Best/Worst TV Spinoffs
 

OK.. Discuss the best and worst TV Spinoffs

I gotta go with Frasier off the bat as it was a damn good spinoff of Cheers and lasted about as long

I liked Xena.

Best: King of Queens was pretty good.

Worst: Joey. I hated friends and the Joey spin off was terrible too.

King of Queens is fucking terrible.

Frasier is the best IMO.

What did King of Queens spin off?

Stargate Atlantis was decent enough.

Everybody Loves Raymond

Family Matters is a good spin off.

Which is also fucking awful.

Glad I'm not alone in that thought.

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

King of Queens is mint.

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

Laverne & Shirley

Mork & Mindy

Joanie Loves Chachi

Frasier is probably the best.

I really like King of Queens.

Joey was pretty bad.

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

King of Queens is pretty damn good.

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

Hey wait!

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

The Love-Matic Grandpa

I did not like 60 Minutes II.

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

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

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

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!"

:y:

I have a shirt with Sherman Helmsly on it..

King of Queens is horrible

can't believe it lasted as long as it did

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..

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.

NCIS is sweet, and Boston Legal.

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

Joey was pretty bad.

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'.

Oh also Torchwood was fucking horrible.

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.

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

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

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

'After MASH' was awful.

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..

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

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

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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.

Awesome Spin off: Melrose Place from Beverly Hills 90210.

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

so I guess that's a good spin off

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.

The Hills

Angel

Battlestar Galactica.

Dallas - Knots Landing

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

Can't really remember it

Well played!

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

The children of earth mini series was great.

Angel is probably my favorite spinoff....

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

That was god awful.

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.

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

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

Golden Palace

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

Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain

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

I never saw that shit, thank god.

It wasn't that bad.

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.

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

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

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

NCIS is the worst show ever

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

sorry but the dialog is complete shit

The first show was actually in Indiana, not Ohio.

I remember there was a show Three's a Crowd that was a spinoff of Three's Company and it didn't last long.