When something sparks an idea in Bill White, watch out! Something set him off, and all of us writers here at CliqueClack had a fabulous time listing our nominations for the worst long-running show ever.

We know there are some shows that are long-running but not on this list. But we could not be party to nominating Cheers or Frasier, for instance, even if some of you out there may have hated these shows (blasphemers!). I guess you’ll have to make them write-in candidates in the comments.

Anyway, once I got researching, I realized we’d have to set a definition of long-running (even though half a season is more than enough for some shows), so we’re going with at least 150 episodes. And I gotta say,  I’ve got a slightly creepy feeling knowing how many of these awful shows actually lasted that long. I had no idea that The Facts of Life was over 200 episodes. And I have nothing more to say about that.

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I guess it all depends on how you look at them. Our Halloween-themed posts, that is. Are they tricks, designed to possibly fool you, like Jane’s Halloween headlines I’d like to see, or Jackie’s When good characters go vampire. What do you think — did House finally really get murdered? Did the cast of The Big Bang Theory go vamp when we weren’t looking?

Maybe you just need a treat this Halloween, like many of the fictional characters in Bob’s post, Halloween treats for some deserving characters. I mean, don’t we all deserve a trip to Tahiti as much as Sarah Connor? You may or may not want to visit some of the houses that Jason did in his post, Trick-or-treating in TV town. Jack Bauer isn’t the most festive guy…

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