TV Shows that have aged badly?

[SaitoRyo]

It's kind of a weird feeling watching the flintstones lately. With their stone age drive-in movies and their caveman bowling, it just seems so dated.

[LCJ]

40 minutes ago, SaitoRyo said:

It's kind of a weird feeling watching the flintstones lately. With their stone age drive-in movies and their caveman bowling, it just seems so dated.

I remember watching the Flintstones in the eighties and thinking that it was a Stone Age version of the sixties if that makes sense (which is when the cartoon was made).

Whilst on the subject of old Hanna-Barbera cartoons, I always thought the Jetsons was crap (even as a kid).

Edited September 3, 2021 by LCJ

[Chili]

The Jetsons sucks because it honestly looks like The Flintstones have the better life. Whoever sitcom character George Jetson is based on doesn't feel as funny either. He was totally nailing Rosey too. 

[Vamp]

2 hours ago, Chest Rockwell said:

As seen from it having been added to Netflix and being seen by a whole new audience, it has aged fine apart from the stuff with Chandler's dad.

Whether you like it or not is a different question but it's as good as it ever was.

Aye, it was always shite. 

[RedRooster]

This is a bit left field, but pretty much every celebrity chat show from the 90s and 2000s with a male host. I'm sure I could go beyond that time period too - but this is the era in which I was actually a viewer. 

There was a real tendency of hosts in both the UK and US to flirt with, and make sexual comments about female guests. If you watch an older interview with a big female star, you'll almost certainly see it for yourself - it was endemic. 

The guests would generally laugh along, and while I'm sure some of them weren't particularly bothered by it, I would imagine that many of them were, particularly younger guests, who were dealing with the equivalent of their dad or grandad making flirtatious comments. 

[LCJ]

I know that David Letterman had a “historical backlash” from licking Jennifer Aniston’s hair in 1998. Whilst it is weird and creepy and wouldn’t fly today, I don’t recall a fuss being made at the time.

[Devon Malcolm]

It's why Craig Ferguson was the best. He picked targets he knew would play along and somehow managed to not be creepy doing so.

[seph]

4 hours ago, LCJ said:

I know that David Letterman had a “historical backlash” from licking Jennifer Aniston’s hair in 1998. Whilst it is weird and creepy and wouldn’t fly today, I don’t recall a fuss being made at the time.

He was sleeping with one of his regular on-air contributors (can't remember her name off the top), but he defended that at the time saying they were both single or something.

[Nexus]

Certain parts of Ugly Betty haven't aged well - lots of casual transphobia, homophobia and fat-shaming. 

[King of Hamptons]

Don't anyone mention Bottom here... Its a fine TV show. 

[Mr_Danger]

8 hours ago, RedRooster said:

This is a bit left field, but pretty much every celebrity chat show from the 90s and 2000s with a male host. I'm sure I could go beyond that time period too - but this is the era in which I was actually a viewer. 

There was a real tendency of hosts in both the UK and US to flirt with, and make sexual comments about female guests. If you watch an older interview with a big female star, you'll almost certainly see it for yourself - it was endemic. 

The guests would generally laugh along, and while I'm sure some of them weren't particularly bothered by it, I would imagine that many of them were, particularly younger guests, who were dealing with the equivalent of their dad or grandad making flirtatious comments. 

I remember Chris Evans on TFI Friday ripping the piss out of Ritchie Neville for going out with young Billy Piper.

[Tamura]

M*A*S*H*, or perhaps just one aspect of it in particular. Hawkeye Pierce comes across as way too much of a rapey sex pest when he''s failing miserably at seducing a nurse, which happened a lot.

[Cousin Jim Bob]

Entourage must have aged terribly. 90% of the characters in it are total twats and the whole story is like a teenage boys fantasy. 

[Jacko]

Dream team been watching it on YouTube again and it just doesn’t quite match up like it used to the acting is worse then I remember 

[Chili]

On 9/3/2021 at 12:18 PM, RedRooster said:

This is a bit left field, but pretty much every celebrity chat show from the 90s and 2000s with a male host. I'm sure I could go beyond that time period too - but this is the era in which I was actually a viewer. 

There was a real tendency of hosts in both the UK and US to flirt with, and make sexual comments about female guests. If you watch an older interview with a big female star, you'll almost certainly see it for yourself - it was endemic. 

The guests would generally laugh along, and while I'm sure some of them weren't particularly bothered by it, I would imagine that many of them were, particularly younger guests, who were dealing with the equivalent of their dad or grandad making flirtatious comments. 

It's very left field.