but a younger adult. some hold up, some don't. i'm loving 'designing women', dh is really loving 'babylon 5' and both of us enjoy 'grace under fire'.

the crazy thing is-the shows i watched as a kid are for the most part considered classics these days but i can't stand watching them b/c the comedies are so corny (mary tyler moore show for instance) or so formula driven (any of the old cop/detective shows) or so angry (all in the family). the ones that i really miss are the old 'abc movie of the week' and 'after school specials'. i'm guessing i would likely cringe watching some of them now.

 

[bcla]

I rewatched Night Court recently and honestly it holds up! Especially the episodes with John Astin still had me laughing!

Most of the animated stuff I watched when I was small though... terrible. Watching through the old She-ra and just... UGH.

But I'm feeling much better now.

I loved all the ABC Saturday morning animation, including Super Friends, The Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape Show, and other Hanna Barbera animation. Many were shown in syndication later in the 80s and man they didn't age well even after less than a decade. But then Adult Swim had Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law which breathed new life into all that junk I saw as a kid.

 

[barkley]

I loved all the ABC Saturday morning animation, including Super Friends, The Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape Show, and other Hanna Barbera animation. Many were shown in syndication later in the 80s and man they didn't age well even after less than a decade. But then Adult Swim had Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law which breathed new life into all that junk I saw as a kid.

if you want a good cringy laugh catch 'the banana splits movie'-it's slasher comedy at it's 'finest'

i miss the saturday morning cartoons. when dh i were first married it was the last couple of years they ran. i remember doing my household stuff on saturdays with cartoons on the tv followed up by our local cable's 'bollywood movie of the week' (no idea why they ran these movies as there was no significant fan base).

 

[FlightlessDuck]

The GI Joe and Transformer cartoons. The animation is ... really bad.

 

[serenitynow]

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