What's your favorite "hate watch"?

What gets me about the televangelists and such is not the overly polished leaders themselves, but the tens of thousands of 'fans' that fawn over them as they fork over their money. Magnify that crowd by the thousands and you get politicians.

 

I would put Big Bang Theory in this category.

 

Yes, so-bad-it's-good falls well within the scope of the present inquiry.

 

Dexter. Aside from the lead, I found most of the acting laughably awful. And the plots were sometimes utterly ludicrous.

 

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Jimmy Kimmel...

 

As an aside, it’s funny the different meanings different spellings have internationally. In North America, this would be a screwball horror comedy involving undead ancient Egyptian royalty. Or a mummy-themed porn film.

 

Best watched with the laugh track removed.

 

Gene was wild! I knew a lot of people who liked to watch him after the bars closed down.

 

This!!!! IIRC, it came on late weekend nites. Back in the day wife and I would invariably be drunk and or heavily medicated and hatewatch this arseholio
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that should be a feature on every home video released be it DVD, BD...the option to turn it off!

 

Terrific idea! I can't even watch sitcoms anymore. Every line, however weak, comes with a forced roar that's the aural equivalent of bamboo shoots under the fingernails.

 

exactly!

 

I'd watch Gene Scott as a teen in the mid 90's because he would often confoundingly air extended footage of women in bikini's rollerblading and working out on his estate.

My biggest hatewatch in recent memory was the musical drama Smash. I decided to watch due to Katharine McPhee but she was so underwhelming that I became drawn to Megan Hilty and I began rooting for her character. The show seemed to respond by trying to make Hilty's character a pathetic and despicable villain even though she was clearly way more talented and deserving of the main role in the show within the show. Praise of McPhee's character went Supernova. Add to this multiple really obnoxious characters (the personal assistant guy - AARGH!) and you've got prime hatewatch. 2nd Season attempted to make amends but, nah.

There were some great musical numbers though and it was a fun show to watch in an "altered" state. I'd definitely watch it again if it was streaming or airing somewhere (I could buy it but, nah).

 

My go-to hate-watch has always started by sticking some clueless movie actor up on a stage at 30 Rock, so he can read the cards that tell him how great it is to be in New York, get faked applause for some movie nobody's excited about seeing, take some absurd questions from planted audience members, break into some pointless song with Keenan, then tell everybody they've got a great show, because Ashlee Simpson or some other major scenester is there. And then, aside from hoping there will be some actual jokes in the middle of the show, cringe during the skits, trying to discern how good the script might originally have been before studio/star/recurring-character politics make it all irrelevant.

Every. Damn. Week.

 

Mike Murdock on "campmeeting".
I can't believe the con he runs to get people to send him their money.
If you let money out of your hand, God will let your destiny flow out of his.
Give me a break. Sad part is, the folks that send him money are the ones
that can't afford it.

 

In the 80's Gene would usually show footage of his racehorses. I kind of quit watching for a while and was surprised to see chicks in bikini's when I happened to flip by in the 90's.

 

I hate to say it (see what I did there), but Shameless. I've stuck with that show for so long, but it's getting to be a real slog.

 

Our public access station, which aired whatever was submitted. These were low-key hilarious, sort of a slow-motion SCTV.

One elderly man would lecture about . . . something, presumably directed at children. But his homebrew video kit amounted to a single camera that he stood in front of, sometimes framed by a literal frame. I mean an empty picture frame he was holding up and speaking through.

I could never decipher what exactly was going on or what was intended, as his sound was as limited as his video, presumably the mic in the camera. It was genuinely bizarre.

The rest of the time it was local realtors, investment advisors, etc. The hunting and fishing round-up filmed at a local sporting goods store was actually charming. I wanted to go in and suggest they get musical guests, like "Fishin' Musician."

 

any of the late night talk shows...LOL.

 

I was going to say this one. I finally gave up on it, the end of last season. It wasn't a fun-hate anymore.

 

I followed Geraldo Rivera on my Twitter account for about six months. Does that count?

 

Just as a follow up...I dug this out of the garage. It's a Jim Bakker cassette tape (1982) set on achieving success from early eighties. I got this from a garage sale for $5 in the late eighties.





...and here is the finale of my Jim Bakker era hate watch...I consider this comic strip and the tapes a companion set.

 

1. Dawson’s Creek:

I used to watch this show on TBS in the mornings. They would play two episodes back to back. The show was so terribly over dramatic that I couldn’t help but watch it. They would take the smallest things and blow them up into huge problems. I hated the show but I loved watching it because I was entertained by how silly it was.

2. Scandal:

I hate this show. It comes on late at night and I always seem to find myself watching it. I hate the characters and I hate the plot, yet I find it amusing how hard they try to be relevant in today’s world with their stories.

3. 90210:

Stupid show but I find it amusing at the same time.

 

I hated / hate Friends. It's still on all the time. But I occasionally watch a few minutes of it because Jennifer Aniston wasn't fond of wearing a bra.