The classic sitcom is a beloved TV series that many viewers often turn to for comfort.
Whether it’s a beloved classic like MASH or All in the Family, an innovative series such as Seinfeld, or something more modern like Modern Family, the television sitcom is always there for us, week in and week out.
However, not every sitcom is destined for greatness. In fact, most of them are, to be blunt, pretty bad. Here are some of the worst sitcoms ever made.
1600 Penn
The dysfunctional family trope is nothing new to sitcoms, but what if you took that dysfunctional family and had them living at the White House?
1600 Penn is a 2012 sitcom created by and starring Josh Gad that follows the first family, flaws and all, during their daily lives. It offered nothing worth writing home about, though. If you’re looking for a better series about political dysfunction, I highly recommend Veep.
Joanie Loves Cachi
Sadly for Happy Days fans, this spinoff wasn’t a success. Despite a successful start, it was quickly realized that its ratings were propped up by airing immediately following Happy Days.
Once ABC realized that the show couldn’t stand on its own, it was quickly cancelled.
New Monkees
Reboots are all the rage these days, but they’re far from being a new concept. Let’s talk about the New Monkees, a 1987 series based on the original sitcom from the 1960s.
The show, or the new band, never caught fire and disappeared just as quickly as it came about.
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Twenty Good Years
It’s not just reboots that have us shaking our heads.
Twenty Good Years features two talented actors in John Lithgow and Jeffrey Tambor, but gives them a flimsy premise that leads to embarrassing results.
Baby Bob
Remember the viral internet video about the talking baby for the website FreeInternet.com? Well, he had his own TV show. It went as well as you expected.
Sadly, Baby Bob wasn’t the only series that would be based on popular internet fads and memes, but believe it or not, it’s certainly one of, if not the, worst.
Baby Talk
Baby Bob wasn’t the first TV series about a talking baby. Meet Baby Talk, starring Tony Danza as a talking baby, and loosely based on the Look Who’s Talking series of movies.
Even though interest waned for the Look Who’s Talking films, someone didn’t get the memo and decided to move forward with a TV series. It was put out of its misery after two seasons.
Fred: The Show
Oh god, not more internet fads!
For those who are fortunate not to know who Fred is, he’s an internet character with a high-pitched voice who is the most annoying person you’ve ever met. But apparently, some kids really liked his videos, and he ended up with his own television series as a result. It went about as well as you’d expect when you take an annoying character who thrives in short-form video and stretch it out into a full-length sitcom episode.
Buddies
Before comedian Dave Chappelle became famous, he made a guest appearance on a 1995 episode of Home Improvement, which eventually led to a spinoff series.
One key difference between that appearance and the full series, though, is the removal of Jim Breuer, with whom Chappelle had incredible chemistry. Instead, he was replaced by Christopher Gartin, and the result was a disaster.
Cavemen
No, we didn’t need a full blown TV series based on the Geico “Cavemen” commercials.
And no, it was never going to, and I cannot believe this is a real quote from the studio, “offer a clever twist of stereotypes and turn race relations on its head.”
Dads
There’s no denying Seth MacFarlane’s success with his animated shows Family Guy and American Dad. That success has not translated to the live-action space, though.
He tried with the 2013 Fox sitcom Dads, but no matter how hard the laugh track tried, there was nothing funny about its jokes.
Ferris Bueller
I love Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. You love Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. We all love Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. So maybe that’s why it was turned into a sitcom by Fox.
There’s just one problem: the concept doesn’t work as a television series, and the cast was nowhere near as strong as the film’s.
Heil Honey I’m Home!
I have no idea how this was ever greenlit; just look at the show’s name!
You can take one wild guess what it’s about: the 1990 UK Sitcom features Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun living next to a stereotypical Jewish couple.
Yeah. You read that right. Someone thought this was a good idea.
Homeboys in Outer Space
The short-lived sitcom aired from August 1996 through May 1997 on UPN.
It follows two astronauts who flew around the universe in their winged car, the “Space Hoopty,” accompanied by a talking computer named Loquatia.
My Mother the Car
One of the worst TV shows ever created, My Mother the Car goes all-in on popular 1960s tropes of talking non-human characters. This time, it’s a man’s mother who’s been reincarnated as an antique car.
It worked for Mister Ed, but it doesn’t work for My Mother the Car.
One of the Boys
This ill-fated 1982 sitcom proves that no matter how strong a cast you have, the writing can tank the quality of a show.
Starring Mickey Rooney, Dana Carvey, and Nathan Lane, the cast of One of the Boys couldn’t overcome the show’s poor execution.
Modern Men
Picture this: a group of single men in the mid-2000s hire a life coach to help improve their dating life.
If that doesn’t sound like a recipe for disaster, I don’t know what is. The show was universally panned.
Rob
Rob Schneider is at his best when he’s in a supporting role, usually in an Adam Sandler film.
The 2012 CBS sitcom starring Schneider only lasted eight episodes, but believe it or not, he would get a second chance.
Real Rob
Schneider would create, direct, write, and star in this Netflix sitcom that follows the real-life Schneider family.
Despite airing for two seasons, it was a critical dud.
Saved by the Bell: The New Class
No matter how many times they’d try to keep the corpse of Saved by the Bell alive, nothing would beat the original run.
That didn’t stop The New Class from airing over a whopping seven seasons in the 1990s.
The Trouble with Larry
We close with yet another over-the-top premise that shouldn’t have worked.
The Trouble with Larry stars Bronson Pinchot as Larry, who returns home after being missing for a decade. It turns out baboons kidnapped him on his honeymoon.
I have no idea how this was made, but I hope the people responsible were fired.
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