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[i]Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987.[1] Chronicling the lives of the staff of a single police precinct in an unnamed American city, the show received critical acclaim and its production innovations influenced many subsequent dramatic television series produced in North America. Its debut season was rewarded with eight Emmy awards, a debut season record surpassed only by The West Wing, and the show received a total of 98 Emmy Award nominations during its run.

In 1997, the episode "Grace Under Pressure" was ranked #49 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.[2]

In 2002, Hill Street Blues was ranked #14 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.[3][/i]

If this piece of garbage is winning awards, what it tells us is not the level of quality of the product, but how low the standards have fallen that, in order to have something to give an award to, the quality bar has to be lowered to sub-minimum levels.

To tie in my other argument, calling a manifest constant an object doesn't make it one. Giving an award to a TV show doesn't necessarily mean the show really deserves it, it could mean that everything else is so much worse that it's better [i]by comparison[/i] to everything currently on around it.

Does anyone think Barack Obama had done anything at the time it was awarded to rate giving him the Nobel [i]Peace[/i] Prize? Or since?

There's always been crap around on TV because when you have to fill airtime you have to use what is available. The 1950s gave us both [i]Dobie Gillis[/i] and [i]Requiem for a Heavyweight[/i]. The 1960s gave us both [i]Hallmark Hall of Fame[/i] and [i]Gilligan's Island[/i]. The 1970s gave us both the wheel series [i]The Name of the Game[/i], and [i]Three's Company[/i]. The 1980s gave us both [i]Hill Street Blues[/i] and [i]Mr. Belvedere[/i]. The 1990s gave us both [i]Murphy Brown[/i] and [i]Family Matters[/i]. And so on.

If you have good writing and strong character development you get some amazing things. If you try to push for instant success and demand monster hits with immediate high ratings, well, what you get is not good television, what you get is pandering to the lowest-common-denominator.

I don't watch [i]The Three Stooges[/i], I think it is stupid. That is probably a minority opinion.

That some other people think the show is very good is irrelevant. Even [i]Gilligan's Island[/i] had some good points occasionally. Happy Days was probably mostly a fairly good sitcom, until it did the incident with Fonzie that was so bad it invented the term for when a show has started its downhill slide: "Jumping the Shark."

Someone elsewhere on the net refers to it as "nerd blackface."

[i]The show is produced by Warner Bros. Television and Chuck Lorre Productions.[6] In August 2009, the sitcom won the best comedy series TCA award and Jim Parsons won the award for individual achievement in comedy.[7] In 2010, the show won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Comedy, while Parsons won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.[8] On January 16, 2011, Parsons was awarded a Golden Globe by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical, an award that was presented by co-star Kaley Cuoco. On September 18, 2011, Parsons was awarded an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series.

When the third season premiered on September 21, 2009, it ranked as CBS's highest-rated show of that evening in the adults 18–49 demographic (4.6/10), along with a then series-high 12.83 million viewers.[9] On May 19, 2010, it was announced that CBS would be moving the show to Thursdays at 8:00 ET for the 2010–2011 schedule. On January 12, 2011, CBS announced that the show had been renewed for an additional three years, extending it through the 2013–2014 season.[10] The fifth season premiered on September 22 in its usual time slot with two back-to-back episodes.[11][12][/i][/quote]

From Caltrops:

I happened to have [i]The Big Bang Theory[/i] on once, and it was basically painful to watch. It wasn't funny, the dialog was pathetic and it made no sense. I had to change the channel after less than 10 minutes. If it wasn't for the fact I'm in a wheelchair, I wasn't where the remote control was, and moving is painful, I'd have done it sooner, but I hated to inflict pain upon myself if perhaps it is possible to avoid it. But in this case, the pain from the unwatchable program was so bad it overrode the pain I'd suffer having to move around. But let me give you a taste of what was happening.

[size=150]Warning, if the example given below causes projectile vomiting I am not liable.[/size]

For example, in part of the scene of this episode I happened to have on, some guy is talking to some woman that he, I think, wanted to screw, but he did absolutely nothing to give her any reason either to be interested in him or discover he's interested in her. Mostly he said some of the stupidest things possible, most being so ridiculously bad that even the most sexually clueless imbecile would realize the remarks would turn off a woman and make her walk away.

By the way, have you ever heard the term 'sweetening' used with respect to a television program? That's a code word for a recorded laugh track. Well, let me tell you, the producers of [i]Big Bang Theory[/i] use so much sweetening that watching it is liable to cause diabetes!

I suspect there are worse programs on television than [i]The Big Bang Theory[/i] but you probably have to look to Spanish Soap Operas on Telemundo to find them.