My wife and I where part of the test audience of The Will when we where in Vegas, that is my gift to society. I helped get a horrible tv show cancelled.
The entire thing aired in New Zealand... odd concept and totally cringeworthy, but strangely addictive at the same time... and you could so tell it was rigged
To be fair though, a lot of fantasy series from the ‘60s would be way too corny to air today. How long do you think a series like Mr. Ed would last today?
Maybe it just wasn't marketed correctly. For one thing you knew how lame stars displaying their talents were. Whereas with the masked singer you get 3 minutes of clues, one minute of prerecorded singing, and two minutes of a panel trying to convince each other that it is actually an A-list star under the mask.
Sid Stoudwmire this show wouldn’t be championed by the right it would be championed by the alt right which is an extremist approach and all politics has an extremist movement or person tied to it Linda sarsour for example is an extremist of the left so please if you can stop lumping all right leaning citizens and politicians as extremists because it’s idiotic and misguided to do so it’d be just as bad as me saying that all leftists are communists who support the killing of American soldiers and the cover up of American soldiers through government scandals
You need a dark sense of humor about it. There was way too much absurdity about all of it that makes it a little funny. The show failed because the writers and actors couldn’t make it work at all, they were horrible at it. It could’ve been extremely funny but the people bringing to the screens were terrible at it
It was a satirization of the American sitcoms at the time that would employ some hyper serious things on the tv shows for gags like All in the Family had a rape episode
Several people said the same thing about Hogan's Heroes in 1965. A sitcom about a prisoner of war camp?? But, that turned out to be good satire. HHIH was just ridiculous.
I hate that my little sisters like that show but don't see how the original is cool. They don't see how cheap and juvenile TTG is. I wanna know why Cartoon Network still makes episodes like they think it has value. -_-
I guess because they thought that since Hogan's Hero's was a hit...might as well. In my opinion I do not like Hogan's Heros too well. Funny thing is most of those actors are German, but 2 of them sound like they're fake accents. People compare Hogan's Heros and M*A*S*H, but I tell ya MASH is wayyyy better.
I actually watched the who's your daddy one from the honorable mentions. The girl had to basically play the bachelor except instead of finding love she had to find out which one was her dad. She actually did it and won the 50k dollar prize. Very bad and confusing show to way the least
I remember that abortion which was called Australia's Naughtiest Home videos. Kerry Packer who owned the network saw the first 15 minutes of it and rang up the studio and told them "Get this crap off my network NOW". Or words to that effect. It literally lasted on air about 20 minutes.
Which is why I unalterably detest the song-and-dance episodes of XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS and BTVS. Some things are so stupid, they should _never_ be attempted. Not even once! Like skydiving without a parachute or mating a brood mare to a gelding. And jumping the shark with song-and-dance episodes of a TV series undeniably falls in the same category. At least as far as I'm permanently concerned.
@Happy Thoughts it was just really dumb: a celebrity panel put their heads into cut out in a picture and had to guess what they were depicting by asking Gleason yes or no questions. and what made it worse was its only competition on tv at that time was the Kennedy inauguration and that got higher ratings than you're in the picture.
The Garbage Pail Kids cartoon (Yeah, that was a thing!) was yanked just days before the first episode even aired! I know because on the first day it was supposed to air I tuned into CBS out of curiosity just to take a peek at how this......this........MONSTROSITY could make it as a TV show only to find out that CBS had replaced it with a rerun of a different cartoon! I later found out that the show was yanked at the last minute due to numerous protests by parents who didn’t exactly care for The Garbage Pail Kids, at least not as a TV cartoon! I wasn’t surprised!
I'm surprised "Cavemen" even lasted that long. Same with "Baby Bob". Hopefully, those shows prove not to make tv shows from commercials. If anything, do it how "The Simpsons" did things have a show then advertise if popular enough. Heck, "Dennis the Menace" was used on Dairy Queen ads and "Peanuts" has been used a lot. Examples for the second include, MetLife and Cedar Point; just to name several.
How could this list not include David Lynch's "On the Air"? The echoes of that resounding thud can still be heard. A 90 minute pilot was filmed, then split into 3 half-hour bits. The last two never got seen unless one go hold of a VHS copy.
Big Bang theory is so stupid once they added relationships to the mix and grey was stupid too because doctors tv show? We seen enough of that already pshhh
The reason Hogan's Heroes was successful was that it was a parody of life in a POW camp, not a concentration camp. Besides, all four main Germans- Col. Klink, Sgt. Schultz, Maj. Hochstetter, and Gen. Burkhalter- were played by Jewish actors- Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Howard Caine, and Leon Askin- and Cpl. LeBeau was played by a Holocaust survivor, Robert Clary. It didn't try to make light of the horrors of Nazi Germany. It showed five Allies trying to sabotage the German war effort by any means necessary. Werner Klemperer even insisted on having Col. Hogan and the boys triumph over the Germans in every episode or he wouldn't have done the show.
It was a propaganda show. It made the Nazis look incompetent and dumb. People think because of the characters in it it is offensive but don't even pay attention to what's being said
I was actually part of the first screen testing group for Nielson Ratings for Heather Graham's "Emily's Reasons Why Not" and it was so bad. I felt bad for Heather Graham because she is such a cutie.
There was a very forgotten show called “McGurk A Dog’s Life” by Norman Lear. I remember seeing the one episode and remembered it but nobody else did. I was glad to see a short clip survived and I’m sure my parents were glad that the very adult humor went over my head.
The weird thing is everyone hates Heil Honey and cant understand why it got made, but the modern Hitler comedy "Look Who's Back" is fairly successful and got good reviews.
They filmed nine more but they are very hard to get hold of. Graham Linehan who created 'Father Ted' and 'The IT Crowd' said he was given a set by channel four when they did the accidental racism episode of Ted as a warning of how not to do things.
IMO, "Heil Honey I'm Home" was a decent satire. The basic premise certainly would've worked as a sketch on Saturday Night Live. Now, maybe turning the idea into a series was stretching it, but I'm thinking the problem was having Hitler as the main character. Norman Lear must've realized this, so he turned Hitler into Archie Bunker, and the result was the ground-breaking show "All in the Family". By the way, anybody curious about the one episode of "Heil Honey I'm Home" that aired can find it on UA-cam.
Actually, "All in the Family" was an Americanized version of a BBC sitcom called 'Till Death Do Us Part". It's even mentioned as such in the closing credits.
8:18 If someone sent me this as a PHYSICAL SCRIPT, I would toss it in the shredder, light the shredder's contents on fire, put it out with Sea Water, and toss the abomination into the Grand Canyon. DAMN THE EXPENSE!
The most notorious is Jackie Gleason's game show 'Your In the Picture". But it technically wasn't cancelled. He came back the next week with a full-episode apology and then restarted his variety show format the week after.
I just watched Glen Frey's Miami Vice episode "Smugglers Blues" again a few days ago. It's a fantastic episode (and was essentially remade by Michael Mann as the 2006 movie) and Frey does have a good screen presence. He was good in Jerry Maguire too. Plus Frey had a great stint on Wiseguy. RIP.
On paper, the British comedy Allo Allo, a sitcom about the Nazi occupation of France which featured comedy Gestapo officers, should have failed, but it was a massive hit and one of the best British comedies ever made.
the shows that have the family of _________ as the co-stars tend to usually flop anyway. There better off as a direct to tv background/biography cause most of the important bits usually won't fit an entire tv season without extensive padding and forced humor. The flops also tend to ride on the fact that people dislike directors/actors putting in their own kids as important roles. For good and obvious reasons. Not to rag personally on Hasselhoff and his family, but not every kid is gonna have on-screen chemistry with the audience. Doesn't make for interesting tv, and you can't always ride on star power for views.
TV is like the only medium where the powers that be will say, "oh, only half a million people watched our show when it premiered? let's pull the plug" if i got half a million views i'd call my mom crying
Yeah, no wonder these shows were canceled after their first episode! Here's one you missed and that is W*A*L*T*E*R which was a spin off of M*A*S*H hence the stars between the letters in Walter. The show was about Radar's life after Korea. If you ask me, what they should have done was made him part of the cast in After MASH and in the pilot show what he was doing in 1954 and then Potter having Radar, Klinger and Father Mulcahy work for him.
More people might have tuned in had they called it R*A*D*A*R! Like anyone remembered that 'Walter' was his real name! No one knew what PTSD was in the early 80's, the bastards at the VA had been denying it even existed since the end of Vietnam! That said, knowing what we know now, AfterMASH might have been more successful today.
Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos was actually cancelled IN THE MIDDLE of the show! The owner of Australia wide TV station Channel 9 - billionaire Kerry Packer - famously called the network, from his home, part way through the show and ordered the staff to "get that shit off the air". They proceeded to announce that there were technical difficulties, and started running an episode of Cheers instead. Kerry Packer then banned Doug Mulray, who was the host of the show, from ever appearing on Channel 9 again, though he did so after Packer died...
How about hit shows that were canceled for dumb reasons? I miss "Almost Human"! Netflix should've picked it up and gave it at least three more seasons!!
Australia’s Naughtiest Videos was also cancelled part way through. The owner of the Network was watching it at home during dinner and, when it went to commercial, she called the Network and said “Get this shit off the air!” They then went to an episode of Cheers.
and what's more, they even showed this in the dishonourable mentions section. I think they have even featured it on some other watch mojo mashup, tho perhaps I've got it confused with a similar channel.
The Will was actually interesting. Relatives showed up and tried to win the inheritance. (I think it was $1 Million) They stayed in a fully staffed home and grounds. Each week one person was eliminated from the final task to win the money. Before they went for the big dollars they had to decide whether to keep it themselves or share it. The twist: The people who decided who got eliminated...was the staff! The cook, butler, maid, etc...
Three of the actors were Jewish. Robert Clary’s family all survived death camps, Werner Klemperer’s family and John Banner and his sister fled Germany and Austria and the Nazis. Klemperer stated he would take the part as long as Germans always lost.
I surprised Osbournes Reloaded didn't make the list. Not only did it only air one episode but most Fox affiliates either preemted the show to like 1:00am or didn't air it all all due to it's content.
Anyone else remember 1000 Ways to Lie? It was a planned spin-off of the popular Spike TV show 1000 Ways to Die. It aired its pilot on March 3, 2010 with 13 more episodes planned to air but due to very negative reviews and poor ratings the show was immediately cancelled.
Whoo these were garbage... although I guess we never found out what was wrong with Jackie Gleason's game show. Can I tell you how surprised I am to see a Watchmojo list that extends across the full range of the medium they're featuring, instead of limiting it to 1985-present?
Because some people, like myself, like Teen Titans Go. Is it anything like the original Titans? Oh hell no. They couldn't be further apart. But the show is genuinely funny and I think more recent episodes have more action scenes since other people have complained about a lack of action. It's solid and entertaining for kids.
If I'm not mistaken, it was cancelled because some guy got butthurt that it took the timeslot of a show he really liked an called the station to complain.
Carlos Hernandez The biggest backlash apparently came from the ABC affiliate in Cleveland. The reviews for the show weren't good to begin with, so maybe people weren't ready for this kind of show yet.
Yeah, I looked up a video about the creator talking about the show and I wasn't THAT far off. That affiliate was tipped off buy a guy who threw a tantrum over Peyton Place being replaced with it. He had apparently not even seen the show.
I can't believe you didn't include the partridge family! They spent forever with that competition in the search of the new cast (my classmate won the part of Danny) and then it was killed after the pilot
I know of one show that NBC considered so bad, they never even aired the series premier! A 1970's sitcom called "Snip" (inspired by the Warren Beatty rom-com called "Shampoo") that would've starred David Brenner and post-MISSION IMPOSSIBLE Leslie Ann Warren. But, apparently, the network censors considered the show too potentially racy. So, it was cancelled without ever being telecast anywhere in the US (not even first-run syndication). Let alone, a DVD compilation ever made of it.
Look, sat what you want about Brian Bosworth. But, his early nineties movie "Stone Cold" was easily as awesome as any of the other martial arts movies of the same era. I love that movie and have watched it dozens of times. Yes, it's a bit campy, but let's be real, that's part of the cache that makes movies like that good.
I didn't like those series
Same my dude. Same.
I'd take "Hi Honey, I'm Home" over "Heil Honey, I'm Home" any day.....Just because I'm Jewish and it's a mockery
Oh man, really? But I got them all on boxset from a Best Buy bargain bin for you.
Neither did anyone else...
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My wife and I where part of the test audience of The Will when we where in Vegas, that is my gift to society. I helped get a horrible tv show cancelled.
Kudos, my good man. Yes, the whole premise of that show sounded horrible.
Hero we deserve
The entire thing aired in New Zealand... odd concept and totally cringeworthy, but strangely addictive at the same time... and you could so tell it was rigged
Thank you! We didn't need to see that.
rrtodd95 awesome! I’m glad you got that show canned.
I'd rather watch the hasselhoffs then keeping up with the Kardashians
Yep, any day
Yep. At least Hasselhoff is kinda cool and likeable.
@@AJARyan-yn2uv yes and the baywatch theme song is in the background
I’m sure you’d be saying that if the Hasselhoffs had been the successful one. 👍🏻
Heck yeah, David rocks.
And yet My Mother the Car lasted a whole season. Go figure
To be fair though, a lot of fantasy series from the ‘60s would be way too corny to air today. How long do you think a series like Mr. Ed would last today?
Dukes of Hazard and A team ran same plot every week how long were those shows on?
@@COMPFUNK2 Mr. Ed was better than the Annoying Orange. So might last longer than you think.
😂😂😂🤦
To be fair, that was a time when networks gave shows a chance, good or bad. How many good shows today are cancelled before they find their audience?
If "The Masked Singer" made it, maybe "Secret Talents of the Stars" would've had a chance
Maybe it just wasn't marketed correctly. For one thing you knew how lame stars displaying their talents were. Whereas with the masked singer you get 3 minutes of clues, one minute of prerecorded singing, and two minutes of a panel trying to convince each other that it is actually an A-list star under the mask.
I like the masked singer, very interesting concept
Gee, a show painting Hitler in any sort of positive light was canceled. Who could've _possibly_ seen that coming?
Sylvester Stogether if it came out in the current political climate, it would be championed by the right
With how the UK is acting everyone affiliated with the show would be arrested.
Sid Stoudwmire this show wouldn’t be championed by the right it would be championed by the alt right which is an extremist approach and all politics has an extremist movement or person tied to it Linda sarsour for example is an extremist of the left so please if you can stop lumping all right leaning citizens and politicians as extremists because it’s idiotic and misguided to do so it’d be just as bad as me saying that all leftists are communists who support the killing of American soldiers and the cover up of American soldiers through government scandals
I think it was trying to satirize him, not praise him. It was still in poor taste though.
Not me.
When the apology for the show gets higher ratings than the show itself....well SOMEONE should have been fired that's all I'm saying...
Maybe Gleason should have punched someone...straight to the moon.
Am I the only one who haven't heard of none of these show's xD
That¨s probably why they are so bad:)
Rich same. Also this guy stole a Watchmojo video.
Link- ua-cam.com/video/mXxlaXb8cX0/v-deo.html
Forgot about #10, 9, 8, 6, 4, and 3.
Never heard of #7, 5, or 2.
Heard about #1 on another list
I think that's the point
Haven't heard none? So you've heard of all of them?
"Great news, Mom! I got the part!" says 'aspiring actor' cast as lead in wacky new Hitler spoof
At the very least he has something to put on his resume when he auditions for The Producers.
I want to know when a show about Hitler, one of the most brutal dictators in history, would ever be a good idea.
It was the BBC. They haven't aired an original idea since cancelling Monty Python!
The History channel might disagree with you.
That would be a terrific show
I know, right! Who ever thought of some shit like that should have their ass kicked.
You need a dark sense of humor about it. There was way too much absurdity about all of it that makes it a little funny. The show failed because the writers and actors couldn’t make it work at all, they were horrible at it. It could’ve been extremely funny but the people bringing to the screens were terrible at it
Why would anyone think making a sitcom about Hitler's suburban life is a GOOD idea?
I would.
NOPE. Speak for yourself. The premise and the title themselves, I think are hilarious.
It was a satirization of the American sitcoms at the time that would employ some hyper serious things on the tv shows for gags like All in the Family had a rape episode
Several people said the same thing about Hogan's Heroes in 1965. A sitcom about a prisoner of war camp?? But, that turned out to be good satire. HHIH was just ridiculous.
Duh.. Nazis of course
Teen Titans go should have been cancelled after one episode
Haha tell that to my 7yr old. She loves that show and didn't find Teen Titans interesting wtf
I hate that my little sisters like that show but don't see how the original is cool. They don't see how cheap and juvenile TTG is. I wanna know why Cartoon Network still makes episodes like they think it has value. -_-
That show is cancer for CN
I hate that show it's so fucking stupid the original teen Titans was awesome
Teen titans go sucks the original is way better
Who else wants to watch an episode of "Heil Honey, I'm home"? How on earth did they think that would be a hit with audiences... LOL
Nunya Bidness the only episode ever aired is on YT in full
I guess because they thought that since Hogan's Hero's was a hit...might as well. In my opinion I do not like Hogan's Heros too well. Funny thing is most of those actors are German, but 2 of them sound like they're fake accents. People compare Hogan's Heros and M*A*S*H, but I tell ya MASH is wayyyy better.
Because Hitler acting like Fred Flintstone shouldn't have to be relegated to Family Guy.
It was a satire mockery of Hitler. I think it could have been funny. Might have been offensive to Nazis but I don't really care if they are offended
I know, right! What person in their right mind would watch some shit like that?
I actually watched the who's your daddy one from the honorable mentions. The girl had to basically play the bachelor except instead of finding love she had to find out which one was her dad. She actually did it and won the 50k dollar prize. Very bad and confusing show to way the least
matt adams how incredibly WEIRD!!!!
So mama Mia without music.
I remember that abortion which was called Australia's Naughtiest Home videos. Kerry Packer who owned the network saw the first 15 minutes of it and rang up the studio and told them "Get this crap off my network NOW". Or words to that effect. It literally lasted on air about 20 minutes.
The legend of what he said is pretty well documented to my knowledge, only it wasn't "crap" that was said. A far more colorful word was used.
It lasted more than one episode, but "Cop Rock" was definitely a "WTF" moment in TV history.
It had... charm, though.
Cop Rock is just embarrassing.
It was so weird in the way a train wreck needs to be seen.
The worst show ever in my opinion.
Which is why I unalterably detest the song-and-dance episodes of XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS and BTVS. Some things are so stupid, they should _never_ be attempted. Not even once! Like skydiving without a parachute or mating a brood mare to a gelding. And jumping the shark with song-and-dance episodes of a TV series undeniably falls in the same category. At least as far as I'm permanently concerned.
Jackie Gleason was the only one with class on this list. He ACTUALLY APOLOGIZED for how BAD the show was!!!!
And that apology is one of the greatest 30 minutes in TV history. Only Gleason could pull this off.
Gleason is a legend. I am almost 24 and I have seen Honeymooners and absolutely love that show
Yeah, I liked that
@@hannahelizabeth1571 - Joyce Randolph (Trixie Norton) is the last surviving cast member of the Honeymooners and had her 96th birthday last October!
@@finster1968 oh my gosh! I didn’t know that, that’s awesome! Thanks for sharing.
@ 5:15 ... The APOLOGY got better ratings than the actual show 😄👋✌
I've seen both, the apology was truly hilarious. A big star like Gleason admitting he made a mistake was a big deal.
@Happy Thoughts it was just really dumb: a celebrity panel put their heads into cut out in a picture and had to guess what they were depicting by asking Gleason yes or no questions. and what made it worse was its only competition on tv at that time was the Kennedy inauguration and that got higher ratings than you're in the picture.
@@marcpower4167 Wasn't Johnny Carson one of the "guests" in the cut out picture?
@@Bigbadwhitecracker if he did, that didnt air, possibly taped, but that was very rare for that time.
I don't think I would last a full episode of any of these shows especially Heil Honey, I'm home.
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Me neither.
Hell if 2 broke girls survives television I don’t see why these 10 can’t.
i loved 2 broke girls
haha good point! A terrible show with hack writing and racists characters.
just give me two reasons to watch that show... stayglam.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Kat-Dennings-Bra-Size-Height-and-Weight-660x400.jpg
a gutwrenchingly bad show, everyone involved should be locked up for life.
Eddie Camacho SAME.
Heil Honey, I’m Home crawled so Jojo Rabbit could walk xD
Also, JoJo Rabbit is based on a Book!
The Garbage Pail Kids cartoon (Yeah, that was a thing!) was yanked just days before the first episode even aired! I know because on the first day it was supposed to air I tuned into CBS out of curiosity just to take a peek at how this......this........MONSTROSITY could make it as a TV show only to find out that CBS had replaced it with a rerun of a different cartoon! I later found out that the show was yanked at the last minute due to numerous protests by parents who didn’t exactly care for The Garbage Pail Kids, at least not as a TV cartoon! I wasn’t surprised!
I used to love the stickers LOL
Yet, they made a Garbage Pail Kids MOVIE...……………………...
@@styx53ocean they all looked like midget trolls
Secret talents of the stars sounds awesome
what about the Gieco caveman show and also WALTER the spinoff of MASH?
Cavemen actually lasted six episodes.
Hannah Consiglio Walter was just a pilot.
Geico had a tv show?! Wtf?
I'm surprised "Cavemen" even lasted that long. Same with "Baby Bob". Hopefully, those shows prove not to make tv shows from commercials. If anything, do it how "The Simpsons" did things have a show then advertise if popular enough. Heck, "Dennis the Menace" was used on Dairy Queen ads and "Peanuts" has been used a lot. Examples for the second include, MetLife and Cedar Point; just to name several.
You see what happens when TV writers go on strike?
I missed all 10 of these ... Just lucky, I guess !
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On the flip side, Police Squad only lasted six episodes, but really should have gone on longer. At least thank goodness for The Naked Gun!
I loved Police Squad. I wondered why it didn't last.
How could this list not include David Lynch's "On the Air"? The echoes of that resounding thud can still be heard. A 90 minute pilot was filmed, then split into 3 half-hour bits. The last two never got seen unless one go hold of a VHS copy.
Yet Big Bang Theory is still on...
Vault 801 Exactly and Grey's Anatomy
They are? I thought they ended already.
Big Bang theory is so stupid once they added relationships to the mix and grey was stupid too because doctors tv show? We seen enough of that already pshhh
I agree, the same with the new MacGyver, that should have been gone after the first season since it wasn't a pilot reboot.
LOL
I'm really disappointed that they cancelled My Black Son.
LOL I love Family Guy
The kid being a ninja is what ruined it. Made the plot too complicated for a sitcom.
Lol
😂😂
What is that?
The reason Hogan's Heroes was successful was that it was a parody of life in a POW camp, not a concentration camp. Besides, all four main Germans- Col. Klink, Sgt. Schultz, Maj. Hochstetter, and Gen. Burkhalter- were played by Jewish actors- Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Howard Caine, and Leon Askin- and Cpl. LeBeau was played by a Holocaust survivor, Robert Clary. It didn't try to make light of the horrors of Nazi Germany. It showed five Allies trying to sabotage the German war effort by any means necessary. Werner Klemperer even insisted on having Col. Hogan and the boys triumph over the Germans in every episode or he wouldn't have done the show.
I liked Hogan's Heroes. I remember coming home from school and watching it in the afternoons on one of the local stations.
It was a propaganda show. It made the Nazis look incompetent and dumb. People think because of the characters in it it is offensive but don't even pay attention to what's being said
I never heard of any of these FORTUNATELY!!!
I was actually part of the first screen testing group for Nielson Ratings for Heather Graham's "Emily's Reasons Why Not" and it was so bad. I felt bad for Heather Graham because she is such a cutie.
There was a very forgotten show called “McGurk A Dog’s Life” by Norman Lear. I remember seeing the one episode and remembered it but nobody else did. I was glad to see a short clip survived and I’m sure my parents were glad that the very adult humor went over my head.
Is it wrong that part of me wishes that "Heil Honey I'm Home" had more episodes?
Released
The weird thing is everyone hates Heil Honey and cant understand why it got made, but the modern Hitler comedy "Look Who's Back" is fairly successful and got good reviews.
They filmed nine more but they are very hard to get hold of. Graham Linehan who created 'Father Ted' and 'The IT Crowd' said he was given a set by channel four when they did the accidental racism episode of Ted as a warning of how not to do things.
I was thinking about that
YES!
IMO, "Heil Honey I'm Home" was a decent satire. The basic premise certainly would've worked as a sketch on Saturday Night Live. Now, maybe turning the idea into a series was stretching it, but I'm thinking the problem was having Hitler as the main character. Norman Lear must've realized this, so he turned Hitler into Archie Bunker, and the result was the ground-breaking show "All in the Family".
By the way, anybody curious about the one episode of "Heil Honey I'm Home" that aired can find it on UA-cam.
Actually, "All in the Family" was an Americanized version of a BBC sitcom called 'Till Death Do Us Part". It's even mentioned as such in the closing credits.
I really don't see how this ever could have worked. Monty Pyton did their escaped Mr. Hilter in England sketch, I don't think more is possible.
8:18 If someone sent me this as a PHYSICAL SCRIPT, I would toss it in the shredder, light the shredder's contents on fire, put it out with Sea Water, and toss the abomination into the Grand Canyon. DAMN THE EXPENSE!
Starman Gaming its not that bad
Starman Gaming I like your conviction
Starman Gaming
That’s if somebody wants you to be an actor which I doubt that would happen.
Dude just eat the shredder
It's heresy you have to do a complete exterminatus on the entire planet to get rid of it
Initially I thought that Co-ed Fever was a blatant ripoff of Facts of Life 😂, but the latter came later.
That show launched Heather Thomas' career.
This almost happened to The Big Bang Theory. Now, it's one of the longest running live-action sitcoms in the history of television.
The most notorious is Jackie Gleason's game show 'Your In the Picture". But it technically wasn't cancelled. He came back the next week with a full-episode apology and then restarted his variety show format the week after.
How about a Watchmojo list of good TV shows that were cancelled?
and the comment section would be a bloodbath...
They had a list similar to that. I think it was "Top 10 Cancelled Cartoons" or something of the sort.
Maybe so people don't argue about what "good" is, it should be popular TV shows that got cancelled.
Saffron Ave Precisely, that's what I meant...
Futurama should be #1 on that list
I just watched Glen Frey's Miami Vice episode "Smugglers Blues" again a few days ago. It's a fantastic episode (and was essentially remade by Michael Mann as the 2006 movie) and Frey does have a good screen presence. He was good in Jerry Maguire too. Plus Frey had a great stint on Wiseguy. RIP.
He even guest-starred once on the CBS series that South Of Sunset inspired. You know, "Nash Bridges"?
Its kinda sad how if they held onto "Heil Honey" until the modern day and aired it between 10-12 PM on Adult Swim it may not have flopped so badly.
I'd like to have seen Turn On, I'll bet it's not as shocking today as it was back then.
"These TV shows were so terrible that they didn't make it passed episode one..."
*past.
On paper, the British comedy Allo Allo, a sitcom about the Nazi occupation of France which featured comedy Gestapo officers, should have failed, but it was a massive hit and one of the best British comedies ever made.
Teen Titans go should have been cancelled after one episode
Anthony Jones Way too true😢
The only thing reasonably good about that show is the theme song. It's catchy smh
Is there anything else worthwhile on Cartoon Network not named Gumball? ::
Plup2King steven universe, we bare bears, thats all
Skeleton FromUranus Ah, looks like things haven’t changed much then. :/
Hasselhoff was a stud in Knight Rider. Sort of. Loved it when I was a kid, but it's a bit hokey now. He should get over it.
Heil, Honey I'm Home has to be fake news, my god
It's not.
the shows that have the family of _________ as the co-stars tend to usually flop anyway. There better off as a direct to tv background/biography cause most of the important bits usually won't fit an entire tv season without extensive padding and forced humor. The flops also tend to ride on the fact that people dislike directors/actors putting in their own kids as important roles. For good and obvious reasons. Not to rag personally on Hasselhoff and his family, but not every kid is gonna have on-screen chemistry with the audience. Doesn't make for interesting tv, and you can't always ride on star power for views.
TV is like the only medium where the powers that be will say, "oh, only half a million people watched our show when it premiered? let's pull the plug"
if i got half a million views i'd call my mom crying
How about top ten cartoon TV show that never got past the pilet.
It's a shame that secret talents of the Stars didn't continue because I believe Harvey Weinstein was going to be on there
“Cop Rock” was pretty atrocious
You forgot the Munsters with Jerry O'Connell 1 pilot was cancled
Munsters with Jerry O'Connell as Herman Munster was aired as a Halloween special called Mocking Bird Lane.
Who the hell is "eidolf" Hitler? Dont you mean ADOLF Hitler?? Since when are German names pronounced like they were English?
Co-ed fever looks like a Happy Days ripoff.
Vaguely remember co ed fever but I don't think I saw it.
They should’ve kept freaks and geeks, that was a good show but taken down after 18 episodes sadly...
Everyone left for bigger roles. Especially Franco he was gone. Phillips and Cardellini wanted out too.
Bubsy and Battletoads. I know their cartoons but who cares.
Yeah, no wonder these shows were canceled after their first episode! Here's one you missed and that is W*A*L*T*E*R which was a spin off of M*A*S*H hence the stars between the letters in Walter. The show was about Radar's life after Korea. If you ask me, what they should have done was made him part of the cast in After MASH and in the pilot show what he was doing in 1954 and then Potter having Radar, Klinger and Father Mulcahy work for him.
More people might have tuned in had they called it R*A*D*A*R! Like anyone remembered that 'Walter' was his real name!
No one knew what PTSD was in the early 80's, the bastards at the VA had been denying it even existed since the end of Vietnam! That said, knowing what we know now, AfterMASH might have been more successful today.
Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos was actually cancelled IN THE MIDDLE of the show! The owner of Australia wide TV station Channel 9 - billionaire Kerry Packer - famously called the network, from his home, part way through the show and ordered the staff to "get that shit off the air". They proceeded to announce that there were technical difficulties, and started running an episode of Cheers instead. Kerry Packer then banned Doug Mulray, who was the host of the show, from ever appearing on Channel 9 again, though he did so after Packer died...
I think 'The Will' was a little too close to home for a *lot* of people...
How about hit shows that were canceled for dumb reasons? I miss "Almost Human"! Netflix should've picked it up and gave it at least three more seasons!!
It was more like 6 episodes, but Me, Myself, and I was cancelled, too.
I read somewhere that that horrid Bubsy TV show got pulled after one episode. Why wasn't that on the list?
It was only the pilot.
And just like all of the awful games the pilot was just that worse
Eddiward Johnsiones The first game was good. The second and third were OK. The others are garbage
Andrew Haase this video focused on live action shows. But they made a video on worst animated pilots, try to look it up if you can.
Australia’s Naughtiest Videos was also cancelled part way through. The owner of the Network was watching it at home during dinner and, when it went to commercial, she called the Network and said “Get this shit off the air!” They then went to an episode of Cheers.
and what's more, they even showed this in the dishonourable mentions section. I think they have even featured it on some other watch mojo mashup, tho perhaps I've got it confused with a similar channel.
wow @ aries spears on south of the sunset lmao
MellowMadnessRMX WTF?!
MellowMadnessRMX I noticed him too when they first mention the show! Also Ezekiel from TWD was the series at number 6.
That show looked like a Miami Vice ripoff.
Watch it, pal. No one seemed to mind when they brought it back in 1996 under the name "Nash Bridges"!
Who else thinks that Heil Honey I'm Home would have made it on today's internet rather than TV?
I never heard of those shows before
I Wonder Why... XD
For a very good reason.
Exactly..
Well the networks have accomplished their goal 👍
Two Broke Girls.... oh wait, that actually survived (somehow)
Hi was going to flip my table if Heil Honey I'm Home wasn't #1
Btw, you can watch the first episode on UA-cam.
The hitter sitcom could have been great as a cartoon. There are a lot of really good writers that could have hit a home run with that.
ARIES SPEARS!!!! HE LOOKED YOUNG!!!
neptunesism because he was..
Yeah very slim.
Hasslehoff has turned himself into a cringy meme..what a shame.He should have stopped doing everything and anything for more fame
You should have mentioned that David Hasselhoff legally changed his name to David Hoff; moreover, we should only address him as David Hoff.
Charles Seriously? Never knew but makes sense to me.
So whar you're saying is, don't Hassle the Hoff?
And “Facts of Life” ended with Blair taking Eastland co-ed.
I thought that heil honey was a urban legend.
Hey Watchmojo!!! Please make another list because you forgot a ton of other shows, like Walter (MASH spinoff) and Viva Laughlin with Hugh Jackman!
"Viva Laughlin" was actually cancelled after TWO episodes aired. (I was traumatized by Melanie Griffith's "singing" for days afterward.)
I'd watch anything with Heather Graham in it.
I would pay anything to see that entire season of the hitler show, just to see how ridiculous, degrading and offensive it might’ve been
The Will was actually interesting. Relatives showed up and tried to win the inheritance. (I think it was $1 Million) They stayed in a fully staffed home and grounds. Each week one person was eliminated from the final task to win the money. Before they went for the big dollars they had to decide whether to keep it themselves or share it.
The twist: The people who decided who got eliminated...was the staff! The cook, butler, maid, etc...
Hogan's Heroes may have poked a lot of fun, but it never actually trivialized anything. So not a good comparison.
Well, nothing apart from internment, escape, Nazi Germany, death, war, weapons of mass destruction, women, etc., obviously.
Three of the actors were Jewish. Robert Clary’s family all survived death camps, Werner Klemperer’s family and John Banner and his sister fled Germany and Austria and the Nazis. Klemperer stated he would take the part as long as Germans always lost.
I surprised Osbournes Reloaded didn't make the list. Not only did it only air one episode but most Fox affiliates either preemted the show to like 1:00am or didn't air it all all due to it's content.
God, the Devil, and Bob
Cancelled after 1 show throughout the US
But hugely popular in the UK
Nah, we got four eps in the US out of 13. Never saw it but it sounds pretty cringy.
Omg the annoying voice from Co-Ed Fever’s theme song was enough for it to be canceled
Top 10 canceled cartoons
Anyone else remember 1000 Ways to Lie?
It was a planned spin-off of the popular Spike TV show 1000 Ways to Die. It aired its pilot on March 3, 2010 with 13 more episodes planned to air but due to very negative reviews and poor ratings the show was immediately cancelled.
Whoo these were garbage... although I guess we never found out what was wrong with Jackie Gleason's game show. Can I tell you how surprised I am to see a Watchmojo list that extends across the full range of the medium they're featuring, instead of limiting it to 1985-present?
Now I really want to bootleg some of those shows. Thx
Why was teen titans go not canceled
Because it's popular. The show may suck, but people still watch it.
Because it is funny.
Because some people, like myself, like Teen Titans Go. Is it anything like the original Titans? Oh hell no. They couldn't be further apart. But the show is genuinely funny and I think more recent episodes have more action scenes since other people have complained about a lack of action. It's solid and entertaining for kids.
Drugs.
Humor
I was at a dollar shop a while back and in the video section there was "Emily's reasons why not" for sale fir $5.
Supposedly "Turn On" was so bad that it got cancelled during its first commercial break. I don't believe it even aired on the west coast at all.
If I'm not mistaken, it was cancelled because some guy got butthurt that it took the timeslot of a show he really liked an called the station to complain.
Okay, scratch that, apparently it WAS because it received a back-lash. My bad.
Carlos Hernandez The biggest backlash apparently came from the ABC affiliate in Cleveland. The reviews for the show weren't good to begin with, so maybe people weren't ready for this kind of show yet.
Yeah, I looked up a video about the creator talking about the show and I wasn't THAT far off. That affiliate was tipped off buy a guy who threw a tantrum over Peyton Place being replaced with it. He had apparently not even seen the show.
I wasn't alive yet when the show aired. I am a bit familiar with some shows from that time though. Who was their competition in their time slot?
Australia Naughtiest Home Videos should of been in the top 3
On Episode 2 of "Secret Talents of the Stars", Megan Fox was going to reveal her hidden talent that no one knew existed: Acting.
A thin young Aries Spears!
It's too bad Teen Titans Go wasn't one of them.
Darn shame
😂😂😂
The OG TT will always be good to me.
same
I can't believe you didn't include the partridge family! They spent forever with that competition in the search of the new cast (my classmate won the part of Danny) and then it was killed after the pilot
I've never heard of any of these shows before.
I know of one show that NBC considered so bad, they never even aired the series premier! A 1970's sitcom called "Snip" (inspired by the Warren Beatty rom-com called "Shampoo") that would've starred David Brenner and post-MISSION IMPOSSIBLE Leslie Ann Warren. But, apparently, the network censors considered the show too potentially racy. So, it was cancelled without ever being telecast anywhere in the US (not even first-run syndication). Let alone, a DVD compilation ever made of it.
What about Fox Force Five as mentioned in Pulp Fiction ?
Look, sat what you want about Brian Bosworth. But, his early nineties movie "Stone Cold" was easily as awesome as any of the other martial arts movies of the same era. I love that movie and have watched it dozens of times.
Yes, it's a bit campy, but let's be real, that's part of the cache that makes movies like that good.