The 15 Most Controversial TV Shows Of All Time

Married…with Children

In 1989, a Michigan woman, Terry Rakolta, started a letter-writing campaign to advertisers about Married…with Children, demanding that they boycott the show. After advertisers began dropping their support for the show, Rakolta, began appearing on talk shows demanding the show’s cancellation. The boycott had the opposite effect and more people began tuning in to see what the boycott was all about; however, that didn’t stop the controversy. The Parents Television Council named the sitcom the worst show of the 1995-96 and 1996-97 seasons and called it the “crudest comedy on prime time television…peppered with lewd punch lines about sex, masturbation, the gay lifestyle, and the lead character’s fondness for pornographic magazines and strip clubs.”