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Actors We Love in TV Sitcoms that Suck

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Seriously Random Lists | Comments (25)



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Inspired by “2 Broke Girls,” a bad show with a great lead, Kat Dennings, as well as the Emmy win of Melissa McCarthy (yay! for Sookie. Boo for “Mike and Molly”) I scoured the Internet and the back recesses of my brain to come up with 12 more bad shows with likable leads. It is not an exhaustive list, obviously. There are so many failed sitcoms that to create an exhaustive list would be, well, exhausting. I do encourage you to add to it with your own fragmented recollections of TV sitcoms past starring those who you loved at the time or those you have come to love since.


Jason Bateman and Bob Newhart in “George and Leo”

John Goodman, Deidrich Bader, Olympia Dukakis, and Jean Smart in “Center of the Universe”

Fred Savage, Jane Curtin, and Maggie Lawson in “Crumbs”

Dave Chapelle in “Buddies”

Margaret Cho and B.D. Wong in “All American Girl

Dan Aykroyd and Anthony Clark in “Soul Man”

Christina Applegate, Timothy Olyphant, Jean Smart and Melissa McCarthy in “Samantha Who?”

Thomas Haden Church, Debra Messing, and Greg German in “Ned and Stacey”

Paula Marshall, Stockard Channing, Jennifer Tilly, Henry Winkler, and Ty Burrel in “Out of Practice”

Tim Curry and Annie Potts in “Over the Top”

John Lithgow and Jeffrey Tambor in “Twenty Good Years”

Kyle Chandler and Joan Cusack in “What About Joan”









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Comments

Jeez, I've only heard of like three of those shows.

Also, "2 Broke Girls" was, indeed, awful.

Posted by: Todd at September 20, 2011 4:06 PM

YOU TAKE THAT BACK ABOUT NED & STACEY!

Posted by: JH at September 20, 2011 4:14 PM

I loved Ned & Stacey!

Posted by: lorent at September 20, 2011 4:30 PM

I don't know much about most of those, but I do know this, and I mean it sincerely: the world - both television and cinema - needs more B.D. Wong. That man is a treasure.

Posted by: Ghisent at September 20, 2011 4:41 PM

Why, Tim Curry, why?

Posted by: BWeaves at September 20, 2011 4:51 PM

I loved Ned and Stacey.

Also, I can't remember the name, but going in the WAY BACK machine: sitcom starring Matt Frewer, post-Max Headroom, where he played a doctor, and he had doctor roommates...

I love Matt Frewer, is what I'm saying.

Posted by: MM at September 20, 2011 4:52 PM

@MM: "Doctor Doctor"?

Posted by: mograph at September 20, 2011 5:07 PM

I would have to say on that list should go "Stark Raving Mad" staring NPH and Tony Shalhoub. Dumb show, mercifully cancelled so that the world may have Barney Stinson.

Posted by: Briannils at September 20, 2011 5:57 PM

Ned and Stacy is the only show on that list that is, semi, decent; not great but not bad.

Posted by: The Minn at September 20, 2011 6:01 PM

You don't love Judd Hirsch? Bastard. Speaking of Judd Hirsch, remember Dear John? Uf.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at September 20, 2011 6:21 PM

Perhaps either Annie Potts or Susan Dey in "Love and War?"

Posted by: Jerry at September 20, 2011 6:30 PM

Both "Out of Practice" and "Samantha Who" were enjoyable shows, if not obsessive-DVD-watching quality. The rest...not sure I remember any of them, so I guess I didn't watch.

Poor Paula Marshall, aka Show-killer. I like her. She was also good in Californication (which could probably go on this list too, if you take into account the entire run).

Posted by: Val Vadynia at September 20, 2011 8:18 PM

I liked Ned and Stacy

Posted by: Sean at September 20, 2011 8:42 PM

Samantha Who is okay.

And Ned & Stacy? WTF?! That show was a work of comedic genius! You gonna take a shit on a masterpiece like that just to round out your list?

Well FUUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOUUUU!

Yeah, that show was okay.

Posted by: DarthBrookes at September 20, 2011 10:19 PM

Uhhh, Ned and Stacy was awesome.

Posted by: Martin at September 20, 2011 10:54 PM

Kat Dennings is a very pretty girl and seems likeable enough, but she really is not a good actress. At all.

Posted by: Even Stevens at September 20, 2011 11:46 PM

Samantha Who is streaming on netflix. I watch it when I'm cleaning the house. It's cute! Not amazing, but an enjoyable diversion.

Two Broke Girls was bad...but not as bad as Free Agents. It stars my boyfriend Hank Azaria - but I can't sit though that again. Wowza.

Posted by: MN_Jen at September 21, 2011 12:47 AM

Re: All American Girl -

Wow. I remember watching a few episodes, but I was quite young. Now I know what she means by, "It was like 'Saved By The Gong'." And those lines about her weight? Shit, dude.

Posted by: Rest In Peace at September 21, 2011 9:13 AM

Ned and Stacey was great.

Posted by: bd at September 21, 2011 11:16 AM

Ned and Stacey was awesome, cynical, and arguably better than the sitcoms Thomas Haden Church and Debra Messing are better-known for. YOU TAKE THAT BACK.

Posted by: Craig at September 21, 2011 11:39 AM

Yes! Agreed with comments! I loooved Ned & Stacey and was constantly trying to find it on TV when they shuffled the air times. So glad other people remember it.

Posted by: valerie at September 21, 2011 12:48 PM

Paula Marshall is like the grim reaper of shows. She was on Cupid too.

There was a time in the 80s when Matthew Perry and Jason Bateman had a pilot every year.

Posted by: bananapanda at September 21, 2011 1:45 PM

Agree that Ned & Stacey was funny, Samantha Who? was also pretty enjoyable, and I'll be the first to say that I liked Crumbs, dammit.

Posted by: Nicole at September 21, 2011 2:11 PM

4 words: Tim Thomerson in Quark.

Posted by: kman1958 at September 21, 2011 3:34 PM

That commercial for "Buddies" cannot possibly be real. Please tell me this was a Chappelle Show skit I somehow missed...

Posted by: Edith at September 23, 2011 1:08 AM