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Who wrote these and who let them air?! For this list, we’ll be looking at some of the weirdest, and most controversial, shows to hit the airwaves.
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00:00 - This stroll is going to give me insight
00:01 into how these guys are going to be
00:03 strong and protective fathers.
00:04 - Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down
00:08 our picks for the top 10 what the F
00:11 were they thinking TV shows.
00:13 ♪ If you wanna be the beast ♪
00:16 ♪ Take your place in life ♪
00:19 For this list, we'll be looking at some of the weirdest
00:22 and most controversial shows to hit the airwaves.
00:25 What show surprised you the most?
00:27 Let us know in the comments down below.
00:30 Number 10, Naked Education.
00:34 - I enjoyed being me, and I continue to enjoy being me.
00:38 - It's no surprise that Naked Education
00:41 caused a stir in the UK.
00:43 The program strives to teach teenagers
00:45 about body positivity, but does so by having adults
00:48 strip naked in front of them.
00:50 - Can we ask you to take off your robes, please?
00:52 - Oh, this is really happening.
00:54 (laughing)
00:56 - Although some have applauded the show's
00:58 frank discussion about the human body,
01:00 many more have expressed their discomfort
01:03 with the show's shocking method of teaching,
01:05 and it's hard to blame them, given the unfortunately long
01:08 history of abuse of power in entertainment settings.
01:12 While it's certainly true that people of all ages
01:14 should be exposed to a larger variety of body types
01:17 in media, we're not sure that a gimmick-based
01:20 teen reality show is the place to do it.
01:22 - What do you think about female bodies?
01:25 - I think they're amazing.
01:27 - Number nine, Cavemen.
01:29 - You know what this reminds me of?
01:31 The time I saw Boys Don't Cry with my mom.
01:33 That's how uncomfortable I feel right now.
01:35 - Let this be a lesson to every company
01:37 with viral advertisements.
01:39 Just because a concept works well
01:41 for a minute-long commercial, doesn't mean
01:43 it will work well for a half-hour sitcom.
01:46 This comedy show based on the popular series
01:48 of ads by Geico lasted for seven episodes
01:51 before being pulled from US airwaves.
01:53 - I'm tired, and I'm ready for the best part of the week,
01:56 and that's the weekend!
01:57 Okay, maybe a little classy.
02:00 - I love this guy.
02:00 - This was little over half of its commissioned
02:03 13-episode first season.
02:04 For some who caught the show,
02:06 it was seven episodes too many.
02:08 In addition to being a dumb one-note joke of a concept,
02:11 the series was accused of using its protagonist
02:13 as a racist metaphor for the plight of real-life minorities.
02:17 - The robbery was caught by this in-store security camera.
02:20 - Great, why'd it have to be a caveman?
02:22 - Of course it's a caveman.
02:24 They only put it on TV when it's a caveman.
02:26 - Just bad decisions all around.
02:29 Number eight, Boy Meets Boy.
02:31 - James is very striking.
02:33 He's got really great eyes,
02:34 which is something I always have a weakness for,
02:37 so that's kinda great.
02:38 - Boy Meets Boy made history as the first
02:40 same-gender dating show on American television,
02:43 which makes its messy premise all the more unfortunate.
02:46 It focused on a gay man in his 30s named James,
02:49 who courted 15 men in an attempt to decide
02:52 which was the one.
02:53 - Must be nice having all these guys compete for you, huh?
02:55 - We'll see.
02:56 - The twist, some of those 15 men were straight,
02:59 and James had to weed them out
03:01 if he wanted to win the show's $25,000 reward.
03:04 The series' sheer existence was unquestionably influential
03:08 to the future of reality TV,
03:10 but at the time, it was hard for many viewers
03:12 to look past the mean-spirited nature of the show's conceit.
03:15 - I think that may have just been the nail
03:17 in the coffin of my career.
03:19 - Number seven, Labor of Love.
03:22 Dating shows are nothing new,
03:24 but it's rare that they have such high stakes.
03:26 - We found 15 sexy and sophisticated men
03:30 who are ready to skip the dating
03:33 and go straight to baby-making.
03:34 - In Labor of Love, former Bachelor contestant
03:37 Christy Kastman got to know 15 men
03:40 with the intention of making one of them
03:41 the father of her children.
03:43 After eight episodes, Texas native Kyle Klinger
03:47 was crowned the winner, but the pair unsurprisingly
03:50 didn't seal the deal on the show's promise.
03:52 - Hey, Christy, I just wanted to say goodnight.
03:54 - Hi, goodnight.
03:55 - Have a goodnight, see you tomorrow.
03:57 - After a few dates off set,
03:59 the two decided to call it quits,
04:01 and Kastman opted to have and raise a baby on her own.
04:05 This, of course, meant that Labor of Love
04:08 was all for nothing, but we have to say,
04:11 we're glad that such a significant life decision
04:13 wasn't made on a TV show.
04:15 - You want two sons, and I want healthy babies,
04:19 regardless of gender.
04:21 - Number six, My Mother, The Car.
04:24 ♪ A 1928 Porsche, that's my mother dear ♪
04:28 ♪ She helps me through everything I do ♪
04:31 ♪ And I'm so glad she's here ♪
04:33 - If you thought this title was a strange metaphor,
04:36 think again.
04:37 My Mother, The Car is about exactly what the title says.
04:41 After the death of his mother,
04:42 David visits a used car lot,
04:44 and hears one of the cars calling out to him.
04:46 (car beeping)
04:50 - Hello, Daisy.
04:52 - Intrigued, he buys the car,
04:54 and finds out that his mother
04:55 had been reincarnated into it.
04:57 What follows is a surreal series about a living car,
05:01 who, among other things, gets drunk on antifreeze,
05:05 thwarts a political assassination,
05:07 and goads her son into involving himself
05:09 in the neighbor's arguments.
05:11 - What's the matter with you, anyway?
05:12 - Nothing wrong with me, I feel wonderful.
05:15 (laughing)
05:17 - You sound like you're tipsy.
05:18 (laughing)
05:19 - Antifreeze.
05:21 - Its concept, though creative,
05:23 proved a bit too strange for its 60s audience,
05:26 and its poor execution led to a swift cancellation.
05:30 Number five, Who's Your Daddy?
05:32 A television series about adult adoptees
05:35 finding their biological parents seems reasonable enough.
05:38 The trouble with Who's Your Daddy
05:40 was that it made the concept into a game show.
05:43 - I'm sorry, I'm just a little nervous.
05:46 - Contestants were matched with eight men,
05:48 and had to determine which of them
05:50 was their actual biological father
05:52 by studying their habits
05:53 and asking them a series of questions.
05:56 - Why, why did you guys have to give me up for adoption?
05:58 - If they guessed correctly, they won $100,000.
06:03 If they failed, the man who tricked them won $100,000.
06:07 Unsurprisingly, the show was deemed exploitative
06:11 and insulting both to adopted families
06:13 and adoption organizations alike.
06:15 Due to the controversy and the show's poor performance,
06:19 only one of the series' six produced episodes
06:21 ever made it to air.
06:23 - There wasn't a day that went by
06:24 that I didn't think about you and regret what we did.
06:28 - Number four, Cop Rock.
06:30 ♪ When it all is said and done ♪
06:33 ♪ I can tell that you're the one ♪
06:35 ♪ You can tell that she's the one ♪
06:39 - There are so many police procedurals on TV
06:42 that it can be hard for new ones to stand out.
06:44 In 1990, Cop Rock's attempt at making a name for itself
06:48 included song and dance,
06:51 and somehow it wasn't meant to be an elaborate joke.
06:55 Unlike a typical musical in which characters break into song
06:58 to punctuate major character or plot moments,
07:00 Cop Rock peppered songs throughout its episodes at random,
07:04 leading to numbers about everything
07:06 from accepting a bribe to exercising.
07:09 ♪ Now everybody's telling me to lose some weight ♪
07:13 ♪ But that's not the way I'm designed ♪
07:17 - In spite of the occasionally odd subject matter,
07:20 its pilot episode actually won an Emmy
07:22 for its music and lyrics,
07:23 but even that couldn't stop the show
07:25 from being canceled after just 11 episodes.
07:28 ♪ He's guilty, judge, he's guilty ♪
07:31 ♪ You could see it in his eyes ♪
07:33 ♪ He did the crime and now he's got a pen ♪
07:37 - Number three, Kid Nation.
07:39 After reading Lord of the Flies,
07:41 most would be horrified at the idea
07:43 of an entirely kid-led survival-based society,
07:46 but not the creators of Kid Nation.
07:48 - Oh my gosh, this is gonna be hard.
07:50 - In 2007, 40 children from ages eight to 15
07:54 were sent out to New Mexico
07:56 to build their own functioning town.
07:58 They killed chickens, cooked their own food,
08:00 and had heated arguments about religion and politics.
08:03 - I think that religion is a very touchy matter.
08:06 That's what makes people fight.
08:07 I mean, religion is most of the things that stir wars.
08:12 - Showers and baths were rare,
08:14 and trash disposal bordered on hazardous.
08:16 Safety measures were said to be in place,
08:18 but contracts still stipulated that CBS
08:21 would not be responsible if kids were harmed.
08:24 (dramatic music)
08:26 - It was scary, yeah.
08:28 - We're still not sure how this show made it to air,
08:31 but we're glad it only lasted one season.
08:34 Number two, Black/White.
08:37 It's true that education about cultural appropriation
08:40 was a lot less widespread in 2006 than it is today,
08:44 but that fact doesn't begin to excuse this mess of a show.
08:48 Executive produced by Ice Cube,
08:50 Black/White sought to portray the different experiences
08:53 of the two title races by transforming a white family
08:57 into a black family, and a black family into a white family.
09:00 - Yeah, I think I'll break out the sticks,
09:02 play a little golf.
09:04 - Awesome, dude.
09:05 - Understandably, this approach was controversial.
09:08 Its biggest critics claimed that it actually reinforced
09:10 the very stereotypes it claimed to expose,
09:13 with many taking issues with the idea
09:15 that anyone could ever truly understand
09:17 another race's experience after six weeks in makeup.
09:20 - That's what's so hard,
09:21 is whether or not I'm black or white,
09:23 they know something is off.
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09:41 Number one, "Hal, Honey, I'm Home."
09:44 (audience laughing)
09:45 - All right, Hitler here.
09:47 No, Bob Hitler, who do you think?
09:49 - When it comes to comedy,
09:50 Hitler isn't entirely off the table
09:53 as films like "Jojo Rabbit" prove.
09:55 But if you're going to do it, you gotta do it right.
09:59 "Hal, Honey, I'm Home" did not do it right.
10:03 - You finally did it, didn't you?
10:04 You finally went one step too far, Mr. Big Shot.
10:07 - Unlike Taika Waititi's "World War II" satire,
10:11 "Hal, Honey" seemed uninterested
10:13 in making any meaningful commentary
10:15 about its controversial protagonist.
10:17 Instead, it cast Hitler and his wife as sitcom stars
10:21 who live next to a Jewish family
10:23 with the purpose of mocking
10:24 the outrageous sitcoms of the '50s.
10:27 Naturally, people weren't impressed
10:29 and the series was canceled after just one episode.
10:32 - What could be better than for Chamberlain to see
10:35 you're just a down-to-earth guy who has fun
10:38 with his neighbors?
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