Dumbest scene in TV History?

Dash_Riprock said:
OP, I'll see your NCIS keyboard and raise you Life's depiction of gamers and Prince of Persia.




That is far from the dumbest, cringiest moment on that show.
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I just can't...

I mean if you saw someone completing a game, I guess you could kinda approximate what to do. But she was watching him wipe out from across the room. She couldn't even see what buttons he was pressing because there were people in the way.

That and Lewis lowering his head everytime dude wiped, like he'd just been told someone had pissed on his lawn...
 
DeathyBoy said:
The awfulness of that scene is a bunch of reporters and news people congratulating each other on not reporting someone's death... while Coldplay plays in the background.

It's not only tone death, it's beeathtakingly insensitive to take a real life tragedy and make it secondary to a bunch of fictional characters circle jerking each other.

But Sorkin has always been a terrible fucking writer at points. Because he never seems to realise that whenever he touches real life stuff, it goes to shit. Jobs just about works because it's openly bullshit, but between the 9-11 West Wing, the episode of WW where he gets salty TV Without Pity was critical of him, and those terrible Newsroom "this really happened" episodes...

I mean, An American President is ludicrous but it's alternate history.
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I just watch tv shows.
 
Spiritual_Chaos said:
The Newsroom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypsQO3dFiB8
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so was this show intentionally being humorous with moments like this? its weird, so many piece of shit newsroom clips in here

sorkin wrote some dope as fuck movies and then we get this shit from his tv work haha. what the hell.

actually I suppose it was the directors of those movies who really moulded his work from cornball stuff to something that actually works.
 
Psychoward said:
isn't that the same show where one of the main characters goes on a rant about how America isn't the greatest country in the world (true I suppose, but it is hard to nail down one best overall country) because it isn't like it used to be or something, ignoring all the decades of social progress since the "good old days" and it gets shared by every wanna be pretentious pseudo-intellectual on facebook?
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this is the final episode of america's redemption arc where it regains its greatest country in the world status by killing bin laden.
 
Psychoward said:
isn't that the same show where one of the main characters goes on a rant about how America isn't the greatest country in the world (true I suppose, but it is hard to nail down one best overall country) because it isn't like it used to be or something, ignoring all the decades of social progress since the "good old days" and it gets shared by every wanna be pretentious pseudo-intellectual on facebook?
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That's not what happens in that scene at all.
 
Kain-Nosgoth said:
I submit this one :

The Flash 2x18 Barry Gives Zoom His Speed

this was soooooooooooo stupid.... for those who don't watch... right before that, zoom had an hostage, and the condition to release him was that flash give him his speed.... they set up a meeting...

Aaaaand zoom just gave the hostage back, he's alone against a lot of people in the room, some of them have powers, and flash is supposed to be faster than zoom at this moment.... but since they're an honorable bunch, they just give him flash's speed, without trying anything
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That's one of the reasons I stopped watching this show, Barry is so dumb it hurts.
 
Sons of Anarchy ending, for sure. That scene was just so bad, and so unnecessary. There were a million other better ways and opportunities they could have had the same result play out.
 
The scene from the second season of the Walking Dead when they are fishing the zombie out of the well. It was so stupid, I stopped watching the show.
 
kAmui- said:
Is The Newsroom supposed to be a good show? Because the clips I've seen here are some of the worst I've ever seen.
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It is. It can be abit over the top sometimes. But its a fun show to watch and alot of character are great. Sloan is the best tho. Olivia Munn is great playing her.
 
Sheroking said:
Don't judge me for having watched enough of the show to know these things, but...

Leather jacket dude is wheelchair mans son. Wheelchair man abandoned him as a child to raise another family, so wheelchair man's brother stepped in and helped raise leather jacket dude. Wheelchair man later murdered his brother, which is why leather jacket dude is happy Wheelchair man won't be getting a heart transplant.
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It might just be wheelchair man's midlife crisis hair, but he and his son look around the same age. So confused. Thanks for the summary; it's a more complex weave of nonsense than I ever could've imagined.

Having watched a lot of the clips in this thread, I'm honestly unsure whether or not I'm missing out in not watching that much television.
 
Psychoward said:
isn't that the same show where one of the main characters goes on a rant about how America isn't the greatest country in the world (true I suppose, but it is hard to nail down one best overall country) because it isn't like it used to be or something, ignoring all the decades of social progress since the "good old days" and it gets shared by every wanna be pretentious pseudo-intellectual on facebook?
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Yep, that's the one. I've seen it shared twice this week alone.
 
Dryk said:
The treadmill scene is still part of that, because it's the catalyst for Dexter's fugitive girlfriend to take the kid to the hospital in broad daylight and get noticed. It's just one massive contrivance leading to another.
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Oh yeah, I had forgotten that other ridiculous plot point. Having met her in maybe one or two scenes, Dexter's son now somehow believes his mary sue fugitive girlfriend is his mother.

Except Dexter has a live-in babysitter (Batista's sister)and because he's too busy killing people and having terrible plots, she basically looks after him all day and night, with Dexter occasionally popping up.

Yet they never once think "Well wouldn't that kid start seeing his sitter as his mother given she's literally the one raising him?". Instead he instantly bonds 100% with the fugitive girlfriend in a single scene because she was a completely ridiculous character the writers decided was perfect.
 
DeathyBoy said:
The awfulness of that scene is a bunch of reporters and news people congratulating each other on not reporting someone's death... while Coldplay plays in the background.

It's not only tone death, it's beeathtakingly insensitive to take a real life tragedy and make it secondary to a bunch of fictional characters circle jerking each other.
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I think the bigger takeaway from that scene is that they are doing good reporting vs what happened in real life whereas all the major networks announced that Gifford was dead. The scene is certainly melodramatic, but I wouldn't call it insensitive. The scene is hammering home just how important it is to wait until you have two sources confirm something before putting it on the air, especially when we're talking about the alleged death of someone. Someone who has family and friends. Like, I can't even imagine how Gifford's family felt when 1. they learned from the news that she was dead and 2. when they learned that she was alive and the news got it wrong because of poor journalism standards.

The scene could have been less melodramatic, but I think the point that journalists should take pride in doing good journalism and respecting due process is one to be lauded, especially when the work of journalists affect the lives of others.
 
I honestly can't tell whether the hacking scene in the OP is self-aware of it's stupidity.
The scene from Castle certainly is though.
 
Speevy said:
Game of Thrones - The Sand Snakes attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghprWEjcNRY
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So many things combined to mess up the Dorne plot. The addition of it at all was last minute as they weren't expecting to adapt that from the books, but Bryan Cogman came up with the "Jaime and Bronn go to Dorne" plot that was not in the books, and it was shoved in, with the very premise totally derailing Ellaria and the Sand Snakes' characters for no reason and cutting or marginalizing the main Dorne characters from the books.

Then the actual filming was super rushed and done by their B team, they had very little time to film in the Spanish locations. Then of course the whole plot ended up being made completely redundant by the finale anyway.

The fight scene is the worst of the series thanks to how rushed and unprepared it was. Rosabell Sellers (Tyene) had never done any kind of action scene before and was barely given any training:

I flew out to Belfast a few times for training as well, and then just found somebody [to] follow me with the daggers. I learned the choreography late after I started training. So I had to really catch up on that, and it’s really hard. I’ve never done any fight scenes. I’ve never done stage combat. It’s so hard because you have to put all the intention into it, but then make it fake.
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Jessica Henwick (Nymeria) had to basically learn how to use the bullwhip in her own time, she just practiced in her back yard.

A total mess from start to finish and I feel bad for all the Dorne cast members who ended up eating most of the criticism from audiences for the producers and writers' fuckups. Look how cheery they all are before filming, happy to be cast in this blockbuster show. Little do they know.
 
I'd imagine there are plenty of worst of scenes from under the dome, but my brain has blocked almost all memories from that in order to protect my sanity
 
AuthenticM said:
I think the bigger takeaway from that scene is that they are doing good reporting vs what happened in real life whereas all the major networks announced that Gifford was dead. The scene is certainly melodramatic, but I wouldn't call it insensitive. The scene is hammering home just how important it is to wait until you have two sources confirm something before putting it on the air, especially when we're talking about the alleged death of someone. Someone who has family and friends. Like, I can't even imagine how Gifford's family felt when 1. they learned from the news that she was dead and 2. when they learned that she was alive and the news got it wrong because of poor journalism standards.

The scene could have been less melodramatic, but I think the point that journalists should take pride in doing good journalism and respecting due process is one to be lauded, especially when the work of journalists affect the lives of others.
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But the scene is so badly done that they expect us to seriously believe the guy reporting the news gets a say as to what he says on the air, to the extent where he can refuse to give updates.

Like your point is right, but it would have been far more interesting to have the crew discuss it rather than the on screen guy making the decision as to what makes the news.
 
Ithil said:
So many things combined to mess up the Dorne plot. The addition of it at all was last minute as they weren't expecting to adapt that from the books, but Bryan Cogman came up with the "Jaime and Bronn go to Dorne" plot that was not in the books, and it was shoved in, with the very premise totally derailing Ellaria and the Sand Snakes' characters for no reason and cutting or marginalizing the main Dorne characters from the books.

Then the actual filming was super rushed and done by their B team, they had very little time to film in the Spanish locations. Then of course the whole plot ended up being made completely redundant by the finale anyway.

The fight scene is the worst of the series thanks to how rushed and unprepared it was. Rosabell Sellers (Tyene) had never done any kind of action scene before and was barely given any training:



Jessica Henwick (Nymeria) had to basically learn how to use the bullwhip in her own time, she just practiced in her back yard.

A total mess from start to finish and I feel bad for all the Dorne cast members who ended up eating most of the criticism from audiences for the producers and writers' fuckups. Look how cheery they all are before filming, happy to be cast in this blockbuster show. Little do they know.
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That video makes me sad. The guy playing Areo Hotah looks so happy and he was on screen two or three times. Hell, he said more in these 10 seconds than in his entire run in the show.
 
Evo Shandor said:
The scene from the second season of the Walking Dead when they are fishing the zombie out of the well. It was so stupid, I stopped watching the show.
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Yeah the second season of The Walking Dead has some real whoppers.

The deer hunting scene was also egregious. After that I could never take seriously the people who told me the show had good writing. It's very, very, very uneven, careening from fairly engaging character drama to pants-on-head contrived peril where everyone has apparently sneezed out their brains. Sometimes the characters make the zombies look smart.

If you see nothing wrong with The Walking Dead Season 2, mistrust your instincts and question everything you think you know.
 
CloudWolf said:
That video makes me sad. The guy playing Areo Hotah looks so happy and he was on screen two or three times. Hell, he said more in these 10 seconds than in his entire run in the show.
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"Do you remember how to use that axe?"

"I remember."


*two scenes later he's stabbed in the back by an angry teenage girl*
 
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