31 TV Shows That Were Once Wildly Popular But Are Now Completely Forgotten

Is determination a TV amusement you utilized to love, but it seems similar cipher other remembers it? Recently, Redditor u/lonelylamb1814 asked r/television astir "shows you're amazed are present culturally forgotten."

Here are 31 of the apical responses:

1. "Ally McBeal was beauteous immense for a abbreviated time. Calista Flockhart was a household name. It adjacent had that weird dancing baby. It's astir wholly forgotten now."

2. "Melrose Place was fucking immense successful the '90s. People would person ticker parties, and Kimberly's scar uncover was late-night speech amusement fodder for weeks. There was adjacent a Seinfeld occurrence astir the show! And now? It's full popular taste crickets."

3. "People assertion Game of Thrones's popularity/presence evaporated overnight due to the fact that of the unspeakable finale, but successful reality, that happened with How I Met Your Mother."

4. "Desperate Housewives was 'water-cooler' TV astatine 1 constituent successful history…But successful general, immoderate TV amusement older than astir 15 years."

5. "Home Improvement was a immense ratings gully (Tim Allen and Patricia Richardson declined a combined $75 cardinal for a ninth season) and astir apt the 3rd astir palmy '90s sitcom after Seinfeld and Friends, and yet, it's not talked astir anymore, thing that the different 2 intelligibly person achieved."

6. "Rugrats. Kids don’t cognize who Tommy Pickles oregon immoderate of the different Rugrats are, and that freaks maine out."

7. "The O.C. was an implicit taste improvement from 2003-2006. Now, it is hardly spoken about, and erstwhile it is, it is conscionable referred to arsenic different random teen amusement from the epoch and not a culturally defining one."

8. "Scrubs has vanished for however large it was; honestly felt similar it was connected par with Friends astatine 1 point."

9. "My reply volition be American Horror Story. It's fundamentally thing now, erstwhile it was HUGE conscionable a fewer years ago."

10. "Moonlighting was besides massive. It helped to make the modern web dramedy. Launched Bruce Willis's vocation and was 1 of the go-to examples of 'will they/won't they' couples connected TV for a agelong time. But it ever had accumulation issues, irregular scheduling, and ne'er got the numbers to marque up a syndication package, truthful it faded from view. Yet recently, it's shown up connected a fewer antithetic streaming services and seems similar it mightiness besides beryllium having a spot of a revival."

11. "Now, the 1 that cipher talks astir is Thirtysomething. It wasn't conscionable a monolithic hit, it was the defining yuppie show. It doesn't look to beryllium streaming anywhere. Even if it had an assemblage and wasn't conscionable 'that amusement your parents utilized to watch' for radical that are present past their thirties themselves, it's nary longer easy accessible."

12. "Murphy Brown, arsenic it adjacent had its ain presidential-level scandal, erstwhile VP Dan Quayle criticized Brown (a fictional character) specifically arsenic a azygous mom, and the amusement responded the adjacent season. [Editor's Note: According to CNN, successful the Season 5 premiere, Murphy responded to Qualye's code by inviting respective "non-traditional" families onto her broadcast. She said, "I'd similar to present you to immoderate radical who mightiness not acceptable into the vice president's imaginativeness of a family. But they see themselves families nonetheless. They work. They struggle. They anticipation for the benignant of beingness for their children that we each privation for our children."] Quayle's remarks caused rather a disturbance successful the media, and Brown was besides a divorced, professional, palmy pistillate quality — not precisely a regular occurrence connected TV astatine the time. Nobody talks astir it overmuch anymore."

13. "When I was a kid, I honestly thought Jimmy Neutron was arsenic large arsenic SpongeBob and Fairly OddParents successful their primes, truthful it does astonishment maine that determination isn't arsenic overmuch nostalgia for this compared to different 2000s cartoons."

14. "Babylon 5 is much applicable than ever, but unfortunately, it ne'er had the staying powerfulness of immoderate Star Trek series, contempt it being beauteous fashionable successful its heyday."

15. "I'm kinda amazed however rapidly the Arrowverse (especially Arrow and The Flash) disappeared from popular culture. Seems similar they were decently fashionable (at slightest among young people), and present they astir consciousness forgotten."

16. "3rd Rock from the Sun."

"That amusement perfectly holds up. I've taken a mates of ten-year breaks from watching it, and each clip I spell backmost to it, it's inactive laugh-out-loud funny. Surprising for a laughter way sitcom from the '90s."

17. "24 seems to person vanished from popular culture."

18. "Although it was earlier my time, I was amazed to larn that George R. R. Martin had been nominated for an Emmy for moving connected a amusement called Beauty and the Beast arsenic a writer. I'd ne'er adjacent heard of it."

19. "I'm amazed The Larry Sanders Show isn't much talked astir — ran for a agelong time, hilarious amusement with a large premise."

20. "Nip/Tuck. That crap was nuts astatine the time."

21. "Picket Fences was specified a immense woody erstwhile it was on. It's ne'er mentioned anymore."

22. "It was a portion ago, but NYPD Blue incited a batch of alarm erstwhile it archetypal aired due to the fact that of the connection and nudity, which was connected web TV (though precocious astatine night). I retrieve radical protesting and everything."

23. "Heroes. 'Save the cheerleader, prevention the world.' Then they did, but they wanted to beverage the cow, and everyone forgot astir it."

24. "Fringe was beauteous fucking rad erstwhile that was airing. Most radical haven't heard of it, fto unsocial seen it."

25. "Boardwalk Empire. It was HUGE…. And present it's each but forgotten."

26. "The Good Wife. I inactive archer radical it's 1 of the top tv shows. And I loved The Good Fight arsenic well, but hardly anyone knows astir that one."

27. "The Walking Dead felt similar it was up determination with Game of Thrones arsenic h2o cooler speech and arsenic the biggest amusement successful the satellite 12 years ago. Now it's astir forgotten about."

28. "Bonanza was connected the aerial for 15 years."

29. "Mad Men. I don't deliberation it's similar 'forgotten' per se, but IMO, it should beryllium astir the apical 10 shows of each clip discussions, but seldom is. Which truly suprises me, honestly."

30. "I'm ever amazed however small radical speech astir Mr. Robot anymore compared to however culturally ascendant it seemed erstwhile it was airing. Maybe it conscionable got excessively real?"

31. And finally: "Boston Legal was blistery erstwhile it was on. Everyone was talking astir it. Now I ne'er spot it anyplace."

Is determination a movie you emotion that nary 1 other seems to remember? What makes it worthy watching? Let america cognize successful the comments!

Note: Some responses person been edited for length/clarity.