TV Shows Canceled After One Episode Iceberg Explained

"Heil Honey, I'm Home" sounds like the premise of a funny comedy sketch, but a crazy fever dream of a sitcom.

It's a shame you didn't go deeper into Australia's Naughtiest. The story goes that the owner of the network phoned the station CEO during the first half to demand he "get that s**t off the air". When they cut to a commercial break, there were no commercials, just an announcement that there was a "technical issue" and into a replacement programme.

The world's first apology video and he did it right. He focused on the issues, what went wrong or needed to be fixed. He didn't spend 30 crying about how this affected him and he can't eat or sleep, making all about him

One slight clarification on Turn-On: ABC didn't cancel it mid-episode, but several local ABC affiliates did. The person who allegedly came on the air to say the rest of the show wouldn't be seen ever again was the president of one of those affiliates. Some of the west coast stations decided not to air it at all, so for some people it was cancelled before one episode.

I deadass collapsed on my couch when he started saying "The BUSSY Bunch," like, jeepers, telegraph that next time, holy shit that floored me.

24:00 "how many comedians are going to want to write a full set about animal jokes" that's just the bee movie

Ew, "Who's Your Daddy" is such a gross concept because there's incentives for the fake dads to lie and emotionally manipulate the guesser. Sure, it's nice that the guessers still get to meet their real fathers, but it'd still be a psychologically painful experience having all these men desperately trying to pretend to be your father when it's already a pretty heavy situation to be in.

Mad respect to adult swim for doing that bumper explaining why pilots weren't picked up. Honesty is cool. Also the "what's the picture" or whatever Jackie Gleason show I think would work well for a game on Whose Line, but not an entire tv show.

I've watched "Heil Honey, I'm Home" a couple of times and it's honestly not a bad show. Some of the jokes were pretty funny and the characters were fairly likable. It's not terrible, while not being exceptionally good. The show's problem is obvious: it's fucking Hitler. If this aired at like two in the morning on something like Adult Swim it would be great, because then it would ironic, but trying to make it a typical family sitcom is what makes it bad.

Hey! Some of the commercial channels here in Australia tried those late night phone in contests to make up their "local content" quota. It all came to an end when an internet group got together and started phoning in and answering every question, regardless of what it was with "India". 2+2? "India". It got them noticed. It got them cancelled. And yes, it was all a money making scam as well.

Who’s Your Daddy premise is so cruel and it encouraged lies and emotional manipulation that is just cruel no matter the circumstances. The fact that the people in question are adoptees who have legitimate stakes in this makes it unbelievably worse. It would have been one thing if it was people trying to correctly guess who their father was wearing a disguise among a bunch of other guys wearing costumes and voice changers.

One of the girls on Breaking Boston was the daughter of a coworker of mine. Tragic story unfortunately, she passed away a few months ago. :(

honestly, hearing about some of these downright sociopathic shows getting cancelled because everyone hated them so much gives me some hope for humanity.

If I had a nickel for every time a History Channel reality show got into hot water because of a participant's nazi tattoos, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't much, but it's weird it happened twice.

For the longest time, I thought "Heil Honey, I'm Home" was made up, like the internet created it and it wasn't like a real, syndicated show. I was mindblown when I found out that people actually put this on air on television.

The AI generated show was literally half a century ahead of its time, legend

Best takeaway from this is the pro ball player (and yes, a lot of people have heard of Dizzy Dean) disappearing backstage, and all he was doing was listening to a Yankees game.

As someone who is very close to the hypnotism scene in Australia I can tell you one of the reasons Peter Powers' show was pulled was due to people calling the network and complaining that they/ their partners/ their children were "hypnotised" over the air. Pretty stupid but it happens everytime whether it's on tv or radio. Plus Peter powers is a pretty cancerous human and brings a bad name to hypnotism using techniques that involve hitting and strong arming people in order to induce them. There's an English hypnotist that has similar vibes and is equally weird suggesting women make out with him on stage while under. FYI: Stage Hypnotism is not magic and people still have their free thought and if a suggestion does not line up with the morals of a person they still have the autonomy to refuse.

If you want an awful series to deconstruct, there was one in the uk called "home for the holidays" It lasted for 1 season and featured a couple getting married and putting them in a house with both their families for christmas. They had a wedding fund but let the families take money out for themselves. It was horiffic.

I'm surprised you didn't mention Adult Adoption. That was seriously a messed up show.