Best/Worst TV Spinoffs [Archive]

Hornicane

09-29-2009, 02:25 PM

My favourites would probably be Daria, Law and Order: SVU, and the Colbert Report.

At the risk of sounding DAMN iNATOR-esque, Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego was really upsetting to me.

DaveBrawl

09-29-2009, 02:33 PM

Which is also fucking awful.

Glad I'm not alone in that thought.

Ol Dirty Dastard

09-29-2009, 02:42 PM

I don't think it was a spinoff of everybody loves raymond, they just did crossovers.

weather vane

09-29-2009, 02:42 PM

King of Queens is mint.

parkmania

09-29-2009, 02:45 PM

Happy Days (Which itself was a spinoff from Love, American Style) had several spinoffs:

Laverne & Shirley

Mork & Mindy

Joanie Loves Chachi

wwe2222

09-29-2009, 03:06 PM

Frasier is probably the best.

I really like King of Queens.

Joey was pretty bad.

Seth82

09-29-2009, 03:11 PM

The Jeffersons were a great spinoff of All In The Family

However they had some other spinoffs that were bad such as Gloria, Archie's Place and Maude

Law and Order SVU is a fantastic spinoff as well

Gertner

09-29-2009, 03:31 PM

King of Queens is pretty damn good.

Gertner

09-29-2009, 03:32 PM

Under rated spin off that got cancelled too fast was The Critic from The Simpsons.

parkmania

09-29-2009, 04:06 PM

Hey wait!

Best Spin-off EVER: The Simpsons! (spun off from The Tracey Ullman Show)

Lock Jaw

09-29-2009, 04:24 PM

The Love-Matic Grandpa

Hanso Amore

09-29-2009, 04:43 PM

I did not like 60 Minutes II.

Juan

09-29-2009, 04:45 PM

King of Queens is mint.

Supreme Olajuwon

09-29-2009, 04:58 PM

Saved By The Bell, Sesame Street, and The Muppets are all great spinoffs

ct2k

09-29-2009, 04:58 PM

Fuck off, if you think anything about KOQ is 'mint' other than Leah Remini's backside you're probably on crack, cracka

Supreme Olajuwon

09-29-2009, 04:59 PM

I like Patton Oswalt, but King of Queens is bad.

parkmania

09-29-2009, 05:52 PM

Never gave a rat's ass about KoQ.

Here's my summary of what I saw of KoQ: "I'm a fat fuck with an unbelieveably hot wife that's way too good for me. Now LAUGH Mutherfuckers!"

Kris P Lettus

09-29-2009, 05:54 PM

The Jeffersons were a great spinoff of All In The Family

:y:

I have a shirt with Sherman Helmsly on it..

Seth82

09-29-2009, 05:54 PM

King of Queens is horrible

can't believe it lasted as long as it did

Kris P Lettus

09-29-2009, 05:56 PM

Saved By The Bell

Saved by the Bell isn't really a "spin off".. They just made some character changes and storyline rewrites from "Good Morning, Miss Bliss" (e.g. moving the school from like Ohio to Cali) when NBC bought it from Disney..

Supreme Olajuwon

09-29-2009, 07:15 PM

They took characters from the old show, put them in a new setting, and gave the show a different name. That's pretty much the definition of a spin off.

Cool King

09-29-2009, 07:38 PM

The majority of mine are cartoons from when I was a kid. These are all what I consider to be good spin-offs.

Freakazoid! and Pinky and The Brain. (Animaniacs)

Taz-Mania and Tiny Toon Adventures. (Looney Tunes)

The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World. (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show)

Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, The Powerpuff Girls and Courage the Cowardly Dog. (What a Cartoon! Show)

Porridge and Open All Hours. (Seven of One)

Rab C. Nesbitt. (Naked Video)

Phoenix Nights and Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere. (That Peter Kay Thing)

Bad Company

09-29-2009, 07:49 PM

NCIS is sweet, and Boston Legal.

Triple Naitch

09-29-2009, 07:51 PM

So mad at guys talking shit on King of Queens. :mad:

Triple Naitch

09-29-2009, 07:59 PM

Joey was pretty bad.

mitchables

09-29-2009, 09:01 PM

I quite like Criminal Intent over SVU - the earlier seasons, anyway. As they progressed I'd say they switched.

Not sure about this Trial by Jury and Law and Order: UK business, though. Although to be fair, I haven't ever watched either. Just the premises alone bother me I guess. Can UK cops even carry guns? I thought they couldn't. It has been years since I last watched 'The Bill'.

mitchables

09-29-2009, 09:01 PM

Oh also Torchwood was fucking horrible.

mitchables

09-29-2009, 09:02 PM

Also I don't really care for either CSI spin-off. If I had to pick one that was slightly less mediocre than the other, I would probably say New York over Miami, but only because David Caruso bothers me. NYPD Blue flashbacks. Traumatising stuff.

mitchables

09-29-2009, 09:03 PM

ALSO The Critic was not a spin-off of the Simpsons, it was just created by two of its writers. Completely independent show.

ClockShot

09-29-2009, 09:37 PM

Best: Frasier, NCIS, Angel, Diff'rent World

Worst: Trapper John M.D., new Knight Rider

KYR

09-29-2009, 09:42 PM

'After MASH' was awful.

weather vane

09-29-2009, 10:26 PM

So mad at guys talking shit on King of Queens. :mad:

Kris P Lettus

09-29-2009, 10:49 PM

They took characters from the old show, put them in a new setting, and gave the show a different name. That's pretty much the definition of a spin off.

Not really.. A spin off is taking a character (or characters) and doing that.. They pretty much just revamped the show with a mostly new cast, making Zack the star instead of Ms. Bliss.. Saved By the Bell the College Years or Saved by the Bell The New class are spin offs..

Droford

09-29-2009, 11:07 PM

Lone Gunmen from X Files was just a really terrible idea and I guess 9/11 didnt help any.

Lock Jaw

09-29-2009, 11:36 PM

That 80s Show was a pretty lame attempt. Though I don't know if that can technically be called a spin-off.

Also:

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Shadow

09-29-2009, 11:50 PM

The majority of mine are cartoons from when I was a kid. These are all what I consider to be good spin-offs.

Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, The Powerpuff Girls and Courage the Cowardly Dog. (What a Cartoon! Show)

Not spin-offs. what a Cartoon! was designed to give those shows some exposure and to test the waters for the audience. In fact only one of those shows is a spin-off. I Am Weasel! is a spin off of Cow and Chicken.

Gertner

09-30-2009, 02:07 AM

Awesome Spin off: Melrose Place from Beverly Hills 90210.

Skippord

09-30-2009, 02:29 AM

King Of Queens is like 40 times better than Everybody Loves Raymond

so I guess that's a good spin off

Drakul

09-30-2009, 02:39 AM

Here's my summary of what I saw of KoQ: "I'm a fat fuck with an unbelieveably hot wife that's way too good for me. Now LAUGH Mutherfuckers!"

That's pretty much the premise behind almost all US sitcoms along with the fat guy being a moron. If it's not, it's usually a show that originated elsewhere.

Frasier is the exception and that's one of the reasons I thought it was so good and the best spin-off of an American show by a long way.

Porridge and Open All Hours are great spin-offs but if I go by Shadows post, Porridge and Open All Hours wouldn't count as spin-offs because Seven of One was designed to try out different concepts for a Ronnie Barker sitcom, which gave birth to Porridge and Open All Hours.

Red Dwarf is a spin-off of Son of Cliche, an old radio show. So I'd say that, Frasier, Porridge and Open All Hours (if they count) are the best.

Boondock Saint

09-30-2009, 02:42 AM

The Hills

El Vaquero de Infierno

09-30-2009, 07:59 AM

Angel

ClockShot

09-30-2009, 08:04 AM

Battlestar Galactica.

Cool King

09-30-2009, 08:23 AM

Not spin-offs. what a Cartoon! was designed to give those shows some exposure and to test the waters for the audience. In fact only one of those shows is a spin-off. I Am Weasel! is a spin off of Cow and Chicken.

Oh right.

I thought What A Cartoon! was just a show full of cartoon shorts, and those cartoons I listed received a lot of positive feedback from fans so they gave them there own shows. :-\

Kindof like Joey. During Friends, the character was pretty popular so they just gave him his own show after Friends finished. The major difference being that those cartoons were awesome, and Joey simply wasn't.

Seth82

09-30-2009, 09:04 AM

Dallas - Knots Landing

Knots Landing was supposed to be a good spinoff back in the day

Can't really remember it

Gertner

09-30-2009, 11:06 AM

The Hills

Well played!

The Destroyer

09-30-2009, 11:45 AM

Oh also Torchwood was fucking horrible.
Correct, it was horrible. But has improved immensely. :y:

El Vaquero de Infierno

09-30-2009, 11:48 AM

Correct, it was horrible. But has improved immensely. :y:

The children of earth mini series was great.

Shaggy

09-30-2009, 12:18 PM

Angel is probably my favorite spinoff....

Lock Jaw

09-30-2009, 06:05 PM

Battlestar Galactica.

How is that a spinoff? Unless you're talking about that Galactica 1980 show or something...

El Vaquero de Infierno

09-30-2009, 06:12 PM

Unless you're talking about that Galactica 1980 show or something...

That was god awful.

The Mask

09-30-2009, 06:24 PM

yeah KOQ only crossovered everybody loves raymond. they are both pretty cack but i still watch them loads for some reason.

frasier is probably the best.

i'll be honest, if KOQ had someone more like roseanne and less like leah remini i would have lasted about 1 minute.

The Mask

09-30-2009, 06:24 PM

it was weird seeing a young leah remini as carla's daughter in cheers too :'(

The Mask

09-30-2009, 06:25 PM

speaking of, didn't they do a "the tortelli's" after cheers but it bombed?

Boondock Saint

09-30-2009, 07:28 PM

Golden Palace

Droford

09-30-2009, 07:31 PM

I was looking things up and I saw this, which I never even knew about:

Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinky,_Elmyra_%26_the_Brain)

Lock Jaw

09-30-2009, 08:09 PM

Oh yeah. That pretty much put an end to the Warner Bros "Saturday Morning Cartoon" show era.

LoDownM

09-30-2009, 09:16 PM

I never saw that shit, thank god.

Juan

09-30-2009, 09:23 PM

It wasn't that bad.

Xerzes

10-01-2009, 02:12 AM

Jamie Kellner is responsible for the utter shit that was Pinky, the Brain and Elmyra. He also killed Frakazoid and WCW.

And who the crap said Freakazoid was a spinoff? It was never on Animaniacs.

Sixx

10-01-2009, 05:17 PM

I think I might be one of the only 3 people in the world that enjoyed Joey.

Hornicane

10-04-2009, 04:52 PM

There were 2 more?

Sixx

10-04-2009, 05:50 PM

There were 2 more?

Yes, I sometimes made my gf and my friend watch it with me.

Sixx

10-04-2009, 05:50 PM

Oh, wait. This just means there were 3 viewers. Nevermind.

Savio

10-05-2009, 11:44 AM

NCIS is the worst show ever

El Vaquero de Infierno

10-05-2009, 11:47 AM

NCIS is the worst show ever

Fuck you, cock-muncher!:foc::mad::mad::foc:

Savio

10-05-2009, 11:49 AM

sorry but the dialog is complete shit

Anybody Thrilla

10-05-2009, 12:26 PM

Saved by the Bell isn't really a "spin off".. They just made some character changes and storyline rewrites from "Good Morning, Miss Bliss" (e.g. moving the school from like Ohio to Cali) when NBC bought it from Disney..

The first show was actually in Indiana, not Ohio.