Terrible 80's Sitcoms

The Awl features some really bad sitcoms from the Reagan/Bush 41 era:

Small Wonder. You fondly remember Small Wonder, but you are so very, very wrong. It’s unwatchable. A robotics scientist (Dick Christie) develops a humanoid servant-bot named V.I.C.I., short for “Voice Input Child Identicant.” But then, creepily, Ted builds V.I.C.I., or Vicki rather, to look like a little girl, and one that wears a Downton Abbey maid’s for some reason. Ted then takes Vicki home to live with his family so the robot can become accustomed to people, because that’s what robots do: they adapt and grow and need love. Vicki is portrayed by the allegedly human Tiffany Brissette, who had that monotonal robot voice down pat. Vicki, as she was essentially a slave, was also routinely roped into schemes by Ted’s son Jamie, played by Jerry Suprian, who did not, as the urban legend says, grow up to be Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins.

I highlighted this for the benefit of my sister, who loved this show.  Actually, Mama's Family also made the list, and we used to watch it all the time, too.  The whole article seems to describe television viewing in our house back in those days:

The Night Courts (watched it) were far outnumbered by formulaic, rube-baiting junk like Mr. Belvedere (watched it), Who’s the Boss?(watched it), My Two Dads (watched it), and Easy Street (can't verify that we didn't watch it)....

It (Mama's Family) was revived in syndication in 1986 (minus Rue McClanahan and Betty White, who’d moved on to the exponentially superior The Golden Girls (watched it)) and stayed on the air until 1990, where it probably aired right before or right after Hee-Haw (watched it) in most markets.

We can also claim to have watched The Tracy Ullman Show religiously, where we were introduced to, and fell in love with, The Simpsons.  I guess this indicates that we watched a lot of television in our household, regardless of the quality of the programming, or lack thereof.