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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime)
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Subject: Here it is... The Most Repulsive TV show of ALL TIME!!!! (Results)
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Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 22:05:11 EDT
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Yes, you thought I had forgotten about it.  But, non! I have been clearing
the last few OKs from contributers for including quotes, and am ready to
post.

And I must admit, there was a truly impressive turnout of repulsive
television shows (plus a few I rather like -- "Cagney & Lacey" repulsive?
"Ay, ay ay...").  The only problem were there were very few shows agreed
upon... only four or five shows were nominated by more than one person.
Below are the winners, and a seedier lot is rarely found.  Quotes are in "";
my comments are in <> (yes, I get to butt in whenever I feel like it...
that's my reward for sifting through this mess).  Colonel Moran will be out
with his air rifle to distribute the "just rewards" to the producers,
writers, and stars of the lucky winners...

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FIRST PLACE <By a good margin> with 10 points:

        THREE'S COMPANY!!       "Insulting to the audience, and managed to
                                 convince an entire generation that sharing
                                 an apartment with someone of the opposite
                                 sex is intrinsically 'hot'.  Anyway, it was
                                 boring."  Heather Emanuel, rayssd!hxe     
                                 
                                <My first choice also.  How anyone can listen
                                 to the dialogue in this show for more than
                                 thirty seconds is beyond me.  Possessed a
                                 lack of maturity and infantile humor
                                 legendary even by ABC standards.  John
                                 Ritter was immensely lucky to get a show
                                 that takes no talent whatever to be in; he
                                 is well suited for the job.  Joyce DeWitt
                                 would probably be bouncy and perky even
                                 after being run over by a Bekins Moving van.
                                 The level of mugging on this show brought a
                                 new standard to the word "tedious".  I am
                                 happy to say that I have only had to sit
                                 through this show twice in my life; still, I
                                 am sure I would be a more stable and happy
                                 person if I had never seen it at all.>

SECOND PRIZE with 8 points:  THE BRADY BUNCH

THIRD PLACE with 7 points:  THE DUKES OF HAZZARD

FOURTH PLACE with 6 points: DALLAS
                                <This and THREE'S COMPANY had the honor of
                                 having several people writing in and asking
                                 to give all 6 of their points to the show.
                                 Sorry, folks, but they had to be different
                                 shows.>

FIFTH PLACE with 5 points (a tie):

                        QUINCY: <My second place choice and winner of the
                                 Righteous Indigestion award for TV show of
                                 all time.  If ever there was a character who
                                 is "Always right" in any situation, who
                                 slanted the most complex issues of the day
                                 into a bang-bang fight between the good guys
                                 and the bad guys, and who was always in the
                                 right enough to emphasize how much better he
                                 was than almost any other character, Quincy
                                 was it.  People who opposed his (and the
                                 show's) views were painted as either
                                 villains, morons or hopeless failures.  About
                                 as good an example of prime-time propaganda
                                 as I've ever seen.>
                                 
                                "... one episode in which a town bully was
                                 unknown parties and the town's police just
                                 let it go; while starting out as a diatribe
                                 about mob rule (based on a true story), it
                                 ended by showing that the murderer was the
                                 wife of the guy who had been
                                 terrorized----NOT for revenge, NOT because
                                 he had attacked her, but because she was
                                 having an affair with the guy, BECAUSE SHE
                                 THOUGHT HE WAS THE ONLY REAL MAN IN TOWN.
                                 (He had walked out on her.)  [THEY ALSO HAD
                                 GREAT DEMAGOGIC EPISODES ON THE DANGERS OF
                                 PUNK, ETC.]"  Rich Rosen, pyuxn!rlr
                                 
                        SOLID GOLD


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All the other titles nominated were only voted for by one person; I list them
below, sans point values, with a few comments mixed in:

         HEE HAW
         MATCH GAME/HOLLYWOOD SQUARES SHOW
         LAURENCE WELK
         ADAMS FAMILY
         THE NEW SHOW
         SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (lately)
         THE LUCY SHOW (Not I LOVE LUCY)
         MAYBERRY R.F.D.        "Aunt Bee makes me want to put my finger down
                                 my throat." Dave Clark homxa!wdc
         NBC OVERNIGHT          "{Linda Elerbee} is so pretentious she makes
                                 me want to puke." Gary Benson, fluke!inc
                                 <Lot of this imagery in you folk's reviews>
         THAT'S INCREDIBLE
         LAVERNE & SHIRLEY
         LOST IN SPACE
         DIFF'RENT STROKES
         CHARLEY'S ANGELS       <No arguments there...>
         THE A-TEAM
         FANTASY ISLAND
         THE GONG SHOW
         MAUDE
         THE JEFFERSONS
         ALL IN THE FAMILY
         CAGNEY & LACEY         <?>
         STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE
         700 CLUB
         HOGAN'S HEROES
         WATERGATE HEARINGS
         60 MINUTES             <Muckraking at it's finest... they're so
                                 interested in getting dirt I can rarely
                                 figure out if it's real or not.>
         20/20
         WHAT'S HAPPENING
         THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII
         PINK LADY & JEFF
         WE'VE GOT IT MADE
         GOMER PYLE
         THE RICHARD SIMMONS SHOW
         GREEN ACRES
         THE LOVE BOAT
         FISH
         SCTV
         9 TO 5
         MASH
         GIMME A BREAK
         ALICE
         DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
         HE-MAN
         DYNASTY
         SPACE ACADEMY
         THE PRICE IS RIGHT

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Happy to see that HILL STREET & ST. ELSEWHERE were not submitted, and
surprised TRAPPER JOHN MD was not.  Oh well.  Thanks, one and all, for the
turnout.


                                "That's the biz, sweetheart"

                                        Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
                                        John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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