Famous TV Flops, 8-9

The rest of our list of famous TV flops begins with a failed reality show.

8. Who's Your Daddy?

The popular 1990s slang phrase "who's your daddy?" eventually appeared in everything from movies to a country music song by Toby Keith. That didn't help a 2005 reality show on Fox called Who's Your Daddy?, which was canceled after one episode. The show took a woman who had been adopted as an infant and placed her in a room with eight men, one of whom was her biological father. If she chose the correct man as her father, they would win a big cash prize; if she chose the wrong man, the money would go to him instead. The show was blasted by adoption rights organizations, so Fox decided not to broadcast the other five episodes that had been produced.

9. My Mother the Car

My Mother the Car, typically named the worst TV show of all time, aired on NBC from 1965 to 1966. It starred Jerry Van Dyke as the owner of a 1928 Porter convertible possessed by his deceased mother (Ann Sothern), whose voice came out of the car radio. Although written by Allan Burns and Chris Hayward, who had success with The Munsters, the show was panned by critics. Still, My Mother the Car managed to survive a year, but in the end, a country that loved a talking horse just wasn't ready for a talking car.

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