Month: May 2025

I’ve been digging deep, reading tons of reviews from way back in the early days of TV right up to today. I looked through newspapers, magazines, and online review sites. In this video, I’m going to share the five sitcoms that, according to both the public and the critics, were just… not funny. I’ll be counting them down in the order they first aired, so get ready for some laughs (or maybe not!).

I’ve talked about other shows that were pretty controversial, but those usually got cancelled after just one episode aired. These two shows, though, actually made it onto TV for a while – one even ran for years!

Both shows were slammed by critics and the public, but unfortunately, some people actually admired the characters and their awful views. One show relied on its main character performing long, angry rants, while the other used a ton of racial slurs and even had a character in ‘blackface’! It’s pretty shocking stuff.

Schools, students and teachers have always been a rich source of material for television shows. There is an easily recognised dynamic of us versus them – children versus teachers, and it’s not always the teachers on the winning side. So, it comes as no surprise that some of the school based sitcoms will end up being judged as controversial in some way.

This video covers the most controversial school related sitcoms from three different types of school in three time periods. Two of these sitcoms lasted a number of years, but one had its first series cancelled after only two episodes had been broadcast.