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What Were They Thinking? The 100 Dumbest Events In Television History Author David Hofstede Language English Genre Television Publisher Back Stage Books Publication date
August 1, 2004 Publication place United States Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback ) Pages 209 ISBN 0-8230-8441-8
What Were They Thinking? The 100 Dumbest Events In Television History [ 1] [ 2] [ 3] 2004 [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7] worst of television [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] individual plot points or elements, poor network decisions, or even entire shows. It should be noted that the book focuses solely on American television . As a result, it does leave out some of the most infamous television events in other parts of the world. The foreword was written by Tom Bergeron , hosted Fox 's ill-fated FOX After Breakfast , which is #23 on the list.
The Star Wars Holiday Special [ 11] Dallas Bobby Ewing didn't actually die at the end of Season 8 , which meant that the entire ninth season was just a dream of Pamela's .The Jerry Springer Show trashy, violent, sexually deviant filled freak show Jackie Gleason 's ill-fated game show You're in the Picture [ 12] cancelled after only one episode .CNN trying to promote their new journalist Paula Zahn as "sexy"The 1950s quiz show scandals The inclusion of Scrappy-Doo into the Scooby-Doo franchise (1979 -88 )
Geraldo Rivera 1986 report on the discovery of Al Capone's vault only to wind up finding nothing but debrisWho Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? The Heidi Game
The Brady Bunch Hour [ 13] [ 14] My Mother the Car Televangelist Oral Roberts announcing in January 1987 that God will "call him home" if he didn't receive $ 8,000,000 from his flockThe Anna Nicole Show How flawed the Primetime Emmy Awards ' system is when it comes to choosing the winners
Rampant product placement [ 15] televised sports [ 16]
William Shatner 's spoken word take on Elton John 's "Rocket Man "[ 17] 1977 Saturn Awards .Dateline 'report on exploding General Motors trucks The "Big Three" networks each producing their own TV movies about Amy Fisher (ABC and CBS' [ 18]
Supertrain Life with Lucy [ 19] The Goddess of Love Vanna White FOX After Breakfast The Lost in Space "The Great Vegetable Rebellion"
Turn-On [ 20] The Magic Hour [ 21] St. Elsewhere 'series finale [ 22] autistic child's imaginationThe $1.98 Beauty Show Cop Rock Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell [ 23] The violent and sexually suggestive epilogue of Michael Jackson 's 1991 "Black or White " music video
Dynasty Emma Samms as Fallon [ 24] April 1985 ) after being originated by Pamela Sue Martin for the first four seasonsPink Lady and Jeff [ 25] Twin Peaks '[ 26] [ 27] second season Drudge Moonlighting 'poor handling of Dave and Maddie as a coupleChuck Cunningham's abrupt and unexplained disappearance on Happy Days Colby losing to Tina on Survivor: The Australian Outback [ 28] CBS ' many failed attempts at morning shows (such as The Morning Show Calendar The Morning Program The Dana Carvey Show ABC set it up to failSeveral TV adaptations of films , including a 1983 Casablanca David Soul as Humphrey Bogart 's character Rick Blaine
Burger King 's "Where's Herb? "[ 29] Small Wonder [ 30] The Dukes of Hazzard Bo and Luke with Coy and Vance (1982-83 )Fish Police The Reagans Cousin Oliver joins The Brady Bunch final six episodes The XFL
The 1960s era TV rule against showing navels [ 31] Gidget Gilligan's Island I Dream of Jeannie
Thicke of the Night Shelley Hack taking over for Kate Jackson on Charlie's Angels Season 4 The 61st Academy Awards telecast (March 29, 1989)Dan Rather using "Courage" as his signoff on the CBS Evening News The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer NBC's 1983 Fall schedule , which featured eight series that were canceled before their first seasons ended (including Manimal Jennifer Slept Here '[ 32] Bay City Blues We Got It Made [ 33] The Brothers Grunt NBC failing to allow David Letterman to use the proper names of his NBC-era segments on CBS ' Late Show The New Monkees Dusty's Trail [ 34] The Wilton North Report [ 35] Dark Shadows '"Leviathan" storyline WWF Raw's Mark Henry /Mae Young storyline Land of the Lost (1974)'sthird season Madonna 's "Like a Prayer " music video debutJoanie Loves Chachi [ 36] Roger Ramjet Underdog moral guardians due to allegations of glamorizing drug abuseDays of Our Lives '1994-95 storyline involving Marlena Evans being the victim of a demonic possession The failed attempts to Americanize Fawlty Towers Chateau Snavely , Amanda's Payne
The erasure of countless TV shows The Chevy Chase Show The Star Trek: The Original Series Spock's Brain "[ 37]
Any shows centering on talking babies (such as Happy Baby Talk Baby Bob
Roseanne Barr 's awful rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner " at a San Diego Padres game in 1990 Nick @ Nite [ 38] replacing classic shows from the 1950s-60s such as I Love Lucy The Patty Duke Show The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island Paul Lynde as a bachelor on The Dating Game Harold Robbins' The Survivors Janet Jackson 's Wardrobe Malfunction [ 39] Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston Bewitched recycling scripts after Dick Sargent took over as Darrin Stephens The Flying Nun [ 40] The Woops! "Say It Ain't So, Santa" [ 41]
Battle of the Network Stars #18 Me and the Chimp ABC 's 1974 Wonder Woman TV-movie [ 42] Cathy Lee Crosby Connie Francis performing poorly as a celebrity partner on The $10,000 Pyramid Elvis Presley being shot only from the waist up (due to Standards & Practices rules at the time that believing that Elvis' swiveling hip dances were too risqué) on The Ed Sullivan Show Cartoons of the 1970s that took place in space such as Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space Partridge Family 2200 AD Yogi's Space Race Gilligan's Planet
Laverne & Shirley Cindy Williams ) out of the show for the final season (1982-83) QVC selling the Poopin' MooseBad Ronald [ 43] [ 44] USA Network 's Up All Night [ 45] The Aldrich Family 'recasts (only House Jameson remained for all four seasons)The Dick Van Dyke Show "The Bad Old Days" 3's A Crowd [ 46] [ 47] The overabundance of westerns by the late 1950s (with approximately 30 in total).
Quark Farrah Fawcett 's awkward 1997 interview (where she appeared to be disoriented and incoherent) on The Late Show with David Letterman The addition of Dawn on Buffy the Vampire Slayer Connor [ 48] Angel
AMC [ 49] The Price Is Right 'Professor Price gameSaturday Night Live 'sixth season [ 50] Fred Silverman 's tumultuous tenure at NBC (1978 -81 )Boohbah Are You Hot?: The Search for America's Sexiest People The Tortellis Batman Batgirl to a damsel in distress The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast Peter Marshall Santo Gold infomercials Jabberjaw The Morton Downey Jr. Show Made for TV sequels from the 1990s such as Revenge of the Nerds III IV Problem Child III
Playing It Straight It's About Time Rudolph's Shiny New Year MTV 's (as well as MTV2 ) dramatic decline in quality The New Leave It to Beaver CBS bleeping Janet Jackson saying "Jesus" on The Late Show with David Letterman USA Today: The Television Show James Stockdale 's performance in the 1992 vice presidential debate Frank Zappa hosting Saturday Night Live October 21, 1978 )The Love Boat Follies Playboy's 50th-Anniversary Celebration Baywatch Nights She's the Sheriff AfterMASH The Lingerie Bowl
^ Hofstede, David. What Were They Thinking?: The 100 Dumbest Events In Television History ^ "Were They Thinking: The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History Paperback – October 1, 2004" . Amazon .^ "What Were They Thinking: The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History" . Goodreads .^ Owen, Rob (November 24, 2004). "Tuned In: From home-grown to world-famous, feast on TV turkeys" . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . ^ "What Were They Thinking: The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History" . BookLikes .^ Hofstede, David. "Comfort TV: More About Me" . Comfort TV . Blogger. ^ John, Tommy (January 30, 2010). "The Best of Bad TV" . White Sox Interactive Forums . ^ "On this TV events list: dumb and dumber" . Vindy.com . October 23, 2004.^ "Ebook Free What Were They Thinking: The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History, by David Hofstede" . Glaaphiabooks . Blogger. August 12, 2014.^ "Television's worst moments..." Radio Discussions . March 21, 2003.^ David Hofstede (2004). What Were They Thinking? The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History . Back Stage Books . pp. 204–206. ISBN 0-8230-8441-8 ^ David Hofstede (2004). What Were They Thinking? The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History . Back Stage Books . pp. 197–199. ISBN 0-8230-8441-8 ^ Perry, Douglas (January 3, 2017). "2017 is ruined: We missed Fake Jan Day, the grand celebration of 'Brady Bunch' disaster" . Oregon Live . ^ Hofstede, David (December 27, 2012). "Happy Fake Jan Day" . Comfort TV . ^ Jacob, Benzkofer, Mark, Stephan (February 11, 2011). "10 things you might not know about TV commercials" . Chicago Tribune . {{cite web }}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link )^ Hofstede, David. What Were They Thinking: The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History. New York: Back Stage Books, 2004, p. 170.
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