KC Confidential

Better Call Saul premieres Sunday night (and Monday night, kinda), and like everyone else who knows what’s good, my bowels are quaking in nervous, anticipatory terror. The anticipation is one of both dread and glee; riding the coat tails of the legendarily great Breaking Bad means that it’ll be really good or an abject embarrassment. (For what it’s worth, the more I read makes the former seem more likely than the latter, so WHEW.)

The nervousness isn’t without merit. For every successful spin-off (Barnaby Jones, A Different World, The Andy Griffith Show, Dance Moms: Miami), there are 375 godfuckingawful abortions. Here are the worst:

11. Do you remember the five episodes of Mr. T and Tina that aired in 1976? Of course you don’t! A spin-off of Welcome Back, Kotter, MT&T as it’s known to its rabid fans (just kidding, there are none), starred Pat Morita as a Japanese inventor. Whatever you say, ABC. LOLZZZZZZ.

10. 21 Jump Street was a cool show about cool, hip, young police being hip and young and cool while working undercover to catch bad teens. It begat Booker starring Richard Greico, which was not hip, young or cool for 22 interminable episodes. (Despite Greico being like, super cool and attractive at the time.) Continue reading →