What movie or TV show do you cringe at watching now that you use to enjoy watching ?

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I was listening to a podcast today that deals with cover songs and believe it or not there is a cover song of Zip-A-Dee Doo Dah by the founder of the Cars. It is a very sad version but the host of the podcast talked about movies and/or TV shows that we enjoyed earlier in life but no longer enjoy. Zip-A-Dee Doo Dan is an example is of a song that we all might love but from a movie that is no longer even offered by Disney because of the unrealistic ways it portrayed Life In The South at those times.Gone With the Wind would be another example of a movie that is well done but hard to watch these day. other examples of movies/TV shows I use to enjoy but make me cringe now for whatever reason are..

The Andy Griffith Show- I loved the show but now that I am older I have many questions about Mayberry

Cheers- I know it is a classic comedy and I recognize that but it is hard to watch it now. It seems so dated for so many reasons. I can watch Frazier though any day of the week and laugh at all the old jokes I have heard many times befor

Any 50's show such as Leave it To Beaver or Daddy Knows Best-The great film Pleastenville took care of my questions for those shows.

Again, I know these shows were produced in a different time and space and at the time I loved them but now it hard for me to watch them without cringing at times.
 

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Seinfeld

when they changed writers

the trite but funny became excruciatingly unfunny

(I know this isn't quite what yer asking, but just wanted to get that out there)
 
I agree . There is no right or wrong answer anyway.
 

A lot of old TV shows are high on the cheese-factor. I can remember my kids asking if "it really was like that in the OLD days." :D Remember how the old sitcoms always had twin beds if a bedroom was shown? Geesh.

And as for cringe-factor... I'm no prude but I can't take much of the explicit scenes on "regular" TV these days. So maybe the twin beds weren't such a bad idea after all.
 
C'est Moi said:
A lot of old TV shows are high on the cheese-factor. I can remember my kids asking if "it really was like that in the OLD days." :D Remember how the old sitcoms always had twin beds if a bedroom was shown? Geesh.

And as for cringe-factor... I'm no prude but I can't take much of the explicit scenes on "regular" TV these days. So maybe the twin beds weren't such a bad idea after all.
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I tend to agree C'est Moi. The PC Police make sure we have to accept everything these days and stifle our speech so fine, I get it.

But there's not a lot of viewing out there that's NOT about death, fighting, killing, torture, robbery and really cringe worthy stuff. That's considered normal human "entertainment" because I guess we're still apes.

Can't laugh at ourselves anymore, either. But line up for the popcorn when say, people are being blasted to high heaven, gouged, bloodied or burned alive.

End of rant
 
I used to watch all the old sitcoms back in the day, but I can't watch them anymore. They were good at the time, so that's pretty successful. Sometimes in the kitchen when we're eating supper, we'll catch the old reruns of The Drew Carey Show, few chuckles there.
 
One of today's shows that I liked to watch in the beginning is This Is Us. But the continual back and forth between past and present just started getting on my nerves. And then when the grandfather died that just kind of ended my watching the show.
 
C'est Moi said:
There is some Game Channel or something that plays the old "Match Game" with Gene Whats-his-name from the 70's. I am ASTONISHED at some of the sexual innuendo and what passed for humor on those old game shows.
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HI C'Est Moi,the host of the original Match Game was Gene Rayburn Sue
 
I'd like to see some station show re-runs of All in the Family. However, in today's "politically correct" world, that will probably never happen...Archie Bunker would be castigated on Facebook and Twitter.
 
When the NBC sitcom,"Will and Grace' first aired '98-'06,thought it was funny. .Sean Hayes 'Jack' and Meghan Mullahy'Karen' were hysterical together,nearly stole the show from Eric McCormick"Will" and Debra Messing'Grace". She was my least favorite character,don't think she is a good comedic actress.
I watched 1 episode of the revival of the show,ho hum,haven't watched again. If there ever is a spinoff with Sean&Meghan's characters,I would watch Sue
 
Don M. said:
I'd like to see some station show re-runs of All in the Family. However, in today's "politically correct" world, that will probably never happen...Archie Bunker would be castigated on Facebook and Twitter.
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No, in today's world it's true he would be castigated on FB and Twitter, but would do well in the Presidential election :laugh: I'm joking but "Politically Correct" is not exactly popular these days.
 
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