Famous tv shows that were great for a long stretch,then totally sucked?

[BrentCrude]

Cheers is one.Northern Exposure,MASH,Seinfeld .Alot of shows gain a big audience and the writing team grows compacent or splits up and instead of ending the show,they pump out 3 more years of crappy episodes.Main characters die or quit.

[FuzzyDunlop]

Scrubs, also potentially Always Sunny after this season.

[brxbmbers42]

arliss was funny as hell and then quickly turned into one of the worst shows in tv history. sopranos was only good the first three years. after that it was also one of the worst shows on tv

[King Mayan]

Spongebob....

[FuzzyDunlop]

Add That 70s Show and I could debate the U.S. version of The Office. Can blame the whole thing on syndication deals.

[keyboarding]

Arrested Development, Batman The Animated Series, House, Lost, Oz, Rescue Me, and Trailer Park Boys.

[Bob Loblaw]

The Simpsons
Saturday Night Live

Arrested Development, Batman The Animated Series, House, Lost, Oz, Rescue Me, and Trailer Park Boys.

Arrested Development? It only lasted 3 seasons. Season 2 was the best and Season 3 was different but still very very good and even better the 2nd time through.

[illfuuptn]

SNL
The Office

[stevenash]

Cheers is one.Northern Exposure,MASH .Alot of shows gain a big audience and the writing team grows compacent or splits up and instead of ending the show,they pump out 3 more years of crappy episodes.Main characters die or quit.

Disagree with Mash.
When Stevenson and Rogers were with the show, it was more gag orientated.
When that pair left, alda went more behind the scenes and the show was more story orientated, but the show remained solid throughout.

[bracerman]

Law and Order (original series). Last few years were repetitive and boring.

[keyboarding]

Arrested Development? It only lasted 3 seasons. Season 2 was the best and Season 3 was different but still very very good and even better the 2nd time through.

A repetitive formula season after season is very good? I don't know about that. Characters grew very, very stale with zero growth.

[Reno Paul]

The Andy Griffith Show.....When Barney Fife left and the show turned to color from black and white.

Happy Days....When Fonzie jumped the shark.

[Rod_M]

How could nobody mention Heroes...they even got it canceled due to poor writing.

[EaglesPhan36]

Scrubs without a doubt is the show that sticks out. The last year or two on NBC was lame. When they moved to ABC, it was just wickedly retarded.

MASH was quality from Day 1 to the end.

By far though ... SPORTS CENTER.


When Dan Patrick and Olbermann started, it WAS an event. Now it's a bunch of dipshits dropping catch phrases and cliches.

[ttwarrior1]

cheers, mash and seinfeld?????


You must be drunk, all 3 rocked all the way through

How about prison break,

[MBENZ]

I Love Lucy went to shit when they moved out of Freds apartment building.

[Sunde91]

Rescue Me

Seconded. Very painful to watch any of the last couple seasons, just unwatchable.

Saturday Night Live

The most obvios one, been dead for at least 6 years.

Mad Men will be dead in two or three years: writers starting to pull shit out of their ass, novelty aspect of the throwback gone, becoming boring with same recycled material and mundane plot.

[mike1234]

X Files, Battlestar Galactica

[unusialsusp5]

mash turned into an alan alda monologue. that show jumped. seinfield held it's own to the end. no character changes. law and order (the worst show in the history of tv) no police or prosecutors ever would work that hard. how many stool pigeons on the street corner spilled their guts to the detectives every week. what a joke.

[keyboarding]

Nip/Tuck had potential.

[Pareto]

Prison break was great at first, but in the 4th season I couldnt stand to watch anymore. And I had to read on the net how it ended.

[Jaug]

Lost, was good for like two seasons. Third season was decent but fourth season was the worst shit ever.

[Mr KLC]

Dallas
Laverne and Shirley
Married With Children

[Illusion]

The Simpsons

The Simpsons has been bad for the last 10 years.

[leeloo]

The latest season of Entourage.

[Ace_of_Spades]

Family Guy, the first and 2nd season was the best.

American Dad has climbed to the top now.

[dfberger23]

Don't know how anyone can say Seinfeld went down hill.

South Park went down hill big time in last few seasons. Wish it would just end already, the show is garbage now.

[stevenash]

'24' the last season.

[Ace_of_Spades]

Don't know how anyone can say Seinfeld went down hill.

South Park went down hill big time in last few seasons. Wish it would just end already, the show is garbage now.

The last season was terrible. 3 or 4 episodes wasted on that BP oil spill.

[BRAVES1985]

ya the simpsons blows now i cant watch the new ones

[Andy117]

ER liked it in the beginning and then it came to a point where I was watching only because I had from the beginning but it really wasn't very good anymore.

[dfberger23]

The last season was terrible. 3 or 4 episodes wasted on that BP oil spill.

Barely watched any of the new ones. Last 3 seasons have sucked. Seasons 10 and 11 were good but 1-9 are the best.

[DrStale]

Simpsons
Scrubs
That 70's Show
Newsradio (death of Phil Hartman)
Family Guy
Heroes
House
Friends
The Office (not terrible but not as strong)
West Wing
Prison Break
X-Files

[orioles]

Weeds.

[IrishTim]

Jersey Shore