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->''"''Series/{{Dallas}}'', you have insulted my intelligence. I'm switching to ''Series/{{Dynasty|1981}}''."''
-->-- '''''[[ILoveTheExties I Love The 80s]] [[OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo Strikes Back]]'''''

Whether it's awful endings, contrived plots, derailed characters or other bad writing, these are the moments that should have been [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck taken off the air]].

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The following series have their own pages:

[[index]]
%%* ''DethroningMoment/AmericanIdol''
* ''DethroningMoment/{{Arrowverse}}''
* ''DethroningMoment/TheBigBangTheory''
* ''DethroningMoment/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
* ''DethroningMoment/{{CSI}}''
* DethroningMoment/DisneySitcoms
** ''DethroningMoment/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace''
* ''DethroningMoment/DoctorWho''
** ''DethroningMoment/{{Torchwood}}''
* ''DethroningMoment/EverybodyLovesRaymond''
* ''DethroningMoment/{{Friends}}''
* ''DethroningMoment/GameOfThrones''
* ''DethroningMoment/{{Glee}}''
* ''DethroningMoment/HowIMetYourMother''
* ''DethroningMoment/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''
* ''DethroningMoment/MalcolmInTheMiddle''
* DethroningMoment/NickelodeonSitcoms
** ''DethroningMoment/ICarly''
* ''DethroningMoment/OnceUponATime''
* ''DethroningMoment/PowerRangers''
* ''DethroningMoment/StarTrek''
* ''DethroningMoment/{{Supernatural}}''
* ''DethroningMoment/TwoAndAHalfMen''
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[[folder:''24'']]
* Tropers/{{Crazyrabbits}}: ''Series/TwentyFour'': In a series that has seen all manner of ridiculous scenarios and over-the-top plot twists, the two episodes in Season 2 that feature Jack Bauer dying for ten minutes, a Middle Eastern secret agent being beaten to death by rednecks, said rednecks holding a woman hostage for a microchip they know absolutely nothing about and Kim Bauer attempting to escape a wild cougar before shacking up with a kooky survivalist is still, six seasons on, the absolute nadir of the series.
* Tropers/{{t3hdow}}: The moment in season 6 when [[FanNickname "Bluetooth"]], season 5's BigBad was revealed as [[spoiler:Jack's brother]] in the fifth episode. [[AssPull The twist, while unexpected, made very little logical sense for obvious reasons, given Jack's reputation for dismantling terrorist threats at any cost]], and because there was no mention of [[spoiler:Jack's immediate family]] until this point. This damaged not only season 6, but the excellent trilogy-style foundation seasons 4 & 5 built up. Though this wasn't season 6's only misstep, it's the most infamous.
* RAZ: Season 7 was bad enough that nearly half of it was spent on a storyarc of Jack being infected with the Starkword weapon even though it never went anywhere and just got dragged on, but the finale was the real kicker that left me wanting to put my fist through the TV. The gigantic double AssPull that [[StrangerBehindTheMask Alan Wilson]] was the true mastermind of season 5 and the real reason that Tony had sacrificed his soul, any chance of a future pardon, and nearly everyone he knew both good and bad to kill him was [[spoiler:all to suddenly avenge the death of his previously unmentioned unborn child]] was essentially just the writers giving one huge middle finger to the entire audience.
* Tropers/{{Rage24}} As a fan of ''24'', I have a hard time defending the latter half of season 4. It's the most blatant example of the writers just giving up I've ever seen. [[BigBad Marwan]] pulling off ridiculous plots that would put [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Wile E Coyote]] to shame. At one point, he's able to get his hands on a page of the nuclear football. In the span of 30 minutes, he's able to send one of his infinite terrorist cells to intercept a military unit halfway across the country and successfully steal a nuclear warhead. As Marwan continues to pull off the impossible, Jack Bauer and CTU spend the latter half of the season chasing after him and [[EpicFail let him slip away 5 times.]] One of those times, they lost him in the middle of the freakin' desert. It become obvious that the writers were just dragging out the Marwan plot [[SpoiledByTheFormat until the 24th hour]], but considering the {{Broken Record}} nature of the plot, it just wasn't interesting.
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[[folder:''Angel'']]
* Tropers/WolframAndHart: The fifth season episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}'', "[[{{Recap/AngelS05E20TheGirlInQuestion}} 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 "[[{{Recap/AngelS05E19TimeBomb}} 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 IdiotBall 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 [[Film/PrettyInPink 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 GodModeSue 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 [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler: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!
* Tropers/{{Tiggerific}}: "[[{{Recap/AngelS01E08IWillRememberYou}} 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 "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E8Pangs}} 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.
* Tropers/DCorp123: Almost the entirety of Season 4 can be a DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck. Between the sheer annihilation of Cordelia's character, the awful moments of Squick, the horrendously bleak apocalypse story arc, and the focus on [[TheScrappy 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 BigBad just for the sake of coming up with some convoluted reason for why this season exists. [[FanonDiscontinuity No wonder several fans like to pretend Season 4 never happened.]]
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[[folder:''Battlestar Galactica'']]
* @/{{Crazyrabbits}}: A moment that completely derailed ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' was the third season episode "[[Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003S03E09UnfinishedBusiness 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 OneTruePairing 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: "[[Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003S03E14TheWomanKing 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 resistance 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.
* Troopers/BattleMaster: 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 AngstNuke 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 WhatCouldHaveBeen.
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[[folder:''Bones'']]
* Tropers/{{Anarquistador}}: The seventh season finale of ''Series/{{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 CrazyPrepared; 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' 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 WriterOnBoard 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.
* WatcherCCG: The season 8 finale is [[FromBadToWorse even worse]]. For the sake of melodrama, {{Wangst}}, and [[YankTheDogsChain yanking the audience's chain]], Pelent cows Booth into [[spoiler: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 [[HollywoodHacking computer voodoo]] means that he'll instantly know if Booth warns [[spoiler: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 before this point, [[TrollingCreator and the Executive Producer laughed at them for it]], confirming Pelant is his CreatorsPet, 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.
* Tropers/{{Chicagomel}}: For me, it was Pelant stealing Hodgins’ money earlier in season 8. Besides what was already said about no one being that smart, no bank is that lax that they wouldn’t call Hodgins about the money drain. And no rich person has all their money in liquid form. It’s all in various investments,stocks,properties,etc. And are we to think no one learned to be better prepared, like maybe splitting money up somehow? On top of that, there’s no fallout mentioned in the economy or the lab itself, despite Hodgins being their biggest donor. I could have accepted things a tiny bit more the bank had called and Hodgins has been portrayed as not wanting the money returned or something, since he hated being rich, but the way it was written is just dumb. I still love all 12 seasons and don’t feel it ever jumped the shark, but that particular ep is probably my least favorite or at least in the top 3.
* [=InTheGallbladder=]: The season 10 premier. In theory, Lance Sweets [[spoiler:getting fatally shot]] offscreen during the investigation of the big conspiracy would bolster the show's ratings by kicking off the season with a WhamEpisode. In practice, the new showrunners' intentions were completely transparent--the only thing more obvious was how unfit they were to handle it. The staff of the Jeffersonian once again [[spoiler:singing "Lime in the Coconut" as they scatter his ashes]] marked the exact point where the show bled itself dry.
* Tetsuzan: In a crime drama especially when you have a SherlockHomage 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 self-insert character, fine, but at least do it in a way that doesn’t insult you audience’s intelligence.
* {{immortafrieza}}: While any episode featuring [[PhonyPsychic Avalon]] is grating due to the massive amounts of CharacterShilling she gets, season 8's "Ghost In The Machine" is easily the worst episode of the series, bar none. We have a BizarroEpisode 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.
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[[folder:''Community'']]
* Tropers/SpiderFan14: "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons" from ''Series/{{Community}}''. I haven't completely seen Season 2, but so far this is Pierce's worst moment. Imagine if ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' 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 ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' game by Jeff to cheer up a possibly suicidal classmate named "Fat Neil" [[FridgeLogic 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 DesignatedVillain 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.
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[[folder:''Degrassi: The Next Generation'']]
* Tropers/{{pocksuppet1}}: ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'': 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 JerkSue 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)?
* Tropers/{{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 AssholeVictim treatment! To me, that's DisproportionateRetribution.
** {{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.
** Chimanruler15: 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?
* @/JoSilv: 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.
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[[folder:''Dinosaurs'']]
-> "Sinclair! In here now! [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck These moments]] are all your fault!"
-->--'''B.P. Richfield'''
* Tropers/TrouserWearingBarbarian: The last episode of ''{{Series/Dinosaurs}}''. They gave a light-hearted (if occasionally preachy) sitcom a ShootTheShaggyDog DownerEnding to deliver an {{Anvilicious}} GreenAesop. It brings a whole new meaning to "whole new low."
* Tropers/DeadpanFly2: To me, the worst episode of ''Dinosaurs'' was “Getting to Know You.” In it, Charlene, who feels that her family doesn’t appreciate her, decides to enroll in the foreign exchange program, only for her and her family to find that the family she’s switched with consists entirely of FrenchJerk prehistoric birds. All for the sake of subverting and inverting the typical PrejudiceAesop. By the time Charlene returns to her real family, they all learn that racism is cool now. The whole point of the foreign exchange program is to shut down stereotypes, isn't it? If so, then I find this episode insulting to what the foreign exchange program stands for!
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[[folder:''Full House'']]
-> "You're in big trouble, mister!"
-->-- '''Michelle's response to [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck these moments]]'''
* fluffything: The episode of ''Series/FullHouse'' 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.
* Tropers/NoonboryKedabory: "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 TheStinger 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 pointless. "Happy Birthday Babies", in my opinion, is the worst introduction to a new character period, let alone a CousinOliver, and cemented Michelle's status as a CreatorsPet for the ages. If you want to see this episode done right, watch the ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' 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.
* [=FlyingDuckManGenesis=]: Now, I like ''Full House''. It is one of the staples of ABC's [=TGiF=] lineup, along with ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'', ''Series/FamilyMatters'', and ''Series/HomeImprovement'', and I have been watching it every weekday on HBO Max since the death of Bob Saget. Unfortunately, there was one moment in "Radio Days" that really rubbed me the wrong way. In Joey's subplot, Mr. Stowbridge sticks Joey with a new co-host for ''The Ranger Joe Show'', Jungle Jenny, who happens to be his wife. Jenny annoys Joey to no end, up to and including trapping him in a snare. Joey gets so frustrated that he orders Mr. Stowbridge to fire Jenny or he's leaving. Mr. Stowbridge naturally chooses Jenny over him, resulting in him getting fired. Michelle has witnessed the entire thing, and does she feel bad for Joey, stick up for him, or at the very least, help him out of the snare? No, she just leaves him there, finding it funny. Is that any way for her to treat him after all the nice things he's done for her? He helped Danny and Uncle Jesse raise her after her mother died when she was a baby in the series premiere, for goodness sake! The one consolation is that [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Michelle did eventually get punished by Joey]] in "To Joey, With Love" when he served as her substitute teacher. He sent her to the Principal's office when she kept disrupting class. Jenny, on the other hand, [[KarmaHoudini received no comeuppance for ruining Joey's career]], due in part to her being Mr. Stowbridge's wife, cementing her status as my least favorite ''Full House'' character. I'm just glad she was a one-time character like Bendy from ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''. I'd hate to imagine what she'd be like if she were a regular character like Megan Parker, my least favorite ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' character.
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[[folder:''Gilmore Girls'']]
* Tropers/AetherMaster: Rory stealing a fucking yacht on ''Series/GilmoreGirls''. 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.
** Tropers/EmmaDilemma: 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.
* Tropers/SunMushan: For me, the show began sucking during season 5 when Rory overlooked NiceGuy Marty in favor of Adulterer Dean, who was quickly followed by SmugSnake 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 [[ShipTease tease]] me with Marty returning in season 7, only to crush my hopes by writing him so badly out of [[DerailingLoveInterests character]]! When the end of the series finally arrived with Rory heading out to meet her future [[spoiler: 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.
* Tropers/LGMHorus: Luke and Lorelai's break up for me was far worse. [[CharacterDerailment 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.
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[[folder:''The King of Queens'']]
* Tropers/{{Demetrios}}: Allow me to weave a tale of an episode of ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'' 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.
** Tropers/{{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 CringeComedy, but this is just kicking the SuspensionOfDisbelief in the testiculars and calling it a bitch.
* Tropers/MightyMewtron: I used to watch ''The King of Queens'' as a kid, but rewatching it as an adult reminded me of how awfully it falls into the worst DomCom stereotypes, particularly when it comes to the UglyGuyHotWife dynamic and the mean-spirited humor. The episode that put me off the show was "Bun Dummy." In this episode, Carrie starts wearing her hair up in a bun, and Doug thinks it looks hideous and tries to stop her from wearing it to a class reunion without outright telling her he hates it. The ridiculous thing is that it seems we're supposed to find Carrie's hair embarrassing, with Doug thinking it makes her look like an old librarian, but [[HollywoodHomely she doesn't really look that bad]], and she's quite happy with her change in hairstyle. The ending doesn't help at all. Carrie does eventually change her hair because Deacon called it ugly, Doug pushes for her to retire other clothes of hers that he dislikes, and then he sees a video of a HotLibrarian with a bun and realizes how hot it can look. Essentially, Doug thinks Carrie should only dress in ways that he finds sexy, even if she'd rather dress in a way that's fun for her, and that made him so unlikable in my eyes that it made the show too hard to watch.
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[[folder:''Mind of Mencia'']]
* Tropers/MrDeath: An early episode of ''Series/MindOfMencia'' opened with Mencia, in bed for some reason, receiving a phone call from what was supposed to be then-President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush. Bush tells Mencia he loves the show, but asks him to be more politically correct. Mencia responds that he respects the president, but "Go fuck yourself," to a round of applause. Aside from being a pointless, unoriginal TakeThat (yeah, so edgy, taking on the same guy that every comedian in America makes fun of), but it's practically a Critical Research Failure: Bush, and republicans in general, almost never advocate political correctness; if anything, it's a liberal democrat ideal. It would be like ''Series/TheManShow'' doing a bit where UsefulNotes/BillClinton calls in and tells them that the girls jumping on trampolines is inappropriate. If you're going to tell the president to "go fuck yourself," do it in response to something he actually does. Come on, Carlos, I'm a republican and even I can see there's plenty of legitimate targets! It was a stupid, pointless, and baseless insult.
* WRM5: I'll admit, at first I didn't hate ''Series/MindOfMencia'', it was more just "not that funny" to me and I would watch it sometimes if it was on since I was a big fan of Comedy Central at the time. This lasted until season 1 episode 11 with the "Ask Whitey" sketch. The purpose of the sketch was to mock white people by having blacks, asians, and latinos ask random white people on the street loaded questions and then only air the most outrageous answers. Unfair, but whatever it's all in the name of humor, right? Then we get to the end of the sketch. Carlos Mencia looks directly into the camera and says "I can't believe I share a country with you people." What?! I get that it was meant as a joke, but come on! There's cutely skirting the boundaries of what's acceptable, and then there's blowing straight through that boundary at Mach 1! After this an attractive, scantily clad white woman shows up, he puts his arm around her, puts on his best SmugSnake face, and says "Oh yeah, that's why." [[FlatWhat What.]] So... that's his idea of making his comment okay? I mean, taken together the whole thing basically says "if your ladies weren't so good looking I'd hope you all die in a fire."
* BattleMaster: Hands down the worst thing I hated about ''Series/MindOfMencia'' was the episode where he did an entire sketch mocking a teenage boy who'd been raped by his teacher. It was one of the most vulgar examples of DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale I've ever seen. He spent the entire sketch mocking the masculinity of the victim because he thought the rapist was hot.
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[[folder:''My Wife and Kids'']]
* Tropers/{{Gravityman}}: The show ''Series/MyWifeAndKids'' 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.
** Tropers/{{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.
* Tropers/{{Doujinguy567}}: The episode where Jay feels that Michael is not spending enough time with her, despite the fact that he just wanted time to himself, yet still decides to take her out to dinner (and was shown to have a great time during it). When he decides to return to his alone time, it's like Jay instantly forgot the time he spent with her and decides on her own that they need to go to a therapist, only to see that the therapist agrees with Michael and gets upset when things aren't going her way. The episode had an agreeable ending to it for both parties involved, but Jay's ItsAllAboutMe attitude really soured this episode for me.
* Tropers/{{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?
* Tropers/CJCroen1393: 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.
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[[folder:''NCIS'']]
* Tropers/JoieDeCombat: The ''Series/{{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 PlayingWithSyringes.
** WatcherCCG: 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 BlackHoleSue 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 OnceASeason boasting of being able to commit a perfect murder whenever they sufficiently annoy her.
* fluffything: 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 ([[PunctuatedForEmphasis 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 NotSoDifferentRemark 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.
** Tropers/DynamiteXI: 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 IdiotBall 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 RealLife, as you're always supposed to evacuate a building through the stairwell.[[/note]] [=McGee=] and Vance are still in the bullpen, not far from the same side of the building as the bomb. Abby stays in her lab, which is right next to the bomb, making Gibbs run down there to help her. And not surprisingly, EVERYONE is in the line of fire when the bomb explodes. Furthermore, the very end of the episode, right after Ducky gets the phone call, he keels over with a heart attack, which (like the above troper said) was just the writers being cruel to a character for the sake of being cruel to a character. Overall, the whole episode seems like it was supposed to be a dramatic {{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.
** Tropers/StarTropes: 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 MsFanservice to seduce him into a hotel room and have him wait inside so that a team of gunners can [[MoreDakka 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?
{{immortalfrieza}}: For the most part, I like the original NCIS WAY more than either of it's spinoffs, and even it's stupid moments are at least tolerable. However, Season 18 episode 10: Watchdog is the only episode so far I'd put on this list. So it turns out the bad guy is running an illegal dog fighting ring. Gibbs finds this out by finding a wounded dog on a road then investigates the property nearby. An old woman tells Gibbs that the man who owns the property was fishing with his dogs, only for Gibbs to find out the man was actually drowning them. Gibbs response? To royally beat the crap out of the guy.

Now, this isn't the dethroning moment, the dethroning moment is what follows. Gibbs get suspended indefinitely as a result, but nobody mentions what Gibbs did wrong and Gibbs doesn't admit to doing anything wrong. Granted, Gibbs had up to this point gone ballistic on suspects before, but Gibbs always knew for a fact that they were the bad guys when he did it, but he didn't here. For all he knew the old woman could've been the one drowning the dogs and feeding Gibbs a line of bullshit, so Gibbs could have been beating up an innocent man. It would not be the first time a suspect tried to trick them. That's when Gibbs crossed the line for me and what's worse, it made catching the bad guy that much harder for the rest of the team! Gibbs has NEVER compromised an investigation like that. I was glad that this was the setup for Gibbs to exit the series after that.
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[[folder:''The Office (US)'']]
* Tropers/{{Capretty}}: The episode "Scott's Tots" of ''Series/{{The Office|US}}''. So apparently years ago Michael promised an entire class that if they graduated he would pay for their college tuition. 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 SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} 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.
* Tropers/{{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 CharacterDerailment to manipulating Kelly which backfires and gets him PutOnABus. Then you have the "Angela's Boyfriend is gay" subplot which also took away, wasn't funny and frankly just made a huge KickTheDog even too much for Angela. And none of it was well executed, with awkward transitions littered here and there, and why did Creator/JimCarrey get the last line? Everything imaginable went wrong "Search Committee" and not even Creed's LargeHam 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 [=PowerPoint=] presentation with a FreezeFrameBonus 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 ProtagonistCenteredMorality. 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 [[spoiler: 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 DesignatedHero, 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.
* Billlington: The show grinds to a screeching halt every time the [[RomanticPlotTumor Angela/Dwight/Andy subplot]] appears on screen. Worst of all, it's not very funny to begin with, where the entire joke is essentially "the show's resident BaseBreakingCharacter and the show's resident [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] torment the show's resident NiceGuy," a pretty tough sell for a comedy. This perhaps could have worked over two or three episodes, but the writers clearly thought they were onto something because this plot goes on for ''12 episodes'' (most of the first half of season 5), even though this subplot in every episode is exactly the same (Andy says/does something corny, Angela and Dwight hook up, Dwights harasses Andy). Even more baffling, the subplot seems to wrap up in "Crime Aid" with Dwight moving on... only for things to return to status quo by the next episode. It seems the writers had no idea what to do with the characters for much of season 5 and it shows.
* Alan Palgut: For this nothing stood out as more insulting and demoralising as [=S1E2=] "Diversity Day," the episode where the series splits from ''Series/TheOfficeUK''. Michael's truest low comes when [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons he does an an awful imitation of Apu]] by offering his "cookie-cookie" to Kelly.
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[[folder:''Parks and Recreation'']]
* Tropers/RA2: By a mile, Donna is the most unlikable character on ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', and "Gin it Up!" is the epitome of it. She posts some very besmirching tweets of her boss Leslie - who is presently up for recall and getting a frenzy of bad press. What punishment does this bitch get for almost destroying her boss's career? Nothing! Just because she's sorry and said some nice things occasionally, that makes it a-ok. Come on, Parks, Jerry gets several PetTheDog moments, and Tom gets called out all the time for his antics (including internet addiction, something Donna should perhaps look into). Why does Donna get to be above the laws of decency?
* Tropers/iliketurtles: Season 5's "Pawnee Commons." Another episode talking about the feud between Eagleton and Pawnee, only worse. Leslie, after all her CharacterDevelopment, can't bring herself to letting an Eagleton help design the park. I understand it's in-character for Leslie to be wary of Eagleton, bitter about the feud, and a little stubborn, but she acts like a completely child in this and acts like the guy did something wrong when he makes it clear he's trying to help them. And then she pours whipped cream on him in a fit of revenge, right after he tells Ben that he fired the employees who made a mock-model of the park making fun of Pawnee. Usually I can support Leslie, but it was hard to root for her in this episode.
* Tropers/Billlington: TheStinger for Season 6's Galentine's Day is the most unpleasant moment in the entire show. Gerry is looking for his inhaler, when April says she has hidden it under a pile of pistachios, which he's allergic to. When Ben tries to defend him, he's told by the others that doing so will ruin his career. The Gerry bullying was never very funny, but the active cruelty in this scene made it difficult to take the show's overall "positive" message very seriously after that.
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[[folder:''Red Dwarf'']]
* Tropers/{{RomanatorX}} The ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIITikkaToRide Tikka to Ride]]" is a total smeg-up. The show messes up its own continuity within 30 minutes (how come [[spoiler: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 CharacterDevelopment over the past six seasons undone, oh no. He takes the same route as [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] and is [[{{Flanderization}} 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 [[SeasonalRot 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.
* JapaneseTeeth: While "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIStokeMeAClipper Stoke Me a Clipper]]" was a great episode, and had a great send-off for Rimmer, it necessitated the single most destructive change to the series' formula by removing Rimmer and replacing him with Kochanski. Aside from the fact that "two guys who hate each other being forced to co-exist" is an integral part of the series premise, changing the characters shoots pretty much every existing character dynamic to hell. Kryten's personality becomes dominated by his feelings of jealousy over Lister (something that he never showed in the show before this point), a lot of Lister's "jerkish lad" tendencies are downplayed in favor of him trying to impress/get to know Kochanski, and Kochanski herself simply isn't neurotic enough to fill the gaping hole that Rimmer's absence leaves in the show. The only unchanged character is Cat, who's so shallow that there isn't much to change. I normally stay away from the "Dethroning Moment" pages, but that particular point is where the general quality of the show took a sharp downturn.
* Onionmaster: There is no lower point in the show's history then the incredibly lame part of ''Recap/RedDwarfBackToEarth'' where they show the [=DVDs=] and people say they're in a TV program. Not a great way to come back. Apparently, this was cut out of some showings, which may explain why those who didn't see it gave it better reviews.
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[[folder:''Saturday Night Live'']]
* Tropes/{{Princesstwilight23}}: Good lord that try guys sketch, talk about missing the point! They played it off like the try guys team were upset Ned never told them and that it was a consensual kiss. They seemed to ignore that both parties were in long-term relationships (Ned being married with kids!) and one worked under the other with Ned being one of the owners of the company! It wasn't just a kiss, it was two people cheating on their partners and a power dynamic imbalance with Ned being the boss of the girl. It even came off as if they might've known Ned was married, they were dismissing Ned's wife because "she wasn't Beyonce". It was just insulting and some even speculated that Ned might have had a friend write it since he knows people on SNL.
* Tropers/{{Midna}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3kbRH_bFgLg A Weekend Update]] on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' decided to tackle the long-since-blossomed adult fanbase of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. The result, well... Making fun of the MLP fanbase is not in itself a bad thing - funny parodies of the fandom, both positive and negative, can and have been made - but the utter lack of effort put into this "satire" is frankly astounding. Instead of bothering to come up with something genuinely funny or satirical (like, say, one focusing on other toy companies attempting to cash in on {{Periphery Demographic}}s of equally famous children's series as suggested by an Blog/EquestriaDaily commenter), since quite frankly there's a lot to make fun of about bronies, they resort to the same "[[GirlShowGhetto lel adult men like a show for little girls they must be pedophiles xd]]" bullshit that one has likely already seen, oh, just about everywhere on the internet. Come on, SNL writers, the fandom has been around for two (soon to be three) years. How is this in any way clever?
* Tropes/{{BoredMe}}: In general, whenever ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' runs into something like MLP: FIM or another recent phenomenon, they make it painfully clear that the senior writing staff are unconnected with the contemporary world. They've also gotten lazy and/or run out of ideas. Which leads into my [=DMoS=]: A skit where they ripped into the writing on ''Homeland'' of all shows. SNL writers, let's get this clear: Homeland's writers are the best on TV. You are the worst. Far too many skits in the past few years have ended with me thinking: "The only funny thing here is the fact that these skit writers still have jobs in this industry".
* Tropers/{{RA2}}: The "Teacher Trial" sketch in which a hot teacher is on trial for having sex with a student, but it's all cool because he enjoyed it. It's not a joke, it's just an affirmation of a [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale damaging stereotype]] that ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' did much better years before. I'd expect more than this from a typically progressive show.
* Tropers/MightyMewtron: I have seen many disappointing sketches on SNL. For a while, my DMOS was the Louis C.K. sketch where he flirts with a teenage girl who [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization turns out to like the attention after all.]] Then the first sketch in the James Franco episode blew me away with its awfulness. The entire joke (tackling the then-current issue of sexual assault) is that the white man Doug gets massive backlash for giving women pet names and telling them to smile more, but the "charming old black man" Charlie gets disturbingly explicit towards them (and is even revealed to be a kidnapper), but the women actually appreciate it. It's filled with UnfortunateImplications that a black man could get away with sexual assault more than a white man, even from the victims' perspective, and comes across like something that could easily be used to prove reverse racism is more prevalent than racism..
* Alan Palgut: In the sixth episode overall, Creator/JohnBelushi takes two hits of snuff in character as Music/LudwigVanBeethoven, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar slipping a reference to John's own cocaine and heroin addiction under the censors' noses]]. No wonder he became "the first to go" a few years after he left the series.
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[[folder:''Sesame Street'']]
For over five decades, ''Series/SesameStreet'' has won the hearts of millions with its diverse cast of humans and muppets alike as they make learning basic subjects fun. Sadly, as [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck these moments]] prove, not every day on Sesame Street is a sunny one.
* {{Tyrekecorrea}}: Forgive me. It's common knowledge on TV Tropes that I'm big on ''Sesame Street'', but I have to speak on Julia. For those of you who don't know. Julia's a Muppet girl with Autism. Sesame Street is, on the whole, all about celebrating diversity. I understand that, and at its most basic, that's fine. However, the portrayal of Julia is all wrong. For one thing, there's so much emphasis on what makes Julia different that it's not really possible to show her fitting in. Instead of normalizing Julia's presence, the other Muppets follow her lead in acting out. It's not cool, because at three and a half and three years old, respectively, Elmo and Zoe are more mature than four year old Julia, who is encouraging them to act like babies. Julia looks... different, too, in the same way that people with disabilities often look different, the way that prompts other people to stare at people with disabilities, think they're weird, or even tease them. Julia is portrayed in a stereotypical manner, and apparently everybody is okay with this. It takes us back to a time when people with disabilities were treated like freaks. Julia encourages marginalization of people with disabilities.
* Tropers/GoblinCipher: There was a time when ''Sesame Street'''s celebrity cameos and pop culture references were occasional ParentalBonus, but eventually it started getting way, way out of hand. For a perfect example, see the video for "The Monster in the Mirror." It starts out as the charming Grover song we all remember, but then completely overloads itself with cameos from (deep breath) Creator/RobinWilliams, Creator/CandiceBergen, Creator/WhoopiGoldberg, Creator/JuliaRoberts, Music/RayCharles, Chubby Checker, Tyne Daly, Bo Jackson, Creator/GlennClose, Creator/LouDiamondPhillips, Creator/JeffGoldblum, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Creator/GeenaDavis, Creator/TraceyUllman, Creator/TimRobbins, Kadeem Hardison, Jeff Smith, Robert [=MacNeil=], Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons! A single celebrity guest to help Grover sing the song would have been fine, but this wasn't about the song, the kids, or even the parents. This was about celebrity egos.
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[[folder:''Sherlock'']]
* cheedo: ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' is one of the best shows out there, but I was not happy with season 3 because of a character who had previously been my second favorite: Molly. Her childish attempts to make Sherlock jealous by using a man she's not truly interested in (something Sherlock regularly gets called out for doing himself, albeit he took it to a deeper level to be sure) were bad enough (and did she really need to throw in the smug "we're having quite a lot of sex!" bit too?). But I lost all respect for her at the slapping him in "[[Recap/SherlockS03E03HisLastVow His Last Vow]]". Writers often use women being violent as a way to demonstrate her strength and refusal to take any crap from a man. All it is is patronizing, like a puppy growling at a much larger dog, and it makes her look like a hysterical {{Jerkass}}. Once, maybe. Three times? And hard slaps? No thanks. Violent women are not strong women, and that is not the way to present character growth, people. It felt so OOC for Molly. Even more annoying is John and Sherlock would never get away with slapping a woman, even if she "deserved" it as he did.
* Mieu: ''Sherlock'' is my all time favorite show, but there was one moment that hurt me almost physically, and I can still not watch the scene. I had high hopes for season 3, especially for John and Sherlock's reunion. But how they actually did it in the end is just cringe-worthy for me. Sure, it shows off Sherlock's awkwardness with people, but it was just disappointing. Instead of an epic or funny scene, we get Sherlock bumbling around trying to make John notice him (with a scribbled on mustache of all things!) while the (in another universe romantic) proposal scene between John and Mary is absolutely ridiculed. It completely cheapened John and Mary's relationship for me and took away all the development I believed Sherlock to have undergone in season two. I mean, having John punch him would have been great - if the scene actually held any impact. The wasted potential is my biggest problem, really. They could have had so many awesome scenes (just look at all the fanfiction), but they went with a very bad gag instead that I personally just can't watch.
* Dinogeek: What really broke that show for me was their treatment of female characters in general, but in the interest of specificity, it was pretty much everything relating to Irene Adler. I despised "[[Recap/SherlockS02E01AScandalInBelgravia A Scandal in Belgravia]]". In the original stories, Irene is an opera singer who never even speaks to Holmes when he wasn't in disguise, is hiding the photo from the king because he's implied to be a possessive jerk who wants to ruin her only chance at happiness with the man she loves and marries, and runs off with her new husband to live a happy life after thoroughly trouncing the best detective in Britain. She is a woman to be admired, even according to Holmes. Sherlock!Irene... not so. The writers turn her into nothing more than a bitchy, expensive prostitute [[spoiler: who actively sides with Moriarty]] and, perhaps most insultingly of all, she freaking loses. Irene Adler, the one woman who ever outsmarted and outplayed the Great Detective, loses to him. And then, just to add insult to a cavalcade of injury, [[spoiler: she ends the episode as a DamselInDistress who requires Sherlock to save her from being killed.]] Everything about that episode makes my blood boil.
* Tropers/{{cricri3007}}: The Season 3 finale SequelHook. [[spoiler:"Did you miss me?"]] No I didn't and I would have liked you to [[spoiler:stay dead]]. In fact, the only way I can accept this is if the video was [[spoiler:a ploy by Mycroft to get his brother back in England]].
* SCPIhpkmn: I thought "[[Recap/SherlockSpecialTheAbominableBride The Abominable Bride]]" was abominable, but "[[Recap/SherlockS04E01TheSixThatchers The Six Thatchers]]" has made me quit the show entirely. [[spoiler: Creator/StevenMoffat kills Mary Morstan, because she's clearly getting in the way of Sherlock and Watson.]] The setting where this happens is appropriate, though; the climax takes place in front of a shark tank, representing [[JumpedTheShark exactly what this series has jumped]].
* Silverblade2: I would nominate "[[Recap/SherlockS04E03TheFinalProblem The Final Problem]]"or the entire character of [[spoiler:Eurus Holmes]] as the DMOS if it wasn't against the rules. If I have to pick just one moment from that episode it would be [[spoiler:the reveal that the helpless little girl in the plane is Eurus' good conscience]] which makes no sense in a realistic setting. It's especially frustrating that the villain who has been acting like a psychopath for 90% of the episode gets hastily redeemed in the last few minutes thanks to a big AssPull.
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[[folder:''Stargate Universe'']]
* @/LadyNorbert: I tried to give ''Series/StargateUniverse'' 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.
* Tropers/AmyJade: 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 "[[Recap/StargateUniverseS1E9Life 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, "[[Recap/StargateUniverseS1E8Time 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, [[FromBadToWorse and it just kept dropping]]. Needless to say, it didn't take long until the show was axed after two seasons.
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[[folder:''That 70's Show'']]
* Tropers/SteleResolve: ''Series/That70sShow''... 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.
** Tropers/{{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.
* Tropers/AlexHitchcock: 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.
* Tropers/Shadow200: 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? DoubleStandard 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 [[WhatDoesSheSeeInHim What does Eric see in her?]]
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[[folder:''The West Wing'']]
* @/{{Syriana}}: I felt "[[{{Recap/TheWestWingS01E19LetBartletBeBartlet}} Let Bartlet Be Bartlet]]" was a real low-point in ''Series/TheWestWing''. 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 SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome 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.
* Tropers/{{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 [[PuritySue brilliant and perfect and wonderful in every way]] and turning every cast member who was hostile to her into [[IdiotBall 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.
** Tropers/{{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.
* Tropers/Emerald141: I adore ''Series/TheWestWing'', and it's for that exact reason why I can't stand "[[Recap/TheWestWingS5E5ConstituencyOfOne 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 [[OpportunisticBastard 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 [[EnsembleDarkhorse 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 [[FaceHeelTurn 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.
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[[folder:''X-Play'']]
* Darth Josh: To say ''Series/XPlay'' has [[JumpingTheShark suffered in recent years]] would be an understatement. One moment that annoyed me was when they did [[TakeThat Your Childhood Sucks]]: VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII. Not because they [[HePannedItNowHeSucks panned it]], but they picked the most asinine reasons to do so. The rant consisted of nothing but nitpicks about the graphics (despite being made in 1997), the music, the random battles (which is like complaining about reloading in a FPS), and how much they hated [[FanHater the people who liked it]]. In a nutshell, they pretty much said "This game sucks for being a JRPG made in the 90s."
** ira: A DMOS for me regarding the above is that not another single "Your Childhood Sucks" really made another appearance after I believe one more entry. So it was kind of an excuse to bash maybe two games.
* PurpleShirt: I'm sure that ''Series/XPlay'' has had a lot of bad moments, namely when they let their BiasSteamroller spread through but I'll focus on one review that just reeks of CowboyBebopAtHisComputer... the review for ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss''. I am not saying this because I like the game, but because I've actually played it, so I know what stuff Morgan is right about, what's being taken out of context, and what's just flat out wrong. For starters, she (or whoever wrote the review, Adam and Morgan have admitted to not playing every game they review, further reducing any integrity the two had to virtually nothing) is completely oblivious to how the ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'' works, and complains about the game being a ClicheStorm. She gives a lot of evidence that she has only played the first third of the game tops, and even during that time, didn't really pay attention. Not to know that the series will have a WhamEpisode and will start deconstructing or playing with all the tropes they establish within the first third of the game is pretty much a Critical Research Failure. I get the idea that this is an {{RPG}} and that {{RPG}}s are rather long games, but honestly, when I myself reviewed games, and was reviewing a game I hadn't fully beaten yet, at least admitted it was a "First impressions". (Even Yahtzee admits reviewing games he's not finished.) Strike one. As for what she says about the plot... Morgan basically jumps to conclusions about the plot and writes them off as a check list of RPG Cliches. (See again, Tales's DeconstructorFleet). She mentions that Dist is the "Effeminate RPG villain bent on world domination". What? Dist?! As anyone who has played beyond the point Morgan (or the writer) got could tell you... this is a flat out lie. Effeminate? Okay, StrawmanHasAPoint there - you can argue that about Dist. But Dist is the primary antagonist bent on world domination? Critical Research Failure - The BigBad is actually someone completely different (Van) and World Domination is not even one of his goals. In fact, Mohs is being built up as the BigBad at that point of the game. To be fair, maybe Morgan (or the writer) deduced that the game would do something like that. And in that case, they're actually right since Mohs is only the BigBadWannabe, but even he doesn't want to take over the world. Even more research failures and BlatantLies, strike two. And finally? [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking The X-play tendency of taking a quote out of context and repeating it ad nauseum because it sounds funny]]. Yeah, guys? It's not funny. Even if you take Dist's quote out of context... it's still not funny. There were several better lines they could have taken out of context that would have been a little more funny, but overall, that wasn't. Strike three - we have a train-wreck.
* Tropers/{{Pgj1997}}: Their VideoGame/PokemonChannel review made me cringe so much, all because of one line. That line is "In case you're wondering where the 'game' part comes in, it doesn't. You literally watch your Pikachu watch TV!" ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! For anyone's who's actually played Pokémon Channel, you'll know that, although watching TV is the main focus, in the game you can interact with stuff in the room, and go outside. And, while they mention it, they brush it off like it's not important. Then they say "But mostly, Pikachu wants to watch TV, and buy things". Even though, in that exact moment, they show the game giving the player [[FailedASpotCheck a yes or no option, so it's not mandatory if he asks]]. It's like they only played 30 minutes of the game, changed the [=GameCube=]'s clock when neccesarry, and didn't bother doing anything else. They then proceed to give the game 1/5 for "not actually being a video game". I'm sorry, does the game come on a disk? Does the game provide interactive features? Can you play it on a video game console? Does it have goals to work towards? Yes. To all of the above. So fuck off. If they actually played through the whole thing, I'd bet you they'd give it at least a 2/5, or maybe a 3/5. First impressions aren't everything, you know.
* Tropers/DoctorZtar: One of the bumper segments has Morgan declare that you shouldn't play a retro video game if you didn't play it when it was new. By that logic, 90% of the games ever made would be unavailable to anyone born in the last ten years.
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[[folder:''Yes, Dear'']]
* Tropers/{{darkrage6}}: The ''Series/YesDear'' episode "Halloween" pissed me off because of the sheer amount of stupidity and Jimmy and Greg holding the IdiotBall 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 RuleOfFunny 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.
* [=FlyingDuckManGenesis=]: Now, I like ''Yes, Dear''. Some of my favorite episodes of the series include "Arm Prins", "Who's On First?", and "Make Every Second Count". Sadly, my least favorite episode of the series is "Natural Born Delinquents", the Season 4 premiere. I get that Greg is the show's ButtMonkey, but this episode was a Greg torture porn from start to finish. The plot of the episode is that Greg is trying to discipline Dominic and Logan because he is trying to set good examples for his own children, Sammy and Emily, like eating vegetables before ice cream or going to bed on time, and it's hard to when Jimmy and Christine refuse to discipline their children and give into their demands. Greg is the one who owns the house that the Hughes live in, so this is justified. When the Warner and Hughes families go to the movie theater, Dominic and Logan fight over a bag of Cheetos and spill them in Greg's mini-van, so Greg makes them stay in the mini-van and clean the mess up. Okay, other than for the sake of the plot, why would anybody bring outside food to the movie theater? Sure, concession food is more expensive, but it exists for a reason; outside food is not allowed. Dominic and Logan naturally refuse, and recieve no comeuppance for their treatment of Greg. Sure, they got to miss the movie and going to the arcade, but by this time, they didn't care, because they found much more enjoyment in torturing Greg, so that barely qualifies as a slap on the wrist. The episode ends with Greg giving up and Dominic and Logan getting away with their bad behavior. Jimmy and Christine's genetic logic is no excuse for it, either, since they give into their children's demands like letting them eat ice cream instead of vegetables and staying up past their bedtime instead of giving them proper discipline. While it was nice of Jimmy to clean out Greg's mini-van in the closing credits sequence, it really could have done without Greg getting punched in the cherries (as if he hasn't suffered enough). That's perhaps a literal example of the cherry on the cruddy sundae. I will admit there was one line I liked from Jimmy in this otherwise abysmal episode; "We usually get to the movies pretty late. By the time we got to ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', they'd already found him." Sadly, that wasn't enough to save it.
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[[folder:Other Shows]]
* Tropers/Numberguy6: ''Series/AngryBirdsOnTheRun'': [[Main/SecondSeasonDownfall Season 2 was always a gigantic step down from S1]]. But the episode of S2 that made me give up on the series was E7 "The World is Ours", where Bomb and Stella suddenly become super-rich celebrities with no explanation as to how. For me, this is the point where the series officially gave up on logic and consistency.
* Tropers/{{cg12345}}: The ''Series/BostonLegal'' episode where Denny shoots a homeless guy with a paintball gun. Yeah, he was [[WhatTheHellHero called on it repeatedly]], but the willful jump from "[[CrazyIsCool loveable nut]]" to "[[{{Jerkass}} smug, unrepentant asswipe]]" was jarring.
* Tropers/LordTNK: The finale to season nine of ''Series/{{Dallas}}'', which revealed the whole season was AllJustADream.
** Tropers/{{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 FriendlyEnemy status to full-blown love, as he was the only person who went out of his way to help her deal with [[spoiler: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 HopeSpot 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 ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' 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 MsFanservice.
* Tropers/Ciel 12: The very first episode of the 1980's show ''Series/{{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.
* Tropers/{{Crazyrabbits}}: The episode entitled "Spaceball" from ''Series/{{Galactica 1980}}''. In a series that had little to do with the original ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'' to begin with, this episode featured genetically enhanced kids [[BaseballEpisode playing baseball]] to win money for an underprivileged children's camp. May be the worst, most pointless hour of fantasy/science-fiction ever written.
* Tropers/{{Belfagor}}: Orson leaving Bree in ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' 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 [[AssPull half-assed stunt]] to PutOnABus the EnsembleDarkHorse that made season 3 probably the best season ever and managed to go through a gratuitous CharacterDerailment remaining at least sympathetic. Secondly, the marriage, despite all the problems it had faced, had resolved in a valid CharacterDevelopment for both and a moving SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} 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.
** Tropers/AlexHitchcock: 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 [[CharacterDerailment 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, [[SarcasmMode 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.
* Tropes/{{Valkir}}: The whole "I'm insulting your profession, but not you personally" bullshit in the "[[{{Recap/FireflyE04Shindig}} Shindig]]" episode of ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. It's not like insulting the profession of someone who has great respect for that profession can be taken as a personal affront. It's not like insulting that profession can offend someone personally and it clearly did. And yet you're somehow considered to be better than the DesignatedVillain of the episode and will be entirely forgiven because you're Mal Reynolds, everyone's Han Solo self-insert fantasy with less than half the charm. It's a Dethroning Moment because it establishes in this situation that Mal will get away with and be completely absolved of absolutely anything anti-heroic he does, simply because he's the hero. Despite being such a douche, we're supposed to believe that Inara will bail him out for something he got himself into, that his blatant cheating will be accepted by the spectators in a duel that is supposed to have (albeit warped) honor, and that he can just walk away with his "space slut" on his arm that he treated like ass. You can argue that he was absolved because he "fought for her honor," but once we establish that his insults and Atherton's insults are not so different, was it really anything more than territorial chest-thumping to establish superiority?
** Troper/{{Ravenya003}}: Wordy word. How can Mal claim to respect Inara "the person" whilst simultaneously disrespecting her choices, her career, her freedom, and her privacy? How can Inara "the person" be separated from the things that make her that person?
** Troper/{{Baeraad555}}: More word. Especially since it remains so unclear what Mal's beef with Inara's profession even is. He just keeps yelling "Whooooooore!!!" at her every chance he gets, but the man's a thief and a murderer - what the hell sort of position is he in to throw stones? Also, he seemed to get along just fine with a (non-Companion) prostitute in "[[{{Recap/FireflyE13HeartOfGold}} Heart of Gold]]", which suggests that either a) he's fine with prostitutes, as long they know their place and don't try to deny that they're "whooooooooores!!!", or b) he's fine with any prostitute who he can hire, but he takes Inara's refusal to "service" the ''Serenity'' crew even as she keeps taking on outside clients as [[SleepsWithEveryoneButYou an insult,]] and that makes him act out. The former would make him an entitled douchebag; the latter would make him a childish asshole. Neither particularly makes me want to watch a show about him.
* Tropers/{{Tyrekecorrea}}: I like ''Series/WheelOfFortune'', 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.
* Tropers/Ciel12: For me, the award has to go to Season 5 episode 8 of ''Series/{{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 ShippingBedDeath has had them ruin her relationship with Gunnar for no real reason.
* Tropers/{{Crazyrabbits}}: In ''Series/TheWire'''s series finale, "[[Recap/TheWireS05E10Thirty -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 [[WriterOnBoard grievances]] are on full display; not only does this make the upper management at the Sun look like [[TooDumbToLive 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.
** Tropers/{{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 RoaringRampageOfRevenge 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.
* Tropers/{{Gravidef}}: ''Series/BlueBloods'' has always been a show that talks about how wonderful and amazing the police, and especially the NYPD, are; any problems with the cops are ''always'' the product of a singular "bad apple" rather than any sort of problem within the police system itself. It's become uncomfortable at times--representing the Black Lives Matter movement with a strawman whose protests always turn out to be criminal, having Frank [[MightyWhitey step in and resolve problems among people of different races or beliefs with some Irish Catholic wisdom]], the NYPD blaming residents of a poor neighborhood for not reporting gangs as the reason why they can't arrest them--but for this Troper, the absolute kicker comes in the episode "Nightmares." The main plot sees Danny and his partner Kate trying to solve the mystery of why a teenager dressed as Baron Samedi (Kate, the supposed expert on vodou cultures, keeps referring to him as "''The'' Baron Samedi," which is incorrect--that's a preview of what's to come) fatally stabbed a man dressed as a priest on Halloween night. Upon discovering that the costumed man borrowed a pectoral cross from an actual priest, they go to interview him, and it's clear that he and the other members of the clergy are hiding something. Danny goes on a long rant about [[PaedoHunt child-molesting priests being total monsters, and the men who cover it up being just as guilty]]. These are all true points, but the problem is that that's not the secret. The priest in question had been called in to do an ''exorcism'' on the teenager, which is an understandable thing to be kept under wraps, especially because exorcism is used as an absolute last resort and involves priests working alongside physical and mental health professionals to ensure that the supposed possession isn't some form of illness, mental or otherwise--all highly-classified information that requires the police to get special specific permission to access. That plot ends with the teenager's Haitian church being able to perform a proper exorcism, with Danny [[MagicalNegro looking on in wonder at the simple yet powerful wisdom held by the congregation]] (which we naturally [[StatusQuoIsGod never hear about again]]). But as offensive as that is, it pales in comparison to the B-plot: Frank's press secretary Garrett reveals that, after his wife recently cheated on him, he went down to Atlantic City for a weekend and ended up cheating on her as well. Garrett lied to the other woman about his job, and sent illicit text messages about his plans for her. As he explains what happened, he repeatedly points out that the affair was mutual and that the woman has a very strong case for bringing him to court. He's prepared to hand in his resignation, as he knows that what he did was wrong (not to mention ''illegal''), and he wants to avoid a scandal. So what does Frank do? He asks his father to call up his old Atlantic City cop buddies--specifically saying there can't be a paper trail--to pressure the woman into dropping her (completely legitimate) case. There's a name for that kind of action--coercion--and it's a crime. And why does Frank decide to do it? [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality Because he likes Garrett.]] But the worst part: the show ''never points out the comparison'' between the plots. If there's any connection, it's that "It's wrong when members of nearly every profession cover up for each other, but when the police do it, it's totally fine." This goes straight beyond ViewersAreMorons and into pure propaganda: "The police are perfect in every way and whatever they do is justified." And THAT is both revolting and terrifying.
* Tropers/CrazyLuigi: The episode of ''Series/{{Delocated}}'' where they had a [[TheParody parody]] of ''Film/FaceOff'' 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 [[FlatWhat "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.
* Tropers/{{Gyrobot}}: In ''Series/KamenRiderDecade 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.
** Tropers/{{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.
* Tropers/{{Sahgo}}: I'm willing to put the last few minutes of the last episode of ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'' in FanonDiscontinuity 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 SequelHook if the chances of there being a sequel are slim-to-none!
** Tropers/{{Drastidue}}: ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'' is plagued with inconsistent characterization and a sore lack of cause-effect logic, but its greatest sin lies elsewhere. Both timelines are graced with a FauxActionGirl in the lead that's there mostly to make the heroes look stronger. Both Yuri and Megumi have the same "avenge my mother" motivation getting them nowhere; that is, until the show decides they need resolution halfway through and lets them take on Rook with no buildup whatsoever in episode 31. So how does it play? First, Rook is barely even putting up a fight, as out on a whim he decided to try and die to placate his boredom. Meanwhile the "heroines" struggle with all they have, motivated by flashes of their respective mothers, and here's where the episode's other problem comes: the flashes are incredibly {{Narm}}y, with an extra as Yuri's mother calling her flatly while sitting against a blank background and Yuri giving a baby Megumi uppies from the latter's POV repeated all over. The sheer MoodDissonance of intercutting these flashes at what's supposed to be the characters' emotional climax shows how little the director cared for the characters, not to mention adding to the franchise's terrible record of female action.
* Tropers/{{Klom99}}: The final battle of ''Series/KamenRiderSaber'' (which is for all intents and purposes, a two-parter) is a rather limp send-off to an otherwise-decent season whose final arc's very existence [[EndingFatigue was already polarizing from the start]]. The previous episodes do a remarkably bad job of demonstrating why Storious wants to destroy the world,[[note]]All the building blocks are there for an [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths Owlman-style]] StrawNihilist SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum, but instead of just leaving it at that, he's given a very last-minute backstory on how the Book of All ([[SarcasmMode shockingly]]) had "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin All]]" of what he ever could've/ever had written yet he also rants to Luna about Humans too and how they aren't original. While it seems like all of this fits together neatly given Wonder World is a GeniusLoci of Humanity's creativity, the show doesn't manually push the blocks together and uses vague dialog, giving Storious' already-petty and weirdly-minute motives the illusion of being super-muddy; making him hard to take seriously as a villain.[[/note]] resulting in a ReplacementFlatCharacter who ticks just enough of the boxes to be around while wearing a sign on his neck saying "FinalBoss." This haziness, coupled with a remarkably dim interaction between Touma and Storious before the first half of their fight (and an obligatory "Did he lose? Not really" conclusion to the penultimate episode) eventually results in a very stock-feeling final battle where every single character feels like they're going through the motions. After [[OutOfCharacterMoment ignoring Luna's sacrifice to make a Wonder Ride Book]],[[note]]Which mind you has been Touma's BerserkButton all season - to the point of de-railing an early victory for the heroes against Solomon just to prevent one![[/note]] the PowerTrio of Touma, Kento and Rintaro [[CurbStompBattle wail on Storious with no effort]] in a final battle that tries to have its cake and eat it too. The new WRB essentially amounts to a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute re-hash of Xross Saber]] (But with books instead. [[SarcasmMode Ooh]]!) against which Storious limply dances around without even really fighting back while mindlessly ranting. The ultimate moral of "A story's originality doesn't affect its impact," while a smart and interesting message, is just barely relevant to events at-hand and used to frame a stock CGI light-show created by an all-but-recycled form so [[ShowDontTell the WRB can demonstrate the moral in action]] [[LiteralMetaphor in literal name only]]; resulting in a final battle where remarkably little happens that could'vebeen salvaged with some out-of-the-box thinking- [[LostAesop unwittingly defying the message it's trying to demonstrate]] and thus being a DMOS. While the post-fight ApocalypseWow and WorldHealingWave montages are very scary/wholesome respectively (and illustrate the message slightly better), the battle that leads up to them is handled with the care of a used tissue and left me with an icky incomplete feeling; the same feeling I had when the show leaned into TheProphecy full-force. Saber's finale tries to be the conclusion of a grand story but frames itself too heavily around this self-aware idea of stories as concept, offering its characters and their struggles up to a preachy tract on how "TropesAreTools".
* Tropers/TommyX: The finale of ''Series/{{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 ReasonYouSuckSpeech 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. [[ArtisticLicenseLaw 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.
** 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 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue 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.
** Creator/BoltDMC: Fully agreed. The show did have ups and downs (with several early episodes being less than satisfying), but the finale was a 14-karat disaster. There's no question that Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer are self-centered to a sociopathic degree and have done several less-than-admirable things during the course of the show -- but the whole circumstance comes across as petty DisproportionateRetribution in the extreme. It even fails as BlackComedy, as there's nothing remotely funny in the episode. It's a risky gamble to use such an approach and I can see the merit in not taking the safe way out, but unfortunately this failed miserably.
** louisXVI: I honestly felt the finale sort of poisoned the show for me. I guess in a way you could say it worked too well, even. I left feeling the show I thought I loved was really just documenting the lives of some truly awful people with no redeeming qualities. It sort of retconned the entire "point" of the show into something quite bleak and unattractive. To this day, I feel a bit indifferent towards reruns. I mean, why do I want to spend time with these people?
** Troopers/{{Freezer}}: Gave up on the show after Susan's death. Having her die in such a spiteful way (poisoned by the envelope glue on her and George's wedding invitations), but the reactions of the quartet (George: Relief, Jerry, Elane and Kramer: Indifference) to her death went too far. Even for such awful characters. There's "black comedy" and then there's "Take that for having feelings" comedy.
* Tropers/{{katecarey}}: The ''Series/ThirtyRock'' episode "TGS Hates Women." In theory, it was supposed to subvert and play with the growing public perception that maybe Creator/TinaFey 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 Creator/SarahSilverman's [[ManChild adult-child]] persona, Creator/OliviaMunn's "sexy geek" act, and Creator/AbbyElliott's [[Series/SaturdayNightLive late night presence]], Khloe Kardashian voice, and name (the character in question was named "Abby Flynn"). The episode ended with a completely improbable TwistEnding in which the character [[spoiler: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.
** Tropers/{{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 ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' relaunch. We have Creator/DavidHydePierce [[ActorAllusion 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? [[ShapedLikeItself Because the simulation didn't work for him.]] And everyone just accepts this assessment! 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, [[TheUntwist 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: ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': JD's portrayal 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 feelings to him. To say it frankly, they turned JD into a whore and it's disgusting.
** Tropers/{{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! [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality 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.
** WRM5: 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.
* Tropers/{{lazyfox}}: In ''Series/{{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.
** Sinister_Sandwich: Seconded - this is absolutely the worst moment of the series, and makes House look less like a misanthropic jerk and more like a deranged maniac. The writers tried to justify this with weak excuses like "House checked to see no-one was in the room at the time" which, at the speed he was travelling and the angle of Cuddy's yard is extremely unlikely, not to mention that even if this was the case, he ''still wouldn't have been able to see Cuddy's daughter'' who would be small enough to below the window frame or hidden by the table. Also, House clearly got into the car after seeing the room was full and took off towards the room at speed. This is not the actions of a man who is "checking to see if the room is empty." Even if somehow House knew that no-one would be in the room, he still ''destroyed someone's home out of spite.'' The worst part of all this? House did this not because he saw Cuddy kissing another man, but just that she was in a room full of people being happy without him.
* Ian: Creator/CharlieSheen guest starring on ''Series/DrewCareysImprovAGanza''. 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.
* Tropers/{{Freezer}}: ''Series/LawAndOrder'' -- "Under The Influence (s8e11)" may be Jack [=McCoy's=] NeverLiveItDown 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 SmugSnake 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. The Jack [=McCoy=] of even the next season (definitely late-run Jack) would've threatened to resign rather than fight for that deal.
* Tropers/{{jessicaotiesha}}: The episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' 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 UnfortunateImplications 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.
** Troper/{{Doujinguy567}}: The episode, “Weeping Willow” from ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent''. Basically, Logan and Wheeler investigate the cyber-kidnapping of a popular female blogger and her boyfriend, which is suspected to be all a hoax for ratings. Well turns out it was, at the expense of both the “killers” and the boyfriend. Yep, the girl left the “killers” to the police, betrayed the boyfriend who had his ear cut off in the process, and took off with all the money they made during this little stunt, in an attempt to seek fame. Here’s the thing: both detectives know exactly what she did but can’t, or won’t, try to do anything about it (no hints to a continuation either). In other episodes of Law and Order, they would at least ''try'' to bring manipulators like her to justice, but as it stands that ending, along with the KarmaHoudini status on that cow, is what makes this unwatchable.
* Madain: I was watching ''Series/TheMentalist'' 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 ''Series/CSIMiami'', the gang has been hard at work putting away the scum who escaped. The focus turns to the drug dealer who [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler:his daughter now being in the foster system.]] Are we suddenly supposed to pity this prick? All he's done is cause misery, and [[spoiler: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 [[Film/DirtyHarry 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 [[spoiler: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.
* Tropers/{{cypsiman2}}: In episode 17 of ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'', 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, SarcasmMode 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 [[AllMenArePerverts 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 EnsembleDarkHorse of Jetman? This is supposed to be one of the most popular characters in the whole of the Franchise/SuperSentai 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.
* Tropers/{{happymediocrity}}: As much as I love ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', they earned themselves a dethroning moment during season five's episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E19NightCall 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 fiancé, 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 KickTheDog attitude does not help.
** Manwiththeplan: The episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E5Mute 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 ReplacementGoldfish 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 MindRape 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. [[EsotericHappyEnding Excuse me, but just how does one confuse incessant mental torture and love!?]]
* Tropers/{{Garfield2710}}: ''Series/GilligansIsland'' 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 YankTheDogsChain 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.
* Tropers/OnSoaringWings: Now normally I like ''Series/{{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 look at a cartoon fandom, one with a negative image the show's casual fans were already trying to shake--and doesn't wait five seconds to grossly misrepresent it (complete with putting uncensored RuleThirtyFour on his display). He caps it off by shoehorning in a reference to ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}.'' I'm beginning to think he's a SacredCow to one of Creator/ComedyCentral's higher-ups or something.
** Tropers/{{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? [[{{Irony}} Didn't Viacom just infringe someone's copyright?]]
** Tropers/MisterToodleoo: 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”.
* Halfstep: ''Series/{{Sliders}}'', the episode "[[Recap/SlidersS04E02ProphetsAndLoss 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 ExecutiveMeddling 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 {{IdiotPlot}}s, 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[[/note]]. 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 [[MostCommonSuperpower her]] [[SarcasmMode 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.
* RAZ: ''Series/{{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 ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' series. But all those FacePalm-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 cliché 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.
* Tropers/{{JIKTV}}: The 2003 ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' [[ReunionShow Reunion]] MadeForTVMovie ''[=Baywatch=]: Hawaiian Wedding'' qualifies. It's clear that they wanted Alexandra Paul (Stephanie) involved, but stock footage for flashback scenes would have been so much better. Heck, almost anything would have. [[spoiler:Alexandra Paul plays the villain, a criminal named Allison Ford who looks like Stephanie because she got plastic surgery to look like her in order to mess with Mitch's head]]. I could accept a mermaid episode as believable ("Rendezvous"), but not this.
* coldmaster613: There was this episode of ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'': called Monica's Bad Day, where surprise! Monica does have a bad day. Why, because she met a rude {{jerkass}} named Flynn Hodge. I get that this episode was to teach us about how to not let anger get to us or else it would cause everyone to have a bad day, but this guy was a real asshole towards Monica. She tries to be nice and apologies to him but he instead yells and insults her. Sure he became nicer at the end of the episode, but I really hated this guy especially since his attitude towards Monica went unpunished.
* Animeking1108: Episode 205 of ''Series/HikoninSentaiAkibaranger'' might as well be called ''Grand Delusion, Fuck You, Franchise/PowerRangers.'' This episode was pretty much a 24 minute TakeThat towards Power Rangers by making the American counterparts to ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' as loud and obnoxious, and that they were under a curse that needed to be broken. That was just a mean-spirited slap in the face to Power Ranger fans that enjoy this show.
* Falconwing: I've long since accepted the fact that Creator/AmySchmumer was hired by Creator/ComedyCentral more for her looks than her actual comedic talent. However even I wasn't prepared for what I saw on an episode of ''Series/InsideAmySchmumer''. It was basically a [[SlasherMovie Slasher Flick]] skit that instantly devolved into a 3 minute neverending [[ToiletHumor fart joke.]] Seriously Amy, this is the best you could do for Television? For goodness sake, the last few [[Film/ScaryMovie Scary Movies]] had better ToiletHumor than that.
* LadyStardust: in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory: Murder House'' it's [[spoiler:revealed that Tate is The Rubber Man.]] And as if that scene isn't bad enough, his mom finds out he [[spoiler:raped Vivian]]. How does he react? Evil laugh? Nope. Coldly standing there admitting to the act? Not even. He whines like a pathetic child. Nice going writers. You took an interesting character and turned him into an unsympathetic loser.
* {{Tropers/Windower}}: I would say the [=DMoS=] for ''Series/TerraNova'' is the entire show itself, as a testament to how much I completely despise it, but since I'm not allowed to do that, I've narrowed it down to one moment that completely pissed me the fuck off: "It seemed like a good idea at the time". In the first episode when Commander Taylor askes Jim Shannon what possessed him and his wife to have a 3rd child (which is illegal in the series' dystopian future), Jim replies with "It seemed like a good idea at a time." Which is probably the line Spielberg will use to justify the existence of this show to me. I cannot even begin to describe in how many ways this statement is bullshit. You're living in a smog covered dystopia where chances are you'll be eating an orange only once a decade at best, where over population has resulted in the streets being flooded with homeless families, where it is not only illegal to have a third child but undesirable to have even two given how much of a food shortage there is. How is it a good idea to have a third child? How??? This is the moment that communicated to me that this show will suck, and sucked it did.
** Tropers/TheJovian: I second that, it's one thing for the character to break the rules if it seemed at the time to be the right thing to do. But that's not what happened. This line easily could've been made into a strong bit of character development and world building with just some extra context as to how or why they had a 3rd child. Maybe Jim accidentally impregnated Elizabeth and neither one of them wanted an abortion or to give the child up for adoption given how much of a shithole the future is. And even then it wouldn't have answered the questions of how they were able to keep it a secret for 2 whole years but even that problem could've been fixed with a couple of flashbacks to show how hard it was for the two and to give further context as to why Jim was willing to fight cops to protect her. This single line is a microcosm of Terra Nova's lazy writing and a colossal sign of the sheer EpicFail the show's writing would end up becoming.
* Tropers/rtw2act: I love ''Series/BreakingBad'' as much as the next guy. However, for me, the dethroning moment of suck is "[[Recap/BreakingBadS3E10Fly Fly]]". There is a great story arc that happens in this season, with the cousins and the beginning of the chess match between Walter and Gus. However, this bottle episode completely kills the momentum. For one thing, why do they have to spend an entire episode killing a single fly? Walter is a chemistry teacher who honestly should know better. Next, the episode (unlike the rest) has no continuity for the rest of the show. This episode feels like wasted potential.
* Tropers/StrixObscuro: "The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks" from ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCoven'' was anything but magical. One of the few likeable characters dies for despicable reasons, another gets buried alive at the hands of TheScrappy, and meanwhile, Nicks just sits at the piano and sings, looking more like some tired old lounge singer than a special guest star.
* Tropers/{{Morgikit}}: I remember ''Series/DesigningWomen'' being a mildly funny, enjoyable show. But after having seen the appropriately named third season episode "Julia Drives Over the First Amendment", my opinion has completely reversed. In this episode the main character Julia, an outspoken feminist, is upset that a newsstand near her office is selling a locally published pornographic magazine. The author filibuster she delivers against porn is enough to make her come off less like the crusader for women's rights the writers probably intended, and more like a prudish MoralGuardian vilifying anyone whose consensual sexual activities don't meet her approval. But it gets worse when Julia decides to engage in "civil disobedience" to stop the magazine's sale. Does she organize a protest or encourage like-minded citizens to boycott? No, she plows her car into the newsstand, causing hundreds of dollars in damage and potentially putting the owner's life at risk. She does pay for the damages (which the owner accepts rather than calling the police for some reason), but gloats that he'll have to close shop for the day to make repairs. Later, after finding out he's still selling the magazine, she drives into the stand again and is arrested. When the magazine's publisher threatens to sue her for halting distribution and violating her freedom of speech, the other main characters treat her like a villain and a hypocrite for being a woman in the porn industry and for "fighting censorship with censorship" (i.e. filing a legitimate lawsuit against someone engaging in criminal activities against her business). In contrast to their derision and general bad attitude, she is friendly and well-mannered. [[StrawmanHasAPoint She calmly defends the merits of her magazine and her credentials as a fellow feminist, pointing out she donates a considerable portion of her earnings to women's rights organizations.]] For this, she is dismissed with lame jokes like "donating to the Humane Society doesn't make you a cat". Even after the publisher generously drops the lawsuit, Julia is hostile and rude, vowing to see her put out of business and claiming porn doesn't deserve First Amendment protection because "it's not about speaking your mind, it's about making money". This ignores that almost all forms of media are to some extent about turning a profit. And to top it all off, she drives into the newsstand yet again at the episode's end while the audience applauds. So in summary: destruction of property is a legit form of protest, sex-positive feminist women are gender traitors, and publishing an adult magazine makes you less deserving of free speech than white supremacists because at least they're trying to make a point, albeit a bigoted one (Julia almost explicitly states that last part). I have no intention to watch the rest of this series to see how much worse it got before being cancelled.
** 13thman: I can tell you that at one point in the later seasons, Julia threatens to kidnap/kill a baby, she's dead serious, and the audience is clearly expected to see this as humorous, if that's any indication of how bad things got.
* Tropers/ChicagoMel: ''{{Series/Highlander}}'': The Ahriman ep trilogy and Richie's death. It just wanted viewers to accept story elements that were never known to be part of the mythos, and besides, Richie should not have been dumb enough to get close to Duncan when he was blindly swinging.
* Tropers/SomeNewGuy: ''Series/CriminalMinds'' is one of my alltime favorite shows, and "Profiler, Profiled" is a fairly decent episode in that it provides excellent character growth for Morgan and gives him the first of his many awesome moments. My problem with the episode, however, centers around the episode's secondary antagonist, a racist, SmugSnake CowboyCop who believes Morgan is responsible for the murders. His entire screentime could basically be described as him ranting about Morgan's "guilt" using evidence that is beyond flimsy ([[SarcasmMode because a 15 year old boy would totally be capable of murdering someone as brutally as the first victim was]]) and screaming insults at the BAU for daring to vouch for Morgan's innocence. The most laughable moment was towards the end, where the detective threatens to press charges against the entire BAU unless they drop the case and let him charge Morgan with the murders. Because a federal court would surely side with a low level cop with a history of temper issues and racial prejudice over one of the most important branches of the FBI, right? Look, I have no problems with PoliceProcedural shows having antagonists who are law enforcement who accuse one of the main cast for the episode's crimes, but at least make it believable.
* LondonKdS: ''Series/BlakesSeven'' has multiple examples in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E5TheHarvestOfKairos The Harvest of Kairos]]". All of the regular characters are written as horribly OOC to service a macho jerk named Jarvik, but the most serious examples are Avon being written as an ivory-tower MadScientist who pays no attention to the actual plot because he's wrapped up in research, instead of the very practical guy he usually is, and Servalan, one of the least libido-driven female supervillains ever, being depicted as a submissive masochist who gets off on Jarvik choking her when she tries to argue with him. Jarvik also gets played as a NobleDemon despite setting up a whole squad of people who are meant to be on his side to get killed as part of his plan.
* Loekman3: ''Series/AnimalFaceOff'' [[InformedAbility claims to do their research for each one of the animals but in fact]], they exist just to frustrate the animal fans to the point that a real expert would just roll their eyes and kick the asses of the so called show experts out of the show. The epitome of this is the ending of the saltwater vs great white shark where the narrator apparently stated that a crocodile has to resurface to breathe despite the fact that only a few minutes has passed since the crocodile has entered underwater. [[SomewhereAHerpetologistIsCrying Any reptile experts will tell you that a crocodile can stay underwater for hours while a shark would not survive that long since the crocodile kept biting it to the point of incapacitation]]. Thus they created a cheap victory for the shark just for a lame shock value, i.e. a plot twist for the sake of a plot twist. [[WebAnimation/DeathBattle Wiz and Boomstick has every right to laugh their asses off]] after that scene.
* {{Tropers/Tidal_Wave_17}}: The ''{{Series/Psych}}'' episode "Shawn vs. The Red Phantom". Shawn and Gus investigate a missing person case at a comic book convention. While there, Gus shows off his nerdy side, bringing a comic book that he has been saving since he was young to get it signed, stating that it would be worth a lot of money. It turns out the guy who wrote and drew the comic is the same guy behind the disappearances. Shawn finds this out by finding a clue on one of the pages. Does he just bring the comic with him as evidence? No, he rips the page out of the book before running off. Sure, he was on a bit of a deadline because there was a supposed bomb, but seriously? Was ripping up the comic and costing Gus thousands or millions of dollars really necessary?
** [=Ryanruff13=]: While otherwise a well-written episode, "Zero to Murder in Sixty Seconds" has a scene that manages to make me cringe from how it was set up. At one point, Shawn dates a woman after the latter is impressed with how he solved a case, but then repeatedly talks about how "easy" that it was in front of her. The joke is that he was referring to how easy the case was, but the woman misinterprets it as an insult and walks out on him. The problem is, it made no sense and felt very forced; why would Shawn randomly speak about how easy that it was to solve the case in such an awkward way, and not care that much to try to clarify to her as she was leaving him? On the other hand, it almost makes the woman look like a bitch for misinterpreting him that way, but then again, you can't blame her considering how Shawn was sounding. Fortunately, it wasn't plot-relevant enough to sour an overall great episode.
* {{Tropers/FezJez}}: {{Series/Skins}} Series 6 had a lot of bad moments, but for me, the true dethroning moment was [[spoiler:Nick and Franky]] getting together. Before this story arc started, [[spoiler:they'd only had a single scene together without any other characters (back in Series 5) in which Franky only had two lines, she had spent the gap between Series 5 and 6 in a relationship with his brother, and in the first episode of Series 5 he'd carried out a pretty serious campaign of bullying against her.]] There is no realistic reason for them having romantic feelings for each other. Beyond that, it was just a cheap and forced way of farting more conflict into the series and [[spoiler:Sean Teale and Dakota Blue Richards]] had little if any chemistry together
* Tropers/{{Anarquistador}}: Season 2 of ''Series/{{Defiance}}'' had quite a few problems, but the sudden shoehorned GreenAesop toward the end of the Kaziri storyline was just the worst. Kaziri-possesed Irisa tells Nolan that the Humans don't deserve their world, and it is terraforming Earth for the people who deserve it. Yes, the Humans are the problem here. Not the arrogant, imperialistic Castithans who have no problem casually murdering people who are in their way. Not the cold Indogenes who are perfectly okay with sentient-rights violations in the name of science or victory. Not the Votans as a whole, who came to an alien planet and just assumed that the indigenous lifeforms would just hand it over... and by all indications, were actually willing to co-exist until the Pale Wars broke out. No, HumansAreTheRealMonsters here. You are not our god, Irzu. Earth is ours, to do with as we see fit, not as you would have us do. By what right do you judge us?
* 13thman: ''Series/CSIMiami'' season 4 Episode 12: The Score. Doubles as a DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck for the whole franchise for me. Summary: a Pick Up Artist has been found killed at a Pick Up Artist mixer. While the CSI crew is looking for evidence and questioning suspects, the host, meant to be a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed fictional representation]] of [=David DeAngelo=], a RealLife PUA expert, asks why any of the female guests would out and out kill the victim. Calleigh, with all the professionalism and consideration of a 6th grade teenager, says (paraphrased) "maybe the killer didn't appreciate being called a 'target'," a reference to an earlier statement that the host had made, when asked to describe PUA methods. Right there I was done: It's not like CSI writers try very hard to hide their politics anyway, but that particular line from Calleigh confirmed that the writers had thrown away all pretense of a crime drama, in favor of simply writing bad situations in which expy's of people they dislike (presumably people who don't share their far left wing beliefs) for one reason or another get screwed over. Really, can you imagine being in a situation like that in real life, and the investigator tells you that your friend/acquaintance/whoever basically had it coming for trying to pick up a date? One wonders how it would have been received if the victim had been female, and when her female friends asked "why would anyone want to kill her", Horatio said something equally snotty like "maybe he got tired of telling her twice"? From that moment on, I swore to never watch any CSI again, unless they did a crossover with something like Perry Mason or Matlock, where all their evidence gets thrown out or eviscerated for being gathered in gross violations of the 4th and 5th Amendments.
* Tropers/{{ccorb}}: I'm surprised nobody's written any [=DMoS=]s on ''Series/{{Atypical}}'' yet after three years. Maybe because everything that sucks about the show is already on its YMMV page. For those of you who don't know, the show is about an [[HollywoodAutism autistic]] teenage boy on his mysogynistic QuestForSex who gets [[{{Squick}} a crush on his therapist]], and is so full of {{Wangst}}, [[JerkSue Jerk Sues]], and UnfortunateImplications that it could be called ''[[DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery Disability as an Excuse for]]'' ''Sociopathy'': ''The Show''. Anyway, my [=DMoS=] for ''Atypical'' is a scene in the first season when [[TheSociopath Sam]] and [[CasanovaWannabe Zahid]] [[TrojanGauntlet go to a drugstore to buy condoms for Sam's first sex act]]. Now, naturally, the audience would assume that Sam (who is 18) would already know how condoms work and, if he didn't, would have free access to the Internet that MyBelovedSmother didn't monitor so he could look it up (An earlier episode shows him watching a dumb "How to Pick Up Girls" video). What does he do instead? Walk straight up to the counter and ask the pharmacist questions such as "Can I try condoms on before I buy them?" and "Can I return them if they don't meet the guarantee?" Even with the stupid plotlines and unlikeable characters, this is the worst writing I have ever watched in a Netflix show. And oh, due to DawsonCasting, the actor playing Sam is 25 years old at the time of release. [[{{Squick}} That's right, a 25-year-old man is asking how condoms work]]. It's pretty telling that especially after the show started steadily GrowingTheBeard in Season 2, most people [[JustHereForGodzilla watch this show just for]] [[spoiler:Casey and Izzie's romance]][[note]]In fact, it would be a borderline EightDeadlyWords series if it weren't for them[[/note]].
* TimeTravelerJessica: There was one bit of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' where I knew the show was never going to live up to its potential. Was it when it floundered throughout the first half of the season? No. It was right at the end in the finale - when Coulson gets over being betrayed by Fury in a scene that, I timed it, is less than two minutes. This is the driving conflict for the latter half of the season, and involves Coulson getting CharacterDevelopment beyond the ultra-loyal S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and forced us to see Fury as a more complex character... for all Tony's talk about him being underhanded in Avengers, we were finally seeing it. I expected them to resolve it eventually - [[StatusQuoIsGod I wasn't naive enough to think Marvel would have the balls to have Coulson go rogue, or in any other way let it end without Coulson forgiving him]] - but I was expecting Coulson would get at least a gloriously long WhatTheHellHero speech, possibly with Fury retorting that Coulson doesn't have the high ground. But nope, apparently [[EasilyForgiven Coulson can be bought with a promotion and a compliment]], and will no longer be upset about being subjected to a procedure 1. he himself had suggested they stop attempting because it drove people insane 2. apparently drove him insane and required a mind wipe 3. was so painful he was screaming and begging for death 4. meant he had to lie to the woman he loved about being alive and never see her again (and presumably any surviving family and non-S.H.I.E.L.D. friends he had too). On top of that... he still doesn't have many answers, and doesn't try to get them! Is there a reason he doesn't ask Fury for more information on the alien in the tank? Is there a reason Fury doesn't offer it to the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Look, I know they were in a rush to wrap it up in case they didn't get renewed, and God forbid they end on anything that was the least bit emotionally challenging because God knows Marvel studios thinks their audience is made of babies who need to be spoonfed and can't be allowed to be sad for more than ten minutes, but if you could come up with a solution that doesn't make me think less of both characters, that would be fantastic. Season 2 thus far hasn't inspired much hope they'll get ambitious again any time soon either.
** {{Tropers/WandaGinnyGreenleaf1500}}: I'm ticked about [[spoiler:Fury making Coulson director]] for a different reason. There is a moral wrongness to [[spoiler:SHIELD's continued existence.]] For the entire time it has existed, [[spoiler:HYDRA existed inside.]] SHIELD even absorbed some of their rationale, what with imprisoning people without trail or anything like it, something that is a crime against humanity. They hide crucial information they deem 'sensitive' when doing so could save lives. Their first reaction to anything is to call it a threat. And yet we're seriously supposed to believe that all those things was just [[spoiler:Big Bad HYDRA]] working in the shadows, conveniently dividing things into Black and White morality and absolving Saint Coulson and his contemporaries from any wrongdoings despite having engaged in similar behavior. This is partially why I still find The Mole sympathetic. He is part of the system as HYDRA, yes, but he is completely brainwashed, not delusional believing he still has the moral high ground. Every 'evil' thing he ever did, that we're supposed to hate him for, was done by a 'heroic' character first, such as killing the innocent S.H.I.E.L.D. agents inside TAHITI to get Skye the lifesaving medical treatment, except with him he's killing a woman who told him to kill the man who mentally owns him, just because she thinks being imprisoned illegally for a lifetime isn't good enough for him. That forever killed any enjoyment I got out of the show and I quit a few episodes into the second season, because Saint Coulson is acting as infuriatingly moralistic as ever.
* {{Tropers/PersonalPOV}}: I had to drop ''Series/TheMillers'' like a hot potato when the matriarch is revealed to have turned an innocent old lady into a psychotic intolerant christian who promises that her children are going to get 'that old time religion', implying she's homophobic now, too, at the end of episode 2. It's really sad because the actress that plays the character, [[{{Series/Justified}} Margo]] [[Series/TheAmericans Martindale]], is great, but that was absolutely unforgivable.
* Tropers/CynicalBastardo: Perhaps it's because I don't fall within the show's demographic, but the episode of ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' where Carrie makes another woman pay a stupid amount of money to buy her a [[AllWomenLoveShoes replacement pair of shoes]] just because she made her take them off at her apartment [[TerrifiedOfGerms to keep germs away from her children]], then lost (or possibly stole) them really grates on me. [[DesignatedHero We're supposed to cheer]] [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality for Carrie]] [[KarmaHoudini because she won out in the end]] with an underhanded tactic, but in reality, [[ItsAllAboutMe it just makes her look]] [[{{Jerkass}} like the bad guy]].
** DrOO7. Big's stalking and harassment of Carrie after he's gotten married, making his behavior incredibly disrespectful of both of the women in his life. He repeatedly ignores the fact she consistently and explicitly tells him to leave her alone, lurks outside her apartment building and actually tries to push his way into her apartment itself, only stopping when she warns him that her boyfriend is coming back, follows her to the hotel she was staying at, follows her into the elevator, then grabbing and kissing her repeatedly. Throughout all this, she repeatedly and explicitly tells him to leave her alone, and in the elevator, continually pushes him away, telling him "Fuck you" (in other words, "'''''NO'''''"), before finally succumbing to his advances. That a show written by/about women could present this as sexy and romantic behavior is disgraceful. To make matters worse is the DoubleStandard--whenever Carrie acted clingy and overbearing with Big, she was regarded as a nutcase. Once again, a man's behavior is okay while a woman's isn't.
* WRM5: As much as I love ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' I've just got to call them on what they did in the episode for ''Film/OperationDouble007'', a film starring Creator/SeanConnery's younger brother Neil Connery. Specifically, I've got to call them on the "The Sean & Neil Show: Parallel Lives" bit, where the crew compares fictional versions of Sean and Neil's lives, with Sean's life being full of success and fortune contrasted against Neil's life full of tragedy, despair, and desperate criminal acts. I get that it was supposed to follow with the "Neil isn't as talented as Sean" RunningGag throughout the episode, but it went way too far. It was uncharacteristically mean-spirited for the show; no matter how much they hated on the movies they watched the Satellite of Love crew rarely ever resorted to personal attacks against the people behind the movies unless they were repeat offenders (Creator/ColemanFrancis, [[Film/TimeOfTheApes Sandy Frank]]) or had done something to morally upset the crew ([[Film/CatchingTrouble Ross Allen]], the Creators of ''Film/InvasionOfTheNeptuneMen''). But even with those people they were never this mean; Neil had done absolutely nothing to provoke this, yet the only thing stopping the segment from being outright slander is the "this is just a joke" disclaimer at the end. What really left a bad taste in my mouth, though, was the classist implications; the entire joke is predicated on the concept that people who aren't rich and famous can't possibly lead enjoyable lives of their own. It really makes one wonder, what the Hell were the writers thinking?!
* 13thman: ''Series/BlackMirror'': this British TV series has more good than bad, but "[[Recap/BlackMirrorWhiteBear White Bear]]" is so bad as to overshadow almost all of the good in this series. The episode is centered around a woman, who wakes up with no memory, and finds herself in a survival game, where she must flee from people trying to kill her, while other seemingly normal people watch, and refuse to communicate with her. Whereas other episodes spend their time carefully crafting a story detailing the unintended consequences of living TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, the episode is just one, long, ShootTheShaggyDog story, filled with 40+ minutes of the designated protagonist doing nothing but screaming at the top of her lungs. While the situation she is thrown into is bizarre, after the first 15 minutes of screaming, when it's obvious that screaming isn't going to make the situation any better, and we're a bit past the initial shock, it's hard to feel sorry for her, and the sympathy level only goes down from there. It gets so bad, that when the big Reveal is given, revealing her to be a child murderer, you feel no sympathy for her, the lack of sympathy caused less by her horrendous crime, than by her idiotic, grating, ear piercing, never ending bawling, combined with her general stupidity and idiocy, that has gone on for the past 38 minutes. There are a number of other wallbangers in this episode, but they're irrelevant, due to the protagonist being an unlikable character in the first place.
* Tropers/{{Albertosaurus}}: For ''Series/{{Haven}}'' it's the season 3 episode "Last Goodbyes". Audrey reconnects a comatose man to the machines that were keeping him biologically alive and scolds his family for giving up on him. No. Just no. Most people never come out of a state like that. They can be kept biologically alive for years but will never regain consciousness, and in the rare case they do it's with severe brain damage. Cutting the life support of a comatose person is a difficult decision for his or her family members, and this episode insults people in real life for making that choice.
* Tropers/{{TinMan}}: ''Series/{{ER}}'' was always bad at sendoffs for its principle cast, but the final story arc for Dr. Peter Benton will leave a horrible taste in your mouth. After the death of Carla, the mother of his son Reese, Benton decides to arbitrarily cut his son's stepfather out of Reese's life. Roger sues for custody of Reese and during the court proceedings it's pointed out that Benton has to depend on other people to raise his son, something that was repeatedly shown in the series, while Roger has been able to take care of him on his own without anyone's help. It's also revealed that Benton isn't even Reese's biological father, putting him on equal moral ground as Roger. In the end, despite Benton lying to the judge about his working hours, he's granted full custody of Reese and only grudgingly allows Roger to give Reese his Christmas presents. Benton's attitude during this arc shifts from JerkWithAHeartOfGold to straight JerkWithAHeartOfJerk, yet in the end he's portrayed as a heroic, loving father. He receives [[KarmaHoudini no comeuppance]] for effectively ruining a man's life, a man who simply wanted to be involved in the life of a boy he treated as his own flesh and blood.
* Tropers/{{MsCC93}}: My moment would be from the show ''Series/EverybodyHatesChris''. The episode is called "Everybody Hates Math," and it happens at the end of the episode. Apparently, all of the kids in Chris' math class are supposed to pass a test so that everyone can have pizza. Chris spent all of this episode studying his ass off, only to find out from his teacher that he carelessly marked all of his answers wrong on the scan-tron. This caused Chris to fail the test. Since Chris failed the test, the class won't be able to have a pizza party. This makes all the kids in Chris' class to pick on him by throw paper balls at him, and his bitch ass teacher [[AdultsAreUseless does nothing about it]]! I know that this show is a SadistShow, but this ending is really messed up if you think about it.
* Tropers/SwimToTheMoon: ''Series/TheMiddle'' is a decent enough show and serves well enough as a distraction, but one episode that almost made me quit altogether is the episode where Brick accidentally frames his parents for child abuse. Their dealing with child abuse is just extremely tasteless and Brick shows no remorse when Frankie confronts him about it. And then when the CPS comes to evaluate them, Frankie actually tells the children what to say... um, really?? Of course, they pass, but their dealing of such a serious topic was horrid and shameful.
** Tropers/Ecojosh1 For me, it was the "comic relief" subplot of "Thanksgiving VIII". The Donahues' oven isn't working, so they ask the Hecks if they can use theirs. The Hecks use this as a chance to eat their Thanksgiving meal. With the turkey, they cut a skin flap, hollow out the turkey, and put the skin flap back down so it looks normal. With the side dishes, they lift the crusts, eat most of the food, and put the crusts back down. When the Donahues have Thanksgiving lunch, they realize that most of their food is gone. The Hecks have never been perfect, but the selfishness they all display here is horrible.
* Tropers/{{chucknormie}}: I love ''Series/TrailerParkBoys'', but season 2, episode 5 "The Bible Pimp" takes PoliceAreUseless to a whole new level. First off, Julian, normally the OnlySaneMan, [[LoveMakesYouDumb is so blinded by love]] that he can't figure out the Bible sellers are cons, despite the fact that they have all the [[ObviouslyEvil subtlety]] of Lelouch vi Britannia with a megaphone riding a Mardi Gras float pulled by four unicorns. When freakin' Ricky can catch on before you, that's a problem. Finally, when the boys get their dope stolen and go to confront the thieves, it degrades into a gunfight. The police that Lahey called arrives, but they only arrest the Bible salesmen, ignoring the fact that Ricky and Julian were shooting guns right in front of them. Normally the boys' KarmaHoudini is PlayedForLaughs, but this just felt absolutely contrived. Could it be any more obvious the cops are a plot device?
* Tropers/CaptHayfever: During the Judge Cuts round of ''Series/AmericasGotTalent'', guest judge Music/MichaelBuble sabotaged the act of hypnotist Chris Jones by faking a trance (misleading Jones into continuing the performance instead of allowing him to choose a different subject) & then breaking character in the middle for a cheap laugh (completely derailing the performance altogether). Jones was so angry at having his performance irrecoverably destroyed that he stormed offstage. Regular judge [[Music/SpiceGirls Mel B]] at least had the decency not to pretend she'd gone under when she hadn't. Buble cited his skepticism over hypnosis as "justification" for his actions, despite the fact that in the previous audition round, regular judge [[WesternAnimation/BobbysWorld Howie]] [[Series/DealOrNoDeal Mandel]] actually did successfully get hypnotized by Jones (in front of an even larger audience of witnesses than in the Judge Cuts round, at that).
* Truffle: The second season of ''Series/SleepyHollow'' started off relatively well, with just one minor issue: Katrina's complete CharacterDerailment. She began as a very helpful side character with the ability to perform powerful spells that were actually helpful to the protagonists. However, the second series decided to make her a completely useless lump who continuously lumbered around a headless nutjob intent on murdering her husband. To make matters worse, Henry gives her a book of dark magic, and Katrina, who had previously fought on the side of good, suddenly says, "Okay, let's go kill everyone." She derides Ichabod, runs off with the man who's been trying to unleash Hell, and becomes a psychotic, unrepentant bitch. It literally appears out of nowhere, not three episodes prior to the finale, and it almost seems like a convoluted, poorly executed attempt to get rid of TheScrappy.
** LegalAssassin: The death of Abbie Mills in the season 3 finale. I won't go into too much detail because many others have written why it was such a terrible idea, but needless to say this was the straw that broke the camel's back for many fans, including myself. This was the culmination of Abbie's poor treatment in the show, ruining the show's strongest element: the dynamics between her and Ichobod. Killing her off is like killing off Scully in TheX-Files or killing off Watson in any Sherlock Holmes adaptation, which the writers there were smart enough not to do. It really shows that the writers have no clue why people loved the series and now they'll (hopefully) pay the price.
* alpal95: ''Series/{{Conan}}'' decides to bring out a Thanksgiving mascot called Stuffins the Thanksgiving Elephant. Stuffins is supposed to put you in the Thanksgiving spirit, but he instead [[NauseaFuel uses un-ironic grossness to almost put you off of Thanksgiving stuffing for life.]] Stuffins' description is that he's an elephant who's insides are apparently made entirely of stuffing and his way of putting you in the Thanksgiving spirit is to [[{{Squick}} use his trunk to squirt out "stuffing" that eerily resembles some ungodly combination of mucus and vomit.]] When Conan remarks that it doesn't even look like stuffing, [[ItMakesSenseInContext the singers assure him that it is stuffing and that it's made inside of an elephant.]] The reason why I'm a fan of Conan is because of the fact that he does usually manage to provide great laughs through clever parodies and intelligent satire of why people do the things they do or like the things they like, all spliced in with Conan's great brand of [[DeadpanSnarker sardonic, deadpan delivery and one-liners.]] This "skit" on the other hand was just disgusting all the way through, and is by no means the reason why I'm a fan of [[Creator/ConanOBrien Conan O'Brien]]. Hopefully, Conan will never do something like this on his show again and stick to doing what he does best instead of finding excuses to gross out his audience for the sake of grossing them out.
* cheedo: I can grudgingly tolerate most of the lame, recycled Asian and white stereotyping jokes to a degree on ''Series/FreshOffTheBoat'' because a lot of the show is actually quite funny, but one episode made me stop watching for good. So a black kid calls Eddie a chink. Jessica is understandably furious that the principal doesn't punish the kid so she gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. And that's it. She hypocritically does nothing about the black kid himself. She was angry he got away with it and also lets him get away with it herself! The moral here I guess, is it will always be your fault if you're the white guy. Not to mention, Jessica herself can be pretty racist to other people but can't seem to handle it when the shoe's on the other foot. Eddie himself only gives a crap about his Chinese heritage when the writers want to get on a Soapbox about it to white Americans, then he goes back to trying to fit in with them. And the kicker? Eddie is never seen forgiving this kid, nor is the kid seen apologizing, but they hang out together after this. Eddie also makes racist remarks to him but is never punished for it.
* WildeOscar: I usually love ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' but I hated the arc where Creator/JaneLeeves' pregnancy was used as an excuse to trot out the tackiest fat jokes possible. This in a TV show that was normally witty and intelligent.
** LouisXVI: Frasier is generally good when it comes to having the characters and the show's universe progress in a fairly natural-seeming way. However, the season 6 episode "Dial M For Martin" has got to be one of the clumsiest efforts to extend the lifespan of what had clearly become one of the show's increasingly questionable premises: why Daphne needs to live with the Cranes when Martin is obviously not an invalid in need of 24/7 care. After leaning into just how active and fit Martin is, and how Daphne has no rational reason to hang around, we get a blunt ResetButtonEnding where Niles (accidentally?) trips Martin and basically re-cripples him, in order to justify Daphne staying put. There were so many easier, less cartoonish ways they could have rationalized Daphne continuing to live with the Cranes, like just pure economics (Frasier agrees to give her cheap rent) or keeping her employed by the Cranes, but with a new job (she'd already been transitioning into a sort of housekeeper). Even on its own terms, the idea that Martin could not survive a single fall without requiring *six more years* of full-time live-in care seems fairly preposterous.
* SCPIhpkmn: The ending of the first episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'' reboot miniseries. [[spoiler: Cancer Man is alive.]] How?! [[spoiler: He]] died in the original series, possibly twice, and yet, [[spoiler: he's just sitting there at the end of the episode, smoking a Morley through a stoma]]. The rest of the episode was sub-par, but this actually made me and my friends boo at the screen. We have never done that for an episode before. The real mystery will be how- or if- they're going to revive this stillborn series after that ending. Oh, and it's never outright stated, but the episode implies that aliens did 9/11.
** Tropers/{{Mullon}}: Years earlier, the season six finale/season seven premier three-parter is where the MythArc becomes too unwieldy for it's own good and TheChrisCarterEffect kicks in. An alien spacecraft is discovered off the coast of Africa, inscribed with passages from the Bible and the Qu'ran, written in Navajo. At this point the aliens that make up the backstory of the show had already been established as originating from Earth millions of years ago as a black goo virus who had influenced human evolution, left, and returned in the 20th century with plans to dominate the Earth. To imply the aliens also had a hand in monotheism doesn't make sense from an alien motivation standpoint. More importantly, it's been six seasons and a movie, the MythArc does not need more backstory it needs to ''progress''. It's apparent that the writers do not know what they are doing and are just adding shocking revelations in the hopes that alone will maintain audience interest. That's not getting into the quality of the episodes themselves; to make a long story short wasting three hours just to go back to StatusQuoIsGod ''again'' is insulting to fans who stuck with the series.
* Tropers/{{Emmie}}: ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': That 'charming' little moment towards the end of season three when Adalind raped Nick. Not only did it temporarily make him not a Grimm, but, of course, she got pregnant from it and unilaterally decided she would be a parent (and manipulate Nick into helping raise the little rape-nugget.) Her actions lead to the destruction of Nick's previously stable and loving relationship with Juliette----one of the few such relationships on TV---and Juliette's slow corruption and transformation into a murderous Hexenbiest (followed by her death at Truble's, er, crossbow.) I'm really super-hoping that season five sees Nick just snapping, mentally, and going Grimm on Adalind and baby Kelly. Maybe tossing the rape-ling at a speeding train or down a sewer pipe or just leaving it in an alley somewhere.
* Tropers/MoPete: Okay. I get that Al Bundy being the universe's ChewToy is pretty much the entire point of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', but the episode "Just Shoe It" goes overboard. Al Bundy gets a chance to appear in a shoe commercial, but it's really just an excuse for Al to get pulverized by [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Ed "Too-Tall" Jones,]] get beaned by a pitch from [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Steve Carlton,]] and get knocked out by Sugar Ray Leonard. Does his family care that their husband and father is getting hurt? No, they're too busy fawning over the superstar athletes that are putting the pain on Al. Does Al even appear in the commercial? Nope, all we see of him in the actual commercial is his feet getting knocked out of the shoes that are being advertised. Do his family and friends care that he's left in casts and a neck brace afterwards? No way, they run off on him because of an advertisement that toilet disks now come in green! And just to rub more salt in the wounds, Buck changes the channel away from the Super Bowl that Al wanted to watch, so he could watch ''Film/SteelMagnolias''. Being a Chew Toy is one thing, but this episode just piled too much crap on poor Al to be funny.
* Silverblade2: In the first episode of ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryFreakShow'', a nurse named Penny gets drunk and drugged and is gang raped by the freaks in one of their orgy. When she rightfully threatens to denounce what they did, Elsa brings a video showing that she enjoyed every second of it. Penny then confesses that [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization she indeed enjoyed it]] and the event is never mentioned again. We are just supposed to side with Elsa when she blames Penny for repressing herself sexually. [[DesignatedHero How are we supposed to root for the freaks]] when they are all guilty of gang rape and later murder of a cop in the first episode alone?
* Tropers/CyrenaPeleman: [[RuleofDrama Of course,]] ''Series/SwitchedAtBirth'' had to do a RapeAsDrama story line involving Bay getting black out drunk at a party, and waking up next to her ex-boyfriend [[NiceGuy Tank]] of all people. Bay herself is trying to come to terms with whether or not she was "actually" raped. There are two absolutely horrible outcomes in this. One, Tank gets expelled from college, and has this slapped on his record forever. This isn't my issue. My problem is how Tank was also super drunk at the party, so it could be argued that it wasn't consensual on his behalf even though he was able to remember what happened. Obviously, [[DoubleStandard the arc doesn't focus on this.]] Next, it results in Bay and Emmett breaking up because he thinks Bay cheated on him! Hello, your girlfriend is trying to you explain what happened! This is after he's been a complete ass the past few episodes because of their LongDistanceRelationship, and how he's already met another girl. It gets even better. Emmett uses the story of his now ex-girlfriend getting raped [[MuseAbuse in his movie that Bay angrily expressed that she was against]] because it was clearly about her.
** It's been a couple of years since my original post, but I've felt the need to clarify it after reading it again, and the #[=MeToo=] movement. I was mostly disgusted with how the show did a "Questionable Consent" storyline, and how it was handled. I felt as if the show was trying to answer the question, "Was it rape?" when someone (specifically a girl) gets extremely drunk, and ends up having sex. I completely agree with the notion that it ''is'' rape because the consent was done under the influence, and not in a capable and reasonable state. The show went very far in saying Bay did not remember what happened at all. However, her rapist was also her very drunk ex-boyfriend. I felt as if some of the arguments the show was making could've applied to him, but no, he's just an irredeemible monster. Said ex-boyfriend had also been a nice boyfriend that Bay was ignoring to be with Emmett. Then, the writers decided to make it about Emmett and Bay's relationship with him saying she cheated on him when she was still processing the trauma. Then, he makes her trauma into a movie. All in all, I regretted ever being a fan of this show because of this plotline. At first, it felt like the writers wanted to make a grand message about the importance of consent, but then just trampled over it by making it about the drama. It sickens me thinking about it again.
** Daphne's behavior after Angelo's fatal accident. She blames Regina because they had a fight after she pulled a gun on Daphne because she thought someone broke in. What does Daphne do to cope with her father's death? She vandalizes a project designed to create jobs for the poor community that she was from, starts seeing a thug named Nacho, and does crack cocaine while visiting a college all to piss off her mom. Regina didn't even do anything wrong. She aimed a gun at her daughter on complete accident because the aforementioned Nacho threw a brick into her office with a threatening message. She has every right to try and protect herself.
* Tropes/{{Jereyaj}} CBS' ''Series/{{Bull}}'' is a series about a trial consultancy firm run by the titular psychologist. One episode involves an airline crash that killed everyone, and only the pilot survived.
** Despite the massive outcry, the public doesn't really know who the pilot is. Between potential hacker doxxing, the press, and court records, this is basically impossible.
** Bull and his female second-in-command walk across a plaza to meet the pilot and their lawyer. A man and a woman approach them. Since they only know the pilot's last name, the [=2IC=] assumes the man is the pilot, but Bull figures out it's the woman just in time. So the [=2IC=] could either assume that the woman is part of a field dominated by men, or...a field rather less dominated by men, and went with the better odds. Also, the woman is dressed more like a lawyer than the man[[note]]Apparently, she could only afford an attorney who looks like a used car salesman from the 80s. [[SarcasmMode Because it's not like lawyers worry about their appearance or anything, right]]?[[/note]].
*** After this, they chat in an actual office. So why they didn't meet there in the first place? It would be a lot more secure than publicly meeting Bull, in the open, since any paparazzi with a hot tip could use a telephoto lens and/or try an ambush interview. Or a random crazy. Which just leaves the [[WatsonianVsDoylist Doylist]] reason; the writers set up the whole scene just to make a point.
** One of Bull's investigators sniffs around the ground crew, and finds a man who says he saw the "lady co-pilot" checking the plane before takeoff. The investigator, a woman, informs him that he saw the pilot, and he has nothing to say for himself[[note]]The show wants us to think he's ashamed. But it could also be because he was just embarrassed by an attractive woman.[[/note]]. First off, the co-pilot has to be qualified on the plane in question, just like the pilot. Second, and more importantly, the co-pilot usually checks the plane. His assumption was perfectly reasonable.
** When they run through the mock trial, the mock juries keep coming back "Guilty", until Bull dresses in a pilot uniform and stands in.
*** Women are actually less likely to be convicted than men, across the board. The disparity is so large that a black woman has better chances of getting off than a white man. Unless the point was about women in male-dominated professions being judged unfairly, but men in female-dominated professions face similar prejudice. [[note]]For example, the way teachers who sleep with their students are treated. Female teachers get a lot more sympathy.[[/note]]
*** Bull is an expert at reading and manipulating juries. It's the basic premise of the series. Even if he didn't do it on purpose, he would have acted differently from the pilot.
* Tropers/{{LightTigerPeaceGrailRace}} Looking back, ''Series/DinoDan'' was pretty annoying. (Honestly, could that kid not shut up about dinosaurs for thirty seconds? I know they're the subject of the show, but jeez!) But there's one moment of the show that infuriates me: an episode focusing on the Stegosaurus. All well and good from the start, until they stated that Stegosaurus's plates could change colors depending on its mood. I don't even follow dinosaurs that much anymore and I can tell you that's bullshit. My little kid self who watched the episode at the time could tell you that's bullshit. ANY little kid who's remotely interested in dinosaurs could tell you that's bullshit. Some scientists don't think Stegosaur plates made a good defense mechanism, let alone a mood meter. Okay, so maybe the plates could "blush"[[note]]Apparently Stegosaurs did it by pumping blood into their plates.[[/note]], but Stegosaurs were not chameleons! I mean, this is an educational show and yet you have a theory that is so obviously false I must ask where you got your research from. All in all, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology Artistic Licenses in Paleontology doesn't even begin to describe it!]]
* Tropers/{{KoopaKid17}}: I like ''Series/BarRescue''. Simply put, Jon Taffer knows his stuff. However, he did something in the "Dirty Rooster" episode that made me scratch my head. In this episode, he witnesses one of the owners get so drunk that he climbs from the bar's rafters and hangs from them. So, rather than go in and do the initial recon like he normally does, he sends in his experts to tell the staff he's not coming in tonight knowing full-well this owner is a ticking time bomb. The staff is obviously hurt by this but what happens when the drunk owner finds out? He loses his cool and gets into an altercation with the other owner. Suppose someone got hurt over this? Taffer and the show could have been held liable for an assault lawsuit. What's worse is the owner could have gone after his camera crew, not only further jeopardizing the rescue but putting the safety of his own staff at risk. No question about it, Taffer slipped up here.
** Tropers/DoctorZtar: The "Piratez Tavern" episode is a heavily-argued one, but what really got to me was Taffer's idea for the redesign. He wants it to be a bar that appeals to the corporate crowd in the area. Fine, know your market and that. His name for it? "Corporate Bar". And it's easily the laziest redesign he has ever come up with over the entirety of the show. I'm with the owners, if that's all the effort he was willing to put in to help them, might as well just put it all to the torch.
* Tropes/{{Rebu}}: ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': In the "Coral Palms" episodes, they take a number of TakeThat[=s=] at gun shops. First, Jake and Peralta walk into a gun shop, and ask for guns. The clerk asks them for ID. Jake blanks out; he and Holt are in Witsec, and obviously can't give ID without getting in trouble when the shop runs the background check. Then the clerk says they don't need ID, he was just kidding. They are clearly in a Federally Licensed dealer, so that's ''literally impossible''. Jake whispers "[[LeaningOnTheFourthWall this country is broken]]". Later on, Gina buys guns in a vending machine. Then finds some in a lost-and-found. This isn't even "brilliant satire on America's resistance to any gun regulation", it's just... sad. They've been able to treat other serious, topical issues with more respect (EG gay rights, the stigma against cops), so why did they get so lazy with guns? Also, Coral Springs is something like 40% black and Hispanic, much like Florida in general, but the city is portrayed as mostly white.
* Tropers/{{laudice}}: The second season of ''Series/{{Skam}}'' was about a feminist girl falling for a bad boy, so it was hard to watch, though it could be a good way to talk about respecting our own values and treat the subject of toxic relationships. In fact, eventually we find out that, after moving together to another country, the thing actually didn't work; so we could assume that she was about to forget this bad boy and everything was just a deconstruction of the cliche of love changing people. But then, we get to fourth season, which is about a really interesting character and a really interesting conflict. And out of nowhere, the bad boy appears again and gets back with the socalled feminist girl, stealing the focus of the real protagonists of the season, even if is just for some minutes (they already had their own season, afterall!). So the ending of the eighth episode from the fourth season was a Dethroning Moment of Suck to me, bacause all the character developtment goes straight to the trash can and the toxic love wins, not being at least critized for a moment. And still, Skam is considered a feminist icon. Sorry, but I don't buy it.
* Tropers/WarJay77: I was always a big fan of ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'', but what really gets me is the finale of season 3. It had a lot of great buildup: The Sinners were a fantastic and engaging concept, having KT and Eddie accidentally unleash Ammit was an awesome cliffhanger, and the whole concept of letting Willow join Sibuna was something that a lot of fans really enjoyed seeing. Then...the climax happened. Not only was Willow sidelined by being turned into a Sinner, but all of the Sinners were absent from the ending, making this not only less suspenseful but also making it the only finale in which several Sibuna members weren't involved. It became all about KT and Eddie, the only two characters who were apparently relevant that season, and the solution to the problem was laughably anti-climatic. KT had a key. Ammit's portal thing had a key hole. The grand solution was to insert the key into the keyhole. For all the buildup, all the drama, all the potential, this scene boiled down to "Eddie and KT use a key". Then it's revealed that the Sinners turned back to normal, as expected, but that they also lost their memories of the event. For Sibuna, this meant they forgot exactly what they did as Sinners and ruined any emotional drama and angst. For ''Willow'', this meant forgetting everything that happened in the climax, a major insult to every fan who wanted her to be a Sibuna and a real slap in the face. For the last season of the show, the stakes were so much higher than ever before and there was a lot of potential for a really exciting and impactful finale, but...nope.
* [=SampaCM=]: I grew up watching ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'', this legendary Mexican sitcom by Roberto Gomez Bolaños (Chespirito, RIP) never failed to make me crack with laughter, however, there is a certain instance that I just can't defend: There was an episode where Profesor Jirafales wrote a love letter to Doña Florinda, but it got mixed with Don Ramon's grocery list. Naturally, HilarityEnsues when Doña Florinda reads it, thinking it was Profesor Jirafales' love letter. But the next part is my [=DMoS=]: Doña Florinda and Profesor Jirafales eventually discover that the grocery list belongs to Don Ramon, and they not only go to complain to him, they actually go to beat him up to a pulp! So, what the heck happened here? Usually I don't mind Don Ramon being punished by Doña Florinda because: 1. It happened at least OncePerEpisode, and 2. I love how Don Ramon [[WouldntHitAGirl never tried to fight back]], showing how much of a gentleman he actually was, even if after that he went on a tantrum, but this particular episode I felt crossed the line.
* Tropers/{{Allronix}}: It may be a bit soon, but ''Series/TheOrville'' screwed the pooch big time with "Cupid's Dagger," or maybe they did something insidiously brilliant on accident. So, we have two squabbling factions wanting a planet. We have an artifact that would help sort out who has the stronger claim, and the guy sent to analyze it is the guy who Kelly cheated on Ed with, causing the derailment of both their lives. Said guy has pheromones on par with a date rape drug, and such a blatant disregard for the notion of consent that he makes [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Quagmire]] look like an EthicalSlut. Maybe, as he claims, his planet is so open about sex they make Literature/BraveNewWorld look like a monastery, but he's clearly lived off-world for a while and he's an archaeologist specializing in studying alien cultures, meaning he would have more than enough reason to know most other cultures are more reserved about sex. The writers were clearly going for a silly romp like TNG's "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E2TheNakedNow The Naked Now]]", where AliensMadeThemDoIt, and a [[SweepsWeekLesbianKiss publicity stunt of Ed shagging a guy]]. But what they ''wound up with'' was a 55-gallon drum of FridgeHorror, where the lowlife blatantly doses Kelly to sleep with him again (she was in the middle of telling him "no," when he drugged her), then doses Ed when Ed's telling him to get off the ship and DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale is in full effect there when the lowlife takes advantage of it, and accidentally pulls RapeByProxy on Yaphit and Claire (Yaphit had no idea Claire wasn't freely consenting). With three senior officers compromised, the negotiations go to hell, the factions start a shootout, and the ship's in the middle of it. So what to they do? Dose the ambassadors with the [[LovePotion pheromones]]! [[SweepsWeekLesbianKiss And even though it's two dudes, it's still a stunt, because they aren't doing this willingly.]] So, we have four counts of rape, three counts of drugging the senior staff of a starship, several hundred dead in the armed skirmish, a few hundred others injured...Oh, the artifact? Well, it looks like the two factions have a common ancestor, meaning that they're back to square one as far as who has a better claim. So, nothing actually got accomplished, aside from the lowlife walking aboard and causing a mile-wide trail of death and destruction. Capping it off? Kelly asks him if he dosed her the first time they slept together - the time that ruined Ed and Kelly's marriage, and he just shrugs and gives a non-answer, waltzing off the whip with words to the effect of "shit happens," leaving them both to wonder the worst case scenario as ''well'' as being a KarmaHoudini for all the problems he caused. It's either an incredibly awful attempts at comedy, or a chilling look at a sexual predator that tried to pass itself off as a comedy.
* Tropers/{{Leobracer}}: I have just recently started rewatching ''Series/StargateSG1'' on DVD, however there is one moment in the original version of the pilot movie ''[[Recap/StargateSG1S1E1ChildrenOfTheGods Children of the Gods]]'' that nearly made me stop watching it. It wasn't the infamous reproductive line from Carter. No, I consider that to be the second worse part of the pilot. The worse part of the pilot, was the scene where they strip Shar’eh, and present her naked body for all to see. I literally flinched when I got to that scene. It was completely unnecessary, and contributed nothing to the overall plot, or tone to the pilot. While I still love Stargate SG-1, that one scene has left me scarred for life. It’s a good thing that reruns remove that scene from the show.
* Tropers/OlfinBedwere: "[[Recap/FatherTedS2E7RockAHulaTed Rock a Hula Ted]]" would have been a perfectly serviceable episode of ''Series/FatherTed'', if they hadn't committed one fatal mistake, namely suddenly turning Ted and Dougal into a pair of {{jerkass}}es who spend the entire episode behaving in a downright abusive manner towards Mrs. Doyle. The problem isn't so much the ComedicSociopathy, as this is a series that can actually do that trope very well, but rather the fact that the writers opted to [[CharacterDerailment derail]] Ted's and Dougal's characters simply for the purposes of a few hackneyed jokes. What's more, it plays into the all-too-common sitcom writing trope of suddenly turning all the male characters into sexist pigs just to make some points about feminism, and all this makes it, IMO, easily the worst episode of the series.
* StupendousWallaby: For me, it's "Regrets Only" from ''Series/ModernFamily'', because it just proves what a [[BitchInSheepsClothing colossal bitch]] and huge Hypocrite Claire is ("Family Portrait" being a close second). So the episode starts with Phil and Claire waking up, and Phil tries his hardest to patch things up with her after having fought with her the night before. Claire goes out of her way to ''not'' apologize, then asks if he understands. He says he does, but soon reveals that he does not, but we don't go any further into what happened... yet. Luke notices that the kitchen is a disaster and it's revealed that it's yet another detail of the aforementioned fight. Jay and Gloria come over to fix the kitchen, and Claire asks Phil to come with her to the mall. Phil then tells the audience that Claire has a disturbing habit at the mall, then hastily exclaims that he "can't even talk about it!" He says he has to get his haircut to avoid it, then Jay says that Gloria can cut his hair. Later on, she cuts Phil's hair, and he can't hold his head still and explains he's tense because of the fight. She asks him if that's why he dodged her at the mall, and finally, he reveals that she makes some very sexual grunts and moans when getting massaged (hilariously Lampshaded by Jay: "You know, when you're massaged, you sound like a Taiwan prostitute.") Phil says he doesn't know what the fight is about and therefore doesn't know how to fix it. It shows Claire flip out at him, scream at him, call him names, mock and cut him off every time he tried to speak, and not even explain why she was mad. He then explains what happened, and it turns out that he [[InnocentlyInsensitive inadvertently blew her off, made fun of her driving and brought up an ex of his]], which seems like a good reason for her to be mad, right? Wrong! I mean, if you ever took time to actually watch the show and engage with the characters, you'd know that Phil's actions weren't at all malicilous and he seemed to honestly not realize that what he did came off as a bit insensitive. And even so, this is still DisproportionateRetribution. Then it shows Claire tell Jay about the same fight and she explains it's all because he took someone else's advice and ate a wedge salad, which angered me further, as it was a much worse DisproportionateRetribution then it seemed. Not only that, Claire came off as a giant Hypocrite because it's shown time and time again that Phil generally is at least willing to try Claire's ideas, whereas she ''constantly'' rides his off as stupid before even trying them! Adding shitstain insult to shitstain injury, Gloria actually ''sided'' with Claire and also insulted Phil, even threatening to cut Phil with ''scissors''! This is where TookALevelInJerkass becomes [[TookALevelInJerkass Took A Level In]] [[TheSociopath Sociopath]]! And at dinner, Phil goes out of his way to make up for what he did, Claire says it's fine, but then bitches him out for ordering Wedge Salad! WTF?! And what really gets me is most anyone who watches this thinks that Claire is right to treat Phil like this and Phil is an asshole! No, just no!! It really does disgust me that there are people out there who think this kind of behavior is at all acceptable, let alone justified! This episode is just so insulting and mean-spirited all around! I'm surprised this episode isn't hated more!
* {{ViolinMan}}: The entirety of ''Series/Heathers2018'' is pretty bad, but Episode 6, "Reindeer Games" has a moment that literally made me want to scream. [[spoiler: In the previous episode, Betty Finn was sexually harrassed and attacked multiple times by JD, and Betty decides to call the police, of course. Instead of keeping JD by her though, so he can be sent to the police, Betty leaves JD alone, letting him get to Veronica, where they get in a car crash, creating an alibi. In the beginning of the next episode, they're at the polices office, and instead of the police standing by Betty, they only care about the sexual harrassment part and don't care about the attacks. They then trust JD only, letting Betty get reasonably mad, as the people she thought she could trust went against her, and we next hear that she's at a military school. Plus, of course, at the end, Betty was taken out screaming and kicking because the person in the room that the police are defending tried to murder her. What the fuck. I legitimately got pissed at JD and the police for this and cried for Betty. It made me feel uncomfortable, which might've been the point, but I really hated it. Then, later in the episode, JD hides a gun in Lizzie's backpack, making her ALSO get thrown out of the school. This episode is INCREDIBLY uncomfortable.]]
* Tropers/AlmightyKingPrawn: ''Music/LadyGaga and Franchise/TheMuppets: Holiday Spectacular'' is already terrible; it is a strong contender for the worst thing to come out of the entire Muppet franchise. However, the ending is the icing on this massive shit cake: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TsDKtWILE4 Pepe, basically, in the most G-rated way he can, sexually assaults Lady Gaga]]. As my name suggests, Pepe is one of my favorite Muppets, probably second only to Gonzo, but here, I think I finally realized why he historically was TheScrappy to so many people. Like, I understand he's TheCasanova -- I, myself, usually find his antics hilarious, and I am a girl. But here, he's straight up implied to be touching her vagina. I almost don't even want to accept that this is the same character I love.
* Batmany: Normally, I enjoy ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'' as a hilarious comedy and satire news series. However, the episode on "Chiitan" had a moment that made me frown in disgust and not want to watch the rest of the segment. Long story short, John opens up by stating how Japan is the country where Pokemon originated from and an adorable little Jigglypuff randomly shows up on his desk. He tells the viewers to [[BreakingTheFourthWall "gently throw their pokeballs"]] at said Jigglypuff only for its head to be graphically crushed by a Pokeball while [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath it screams in pain with blood gushing out and dies a slow painful death]]. Just, what was the point of that? It was needlessly cruel, unfunny, and very unoriginal. I watch ''Last Week Tonight'' for clever witty humor about current events, not for some pointless shock humor that wouldn't be out of place in an Adam Sandler movie.
** SW1008: For me, the show's DMOS was the "Police" episode. Yes, it made a lot of valid points about systemic racism in policing, to the point that I can forgive John's crack about "white inferiority" and occasional references to the Michael Brown shooting which I believe was justified. What I can't forgive is the last few minutes. John argues the "defund the police" position for several minutes, then segues into a speech by activist Kimberly Jones arguing that it's fine for the rioters to burn down buildings and kill innocent people because the police broke the social contract. [[SarcasmMode Ah yes, if the police kill innocent people that totally gives you an excuse to kill more innocent people and burn down law-abiding neighborhoods. I mean, it's not like the only people your hurting are people who had nothing to do with police brutality or systemic racism]]. Even this might be forgivable if John hadn't framed the speech in such a way that we're clearly supposed to agree that there's nothing wrong with burning down your local community because people who are not the people you're attacking killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. No. John Oliver and Kimberly Jones, I don't know if you learned this as kids, but two wrongs do not make a right, especially if you're not even attacking people who wronged you in the first place.
* Princesstwilight23: Grown-ish: I didn't think I'd ever be writing on here especially for a show I do like, but the last episode 'Fake Love' from Grown-ish is by far the worse episode in the show. Everyone is treating Ana as a bad person because she's been sleeping with Aaron. Oh, not because they have different political backgrounds or viewpoints. Not because they've been sleeping together and not telling anyone. No, it's because of some old girl code bullshit! I hate the idea of girl code when it comes to dating because apparently a friend can't even date their friends crush/ex/friends with benefit because they were with them. She's seen as backstabbing and shifty because she slept with a guy who just so happened to make out with Zoe. All of the female friends are on board with this complete and utter bullshit and the episode ends with Zoe cutting off her friendship because of this. Now, it could be because she's being cut off, but it's still no excuse. We're supposed to be on Zoe's side. Why? They were never together! They only made out and even if they did go all the way she can't just claim some boy as her own. So now I have to wait for next week's episode where she's giving Ana the cold shoulder for nothing! Oh, and didn't Zoe abandon Ana at a party after she got drunk and puked? Yeah, that's ten times worse. I'm officially done with Zoe until she actually grows up. Girl code shouldn't stop a friendship unless the other girl was cheating with the guy!
* Andariel: ''Series/{{Lucifer}}'' is a great show but the beginning of season 4 was downright unpleasant thanks to Chloe's behavoir. Let's recap: season 3 ended on a cliffhanger where Chloe finally saw proof that Lucifer really is the devil. So what does she do next? Apparently, runs away to freaking Vatican and plots with some creepy old guy to send Lucifer back to hell based on some flimsy "evidence" ("evidence" here being the creepy guy's say-so). Because it makes so much more sense to trust some weirdo she had never met before than her partner she worked with for years, who saved her life more than once! Thankfully, Chloe snaps out of it eventually but it still feels really out of character.
** JJOck: "A Lot Dirtier Than That" from Season 6 is what I would consider the worst episode of the show, specifically how the plot with Amenadiel is handled. To back up a bit: Amenadiel officially becomes a police officer and gets placed under the jurisdiction of James Reiben, the cop that committed racial profiling on him and an innocent African-American boy a few seasons back. Naturally, he's not thrilled and suspicious of his motives, especially when he seems to be disregarded when doing his own investigation on a case. Now, the episode leans on an interesting angle here when Sonya, his training officer, suggests his problem is one of rank rather than race. On top of this, Reiben confronts Amen to remind him he was punished for his actions and learned his lesson. But at the halfway point, a black woman is considered as a suspect, and he runs with it, hard. The episode lays on thick how obviously innocent she is, then has James force her to the ground at gunpoint when he finds her. The issue isn't so much the use of political themes (heaven knows the show's had them before), but how it careens off track to shove them in in the blandest way possible. Oh, and the B-plot of Lucifer trying to connect with his daughter is a borderline afterthought by the end.
* Nebagram: The 1986 ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' ChristmasSpecial "A Royal Flush". Okay, in the series, Del Boy has always been portrayed as not being above a bit of playful teasing of his younger brother, usually for his own amusement. But in this episode he [[TookALevelInJerkass takes so many levels in jerkass]] that both Creator/DavidJason and John Sullivan have declared it CanonDiscontinuity. First, Del gets excited that Rodney has seemingly started a relationship with a daughter of a British duke and goes over the top preparing Rodney for his big 'date', a weekend at the duke's country estate. This by itself would be okay and in keeping with Del's character, but where the episode goes plummeting over a cliff is when Del himself shows up completely uninvited to the estate. First, he takes part in the clay pigeon shooting with a sawn-off shotgun he borrowed from a bank robber, then all but barges his way into the mansion itself, downing glass after glass of champagne and becoming so drunk that he offends everybody in the house during the posh dinner and ends up getting thrown and threatened with violence by the duke himself, with the duke also implicitly threatening Rodney if he ever goes near his daughter again, never mind the fact that (aside from a couple of small faux pas) Rodney has been unfailingly polite all throughout. Bear in mind that this is Del we're talking about, whose character has always been one of someone who could charm a person into buying their own shoes, so to see him act like this is extremely jarring. And this is just in the edited, 59 minute version. The full-length 76 minute version has never been repeated or released on any form of home media, and it's easy to see why.
* Connor2107: While I enjoyed ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' for the most part, I found the finale rather disappointing. Specifically, the final confrontation between Batman and Jeremiah. It basically consists of little more than Batman stopping Jeremiah from killing Jim and his daughter Barbara, then disarming him, then knocking him out. [[AntiClimaxBoss Anti-climactic]] doesn't even begin to describe it.
* Tropers/{{esq263}}: A DMOS for ''Series/BostonPublic'' was the reaction to Scott Guber's firing of Kevin Riley. By way of background, high school teacher Kevin Riley caught his colleague, Milton Buttle, having sex with Lisa Greer, a student. Riley advises Buttle to break it off, but, because the two are friends, doesn't turn him in. Later, after Buttle is caught by someone else and fired, Riley reveals to Guber, the assistant principal, that he knew about the affair and said nothing. Guber promptly fires him. Now, the DMOS. As a result, Guber is made out to be the bad guy for doing his damn job. In having sex with a student, Buttle committed sexual abuse. Riley, a mandatory reporter, discovered the abuse and declined to come forward, making him guilty of covering up sexual abuse. Having admitted to doing so to Guber, Riley left the latter with no choice but to fire him. To make matters worse, six teachers resign in protest of Riley's firing. Not only is such a thing unrealistic, but these teachers just royally screwed themselves over for life. Quitting one's job as a teacher to protest the firing of a colleague who covered up sexual abuse of a student is not exactly going to look good on one's résumé.
* Tropers/DCorp123: Season 6 of ''Series/{{LOST}}'' was a complete mess, with its nonstop flashback episodes, boring pace, odd character decisions, and ridiculous finale. However, the episode that almost made me quit so close to the end was "The Candidate". This season had been packed to the brim with nonstop deaths, and I was honestly fine with Sayid's noble sacrifice. But Sun and Jin's deaths felt completely unnecessary. Nothing was really gained by their deaths, and it ultimately took away from Sayid's death which should have been the main focus. And after two full seasons of waiting for Sun and Jin to reunite, their deaths so soon after just felt cruel. Even worse are the implications behind the death: The fact that Jin had a child and he could've escaped, but he stayed leaving his own child without any parents. I haven't been angered by a scene this much since Season 4 of ''Angel'', and it really showed just how far the show had fallen after the amazing Season 5.
* Tropers/Madison14: I really like ''Series/HereComeTheBrides'' most of the time, but I hated the episode "Absalom." Basically, the Bolts find themselves the temporary guardians of the titular deaf-mute boy, and have one week to teach him how to speak before he is sent to an asylum for the criminally insane. Jeremy accomplishes this by placing Absalom's hand on his throat while he talks. Absalom allows this at first, then pulls away because his abusive father used to grab him the same way. So what does Jeremy do? Does he give Absalom a break, bribe him with sweets, or recruit Molly and Christopher to demonstrate what he wants Absalom to do? No, he physically overpowers Absalom and forces him to touch his throat, ignoring the boy's obvious terror. He continues this behavior throughout the episode, repeatedly retraumatizing Absalom when a few minutes of patience probably would have gotten him talking faster. Even worse, it's not even always "for his own good" - at one point Jeremy grabs him and shakes him because he mistakenly thinks he hurt Christopher, causing him to become afraid of Jeremy and run away. The real DMOS is at the climax, when Jeremy finds Absalom hiding in an empty cabin and engages in a protracted battle with him to force him to speak, roughly dragging and throwing him around while [[SoundtrackDissonance inappropriately inspirational music]] plays. Jeremy is normally portrayed as the kindest member of the main cast as well as the most interested in diplomacy, and although he's been in brawls, it's always with a grown man who can defend himself. There is nothing in any other episode to suggest that Jeremy would be capable of treating a child with such cruelty, or that he'd use force as a first resort while trying to communicate with someone. This episode has tainted my view of Jeremy and the whole show, and I don't think I'll be able to watch any other episode the same way again.
* neckinhalf: ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' Season 8's penultimate episode, "Monkey in a Box", has one moment in particular that made me give up on the series. As in, I can't even watch season 1-4 [=DVDs=] now. Dexter has Oliver Saxon (this season's big bad) on a table, ready to kill him. Except, he's realized that thanks to Hannah's love, he doesn't need to kill anymore. So he leaves Saxon there for Deb to take in. Two huge problems here: A) Saxon has to have some kind of proof at this point that Dex is a serial killer, just by looking through Vogel's files. He would immediately rat Dex out if he was taken in. Deb would be in a pinch to say the least. B) Dexter has had murderous urges as a child. He killed small animals, had messed up drawings, and all the other "hallmarks" of a serial killer that are in public consciousness. Yet, the love of a woman who poisons people has somehow eroded that. A woman that he spared from his table and fell in love with for very little reason in the first place. That this is how Dexter loses his urge to kill is an utter embarrassment to say the very least.
* WildMassGuessing: I really liked ''Series/PleaseLikeMe'' up until Ella threatens to destroy Tom's model giraffe if he won't have sex with her. This is super rapey, yet she is portrayed sympathetically both in that scene and in general.
* Patrickthekid: Much of season 5 of ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' is awful, but if there's one episode most people (myself included) will point as the worst of the series, it's "[[Recap/XenaS05E15MarriedWithFishsticks Marriage With Fishsticks]]", an unfunny parody of the series ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''. Basically Gabrielle is bonked on the head in dispute between two Greek gods who conviently forgot about the plot point of killing the baby Eve or at least using Gabrielle as leverage. To be fair, one of them was unlikely to go through with it, but there is no reason why the other one didn't jump at the chance. The rest of the episode is basically said character living through a domesticated life as a mermaid wife to a Joxer lookalike with his skeeviness straight up to eleven. None of the jokes do a good job paying homage to either show, the kids look outright horrendous and everyone is outright awful to Gabrielle without it looking fun or cool. It was so bad, the current showrunners were removed from the show and the old one had to jump in to salvage the season.
* Creator/BoltDMC: ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'' is a gem, a smart and funny 1960s comedy show that has held up well over the years. The only klunker episode in the series is "The Twizzle." Unlike other entries based on musical numbers (which come across as charming or at worst innocuous), this one has set pieces that are hokey, date really badly, and go on far too long. There's also precious little humor in the episode, and what exists is bargain-basement bad. A rare stinker in an otherwise excellent program.
* TheLuckyCat: I really liked watching ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' and even if I do think the show took a dive in quality after Nathan and then the rest of the original cast left, I was still into it enough that I watched it through to the end. But my DMOS is the series finale. To summarise, Jess has a one-night stand with a guy who turns out to be a complete {{Yandere}} and thanks to his power, Jess ends up a year in the future. She finds out she got pregnant from the one night stand and now she's in a relationship with Luke, and her friends all thought she was dead because she disappeared. So Jess has to try and figure out what happened and how to go back in time and get the gang back together. That's all fine, but what really annoys me is at the episode's end after [[BadFuture Rudy gets killed taking out the Jumper Posse]], Jess records a video message to herself in the past and slits her wrists, forcing Luke to go back a year to stop her. Jess then listens to the message from her future self, telling her to have sex with Luke, kill him and then go find Rudy, Finn, Abbey and Alex and tell them what happened to prevent the Jumper Posse from forming and turning evil. What? So Jess, for some inexplicable reason, decides to have the baby she had with a psychopath despite only being with it for one day, and she has no concrete proof that this is her child - [[FridgeLogic Luke could very well have been lying to her to about being it's mother]], since he implies he's pulled this on girls before, and the only hint she was going to have a kid is that the woman who knits the future made a jumper depicting Jess holding a baby in a previous episode. Rudy tells Jess he loves her and will stay with her to raise the baby even if it's not his, but Jess choosing to keep some random lunatic's baby BecauseDestinySaysSo even though she's still on community service and has no way of supporting it or herself when she easily could just wait a couple of years and maybe have a baby with Rudy, who she actually loves, when the time is right, leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Instead she willingly keeps a kid she has no memory of conceiving, having or raising, all because some psychopath that she only had a fling with because she was upset with Rudy, told her it was hers and now she's stuck with this choice for the rest of her life. The only way this could have been worse is if she'd ended up with [[EntitledToHaveYou Finn]] instead, but it totally robs Jess of her autonomy and flies in the face of her character that's been established since Season Four.
* [=SorPepita=]: The final scene of the ''Series/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'' series finale heavily, and I mean heavily implies that Nick committed suicide in order to be [[TogetherInDeath together forever with the deceased Sabrina]], and isn't that romantic? Err, I beg your pardon? I don't care about the characters knowing for a fact that there exists an afterlife in their universe, that is so disgustingly wrong that I cannot begin to describe how or why is it. For me it's kind of like ''{{Manga/Monster}}'s'' Johan on the issue of why you shouldn't go around killing people: either you get it or you don't, and no amount of explaining is going to fix anything. And here I was, thinking that the writers of this series got it, but nooo. Cue the flashbacks of [=SMeyer=]'s ''Literature/NewMoon'' romanticizing suicidal depression! This is so bad that poor Creator/KiernanShipka had to resort to speculating that [[https://www.thewrap.com/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-ending-sabrina-death-nick-suicide-series-finale-kiernan-shipka/ Nick's true intention was to rescue her from the afterlife]] in order to justify it, which is something that the scene doesn't hint at, like, at all. Oh, and I know that ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' (which, mind you, is a completely different, previously unrelated series that I don't even watch; I only learned this fact by watching Alex Meyers' reviews) ended up retconning things to make said speculation true, but that's what it was: a {{Retcon}}. Yeah, awesome work, dudes. To quote ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'''s Tin Man in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': "You are like five minutes from gone and you leave with that? You know, it's like cutting a huge fart and then walking out of the room. And that's how we will remember you: as a big fart."
* AjWargo: I used to like ''Series/TheMaskedSinger'', but the fifth episode of Season 5 is, in my opinion, one of the most disgusting ways to reintroduce a host in the history of TV and the point where I began to dislike the show. The big twist for this episode is, in fact, that the Bulldog, that week’s wildcard, is, in fact, host Nick Cannon returning from his COVID quarantine. This wouldn’t be a problem- if it weren’t a damn contestant! Like, seriously, would it have been so hard to just announce his return instead of wasting a damn episode and giving all the other contestants a free pass to the Super 8 round? Plus, I’m pretty sure this is illegal in some way, as just giving the contestants a free pass to the next round is a violation of the "fixing a game show" law we made back in the 60's! I doubt the show will ever recover from this dirty trick.
** Tropers/MelancholyUtopia: I'm absolutely crazy about Masked Singer; no joke, I've watched most international versions of the show. It's everything I want; creative costumes, decoding clues, and the joy when finding out you were right about their identity once unmasked. However, the very first episode of season 5 went too far in zaniness even for me. The mask who had to reveal their identity turned out to be [[spoiler: [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit the Frog]].]] That was just dirty. How in the world was anyone supposed to guess the identity of a [[spoiler: fictional character]]? This becomes even more outrageous considering you're allowed to place bets on whom you think a mask is. What if people reasonably bet on a famous person only to discover it [[spoiler: actually wasn't?]] You can't keep changing the rules like that, especially when it can affect someone financially. It's practically theft at that point. I hope they don't goof up this badly again and just have [[spoiler: real people]] in masks from now on. Luckily, so far I haven't seen this awful trick repeat itself. I hope it stays that way.
* CapriciousSalmon: I can't believe I'm doing this, but here's a DMOS for ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale''. I won't lie, the show really dropped the ball during Season 3, and they really held themselves back. Thankfully, Season 4, for the most part, has been a big improvement. That can't be said for the episode "Home." It starts off great, with June finally in Canada and getting the help she needs. Obviously, she's still dealing with the post-traumatic stress such a situation would bring. The DMOS for me comes near the end when after a super stressful day, June and Luke start to make love, and Luke gets uncomfortable. In response, [[MoralEventHorizon June holds down her protesting husband, covers his mouth, and starts to violently have sex with Luke against his will, enjoying it all and knowing he's telling her to stop.]] Did the writers not realize this is rape, and our protagonist has done something unquestionably evil?! Apparently they didn't, since they seemed kind of confused in interviews they gave after the episode aired. Maybe it doesn't put June on the level of somebody like Fred Waterford, but as a main protagonist, she crossed the MoralEventHorizon than she did with Ofmatthew, because while Natalie at least "wronged" her by tattling, Luke has been nothing but patient with her so far and has been trying his hardest to help her adjust. June is one of my least favorite protagonists ever because of the CharacterShilling she gets just for breathing, and this scene sealed my dislike. What purpose does it serve outside of shock value? What's worse is like most interesting THT plot points, this is never brought up again. At best, June tries it one more time during the next episode, and Luke justifiably tells her to stop. I heard a possible reason why they did the scene was that in real life, many rape victims can become hypersexual due to their minds attempting to gain back control. So are they trying to say [[UnfortunateImplications it's fine for June to rape Luke, an innocent party, because she was beaten and raped back in Gilead, while Luke was doing whatever little he could to get her out?]] Traumatized or not, this is not OK! Rape in any form and regardless of gender, isn't OK, and that's a huge point of the show! THT can be pretty progressive and informative but this is a huge leap backward. Overall, it ruined a season I was mostly enjoying up to this point, and it ruined a character whose likability was hanging on by a thread.
* Tropers/DoctorZtar: ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' did well for most of its run, but it dropped the ball when they introduced Brent. That character might as well have had "Typical Trump Voter" scrawled across the front of his shirt. It was unfunny, cliched, and out of character for the series. But this isn't "Dethroning Character of Suck", so let's narrow it down to a specific moment in the series finale. Everyone, literally everyone, is shown reaching the Good Place at some point... except Brent, who it's heavily implied will never leave the Bad Place. This is how the show feels about you, Republicans: it literally wants you to burn in Hell. It's a major stumble at the finish line, and left the entire show as a bad taste in my mouth.
* 21stCenturyCynic: By the fourth season of ''Series/MiamiVice'' [[SeasonalRot Seasonal Rot]] was well underway, but for me the real jump the shark moment was when Crockett develops [[LaserGuidedAmnesia amnesia]] from an explosion and begins to act as if he was his criminal alter ego. I could handle shift from Michael Mann's bright colors and high fashion to Dick Wolf's grittier style, but an amnesia arc was so nonsensical I couldn't take the show seriously anymore.
* Troper/{{Retloclive}}: For ''Series/HellsKitchen'', one elimination I will never understand is Season 15's [[spoiler:Hassan Musselmani]]. Throughout the first 6 weeks, [[spoiler:Hassan]] was proving himself to be a total powerhouse cook amongst the boys team. So much so that Ramsay chose to send him over to a struggling girls team that was in need of a spark. Instead, [[spoiler:Hassan]] ends up struggling throughout week 7 to the point that Ramsey chose to eliminate him that week. Wow. Just wow. Not even willing to give one of your best cooks a second chance after his first bad week? [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter What an absolute waste]]. Especially for a season that didn't have that many good male cooks.
* Tropers/MotiveFan: I read a lot about how Season 5 for ''Series/NineOneOne'' has been the weakest one so far, but I didn't really feel it until episode [[ThirteenIsUnlucky thirteen]], "Fear-o-phobia." The very first scene is Chimney and Maddie telling their friends that they've broken up. Not showing the breakup, telling their friends that it's already happened. I'm not particularly given to shipping, but the way it's done here is so flat and empty, especially considering just how much we've seen them go through. On top of that, the fact that Chimney punched Buck in the face earlier that season is settled completely offscreen with a single sentence of "we worked it out". It honestly feels like settling one of the biggest drama points of the season, if not the ''series'', was all a pointless formality that the writers wanted out of the way so they could add even more overdone drama with Taylor.
* Tropers/AlmightyKingPrawn: Potentially very unpopular opinion, but I really like ''Series/TheMuppets2015''. I'm a huge Muppet fan (just read my username), and contrary to what many say I feel everyone is almost always in character and that the show very much has the Muppet spirit. I mourn its [[ShortRunner 16-episode run]] often. However, for me, the weakest moments of the show are in the first half of the penultimate episode, "Generally Inhospitable". Now, by the second half of the episode when "Up Late With Miss Piggy" starts, everything turns around really well: there's the brief return of Veterinarians Hospital, the awesomeness of Willie Nelson and the Electric Mayhem singing "On the Road Again", Kermit finally admitting that he still loves Piggy, and even a rather sweet send-off to Pache the executive, a character I've otherwise found pretty obnoxious. However, the first half of the episode is quite annoying and unfunny, to the point that I wonder if this is what people who dislike the show feel the entire series is like. So, Piggy breaks her leg, and she has to go to the hospital. At the hospital, she is being a beyond obnoxious asshole the whole time, and it's more annoying than funny. The specific moment that really pissed me off was very brief, but left an impact on me for the worse. At one point, Piggy takes a ride on the lap of an elderly man in a motorized wheelchair to escape the hospital, and the man is breathing heavily as if Piggy sitting on his lap for a "ride" is hurting his lungs. What the hell, Piggy?! She has never been the nicest Muppet, [[TookALevelInJerkass especially in this series]], but this is the one time I've ever seen her so truly awful and out of character that bacon sounds good. The aforementioned moment later in the episode where Kermit admits he still loves Piggy is still very sweet, [[StatusQuoIsGod and I wish Disney remembered that it happened]], but with him witnessing her childishly taking a ride on an elderly person at the hospital for a selfish escape, I kind of wonder [[WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack why he took her back in the first place]].
* Tropers/{{KoopaKid17}}: ''Series/HoleyMoley'' was one of my guilty pleasures. Note that I typed "was". This is because of what Joe Tessitore and Rob Riggle did in the episode "Can You Feel The Urge?". To explain, a contestant managed to stay dry on the King Parthur's Court hole. However, Course Marshall Colin told him that he had to be assessed the one-stroke penalty because he committed a rule violation to do so. Joe and Rob went on a tirade against Colin, repeatedly saying among other things that [[SoreLoser the contestant should punch him]]. One of them even said the judge should be [[DisproportionateRetribution killed]]. Hey, Joe and Rob, do you know what happens to people who physically abuse sports officials? At any level? They get well-deserved fines, suspensions, bans and even assault charges. But, apparently, you assholes think it's okay to encourage this kind of harm. I've seen sportscasters get upset with umpires and referees, but they've never expressed the level of classlessness that Joe and Rob displayed on ''Holey Moley''. They should be held responsible in case a kid sees their unsportsmanlike rants and brings their wishes to the field.
* Tropers/{{LLSmoothJ}}: Like many people around my age, I grew up with ''Series/FamilyMatters'' and I didn't think much of it at the time. But [[FridgeHorror after thinking about it]] (Partially due to the Social Injustice Warrior himself Vee Infuso), as controversal as it may sound, one moment sticks out for me: Many see it as a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Heartwarming Moment]], but Steve and Laura becoming an Official Couple is one of, if not the worst moment in the series. Forget [[FanPreferredCouple believing that Steve was better off with Myra]], [[DerailingLoveInterests who ended up being done filthy]]. Throughout the entire series, Laura has rejected Steve's advances time after time again, making it clear that she was not into him. Even after their relationship improved, she made it clear that she was not interested. And then near the twilight of the series, she changes her tune and hooks up with Steve, who was already in a healthy relationship with Myra? [[AssPull Come]] ''[[StrangledByTheRedString on]]''! Not only did this ruin three characters (One intentionally, [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic the other two unintentionally]]), [[UnfortunateImplications this gave rise to the idea that]] [[StalkingIsLove if you stalk someone enough]] to the point of sabotage and life ruination, the object of your affection will give in. Wonder why we have romance plots such as those in Literature/{{Twilight}} and why the DoggedNiceGuy [[DiscreditedTrope eventually became]] [[RonTheDeathEater villified as]] [[EntitledToHaveYou an Entitled Nice Guy]]? You can look at this show and others like this (At least those with similar romance plots) as the reason why.
* Levitator: For two shining seasons ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' was the cream of the crop of modern television. But season 3 came with major CharacterDerailment, and I found everyone increasingly unlikable. The true DMOS, though, comes in episode 6. After a heated argument with Luthor, Allison uses her superpowers to tell Luthor, "I heard a rumor that you want me." Luthor shambles back to Allison and kisses her against his will. She has a change of heart, but still, that is attempted rape! They don't fully embrace the DoubleStandard, thankfully, but she still gets off way too light. It's portrayed as a nasty moment, but she's EasilyForgiven and only gets a token scolding, while it's also implied that [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming this is partly Luthor's fault for not being sensitive to her feelings.]] I cannot imagine a male attempted rapist being treated so softly. And no, I don't give a fuck about her stupid daughter; you don't get to rape people! I consider this to be Allison's MoralEventHorizon; she is now irredeemably monstrous and I am rooting for her to be killed off. I may keep watching this show, but there is no hope for Allison anymore.
* Tropers/{{Midna}}: ''Series/TheBoys2019'' was never going to be "for me", but I really did try to give it a chance, or at least the benefit of the doubt. Then Season 3, episode 1 happened. [[spoiler:[[IncredibleShrinkingMan Termite]]. [[NauseaFuel Penis]].]] I think it's supposed to be funny, a reference to an ''Ant-Man'' meme, but who would laugh at something like that? The Ant-Man joke is funny to think about, not watch filmed on-screen with a professional budget. Nobody actually wanted to see [[spoiler:Ant-Man jump into a full-size practical replica of Thanos's ass]]--and we didn't, because Marvel knows restraint. Besides the [[spoiler:cock schlock]], there's a difference between being shocking to make a satirical point about hero worship and the way we treat celebrities in real life, and being shocking because you've bought into your own hype and want to see how low you can go without actively driving people away. (And that poor whale was already pushing it.) If the show is going to be anything like this going forward, no thanks.
* Tropers/{{kinola}}: I'm surprised no one did a [=DMoS=] for ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' yet, so here we go: the show started out fine but began to fall apart as it progressed. So many things were wrong with the show, but what I was most frustrated about was how they dealt with Jabba the Hutt's unnamed cousins. I really like their entrance, and how they had Black Krrsantan as their bodyguard. I truly believed that they were going to be the BigBadEnsemble for the show, especially since they sent Krrsantan to kill Boba in Jabba's old palace. But after that, they decide they were just messing with Boba, give him a pet rancor, and disappear. Then the Pyke Syndicate became the BigBad for the rest of the time. Just... why? It felt like gaslighting to me.
** Silverblade2: Luke forcing Grogu to choose between continuing his training or keeping Din’s gift and then kicking the baby off the temple after he chooses the second option. After the second season finale of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' did a great job to redeem Luke after his horrific character assassination in the Sequel Trilogy, this is a massive disservice. Basically, he promised Din that he would "give [his] life to protect the child" and then inexplicably does a 180 degrees turn when it turns out that -duh- the kid does care about his former guardian. Overall, it’s a [[AssPull contrivance]] that only happens because [[StatusQuoIsGod the writers are just unwilling to give up on their cute mascot]].
* Alan Palgut: Seriously, I can't find a soul on earth who despises [[Series/ILoveLucy the most popular 50's series by far]]; but of all the things that they do on the series, nothing stood out as more abominable than, ironically enough, my personal favourite episode, "Lucy Does a TV Commercial." Of course, this is a classic, but to think that Lucy should get ''thoroughly drunk'' after three or four tries ("Alcohol: 23%," a man reads on the bottle), you'd think what lows the writers could go to to make it one of the series' most hilarious episodes.
* Tropers/MathsAngelicVersion: The ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' episode [[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS22E3 "Happy Families"]] ended with the reveal that the murderer was having a surrogate baby and killed the surrogate's SO[[note]]I don't remember if they were married, and I don't care enough about this terrible story to find out.[[/note]] because she thought they were going to take the baby for themselves, which would have been stupid, pointless and selfish even if it were true. Which it wasn't -- she merely assumed so because she overheard a conversation between the couple, and drew the wrong conclusion because she didn't catch the part that revealed that they were actually planning to give her a gift in addition to the surrogacy. So this UngratefulBitch killed innocent people over a ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''-style misunderstanding, and now the surrogate who just tried to do her a favor has lost her partner and is likely stuck with a baby she didn't even want. This isn't clever, interesting or even compellingly tragic. It's just massively irritating. This conclusion was so dumb and pointlessly depressing that it soured me on the show as a whole.
* Artsy the Creator: I have such mixed feelings towards the Brazilian 2015 remake of ''Series/ComplicesAlRescate'' sure, there are some things that I genuinely like such as some of the characters, the good acting, the songs, the aesthetic themes and believe or not: the premise(but the execution still kind of sucks). But what bugs me the most is the introduction of a particular character: Sabrina. Her entire existence in the remake bothers me so much because not only is Sabrina a CanonForeigner but she’s also a SpotlightStealingSquad type of character who acts like an entitled little shit, has very little characterization beyond being a lonely AttentionWhore and has an one side rivalry with Manuela that never gets properly developed(both of them barely if ever interact in the series) but the worst moment about this character was the subplot where it’s revealed that she’s actually the mayor’s granddaughter and nobody knew where she lived, not only it’s yet another pointless reason to put her in the spotlight, not only she steals even more focus from the leading twins Isabela and Manuela(If I remember correctly, they were having the plot about their biological father at the time but my point still stands) [[SeriesContinuityError but also contradicts earlier episodes where it’s shown that Manuela’s friends did go to Sabrina’s house to find her]], I get that this remake has more episodes than the original version and some changes needed to be made but continuity errors like this are grotesque! Especially for a plot driven series like this one.
* Tropers/AjWargo: I’m damn surprised that ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' has stayed off this page until the day I’m writing this- May 1st, 2023, if you’re curious- so let me gladly add the point where everyone agreed the series jumped the shark; the death of Carl Grimes in the midway point of Season 8. For those of you who are curious, Carl actually survives to the end of the comics and becomes a proud leader, as that’s the natural conclusion to the story. But Scott Gimple, who I can only assume is mad, stupid, or both, decides to kill him off for no reason whatsoever- and no, his flimsy excuse of "He needs to die to end the conflict" doesn’t work, since he didn’t even get killed by a Savior. This was the tipping point for the fans, and the series began a slow, miserable death right after- and this expanded universe idea they’re going to try? Well, they already cancelled the Rick movies, so all signs indicate it’s going to fail, too.
** Tropers/{{Freezer}}: For me, the moment came earlier: The infamous Glenn Fakeout. For the uninitiated, one of TWD's biggest hooks was AnyoneCanDie, from "fan favorite major character" to "guy we just met ten seconds ago". Then came the sixth season episode [[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS06E03ThankYou "Thank You"]], where Glen and Nicholas find themselves trapped in an alley, on top of a dumpster, surrounded by [[NotUsingTheZWord walkers]]. Nicholas has a HeroicBSOD, [[TitleDrop thanks Glen]], then shoots himself in the head, falling to the ground and accidentally taking Glenn with him. The show faded out with the walkers pouncing on Glenn, seemingly tearing him apart. Viewers immediately felt something was off about the "death" and assumed it was actually Nicholas being ripped apart but were ultimately willing to give the show the benefit of the doubt. Something that was not helped by it taking another three episodes to resolve the cliffhanger, thanks to the show's use of RotatingArcs. When [[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS06E07HeadsUp "Heads Up"]] finally airs, our worst fears had been realized: Glenn managed to slide out from under Nicholas' body - without a single walker noticing - and hides under the dumpster until the horde of walkers left. Many viewers, me included, considered this a cheap cop out and an unforgiveable breach of trust. Made worse by Glenn dying anyway nine episodes later, at the hands of [[BigBad Negan]].
* AdventurousYak9234: Now, I normally enjoy ''Series/YoungSheldon'', but a scene in the episode "A Romantic Getaway and a Germanic Meat Based Diet" legitametly bothered me. In the episode, Missy is grounded for the entire summer after Sheldon tells on her for sneaking out and smoking (which he did out of concern for her safety) When she's understandably mad at him for this, he apologizes for it. Unlike most other episodes, he isn't being condescending, or arrogant, or insulting. He was actually being nice and giving his sister a heartfelt apology, telling her he couldn't live with himself if he had kept his mouth shut and something terrible happened to her. Does he get a hug or even a "Thank you." No, she just angrily declares that she hates him and slams the door in his face. Look, I get Sheldon can be a pain in the neck, but here he was actually trying to be nice to her! Luckily during the tornado in the next episode, she tearfully says she doesn't actually hate him, or else I would have completely stopped liking Missy as a character. This scene was uncomfortable to watch and I almost did.
* Tropers/AlmightyKingPrawn: I absolutely adored the majority of ''Series/TheMuppetsMayhem'', but I greatly disliked the love triangle between Nora, Moog, and JJ. I found JJ very unlikable, and while I like Moog a lot I see him and Nora as just friends and not lovers. I actually found more romantic chemistry watching between [[LesYay Nora and Janice]], and when you make me start shipping a human and a Muppet together, you REALLY dropped the ball on writing. My big DMOS is how everything is wrapped up in the otherwise excellent last episode: Nora breaks up with JJ and forgives him as a "friend" despite him being nothing but a jerk to her, and as for her and Moog? NoEnding. That part is dropped without resolve. It makes you feel like you just watched an annoying human love triangle in a show about Muppets for no reason whatsoever for way too long, and as this show otherwise breaks the "humans are boring compared to Muppets" curse with all the humans except JJ being likable, it hurts.
* [=DevNameless=]: I honestly don't watch a lot of live-action TV in general, but one series that really got me hooked pretty quickly and kept its hold on me was ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie''. I love this show, both the interesting dives into the odd ways people can wind up dead, the absolutely glorious amounts of Black Comedy and jokes, and especially Ron Perlman's narration. However, if there was one segment I think was a major misstep for the series, it would be "Crib Your Enthusiasm". Normally, the victim on the show would either be someone who was a jerk, or did something stupid. That way you could either say they got what was coming to them, or laugh at the thought they expected things to go well. Not so much with this segment, where the victim's main issue is just having a kink for being treated like a baby. Not my thing, personally, but I still think it was wrong for them to kinkshame to the point where the victim was called a freak.
* IzzyUneasy: While ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger'' wasn't exactly the best thing since sliced bread, the one moment I truly hate comes from the episode 17. Saizou goes on a date, but his date turns out to be a monster who breaks his (expensive!)car and cuts through his clothes. Cue a little boy photographing Saizou and blackmailing him. Toei, what the fuck? in which universe is this even remotely okay to joke about? The ending (the little boy prints a lot of photos depicting Saizou's almost naked body that are then seen by some girls) is the final turd on top of this garbage mountain.
* Tropers/AlmightyKingPrawn: Yeah yeah, I know that this is my fourth entry on a Henson series, but ''Series/FraggleRock'' (and [[Series/FraggleRockBackToTheRock its reboot]] for that matter, cross my fingers I never have to list that here too) has my heart, even above everything else. It's just a masterpiece. One of the reasons why I love it so much is because the Fraggle 5 are such three-dimensional characters that you become genuinely attached to them like close friends. There was one member of the 5 that took some time for me to adore her as much as the other 4, however, and that is Red. This is the fault of two of the earlier episodes I watched (before I watched the series in order). I'll spare [[Recap/FraggleRockS3E1RedHandedAndTheInvisibleThief "Red Handed and the Invisible Thief"]] from the dishonor as while a horrible choice of first-episode-with-Red-as-main-character, it is still very funny in a CrossesTheLineTwice sort of way and Red learns her lesson in the end, even though she took the JerkassBall (I also like it a lot more on rewatch now - "The Hum Song (Hold Each Other's Noses)" has no right to go as hard in its utter borderline-but-just-barely-not-[[BigLippedAlligatorMoment BLAM]] nonsense as it does and, even without the rest, would spare the whole episode the dishonor). No, the dishonor goes to a line at the beginning of [[Recap/FraggleRockS1E20TheGardenPlot "The Garden Plot"]] where she takes her typical shtick of "ranting about Gobo's accomplishments out of hidden jealousy" WAY too far. Noticing that Gobo is a bit slower grabbing the postcard from Doc's workshop than usual and almost got attacked by Sprocket, Red basically bullies and fatshames him, yelling that he is fat and needs to go on a diet! This has NO impact on the plot, which is about Red admitting she is fearful sometimes, Gobo and Junior loving the same nursery rhyme as kids despite their differences, and [[ComedicSociopathy Pa Gorg being as awful as usual]], just serving as a pointless scene at the beginning of the episode where Red's DeadpanSnarker status is distorted into "she bullies her best friends". She never even apologizes, or learns better! It's just a stupid, pointless, throwaway line that, in addition to all the above and at the risk of sounding like a MoralGuardian, is also a TERRIBLE thing to put in a children's show without an anti-bullying aesop, as Gobo is perfectly healthy and the way Red worded things is in just the way bullies cause eating disorders in real life.
* Guy01: I've been teetering on the edge of dropping the show for a while now but the moment that utterly killed Cobra Kai to me was the *** goddamn *** swirly scene. Season after season the Cobras have been getting away scott free with being the most insufferable bunch of goddamn *** ever put to screen but this was the moment that killed the show. The Cobra Brats, lead by Kenny, gang up on Anthony, grab him, kicking and struggling and screaming into a bathroom, and then, deliberately, force his head into a *** filled toilet. And then....that's it. It's never followed up on beyond a joke later by Anthony. What the fuck?! So, assuming those psychotic little fuckheads let him live, Anthony would've had to make it out of there, tall order considering he was surrounded by more of those psychotic sacks of bastard, go home, change his clothes, clean off, clean his clothes, and no *** telling how long that would've taken, and then...what? That's it? That's it? No *** mention of it again? Bull! What? Was nobody home? He didn't run into any of the Miyagi-Fang students on the way home? How *** convenient for the Cobra Brats. By all accounts, Anthony should've and would've brought this to Daniel and Sam's attention immediately which should've resulted in Miyagi-Fang kicking down Kenny's door and tearing that little brat apart and doing the same to the others. But noooooo! Can't have the Creator's Pet Villain Sues face any consequences can we? So instead, it just gets forgotten about and at the end of the season we're expected to sympathize with Kenny because he made an uwu sad face after Silver got arrested. Fuck that. Anthony should've punched him out on the way home. I guarantee next season is going to be more of this. The 'Heroes' will be reduced to pathetically kissing the Cobra Brats' feet and begging them to join their Dojo while the Cobras continue to act like the psycho brats they are because this is Cobra Kai and the Brats can't face any consequences. I'm done. It felt good to rant and get all of that out of my system but I am just done with this show. There's no recovering from this.
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