Top 10 Shows that Used to Be Better
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening that originally started on April 19, 1987 as shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show. It got its own series on December 17, 1989 and is still running as of 2023, making it the longest running animated sitcom. It is about a man named Homer... read more Matt Groening openly said he wants it canceled. He criticized the people who think the new episodes are good. The only reason it's still running is because FOX doesn't want it gone.
Seriously, the plotlines have been ridiculous lately. They went from having people like Michael Jackson on the show to having annoying pop stars like Justin Bieber.
The Simpsons before they went downhill:
Homer goes to space.
Bart discovers a comet hurling towards Springfield.
Marge becomes a cop.
The Simpsons after they went downhill:
Lisa gets a Republican friend.
Lady Gaga comes to town.
A whole episode about a license plate that says "YOLO."
Seriously, it's obvious that they are all out of ideas, and they should just end it now.
SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series created by marine biologist and animator the late Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. It is currently the most popular animated television show on Nickelodeon and is world-renowned by children and adults alike due to its humor, high-quality... read more It used to be one of the funniest cartoons out there, but it got worse after Season 6. The characters lack their charm since they were flanderized. Some episodes are good, but some are terrible like One Coarse Meal and The Splinter.
There are so many inaccuracies all over the place, such as bullying, lying, stealing, framing people, crying in order to solve the problem, and other messy stuff happening. This is why the show went downhill. I honestly don't blame the creator since he's already dead.
Family Guy is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a family consisting of parents Peter (Fat, Idiotic Dad) and Lois (Nagging Bitchy Wife), their children Meg (Socially Awkward Daughter) Chris (Fat, Idiotic... read more At the show's 9th season, Seth MacFarlane took Trey Parker's advice to stop doing so many jokes all the time and start doing more serious episodes. What happened is that Seth overdid it, and now that they moved away from doing all the emotional bull crap, Family Guy has been very bland lately. I directly blame Trey Parker for ruining Family Guy.
The first 9 seasons were amazing to me. Season 10 has stunk a whole ton. Luckily, season 11 was amazing to me, but season 12 stunk way more. I consider this one of the worst seasons of TV.
Seasons 13-16 were also really amazing and won me over. Seasons 17-18 stunk. Season 17 was almost as bad as 12 and is also one of the worst seasons on TV. Luckily, season 19, which just finished, was really good. I'll tell you what I think of season 20 when it's done.
The Fairly OddParents is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. Well, this show got killed in 2018 after Hartman left for Cartoon Network. I hope he will save Cartoon Network if he still has a chance to do so.
Saturday Night Live is an American late-night live television variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. SNL was way better in the 2000s than it is now, not only because of the sketches but also because good bands and singers used to be featured on SNL. Season 32 will always be my favorite season of the show because of the episode with My Chemical Romance.
Modern SNL is generally straight-up boring and also features crappy "singers" such as Justin Bieber, Olivia Rodrigo, and Camila Cabello. This show used to be awesome, but now it just sucks.
It's not the same since all The Original Not Ready for Prime Time Players left.
Survivor is a reality TV show in which a group of castaways inhabit an island where they are forced to compete against each other in a series of challenges. They must survive in order to win the million dollar prize. So repetitive. The only thing that makes Big Brother not repetitive is that it's interesting to see how different personalities react with each other and the alliances that are formed. Survivor is missing this.
I used to watch Survivor all the time, but it just went down the drain.
Remember when they all looked like they were dying of starvation and they didn't give them any food? Yeah, that was awesome to watch... just wishing for cannibalism to begin...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American television series created by Joss Whedon under his production tag, Mutant Enemy Productions with later co-executive producers being Jane Espenson, David Fury, David Greenwalt, Doug Petrie, Marti Noxon, and David Solomon. The series premiered on March 10, 1997,... read more Though, in my opinion, it was great all the way through, it was definitely superior in Season 1 and Season 2.
At the end, we were all praying for it to end before it became even more lame.
I'm glad that What's New Scooby-Doo? is gone, but why the crappy movies that premiere on Cartoon Network? Even though I am only 14 going on 15, I still like classic Scooby-Doo way more than the stuff Scooby-Doo you see today! Here is my idea: Make a new Scooby-Doo show or movie, but make it an old-school Scooby-Doo kind of show.
Pokémon, abbreviated from the Japanese title of Pocket Monsters and currently advertised in English as Pokémon: The Series, is a Japanese anime television series, which has been adapted for the international television markets. It was first broadcast in Japan on April 1, 1997, in the United States... read more The character Ash was based on was only in the first set of games (also as the Pokémon Trainer in Smash Brothers Brawl and Ultimate, if those count). Come Gold/Silver/Crystal, there was a new protagonist. That protagonist was in turn replaced in Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, then Diamond/Pearl/Platinum introduced yet another new hero... you get the idea. So if we haven't been following Ash's counterpart since Red/Green/Blue/Yellow, which came out in the late '90s, why are we still following Ash, who also hasn't aged?
Lost is an American television drama series that originally aired on the American Broadcasting Company from September 22, 2004, to May 23, 2010, over six seasons, comprising a total of 121 episodes. The commercial viewing time seems to be longer than the show viewing time.
Season 1 was the best season. Season 6 is one of the worst things ever.
The Newcomers
Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is titled A Game of Thrones. The first four seasons were the best show ever. After that, it wasn't Game of Thrones. It was just an average TV show.
Good Luck Charlie is an American sitcom that originally aired on Disney Channel from April 4, 2010, to February 16, 2014. The series' creators, Phil Baker and Drew Vaupen, wanted to create a program that would appeal to entire families, not just children. A series based around a family adjusting to a new baby adds another new baby later. Never a good sign.
South Park is an American adult animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. The show is about four boys, who are Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick, and their adventures in South Park, Colorado. The series was at its best during season 8, but a lot of the recent episodes are beginning to suck. They just lack originality and classic moments. The newer seasons focus too much on celebrities and news issues. They should focus more on Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny being kids and having adventures, like in Good Times with Weapons and Make Love, Not Warcraft.
Well, maybe South Park seasons 19 through 21 are not that good. But then season 22 is not that bad. Also, season 23 kind of brought South Park back (it's a fine season). South Park is not that bad now, and I can't wait for season 24!
Pretty Little Liars is an American teen drama mystery thriller television series developed by I. Marlene King and is loosely based on the novel series of the same name written by Sara Shepard. Don't get me wrong, I still really love this show! But I do have to admit that the newer episodes aren't half as good as the older ones.
American Dad! is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker, and Matt Weitzman for the Fox Broadcasting Company and currently on TBS. American Dad! is the first television series made to premiere on the network's Animation Domination block. The series premiered on February... read more
Victorious is an American sitcom created by Dan Schneider that originally aired on Nickelodeon from March 27, 2010 through February 2, 2013 . The series revolves around aspiring singer Tori Vega, a teenager who attends a performing arts high school called Hollywood Arts High School, after taking her... read more
Sesame Street is a long-running American children's television series, produced by Sesame Workshop and created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett. Old "Sesame Street" could be enjoyed by parents and older siblings as well as the target audience. Post-1998 "Sesame Street" is now in the "I only tolerate this so my brat stays quiet" category.
It was always intended for preschoolers but has been dumbed down way too much since Elmo's popularity exploded in the late '90s.
Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.
The Powerpuff Girls is an American animated television series created by animator Craig McCracken for Cartoon Network. The main characters of this show are Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup. The show is about the Professor Utonium creating three little superhero girls that save the day from villains... read more
Adventure Time is an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network. The series follows the adventures of a boy named Finn (voiced by Jeremy Shada) and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake (voiced by John DiMaggio)—a dog with the magical power to change shape... read more
The Loud House is an American animated television series created by Chris Savino for Nickelodeon. The series revolves around the chaotic suburban everyday life of a boy named Lincoln Loud and his ten sisters, to which he survives as the middle child and only son in a large family of eleven children... read more
Gilmore Girls is an American comedy-drama television series, created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. The show debuted on October 5, 2000 on The WB and became a flagship series for the network. Gilmore Girls originally ran for seven seasons, with the final season... read more
Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that aired on the Fox network in the United States from May 19, 2009, to March 20, 2015. It focuses on the fictitious William McKinley High School glee club, New Directions, which competes on the show choir competition circuit while its disparate... read more The first 3 seasons were great. They should have stopped there. The last seasons didn't even feel like Glee.
The show was not helped at all by the death of Cory Monteith and, therefore, the death of Finn.
How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 19, 2005, to March 31, 2014. The series follows the main character, Ted Mosby, and his group of friends in Manhattan. How I Met Your Mother jumped the shark in Season 6, Episode 9, to be exact!
Criminal Minds is an American police procedural crime drama television series created by Jeff Davis, and is the original show in the Criminal Minds franchise. Too many cast changes. The characters that are still there have changed for the worse. It's pretty clear the writers haven't had a good idea since 2010 (and that's being generous).
Seems to now be focused on two things: gore and a diverse cast. All storytelling and characterization efforts went out the window in season eight, if not six.
When the focus shifted more to the investigators' personal lives, it was all downhill from there.
NCIS is an American action police procedural television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Still wishing I could see Abby in the lab and not just a token Black lady. It makes me feel like the last few seasons were just my imagination.
The loss of DiNozzo and how he was written out was bad enough, but with Abby gone, this show's going to suck even more.
Goth goddess Abby replaced by Myrtle Urkel, I mean Kasie. If that's not a one-way trip downhill, I don't know what is.
Smallville is an American television series developed by writer-producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Smallville was a show that I really liked watching so much during the first couple of seasons, but now it's not as good. I also hate animated shows, but I really liked Pokémon. It's all screwed up now.