I think Ancient Aliens and other similar shows did much more dirty work.

I miss the fun shark week

Yeah. Swamp Loggers was okay (at least interesting and sort-of fit the theme of the channel) but the rest definitely were a jarring shift to lazy reality shows.

Deadliest Catch was pretty fantastic, but I don't remember exactly when it came into the picture.

American Chopper ... that was supposed to just be a show about building bikes, but on day one, the Pauls had one of their legendary disagreements. They didn't have to script, the drama just wrote itself. Everyone jumped on the reality tv bandwagon to try and recreate the popularity of watching Paul Drama, Inc.

It also made for great memes.

mythbuster was the last show i was addicted to discovery for, anything after that is unknown to me.

mythbusters was the last good show on the channel.

9/11 did it.

People wanted fluff all the sudden for some reason.

Not to be confused with MILF Island which was a fake show on "30 Rock" that was intended to be so over-the-top trashy no could assume it was real.

But Sci Fi on the Sci Fi-Channel

Don't tell me that you don't consider Chanel West Coast's dolphin laugh music to your ears

Today TLC = The Lobotomy Channel

You need to be brainless to enjoy it

This was my thought, the learning channel was a later meaning.

The worst part is when you do see something that seems like a legit history show, towards the end it's like "but what if it was aliens??"

Bamboozle me once, shame on you. Bamboozle me four or more times, shame on me.

My girlfriend at that time called it the Hitlery channel

First it was The History Channel .... then it became alien conspiracy channel ... then it morphed into the War Channel.

Most definitely not lol. It was just the worst semi-recent example I could think of. Is that show even still on?

The board decided to roll it out early to increase shareholder value.

I don't remember that one.

Is it this one? If so, that was before my time which might explain it.