Shows with Terrible Titles - audience alienating title

[Scarlett Johansson]

Are there any television shows with weird ass names that you either won't watch or just dgaf about?

Here's some examples:

Peaky Blinders - I picture a creepy old lady speaking from her blinds all evil and shit

Selfie - No

Don't Trust The B - good show but the title just.....no

Devious Maids/Desperate Housewives

Motherland: Fort Salem - I just....fuck is this shit?

Zoeys Extraordinary Playlist- what in the millennial hell...

 

[SIGSEGV]

Twin Peaks - lol boobies

 

[The Shadow]

Some that haven't aged well due to meanings changing:

By the standards of the 50's, there's nothing wrong with Dragnet. But if a new show were to launch with that name today...

Two Guys and a Girl and a Pizza Place-God, just everything is wrong.

Love, American Style - sounds like a porno

 

[ZombiefiedFerret]

Band of Brothers - Gay
All in the family - Incest

 

[The Last Stand]

Dear White People. Says the uppity Black female.

 

[The Nothingness]

Chrisley Knows Best

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Coupling

Theres some show called Lovesick. Its original title was literally called Scrotal Recall

The Tomorrow People

Cougar Town

Halt and Catch Fire

 

[PotatoSalad4711]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - great show, apparently Joss Whedon was told to change the name but did not

How to Get Away With Murder - sounds a bit too much for the normie viewers, apparently they tried out different names according to the wonderful Viola Davis.

Cougar Town - hilarious show and I believe they wanted a name change but couldn’t do it (it was even a joke featured in the title card at one point).

Mistresses - not a good show, but not horrible either. The name turned a lot of people off because they thought the whole show was about cheating, when it was really just a sappy show about friendship and relationships.

 

[UnKillShredDur]

Ru Paul's Drag Race. There was no drag racing at all, just a bunch of gay trannies.

 

[Vecr]

Some that haven't aged well due to meanings changing:

By the standards of the 50's, there's nothing wrong with Dragnet. But if a new show were to launch with that name today...

Two Guys and a Girl and a Pizza Place-God, just everything is wrong.

Love, American Style - sounds like a porno

Dragnet as in dragnet surveillance?

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

Ru Paul's Drag Race. There was no drag racing at all, just a bunch of gay trannies.

The America I imagined when I saw Americans post about drag race and other drag shit was much better when I thought they referred to racing dragsters.

 

[Inflatable Julay]

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