Doctors declare her dead...not the news. Or something like that was the major line of that episode.
Dumbest scene in TV History?
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Doctors declare her dead...not the news. Or something like that was the major line of that episode.
Dear Sister is so fucking good. I just wanted to throw that in there.
Lumpy Onion
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There was a scene in Doctor Who (David Tennant) during one of the finales when things got wrapped up by everyone in London believing in the doctor. Felt really cheesy and had a "clap if you believe in fairies" tone that rubbed me the wrong way. I think it was in that Master two-parter but I don't remember exactly. So dumb.
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
Ah yes. Unplugging the monitor works 100% of the time.
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.
streetsahead123
Banned
Oh man there's so many terrible Doctor Who scenes. There's that scene in the same two-parter you're talking about where the Master ages the doctor and he looks like fucking gollum.
My vote goes to the scene at the end of the entire season that was built around the death of the doctor at the beach and at the very end of the season it turns out it was just a robot that was designed to look like the doctor.
oh you just sucked all the fun out of the scene ;(
edit: nvm, just saw it again and it was even funnier lol
Worked for a bomb ! https://youtu.be/TW8BTeeg6A0?t=176
I can't believe they did that on a serious show though.
Nah.
They set the Tesselecator - a shape shifting mech designed to impersonate and infiltrate - up episodes in advance. It wasn't really dumb as much as it was a baity anti-climax.
Magical floating JesusDoctor in Season 3 was dumb.
That show is littered with this kind of stupidity.
It's like the worst of daytime soap stuff crammed into primetime with (sadly) more money and effort put in.
Widdle Puppy
Banned
brianmcdoogle
Member
I don't know if it was just a scene but there is an entire arc in The Newsroom where the blonde lady goes to Africa, befriends a child, and that child gets shot and murdered in her arms which prompts her to shave her head because the dead girl liked her blonde hair or something.
I'll be honest. I kind of miss this show. It was so bad.
I'll be honest. I kind of miss this show. It was so bad.
Hell, the entirety of The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords and The End of Time are full of dumb scenes worthy of this thread.
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
The end of this made me burst out laughing, holy shit
That whole astronaut season was terrible. The opener with the White House where River "still" thinks the Doctor doesn't love her, and Rory "still" thinks Amy doesn't love him because of the Doctor.
Both of which was settled in the finale of the previous season.
streetsahead123
Banned
The Tesselecator made sense in the episode that it was introduced but the death of the doctor was supposedly such a big deal that time froze because it didn't happen when it was supposed to, and the doctor was able to circumvent time itself and his own death being a fixed point in time by killing a robot who looks like him instead?
I love shitting on dexter, but the first five seasons are great to fantastic.
It's always cathartic to have an avenue to talk shit about dexter too.
can't remember the last time I laughed this hard lol
Skellig Gra
Member
I put it on the first page /brofistNo LOST submarine?
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I want to say the Glee school shooting episode.
I really want to.
But my pick ultimately has to be "Clark, you're hypnotized! How else would you be able to throw me across the room?".
Yup.
The ending of that episode basically justifying gamergate was so cringe worthy. I get what they were trying to do, and the message could have been very powerful if done correctly, but they fucked it up via that shows incredible bias towards youth and anything new.
I really want to.
But my pick ultimately has to be "Clark, you're hypnotized! How else would you be able to throw me across the room?".
Yup.
The ending of that episode basically justifying gamergate was so cringe worthy. I get what they were trying to do, and the message could have been very powerful if done correctly, but they fucked it up via that shows incredible bias towards youth and anything new.
Living the Dream
Member
fucking lol
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
How could I forget the Castle finale?
Both he and Kate are shot by a random guest star from this season that was supposedly the Big Bad of the entire series.
Next scene, they are sitting at breakfast with their three kids and no Alexis in what can only be ten years later. Then fade to black.
He explains it in the end of the episode.
The fixed point in time was him being shot on that beach. Amy and Rory needed to view it as him dying. He found the loophole.
TBH, I think a lot of the people who watched Moffat's Who tune out or don't follow it very well, but none of this is an accurate interpretations of events from those episodes.
His worst Who stuff is convoluted or anti-climactic more than it fails a basic intelligence test. Few things from Season 5 onward belong on a "worst of" reel, even if they wildly vary in quality.
Robdraggoo
Member
I've never seen Dexter and always wanted to. It's on Netflix now. Should I bother?
YES!
Yeah, as pointed out a couple times on the first page, Life is indeed what I was thinking of. You can watch the episode in question here. Aside from that scene it's absolutely packed with "whoever wrote this has never seen a videogame in their life" moments.
Some of it is really good. A lot of it is bad. It's mostly passable because Michael C Hall is a decent actor.
S1 and S2 are good. The season with John Lithgow is probably the last good thing.
Holy shit
I guessed right what do I get?
First 4 seasons are really great after that it is sort of hit or miss depending on who you ask.
I liked season 6 disliked season 5 and couldn't make it in season 7 due to events at end of season 6 or looking at episode guide on imdb beginning of season 7.
crimzonflame
Member
I remember when someone posted the scene with the Curb theme lmao: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDwv1m6UeL4
Mushroomer25
Member
It's a phenomenal show if you pretend it got suddenly cancelled after Season 4.
Everything past that (sans a tolerable season 7) is a parade of idiocy that is unparalleled bad TV.
it's a monumental waste of time because of how long the show was bad but I'd almost say it's worth it just to see how bad it was. that last episode is iconic in how fucking awful it was.
basically season 1 is great, season 2 and 3 are meh, season 4 is meh with a couple great moments, season 5 is bad, and every other season after that makes season 5 look like a masterpiece in comparison.
Robdraggoo
Member
Do 1 through 4, and pretend it's over, got it, I'll Check it out
This is my favourite
https://youtu.be/OGJAUnNzbhE
The acting is top notch and really makes the scene believable.
https://youtu.be/OGJAUnNzbhE
The acting is top notch and really makes the scene believable.
Stallion Dan
Member
It wasn't a dumb scene and that saying is not about it being dumb, it is about it being too disconnected and unrelatable to what the show is meant to be about.
Happy Days was meant to be relatable to teens, what he was doing in that scene was not relatable.
Psychoward
Banned
omg the full newsroom scene what the hell is this show why did you guys ever watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m95qHOmoUXs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m95qHOmoUXs
Stallion Dan
Member
There was two endings after the shooting, one if cancelled, one if renewed (probably a cliffhanger). Cancelled one sucked.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Dexter was great, and the finale monologue of the season was always a spot-on rundown of the development of the character.
Then they for some reason decided that Dexter was the fucking second coming and tried like you would not believe to normalize and even glamorize murder. Hell, they even handwaved the moment that his dad realized that he had created a serial killer instead of normalizing Dexter's psychological development.
When he actually DID accidentally kill an innocent person [twice in two consecutive seasons), it was much more of "hey what can we write that would be thrilling" beat rather than the decimating character beat that it should have been. Especially since all his kills are done in a super creepy ritual.
Let's not forget the scene in which he begs Deb to kill him, but then for the rest of the following season acts like she needs to forgive him for forcing her to shoot her boss - and then he ultimately fucking kills her anyway.
They put Dexter through the emotional ringer throughout the series, but he learns nothing from any of it.
The final scene of the series even implies that he's just going to start killing people willy-nilly.
If watching Dexter post-S4 were a person, it would be a Trump supporter.
That was super obvious, too. They could have at least salvaged it and turned it into something at least decent..... but instead they decided to go with that.
hahaha god I forgot that.
But I liked Lundy and I thought they were a good couple. Is it just because he's an older guy? I mean he's a fit, handsome, successful, and extremely intelligent older guy. Not that strange a woman in her late 20s would be interested. Not really. Or is it just cheesy scenes? Been a while to be honest.
brianmcdoogle
Member
I'll spoiler this, but here's why Maggie (Alison Pill) cut her hair in The Newsroom.
And, yes, it is told and shot as hamfisted as you can imagine.
Once everyone has calmed down, Maggie and Gary begin talking with the man looking after the children. Maggie is drawn to a little boy, Daniel, who is sitting alone eating lunch. She walks over to him and offers to read him a story from the book he is holding. She tells the lawyer that she only read to him three times, but she continuous read to him for hours. The little boy strokes Maggie's hair, having never seen the color of blonde hair before. When it starts getting late, they try to board the truck to go back to their hotel, but the soldier tells him they do not travel after dark in order to avoid what they call cattle raiders, men who steal cattle and kill anyone who tries to stop them. So Maggie and Gary stay the night at the orphanage.
In the late hours of the night, Maggie and Gary are awoken by gunfire. They hear shouting, but it is in a language no one in the tent speaks. Everyone rushes to make sure the children get on the bus to get away from the cattle raiders. When Maggie and Gary make it to the bus, they notice Daniel is missing. They go back inside and find him hiding underneath a bed that is barely off the ground and bolted to the floor. Gary helps Maggie move the bed and get Daniel out from underneath. Maggie puts Daniel on her back and they run outside. The cattle raiders keep shouting in the unknown language as they run. They are at the door of the bus when Gary trips and the camera falls to the ground. Maggie turns around just as a shot is fired. They finish entering the bus and they discover the little boy Daniel has died from the gunshot. Maggie later translated what the men were saying: "Give us the camera"
Maggie cuts all of her blonde hair off and dyes the remaining bits red.
In the late hours of the night, Maggie and Gary are awoken by gunfire. They hear shouting, but it is in a language no one in the tent speaks. Everyone rushes to make sure the children get on the bus to get away from the cattle raiders. When Maggie and Gary make it to the bus, they notice Daniel is missing. They go back inside and find him hiding underneath a bed that is barely off the ground and bolted to the floor. Gary helps Maggie move the bed and get Daniel out from underneath. Maggie puts Daniel on her back and they run outside. The cattle raiders keep shouting in the unknown language as they run. They are at the door of the bus when Gary trips and the camera falls to the ground. Maggie turns around just as a shot is fired. They finish entering the bus and they discover the little boy Daniel has died from the gunshot. Maggie later translated what the men were saying: "Give us the camera"
Maggie cuts all of her blonde hair off and dyes the remaining bits red.
And, yes, it is told and shot as hamfisted as you can imagine.
elrechazado
Banned
Especially because they retconned her mom from being a cool down to earth lady into a sharp bitch. Early Pam's mom was great.
Scrubs would have made it work