Really stupid TV shows that were popular

Different World

Don’t ever put down Gilligan’s Island. That show was full of culture. Where else have you seen Shakespeare’s Hamlet combined with the opera Carmen?

The Beverly Hillbillies (1962-71)
The Munsters (1964-66)
Green Acres (1965-71)
Friends (1994-2004)

Jersey Shore

As venerated as it was in it's time and still to some degree is today, The X-Files got really dumb, much sooner than most folks today are willing to admit


Magnum PI was absurd


The original Charmed was just eye candy, interspersed with facile humor every now and then

90210 wouldn't have hung around as long as it did, had Tiffany Amber Thiessen and Jenny Garth not started taking off their clothes, then getting boned on a regular basis

Melrose Place, for that matter: It ain't shocking that even FOX has gone to extraneous lengths to wash their hands of this one

Twin Peaks got painfully self-indulgent after S1

The Simpsons jumped the shark back in the late 90s. How the fuck it's remained on the air continues to be a mystery comparable to the fate of Jimmy Hoffa

Walker Texas Ranger went from being campy fun to repugnant shit, following Chuck Norris's conversion to fundamentalist Christianity

Matlock was a skit from Laugh-In, that dragged on for several seasons