I loved Parker Lewis, sometimes I really miss the days when TV was the big thing, and you'd get to school or work and one of the first things you'd talk about was last night's TV shows
I remember seeing the previews for Cop Rock and thinking WTF were they thinking when they came up with this stupid idea, turns out I wasn't the only one.
Not too surprising, both her parents were in Hollywood, ensuring their daughter would always be on the audition short list for sitcoms. Her father John Aniston was most famous for acting on Soap Operas for decades. Her mother Nancy Down was also a long time TV actress.
@@emptyhand777 Yeah, without them having been her parents, she would've hardly been known except for someone who was in those couple of failed 1990 sitcoms. She wouldn't have been on Friends, in Office Space, or Along Came Polly, they would've had a totally different actress playing those roles. I wonder if Lisa Kudrow would've played the characters in those latter 2 movies if Jennifer Aniston never made it past the early 90s failed sitcoms
Without her having 2 famous parents, her career wouldn't have taken off the way it did. Jennifer Aniston would've been much less well known since she would've only ever been seen in those 1990 failed sitcoms and she wouldn't have ever been in her career boosting hits Friends, Office Space, and Along Came Polly. Jen Aniston isn't the only one who made it big with the help of famous relatives. How big would've Drew Barrymore been without her grandpa John Barrymore, her great uncle Lionel Barrymore, and her dad John Barrymore Jr.?
I can't remember which one it was, but if one of these series with Jennifer Aniston had been more successful, then Jen wouldn't have been available to be in "Friends".
The worst thing on TV that those who lived through it try to forget is "The Star Wars Holiday Special". The second worst thing we try to forget is "Cop Rock".
That "Cop Rock" musical was pretty cringe. Musicals and cop shows/movies don't mix. Can you imagine any good cop movies such as the Lethal Weapon or Beverly Hills Cop movies replacing their dialogues with musical numbers, or good cop shows like NYPD Blue replacing their dialogue with musical numbers? It sure as hell wouldn't work. I would not look at Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Eddie Murphy, or Dennis Franz the same way anymore
Do you know there was another cop Rock from think the 70's? Remember the intro featuring the Dancing police officer. Nobody ever talks about that one just The 90's one.
I'd like to mention the one season of "American Gothic" from 1995. A setting and premise I never thought would appeal to me, but I somehow caught the first episode, and got hooked into its mysterious, kinda spooky tension and menacing undertone. Then it got cancelled and I was shocked. Never got that invested in a TV show again.
Oh yeah, I was a fan of that show as well. It came out with other odd shows on different networks, Profit was one of those, think that was fox. American Gothic was getting good then it was cancelled.
Parker Lewis Can’t Lose was pretty good. He and David Faustino from Married with Children did a hilarious show about what happened to them after HollyWood. It’s called Starving. Had Coolio in it, Gilbert Godfrey, great show!
I try to explain to people what starving is and how funny it is and how it kept crackle a float for a couple years. The married with children reunion episode😂😂😂😂😂
When the part about Ferris Bueller came on, I immediately thought "Man, this seems just like Parker Lewis." I loved that show. I was in maybe 6th grade at the time and that show gave me such high hopes for how cool high school would be. I was very disappointed, obviously.
Even though those 90's shows were cancelled due to poor ratings, they are still better and more watchable than many TV shows of the 2010's and this decade are.
I remember a show called "Cupid" starring Jeremy Piven and Paula Marshall. It aired for only 15 episodes in 1998-99. It was a hip, smart romantic comedy with Piven claiming to actually be Cupid, the Roman God of Love, who has to unite 100 couples, without the use of any of his magic powers, in order to return to Mount Olympus. Marshall is the Psychologist assigned to his case. It was revived in 2009 with Bobby Cannavale and Sarah Paulson in the roles and that too was cancelled after an even lesser 7 episodes. I really loved the show and I believe you can find episodes on here.
Got to say, that cop caught me off guard. The last thing I was expecting is for him to start singing. Weird, out of place, surreal. And the fact that I hate musicals doesn't help it one bit.
Early Fox was such a damn great network. It's a shame it eventually became "just another network", because when it first started, they had a ton of fire TV shows that pushed the envelope. Parker Lewis, Married with Children, In Living Color, The Simpsons, Get a Life, Beverly Hills 90210, even Herman's Head... just a ton of shows that were doing stuff that the "big" networks weren't doing at the time.
There was also two other failures from 1990 that didn't get a mention. One was a high school drama, Hull High, which like "Flop Rock" was a musical that lasted only 8 episodes, the other being a sung through pilot for a show called Shangri-la Plaza, which aired once on CBS.
Another 1990 show that suffered the same fate was The Flash tv series. It was produced basically because of the success of the Tim Burton Batman movie but didn't get a second season
I always liked that the 2014 flash brought back actor John Wesley Shipp from the 1990's Flash to play the Flash's father and also brought back Amanda Pays to reprise her role as Dr. Tina McGee.
@@bjbell52. The Flash series started in 2014??? Good golly that’s a freaking long time ago. I caught it later on Netflix and watched a few seasons of it before I gave up. I admire it’s staying power, though.
I am EXTREMELY grateful for "Cop Rock" because I couldn't really clearly articulate why musicals are stupid. "Cop Rock" illustrated this sentiment brilliantly.
I'm glad they chose Blossom because I LOVED that show. She had me wearing ugly hats too. I thought for sure that one day I would meet and marry Joey Lawrence 😂😂😂
I did watch The Bradys in 1990, and hey, let's face it! Weren't we all curious about how the writers would continue with them after their 1988 Christmas movie? I was! Also Greg's son was played by future Home Improvement star Jonathan Taylor Thomas! I also watched Going Places as well! At least Staci Keanan immediately found work that next season on Step By Step!
@@TheReviewStudios I didn't realize it either until my nephew pointed him out to me during a TV Land rerun of one of the Bradys' episodes! On this show, however, he was credited as Jonathan Weiss!
My American Politics teacher screened Ferris Bueller's Day Off (the movie) in 10th grade. I'm not sure what the lesson was, though. I was in the Navy in '90 so none of those shows even made my radar.
I liked the Bradys TV show and I especially liked Gary Cole's interpretation of Mike Brady as sort of a slightly weird, maybe mildly creepy and humorous character in the movie version. Gary did a fun job with the Mike Brady character.
I suspect one reason why the Bradys didn't go over well with audiences were all the 80s Brady reunions like that unbelievably horrible Brady Bunch Variety Hour as well as the Brady Girls Get Married and A Very Brady Christmas and by the time this series appeared, fans of the original series were just sick of the entire concept. ABC kept hoping that all those baby boomers who grew up with the original series would watch these reunions out of a sense of nostalgia but the network tried to draw water from that well once too often and this time, it discovered that the well had finally dried up.
I was 20 in 1990 and I’m feeling considerably lucky I have never ever seen nor heard of any of this crap! I was out every minute I possibly could having fun! These shows look horrendous
So apparently TV shows based off movies don't do so well. And NBC was really trying hard to find something until Friends came along. They already had Seinfeld!
Seinfeld took a while to get going. Friends was huge right away. Seinfeld became the huge show we think of now in 94 when Friends premiered. NBC went from having one show that was 25th in the ratings to having the two biggest shows on TV almost overnight.
NBC had "Cheers" and "The Cosby Show", 2 hit shows, but both were coming to an end, that's probably why they were really trying hard to find something, just like you said. As @mjwbulich said in his/her comment, it was not until season 3 or 4 for "Seinfeld" to become a popular show. I would add that NBC really made it big with "ER" starting the same year than "Friends", having their famous Thursday evening which had "Seinfeld", "Friends" and "ER" for several years.
Another show in the 1990's to get canceled after 1 season was VR5: Young woman Sidney works in a telephone company and she is sure that her father, doctor Bloom, and sister died after an accident. Sidney's hobby is to play with virtual reality. She has found an ability in herself to enter into the human mind by using VR - Virtual Reality 5. Sidney is no ordinary person and an influential mysterious organization tries to use her.
I almost gagged when they brought up Cop Rock. The premier had one of the most talked about scenes in TV history with its opening, and then they started to sing. There was nothing about it worth remembering except that they produced NYPD Blues right after Cop Rock disappeared.
I tried once to sit through the Brady Bunch reunion movie thing, and I fell asleep about a half hour in. To think they'd try to make a tv show like that, its no wonder it got canned.
I've got a big DVD set that has the complete series of The Brady Bunch, The Brady Brides, The Brady Kids, The Bradys, all three Brady Bunch movies, and I think it has their Christmas movie too.
Ferris Buehler has that scene where Cameron and Ferris are playing basketball to Damn Yankees' High Enough. That song changed my life. Good enough for me.
I *LOVED* They Came From Outer Space! I actually bought the DVD set on Amazon a few years ago. Also, I remember this being the era where networks seemed to love producing shows based off popular movies. In the case of Ferris Bueller, it's ironic that a show that copied it (Parker Lewis) did better and was more entertaining. Also ironic that The Bradys aired against ABC's TGIF lineup as the original Brady Bunch was an ABC show. And I absolutely remember Cop Rock because I thought the concept was ridiculous 😂. I do give them points for trying something outside the box. Makes me think of the show "Soap", a soap opera sitcom which sounds crazy but it worked.
I have absolutely no memory of They Came From Outer Space but, seeing the clip, I strongly remember those two guys as friends and the red car. I must have watched it? Weird.
I actually liked The Brady's. My family used to look forward to it every Friday, even though it was extremely corny. The rest of the shows I never really watched, although I do remember Cop Rock, Uncle Buck, and Ferris Bueller - however, Parker Lewis Can't Lose essentially WAS Ferris Bueller, and I really liked that show!
I remember “They Came From Outer Space.” The bit with the opposite brother getting hurt when the other one got punched or kicked was actually a funny gag.
I remember Going Places. I forgot the title but I used to tell folks there was a show with Heather Locklear that was based in SF and she lived with a group of folks. But could never remember the name. Thank you. Also I will never forgive Hollyweird for Cop Rock. That was just horrendous.
Down The Shore. Although it technically had 2 seasons, one of them was only as a summer replacement show. It started 6 people with a Jersey beach house. The 3 that went on to bigger things were Anna Gunn, Lew Schneider and Tom McGowan. (Schneider was more behind the scenes as a producer.)
Why do does industry insist on making Tv shows based on movies? And,why does the industry insist on remaking classic movies that were great? Can’t these people come up with new, good ideas for entertainment?
Parenthood was an excellent show and it deserved a long run! I still believe that Cop Rock may actually be a misunderstood masterpiece that people (including myself, at least when I'm not drunk or high) are simply not cool and/or enlightened enough to "get"...
*i suspect there are literally hundreds if not thousands of sitcoms/tv shows that were made and didnt even make it pass the pilot episode, let alone get cancelled after 1 season*
Absolutely loved Cop Rock but it was very problematic in its time. I dread to think what would happen if they tried to make it again today with the same problems!!!
Its weird how I vaguely remember all of these shows but I dont recall watching any of them. Probably because they had a whole summer of promos but aired maybe one episode and then died quietly.
Many people made the point of how most of the shows were remakes/reduxes/releases/reunions of older shows and movies. I wonder if the reason a lot of them failed words, back then people were looking at these and wondering how much better than the movies or originals could they be, and we’re worrying that the 1990s decade was going to usher in an era of unoriginality. And therefore decided to shy away from them collectively.
The 90s was very original but people were getting tired in the late 90s with how bland things were. 2000 started to liven things a bit. This is how reality TV happened. Then within a few years things got too pretty.
In the late 1980s/early 1990s, TV tried to capitalize on popular movies from theater. I know it wasn't in 1990, but there was also a Beverly Hills Cop sit-com.
Fun fact; 'Going Places' was made by Lorimar, the same production company that made 'Full House' and 'Family Matters', and made the show to ensure that all the comedies that ran in the lucrative TGIF timeslot were owned by them.
Outsiders was great but then again I was 9 years old so that whole Fox Sunday night line up was gold to me after church lol. I watched Jump Street, Simpsons, Booker, Outsiders. Rock, and In Living Color
What’s the name of this really obscure show that aired sometime between 1990-1992, probably went on for 1 season (if that), and seemed to be some sort of family drama show starring these anthropomorphic alien/lizard-headed husband and wife. I vaguely remember the husband being in some sort of law enforcement. Aside from their alien/lizard-like heads, the show appeared to be very human. Not sure what the premise of the show was about. I keep replaying the intro of that show in my head as of late….please if someone can remember, I’ll be appreciative as heck 😂
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Parenthood was actually a good show that was canceled too soon.
It's definitely not the Parenthood I fell in love with starring the Bravermans, but that was in 2010.
That was a revival of the 1990 show, and it ran for six seasons.
No it wasn't.
Really?
@@gretchendietz1599, a FAR SUPERIOR version of the show👍
I loved Parker Lewis, sometimes I really miss the days when TV was the big thing, and you'd get to school or work and one of the first things you'd talk about was last night's TV shows
I loved Blossom, I don’t even remember that other show coming out
Me neither
I bawled when her brother Anthony left with his wife to start their own family.
I remember watching Molloy but I thought it came out before Blossom. They really were trying to make that little girl a star.
Greg's mustache is why the Bradys failed 😂
yes!
That mustache and the wife and kid were about as believable as Paul Lynde's failed family sitcom. 😂
😄😄😄😄
Nice 😊
I remember seeing the previews for Cop Rock and thinking WTF were they thinking when they came up with this stupid idea, turns out I wasn't the only one.
Lol Oh Man me too! 😂
I did see James McDaniel in the cast. Milch and Bochco at least remembered him when casting NYPD Blue a few years later.
Cop Rock should at least be in the top 5 of worst shows all-time.
@@albundy6008I never knew cop rock existed until today and judging by that clip I think it has to be the worst show of all time
Hollywood + coke = bad ideas
Parker Lewis was so awesome!! Ive always thought of it like a cult TV classic, just because of its style.
I remembered the Bradys, Cop Rock, Uncle Buck, & Ferris Bueller. Its amazing how Jennifer Aniston career hit the jackpot after 2 flopped series
She had several, actually.
Not too surprising, both her parents were in Hollywood, ensuring their daughter would always be on the audition short list for sitcoms.
Her father John Aniston was most famous for acting on Soap Operas for decades.
Her mother Nancy Down was also a long time TV actress.
@@emptyhand777 Yeah, without them having been her parents, she would've hardly been known except for someone who was in those couple of failed 1990 sitcoms. She wouldn't have been on Friends, in Office Space, or Along Came Polly, they would've had a totally different actress playing those roles. I wonder if Lisa Kudrow would've played the characters in those latter 2 movies if Jennifer Aniston never made it past the early 90s failed sitcoms
Without her having 2 famous parents, her career wouldn't have taken off the way it did. Jennifer Aniston would've been much less well known since she would've only ever been seen in those 1990 failed sitcoms and she wouldn't have ever been in her career boosting hits Friends, Office Space, and Along Came Polly.
Jen Aniston isn't the only one who made it big with the help of famous relatives. How big would've Drew Barrymore been without her grandpa John Barrymore, her great uncle Lionel Barrymore, and her dad John Barrymore Jr.?
I can't remember which one it was, but if one of these series with Jennifer Aniston had been more successful, then Jen wouldn't have been available to be in "Friends".
Notice how a lot of these were based on films?
Maybe that was part of the problem. A lot of people probably didn't see the movies. Either that or were too young.
Yes
Outsiders is based on a book not a movie . The movie was based on a book
And I thought Hollyweird just recently ran out of new ideas 😂😂😂
I was going to say notice how many of them were rebooted.. lol
I can't believe there was someone, anyone, who thought "Cop Rock" was a good idea. 😂
Absolutely, positively, without a doubt the worst show of all time.
Cringe worthy
That's a total disaster.
I seriously wanted to leave that exact same comment😂
Fun fact: the guy who wrote that show also created doogie houser m d
Cop Rock was is still so embarrassing to even say.
The worst thing on TV that those who lived through it try to forget is "The Star Wars Holiday Special". The second worst thing we try to forget is "Cop Rock".
No Cop Rock was an abomination. Hands down……..
That "Cop Rock" musical was pretty cringe. Musicals and cop shows/movies don't mix. Can you imagine any good cop movies such as the Lethal Weapon or Beverly Hills Cop movies replacing their dialogues with musical numbers, or good cop shows like NYPD Blue replacing their dialogue with musical numbers? It sure as hell wouldn't work. I would not look at Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Eddie Murphy, or Dennis Franz the same way anymore
I believe it was Ninja Turtles on Broadway: Coming out of their shells😂😂😂😂😂
That's the worst!!!
Do you know there was another cop
Rock from think the 70's?
Remember the intro featuring the
Dancing police officer.
Nobody ever talks about that one just
The 90's one.
@@mpicc4808 one of their songs
Made the arcade intro in turtles in
Time.
There's only one UNCLE BUCK....JOHN CANDY R.I.P
I'd like to mention the one season of "American Gothic" from 1995. A setting and premise I never thought would appeal to me, but I somehow caught the first episode, and got hooked into its mysterious, kinda spooky tension and menacing undertone. Then it got cancelled and I was shocked. Never got that invested in a TV show again.
Oh yeah, I was a fan of that show as well. It came out with other odd shows on different networks, Profit was one of those, think that was fox. American Gothic was getting good then it was cancelled.
I loved American Gothic!
why mention that? this topic was the year 1990. how many of us can bring up shows we liked from other years? the f?
Loved that show
Thank you,I’ve been trying to remember the name of this show for years! I was a kid when this came out and loved!! it!..
Parker Lewis Can’t Lose was pretty good. He and David Faustino from Married with Children did a hilarious show about what happened to them after HollyWood. It’s called Starving. Had Coolio in it, Gilbert Godfrey, great show!
Thanks for the info. I need to check it out
I try to explain to people what starving is and how funny it is and how it kept crackle a float for a couple years. The married with children reunion episode😂😂😂😂😂
I remember the urban legend that Glen Jacobs was the bully in the show too
When the part about Ferris Bueller came on, I immediately thought "Man, this seems just like Parker Lewis." I loved that show. I was in maybe 6th grade at the time and that show gave me such high hopes for how cool high school would be. I was very disappointed, obviously.
Man, I would’ve NEVER guessed Sandra Bullock did a sitcom lol
I remember they aired that show on cable tv in the late 90s, I watched a few eps cos of Sandra. All I can say is it was cancelled for a reason!
Kinda weird how David Arquette and Jennifer Aniston were in two failed shows each in the same year.
David Marquette was married to Courtney Cox
@@W81Researcherdid you wear a helmet while you typed that?
Seems like 1990 was the year Jennifer Anniston couldn't catch a break managing to have two shows cancelled.
Even though those 90's shows were cancelled due to poor ratings, they are still better and more watchable than many TV shows of the 2010's and this decade are.
Especially compared to the fake faces of "reality shows".
Nah
Cop Rock is unwatchable in any decade.
Not even. You’re just gatekeeping.
@@stevencramsie9172I don’t think you know the meaning of that word.
That kid playing Ferris Bueller gives off serial killer vibes.
Definitely
He played a doctor on "Diagnosis Murder". Just thought I'd mention it.
He was on show called Diagnosis of Murder with Dick Van Dyck
Yea, weirdo vibes
People complain about too many TV reboots today, but there were just as many movie to TV reboots in the 90s.
That's Mike Finnegan in Cop Rock. An exceptional keyboard player who played on Hendrix's Electric Laydland as well as many others.
Parker Lewis is the reason why so many of us Gen Xers make sound effects as we go about our day.
I still say Synchronize Swatches to people and the have no idea what I’m talking about. Their loss.
Yes!
I just love seeing all these old shows just to see some familiar faces before they became, well, familiar faces.
😆 definitely
I remember a show called "Cupid" starring Jeremy Piven and Paula Marshall. It aired for only 15 episodes in 1998-99. It was a hip, smart romantic comedy with Piven claiming to actually be Cupid, the Roman God of Love, who has to unite 100 couples, without the use of any of his magic powers, in order to return to Mount Olympus. Marshall is the Psychologist assigned to his case. It was revived in 2009 with Bobby Cannavale and Sarah Paulson in the roles and that too was cancelled after an even lesser 7 episodes. I really loved the show and I believe you can find episodes on here.
I may add that one to the 1998 video
Cupid was awesome
I remember that show. I think the wife and I liked it. I was working nights and she, days didn't give me a lot of opportunity for new TV shows.
I remember that that show. I really liked it.
Good one. Me and my then girlfriend watched Cupid and liked it.
' They Came From Outer Space ', is one of the most underrated shows of the 1990's!
It was hilarious! I still miss it!
Great theme song too!
I remember watching that, Dracula, Shewolf of London and Out of this World. 🙂
But those 2 guys were Fools!!
Got to say, that cop caught me off guard. The last thing I was expecting is for him to start singing.
Weird, out of place, surreal. And the fact that I hate musicals doesn't help it one bit.
Parker Lewis was a good show highly emaginitive like being in and out of alternate world with some fantasy and Sci fi overtones I really liked it
I was so happy to find full episodes on youtube
Too bad meddling from studio execs ruined the show in its 3rd season.
Early Fox was such a damn great network. It's a shame it eventually became "just another network", because when it first started, they had a ton of fire TV shows that pushed the envelope.
Parker Lewis, Married with Children, In Living Color, The Simpsons, Get a Life, Beverly Hills 90210, even Herman's Head... just a ton of shows that were doing stuff that the "big" networks weren't doing at the time.
There was also two other failures from 1990 that didn't get a mention. One was a high school drama, Hull High, which like "Flop Rock" was a musical that lasted only 8 episodes, the other being a sung through pilot for a show called Shangri-la Plaza, which aired once on CBS.
I loved Hull High
Another 1990 show that suffered the same fate was The Flash tv series. It was produced basically because of the success of the Tim Burton Batman movie but didn't get a second season
Good one
I always liked that the 2014 flash brought back actor John Wesley Shipp from the 1990's Flash to play the Flash's father and also brought back Amanda Pays to reprise her role as Dr. Tina McGee.
I actually really liked that Flash series. The budget was pretty low though.
Mark Hamil was in it. I was like… NAAAAH
@@bjbell52. The Flash series started in 2014??? Good golly that’s a freaking long time ago. I caught it later on Netflix and watched a few seasons of it before I gave up. I admire it’s staying power, though.
Dammit! I have that cop rock show song stuck in my head now. 😭
The same thing happened to me while editing. I had to listen to it a lot.
If that is so remember "be careful out there."
I am EXTREMELY grateful for "Cop Rock" because I couldn't really clearly articulate why musicals are stupid.
"Cop Rock" illustrated this sentiment brilliantly.
Leonarado Dicaprio was in one moment of one scene from the pilot of the outsiders. He was never a a reoccurring character.
Yes
Who did Mayim Bialik know to star in TWO pilots airing on two major networks at the same time? Lots of the same actors seem to be in multiple pilots.
I think it was because of her appearance in the movie beaches.
I'm glad they chose Blossom because I LOVED that show. She had me wearing ugly hats too. I thought for sure that one day I would meet and marry Joey Lawrence 😂😂😂
In 1995 Andy Dick starred on two shows simultaneously, _Newsradio_ and the Fox version of _Get Smart._
Bette Middler.
They Came From Outer Space looked like a cross between "The Fugitive" and "Route 66".
I did watch The Bradys in 1990, and hey, let's face it! Weren't we all curious about how the writers would continue with them after their 1988 Christmas movie? I was! Also Greg's son was played by future Home Improvement star Jonathan Taylor Thomas! I also watched Going Places as well! At least Staci Keanan immediately found work that next season on Step By Step!
I seriously did not know Johnathan Taylor Thomas was in that thanks.
@@TheReviewStudios I didn't realize it either until my nephew pointed him out to me during a TV Land rerun of one of the Bradys' episodes! On this show, however, he was credited as Jonathan Weiss!
Christopher Castile was also in going places and on step by step playing Staci Keanan brother
My American Politics teacher screened Ferris Bueller's Day Off (the movie) in 10th grade. I'm not sure what the lesson was, though. I was in the Navy in '90 so none of those shows even made my radar.
But... what about your sonar?
Glub-glub-glub tssss.
Don't you mean sonar?
Fox still does this shit. “Our new show is doing great, let’s change that by changing the time slot.”
Well now that Disney owns them it'll be to your liking
Just the fact that they tried to make a series out of the phenomenal movie "The Outsiders" is cinematic sacrilege.
The book was the best.
There was a book.
I liked the Bradys TV show and I especially liked Gary Cole's interpretation of Mike Brady as sort of a slightly weird, maybe mildly creepy and humorous character in the movie version. Gary did a fun job with the Mike Brady character.
Ooooh! So YOURE the person who watched it! Wow, you’re like an urban legend. 😂
You are thinking the Brady movies from the 90's, not the tv show.
Gary Cole was in the MOVIE, not the TV show!! 😂😂😂😂😂
I suspect one reason why the Bradys didn't go over well with audiences were all the 80s Brady reunions like that unbelievably horrible Brady Bunch Variety Hour as well as the Brady Girls Get Married and A Very Brady Christmas and by the time this series appeared, fans of the original series were just sick of the entire concept. ABC kept hoping that all those baby boomers who grew up with the original series would watch these reunions out of a sense of nostalgia but the network tried to draw water from that well once too often and this time, it discovered that the well had finally dried up.
Gary Cole is great.
I was 20 in 1990 and I’m feeling considerably lucky I have never ever seen nor heard of any of this crap! I was out every minute I possibly could having fun! These shows look horrendous
Same
Going Places seemed like a reboot of Bosom Buddies with Holland Taylor playing basically the same boss role. Staci Keanan was funny in this.
Working Girl also starred Nana Visitor, who later became Major Kira on Star Trek Deep Space 9.
I totally love this series especially since I only had network TV growing up and no cable I was stuck watching many of these failures as a kid
So apparently TV shows based off movies don't do so well. And NBC was really trying hard to find something until Friends came along. They already had Seinfeld!
Seinfeld took a while to get going. Friends was huge right away. Seinfeld became the huge show we think of now in 94 when Friends premiered. NBC went from having one show that was 25th in the ratings to having the two biggest shows on TV almost overnight.
NBC had "Cheers" and "The Cosby Show", 2 hit shows, but both were coming to an end, that's probably why they were really trying hard to find something, just like you said.
As @mjwbulich said in his/her comment, it was not until season 3 or 4 for "Seinfeld" to become a popular show.
I would add that NBC really made it big with "ER" starting the same year than "Friends", having their famous Thursday evening which had "Seinfeld", "Friends" and "ER" for several years.
Another show in the 1990's to get canceled after 1 season was VR5: Young woman Sidney works in a telephone company and she is sure that her father, doctor Bloom, and sister died after an accident. Sidney's hobby is to play with virtual reality. She has found an ability in herself to enter into the human mind by using VR - Virtual Reality 5. Sidney is no ordinary person and an influential mysterious organization tries to use her.
I'll add that to the 1995 video. Thanks
VR5 came out in 1995. The title of this video are shows that flopped in the year 1990. You're five years off.
I liked VR.5!!
I almost gagged when they brought up Cop Rock. The premier had one of the most talked about scenes in TV history with its opening, and then they started to sing. There was nothing about it worth remembering except that they produced NYPD Blues right after Cop Rock disappeared.
I don’t remember any of them. When I was a kid in 1990 when my dad came home he had control over the tv.
I tried once to sit through the Brady Bunch reunion movie thing, and I fell asleep about a half hour in. To think they'd try to make a tv show like that, its no wonder it got canned.
Agreed, horrible. thanks for watching
I'm a geek and Brady fan. I would've watched it. In fact, I'm going to hunt down those few episodes. They have be somewhere online.
I've got a big DVD set that has the complete series of The Brady Bunch, The Brady Brides, The Brady Kids, The Bradys, all three Brady Bunch movies, and I think it has their Christmas movie too.
Not only that, but they changed the concept completely.
This was a drama series, rather than a comedy, so the change of tone didn't work, either.
@@thetaekwondoe3887I have seen them on TH-cam.
Ferris Buehler has that scene where Cameron and Ferris are playing basketball to Damn Yankees' High Enough. That song changed my life. Good enough for me.
They Came From Outer Space was on Saturday mornings for some reason when I grew up. My whole family watched and enjoyed it.
Wow! I never actually thought I’d find the worst tv show ever-cop rock is it! My god…
yes!
Actually, the cast of 'Going Places' originally wrote for a show called "Here's Looking At You", a modern version of "Candid Camera".
So apparently, it was both 😆 in episode 13. They changed jobs after here's looking at you was canceled.
Thank you for pointing that out.
i've lived my whole life blissfully unaware of Cop Rock until now
I *LOVED* They Came From Outer Space! I actually bought the DVD set on Amazon a few years ago.
Also, I remember this being the era where networks seemed to love producing shows based off popular movies. In the case of Ferris Bueller, it's ironic that a show that copied it (Parker Lewis) did better and was more entertaining. Also ironic that The Bradys aired against ABC's TGIF lineup as the original Brady Bunch was an ABC show.
And I absolutely remember Cop Rock because I thought the concept was ridiculous 😂. I do give them points for trying something outside the box. Makes me think of the show "Soap", a soap opera sitcom which sounds crazy but it worked.
I have absolutely no memory of They Came From Outer Space but, seeing the clip, I strongly remember those two guys as friends and the red car. I must have watched it? Weird.
I actually liked The Brady's. My family used to look forward to it every Friday, even though it was extremely corny. The rest of the shows I never really watched, although I do remember Cop Rock, Uncle Buck, and Ferris Bueller - however, Parker Lewis Can't Lose essentially WAS Ferris Bueller, and I really liked that show!
Cop Rock deserves the the number 1 spot, so bizarre…
I remember “They Came From Outer Space.” The bit with the opposite brother getting hurt when the other one got punched or kicked was actually a funny gag.
What? No Dark Shadows Revival from 1991?
I remember Going Places. I forgot the title but I used to tell folks there was a show with Heather Locklear that was based in SF and she lived with a group of folks. But could never remember the name. Thank you. Also I will never forgive Hollyweird for Cop Rock. That was just horrendous.
Down The Shore. Although it technically had 2 seasons, one of them was only as a summer replacement show. It started 6 people with a Jersey beach house. The 3 that went on to bigger things were Anna Gunn, Lew Schneider and Tom McGowan. (Schneider was more behind the scenes as a producer.)
Best of the bunch was Parker Lewis. When it came to bad TV, i use to say "This is the worst thing since Cop Rock.".😛
Agreed, I was able to watch a bunch of full episodes on youtube
It wasn't on the list. It was just mentioned because it was opposite the Ferris Bueller show.
Phenom should have been renewed on ABC. It was a good show! I’m surprised it didn’t make the list here! It only lasted one season.
Phenom is 1993. This is a list of just 1990
When I was in high school we went on a field trip to a live taping of that show.
Cop Rock is comedic genius 😂
You forgot to break into song🎵 while in the middle 🎤 of 🎶your sen😲tence.
Honestly if that show came out today it would be a hit
Parker Lewis can’t lose was one of my all time favorites!!
They Came From Outer Space wasn’t an NBC show. It was syndicated.
I remember Cop Rock, couldn't watch that show for no more 2 seconds
Cop Rock looked like something beyond cringy. 😮
Why do does industry insist on making Tv shows based on movies? And,why does the industry insist on remaking classic movies that were great? Can’t these people come up with new, good ideas for entertainment?
Yeah, I hate movie reboots, too.
Excellent video
I'm glad you liked it, thanks
I LOVED “The came from outer space!” All those cheesy upn shows were my jam. Super Force, Renegade, Outta this world, Superboy. 😂
Hard to see how the cops in Cop Rock get any work done what with breaking into extended song most of their shift.
😂😂😂
Parenthood was an excellent show and it deserved a long run!
I still believe that Cop Rock may actually be a misunderstood masterpiece that people (including myself, at least when I'm not drunk or high) are simply not cool and/or enlightened enough to "get"...
Mayim's epic dance moves at 3:15! Why did we never see those on BBT?
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*i suspect there are literally hundreds if not thousands of sitcoms/tv shows that were made and didnt even make it pass the pilot episode, let alone get cancelled after 1 season*
I was thinking the Cop Show on your thumbnail looked promising ... until I heard the premise. 😂
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Absolutely loved Cop Rock but it was very problematic in its time. I dread to think what would happen if they tried to make it again today with the same problems!!!
Pretty unique idea for sure. A reboot at the peak of glee's popularity might have worked.
He literally told y'all
PARKER LEWIS CAN'T LOSE !!!
Did you think he was lying ??? 😂😂😂
"Parker Lewis" was my shiggity....lol.
I really liked that show too!!
I'd heard about 'Cop Rock', but never saw actual footage. Shut looks absolutely unhinged lol.
Its weird how I vaguely remember all of these shows but I dont recall watching any of them. Probably because they had a whole summer of promos but aired maybe one episode and then died quietly.
I preferred Parker Lewis over Ferris Bueller too.
Thank You
The Brady's didn't stand a chance against Steve Urkel That Cop Rock exists is amazing
Its hard just getting past Ferris Bueller intro 😂
Many people made the point of how most of the shows were remakes/reduxes/releases/reunions of older shows and movies. I wonder if the reason a lot of them failed words, back then people were looking at these and wondering how much better than the movies or originals could they be, and we’re worrying that the 1990s decade was going to usher in an era of unoriginality. And therefore decided to shy away from them collectively.
The 90s was very original but people were getting tired in the late 90s with how bland things were. 2000 started to liven things a bit. This is how reality TV happened. Then within a few years things got too pretty.
Teenage aliens sure look like 35 year old actors
Yes
In the late 1980s/early 1990s, TV tried to capitalize on popular movies from theater. I know it wasn't in 1990, but there was also a Beverly Hills Cop sit-com.
Now that you mention it, I think I remember that.
My friends STILL remind me that I liked Cop Rock.
Nothing screams 90's like Dean Cameron and Stuart Fratkin
Agreed
Dean Cameron the poor man's Johnathan Silverman.
In any top video about US cancelled TV shows, you're sure you're gonna see "Cop Rock" at some point. lol
It still amazes me that Cop Rock got green lit.
Cop Rock was one of those fever dreams.....I want back !!!
How can you talk about Going Places and not mention Heather Locklear?! I liked the show. I never saw any of the other ones on this list.
It’s a good thing that Charlie found a spot on Diagnosis Murder,he did pretty well on it
They also did uncle buck a second time a few years ago
I think that one failed, too, right
I’m guessing if they aren’t still airing it 😂😜
Seeing those Cop Rock clips gave me PTSD
Fun fact; 'Going Places' was made by Lorimar, the same production company that made 'Full House' and 'Family Matters', and made the show to ensure that all the comedies that ran in the lucrative TGIF timeslot were owned by them.
And, even though it was solid in the ratings, Just the Ten of Us got cancelled to make room for it.
' They Came from Outer Space ', was absolutely hysterical-Gone way too soon!
Cop Rock is Glee for Police 😊
Outsiders was great but then again I was 9 years old so that whole Fox Sunday night line up was gold to me after church lol. I watched Jump Street, Simpsons, Booker, Outsiders. Rock, and In Living Color
What’s the name of this really obscure show that aired sometime between 1990-1992, probably went on for 1 season (if that), and seemed to be some sort of family drama show starring these anthropomorphic alien/lizard-headed husband and wife. I vaguely remember the husband being in some sort of law enforcement. Aside from their alien/lizard-like heads, the show appeared to be very human. Not sure what the premise of the show was about. I keep replaying the intro of that show in my head as of late….please if someone can remember, I’ll be appreciative as heck 😂
I can safely say that I didn't see most of these shows...and miss none of them.