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Crazyrabbits: A moment that completely derailed Battlestar Galactica was the third season episode "Unfinished Business", where the Galactica crew partake in an organized boxing tournament. The episode climaxes (no pun intended) with the revelation that Starbuck and Apollo slept together for one night on New Caprica, and Starbuck left him the next day to marry Samuel Anders (the Resistance fighter from Caprica). As the final boxing match between Starbuck and Apollo finishes, they both wind up in each others arms while their respective spouses look disgusted and walk away. It was much less a legitimate plot twist than a writer forcing the One True Pairing of Apollo and Starbuck on the audience, at the cost of a season's worth of character development between Kara and Anders/Lee and Dualla. Tropers/Hyrin: "The Woman King": the episode where we learn that all of our main characters are prejudiced against 1/12th of the population because they refused to take up arms in a resistence movement that was doomed to failure without outside help (which there was no sign that said help was going to appear) because of their religious beliefs. Imagine a post-apocalyptic show where all the characters hate a Mennonite survivor because of his religion, and you can see how horrible this becomes.

Advertisement: Battle Master: The episode in Season Two where Baltar persuaded Gina to have sex with him (whom he knew had PTSD due to having been tortured and raped repeatedly while she was held prisoner on the Pegasus), then inexplicably gave her a nuclear weapon. Which she promptly uses to literally Angst Nuke herself and takes out a significant portion of the remaining human population.

Kensu: The moment where it's revealed that the inhabitants of Earth were Cylons. Although the series had its ups and downs until this point, this is when the overall arc became irredeemable. Never mind the fact that the 13th Colony Earth being our planet actually made perfect sense (Gaeta notes that the stars from this planet's perspective match exactly the configuration they saw in the planetarium on Kobol. There's also the fact that the 12 colonies were named after the constellations of our zodiac, which actually appeared on their original flags.) For one brief shining moment everything made sense: the series took place in the far future. Kobol was actually a colony of Earth, and the cyclic Cylon rebellions were responsible for all the grief that humanity had experienced. However they quickly abandoned this for a bait-and-switch Earth and Adam and Eve plot. Truly a case of What Could Have Been.

Lord TNK: The finale to season nine of Dallas, which revealed the whole season was All Just a Dream. Advertisement: Crazyrabbits: In the revival series' second-season finale, John Ross immediately reverses an entire season of development in the span of a single scene. The preceding season had John Ross and Rebecca progressing from Friendly Enemy status to full-blown love, as he was the only person who went out of his way to help her deal with the death of her unborn sons after the oil rig explosion caused by her father . They even get married and are seen happily in love. Yet, just like the previous season before it, the Hope Spot of their happiness is short-lived, as John Ross immediately cheats on her with Emma Ryland, proving that he once again hasn't learned a damn thing. In the producers' rush to make John Ross just like J.R. (and similar to the Battlestar Galactica (2003) example above), they nullified an entire season's worth of character-building for a cheap shock twist, which didn't benefit anyone in the following season and had no relevance beyond making Emma Bell the new Ms. Fanservice.

Tropers/Ciel 12: The very first episode of the 1980's show Fame, called Transformations. The new girl, Julie, at a performing arts school in New York, played by Lori Singer, is from an upper town area with an overprotective mother. She doesn't dress like a city girl and plays classical music as her main forte. Musical whiz-kid Bruno likes her audition, which seems to make his classmate Coco jealous. So Coco teases Julie about her mother making her take a cab to school and generally picks on her for not liking the spotlight at the school when it wasn't Julie's choice to be in a school in this area - as her parents just divorced. But this isn't the dethroner. Bruno reasonably points out that Julie is in the minority and that the school is always being told not to pick on people like that, and he seems to be the only one who realises Coco and the other's behaviour towards her is unfair. But the dethrone comes when, by the episode end, Julie leaves the house in her normal clothes, only to change to a more street look on the way to school. The message seems to be that if you're picked on for being different and are in a different environment through no fault of your own, it's entirely your fault and you'll feel liberated when you change to fit in. For a show set around and aimed at high schoolers, that's a pretty lousy message.

Crazyrabbits: The episode entitled "Spaceball" from Galactica 1980. In a series that had little to do with the original Battlestar Galactica to begin with, this episode featured genetically enhanced kids playing baseball to win money for an underprivileged children's camp. May be the worst, most pointless hour of fantasy/science-fiction ever written.

Belfagor: Orson leaving Bree in Desperate Housewives season 6 finale. I have always been a huge fan of the couple, yet I would have had no problem with them breaking up... if only it had been done in a decent way. First of all, it was a half-assed stunt to Put on a Bus the Ensemble Dark Horse that made season 3 probably the best season ever and managed to go through a gratuitous Character Derailment remaining at least sympathetic. Secondly, the marriage, despite all the problems it had faced, had resolved in a valid Character Development for both and a moving Heartwarming Moment in episode 6x14; but in few episodes, the writers had managed to spoil everything. Thirdly, Bree's behavior was utterly weak and illogical, given what Sam had to blackmail her. Seriously, what the hell? For me, the show ended with episode 6x15, before that stupid Sam-subplot started. Alex Hitchcock: What really irked me was the last few episodes of the last season. It's like the writers just got tired of having a subplot with Lynette in every episode, and so they set about just destroying her character and Tom's character. We had to have so many episodes where the basic gist was "Tom is doing something, Lynette doesn't like it, Lynette does something against Tom's wishes, hilarity ensues, Tom lectures Lynette to be his own man and to respect his choices, and then the ending narration has shots of them tying back to the central theme of honesty or some bullshit". She had issues with him spending time on a new job, she hated being sidelined to extra activities at a business conference, she didn't like his ideas for decorating his office, and she didn't like that he picked their vacation without asking her. It got tiring and made me dislike her so much more. And now they are getting divorced! The one couple that through seven seasons of this show showed that they could stay together through unemployment, hostage situations, unknown love children, cancer, tornadoes, failed businesses, miscarriage, children getting arrested, kidnapping by murderers, and other problems would just suddenly be unable to reconcile and give up their marriage just annoys the hell out of me.

Tyrekecorrea: I like Wheel of Fortune, mind you, but I hate the crossword puzzles, which are more of an alternate puzzle format than part of a standardized category. Puzzles are generally supposed to be read as sentences; the crossword puzzles are comprised of loosely related words with no set reading order. There's being creative, and then there's tampering with conventions of the English language (and the game) for the sake of it.

Aether Master: Rory stealing a fucking yacht on Gilmore Girls. Most of the characters seem to agree that she had a really flimsy reason for doing it in the first place. The show just took a sharp turn for the worse after that and never really fully recovered. Emma Dilemma: Agreed. And the episode after she stole the yacht she quit Yale - so not her. From that moment on, the show sucked. Rory and Lorelai became both so out of character, and then their fight ruined the whole reason for the show, the happy mother/daughter relationship.

Sun Mushan: For me, the show began sucking during season 5 when Rory overlooked Nice Guy Marty in favor of Adulterer Dean, who was quickly followed by Smug Snake Logan. After that I only continued watching because of the whole Lorelai and Luke relationship but of course the writers had to screw that up for me. Still, I continued to watch in hopes that Lorelai and Luke would get back together, or that Rory would finally wake the hell up and dump Logan. Of course, the writers had to tease me with Marty returning in season 7, only to crush my hopes by writing him so badly out of character! When the end of the series finally arrived with Rory heading out to meet her future alone while Luke and Lorelai tentatively rekindled their romance, it was far too little and far too late. The show I had loved once had become a terrible parody of itself, thus making me glad that someone put the damn thing out of its misery and mine.

while Luke and Lorelai tentatively rekindled their romance, it was far too little and far too late. The show I had loved once had become a terrible parody of itself, thus making me glad that someone put the damn thing out of its misery and mine. LGM Horus: Luke and Lorelai's break up for me was far worse. Why would Luke keep the person he trusts the most out of his daughters life?Bear in mind that said person is a wonderful mother to Rory, which he almost considers as his own, she is great to April and actually do want to be involved in every way.

Ciel 12: For me, the award has to go to Season 5 episode 8 of Nashville the way Scarlett and Gunnar's relationship was handled. Nashville has had its axis spinning around two motifs for the last four seasons - the rivalry and clashing professional lives of Juliette and Rayna, both country music super stars, and the will they won't they of the show's three OTP couples. One of these couples was Scarlett and Gunnar, both a couple of young adults who wrote great music together and had a sweet but gentle chemistry. So after they finally hook up again at the end of Season 4, what happens? The writers have Scarlett fall for a British jerk who acts like he can bring Scarlett's true artistic self out by having her act more sexy in music videos (side note: it really doesn't fit her. She's more the sweet girl next door type than anything else). But the real DMOS was how she breaks up with Gunnar. Apparently, after four seasons worth of conflict and sexual tension, she suddenly feels 'nothing' for him. Not only is this bad, stupid writing, but they had her leave Gunnar for an arrogant jerk whom she has 0 chemistry with. The writers have shown that the idea of being with someone who helps you develop artistically can be done properly - it was basically the basis of Scarlett's relationship with producer Liam in Season Two, and that worked because Liam was actually charming and likeable and she and Gunnar were separated at the time. The writers have also shown that they can write Scarlett and Gunnar together - they had a lot of great scenes in Season 1 together. But they inexplicably ignored the history of the last four seasons and broke them up to put Scarlett with a character I doubt anyone cares for. When Scarlett inevitably goes crawling back to Gunnar, I'd be fine if he shut the door in her face. She used to be one of my favourites, but the writers apparent fear of Shipping Bed Death has had them ruin her relationship with Gunnar for no real reason.

Crazyrabbits: In The Wire's series finale, "-30-", Baltimore Sun city editor Gus Haynes has decided to investigate the claims about the facts in a story written by one of his reporters (Scott Templeton). The story (about a serial killer, which was part of the season's storyline) was exaggerated and faked to make it more interesting. Gus confronts the managing editor, who refuses to believe his claims (even though he has significant proof) and busts him back to the copy desk as punishment. David Simon's grievances are on full display; not only does this make the upper management at the Sun look like drooling morons for continuing to let a reporter write falsified and erroneous stories (which could open the newspaper up to lawsuits), it also doesn't address the nagging issue of the sources who were lied to by Templeton, and never explains whether or not they would sue the Sun for the libelous stories. At the end of the episode, the newspaper arc just... stops, and amounts to nothing more than "newspaper management sucks", which is a far cry from the nuanced and layered lessons laid out at the end of all the previous seasons. Uriel1988: A later episode of Season 5 also features the resident badass Omar Little doing what he always does: scaring the shit out of Baltimore's drug world. So what makes it a DMOS? He does it while he's limping around with a broken leg. While previous seasons usually had Omar resort to hit-and-run tactics even when he had backup, Season 5 has him going on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge while he's on crutches like he's Baltimore's own Rambo. At one point he even walks up to a group of Marlo's drugdealers to threaten them and they just let him walk away when he's done, which made my jaw drop for all the wrong reasons.

pocksuppet1: Degrassi: The Next Generation: Spinner and Emma getting (and staying) married. They've had barely any interaction during their years on the show. This could kind of possibly been forgiven if they hadn't decided to stay together after their first drunken wedding. However, because Emma is the writers' pet and they believe she can do no wrong, Spinner is magically able to get over Jane, who he was head over heels for, in about two seconds. Not to mention that all of Emma's Jerk Sue moments are conveniently ignored. What really gets to me is how everybody though that Jane was so horrible for cheating on Spinner, yet overlook the fact that a few seasons ago, he cheated on Darcy, the only person who would give him the time of day. Then there's Emma, who cheated on her boyfriends twice (of course, she never got called out for it). They seriously couldn't think of a better send-off for these characters? Like having Spinner leave for police college and Emma traveling abroad or something (and speaking of send-offs, don't even get me started on how they dumped Liberty with zero warning after Season 8 and then only gave her a two second cameo in the movie)? MaxWest: For me, the dethroning moment for Degrassi was the treatment of Rick during Season 4, especially "Mercy Street". Yes, Rick's actions against Terri in the previous season were wrong. Maybe the Degrassi gang was right to shun him. They crossed the line when they started bullying Rick at every turn and even got physical with him. And the whole time, those kids were laughing about Rick getting the Asshole Victim treatment! To me, that's Disproportionate Retribution.

Tinaturner 334: I agree with the treatment on Rick. It's clear he's a disturbed kid and he felt remorse. Not to mention because of all the treatment these kids caused to Rick, he ended up shooting Jimmy in the spine and getting killed himself.

Chimanruler 15: Not to mention their treatment of Spinner. The guy can't be blamed for what happened to Jimmy. All he did was make Rick angry at Jimmy. He had no control over what happened after that, but the school doesn't seem to understand that. Also, they treat him exactly as they treated Rick, which just goes to show you that they learned nothing from what happened after their treatment of Rick. Spinner almost burned down the whole school because of that. Oh, and the new principal expels him for what happened after his prank on Rick, which was the school shooting. Once again, Spinner can't be blamed for that. The only thing that he can be blamed for is the prank. At most, he should have been suspended, not expelled. And, why isn't Alex getting any heat for helping with the prank? Spinner mentions Jay's name to the principal but not Alex's. Why?

Jo Silv: Oh boy, I'll have a hard time finding any moment in any fiction more dethroning than "Talking In Your Sleep". Paige and Griffin decide to have sex. One huge problem. Griffin has HIV and didn't inform Paige. When Paige is understandably infuriated and demands to know why Griffin didn't tell her before having sex, his honest to goodness response is, "Because you didn't ask". That's an appropriate response for when someone asks why you never told them you spend your weekends swallowing fire or street racing ostriches, not as to why you intentionally hid the fact that you engaged in an act that made your incurable, potentially socially crippling, potentially deadly disease likely to be spread to someone you supposedly care about. The sweet icing all over this Morality Upside-Down Cake? The episode paints Paige as being somewhat in the wrong because in her anger she assumed Griffin had contracted the virus through promiscuity rather than being born with it due to his mother having it during her pregnancy. So, she was exposed to a potentially life ending disease, but she is the bad guy because she hurt the feelings of the guy who knew full well he had it but decided to expose her to it anyway without even telling her? Griffin only ends up getting a light slap on the hand after Paige gets guilt tripped from a website stating that HIV infected should expect support from their partners. The episode implicated that there's much sympathy to be had for someone who hides his HIV positive status from his sexual partners and that just left me totally disgusted.

Lady Norbert: I tried to give Stargate Universe a chance, I really did. But I just can't stand it, and a big part of the reason is the character of Chloe. The DMOS which killed the series for me was the episode in which part of their group was going to be sent off in a craft to try to colonize a nearby planet, while the others would remain on the ship and face imminent death, and a lottery was held to determine who would be in which group. As soon as they realized that Scott would go and Chloe would stay, the two of them went off to have sex. Scott left, and she turned to Eli for comfort. Then they discovered that the ship they were on was safe, so they called the other craft back and Chloe went straight back to Scott. It's pretty sad when the only memorable facet of a character's personality is the fact that she has two guys interested in her and makes it clear which one she prefers, but has no qualms about leaning on the other if her favorite isn't available. Amy Jade: The DMOS for me was when people started having sex in other people's bodies and no one even batted an eye about it. They could have actually addressed so many morally ambiguous issues with the whole body swapping thing, but instead of having anyone realize, "Hey, this is kind of rapey and wrong," the closest they get is a brief sense of, "Hey, this is kind of awkward," like it wasn't meant to be morally ambiguous at all.

Kellor: The DMoS for me (and apparently a lot of other people) was the episode "Life". For all the criticism SGU got about being a soap opera, this was the episode where the soap opera drama was at its worst. The science fiction plot was the B plot, while crew drama was the A plot! stewyworks333: Want to know how bad it got. (Yeah, it was a DMOS for me too.) The show was scoring a 1.8 to around 2 million viewers, especially with the rare epic episode, "Time" having just aired previously. Suddenly coming to an episode like this hurt the show bad. As in, the next episode dropped to 1.34 million viewers, and it just kept dropping. Needless to say, it didn't take long until the show was axed after two seasons.



Crazy Luigi: The episode of Delocated where they had a parody of Face/Off had a very sucky ending. So Jon has to accept his marriage of Sergei's picked fiancee, lest he blows his cover. Okay, fair enough. After the celebration, they have a montage via photography involving Jon/Sergei and his wife during their honeymoon and birth of a new child. Okay. Then about a year or two later, the agency guys let Jon/Sergei abandon his pregnant wife while he was playing with his new son, Jon/Sergei's wife notices that her child is crying, but she has no idea where he is, and that's the end of that episode. Just going "what?" doesn't display how I hated that ending. And I'm not someone who's had an abandoned father figure either. Oh, and having a parent abandon his or her child isn't a good attempt at making comedy either.

Demetrios: Allow me to weave a tale of an episode of The King of Queens called "Roast Chicken". Basically Carrie convinces Doug to roast a guy (Les Fisker) at an IPS banquet. Doug starts off rocky, but throughout most of the roast he makes some good jokes and gets the audience to like him. So far, so good. But at the end, Doug makes a joke about how long it takes Les to pee ("I wasted my vacation just waiting for this guy!"), which nobody finds funny. A fellow IPS worker tells Doug that Les had his prostate removed because of cancer. It's easy to understand that Doug didn't know about his cancer, but that Carrie knew, and even Arthur knew, is inexplicable. TheDogSage: Apparently EVERYONE in the room but Doug knew, considering how a previously laughing crowd went completely silent after the "takes too long to pee" joke. How was it that Doug was the only one who didn't know about it. I know that "The King of Queens" is Cringe Comedy, but this is just kicking the Suspension of Disbelief in the testiculars and calling it a bitch.

Syriana: I felt "Let Bartlet Be Bartlet" was a real low-point in The West Wing. The show has always tended towards idealism, but it just got ridiculous here. The Bartlet administration goes for about a week without acting recklessly or passing any landmark, revolutionary legislation - in other words, behaving like a normal government - and it somehow suffers a big drop in approval ratings? The whole thing is just dumb. The staff hold meetings on controversial issues such as DADT and financial commission reform, and this is treated like a bad thing, on the basis that President Bartlet should instead just blow off everyone else's opinion and storm ahead on his own. It was just so detached from reality. Leaving politics completely aside, nothing else happens in that episode. It is literally a long slog, simply to justify a would-be Moment of Awesome at the end. The episode ceased to be a realistic simulation of the White House and instead became a vehicle for Aaron Sorkin's beliefs on how politics should work. Baeraad555: For me, it was the two-episode introduction of Ainsley freaking Hayes. Yes, the show always championed the belief that people with differing opinions could work them out in a peaceful and civilised manner, that being the foundation of representational democracy. And all right, they wanted a token "good" Republican to emphasise that. Fair enough. But did they have to overcompensate by making her brilliant and perfect and wonderful in every way and turning every cast member who was hostile to her into a blithering idiot so she could blow them away with her flawless rhetoric and air of noble suffering at this vile, Democratic persecution? Oh, and then there's the pure Narm of her "You don't like the people!" line, which is treated as the ultimate zinger. No, Ainsley Hayes, I don't like people whose morals are incompatible with mine. Nor do I expect them to like me. While being able to peacefully disagree even with people you dislike may be necessary for a civilised society, actively loving every single other person on the planet is not. Temmere: For me it was her line just before that, when she says that Sam's position on gun restrictions "certainly has nothing to do with public safety," which he does not even attempt to refute for some reason. Considering that he and his friends and coworkers had been victims of gun violence just a few months before, I'd say his position had quite a lot to do with public safety.

brilliant and perfect and wonderful in every way and turning every cast member who was hostile to her into a blithering idiot so she could blow them away with her flawless rhetoric and air of noble suffering at this vile, Democratic persecution? Oh, and then there's the pure Narm of her "You don't like the people!" line, which is treated as the ultimate zinger. No, Ainsley Hayes, I don't like people whose morals are incompatible with mine. Nor do I expect them to like me. While being able to peacefully disagree even with people you dislike may be necessary for a civilised society, actively loving every single other person on the planet is not. Emerald 141: I adore The West Wing, and it's for that exact reason why I can't stand "Constituency of One". Nearly every one of the powerful, idealistic characters we've come to know and love is corrupted into a spineless weakling at best or a vindictive Jerkass at worst. All four of this episode's plotlines take the emotional attachment the show's more than earned and flush it down the toilet. First, Will Bailey, introduced as a man so unflinchingly committed to his ideals that he got a dead man elected through sheer force of will, turns into a sheer opportunist when he ditches the Bartlet administration for a guy he viciously mocked the last episode... because Toby's a little hard to work under, apparently? We've seen Will put up with far worse, even this season, and not bail immediately. Second, C.J. correctly feels that the staffers have no right to interfere with an independent commission's report, but Leo verbally browbeats her into submission while she can barely stand up. Leo, whom we'd come to know as a supportive and kind father figure to the staff, chews out his close friends for doing the right thing - and when C.J. says they have a duty to the country, Leo snaps back "We are the country", something he would never, ever do. Third, President Bartlet himself undergoes a similar transformation when he needlessly humiliates Amy for advancing the First Lady's interests - like she's supposed to - and essentially fires her, giving one of the series' most popular gems an exit in shame and disgrace which she didn't deserve. Fourth and finally, Josh's self-confidence and influence over Congress get shot to pieces when he pushes a conservative Democrat hard enough to cross the aisle. This could have been played cleverly, but this episode is only interested in humiliating Josh for pure shock value - evidenced by how it rubs salt in the wound in the final scene where everyone throws Josh a surprise party seconds after his mistake becomes clear. I will defend the later seasons of this fantastic show, but I won't defend this garbage fire of an episode.

Gravityman: The show My Wife and Kids had an episode where Michael Sr. gauges what present he should buy his wife for a holiday she and the other women in the family made up. When he calls her up and she starts screaming at him, he decides that a 3/10 is a reasonable rating. So he buys her a pearl necklace. However, the reason the women created this holiday is because all of them wanted diamonds. When everyone but Jay gets diamonds, she isn't happy (after Tony practically forced Jay to listen about the "Women Rating System"). So her completely logical reaction is to treat Michael as if he were neglectful and horrible, while treating everybody else much better than normal. Oh and according to Jay's measurement, getting a pearl necklace (3/10) compared to diamonds (10/10) is worse than getting strips of raw bacon (4/10) compared to blueberry waffles (10/10). She seems to think that pearls are incredibly cheap. The sad part is, had Jay not completely overreacted, she would have had a valid point. Ziggerboo: This is seriously the most enraging episode of any TV show I've ever seen in my life. While neither Kyle or Jay were right in this situation (a woman rating system? seriously?), Jay was acting like a complete bitch about it and blowing the whole thing out of proportion. Were we supposed to sympathize with her here? I'm assuming we are, since the episode tries to paint Kyle as the bad guy in this situation (once again, neither were right). Of course, the whole thing could've been avoided had Jay not came up with a fake holiday just to get some diamonds.

AntMan: Don't forget the episode where Junior had a bully picking on him. Which Aesop would you prefer? The fact that it's wrong to stand up for your brother because it hurts his pride, or the fact that if you do stand up for him then you're automatically doomed to spend the rest of her life in alley fights and cage matches?

CJ Croen 1393: The episode where Michael and Junior try to fix up the garage; Junior is by no means intelligent, but I expected him to at least know what a hammer is. So, when Michael asks him to show him his hammer, what does Junior do? He dances to M.C. Hammer. Ok I know Flanderization with Junior was in full-force by this point, but him not knowing what a hammer is truly stretching beyond credibility.

Stele Resolve: That '70s Show... Jesus, it's hard to pick the exact moment where the show lost all appeal. There's a lot of minor things, like Lisa Robin Kelly being replaced by the less funny and less talented Christina Moore, Fez and Laurie getting married, the gradual character derailment of nearly every person in the show... But probably the moment that ended it all, the exact point in time where the series started its long road into the night, was when Kelso decided to become a police officer. The biggest idiot, most irresponsible, and most anti-authority after Hyde, and he decides to join the police academy. Words fail me as I try to express how stupid this simple decision was for the show, and it was around that time that the jokes started getting less and less funny and the characters less like themselves. Demetrios: You couldn't have said it better. The purpose of the police officer is to maintain law and order in our towns and cities. And now its newest member is a sex-crazed idiot who can barely run his own life.

Alex Hitchcock: An episode that really pissed me off was one where Red took the Vista Cruiser from Eric. Eric lost it because Kelso gave him a purple nurple, causing him to swerve and scratch the paint on a fire hydrant. Kelso and the others bailed when Red showed up. Later, they are in a car Kelso borrowed and get arrested because the car was reported stolen. Kelso also wastes their one phone call because Jackie mistakes the call for roleplaying. They get freed, and what happens then? Kelso and Jackie get laid. It frustrated me because Kelso was a complete jackass the entire episode, and he get no retribution (the car was accidentally reported stolen, Kelso had it legitimately). I could forgive Kelso being a cop because he was at least a bad cop and ended up as a bouncer in the finale, but the fact that he endangered everyone and got Eric in trouble with Red over the scratch (Red doesn't buy that Eric was arrested) makes me pissed that they reward his dickish behavior with sex. Fuck Kelso.

Tropers/Yecasux: The episode where Kitty forces the whole family to go to church. She gives them the choice to go or not and then later tells them "When you decided to go it's your decision." She makes it seem like going to church will instantly let them into heaven, and if they don't go they'll all automatically go to hell. Never mind the fact that going to church doesn't seem to change their "sinful" behavior anyway. When the only reason you can think of to make your kids do something is "because I'm your mom and I said so" you have failed as a parent.

Shadow 200: The episode in which was the first of the "Eric says something innocent and Donna flies off the handle after misunderstanding it" that the series relied on. Eric and Donna are in the car and chatting and Donna takes offense when he says he's going somewhere and she can come if she wants to. Then later on, Eric asks her for a Root Beer and she as usual gets mad and angry at him and he's confused at the whole thing and why she's acting like a Grade A Bitch. But what makes it a Dethroning Moment is when Red and others tell him to his face he's not good enough for Donna and he should be grateful towards her for even being with him and do whatever she says with the episode culminating with that he should tell her what he's doing and whenever he does it while she can do whatever she wants without ever having to tell him. Excuse me? Double Standard isn't it? That's not how relationships work and with this scenario being replayed again and again throughout the series you seriously have to ask What does Eric see in her?

Gyrobot: In Kamen Rider Decade Movie Wars, the duel of Kivala and Decade comes to mind for me. Decade was just finished defeating every single rider and Kivala of all people kills him as he half heartedly fights Kivala instead of his fury mode threatening to kill the only person he really cared for. It would have been more convincing for Diend to defeat him than Kivala. Ajustice: One for the show is a part from Kabuto's world, Natsuki and Hiyori were being chased by Worms and when we got cornered Natsuki stepped away from Hiyori as the Worms closed in; she wasn't pushed or tossed away, she just stepped aside to leave Hiyori at the mercy of the monsters. Hiyori makes it out of it but still Natsuki looked like a total jerk for just moving away like she did.

Sahgo: I'm willing to put the last few minutes of the last episode of Kamen Rider Kiva in Fanon Discontinuity because of the amount of stupid in them. I can accept that the final battle was against a suddenly resurrected 1986 King (instead of someone who would make sense). I can accept that Wataru was saved by a 22 years old piece of armor. But I can't accept they doing the "child from the future" thing again, completely out of left field, and announcing that the Fangires are still enemies (that completely and utterly destroys the optimism of Taiga trying to find a new source of energy to replace humans' life essence as Fangires' food and, therefore, reaching peace between the races). And the "Neo Fangires" being UFO-like only put the final nail in the coffin. And BTW, Toei, don't bother making a poorly-planned Sequel Hook if the chances of there being a sequel are slim-to-none!

Capretty: The episode "Scott's Tots" of The Office. So apparently years ago Michael promised an entire class that if they graduated he would pay for their college tuition. What? So we are expected to believe that numerous people believed and accepted that a paper Salesman in Scranton could afford to send several kids to college let alone a whole class? And what if it was a private school? What if it was out of state. Hell, what if it was Ivy League? And worse is that the episode reveals that he has spent years getting to know these kids so you think that their parents or a teacher or someone would notice he does not have the income to support this. Pam is the only person who seems to grasp how unbelievably bad the situation is and forces Erin to take Michael to the school so he can come clean. But Michael "misses Pam" apparently so for no reason he treats poor sweet Erin like garbage the whole episode. So Michael goes to the school and tells these kids who have been relying on him that he can't pay for their tuition and then tries to smooth the situation by giving them batteries. Oh but he does pay for textbooks-for one of the kids. Then to top it off we get this awful attempt at a Heartwarming Moment where Erin says that their class has the highest amount graduating from the school-all thanks to him! Yeah, and now most of them can't go to college-all thanks to him! Meanwhile the B story has Dwight trying to get Jim fired and Jim suddenly loses his brain and falls directly into the trap and the rest of the office become unbelievable dicks and won't let him get a word in. terlwyth: The interviews special for the new manager, that's nothing. First, it's riddled with Celebrity Guest Stars who seem out of place all vying for the new position which slowed down the usual pace, the jokes weren't funny at all especially not Warren Buffett. But then the main story of the interviews was hampered by not only too many people, but the Gabe plot tumor trying to get Erin back and make everyone miserable to do so, which leads to massive Character Derailment to manipulating Kelly which backfires and gets him Put on a Bus. Then you have the "Angela's Boyfriend is gay" subplot which also took away, wasn't funny and frankly just made a huge Kick the Dog even too much for Angela. And none of it was well executed, with awkward transitions littered here and there, and why did Jim Carrey get the last line? Everything imaginable went wrong "Search Committee" and not even Creed's Large Ham could've saved it. It sucks that Deangelo got axed so quickly for this.

Character Derailment to manipulating Kelly which backfires and gets him Put on a Bus. Then you have the "Angela's Boyfriend is gay" subplot which also took away, wasn't funny and frankly just made a huge Kick the Dog even too much for Angela. And none of it was well executed, with awkward transitions littered here and there, and why did Jim Carrey get the last line? Everything imaginable went wrong "Search Committee" and not even Creed's Large Ham could've saved it. It sucks that Deangelo got axed so quickly for this. rastanley: Episode 6x23 "Body Language." This episode was horribly uncomfortable. For some reason, after Pam returns from maternity leave, she has decided she must set Michael up with a partner at all costs. Donna, a bar manager Michael had met in the previous episode (after another attempt by Pam to set him up with one of her friends, no less!) visits the office to discuss business, with Jim and Pam as the lead salespersons for the deal. Michael believes she is interested in him, so he asks Pam let him do the deal alongside Jim. Jim, understandably, thinks this is a terrible idea (given that the previous night of Pam trying to set Michael up with one of her friends resulted in Michael hurting the woman's feelings and disrupting the bar by acting like a fratbro, and also given Michael's entire history of harassing women in the office). Pam, for some reason, is still totally on board even as Jim grows more horrified by Michael's attempts to seduce her, including a Power Point presentation with a Freeze-Frame Bonus of the word "SEX" and Michael licking mints off of the manager's hand. It gets to the point where even Kevin thinks Michael should back off. This ultimately leads to Michael trying to corner the woman against a wall when she's leaving the office in order to kiss her (read: sexually assault her). The worst part is that at the end of the episode, after Michael desperately runs off to return a barrette that Donna left in the office (against the advice of everyone, with his behavior being directly compared to that of a stalker), it turns out Donna is interested in him after all, making this episode an asinine case of Protagonist-Centered Morality. Making this even more Squick is that Pam and Phyllis present very victim-blamey arguments to support Michael in pursuing her so constantly, including her wearing a shoulder-cut shirt and Phyllis' usual argument that women are teases (with herself as the example). Furthermore, Pam's behavior in this episode and the previous one require her to suddenly have been forgotten all the years of sexual harassment she herself was subjected to from Michael's words (and, if Michael had had his way, his hands). She has also apparently forgotten that Michael was a total jerk to her mom, who Michael had broken up with this season, resulting in Pam slapping him across the face. Never mind how utterly unreasonable the whole thing makes Donna. Later episodes try to salvage this plotline by explaining that Donna is cheating on her husband with Michael, but this leads to a plotline in which Michael behaves so sociopathically that the entire office shuns him for continuing to knowingly sleep with another man's wife. Overall this episode was emblematic of many of the issues that would plague the series in the rest of its run, including some bad issues of Designated Hero, Michael having rubbed off on Pam to her overall detriment, and the characters' personal lives becoming increasingly complex and inane, while also behaving like total jerks. Never mind that the episode does not age well in today's climate regarding sexual assault.

Overall this episode was emblematic of many of the issues that would plague the series in the rest of its run, including some bad issues of Designated Hero, Michael having rubbed off on Pam to her overall detriment, and the characters' personal lives becoming increasingly complex and inane, while also behaving like total jerks. Never mind that the episode does not age well in today's climate regarding sexual assault. While it's an amusing scene on its own, the fire drill that Dwight stages in "Stress Relief" is, to me, the moment the show stopped being able to balance its absurdities and its more grounded, character-driven moments. Dwight failing to be punished in any real way for setting the building on fire, endangering his coworkers, and causing Stanley to have an actual heart attack is ridiculous. He would have been fired immediately at the very least, probably got slapped with at least one lawsuit, and possibly even arrested (arson is, in fact, a crime). After that, it's impossible to take anything that happens in the show seriously - while the show has never been entirely serious, there's nothing in the show's universe that would suggest that Dwight would simply get away with his actions in that episode.

Tommy X: The finale of Seinfeld. While visiting another town, the gang watches a guy get mugged and do nothing, so a nearby cop, instead of arresting the mugger, arrests them for not abiding by some Good Samaritan Law. The prosecution decides that this is some huge landmark case that is more important than a serial killer, and starts to bring in people that the gang pissed off as witnesses. The prosecutor claimed it was establishing a pattern of behavior that the gang showed when not helping the mugging victim. That may have been acceptable for a couple of people, but then they pull in people who had stupid reasons for hating them, people who have their own assumptions of the gang's actions, and even a guy who, according to Jerry, left America for parts unknown! Then when the gang gets found guilty, everyone cheers and the judge delivers a "Reason You Suck" Speech to the gang. The fact that the prosecution was allowed to pull in every character who had ever been on the show is incredibly stupid. The gang did not get a fair trial at all. SickBoy: In most court cases it's near impossible to even get a single prior bad act admitted as evidence, let alone a whole string of them (most of which, in the case of this episode, weren't even illegal). Prior bad acts are considered irrelevant and prejudicial, and are usually rejected unless the prosecution can give a really convincing reason to include them. It was really just a flimsy excuse to have a clip show as the finale, a bad idea in its own right.

Troper/maxwellsilver: And then there's the gross misrepresentation and exaggeration of laws. The law they're arrested on is stated to be the Good Samaritan Law... except in Massachusetts' law is the liability law to protect someone from lawsuit who further injures or kills an obviously injured or ill person while delivering aide, and even the mandatory laws only require someone help an obviously injured or ill person. The show treats Good Samaritan Laws as if they were Duty to Rescue laws , even though few states use them and in Massachusetts it can't be used against ordinary citizens (if, for example, a doctor negligently fails to treat a condition, that inaction can be negligence; in the case of an ordinary citizen coming across an accident, they have no duty to do anything, but if they say they'll call for help and don't then they can be held liable), with the exception of rape, aggravated rape, murder, or armed robbery, where their responsibility is simply reporting it to the police, not attempting to stop a violent crime. If a police officer is at the scene the entire time, the group have no responsibility whatsoever, and have even captured photographic evidence of the crime and the perpetrator.

katecarey: The 30 Rock episode "TGS Hates Women." In theory, it was supposed to subvert and play with the growing public perception that maybe Tina Fey isn't so much a feminist powerhouse but just another writer who's made her bones picking on women she considers "below" her. In practice, it just came off as a snitty attack on "hot" female comics - the main three influences seeming to be Sarah Silverman's adult-child persona, Olivia Munn's "sexy geek" act, and Abby Elliott's late night presence, Khloe Kardashian voice, and name (the character in question was named "Abby Flynn"). The episode ended with a completely improbable Twist Ending in which the character had actually adopted the "slutty comedian" act in order to hide from an ex-husband , but it didn't really make a difference - the episode just felt nasty. baeraad555: For me it was ""Goodbye, My Friend". The whole Liz-is-baby-crazy thing never struck me as being all that funny in the first place, but this episode seemed to go crazy right along with her. The plot is that Liz is trying to trick a pregnant teen into giving up her baby to her but eventually realising that that's wrong. That's all fine, but the way the show portays the teenager having unrealistic career goals as a reason for why she should keep the baby feels decidedly elitist and mean-spirited (as in, "you're never going to amount to anything, so just devote your life to breeding instead"), and Liz ultimately declaring that, essentially, teenage pregnancy is the greatest thing ever and we should all be so lucky as to have had one is just... blegh. Tell me again how Tina Fey is supposed to be this great feminist icon?

Lady Corvex: "The Sentence", the second season finale of The Outer Limits (1995) relaunch. We have David Hyde Pierce playing a vain psychiatrist trying to win the Nobel Prize (in medicine, presumably) by curing violent sociopaths through virtual reality prison sentences. This procedure had had a 100% success rate up until he put on a demonstration for a visiting US Senator. In that case, the man kept protesting his innocence until he was put in the machine, at which point the virtual reality simulation broke down into an orgy of violence. Why? "Because the (duly convicted) man was innocent." How do they know he was innocent? Because the simulation didn't work for him. And everyone just accepts this assesment! Now, most of the episode actually takes place (in a transparently obvious twist) inside the psychiatrist's own VR simulation, but the innocence of the man in question remains a plot point even after we return to the real world. Also: David Hyde Pierce is on trial for the death of the convict, we learn just how horrible the procedure really is, when people who have gone through it testify that "they wish they were dead." Problem is: this entire trial takes place inside a VR simulation. There is no real-world evidence that the procedure is anywhere near that bad. Anyways, the simulation progresses, David Hyde Pierce gets sent to a hellish prison for twenty years (the prison being based upon his own knowledge of what the actual prison system is like), gets "reformed" and wakes up to find that, in reality, only about thirty minutes have gone by. He then tries to destroy the machine, on the grounds that it is a cruel and inhumane punishment for innocent people, and his guilt at having built it is reinforced by the fact that his experience in the machine was not the same as that of the other "innocent" man. Problems with this: 1) There is still no evidence that the duly-convicted-by-a-jury-of-his-peers test subject was innocent. 2) Even if the occasional innocent guy did get through, is it really worse to implant a few false memories over the course of one afternoon than it is to literally steal years of his life in a hellish prison? 3) All of the evidence that the procedure is inhumane comes from the doctor's own nightmare fantasy, and finally, 4) we get to see first hand just how terrible the current penal system is!

Gess: Scrubs: JD's portrail in 9th season. His craving with Dr. Cox's attention turned from merely pathetic and needy to downright masochistic! On one occasion, while withstanding another rant from his idol, JD is begging for more in his head. Ugh. And then he gives his students a photo presentation of himself in suggestive poses, and in the end he tricks Dr. Cox into admitting that he (Cox) prizes JD as a great doctor and a friend. It would've been fine if JD'd just listened to it and left unnoticed, but no - he had to reveal himself, knowing full well how embarrasing it must be for Perry to be caught admitting his fealings to him. To say it frankly, they turned JD into a whore and it's disgusting. Knight9910: My worst moment of Scrubs was the episode when Turk gets a side-job as a paramedic for the hospital. He talks his supposed best friend J.D. into doing the job with him, but only as an excuse to steal money from him (he gives J.D. less than the full amount he was supposed to, pocketing the rest). When J.D. discovers this he gets revenge by making up a lie about Turk smoking pot, thereby getting him fired. Granted, that was a huge dick move and I absolutely agree with J.D. being made to suffer for it, but the problem is that absolutely no mention is given to the fact that Turk committed fraud and larceny against someone who was supposed to be his best friend. In fact, the episode makes it very clear that we're supposed to side with Turk on the grounds that Turk has a pregnant wife and therefore "needs" the money more than his single friend. (You heard it here first, folks! You can do whatever you want as long as you have a half-ass, selfish excuse! Want more space for your tomato garden? Burn down your neighbor's house! After all, you "need" the space far more than they do! You're YOU!) It's not the worst thing that's ever happened on the show but for me it was the first really big example of just how sick and twisted the show's sense of morality really is. Basically Scrubs defines good and evil solely based on whether or not it makes J.D. unhappy. I'm personally convinced the show would happily argue that rape and terrorism are okay too, just so long as doing so would upset J.D.

WRM 5: None of that is the worst to me. (Frankly, complaining about how mean Scrubs is to J.D. is like complaining about how wet the ocean is.) As a diabetic myself, I'm astounded at how poor the show's portrayal of diabetes is. As it mentions on YMMV.Scrubs, the show portrays diabetes as being basically AIDS - a slow death sentence that will one day take you at a young age, when in fact diabetes is controllable and survivable. The dethroning moment, though, came in one episode where the B-plot revolved around Turk trying to choose what sort of cake he wanted, because he was only allowed to eat one sweet thing a month (or something like that) and wanted it to be special. This is dangerously wrong, as diabetics have to be careful of their blood sugar dropping too low as well as going too high. The idea of only eating one sweet thing a month is preposterous and trying to handle your diabetes that way will absolutely kill you. What's especially shocking is that the show is usually known for how accurate it is, which means it can't possibly just be a mild case of Critical Research Failure.

Joie De Combat: The NCIS season five episode "Dog Tags" is a Dethroning Moment for Abby. McGee is attacked by a Navy drug-sniffing dog and bitten several times before he manages to fend it off by shooting it non-fatally. Upon hearing what happened, Abby immediately berates McGee for hurting the dog - which is also suspected of attacking and killing its handler - and spends the rest of the episode acting like a spoiled brat: refusing to acknowledge that the dog could possibly be dangerous, treating it as a pet, and refusing to hand it back over to the unit responsible for the dogs. At the end of the episode, she forces McGee to adopt the dog that attacked him. Compare with her actions in the episode "Corporal Punishment", where she shows no compassion whatsoever for a Marine who attacked several people, even though he was in a mental institution due to a combination of PTSD and Playing with Syringes. Watcher CCG: In agreement with the above, Abby has a very annoying tendency to get her way roughly 99% of the time on the show. Gibbs is the only person on the team who ever defies her will, and only very rarely. Looking back at "Dog Tags" leaves a Black Hole Sue flavor in my mouth, and I don't like it. Abby's normally a good character, but I do not envy NCIS's grunt-level agents, who probably have to deal with all her extremely neurotic behavior and her Once a Season boasting of being able to commit a perfect murder whenever they sufficiently annoy her.

Black Hole Sue flavor in my mouth, and I don't like it. Abby's normally a good character, but I do not envy NCIS's grunt-level agents, who probably have to deal with all her extremely neurotic behavior and her Once a Season boasting of being able to commit a perfect murder whenever they sufficiently annoy her. fluffything: NCIS: Good lord was the season premier a let down in so many ways. First, none of the main characters die. None. Not even Ducky (whom I had thought had died of a heart attack). Every single main character is OK. Just, no. No. You don't build up suspense that a main character could've died only to show they're all fine. Even Tim who was impaled by shrapnel was fine (It. Doesn't. Work. That. Way.). Worse is the whole final battle between Gibbs and Pseudo-Hannibal Lecter AKA "Harper Dearing". Did I say fight? I mean Gibbs just kills an unrealistically calm Dearing by stabbing him in the back. That's it. No struggle. No battle of wits or the concept of vengeance VS justice. There's a half-assed Not So Different speech that Dearing gives, but it's too little too late. NCIS, if you're going to go this route then you need to do two things: kill a main character and give a satisfactory battle with the villain. You failed to do both. Dynamite XI: Ditto the same episode, though for different reasons. First, the audience's disbelief is strained when all the federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies—much less Team Gibbs—can't capture Harper Dearing, a frail old man who is on the Most Wanted List. Then, nearly every one of the characters seemed to be juggling the Idiot Ball during the NCIS evacuation: DiNozzo and Ziva try to escape NCIS by taking the elevator on the same end of the building as the bomb. note Which, FYI, is also a BAD idea in Real Life , as you're always supposed to evacuate a building through the stairwell. cliffhanger with a nigh-unstoppable villain, but the characters were acting SO STUPID that it'll take a pretty big saving throw in order to fix it in next season's premiere. Star Tropes: Then there's the scene where the FBI tries to take out Dearing. It starts when they successfully locate him. What do they do? Arrest him? Snipe him? No, they send in Ms. Fanservice to seduce him into a hotel room and have him wait inside so that a team of gunners can shoot the crap out of said room. When they go back inside to see if he's dead, they find no sign of Dearing—meaning that he escaped through a back window they didn't cover—but they do find a time bomb about to detonate. What do they do then? Run the hell out of there? No, they just gape at it until it explodes. Seriously, were they even trying?



lazyfox: In House, I can't remember the name of the episode, but it was one of those "day in the life of" featuring Cuddy. Basically, the entire episode was about what a day for Cuddy is like. Cuddy is confronted with a patient who's suing the hospital for reattaching his thumb when he specifically requested not to. The reason was because his insurance wouldn't cover a reattachment, but would cover stitching the wound closed. The doctor decided to act on his own and reattach the thumb anyway. Now, I know it's Cuddy's job to defend the hospital and its staff, especially when it comes to potentially serious financial matters. But that still doesn't make me any less pissed off with her attitude towards the patient. Cuddy, your doctor broke the damn law. It's illegal to perform a procedure or treatment on any mentally sound person without their consent. He specifically stated that he didn't want his thumb sewn on. It was done anyway. And then he was charged full price for a procedure he didn't ask for. It's especially bad considering one of the other sidestories about how the evil insurance company is trying to cheat them out of money they deserve. She's doing the same thing to the patient! The worst part is a line that seriously made me want to smack her across the face, which was essentially: "Our services aren't free, and we'll get our money even if it means taking your house (yes, she specifically mentioned taking his house as a means of payment)." Jesus Cuddy, why don't you just bust his kneecaps and demand protection money while you're at it? He specifically stated he didn't want that procedure done. This is one of the myriad reasons why it's a good thing to have a national health service like the one in my country. Troper/Hyrin: Yes, House was supposed to be a Know It All Jerkass, but driving his car into a dining room that, less than a minute before, he was fully aware held several people - including a child - because he didn't like that his ex had moved on from dating a manipulative, narcissistic, drug addicted sociopath was the moment that I walked away from the series and never looked back.

Ian: Charlie Sheen guest starring on Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza. Evidently, Carey failed to tell him that the idea behind Story is to continue the story on your turn, not just shout "Charlie Sheen fucking a dead hooker" over and over again. I don't expect the guest stars to be experts at improv, but they tend to be able to outperform a cardboard standee with a tape recorder.

Freezer: Law & Order — "Under The Influence (s8e11)" may be Jack McCoy's Never Live It Down moment, but his true DMoS comes earlier in "Savages (s6e3)". In order to make sure an accountant who murdered an undercover cop was eligible for the Death Penalty. McCoy cuts a ludicrous deal with the only person who could verify he knew the guy was a cop: The drug-dealing Smug Snake of an antique dealer the accountant was working for to begin with. The same dealer the dead officer was investigating. The deal? Dropping all charges against the dealer AND blanket immunity on the stand (meaning anything he confessed to during testimony instantly became off limits). Bear in mind, they had the accountant locked down for murder (2nd Degree Murder carrying a 20-year minimum sentence). McCoy let a clearly worse criminal walk just to be able to apply the ultimate sanction to the killer.

jessicaotiesha: The episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent where the husband was basically convicted because he wasn't liked. The guys drug addicted cheating wife disappears and her enabling family suspect him because he cheated on her even though their marriage is basically over and he is in a relationship with the woman; it's not just a fling like what his wife does. The audience is supposed to suspect him because he went flying after he found out he was being followed but we saw him and he had nobody with him. For all intents and purposes it looks like his wife just ran off which she has done numerous times but all of this is ignored and they even say that despite the lack of evidence he was convicted because the jury didnt like him. This same basic plot was used in the original. I just see it as needlessly cruel plus the fact that Unfortunate Implications due to a fact that a man can be abused for years but if he doesn't handle it with dignity hes a horrible person and deserves to go to jail.

Madain: I was watching The Mentalist pretty regularly but then I stopped altogether because of one scene. It was the end of the first season episode with the con-artist that claimed she could talk with the dead. In the end, she said she had talked with Patrick Jane's murdered daughter. The dead girl had said that she didn't suffer when she was killed. Jane doesn't get furious and tell her not to pretend to know anything of his daughter, instead Jane gets teary-eyed and thanks the charlatan.

Tropers/Tensaihime: After a prison break in CSI: Miami, the gang has been hard at work putting away the scum who escaped. The focus turns to the drug dealer who killed Horatio's darling wife/Eric's beloved sister in cold blood , and it takes a while to catch him. As the chase progresses we learn about the woman who left him and his hatred for everyone who had anything to do with his daughter now being in the foster system. Are we suddenly supposed to pity this prick? All he's done is cause misery, and the woman and kid are leagues better off without him! Finally H tracks him down and is prepared to end his life... and this hypocrite has got the nerve to ask H if he is "a righteous man." Okay, so H stands for Horatio and not Harry and I probably had no right to expect him to put an end to the guy's BS with a simple single gunshot, but then the two of them sit down and jaw about righteousness. And as the episode ends, they start talking about the weather instead! Y'know, the thing everyone discusses when the conversation's flagging but no one cares about, especially not at a time like this! So mundane, so not related to anything else of importance that took place. It felt very anti-climactic. I used to love putting on my sunglasses and making lame H-style puns, but after I saw this episode I was DONE with the show.

Tyler FG: The George Lopez Show: Ok, so George finds out his daughter is dating someone he doesn't like. So after arguing with her a bit, she says she is almost a woman and she can do whatever she wants. What does he tell her? He basically tells her to get out and he won't come looking for her. Ok, so she runs away and he starts to feel like crap. What does his wife tell him? It wasn't his fault and he was trying to protect her. If I was her, I would've fucking kicked him out. Let me remind you everyone was acting like it was no big deal, and nobody called him out on it at all. How he's even likeable as a character anymore is beyond me.

cypsiman2: In episode 17 of Choujin Sentai Jetman, the group is out shopping, the girls going through swim suits, when Ako suggests to Kaori that one suit in particular would be appealing to Ryu. Gai, Sarcasm Mode being the model of emotional maturity that he isn't, decides right then and there to grab Kaori by the arm and drag her away from the others, ignoring everyone yelling at him, and takes her into an elevator to isolate her from everyone. When he starts talking about all men being wolves, she thinks it's a joke, but she quickly realizes it isn't, and visibly becomes scared. Then a power outage strikes, and Gai, being the emotionally immature belligerent dick that he is, decides that then is the time to invade Kaori's personal space and to demand to know if she loves or hates him. And yet, this is supposed to be the Ensemble Dark Horse of Jetman? This is supposed to be one of the most popular characters in the whole of the Super Sentai franchise? Fuck him, I don't care how many "Badass" stunts he pulls in battle, none of them were worth that one scene, not that it was an isolated incident mind you.

happymediocrity: As much as I love The Twilight Zone (1959), they earned themselves a dethroning moment during season five's episode "Night Call," in which a lonely old woman receives mysterious and disturbing phone calls. The calls escalate from creepy silence to unsettling moans and finally speaking, and she tells him to stop bothering her. She attempts to find out where the calls are coming from and finds out they are from her dead fiance, who died when she bossed him into letting her drive and she crashed. He calls again, only to let her know that he won't be bothering her anymore, and she's heartbroken. This episode seems to be about torturing a lonely old woman and saying women shouldn't drive or attempt to be in control of anything, ever, and its Kick the Dog attitude does not help. Manwiththeplan: The episode "Mute" is just awful. It's about a preteen girl, Ilse, with telepathic powers, which she got because her parents raised her as an experiment, never teaching her to talk and never loving her. Well, her parents die in a fire and she's adopted, and has to be reached out to by her new stepparents and school teacher. Now, what should happen here is that her stepparents and teacher should try to show her real love and acceptance, help her open up socially with her telepathic abilities, and teach her how to harness them for good purposes. But that's not what happens. Instead, the stepmother is hysterically intent on using Ilse as a Replacement Goldfish for her own dead daughter, the stepfather never seems to give a damn, and worst of all, the school teacher decides that Ilse's telepathy must be gotten rid of and Ilse must "be like everyone else", so she instructs all the other schoolchildren to Mind Rape Ilse by always thinking her name until these thoughts become deafening to her. Eventually, it works. Ilse's telepathy is ruined and she breaks down crying and screaming "My name is Ilse!" over and over. And at the end, the ending tries to be happy saying that Ilse lost her telepathy, but at least she now has people who love her, which is more important. Excuse me, but just how does one confuse incessant mental torture and love!?

Garfield2710: Gilligan's Island had its ups and downs but one of the worst episodes has to be "Take a Dare". The plot is that a man is a contestant on a radio game show where he has to live on a deserted island for a week for a $10,000 grand prize. But in order to get the prize money, he has to do it without any help whatsoever, and after he is put on Gilligan's Island, he steals the castaways food and whatnot and all the while pretending that he is having a hard time on the island. Now he has a radio that he constantly uses to talk to the game show people, and he has a button that can be pressed if he ever wants to quit. Well the castaways find out about this and they try to get him to change his mind and get them off the island. The idea of the Howells giving him a reward is idiotically tossed aside by having the guy not believing they are extremely rich, which in it of itself is stupid since it is implied the Howell's are extremely well known and their disappearance would've been highly publicized, so it makes no sense that he would think they are lying. So the castaways try to steal the radio, which the guy goes so far as to throw the radio over a cliff into the ocean to prevent them from being rescued. They also try to find a way to get to the ship as it picks him up, and... the guy gets off the island. The fact that he ends up not winning the prize money (it was in the radio he threw over the cliff) still doesn't soften the Yank the Dog's Chain ending. The writer of this episode obviously didn't understand that it was funny when Gilligan or somebody else screwed up their chances of getting off the island. It's NOT funny when a guy is just being a jerk, just for a few thousand dollars, and they try hard to get off the island and they fail.

Wolfram And Hart: The fifth season episode of Angel, "The Girl in Question". Where do I start? First, it interrupts the ongoing story arc. The whole story of Angel pretending to be corrupted by Wolfram & Hart loses any steam when they go from Angel giving a baby to a demon cult and him having a wacky comedy with an hour long pissing contest with Spike about Buffy. They ruined the mood the ending of "Time Bomb" started. Then we get to watch as our hero and a cool secondary character are turned into self admitted "hen pecked teenagers chasing after a girl". Angel and Spike have such a grasp on the Idiot Ball that they get outsmarted and blown up by some nameless demon that any other time would have been decapitated long ago and Andrew leaves the episode with more dignity than them. And when they aren't acting like dorks about Buffy, they're bitching about the Immortal's perfection emasculating them. And it's not bad enough that this happens to our heroes in their current state. Oh no! They also have to give us a flashback to when they were evil and make them look like the vampire equivalents of Duckie. They turn Angelus and William the Bloody from a cold blooded killer and the most feared vampire ever into whiny little dorks who are jealous of the jock. Not to mention it undermines the poignancy of Darla's last appearance by having her last scene in the Buffyverse be a giggling fangirl who had a three way with Drusilla and the Immortal. And then there's Buffy's romance with the Immortal. Seriously, "The Immortal"? Tell me that doesn't sound like something they made up in five minutes. It's not bad enough they stuck Buffy with some God-Mode Sue noncharacter, but the way the episode plays out turns her into more of a damn plot device than the severed demon head Angel and Spike had to get. It's such a stupid way to close the Buffy/Angel/Spike triangle. This idea with Buffy and the Immortal was so bad they retconned it in the Season 8 comics. Oh, and let's not forget the jarring B Plot where Illyria pretends to be Fred when her parents visit. This wasn't as obnoxious as the A Plot until you realize that it implies the Fang Gang are so thoughtless that they didn't even call Fred's parents to inform them their daughter died! And finally, the most damning sin a comedy episode can commit: it's not funny! Tiggerific: "I Will Remember You" was arguably worse, and is otherwise known as the most pointless chapter in "The Buffy and Angel" Show. First off, it makes everything about Buffy again on Angel's own damn show. We already knew that these two couldn't be together, and that Angel needs to atone for his sins away from Buffy. Weve already been told this, so why do we need to be reminded? In terms of overall story-arc and individual character development (Buffy doesn't even remember it), this episode served absolutely no purpose whatsoever. Secondly, Angel's reasoning for asking to be changed back is so forced that it's hard not to throw anything at the screen. Doing it to protect Buffy? Yeah, right. She was saving his ass in the episode, and clearly doesn't need the protection. Not to mention that he stated before she needs a "normal" guy, but when he's normal and weaker than her, he hates it (it also never occurs to either of them that any other normal guy would hate it, too). Thirdly, the Oracles state that Buffy could die with Angel as a human. So he changes back... and doesn't go back to Sunnydale with her (i.e. doesn't "protect" her like he said he would), and wouldn't you know it? Buffy dies a year later (nice friggin' going, Angel). And finally, the most insulting thing about the episode is that they try to portray Angel as the selfless hero who's willing to give up being with the woman he loves for a good cause, but sadly, he just comes across as a self-deluded prat who only cares about himself instead of Buffy or the people he's supposed to help. It's implied at the beginning that he didn't tell Buffy about the danger she was in (the Buffy episode "Pangs") because he thinks she's too emotionally incompetent and can't handle seeing him (thus giving him the right to stalk her behind her back) - even though she'd already killed him once. When he becomes human he kisses her - before telling her that they can't be together because it's not right. He changes his mind at the drop of a hat. Then when Angel hears about a demon that needs killing, he - who is now human and fragile - goes to do instead of his superhuman girlfriend - despite the fact that it's her job to kill demons. On top of this, he leaves her alone in bed again, despite knowing that doing this last time emotionally scarred her. Then when he gets hurt (what a surprise) and Buffy has to save him, he decides that he wants to be a superhero again so he can "protect" Buffy, so goes and asks to be changed back - and he does all this without talking with Buffy about it at all, even though it concerns her as well. He stole away a day that belonged to her as much as it did to him - which would've been bad enough, but then he went and told her about it, practically torturing her with the knowledge, despite the fact that she's not going to remember anyway, so there was no need. Not once did Angel respect her, and it makes people wonder if Angel even loved Buffy at all. It's a textbook example of emotional abuse. In short, the episode had what was possibly the best opportunity to show that Buffy and Angel couldn't work as a romantic couple outside of the whole "he's cursed" excuse. But nope. They just gave us yet more pointless angst that served no purpose to the plot nor provide us with any decent character development (if anything character development went backwards). This episode was one thing and one thing only: a cash-in for the now tired Buffy/Angel romance. Talk about kicking a dead horse.

D Corp 123: Almost the entirety of Season 4 can be a Dethroning Moment of Suck. Between the sheer annihilation of Cordelia's character, the awful moments of Squick, the horrendously bleak apocalypse story arc, and the focus on Connor, this is a horrible season from start to finish (although that Angelus arc is pretty great). However, if there was one moment that ended up truly ruining the show up to that point, it would be the reveal that the entire series was manipulated by Jasmine so that this season would happen. This means that all of the character decisions that defined the show, from the Pylea arc, to Darla's death, to Wesley's betrayal, were essentially nullified by the Big Bad just for the sake of coming up with some convoluted reason for why this season exists. No wonder several fans like to pretend Season 4 never happened.

Spider Fan 14: "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons" from Community. I haven't completely seen Season 2, but so far this is Pierce's worst moment. Imagine if My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Party of One" was done by Pinkie Pie being a dillhole to someother pony instead of the main plot. In it, Pierce doesn't get invited to a Dungeons & Dragons game by Jeff to cheer up a possibly suicidal classmate named "Fat Neil" who the narrator keeps calling him. Pierce's D&D character steals Neil's sword he worked hard for and wipes his privates on it and humps it and loads over that Neil has no friends and is fat. This was, as someone who got bullied, a very painful experience and I wanted to knock that fucking asshole's teeth out. Kickasstakenames: I second that, Pierce is supposed to be a dick but he is just so cartoonishly, pointlessly evil in this episode it just throws everything out of order. The series had been building towards a real low moment for Pierce but seemed to jump ahead another six episodes worth of developement in this episode. It makes his behaviour in Celebrity Pharmacology seem reasonable and to an extent it was. He was obviously just desperate for attention and the addiction was messing with his head, hence the teaching kids bad lessons and paying off Annie. Please correct me if I'm wrong since I haven't seen it in a while but he seemed to redeem himself in the end of Celebrity Pharmacology making this derailment far worse.

RAZ: Virtual Systems Analysis left me really angry. Abed doesn't want to go a restaurant because the manager hates Die Hard. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that said manager is portrayed as a horrible, rotten Designated Villain within the episode all because of this one trait. As someone who doesn't like the film himself, I found it really insulting, since it all but says "Your opinion doesn't matter, if you do not like something that is popular, then you're automatically an evil person and should not be liked at all." What the hell, Community?!

Hodor!: For me, the episode I hated the most was "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas". It wasn't without its funny part and for the most part it was okay, but the theme of the episode is what pissed me off. Basically, Abed wanted to find the true meaning of Christmas, and in the end he said "It can mean whatever we want". Not only is this a middle finger to all Christians (traditional or otherwise), but it gets even worse. Shirley (a Christian) tells Abed the true meaning of Christmas is the birth of Jesus Christ (which it is). This causes Shirley to get ejected from the world for... not being as involved in the adventure. I mean what the fuck. For context I am a Christian and understand that Christmas has divided to tradition and secular, and I accept that. But when you want to know what the real meaning is, you know it's about Jesus. So why in the fuck did Abed eject Shirley for telling him what it is. And to further the wound, Shirley later supports Abed, basically saying that the most sacred holiday to a Christians, isn't about the birth of Jesus. I mean Dan Harmon might as well have just shown himself whipping out his penis and pissing all over the gospel while saying "Fuck you and your sacred holiday Christians!" Dear God this episode almost made me want to quit the series, and it was my favorite show. It was seriously a good thing that a hiatus happened, so that I could forget this piss poor and insulting episode. I even talked to people who weren't Christian, extremely atheist I might add, and they said that was a low blow. You know your knowing it wrong when even atheists tell you to slow it down. Sorry for the long rant, but this episode was all kinds of fucked up.

On Soaring Wings: Now normally I like Tosh.0, I understand the humor etc... But in the 4th Season episode... Where Daniel takes the $24000+ that he made auctioning off all the memorabilia from his show, and rather than donate it to Charity or something like that, he proceeds to blow it all on one hand of Blackjack in Vegas. And then he has the nerve to make a joke about it. Now I understand it's a comedy show, and the people who paid in that auction expected to see him do something stupid with the money... But for me, it just seemed like a giant middle finger to people who could have put that money to good use. InTheGallbladder: For me, it's when he decides to take a brief look at a cartoon fandom with a negative image the show's casual fans were already trying to shake off— and doesn't wait five seconds to grossly misrepresent it (complete with putting uncensored Rule 34 on his display). He caps it off by shoehorning in a reference to Brickleberry. I'm beginning to think he's a Sacred Cow to one of Comedy Central's higher-ups or something.

Theweb0123: Amen to the Rule 34 bit. First off, it was porn of My Little Pony. Ew. That went way too far. Secondly, isn't MLP copyrighted by Hasbro? Didn't Viacom just infringe someone's copyright?

Mister Toodleoo: I once got ticked off when I heard part of one episode where he gave a spiel against white rappers. This, to me, makes just as much sense as calling hockey a white sport.

Anarquistador: The seventh season finale of Bones was wall-bangingly ludicrous. I won't even go into how the evil genius super-hacker serial killer Pelant is somehow able to thoroughly screw Brennan and everyone else around her using the bar codes from library books. Pelant knows things and does things he simply should not be able to do. In that, they're physically and technologically impossible. He's beyond Crazy-Prepared; he's impossibly prepared. He's able to effortlessly exploit every flaw in the legal system to turn it against the heroes, despite the heroes's track record of trustworthiness, and despite the fact that he's a convicted felon who doesn't even own a computer. NO ONE is that smart. Or that prepared. Max's speech about "the system" comes dangerously close to some kind of Anti-Establishment Writer on Board speech. The entire premise of the episode seems designed to prove that the system is evil, you can't win against it, and the only solution is to chuck it all and run. Watcher CCG: The season 8 finale is even worse. For the sake of melodrama, Wangst, and yanking the audience's chain, Pelent cows Booth into breaking off his engagement with Bones, which is only 30 real-time minutes and a few in-story hours old, to save five random people from being whacked, and Pelant's computer voodoo means that he'll instantly know if Booth warns Bones in any way. Every review site I've visited that spoke up about this episode is filled to the brim with comments that drip with the fandom's unbridled rage, and not one of the reviewers themselves are any less pissed. Damn near everyone was calling for Pelant's head to roll by the season 9 midpoint, and the Executive Producer laughed at them for it, confirming Pelant is his Creator's Pet, calling him "the top of our [criminal] pantheon." I honestly expected he'd survive until the last ten minutes of season 9, and maybe take Max, Christine or one of the Squints with him.

to save five random people from being whacked, and Pelant's computer voodoo means that he'll instantly know if Booth warns in any way. Every review site I've visited that spoke up about this episode is filled to the brim with comments that drip with the fandom's unbridled rage, and not one of the reviewers themselves are any less pissed. Damn near everyone was calling for Pelant's head to roll by the season 9 midpoint, and the Executive Producer laughed at them for it, confirming Pelant is his Creator's Pet, calling him "the top of our [criminal] pantheon." I honestly expected he'd survive until the last ten minutes of season 9, and maybe take Max, Christine or one of the Squints with him. InTheGallbladder: The season 10 premier. In theory, having Lance Sweets get fatally shot during the investigation of the big conspiracy would bolster the show's ratings by kicking off the season with a Wham Episode. In practice, the writers' intentions were completely transparent—the only thing more obvious was how badly they'd shot themselves in the foot. The staff of the Jeffersonian singing "Lime in the Coconut" at Lance's funeral marked the exact point where the show had bled itself dry.

during the investigation of the big conspiracy would bolster the show's ratings by kicking off the season with a Wham Episode. In practice, the writers' intentions were completely transparent—the only thing more obvious was how badly they'd shot themselves in the foot. The staff of the Jeffersonian marked the exact point where the show had bled itself dry. Tetsuzan: In a crime drama especially when you have a Sherlock Homage the moment where the detective stops solving murders and it just seems like that murder is going to happen simply because they say so is when the show has jumped the shark. For Bones that was The Fury in the Jury. However what truly was a DMOS for me was The Spark in the Park. Ever since Pelants death all of his sue traits have been have been transferred over to Brennan. Everyone has stopped calling her out when her jerkass with a heart of gold nature goes to far, characters are being derailed to make her look better. This episode uses the victims father as a stand in for Brennan. The problem is that he ignored his daughter to the point she tortured herself to get him to notice her which makes the excuse for his actions in the episode not make any sense. He forgot he talked to his daughter the night she died, ignored all questioning of the incident in favor of finishing his work, and pretty much seemed not to care about his daughter in the least. This is supposed to be seen as normal with Brennan saying that if Booth ever died she would do the same thing. Despite the fact that he has always acted like this. However what truly makes this a DMOS is the ridiculous amount of red herrings yet despite this the killer ended up having a motive that made absolutely no sense. She and the victim agreed to tell their parent that they were quitting. She went through with it but the victim didnt so she killed her. All so Booth will have to say that Brennan was right all along. Look if you want to write a Mary Sue character fine, but at least do it in a way that doesnt insult you audiences intelligence.

Mary Sue character fine, but at least do it in a way that doesnt insult you audiences intelligence. immortafrieza: While any episode featuring Avalon is grating due to the massive amounts of Character Shilling she gets, season 8's "Ghost In The Machine" is easily the worst episode of the series, bar none. We have a Bizarro Episode told from the perspective of the victim of the week's skull, which results in a bunch of jump cuts from one pretty trippy looking nauseating scene to another and has the cast talk to and carry around the skull everywhere to accommodate this, something the cast would never do in any other circumstance. All the while Avalon is doing her thing, acting as a "voice" for the skull, while the other characters dismiss her claims while in the next scene acting like they might believe her, and by the end basically admit that Avalon is right, when in any other episode they would dismiss the claims of a person like Avalon outright, not even consider the possiblity that the quack might be correct, they wouldn't be, and mock the very idea as they are scientists who follow actual evidence. All resulting in extremely out of character moments from everybody the entire episode. The episode would have been at least passible had they simply ditched the skull perspective idea and done things from the normal perspective they use for every other episode, but they didn't.

Full House: fluffything: The episode where Kimmy Gibbler ends up drunk is by far one of the most wanna-smash-my-head-against-the-nearest-hard-surface inducing episodes of any series ever. The episode starts out fine with Kimmy and DJ fighting after a party because Kimmy had one-too-many to drink. Kimmy thought she was the life of the party, and DJ points out that Kimmy was doing nothing more than making an embarassment of herself and others with her drunk antics. This in-and-of itself could've made for a great message of "Drinking alcohol doesn't make you look cool." But... Then they go and pull out the "Drunk driver cause of death" card. This is where the DMOS comes in. DJ goes off on Kimmy on how her mother was killed by a drunk driver. I'm sorry, what? Look, I understand that DUI is a major cause of death for millions of people each year and it's a very tragic subject many people end up going through. But, this was just handled so poorly in this episode. It felt so forced in. As if they were trying to make the situation more serious than it was. What was wrong with the "Kimmy made a drunk ass of herself" conflict? That was just fine and it set up the moral of "why drinking isn't always a good thing" without the contrived "A drunk driver killed my mom/dad/uncle" cliche. It's just so utterly jarring compared to the tone of the rest of the episode.

Noonbory Kedabory: "Happy Birthday Babies". Now, I love babies way too much to hate on Nicky and Alex themselves. But these two episodes...oh boy, do I have a bone to pick with them. First of all, the first half has zilch to do with the twins; instead, it's all about Michelle. Not only that, but a clip show all about Michelle. I already dislike clip shows, but to give me one when I expected to see a genuine two-parter? That's dirty, especially since The Stinger from the previous episode that advertises this one only shows footage from Part 2. Part 2 isn't as bad (because it actually delivers what was advertised), but it's still not good. Rebecca had the most unrealistic start of labour in the history of television. I'm not sorry; I firmly refuse to believe a woman who just started labour (for twins, no less!) would sit around waiting for her husband to come upstairs, and then cheerfully announce she's going to have the babies. Michelle's birthday party was a total cringefest, and the subplot of Jesse getting his appendix out was completely pointess. "Happy Birthday Babies", in my opinion, is the worst introduction to a new character period, let alone a Cousin Oliver, and cemented Michelle's status as a Creator's Pet for the ages. If you want to see this episode done right, watch the Good Luck Charlie episode "Special Delivery". There's no filler, Amy reacts to labour properly, the failed birthday party is actually funny, and there's a lot of heartwarming moments outside of just the birth.

Halfstep: Sliders, the episode "Prophets and Loss", specifically a statement Quinn makes in the first 15-20 minutes of the episode. The Sliders land in a world where a Christian religious fundamentalist group has taken over the country, and basically controls everyone's way of life. Upon seeing the religious police and authorities do a number of crazy things on this world, Maggie and Rembrandt ask exactly how this world got to this state. Quinn gives an anvilicious speech about Christian fundamentalist parties on their home world, and how in the world they are currently in, these parties must have taken over the government. He then goes on to state that the people "must not have been paying attention when they should have been. When you don't vote, you get what you deserve." Wow, just wow. Whose idea was this jingoistic little soapbox tirade? Oconnell's? The writers'? People often give a number of reasons why Sliders fared so poorly, including that it was Too Good to Last, and that Executive Meddling prevented plots and characters from being as good as they could have been. I would like to respectfully submit that while the previous may have been true, the more basic problem was that Quinn Mallory, the main character, had the intelligence of a box of freaking rocks, and "Prophets and Loss" was just one of the most outrageous examples of a character who lept headfirst into full flegded stupidity from day one. All you Sliders fans who are screaming blasphemy right now hear me out: 90% of the episodes in this series were ultimately IdiotPlots, driven by Quinn Mallory jumping headlong into situations he knew nothing about, having usually just arrived into said situation's universe a whole 30 seconds earlier. Despite explicitly knowing that the mores and customs, and in some cases even basic laws of physics of his universe are not guaranteed to apply in the universes he jumps to, he still insists on getting in fistfights with the locals if he thinks they're doing something he isn't kosher with, and giving speeches about "how things should be" and "proper morality" to said inhabitants that would make Captain Picard blush note At least Picard more often than not has some intelligence about the species he is dealing with, some previous experience with them, and the muscle to back up any claims he may make if the natives start shooting at him and his crew over a disagreement. Also, unlike the Sliders, Picard and the rest of the Federation aren't going anywhere, and thus can actively put in work in helping to make any social changes they suggest to a culture, as opposed to Quinn, who demands that the entire world change in 3 days time on his say so, and then leaves never to be seen again, let alone even walk to the foot of the mountains he demands others climb . However, as bad as this was, these episodes worked, mainly because a) the Professor was there, and b) Rembrandt hadn't derailed into a superhero yet. As a result, you had at least 2 voices of reason in the crew who would point out that Quinn's plan/opinion/idea was a) stupid, or b) not a stupid basis, but needing better execution. However in season 4, the Professor is gone, Wade is gone, Rembrandt is in the middle of a character morph, Maggie is just there because of her personality. So now when Quinn says retarded stuff like "Must not have been paying attention when they should have been. When you don't vote, you get what you deserve.", there's not one voice of reason to point out the 50 million wrong, ignorant, and flat out boneheaded problems with this statement. No one to point out that not everything that is a Democracy or a Republic on paper has any real voting choice available. No one to point out that on his own home world, there are no shortage of countries where you can vote all day, so long as you vote for who the party tells you to vote for, otherwise a .45 caliber tutorial on proper voting procedures will be applied to the back of your head, after which you will vote for the correct person. No one to even suggest that the reason these monsters were voted into power in the first place might be to protect against even bigger monsters that Quinn knows nothing about (having been in that universe for half an hour or so). Basically, at this point, it was quite clear that anything that made this show interesting was over, and from here on out, it was going to be Quinn soapboxing, without any opponents, straw or otherwise, to add any conflict. A Dethroning moment in my opinion, but given the speechifying and soapboxing crap that goes on in CSI and Law and Order, maybe this show was ahead of its time... Pegase: I didn't even make it that far. I was pretty much done after they killed off Professor Arturo in a spectacular fashion and replaced him with a pretty woman. Don't get me wrong, I liked Maggie's character, but she did not add as much to the group dynamic as he did. Moreover, his death, particularly the way it happened, was a sign that the show was taking a turn for the dark which destroyed the fun fantasy of it that I'd signed on for.

darkrage6: The Yes, Dear episode "Halloween" pissed me off because of the sheer amount of stupidity and Jimmy and Greg holding the Idiot Ball in the last 5 minutes, which ruined an otherwise decent episode. The plot basically involves Jimmy and Greg wanting to get revenge on a guy who scared Sammy. Kim tries writing the guy a strongly-worded letter, which just makes the guy laugh his ass off, so Jimmy and Greg throw eggs at his house and one of them smashes the window and sets off the alarm, forcing them to hide in the guy's car to avoid getting caught. The stupidity starts when the guy's wife (or mother, there's no explanation for who she is) drives the car all the way to Vegas with Greg and Jimmy still in the back seat of her car with a dog and somehow managing to avoid getting caught, and the episode ends with them in Vegas sleeping in bed next to the woman. First off, how the hell did the woman not notice Jimmy and Greg hiding in the back of the car? Especially when they tried to escape when the woman stopped at a gas station; the woman was pumping gas right next to the car, yet Jimmy was somehow able to open and close the car door without her hearing or noticing anything (oh yeah, and the woman's dog escapes from the car when the guys open the door to try and escape, how does she not notice that?) Then when Greg calls Kim on his cell phone while in the car (again, how does the woman not notice that?), he doesn't bother trying to explain his situation to her, he just tells her to go find the dog that jumped out of the car at the gas station. WTF was the point of that? Then the final scene of the episode shows Kim sleeping in bed next to the dog, with no explanation, along with the aforementioned scene of Jimmy and Greg in bed with the old woman, why are they in bed with the woman? Did she find out about them? If not, then why would they risk getting caught by sleeping right next to her? Shouldn't they be trying to get home instead? And how come neither of them called Christine or Kim and told them about the situation at the end? There's only so far you can push the Rule of Funny before it crosses over into complete stupidity; in this case it felt like the writers were too lazy to come up with a real ending, so they just didn't bother trying to explain much of anything.

RAZ: Smallville. Oh, Smallville. I still remember the exact DMOS that gave me a sometimes overly biased hatred of this series. I'd seen episodes before that were pretty laughably bad, like that whole infamous "Lana is a witch" episode from the fourth season or that one episode that devoted its entire hour to becoming a blatant ripoff of the Saw series. But all those Face Palm-worthy episodes were easily topped in the season six finale when Lois Lane was killed and the writers sunk so low that they actually used the amazingly childish cliche of her being revived by the miraculous healing power of Chloe's tears. After watching that scene play out I honest to god just sat there dumbfounded for several minutes unable to believe that I'd just seen a show that's supposedly for a young adult audience pull a twist that's reserved for the cheesiest animated children's movies from the 80's before finally uttering the words "You have got to be kidding me." In that single scene, Smallville transformed itself from a show that often had bad writing to one of the worst television shows I'd ever watched.

RomanatorX The Red Dwarf episode "Tikka to Ride" is a total smeg-up. The show messes up its own continuity within 30 minutes (how come future-Kennedy was still able to assassinate himself and not get affected by the paradox, yet the future Red Dwarf crew get affected when the Modern Red Dwarf crew die?) Lister does not have his Character Development over the past six seasons undone, oh no. He takes the same route as Peter Griffin and is Flanderized into a self-centered idiot who is obsessed with smegging Indian food, to the point where he causes the events of the episode in the first place due to said Indian food obsession. Worst of all, it's not a funny episode. This episode didn't just showcase a slip in decline; it showcased a massive drop. Thraxas: Not to mention the fact that it was explicitly stated in the previous series (the previous episode, in fact!) that the Time-Drive couldn't take them back to Earth, only move them backwards and forwards in time, yet in this episode it takes them to Dallas. While the series had never exactly been strict when it comes to continuity, it had previously only been little details that didn't hugely matter (who really cares how big the original Red Dwarf crew was or how many times Lister had his appendix removed?), not major plot-points.

Japanese Teeth: While "Stoke Me a Clipper" was a great episode, and had a great send-off for Rimmer, it n