欧博娱乐What are the worst episodes of the best shows?
What are the worst episodes of the best shows?
The “Rowdy Girls” episode of DESIGNING WOMEN is an example. Charlene’s cousin, Mavis, is getting the shit beat out of her by her husband. Charlene discovers this while Mavis is coaching the decorators to lipsync to The Supremes for some performance. This B plot with the performance is primarily focused on Suzanne wanting to appear in black face (she does). The B plot and the main plot intersect when Mavis shows up at the performance and Charlene triumphantly punches the air while lipsyncing when she sees Mavis at the back of the auditorium with her kids.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous reply 131 July 4, 2025 6:36 PM
All of Season 7 of “The Golden Girls.”
by Anonymous reply 1 May 15, 2025 5:26 PM
R1 farnkly, I don't get the distaste for Season 7 of GOLDEN GIRLS by some people.
I say "some" because a lot of people I come across tend to enjoy it, including me.
It's only the misanthropes online who seem to despise it.
by Anonymous reply 2 May 15, 2025 5:28 PM
I Love Lucy - Scotland
by Anonymous reply 3 May 15, 2025 5:30 PM
I think Season 4 of the GG's is worse than Season 7
by Anonymous reply 4 May 15, 2025 5:33 PM
GG had some great episodes in season 7. The Rita Moreno episode was a POS, and any of the episodes that centered around Rose and Miles were pretty bad.
by Anonymous reply 5 May 15, 2025 5:35 PM
OP, I thought the Suzanne in blackface storyline was pretty funny, especially Julia's reaction. But otherwise the spousal abuse storyline was stupid and frau-y.
by Anonymous reply 6 May 15, 2025 5:51 PM
The male stripper episode of “The Facts of Life” when Blair found out her med student boyfriend was moonlighting as one. The strippers were hot but it was “The Facts of Life”, for fucks sake. It felt icky.
This was back when every other show tried to have make strippers on. Even “Guiding Light”.
by Anonymous reply 7 May 15, 2025 6:04 PM
Agreed, R5. I think one of my least favorite episodes is when Rose attends a faculty party with Miles and these professors are supposed to be having high literary conversations but they are discussing the most basic things that you would assign to an undergrad to write a paper on, not discuss as though it were a brand new hot topic.
by Anonymous reply 8 May 15, 2025 6:07 PM
Monroe gets raped.
by Anonymous reply 9 May 15, 2025 6:07 PM
Mavis was played in that episode by Guiding Light star Kim Zimmer, who had announced she was leaving the soap before this aired.
Linda Bloodworth was a Guiding Light fan, and created this role for Kim because she was considering her for the Marilu Henner role on Evening Shade.
by Anonymous reply 10 May 15, 2025 6:11 PM
I've always hated the 2-part "having a baby" episodes. Almost every show had them.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous reply 11 May 15, 2025 6:12 PM
R9, I got AIDS like that
by Anonymous reply 12 May 15, 2025 6:13 PM
Rose's blind sister visits the Golden Girls.
by Anonymous reply 13 May 15, 2025 6:14 PM
The frau-y esthetic pretty much ruins everything on TV
by Anonymous reply 14 May 15, 2025 6:17 PM
The Golden Girls go to a homeless shelter.
by Anonymous reply 15 May 15, 2025 6:22 PM
I tuned into Knots Landing every Wednesday and remember hating the later season twee storyline where Kevin Dobson tries to help some ugly surfer kid (Jason Lochner)
by Anonymous reply 16 May 15, 2025 6:26 PM
"Designing Women" episodes, after Jean Smart and Delta Burke left, were disasters. Julia Duffy's character, Allison, was so over the top obnoxious. Julia is an excellent actress, but the producers and writers should've made Allison more likeable and softer. The show rebounded, a bit, with Judith Ivy, who was wonderful. Yet, the writing was so abysmal toward the end. Alice Ghostley kept the show on life support.
by Anonymous reply 17 May 15, 2025 6:39 PM
Melissa dates miles on thirty something.
by Anonymous reply 18 May 15, 2025 6:39 PM
Hope volunteering at a homeless shelter on thirty something
by Anonymous reply 19 May 15, 2025 6:41 PM
The empty nest pilot on Golden Girls.
by Anonymous reply 20 May 15, 2025 7:00 PM
Carrie's birthday party on SATC where none of the ten guests show up because they either can't find the restaurant or they're stuck in traffic and she has to pay for her own cake. Miranda tells her to 'get a cell phone!' when she's already used cell phone in previous seasons. Everything about that episode was sloppy.
by Anonymous reply 21 May 15, 2025 7:07 PM
The episode of “Six Feet Under” when David was kidnapped in a van.
by Anonymous reply 22 May 15, 2025 7:37 PM
The cringy episode of LHOP when Carrie discovered her imaginary twin playmate.
by Anonymous reply 23 May 15, 2025 7:40 PM
Some of these are not 'the best shows'.
by Anonymous reply 24 May 15, 2025 7:59 PM
MTM - when Mary moves to the new apartment.
by Anonymous reply 25 May 15, 2025 8:07 PM
That time Dorothy slapped the shit out of the gardener
by Anonymous reply 26 May 15, 2025 8:26 PM
MTM - when Murray and Marie adopt a son
by Anonymous reply 27 May 15, 2025 8:26 PM
The Office - while Pam and Jim are on their honeymoon the “office” thinks they are doing business with the mafia.
by Anonymous reply 28 May 15, 2025 8:28 PM
I thought Parks and Rec was a terrific show but once they started the time dash episodes I was out.
by Anonymous reply 29 May 15, 2025 8:31 PM
I hated the “Cheers” Boston Barmaid contest. I know the humor is that Diane got all into it and it’s 1983 but it’s so degrading.
by Anonymous reply 30 May 15, 2025 8:47 PM
R4, LHOP's combination of mercantile-edged bitchery and Lynchian weirdness (Sylvia, anyone?) , shirtless Charles or Almanzo, and wholesome family themes more than earns LHOP a place in the DL Hall of Best Shows.
by Anonymous reply 31 May 15, 2025 8:50 PM
The “Seinfeld” episode when Elaine successfully converts a gay man just by begging. But then complains that he changed “back”.
Not that the show had a great track record on it. Kramer converts lesbians. Susan’s lesbianism “didn’t take”. The two occasional gay guys are creepy. I think the only time it was shown in a somewhat normal manner was early on with Glenn Shaddix and his partner.
by Anonymous reply 32 May 15, 2025 8:51 PM
George had an erection when a masseur touched him
by Anonymous reply 33 May 15, 2025 8:55 PM
R32, that episode featured one of the best scenes from Elaine in the entire series: when she snatches the toupee from George’s head. It begins at around 2:45.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous reply 34 May 15, 2025 9:03 PM
The episode of “The Sopranos” that’s all about Meadow’s soccer team.
by Anonymous reply 35 May 15, 2025 9:09 PM
That was about my MS!
by Anonymous reply 36 May 15, 2025 9:11 PM
SVU was basically quite good at what it did - but after about season 17 Mariska seems to have taken complete control of the scripts and turned them into domestic dramas, mostly all about her and her kid. There are more reaction shots of her face in that show than there are stars in Hollywood.
by Anonymous reply 37 May 15, 2025 9:17 PM
Best show: Frasier.
Worst episode: The Greek wedding, in which we find out Frasier and Niles have a Greek Aunt Zora — never mentioned before or after, making no sense at all in this WASPy family. Was she Martin's sister or their mother's sister? Who knows.
by Anonymous reply 38 May 15, 2025 9:19 PM
R38, I just saw that episode. I think that was Martin's brother who married into the Greek family. Aunt Zora was played by DL icon, Patti LuPone.
For Frasier, many of the episodes/seasons after Niles and Daphne got together. The show was much better when Niles was pining after Daphne.
by Anonymous reply 39 May 15, 2025 9:24 PM
HOW DARE YOU, R38!
by Anonymous reply 40 May 15, 2025 9:26 PM
R38 I came to post that.. it felt like a spinoff that never got picked up. I'll also add the dream episode in the cabin
by Anonymous reply 41 May 15, 2025 9:31 PM
90% of season 9 of the original Roseanne. The worst episode was Roseambo. It's considered by many to be the worst sitcom episode ever.
Such a tragedy because the original Roseanne was great, most of the time.
I don't know what happened with season 9, if Roseanne was off her meds or wasn't taking them but what a weird way to end a fantastic sitcom.
by Anonymous reply 42 May 15, 2025 9:32 PM
She became Saint Olivia long before that r37.
I love watching repeats on ION TV though, if only to give descriptive names to Mariska's changing looks. Poodle Mariska, Wise Mariska, Cat that swallowed the canary Mariska, Hunchback Mariska, Holding in a shit Mariska...
And then there are the other characters
by Anonymous reply 43 May 15, 2025 9:42 PM
IT'S OLEEBIA R43!
by Anonymous reply 44 May 15, 2025 9:44 PM
r34's link also shows Gary/Greg from White Lotus (a young Jon Greis) picking up the toupe at 3:40.
by Anonymous reply 45 May 15, 2025 9:48 PM
That "One Day At A Time" when Anne ducks into the bedroom to process her birthday and the onward marching of time. What also got old? Listening to her talking to herself!
by Anonymous reply 46 May 15, 2025 9:56 PM
Wasn’t Anne supposed to be only in her late 30s in that episode? Screw you, Anne.
by Anonymous reply 47 May 15, 2025 10:01 PM
The last few episodes of “Game of Thrones.”
by Anonymous reply 48 May 15, 2025 10:03 PM
Golden Girls-Mr. Terrific. -it IS funny though when you learn that the actor playing Mr. Terrific played Maude’s almost son-in-law in the “Maude” pilot.
The episode “Howard’s Girl” from season one of Mary Tyler Moore. Just kind of pointless and not that funny.
The episode of “Alice” where Mel gets a robot waiter. Martin Scorsese would have plotzed.
by Anonymous reply 49 May 15, 2025 10:14 PM
The MTM episodes where Mary dates the wrong Van Dyke brother. She may have turned the world on with her smile, but Jerry definitely turned it back off.
by Anonymous reply 50 May 15, 2025 10:14 PM
One Day at a Time was not a good show!
by Anonymous reply 51 May 15, 2025 10:28 PM
The MTM episode where she spends the day with Phyllis's daughter, Bess.
by Anonymous reply 52 May 15, 2025 10:29 PM
I watch that one just to see Lisa Gerritson rebel by wearing her Mom's fall and makeup.
by Anonymous reply 53 May 15, 2025 10:42 PM
When Roseanne tried to be profound in its later seasons, it didn't work. The episode where DJ doesn't want to kiss the black girl for one. Good message but too staged and forced in its delivery. And no teacher would have mouthed off to Roseanne like DJ's teacher did because they would have lost their job.
I also didn't care for the episode where Roseanne is contemplating having an abortion, which is basically her screaming at everyone not to tell her what to do. She treats Dan like absolute shit in some militant pro feminist message.
by Anonymous reply 54 May 15, 2025 11:00 PM
"The Rowdy Girls" is prime DESIGNING WOMEN -- the serious storyline that some of you are shrugging off is brought home by the amazing Jean Smart, and the comic one is priceless (if inconceivable today).
by Anonymous reply 55 May 15, 2025 11:04 PM
The last episode of Designing Women is pretty terrible.
Nothing tops the last episode of Grace Under Fire, which could be pretty good…but that last one is monumentally bad.
by Anonymous reply 56 May 15, 2025 11:07 PM
The Columbus Day episode of The Sopranos
by Anonymous reply 57 May 15, 2025 11:08 PM
"I don't know what happened with season 9, if Roseanne was off her meds or wasn't taking them but what a weird way to end a fantastic sitcom."
I meant to write "if Roseanne was off her meds or taking too many of them."
LOL.
by Anonymous reply 58 May 15, 2025 11:14 PM
The original final season of Roseanne was full of terrible episodes but Roseambo - Roseanne dressed as Rambo saving a train from terrorists - had to be the nadir
by Anonymous reply 59 May 16, 2025 12:26 AM
[quote]Nothing tops the last episode of Grace Under Fire, which could be pretty good…but that last one is monumentally bad.
If you haven't seen it, it's worth watching, especially the opening scene where Brett Butler is so drugged up that she seems to be in her street clothes and messy hair, mumbling her lines in a disturbing monotone.
They brought in Julia Duffy to do some professional comedy opposite Brett, but nothing could save this. The episode actually ran three minutes short because Brett couldn't get through it. An all-time trainwreck.
by Anonymous reply 60 May 16, 2025 12:33 AM
Golden Girls-Mr. Terrific.
R49 - I for one like this episode as I think Bob Dishy is funny, as is the scene where Dorothy fights with Kolak.
Dorothy: Why Kolak. I didn't know you could speak English.
Kolak: Hey what you don't know could fill a space the size of Guam!
by Anonymous reply 61 May 16, 2025 12:38 AM
For me the only episode of The Comeback (Lisa Kudrow) that was not absolutely classic was the one called "Valerie Gets a Magazine Cover" I have skipped that episode on my many binge/rewatches, so I will check it out again to see if that is still the case.
by Anonymous reply 62 May 16, 2025 12:54 AM
I hated the episode (I think it was called The one with the truth about London) from Friends where Monica reveals the truth about how she had actually wanted to hook-up with Joey and not Chandler in London during Ross' wedding. It was such an unnecessary episode that completely humiliates Chandler's character, ridicules Monica and Chandler's relationship and apart from that episode, it's never mentioned again. Very dark humor for a light-hearted comedy like Friends.
Finale of Game of Thrones where Arya kills the Night King. Infuriating turn of event and a stupid script that pissed on the show that built its story for over a decade.
by Anonymous reply 63 May 16, 2025 1:10 AM
Agreed, R63 about the Friends moment.
by Anonymous reply 64 May 16, 2025 1:15 AM
The episode of "The Lucy Show" in which Lucy and Viv build a replica of the White House with sugar cubes and "lovable" Lucy viciously assaults people with a heavy sack of sugar cubes and then steals a horse to make a getaway after stealing a restaurant's entire supply of sugar cubes. Lucy viciously knocking men unconscious and then literally becoming a horse thief wasn't nearly as adorable as her writers seemed to think.
by Anonymous reply 65 May 16, 2025 1:20 AM
Not so much worst episode but worst scenes. I find it cringeworthy when sitcoms have scenes set in gay bars (e.g., Frasier and Will & Grace). It’s Muzak instead of music, the bar vibe is lifeless, and the men all look like they modeled for a JCPenney catalog. I got a similar feeling from all the Central Perk scenes on Friends. That cafe bears no resemblance to any NYC cafe IRL.
by Anonymous reply 66 May 16, 2025 1:23 AM
That Chatterbox episode of the Nanny. Another backdoor pilot that failed.
by Anonymous reply 67 May 16, 2025 1:38 AM
R60 It’s so bad. I think they chose to air it just to humiliate Brett. Poor Julia. I hope she got a fat paycheck.
by Anonymous reply 68 May 16, 2025 2:57 AM
Will & Grace was inconsistent but I found the early seasons mostly solid. One of the worst episodes was from season 4 involving a garden gnome Will is attached to for some reason. Of course Grace breaks it and then Three's Company-level shenanigans ensue. I remember watching that the first time it aired and thinking it didn't bode well for the future of the show. Soon after they introduced the 'Will & Grace' want a baby' storyline and added Harry Connick Jr. and the show never really recovered despite lasting 4 more seasons (and a reboot.)
by Anonymous reply 69 May 16, 2025 10:34 AM
"The Rowdy Girls" had a very sympathetic portrait by Kim Zimmer (and the husband was kinda hot, no?). This is also the episode that made me love Jean Smart -- when she returns to the house she hears the husband beating up on Mavis, and the look on Smart's face and the terror and despair she feels is right there. A brilliant piece of acting, only seconds long.
So yeah, not a great episode, but it's interesting to know the moment you became an admirer of an actor.
by Anonymous reply 70 May 16, 2025 1:05 PM
SVU was never a best show. Always thoroughly mediocre.
by Anonymous reply 71 May 16, 2025 1:42 PM
Lost: Stranger in a Strange Land. So bad that it inspired a push toward setting an end date for the series.
by Anonymous reply 72 May 16, 2025 5:09 PM
That GRACE UNDER FIRE finale, yikes
Offsite Linkby Anonymous reply 73 May 16, 2025 5:19 PM
The Fly episode of Breaking Bad.
by Anonymous reply 74 May 16, 2025 5:21 PM
The Seargent Emma episode of Brady Bunch. So, so bad.
by Anonymous reply 75 May 16, 2025 5:26 PM
The Will and Grace episodes where they were trying to have a baby
by Anonymous reply 76 May 16, 2025 5:27 PM
Sergeant Emma was a dyke!
by Anonymous reply 77 May 16, 2025 5:28 PM
The "Cavender is Coming" episode of The Twilight Zone
Offsite Linkby Anonymous reply 78 May 16, 2025 5:33 PM
IIRC, “Grace Under Fire” didn’t even get to have a real finale as she had a major meltdown during a taping and was screaming and cursing at producers in front of the audience. The show was shut down on the spot and that was that. Cast members had already fled the show by that point.
Butler is one of those who published an “overcoming my demons” memoirs a little too early.
by Anonymous reply 79 May 16, 2025 6:29 PM
[quote]That GRACE UNDER FIRE finale, yikes
You can feel the desperate editing they used to cobble together a simulacrum of a performance by Brett Butler.
by Anonymous reply 80 May 16, 2025 8:03 PM
The Dexter finale.
by Anonymous reply 81 May 16, 2025 8:09 PM
The SATC episode that takes place at Aidan's house in the Hamptons. Aiden and Big get into a muddy fistfight over Carrie. For me, it was the one only awful episode in a season of winners.
However, it was still better than just about every episode of AJLT.
by Anonymous reply 82 May 16, 2025 9:04 PM
Didn’t the mud fight between Big and Aidan take place at the country cabin?
by Anonymous reply 83 May 16, 2025 9:37 PM
"The Mother Muffin Affair" on "The Man From Uncle".
by Anonymous reply 84 May 16, 2025 9:53 PM
That was one of my favorite SATC episodes. I don't know about the worst... maybe the one where Carrie dates the young bisexual guy.
by Anonymous reply 85 May 16, 2025 9:53 PM
R82, are you conflating Carrie's Hamptons adventure with the later Big/Aidan Batman vs. Green Hornet (with Pete as Kato) mud wrestling scene in Aidan's rustic place in Suffern?
by Anonymous reply 86 May 16, 2025 10:34 PM
The final episode of "How I Met Your Mother" was putrid. Worst series finale ever.
by Anonymous reply 87 May 16, 2025 11:48 PM
I hated the Breaking Bad episode "Fly". Just an opportunity for the writers to jerk themselves off. Yes, an episode where the characters are stuck in one place and talk about their feelings. How incredibly clever of you. Too bad The Sopranos did it in 2003 with "Pine Barrens".
by Anonymous reply 88 May 17, 2025 12:17 AM
The only Original Recipe Perry Mason episode that was filmed in color. It ruined the whole "film noir" atmosphere of the show.
by Anonymous reply 89 May 17, 2025 2:52 AM
I'll also stick up for "The Rowdy Girls," which really shows what Jean Smart brought to the table.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous reply 90 May 17, 2025 3:24 AM
When Arnold gets molested on Diff'rent Strokes. Not funny. At. All.
by Anonymous reply 91 May 17, 2025 3:52 AM
SVU tipped to kitsch a long time ago. Now it’s an aging Ice T and Mariska who looks like she should be in a babushka picking turnips.
The worst episode of it was definitely the OLIBEEA one. Terrible. Overwrought. Yet fraus and young lesbians lapped it up.
by Anonymous reply 92 May 17, 2025 4:08 AM
The last “Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” with Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams. Not only was this a half-hour show padded to an hour, it’s thoroughly unfunny and depressing. You can tell everyone involved just wanted to get it over with. Whatever life once imbued those characters had extinguished.
by Anonymous reply 93 May 17, 2025 5:30 AM
Cousin Oliver and the pie fight in the turn of the century costumes. Robert Reed was wise to stay far, far away (he was probably getting some fat cock at the time).
by Anonymous reply 94 May 17, 2025 5:41 AM
[quote]The last “Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” with Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams. Not only was this a half-hour show padded to an hour, it’s thoroughly unfunny and depressing. You can tell everyone involved just wanted to get it over with. Whatever life once imbued those characters had extinguished.
Many of the last season episodes of Moonlighting have that same tone. Plastic Fantastic Lovers especially.
by Anonymous reply 95 May 17, 2025 7:18 PM
The "it was just a dream" episode from Dallas. It was such a slap in the face to fans, writers, and cast who did some of their best work on the season Bobby was dead. Especially Linda Gray. It was all downhill, fast, after that.
by Anonymous reply 96 May 17, 2025 7:29 PM
[quote]The final episode of "How I Met Your Mother" was putrid. Worst series finale ever.
Absolutely. We concur.
by Anonymous reply 97 May 17, 2025 8:48 PM
[quote] It was all downhill, fast, after that.
Fuck you R96! We were fan favorites!
by Anonymous reply 98 May 17, 2025 9:36 PM
That one episode they bring the blond kid with glasses home, all downhill from there.
by Anonymous reply 99 May 17, 2025 9:39 PM
The ending of DW Rowdy Girls - bringing all the stories together with lip synching to the Supremes was a memorable series highlight.
by Anonymous reply 100 May 17, 2025 10:16 PM
The entire 9th season of Roseanne.
by Anonymous reply 101 May 17, 2025 10:26 PM
The sad thing is the worst episodes of the best shows run circles around "reality" tv programming and most podcasts these days. It may be dreck, but it's still somewhat entertaining dreck.
by Anonymous reply 102 May 17, 2025 11:15 PM
I liked The Rowdy Girls. I mean it wasn't the very best but the Supremes bit was funny and I was a Guiding Light fan so I was happy to see "Reva" on Designing Women.
by Anonymous reply 103 May 17, 2025 11:41 PM
It always annoyed me on Rowdy Girls that they made a big deal about The Supremes and did not even perform a Supremes song.
by Anonymous reply 104 May 17, 2025 11:48 PM
Oh. Why did I think it wasn’t a Supremes sing. I thought it was a Diana solo song.
My bad.
by Anonymous reply 105 May 17, 2025 11:51 PM
R96 I know I'm in a minority, possibly a small one, but I actually liked it.
I thought the season that had just played out, although there was some good stuff, was mostly awful. The worst season ever, (though far better than any of the later seasons).
I loved the concept of going back a year and reimaging "what if we had gone in the other direction", kind of like the movie Sliding Doors. And, for me, it worked more than it didn't. I haven't watched in years and no longer remember the specifics, but for example, Linda Gray had a much better storyline the second time which I recall enjoying the most.
The only major downfall was Knot's Landing having to retcon because of it. But at that point, they decided to ignore it altogether and proceed like all those Ewings never existed. Which might have been more beneficial.
by Anonymous reply 106 May 18, 2025 2:10 AM
The Lost finale where everyone heterosexually pairs up in Heaven's waiting room.
Or, something.
by Anonymous reply 107 May 18, 2025 3:29 AM
Yeah, of all the very bad, terrible episodes mentioned, the whole fuckery with Will and Grace wanting to have a kid together I think surpasses all of them, because it has that gross stupid element of "gay guys really deep down want to be traditional husbands and fathers if they can only figure out a way to make that work."
Stupid and fucked up on every level.
by Anonymous reply 108 May 18, 2025 3:34 AM
Will and Grace not only wanting to have a kid together, but actually trying to have sex with each other. I just found that to be totally insulting.
by Anonymous reply 109 May 18, 2025 3:40 AM
The Will & Grace episode when Jack and Karen were stuck in the stairwell.
by Anonymous reply 110 May 18, 2025 3:42 AM
Karen was the only reason to watch Will and Grace, and when Beverly Leslie made an appearance. The rest of the show was just "meh."
by Anonymous reply 111 May 18, 2025 3:44 AM
"Join the Club" episode of The Sopranos. Tony is shot by a demented Junior, rushed to the hospital, and in a coma.
He's Kevin Finnerty, a top-selling heating systems salesman who is being sued by a monastery and diagnosed with Alzheimer's. WT ever-loving Fuck????
by Anonymous reply 112 May 19, 2025 1:26 PM
Star Trek Voyager = "Spirit Folk". Tom Paris turns Harry Kim's holographic galpal into a holographic cow (I kid you not) and the other holographic characters in the old Irish village think the Voyager crew are now working with the devil.
Runner Up = "11:59". Capt. Janeway has a boring Indiana relative in her past that runs into a boring bookstore owner with a boring son, and they devote the entire show to a boringly predicatable on-again /off-again romance (I guessed to make Mulgrew happy, utilizing her soap opera past). The ending has Mulgrew in elderly makeup, which they used again for time warp Adm. Janeway in the series finale.
by Anonymous reply 113 May 19, 2025 4:58 PM
Don't forget the Voyager episode where Janeway and Paris turned into salamanders or some such fuckery.
When Voyager was good it was great, and when it was bad it was utter shit.
by Anonymous reply 114 May 19, 2025 5:01 PM
R114 I loved that episode. It was daring to have a Capt. (who couldn't romance any of her crew) end up procreating with the guy in front of her most of the day.
I always thought the Scott B. shitshow that came after Voyager was being attacked by the Janeway/ Paris salamander descendants (the Suluban?) for abandoning them on that planet in the Delta quadrant. It would've been a better angle than anything the Enterprise writers had going.
by Anonymous reply 115 May 19, 2025 5:10 PM
bump 4 more.
by Anonymous reply 116 July 3, 2025 2:35 PM
Any "Seinfeld" episode that focused on Kramer, a character I always disliked. The audience whooping and cheering every entrance of his only made me dislike him more.
by Anonymous reply 117 July 3, 2025 10:38 PM
The Rowdy Girls episode of DW isn't its absolute finest but it's far from the worst. That honor goes to several eps in Seasons 6 and 7.
by Anonymous reply 118 July 3, 2025 10:48 PM
Designing Women's "The Rowdy Girls" have 'The Supremes" singing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" which was a Diana Ross song, not a Supremes song. For a purist it's a sacrilege.
by Anonymous reply 119 July 4, 2025 4:10 AM
Any episode of The Dick Van Dyke show that flashed back to his army days or featured his brother Stacey
by Anonymous reply 120 July 4, 2025 4:33 AM
Whew! No one's mentioned my episode on " Golden Girls."
by Anonymous reply 121 July 4, 2025 4:59 AM
I treasure the Sergeant Erma eppy. The one I skip is where Robert and Florence play their character’s respective fussbudget and feisty grandpa and grandma. I appreciate that the actors longed to stretch, but the performances are an embarrassment.
by Anonymous reply 122 July 4, 2025 5:00 AM
I finally actually watched the Renee episode of The Golden Girls. It’s not all bad. The mentally ill character was insensitive, but otherwise it provided a fascinating insight into an early draft of what became Empty Mess.
by Anonymous reply 123 July 4, 2025 5:08 AM
Star Trek The Next Generation Season 7: Sub Rosa.
Dr. Beverly Crusher’s elderly “nana” just kicked the bucket at a ripe old age, living planetside on some boring colony world with Scottish accents.
After the funeral, while sorting grandma’s items, come to find out…hehehe come… to find out grandma had some kind of younger lover man who in reality was some space ghost/alien life form more or less boinking grandma to orgasmic sensibilities. Practically sexy time! Dr. Crusher’s recently deceased elderly grandmother - mind you. Then the same presence attempts seducing Beverly and she suddenly wants to resign from her job as CMO and from Starfleet entirely and move to the planet and live out a life boinking an orgasmic space ghost, just like dear old nana.
Later in the show, parts of season 6 and 7, a noticeably higher amount of the scripts vacillated between utterly boring and tragically absurd.
HORRID HORRID HORRID
by Anonymous reply 124 July 4, 2025 5:27 AM
R121 - see R5
by Anonymous reply 125 July 4, 2025 5:33 AM
Any episode of "The Carol Burnett Show" in which Tim Conway appears.
by Anonymous reply 126 July 4, 2025 9:03 AM
Morrison getting raped in the prison- St Elsewhere
The character was constantly being traumatized. It was too much.
by Anonymous reply 127 July 4, 2025 5:53 PM
Columbo- No Time to Die. The one where the new wife of Columbo’s nephew gets kidnapped by a stalker.
Peter Falk bought the rights to an Ed McBain novel and thought it would make a good Columbo episode.
That was the first sign of his Alzheimers.
by Anonymous reply 128 July 4, 2025 6:00 PM
Monroe’s rape
by Anonymous reply 129 July 4, 2025 6:02 PM
The Seinfeld episode that ran backward in time from the marriage Jerry and Elaine attended in India. Typical Jerry Seinfeld produced nonsense after Larry David left.
by Anonymous reply 130 July 4, 2025 6:32 PM
R129 The title of the thread is WORST episodes, not BEST.
by Anonymous reply 131 July 4, 2025 6:36 PM