Best of 2022: Schitt's Creek and Nine Other Beloved Movies or Television Shows We're Pretending Are Forgotten Solely For the Hate-Clicks
Memory is inherently subjective. Who can definitively say that something has been fondly remembered or completely forgotten, on an individual or institutional level?
I’ll tell you who: people who write cynical clickbait articles like this one! That’s why there are so many lists on websites like Buzzfeed and Cracked of entertainment that has ostensibly been completely forgotten.
These lists serve multiple purposes. On a literal level, they remind us of pop culture detritus we may, indeed, have forgotten for various reasons and may enjoy being reminded about.
On a more insidious level, these lists exist to enrage readers/commenters by including pop culture touchstones that are widely beloved, and would only be considered “forgotten” by someone with no understanding of pop culture.
These loathsome lists are then hate-read, hate-shared and hate-commented upon in a manner that’s supposed to expose their transparent wrongness but only end up exposing even more people to garbage content.
With that in mind, here are Schitt’s Creek and 9 other pieces of pop culture that we know damn well are EXTREMELY BELOVED yet are pretending have been forgotten solely for the sake of unnecessarily and deliberately angering readers like you.
Get angry! Get mad! Then get to sharing and tweeting about how much you hate this horrible fucking article and all of the stupid lies in it.
10. Get a Life—Audiences want to like and identify with the heroes of television shows and movies. Unfortunately the creators of the aggressively non-remembered FOX sitcom Get a Life pulled a real choke job by making its hero a thirty year old newspaper boy who still lives with his parents. Maybe with a better, more likable hero, Get a Life would have gotten better ratings and not been instantly and completely forgotten by literally everyone in the world.
some guy
9. Freaks and Geeks—For a show that literally no one remembers a goddamn thing about, Freaks and Geeks boasts an incredible roster of future stars, including James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Busy Phillipps, John Francis Daley, Martin Starr, Samm Levine and Linda Cardinelli.
If you know who any of these characters are you’re a nerd and I hate you.
These talented young actors all became big stars despite being part of a show that only lasted a single season. Freaks and Geeks is so obscure that no one information about it exists online. A Google search of this stinker turns up nothing so we’re going to assume that it’s about a freak show in the 1930s and its star attraction, a “geek” who bites off the heads of chickens for the deranged amusement of onlookers. Gee, we can’t possibly imagine why a show like that wasn’t a huge success.
8. Wayne’s World—Saturday Night Live certainly has its fans. It launched the careers of performers like Ellen Cleghorne and is in the midst of a fairly impressive forty-seven year run.
The way this silly movie was totally forgotten was far from “excellent”
But a movie based on a Saturday Night Live sketch? That sounds more like a grueling endurance test than a recipe for a good time. Yet that hasn’t kept Lorne Michaels, the deranged madman behind Saturday Night Live, from trying, and failing, to make the big leap to the big screen with several movies based on sketches, like 1992’s Wayne’s World.
Though moderately popular at the time of its release, Wayne’s World has been forgotten by every human being on planet earth. Its sequel Wayne’s World II under-performed at the box-office. That’s probably because no one wanted to see a sequel to a movie nobody remembered.
7. Clueless—There’s a germ of a good idea in a contemporary update of Jane Austen’s Emma. The world could always use more Jane Austen adaptations but Clueless ruined a chance at respectability by putting a bunch of silly Valley Girl slang in the script and casting untested actress Alicia Silverstone in the lead role. NO ONE remembers Clueless. That’s good because while our memories of this turkey are fairly fuzzy, we’d rather be gagged with a spoon than have to suffer through it again.
Cast Moon Unit Zappa in the lead and maybe you have a movie.
6. Caddyshack—You’d have to be Tiger Woods or Jack Nicklaus to want to watch an entire movie about a sport as boring and dumb as golf. Yet a bunch of no-account dopers over at the National Lampoon got so high on marijuana cigarettes in the late 1970s that they made a movie about golf as a way of launching charismatic young actor Michael O’Keefe to superstardom.
two dumb characters no one remembers, Crazy Joe and Stinker the Groundhog
Unfortunately Harold Ramis made the mistake of surrounding O’Keefe with attention-hungry hams like Bill Murray and Rodney Dangerfield. O’Keefe never became a top box-office attraction and Caddyshack is now arguably the least remembered film of all time.
5. The Office—The workplace mediocrity The Office has the curious distinction of being forgotten twice, in different continents. Ricky Gervais apparently starred in, as well as co-creating the British version of The Office. The show was met with complete indifference by audiences and critics alike.
No idea who these people are. Is one of them Jay Mohr?
The total non-response the original series received somehow did not keep it from being rebooted in the United States so that a whole new country could quickly forget about it.
What’s The Office about? Don’t ask us. We don’t remember.
4. Repo Man—When you’re making a movie where music is an essential component, you want to make sure that the music involved is as commercial and audience-friendly as possible.
Unfortunately when it came time to assemble a soundtrack for the 1984 dark comedy Repo Man the filmmakers foolishly eschewed the services of trusted professionals like Kenny Loggins and Giorgio Moroder in favor of a bunch of scruffy, no-good punks and New Wavers with crazy hairstyles, ripped clothing and nothing but contempt for propriety and the established rules of society.
No wonder nobody remembers Repo Man.
3. Office Space-Mike Judge’s 1999 comedy Office Space is about a guy who works in an office. Not exactly Star Wars when it comes to scintillating subject matter. Yawn! As Mike Judge’s own creations Beavis and Butthead might say, Office Space is a sub-par motion picture, and consequently has not endured culturally.
2. Blade Runner—Harrison Ford has made a lot of movies. There’s Regarding Henry as well as The Expendables 3. But of all the movies Ford has made through the decades none is more forgettable than 1982’s Blade Runner.
1. Schitt’s Creek—You’d figure that a sitcom starring the nerdy dad from the direct-to-video American Pie spin-offs, the mom from Home Alone and one of the actors from Scary Movie 2 would attract at least some attention.
Yet the Canadian comedy Schitt’s Creek somehow managed to last six long seasons without attracting a following or making any impression whatsoever.
We’re not sure what the problem was but maybe it has something to do with the fact that the show is a vanity project for Eugene Levy and his “son” “Dan”, who apparently fancies himself a bit of a “performer” and “writer” and “producer” as well. How adorable! We’re sure he’s VERY talented! Children of celebrities always are.
We all know that nepotism ALWAYS works out beautifully. In its final season Schitt’s Creek picked up several Emmy wins in minor categories like Outstanding Comedy Series, Lead Actor, Lead Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress but it was too late, too late.
No one remembers this schitty show, probably because it sucks.
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