I found a brilliant expression in a newspaper review recently which I subsequently have adopted. It finds its best use whenever something seems to be almost ridiculously low-brow and attention-seeking. As in:
Did you see that TV-show yesterday? They were just dancing limbo beneath the lowest common denominator.

It works even better by sounding less mathematical in Danish, so your mileage may vary.
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