1. According To Jim
It's truly depressing when you think of all the wonderful, unique, clever shows that only lasted a season or two before being brutally cancelled by the networks, while According to Jim managed to stay on the air for a whopping eight years. It's the ultimate in generic sitcoms, with a brusque, schlubby man married to the hot, shrewish wife who is so far out of his league that the relationship would be completely unbelievable if it weren't for her borderline personality disorder. I genuinely don't understand this show's success. What sick, deranged people were sitting around in the mid-2000s thinking, "Man, I can't wait for According to Jim this week!"? I guess it sort of reminds me of High Fidelity, when John Cusack tells Jack Black that he just wants to have music on that he can ignore. Maybe According to Jim is the TV version of that. I have to believe that, because the idea that a significant cross section of our country actually find this show amusing is too difficult to bear.