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[ToxicAdam]

This has probably been mentioned a few times ... but any "dream sequence" in Sopranos. Its so schlocky.


Also, I am a Survivor fan (runs and hides) ... I hate when they bring back thier family members as a "surprise". Then the contestants carry on like they haven't seen thier family in 2 years, when actually they have only been away for 6 weeks or so.

 

[LakeEarth]

Also, anytime a comedy has serious moments, I usually hate it. Especially when it's a show with a couple, and the couple breaks up and cheat on each other (Titus, Dharma and Greg though I didn't watch it my mom did, ummm Friends). Thing is, we're supposed to LIKE these characters! How can you like them when they do something mean to another character?

I'm sure there's a lot more examples of it.

 

[Phoenix]

The most recent Simpson's Treehouse of Terror.... the entire thing.

 

[Mama Smurf]

Oh I quite like that in the right circumstances. Friends did it well, though it's supposed to revolve around real life, so they need to do stuff like that.

Putting something serious into something like Arrested Development, for example, would be terrible.

 

[MrPing1000]

When Homer needed a triple heart bipass :\

 

[calder]

The "First Person Shooter" episode of X-Files.

Easily the worst hour of television of all time when looking at shows that had been good-to-great for years at that point, it's by far the worst eps of the series even including the latter years when the whole thing sort of limped off into incoherence and irrelevance. I can't even imagine any single scene, line or moment of that show without nearly dying of embarrassment. It was SO BAD in every way that anyone watching it today would laugh or cringe in horror, but for a loyal fan of the show it was just a devastating 60 minutes of squirming in reflected shame for everyone involved.

 

[Anyanka]

I'm talking more along the last 7 episodes or so. She's there one ep, and gone the next, then there the following, then gone again.

???? Anya is in every one of the last 7 except Dirty Girls. She doesn't have much to do, besides being sarcastic and having breakup sex with Xander, but she's there.

After becoming a series regular Emma only missed 4 episodes.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

Buffy jumped the Shark when willow became all powerful and lesbo. They lost the whole innocent underdog appeal of the show.

 

[LakeEarth]

???? Anya is in every one of the last 7 except Dirty Girls. She doesn't have much to do, besides being sarcastic and having breakup sex with Xander, but she's there.

After becoming a series regular Emma only missed 4 episodes.

I could've sworn there were a few more in that period where she just wasn't in the room. Possibly somewhere in the house, but not there for most, if not all of the episode. Then again, I never wanna watch Season 7 again, so it's not like I'm going to check. You seem to be more Anya-obsessed then me so you're probably right.

 

[Bog]

Saved by the Bell - When Zack and Kelly broke up.

 

[Guzim]

When Homer needed a triple heart bipass :\

...what?

 

[kumanoki]

Ren & Stimpy- Way to go, Nickelodeon...kick the creator off the show.

24- Noooooo! Not a terrorist cougar!

Win Ben Stein's Money- Who knew Jimmy Kimmel was so important to the show? Bueller? Bueller?

In Living Color- Goodbye, Jim Carrey.

Strangers with Candy- Right away, but I loved it anyway.

Star Trek: The Next Generation- Trapped in the holodeck.

MacGuyver- Probably the 'rescue the troubled pubescent girl' episode.

The Wonder Years- Post puberty cast.

 

[Anyanka]

I could've sworn there were a few more in that period where she just wasn't in the room. Possibly somewhere in the house, but not there for most, if not all of the episode. Then again, I never wanna watch Season 7 again, so it's not like I'm going to check. You seem to be more Anya-obsessed then me so you're probably right.

It just seems that way because she had nothing to do. There are some scenes where you can see her just standing there listening to Buffy's long speeches and doing nothing....

Think about it though...

Storyteller - gets interviewed by Andrew. Gets back together with Xander, they end up having sex in the basement.

Lies My Parents Told Me - In it for only like 5 seconds. She whines about how Buffy lets Spike get away with killing people, when she got stabbed by Buffy earlier.

Dirty Girls - missing.

Empty Places - Lectures the SITs on the ubies' weaknesses, yells at Buffy during the big scooby argument scene.

Touched - has breakup sex with Xander on the kitchen floor

End of Days - goes to the hospital with Andrew

Chosen - tragically dies

 

[Mama Smurf]

What still amazes me about the final season of Buffy is that, not only did they give us the Slayerettes, but they gave us them on top of the biggest Scooby Gang we had seen in any of the seasons.

S1 - Buffy, Xander, Willow, Cordelia, Giles, Angel

S2 - Buffy, Xander, Willow, Cordelia, Giles, Angel, Oz, Jenny (one S1 episode doesn't count)

S3 - Buffy, Xander, Willow, Cordelia, Giles, Angel, Oz, Faith, Wesley (plus beginnings of Anya)

S4 - Buffy, Xander, Willow, Giles, Oz, Anya, Riley, Spike, Tara

S5 - Buffy, Xander, Willow, Giles, Anya, Spike, Tara, Dawn

S6 - Buffy, Xander, Willow, Giles, Anya, Spike, Tara, Dawn

S7 - Buffy, Xander, Willow, Giles, Anya, Spike, Dawn, Principal Wood, Andrew, Faith (towards the end anyway) and perhaps Kennedy if you want to count her seperately from the other potentials.

Just ridiculous to have the potentials on top of all the rest.

 

[belgurdo]

Also, anytime a comedy has serious moments, I usually hate it. Especially when it's a show with a couple, and the couple breaks up and cheat on each other (Titus, Dharma and Greg though I didn't watch it my mom did, ummm Friends). Thing is, we're supposed to LIKE these characters! How can you like them when they do something mean to another character?

I'm sure there's a lot more examples of it.

During the early 90s I cringed whenever I heard "this week, on a very special X" on NBC

 

[Anyanka]

Yeah, the bloated cast was one of the main problems with S7. There's just too many characters. One of the best things about Buffy was that there would always be the main big bad story arc going on and the latest romance arc for Buffy, but everyone else had their own subplots going on at the same time. Everyone was always developing and doing something, usually coming together to form one main theme. Like in season 6 the theme was growing up in the real world, and everyone had their own story relating to that(Willow's addiction, Xander/Anya's engagment, Dawn's need for attention, ect.). In season 7 there were so many characters(and it didn't help that they focused SO MUCH on the first) that most of them just sat around with nothing to do. Everything in mid S7 and on is either Spike/Buffy or OMG THE WAR IS COMING GIRLS WILL DIE.

 

[Tazznum1]

Trading spaces - grass on wall and the other episode with hot glued fake flowers on every inch of all the walls in a bathroom. WTF?


Mythbusters - new "cute" sidekicks. Arggg.