10 TV Shows So Bad They're Actually Funny, According To Reddit
The TV landscape has changed in the past decade because of streaming services like Netflix, which has enabled viewers to watch just about any show they want to at any time. This has led to many viewers following shows that they don’t think are good but yet they find a special kind of amusement in them.
Some of these shows have received good critical reviews but that doesn’t mean they have entertained everyone out there. On other occasions, Redditors have noted some TV series to be worth a watch because of how much they’ve dropped in quality, and their opinions are highly amusing to read.
Redditor kramglass says that Rose Red is “always fun for a good corny laugh,” which isn’t exactly wrong, seeing as the series has extremely hammy dialogue. It might be Stephen King’s preferred adaptation of his work since he was involved in writing the screenplay, but the miniseries is just too melodramatic to be taken seriously.
The story involves a haunted mansion that is investigated by a team of psychics and the horrors that follow once they enter. The show has a rather poor production value that hinders the scares it attempts and it is unintentionally funny for those who don't get scared too easily.
Redditor Carrman099 finds this show particularly funny because in “every episode, the host just threatens to fight the bar owners.” The premise is about food and beverage consultant, Jon Taffer, who visits nightclubs and pubs that are failing to try and bring them back to life.
However, the show hilariously fails just about almost every time that the confrontational Taffer gets in the owner's face and they get into a screaming match. It appears that viewers mainly like to watch how the show’s intention never comes to fruition and stay tuned to witness the chaos.
Redditor mynameis4826 doesn’t think this show is all that good, but finds it funny when host Guy Fieri makes “some offhand joke about how funny-sounding the name of the restaurant is.” Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives is about Fieri’s road trips, during which he stops off at different restaurants to critique them.
More often than not, Fieri goes on to make fun of the people running the restaurants, which has made him notorious among viewers. Even those who don’t know much about Guy Fieri might be aware of the many remarks he's made, which brings somewhat of a hammy quality to the series.
This political thriller starring Kiefer Sutherland is notable for the way it started off with superb reviews but the following seasons took a nosedive. Redditor AKenjiB found its more ludicrous aspects very funny, such as its tendency to present “cliffhangers that are resolved immediately in the next episode with little consequence.”
The story is about a man with little political experience who becomes the U.S. president after everyone in the line of succession is killed. Many felt that the show became too reliant on shock value in later seasons, to the point where viewers found it amusing how many times curveballs were thrown, just to be eliminated by the next episode.
Dance Moms is about the ALDC Junior Elite Competition Team which competes in tournaments across the U.S., but the main hook is about the children’s mothers butting heads with trainer Abby Lee Miller. There are many moments when things go overboard, which the show arguably took too far.
Redditor TedIsReal claims the series “actually edits in lines of dialogue and sometimes put it in the wrong order,” which they find hilarious. The bickering between the mothers pretty much became the premise of the show, with viewers tuning in to be amused by their over-the-top antics.
Even the most ardent of fans agree that 13 Reasons Why was best in its first season, with the series taking a major hit in quality later on. Redditor MacMalarkey claims the bad quality is “the only reason I continued [after] season 1 and watched season 2.”
Starting off as a drama about a teenage boy who found out why a former classmate took her life through various recordings, the show went off the rails in the next seasons by becoming a murder mystery. Critical reviews tanked, but certain viewers, like this Redditor, seem to have hung on because they got a kick out of it.
Chopped has a relatively bizarre premise in which the contestants have to come up with a dish made from unexpected or outlandish ingredients. Redditor Noctis_Cloud sums it up as the show providing “a bunch of sh*t to see if anyone can make anything edible.”
What’s funny about this take is that it really is what happens in every episode, with even more unlikely ingredients coming into play as the series has progressed. It’s gotten to the point where viewers want to see how far things can go, even if it has arguably been at the expense of the show’s quality.
A show that hasn’t aged well and has been rebooted by Jared Padalecki to fit modern standards, Redditor nakfoor finds its passe aspect funny, noting that “most of the episodes were about his love interest Alex being kidnapped.” The damsel-in-distress trope isn’t relevant these days and has ventured into the satirical territory by now.
But those who get a kick out of tired tropes still find the series entertaining, especially since the majority of conflicts make no sense. It stars Chuck Norris as the titular ranger who has a Wild West mentality and solves issues in his community by throwing around roundhouse kicks at his enemies.
Another show notable for its drop in quality for some fans, Riverdale is a dramatic take on Archie comics and still has viewers because they enjoy the downturn. Redditor SendEldritchHorrors claim they’ve stayed on to see the show “go completely off the rails.”
Starting out as a drama about high school students, the series is now a strange blend of murder mystery, criminal empires, and teen hookups, among other themes. While it has a dedicated fanbase, a lot of viewers come from those who just want to be tickled by the constant twists and turns.
Low production value can often incite laughs and the Goosebumps series brought that aplenty. Its stories weren’t the worst but suffered from a low-budget, with Redditor xvalicx claiming the episodes have “a certain charm to them, even if they're kind of garbage.”
Based on the children’s horror series by R. L. Stine, the show was popular even though its effects haven't aged well. The scares work best in print because fans can imagine them, but the show’s smaller budget couldn’t bring the desired outcome, even for the time, and many watch it for nostalgia or for cheesy entertainment.