No Oprah?

Married with Children is one of the best shows ever. The reruns are still funny

why on Earth is Til Death still on? I thought they canceled it a while ago, yet it's still on Sundays.

Apparently, this is only for American television. Otherwise, Heil Honey I'm Home would have made the list.

How quickly we forget. What about Robert Morton Downey Jr? (new window)

ozone: Sounds like somebody doesn't understand the concept of satirical political commentary.

This. Most of those shows are satire. Springer I can - and did - take offense to, because of its shameless pandering and encouragement of human behavior that I'd prefer to nuke from orbit. It's not the subject matter, it's the incredible stupidity that it glorifies that bothers me.

Jackass and Married... With Children have at least some self-awareness to them, but are not done cleverly enough to qualify as satire and do nothing to enlighten their target audiences. They ultimately end up promoting their respective brands of idiocy rather than skewering them.

The rest, though, are explicitly satirical. If you're offended by them, it's because you're not getting it. Or you are getting it, but you subscribe to the ignorance that's being lampooned.

SnakeLee: Only South Park! Stan, Cartman, Kyle, Kenny, and the rest of the South Park crew return in a new controversial season beginning March 17.

While I don't disagree with the list, it smells of someone at Comedy Central throwing the author of TFA $50 to write it as a roundabout way to promote South Park

THIS. Something about it just felt so forced.

Paris1127: The author's confusion of it's and its offended me more than the shows in the article...

...And a side order of THAT.

vernonFL: I always thought that "Hogan's Heroes" was an interesting concept.

Could you imagine a network today coming out with a comedy show set in a Nazi POW camp?

It's like 'Allo Allo!. Can you imagine a network today coming out with a comedy about a cowardly Frenchman collaborating with Nazis and helping the resistance only when threatened?

No Firefly?
No Arrested Development?

/kneejerk post

having worked on the final season of Til Death, I'm getting a kick out of Subby's headline.

Mr. Chainsaw: I'm very surprised to not see It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia on that list. The main characters are the most amoral assholes on television.

Came here to say this. I'm guessing it doesn't have enough exposure yet to qualify.

/love that show

Maury Povich? Ricky Lake? Sally Jesse Raphael?

I honestly don't know how any of them manage to sleep at night.

Diogenes: Now, for a truly offensive show, I'd look to The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer.

The most offensive thing about that show was that it was an uncredited and blatent copy of "Blackadder III" set during the Lincoln Administration rather than the Regency of George IV.

Mr. Chainsaw: I'm very surprised to not see It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia on that list. The main characters are the most amoral assholes on television.

And they always get what's coming to them. They certainly do not benefit from their amorality.

No Fark TV?

Tatsuma: If there's no 'Brass Eye' on the list, then it's not the right list.

UK shows almost never make these kinds of lists.

I expected to be yet another list of shows that I never watched, since I hardly watch anything at all anymore. 3 that I liked, and 3 others that I watched on occasion. My memories of All in the Family are too faint.

I never watched Jackass, the Ali-G Show, Jerry Springer, or Family Guy.

When I was in 4th grade the teacher made us write letters protesting a show called "Apple's Way". I had not watched the show, nor as far as I could tell had any of the other students. but write protest letters we did. The teach got fired a couple of weeks later, probably because someone told their parents. I think the show lasted 2-3 episodes before being cancelled

I_Am_Weasel: No Mary Hartmann, Mary Hartmann?

Waxy yellow buildup offends me.