Dumbest Events In Television History - a quiz

[Sir O]

There's a book, What Were They Thinking?: The 100 Dumbest Events In Television History by David Hofstede and Tom Bergeron, that chronicles the authors' opinions of the worst moments in (American) television history.

Anyway, I got this idea for a quiz: I'm going to give the dates and networks of numbers 11-1, skipping 6 (the quiz show scandals, which really didn't have a specific date), and let's see if you can guess what they were.

11. January 23, 1977-May 6, 1977, ABC
10. November 17, 1968, NBC
9. February 15, 2000, FOX
8. April 27, 1986, syndicated
7. September 22, 1979-September 6, 1986, ABC
5. January 5-6, 2002, CNN
4. January 20, 1961, CBS
3. September 30, 1991-present, syndicated
2. September 26, 1986, CBS
1. November 17, 1978, CBS

[Galt]

I say #3 is Jerry Springer
#9 is who wants to marry a millionaire

I'm lost for anything else.

[Sir O]

I say #3 is Jerry Springer
#9 is who wants to marry a millionaire

Damn...right you are. Nice.

[Galt]

this is a really cool idea but I can't think of anything else.

Could 7 be battle of the network stars?

[Black Lazerus]

11 Brady bunch variety hour.

[Galt]

can we get more context? some of these things might not be "dumb" I wouldn't call the Quiz show thing "dumb". Without obviously tipping your hand, are we looking for scandals? Horrible shows? On air fuckups? big flops? Shows that were a discrace to standards?

Is #8 Al Capone's vault?



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[Sir O]

Could 7 be battle of the network stars?

No, but a great guess. That show ran from 76 to 88...

11 Brady bunch variety hour.

Correct...how the fuck does a black man know this?

[Sir O]

Is #8 Al Capone's vault?

Yes...you're good.

[Galt]

cuz if it's "dumb" why isn't Cop Rock on the list? or that time when Monday Night Football pre-empted the last 2 minutes to show some stupid gay TV movie? Or during the Election fiasco when they called the election for Gore and then Bush and then neither.

[Sir O]

can we get more context? some of these things might not be "dumb" I wouldn't call the Quiz show thing "dumb". Without obviously tipping your hand, are we looking for scandals? Horrible shows? On air fuckups? big flops? Shows that were a discrace to standards?

I guess you could call it "TV moments/times that those responsible would rather forget".

Cop-rock was ranked much lower than it should have been...

[Bloody Anus]

2 must be the "Patrick Duffy isn't really dead" thing

[Sir O]

or that time when Monday Night Football pre-empted the last 2 minutes to show some stupid gay TV movie?

um...guess

[Sir O]

2 must be the "Patrick Duffy isn't really dead" thing

Indeed. The Dallas dream.

[fbd]

is 1 the heidi bowl? i'm pretty sure that was in the 70s, and thats the only 70s one in football season

[Sir O]

Heidi Bowl is indeed one, but not #1.

[fbd]

i thought one would be too high for it, but i was going with the seventies...switching the guess to 10, since i'm pretty sure it was nbc now that i think about it

[Sir O]

Correct

[Galt]

none of those could be the Heidi Bowl, could they? First, I thought it was on ABC. and Second, i thought it was in the mid-late 70s

[Sir O]

Heidi Bowl was November 17, 1968, #10 on the list, as fdblingfrg correctly guessed. Unless the book is wrong, it was on NBC...but Google is telling me it's not

[Galt]

I'm sure the book is right. I had no idea Monday Night Football was ever on a station that wasn't ABC.