Shows you watched during it's FIRST RUN, but don't care to watch in SYNDICATION

[Ireneparalegal]

I loved Night Court when it was on back in the dayz, but I don't care to watch the reruns.
I also don't care to watch Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Full House, Step By Step.

[gilligan fanatic]

TGIF Shows, I was like 7-9 when most were on. I am embarassed to say I watched them.

[Ireneparalegal]

let me add My Wife and Kids. I loved watching it when it was on Fridays. Now that it's in syndication, I don't watch it. Only because they show King of Queens on another channel and I can't miss KOQ. If there was nothing else to watch, I would watch My Wife and Kids. Funny how shows you would kill to watch during it's first run, but when it's reruns, you take it or leave it.

[snl 70s show fan]

family ties i watched it quite a bit in first run but for some reason i just cant seem to get into it in reruns same with full house

[Classicshowsgurl15]

Most of the shows that I like I never saw orignally because I wasn't born yet so I would say I enjoy them in syndication and that is how I started liking them too.

[Stuck In The '70's]

TCS, and Full House I don't seem to care to watch much any more.

[comedyfreak]

Full House
Night Court
Cheers
Family Ties

[Couch Potato 05]

Ally McBeal

[cablejockey]

This is a good question. I used to love watching shows like Cheers, Roseanne,Designing Women, Home Improvement, Everybody Loves Raymond, when they first came on, but for some reason I have no desire to watch the re-runs. Something is missing, that spark is gone. On the other hand, I still like seeing old episodes of Frasier, Friends, Seinfeld, Leave It To Beaver and I Love Lucy.

[gidgetgrape]

The Cosby Show, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Full House, Living Single

[GARFIELDKOOL]

This is an easy question for me

Facts of Life
Dukes Of Hazzard
A-Team
Knight Rider

I grew up with all these shows, and loved them when they were first on, I tried to watch them in syndication, and I couldn't get back into them. Looking back, I couldn't believe how phony the Dukes Of Hazzard set was. LOL

[Ireneparalegal]

This is an easy question for me

Facts of Life
Dukes Of Hazzard
A-Team
Knight Rider

I grew up with all these shows, and loved them when they were first on, I tried to watch them in syndication, and I couldn't get back into them. Looking back, I couldn't believe how phony the Dukes Of Hazzard set was. LOL
I agree with all your choices except FOL. I still can watch that.

[ky24943]

None for me

[clj2]

Night Court
Full House

[Sal]

I would have to say anything that came out after 1979. I can watch reruns from the 50s and 60s over and over and not get tired of them, but stuff from the 80s and after---even shows I really loved in prime time like "Friends" and "Frasier"---I can only see once and then I don't feel like seeing them again. It's nothing against those shows, it's just the way I am. When it comes to sitcoms in general, I believe the older the better.

[Tweety]

There are a lot of shows I watched in their original run, but nowadays, I only watch certain episodes...

The Cosby Show - I don't watch that anymore, but if I notice that one of a handful of episodes is on, I'll watch it... I like the Gordon Gartrelle Designer Shirt episode, and the episode when Theo gets the earring, among a handful of other early episodes... I automatically know not to watch it if Pam or Olivia is in it...

Fresh Prince - watched it pretty faithfully during it's original Monday Night run, but I probably have less than 10 episodes that I would watch in reruns... I like the episode when Hillary drops out of school without telling her folks, Will and Carlton find out about it, and start blackmailing her to do their chores and take care of them... plus a few others...again, mostly ealry episodes.

Home Improvement - watched this regularly during most of its run, I liked the early eps when the kids were little, but I have a hard time watching it today.


Family Ties, same thing... I like a lot of the early episodes, pretty safe bet not to watch if I spot Andy...


My Wife and Kids - I watched and liked this for a while when it was on (Wed nights, I think), but I don't watch the syndicated re-runs... I don't even know if it's still on in prime time...


I can still kind of watch Cheers, but I don't like it as much as I did when it first ran...man, never missed that one...

All in the Family, I can watch most episodes when Mike and Gloria still lived with Archie and Edith...


Really though, I never go out of my way to watch reruns of anything... if I'm home and I see that an old Cosby Show ep that I like is on, I'll watch it... but the only shows I watch in reruns are Seinfeld and a couple of others...and all of Seinfeld will be out on DVD by the end of this year...

I always can watch the old 60s sitcoms that TV Land runs during the morning, but I'm not crazy about too many of the shows I loved watching in the 80s and 90s... for the most part, I can only sit through a few episodes of each show, just the ones I liked best...

There really aren't many shows that I absolutely won't watch now, but there are a lot that I'll only watch a few eps...

Of course, TV Land has gotten even more annoying with their playing of episodes and then repeating them all three hours later... but that's another topic for another board...

I just remembered Different Strokes...watched that through much of it's initial run, but I wouldn't watch it now at all...

[Chocoholic]

Everybody Loves Raymond- I loved it the first few seasons it was on, but I try and watch the reruns now and I wonder what I ever saw in this show in the first place. I think the characters are just too mean and nasty and they are just way too repetitive.

Mad About You- Another one I never missed when it aired, but it just turns me off now.

I also can't tolerate Saved by the Bell or any of the TGIF shows I loved as a kid.

[Ireneparalegal]

Home Improvement is another on my list. Jill is so annoying, I guess that's one reason.

[Tweety]

Home Improvement is another on my list. Jill is so annoying, I guess that's one reason.

Yeah, that's a big reason for me, too... I want to like Patricia Richardson, but she just got more and more annoying as the show went on... especially once she started taking psychology... as was the case with Sondra Huxtable on the Cosby Show, Jill became a psychology expert after only a couple of weeks of classes...

In fact, her character pretty much ended up to be a cross between Claire and Sondra Huxtable... a know-it-all wife with a superior, condescending attitude, AND a well-known psychology expert.

And Jill's girl friends were every bit as annoying as she was...

[Chain Gang Member]

My Name Is Earl

[Tweety]

My Name Is Earl

That's fine, Earl...but this forum is about shows that you don't like to watch any more...please stick to the topic :lol:

[staypuftman2004]

cheers

[Ireneparalegal]

Yeah, that's a big reason for me, too... I want to like Patricia Richardson, but she just got more and more annoying as the show went on... especially once she started taking psychology... as was the case with Sondra Huxtable on the Cosby Show, Jill became a psychology expert after only a couple of weeks of classes...

In fact, her character pretty much ended up to be a cross between Claire and Sondra Huxtable... a know-it-all wife with a superior, condescending attitude, AND a well-known psychology expert.

And Jill's girl friends were every bit as annoying as she was...
Exactly. Notice those two shows were the epitomy of sitcoms during their time on the air. I think Roseanne started the ball rolling with women being domineering. But Roseanne was different, Home Improvement and Cosby just had to have perfect, superior women, etc.

[dlemond]

Exactly. Notice those two shows were the epitomy of sitcoms during their time on the air. I think Roseanne started the ball rolling with women being domineering. But Roseanne was different, Home Improvement and Cosby just had to have perfect, superior women, etc.

I disagree about Jill on Home Improvement.

She was proven to be wrong and shown up at different times (as were all the characters) and I don't think they ever painted the picture of her as perfect or a knowitall. In fact they showed her crashing plenty of times when she thought she was in the right.

You see her go talk to Wilson with her tail between her legs and Wilson helps build her back up.

In fact what I liked about Home Improvement is that it showed everyone has faults and how they are willing to admit them, say they were wrong, and learn something about themselves. (Done mostly through Wilson).

Though Tim goes through this process most often (it is his show after all), we see all the characters do this- including Wilson himself.

[slackermonkey]

"Friends" - I already have the DVDs. What's the point?

"Seinfeld" - Too burnt out on the show to bother watching it religiously in syndication anymore.

"Will & Grace" - Don't care enough to follow the show in syndication.

[Ireneparalegal]

I disagree about Jill on Home Improvement.

She was proven to be wrong and shown up at different times (as were all the characters) and I don't think they ever painted the picture of her as perfect or a knowitall. In fact they showed her crashing plenty of times when she thought she was in the right.

You see her go talk to Wilson with her tail between her legs and Wilson helps build her back up.

In fact what I liked about Home Improvement is that it showed everyone has faults and how they are willing to admit them, say they were wrong, and learn something about themselves. (Done mostly through Wilson).

Though Tim goes through this process most often (it is his show after all), we see all the characters do this- including Wilson himself.

but that is one reason she was annoying. she had to talk to Wilson who had to point it out to her being wrong, or whatever you want to call it. If I am wrong, I know it. I may not apologize right away to my man, but I don't need to go to another adult and be told I was in the wrong. Jill thought she was sooo right, or had her reasons for thinking certain things, etc. and was too stubborn to realize it.

[staypuftman2004]

ROC

[dawsongirl]

Most TGIF shows.

[staypuftman2004]

Home Improvement

[thelilbear]

yeah, me too, can't stand it now

[James]

The Cosby Show, Full House, and Home Improvement are three shows I used to watch when they were being made (and I was younger) but do not care to watch anymore.