History DethroningMoment / LiveActionTV

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** Erm, you can't "cheat" in a duel to the death. It's just that-a fight to satisfy the honour of both participants, usually by one of the duellists dying. It's not the Olympics. Unless they had agreed beforehand that neither one was allowed to take advantage of the other's distraction and use unconventional brawling tactics, Mal didn't cheat. He just took advantage of the fact that Atherton didn't know he was facing a man with military combat experience and decided to [[Flynning have a little fun doing some goofy sword moves before skewering Mal] and turned it into his own sort of rough-and-tumble fight. Also, the point of the episode is that Mal is at least open and honest about how he feels and what he is. He is a bit of a douche, but he doesn't pretty it up with fancy talk and parties the way Atherton-whose insults towards Inara are even more personal and vicious-does. There's also the issue of Atherton's hypocrisy-Mal insults Inara's profession and is disgusted by it, so while he's respectful towards her he doesn't contract her or ever take advantage of her being a passenger on his ship. Atherton, on the other hand, pays for an evening with her, shows her off as a status symbol, and yet he still shows the same disgust. Mal's disgust is authentic, while Atherton's is hypocritical.

* Tropes/{{Valkir}}: The whole "I'm insulting your profession, but not you personally" bullshit in the Shindig episode of {{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.

* Tropers/{{Gyrobot}} In KamenRiderDecade Movie Wars, the duel of Kivala and Decade comes to mind for this troper. 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.

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* Anyone else think that this years season premiere of ''SaturdayNightLive'' was absolutely terrible? I mean the Russian Brides, host: Megan Fox, your mom talks to Megan Fox, the fucking bike sketch and the terrible opener! Did the SNL writers try to test out that 1000 monkeys typing on a thousand typewriters theory or were they just really really stoned when they wrote the script?
--> '''Writer:''' Dude, you know what would be funny? A sketch where the people pretend like they're saying fuck but aren't! They could say like frick and freakin' and it'll be so funny, man.
--> '''Other Writer:''' Yeah! Oh but you know what would be funnier? If they were all on bikes when they did it!
** Casting Megan Fox didn't help matters any. She's good at looking pretty, but she has absolute tin ears for comedy (along with acting of any other sort). It's enough to make you miss George Wendt.
** Politics aside, SNL's Obama skits are probably the least accurate impersonations of any one person by any other person in the history of mankind. From Tina Fey's Palin to this in twelve months...?
** Not to mention Lorne Michaels writing off complaints about SNL's decline in quality by saying "the show was always better five years ago." Fine, Mr. Michaels, so don't even ''try'' to improve to program, then. If you've already accepted that the show sucks and won't get better, I guess it's okay for us to do the same.
** You could do a lot worse than the Megan Fox episode...and SNL did just that a few weeks later with the January Jones episode, which almost immediately earned a reputation as one of the worst episodes in SNL's 35-year history. A visibly nervous Jones kept screwing up lines, displayed zero comic skill or timing, and at one point even asked, ''on-air'', which camera she was on! Add to that some horrible sketches (Grace Kelly farting on the set of ''Rear Window'', resurrecting Kristen Wiig's not-much-missed bi-curious news reporter character, a gay-themed Jekyll and Hyde bit) and you had a perfect storm of suckage. Her only good performance was in pre-recorded MadMen-era educational film parody. In an interview with Jimmy Fallon earlier in the week, Jones admitted that she couldn't sing, dance or do impressions, and said that, in apparent total seriousness, she suggested the SNL writers put together a "Da Bears" sketch. As luck would have it, the only semi-good live sketch had Jones playing [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a cute blonde who's really dense, lacks a sense of humor, and has a way-out-of-date pop culture radar]].
* But it's not just in recent years that this has happened: the show's very first year had an episode hosted by Louise Lasser, who was visibly strung out on something as she kept slurring her lines or blowing them completely. One sketch even saw her get upstaged by a golden retriever. Lorne Michaels himself immediately declared the episode to be the sketch show equivalent of {{Canon Discontinuity}}; we're actually lucky that the master tape was still available for the season one DVD set.
** The thing is, while Louise Lasser certainly stunk it up, her episode wasn't as bad as it could have been: she was so coked up that she was only able to appear with another cast member in a single sketch so the bits without her worked pretty okay. However, when Milton Berle hosted, he presented a stream of vaguely racist jokes in his monologue, constantly mugged throughout each one of his many sketches, and, in general, came off like an egomaniacal prick. His is the only other show that Lorne refused to re-run.
*** The episode with Gabourey Sidibe was pretty damn bad as well, I think that it was both Gabourey as well as the writers. The digital short couldn't even give the episode a chuckle. The Steve Harvey sketch was going well just until her character came up. The only redeeming quality was MGMT's performance. Which we were forced to wait for.
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** And yet, "Fair Haven" and "Spirit Folk" manage to make "Threshold" look like Shakespeare. CharacterDerailment in spades for Janeway, who creates herself an ideal holographic man in the former and is prepared to ''see her crew die to save him'' in the latter. Stupid and insulting, and not just for Janeway.
* For Wil Wheaton, the Moment is beyond any doubt the ninth episode of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', called "The Battle". Hell, have you read [[http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/12/star-trek-the-next-generation-the-battle/ his blog when he reviewed it]]? It reminded us all why Wesley Crusher is, well..TheWesley.
** What about the {{Anvilicious}} Native American episode "Journey's End", where Wesley is... wait for it...revealed to be a being that transcends space & time. It almost made people ''wish'' they had gone for the MightyWhitey scenario they [[RedHerring appeared to be setting up]].
** "Second Chances". Maybe not a DM for everyone, but it just kills Riker's character by depicting his past self (Thomas) as a brash whiner and his later self (Will) as a dick. Perhaps the only consistent part is that he is kind of an arrogant jackass in both personas. The whole episode was just ... weird. Not really a [[WallBanger wall banger]], just weird.
*** Thomas has lived for eight years in complete isolation. You would expect that the first thing they would get him is a heavy dose of counselling and rehabilitation, and (if he wished to rejoin Starfleet) a battery of physical and psych evaluations. Instead, by the time he is back on board the Enterprise, he is already back in uniform. Far from having gone mad, the experience seems to have had little effect on him except to pause his emotional development. The entire show was written as if Thomas was discovered to not only have been stuck on the planet for eight years, but had furthermore been cryogenically frozen.
*** In spite of how traumatic that experience must have been, Will is quite immediately a dick toward him. Will's dickishness is magnified by the fact that he's been unfairly living a normal life for eight years, while Thomas must have been in some sort of hell. Of all the ways Will might act toward Thomas, being a dick just didn't seem to make any sense. In that sense it seemed like they were writing about the reunion of brothers who had previously been on poor terms with one another, which just does not seem to work here.
* ''[[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space 9's]]'' "Profit and Lace". Starting off with the very intriguing and hopeful possibility that the Dominion has destroyed Ferenginar, what could have been the best plot twist since "Rosebud!" degenerated into an absurd and insulting farce. ''Quark has a sex change in order to close a deal with an old and lecherous businessman''. It is, frankly, an insult to the human race as a whole. The episode can be summed up in three words: ''Worse than "Threshold"''.
** Even worse: this is the "improved" episode we got ''after'' Armin Shimerman (Quark) [[BigNo pitched a fit]] when he saw the original script. One can only imagine what it was like before.
* ''StarTrekEnterprise'' has the infamous "A Night In Sickbay". The common fan response is "good thing it took place there because it '''made us all sick'''."
** The worst moment is this...
--->ARCHER: "When I was in my early twenties on a trip to East Africa, I saw a gazelle giving birth..."
** Tropers/BryceBryans: Or the early "Dear Doctor" in which Archer decides not to help a race of dying people because he is led by HollywoodEvolution and believes helping them would violate a directive that hasn't come into existence yet. "Until I have that... ''directive''..."
** "These Are The Voyages" is almost universally reviled by fans (and the cast!), and for good reason: the series (and franchise finale) is a ''Next Generation'' episode in disguise, mixing {{Retcon}}s, out-of-character moments and a genuinely pathetic premise. However, in spite of all that, it ''might'' have been possible to excuse it as just being another lame episode...until the speech scene. Captain Archer is asked to give a speech during a ceremony making the founding of the United Federation of Planets, considered to be one of the defining moments in the history of that universe (and something the audience has never seen before). Captain Archer steps up to the podium, opens his mouth to say his first words...''and it cuts to Riker and Troi watching the ceremony for a few seconds before terminating the holodeck program and leaving''. It could have been one of (if not ''the'') best moments in a series that was ridiculed during its entire existence, but it ends up being a woeful end to the original franchise (as ''Enterprise'' was the last Star Trek series aired in the original universe). '''WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, BRAGA?!?''' ({{Tropers/Crazyrabbits}})
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* That episode in ''{{My Name Is Earl}}'' where Ralph tortures Randy for Earl's bank account number, saying "I might be a little crazy" each time he hurts him. Yeah, the police are called on him, but fail to detain him. And then, he apologizes to Earl and Randy, and they just forgive him, when what they should have done was tell him to go fuck himself forever.
* An entire season of ''{{Main/Dallas}}'', was Main/AllJustADream. (LordTNK)
** At least it wasn't ''the entire series'', as the last chapter of [[SoapOpera hispanic soap]] ''Pecados Ajenos'' randomly and happily revealed. (Main/{{L-chan}})
* George and Izzie hooking up on ''GreysAnatomy''. Especially since we were supposed to buy them actually being in love all along. To the audience's credit, it seems that no one did.
** Meredith spending an entire episode unconscious under water. And then spending another episode without a heartbeat. And then waking up and being totally fine despite, you know, having been ''dead'' for a couple of hours. And we're supposed to bite our nails and wonder if she'll pull through. Given that she's the eponymous character, the odds of her dying are pretty high.
* The episode entitled "Spaceball" from ''{{Galactica1980}}''. In a series that had little to do with the original ''BattlestarGalactica'' 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. ({{Crazyrabbits}})
* The last episode of ''{{Dinosaurs}}''. Giving a light-hearted (if occasionally preachy) sitcom a ShootTheShaggyDog DownerEnding to deliver an {{Anvilicious}} GreenAesop = '''EPIC''' WallBanger. (TrouserWearingBarbarian)
* The "Alien Rangers" arc at the end of Season 3 of ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers''. Not only did it derail the build-up for the introduction of Master Vile, but it led to a pointless arc of where the characters were turned into kids! While it was largely done to save time/money and let Bandai export the Kakuranger action figures without having to explain away everyone getting a new costume and the five versus six member problem that plagued adapting ''NinjaSentaiKakuranger'' into a season of ''Mighty Morphin'', it left heads scratching and caused Saban to have to attach teaser trailers hyping ''PowerRangersZeo'' to the reruns of those episodes to get people to watch them.
** And speaking of ''PowerRangers'', there is one team-up related DMOS: the entire episode of "Time for Lightspeed." [[{{Arcadiarika}} I]] am an admitted ''Lightspeed Rescue'' fangirl, but even that episode just sucks something awful. Vypra, a villain [[TheScrappy no one likes]] [[XPacHeat because of her "actress's" poor acting]], was revived...after they showed her grave, complete with tombstone, even though Queen Bansheera stole her soul and destroyed her in order to gain a bodily form. And the facts that Dana just somehow became a doctor, the Solar Amulet being mentioned with little to no backstory at all (likewise with the "Super Demon" Quarganon), the sudden appearance of Ryan Mitchell, and the unnecessary ending with the jacket trade-off and the Time Force Rangers imitating their predecessors just added to the awfulness. And even a certain Red Lightspeed Ranger wasn't enough to make the hurting stop (though this troper felt sorry for him, because he was the ''only Lightspeed Ranger to show up for nearly the entire team-up'', with his allies only getting glorified cameos). Oh, and all of this happened in ''one freaking episode!'' What the heck were they ''thinking?''
** The very end of ''PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' when they had the deceased Kendrix inexplicably and literally reappearing out of thin air, undoing her CrowningMomentOfAwesome in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Power_Rangers#Kendrix_Morgan The Power of Pink]].
* TheCloser episode Fantasy Date is about a young woman is raped and murdered and it later appears that she was into S&M posting a sexual ad for a rape fantasy online. [[spoiler: Turns out her ex boyfriend posted the ad hoping that the rape would bring him back to her the killer raped her thinking he had consent and murdered her when she fought back.]] The whole episode gives a rather unfair view of anyone S&M making them as a whole seem to be disgusting, violent perverts and potential rapists and treats enjoying such things as horrible people to the point at the end of episode the victims mother thanks the main character not for catching the man responsible but for proving that her daughter wasn't into such things.
* ''SexAndTheCity'': Carrie guilt-trips Charlotte into selling her ''engagement ring'' so that Carrie can afford buying her apartment. Instead of Carrie selling all those shoes she never wears more than once or twice anyway.
** Carrie becoming Big's mistress. We're apparently supposed to feel sorry for Carrie because she knows what she's doing is wrong but just ''can't stop''. When Charlotte berates her for her actions, she comes off as a holier-than-thou MoralGuardian, which totally overshadows the fact that ''she's right''. And then at the end of it all, we're supposed to see Big's wife as a cold-hearted unforgiving bitch because she doesn't want to talk to the woman that ''ruined her marriage''.
** Also, when Carrie and Aidan get back together he finds out, via answering machine, that she still talks to Big (the guy she cheated on him with) while they were ''making love''. He confronts her about it at the end of the episode and tells her to stop talking to Big and she says, [[{{narm}} tearfully]], that "[[{{wallbanger}} she can't do that and he has to forgive her]]"? I ''might'' have been on Carrie's side if he was a boss or a co-worker she couldn't avoid speaking too but that was too much for her to swallow. Carrie inviting Big to Aidan's cabin with them without telling him to 'break the ice' between them so she could remain friends with Big guilt-free was Carrie's {{Moral Event Horizon}}, in my opinion.
* The DownerEnding of ''TheKingOfQueens'' episode "Inner Tube", where Doug apologizes to Carrie, and she throws water onto his face and venomously says "You make me sick!" I know, [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan it doesn't sound like much of a DMOS compared to the other examples]], but to some people, especially long-time viewers of the show, this part was another case of Carrie's {{Flanderization}} from a good and likable JerkWithAHeartOfGold to a psychotic {{Jerkass}} who torments Doug for no apparent reason other than sheer malice. Although Doug isn't entirely blameless, since in the later seasons, he and Carrie can't get through one episode without shouting at each other like Tasmanian devils, but [[JumpTheShark that's another story for another time]].
** Then there was Doug's subplot in the episode "Mama Cast." Here's what happened: this mysterious guy has a scam where he has two ice cream trucks. He sells one for an unbelievably low price (which Doug buys), and then, using the unbought one, tries to ''murder'' whoever bought the other one, which he tries to do to Doug! Look, I know it's [[MST3KMantra just a TV show]], but on what planet [[DudeNotFunny is that considered funny]]? And the worst part? Doug spent the majority of the episode running and hiding from the mysterious assailant instead of, oh I don't know, ''calling the cops'' and having the guy thrown in jail for life. [[FictionIsntFair Or would that make too much sense]]?
* The ''{{NCIS}}'' season five episode "Dog Tags" is a Dethroning Moment for Abby, to the point of {{Discontinuity}}. [=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.
** There's an episode where Ziva and Tony are trapped in a shipping container down at the docks. [=McGee=] and Gibbs are driving around trying to locate them, but [=McGee=] is having trouble giving directions because Gibbs is driving too fast. What does Gibbs do? He drives FASTER! If McGee couldn't locate Ziva and Tony because Gibbs was driving too fast, how would accelerating help? More haste, less speed.
* In the last episode of ''{{Merlin}}'' - [[spoiler:Nimueh's death. Not only was it really stupid, on account of her being, y'know, ''Nimue'', and being the best and most interest villain the show had, and the fact that, just a few episodes earlier, they seemed to have been starting to humanize her, then killed her off abruptly... it looked terrible. Possibly one of the worst effects they've used, and that's really saying something. [[JokerImmunity But... she'll come back, right?]] ]]
* Arguably, the episode of ''{{Scrubs}}'' where [[spoiler:Laverne dies]] and then they [[spoiler: bring back the exact same actress later on in the show as a character JD dubs as Laverneagain.]] I can't recall ever being any angrier at a show I used to love.
** Christ, YES. There've been many bad moments recently, but that...it took a surprisingly touching episode and reduced it to a joke. Who could possibly have thought that was a good idea?
** They did this because the series was supposed to be ending that season. When they got renewed, Bill Lawrence felt bad about dumping the actress when there was still more to film so he brought her back. Albeit in an unconventional way.
** While we're at it, did anyone else find the Finale (excuse me, '''fake''' finale since ABC told them to do another fucking season) to be full of shit? This troper gave up on the series after the whole baby mess involving JD but decided to force herself to watch the Finale just because it was supposed to be the last episode ever. She did not laugh at a single joke. The most offensive parts were that JD ''wrote down every single rant from Dr. Cox'', which reduced his character to nothing more than a pathetic Dr. Cox fanboy/stalker and the part where Dr. Cox finally admits how proud of JD he really is only for JD to be standing right behind him with a stupid smug look on his face because he in fact planned the entire thing. What kind of pathetic little suck up needs someone's approval that badly? Dr. Cox has shown his pride for JD in several episodes such as "My Last Day", "My Cake", and "My Fallen Idol" just to name a few. If JD can't figure out how much Dr. Cox cares about him without him outright saying it to his face, then he is a complete tool.
*** You're also forgetting, that Cox was absolutely ''flattered'' that JD went through the trouble of transcribing all of his rants.
**** However sickening that was, they still managed to top it in the 9th season. JD's 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 actually ''begs for more'' in his head. Ugh. And that's not even touching his relations with his students. Let's say it plain and blunt: they turned JD into a whore and it's disgusting.
** The "fairy-tale" episode was so bad that this troper just gave up on Scrubs altogether. Not only was it a lame premise for an episode, but it was executed badly. I almost wept at the bad-special-effect-fog-thingy that Cox defeated with his sword. The worst part though, was Jordan's totally serious "finish the story, I wanna know what happens" to Cox. This incredibly cheesy line belongs in an 80s sitcom for children, not the Scrubs I used to love.
***** And who could forget that [[RuleOfThree awful, awful, AWFUL]] third season episode which was ''supposed'' to be about GenderEquality but came off as [[StrawFeminist anything but]], especially with [[TheScrappy Dr.]] [[MarySue Miller]], a supposed adult who basically took [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk every word out of Turk's mouth as harassment]] and Elliot ''taking '''her''' side''. [[{{Discontinuity}} I really want to forget that episode ever existed]].
* The episode of ''RescueMe'' where Tommy decides that the appropriate reaction to his ex-wife pissing him off is to go to her house [[RapeAsComedy and rape her]]. And she enjoys it. And he feels totally justified. And the soundtrack inappropriatly agrees as he literally walks out of her house to triumphant hero music...So Yeah.
* Freddie from ''[[ICarly iCarly]]'' has an in-universe example that turns him into the universe's ChewToy in ''iMeet Fred''. Freddie says on his webshow that he doesn't think Fred (an internet celebrity famous for his sped-up, pitch-shifted YouTube videos) is all that funny. Fred decides to stop making his own videos. In response to this, Freddie is kicked out of all his club groups, is shoved to the ground by nerds, causes iCarly to be boycotted, Sam blames him, Carly defends him for about 20 seconds before turning on him as well, his Aunt Jennifer rings him just to insult him, and finally Freddie gets beaten up by Sam with a tennis racquet so hard she breaks it, until he goes back on his perfectly justifiable opinion.
** Oh, Sam throws him out of a ''treehouse'' at the end of the episode.
*** It gets WORSE. How? Even though it's revealed that [[spoiler: Fred wasn't telling the truth when he said he was going to stop making his videos]], Sam ''still'' beats Freddie up at the end because [[spoiler: he ''still'' doesn't like Fred's videos]].
* Speaking of treehouses, one episode of ''DrakeAndJosh'' features the eponymous characters accidentally trapping themselves in one that they had built. When their [[DevilInPlainSight evil sister]] Megan finds out about this, she just walks off and leaves them in there without telling anyone where they are. She does come back once later, but that's to cook sausages right in front of the treehouse ForTheEvulz. They escape by accidentally causing the neighbor kid's tree house to collapse (Megan may or may not have been involved with that) and as punishment, the boys had to rebuild it or their family would get sued. Honestly, the whole fucking show was about glorifying the sister character '''who was ALWAYS a KarmaHoudini'''. Even in the TV movie, she managed to steal thousands of counterfeit dollars while the brothers just barely came out smelling like roses.
** And most certainly does not help that the same evil sister is the main character of iCarly...
* Sure, it's had innumerable {{Wall Banger}}s, rousing games of Team IdiotBall, and some of the most {{Anvilicious}} moments of WriterOnBoard in TV history. But ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' has never really had a [=DMOS=]... Until the S9 finale, "Cold". With Chester going vigilante on two rogue cops (and stupidly getting ambushed by them), Stabler at his worst (Just what did Chester do that would make Stabler throw Benefit Of The Doubt out the window?), and Casey Novak pulling quite possible the most blatantly stupid move in L&O history (Pressing charges against the surviving rogue cop while blatantly - and easily provably - lying about her key evidence)... this may have been the series' - if not the entire franchise's - [[StarTrekEnterprise "A Night In Sick Bay"]]. And the worst part is, we're never even slightly clue in as to why ''this particular case'' is the one that Chester and Novak chuck their careers. We've seen much nastier perps walk on the show with nothing more from the good guys than a "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."
** The most conspicuously horrible moment [=DMoS=] has got to be the season 10 episode "Wildlife". It starts off with scene of trying to hard for drama with Stabler shot. We jump back some amount of time and enter a ridiculous episode involving the SVU detectives trying to save an endangered monkey, which is inside a basketball, from smugglers who will sell it to an evil chinese buisness man to make chopsticks, did I mention the head smuggler kills people with Hyenas...in New York city. Eventually we catch up to the beginning and the whole drama from the beginning with Stabler shot resolves in about 30 seconds of a hospital scene. The episode has shootouts in warehouses a massive undercover operation, a main character getting shot, his marriage strained, and for what? to save a poor helpless exploited child as would be the Job of SVU? No, to save a monkey. They try to squeeze more drama out of animal smuggling than serial rapists and child murders.
** In that same season, there's also an episode where the perp (or, possibly, the BaitAndSwitch perp, I didn't actually finish the episode) ''confesses to the trial judge and attempts to plead not guilty'' twice, only to be totally ignored by everyone in the room save his lawyer ''who tells him to shut up.'' What the FUCK? How do you forget in a ''police procedural'' that ''lawyers have to represent their clients' wishes?!''
** And the greatest Dethroning Moment of Suck, [[LawAndOrder Original Flavor]]? [[TwoWordsOneTrope Six Words]]: [[SuddenlySexuality Is this because I'm a lesbian?]]
* ''{{Torchwood}}'': the senseless death of [[spoiler:[[EnsembleDarkhorse Ianto]] [[BattleButler Jones]]]] in the 4th episode of the Children of Earth miniseries. What makes this especially sucky is that up to then the miniseries had been a marked improvement in the acting, plot and general direction of the show. Killing off [[spoiler:the favorite character of much of the fanbase]]? Not so much.
** How about Jack [[spoiler: KILLING HIS OWN GRANDSON??]] isn't he supposed to be a hero? The sickest thing on TV ThisTroper's witnessed. [[spoiler: Ianto's death]]as merciful compared to the rape of Jack's character.
** I concur with both of you. Especially since I thought that a lot of the crap that they put Jack through was only done to get to the ending. Instead of [[spoiler: Jack leaving Earth because he couldn't take what had happened]], and those events feeling like they were unavoidable, it felt like everything was done SOLELY to get [[spoiler: Jack to leave Earth.]] That and so much of Children of Earth felt like a massive WallBanger to me, with things like the bomb in Jack's stomach. If you recall, when Susie shot Jack in the head at the beginning of Season 1, ''the bullet came out when he healed''. So why didn't the bomb pop out when he healed? And why did Jack not notice something the ''SIZE OF A FRIGGING GRAPEFRUIT'' in his cavity? Or, why didn't someone grab Owen's magical microwave scalpel and get rid of the bomb? So many walls, so much banging to be done...
* The season 3 finale of ''{{Bones}}'' made many, many people furious, what with it revealing that [[spoiler:Zack is Gormogon's apprentice]]. Some fans even refused to watch it after that as [[spoiler:Zack]] was almost everyone's favourite character.
** And then we got "The Witch in the Wardrobe," the only episode of the entire frickin' series written by Kathy Reichs herself. This went beyond DidntDoTheResearch ... it was a FreakOfTheWeek episode portraying followers of a real-world minority religion as a bunch of murderous nutcases, with the "resolution" [[YouFailBiologyForever failing biology forever]]. The only explanation for it I can think of is that the editors were afraid to touch Reichs' script.
* The US version of ''{{The Office}}'' had an episode where Michael's birthday is overshadowed because Kevin is awaiting a call that will announce whether or not he has skin cancer. The other employees (save for Dwight, naturally) are obviously sympathetic towards Kevin, but Michael is very clearly angry at Kevin for his possible condition and does everything in his power to focus the day on his birthday. This episodes degrades Michael from being affably naïve to a self-centered {{Jerkass}}, and ends in just feeling disgust at the writers.
** For Bob Vance's[[hottip:* :Vance Refrigeration]] bachelor party, Michael hires a stripper. Roy refuses to have anything to do with it, as he finds stripping to be degrading to women. When Michael is receiving his lapdance, he suddenly realizes that this might count as cheating on Jan (who he was ''not'' dating) and immediately calls off the rest of the party. He then chides the rest of the men for having such little respect for women, targeting Roy by name. HypocriticalHumor, without the humor.
** ''Phyllis' Wedding'' is a pretty universally hated episode. In addition to Pam randomly hooking up with Roy again, keeping her away from Jim, Michael loses all the great CharacterDevelopment he had gotten in the past episodes to try to make other people's wedding all about him. He gets upset when Phyllis' dad (who he was in charge of wheeling down the aisle) stands up so he ''drags the chair down the aisle''. Then he makes an innappropriate toast and gets kicked out. Later he just stumbles upon an old man and Phyllis ''thanks him'' for finding her uncle. KarmaHoudini anyone?
** The episode ''Scott's Tots''. Apparently years ago Michael promised a class of underprivileged kids he'd pay for their college tuition if they graduated. We're expected to believe that people would accept that a paper salesman could afford to send 15 kids to college? Pam is the only person to call Michael out on this and forces him to go tell the kids the truth. She sends Erin in her place to help him which causes Michael to treat sweet Erin like shit for no reason. They're upset when Michael tells the truth and he offers them ''batteries'' to make up for it. And then at the end we get this lame attempt at a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when Erin tells Michael he sort of inspired the kids to graduate and he's nice to her. It falls false though since he's been acting like a huge dick! Meanwhile Dwight sets up this huge BatmanGambit to get Jim fired by choosing an employee of the month. It almost works since Jim accidentally picks himself and then his wife Pam as the employee. Everyone yells at Jim who can't stop stammering to get a word in edgewise and later Dwight sends a cake with Jim's picture on it and everyone believes he sent a cake like that to himself. Is everyone randomly retarded for an episode?
** The faulty-printers arc from Season 6, culminating in ''Whistleblower.'' Andy learns from a client that Sabre's printers have a nasty habit of overheating and catching fire when given huge print jobs. When he tries to tell his co-workers, none of them care and corporate stooge Gabe basically tells him to forget about it. Darryl is the only one who listens to him, and even then Darryl only does so in an effort to prank Andy for some bullshit slight from years before. Darryl and Andy set up a test printer and film it. Lo and behold, it catches fire and proves that Andy was right all along. Flash forward a few episodes, and word has gotten out to the media about the printers, which causes an internal witch hunt. People are falling all over each other to throw Andy under the bus despite the fact that ''three'' other people in the office confessed to Michael that they leaked the info. Then the Nick the IT Guy gets everyone's attention to say goodbye, and the entire office piles onto him for literally no reason at all. Did I mention that Nick reveals that he's quitting his job to do charity work, and they still insult him? Angrily, Nick reveals that Andy was the whistleblower, and none of the other three guilty parties defend Andy afterwards. Did I also mention that all three of them, Pam, Darryl, and Kelly, revealed the information just to impress someone with a funny story? The absolute worst part of the episode is that someone childishly jams Andy's messenger bag into the drop ceiling and Phyllis tells him that he "deserves it." '''Phyllis.''' The same Phyllis who learned that Andy's fiancee was cheating on him and deliberately chose not to tell him in order to ''blackmail her.''
* ''HowIMetYourMother'': apparently Robin was so distraught about her and Barney's failed relationship that she had a Jennifer Lopez-played character mess with him because he moved on. Inexplicably, Robin was played as the sympathetic character here, saying that she didn't want to be "just another number" to Barney, despite getting around almost as much as Barney. I guess everyone forgot that the Barney and Robin mutually agreed to break up, Robin had also started dating, and was even falling in love with her co-worker. Nice double-standard.
** The episode where Lily considers herself the "Settler" in her relationship, with Marshall being the "Reacher," basically saying that that Lily was supposedly out of Marshall's league, could have done better than him, and just ''settled'' for him. I guess everyone conveniently forgot a few years earlier, when she broke off their engagement (and his heart), left for San Francisco, failed as an artist there, and literally came back crying for Marshall to take her back. She even eventually started stalking one of Marshall's dates. ''He'' took ''her'' back.
*** Marshal is [[The Chick]], so Lily does tend to wear the pants in that relationship. But when it gets taken to extremes like that, it can be kind of unsettling. I mean, Lily is hot, but Marshal isn't unattractive, and apparently makes a ton of money as a lawyer. Lily, on the other hand, is an underpaid teacher with massive debt. She hit the jackpot with Marshall.
** The more I remember the episode Little Minnesota, the angrier I get. To summarize for those unfamiliar with the show or the episode, we have Barney Stinson, who has shown himself to be a womanizer who will sleep with any woman he finds attractive. In this episode, it is shown he has repeatedly stated for various Christmases in the past through song how much he wants to sleep with Ted's sister Heather. Heather on the other hand has continually proven herself to be irresponsible, selling Ted's couch and TV for tickets to a Nine Inch Nails concert and plane tickets to it (it was in Europe) and was even caught shoplifting 8 months earlier. In short, they're the two most reckless characters in the entire show. Naturally, Ted doesn't want these two meeting since he assumes Barney would just sleep with her, which he has shown time and time again he has every intention of doing. Eventually, Lily walks in on Heather and Barney together and assumes the worst. She tells Ted, he becomes mad and confronts them, but surprisingly it turns out the Barney and Heather had planned it as a ridiculous BatmanGambit to teach Ted a lesson (what lesson they had planned to teach him they never explain). They had merely pretend to sleep together, so when Lily walked in she, who was bad at keeping secrets, would tell Ted, and make Ted angry. Remember though, these were the two most reckless and irresponsible characters in the show, Barney's proven time and time that he'd willingly lie to Ted in order to sleep with a woman, and Heather hasn't exactly proven a good track record either. And Ted COMPLETELY buys their story, and even goes so far as to feel guilty, so guilty he decides to co-sign on Heather's lease. No character for one second even remotely tries to bring up that it's probably much more likely that Barney and Heather were just caught in the act and were trying to pull a fast one on kindhearted Ted, and he's played up to be the bad guy in this episode after their big reveal? This episode was horrible, and I'm honestly waiting for the episode where Barney comes in and does own up to sleeping with Ted's sister, surprised he actually bought that convoluted story.
*** The absolute worst episode of ''How I Met Your Mother'' was ''Twin Beds''. Ted and Barney almost randomly wanting to win Robin back and Don becoming a Wesely of epic proportions almost ruined the show.
* ''TheBigBangTheory'': The Plimpton Stimulation. I'd be willing to believe that Leonard was trying to move on if he hadn't spent the entire previous episode sulking over it. He's just had his heart broken so why the hell is he suddenly jumping into bed with the first girl who offers? That's so out of character! For God's sake even Penny hadn't started dating again at that point! The only redeeming thing about it was that Leonard seemed to realise how stupid it was and went back to being a nice guy in the season finale.
* ''Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'': The sleep clinic/hallucination episode was the absolute low point of the entire series. The whole middle of Season 2 began a downward spiral that culminated in this episode and made the very ''title character'' the most boring character on the show. Now, granted, the very end of this episode was where we finally saw the face of John Henry, and the following episodes steadily build up the final arcs that brought the show back to awesomeness, but by this point, the damage had been done.
* This troper has a few bones to pick with ''KamenRiderDragonKnight''. This isn't about how the thing was changed and now it sucks, it was how Xaviax was revealed to be a grey alien.
* Dear God, how come nobody is talking about [[spoiler:Lady Marian]]'s death in the last episode of the second season of ''Series/RobinHood''? [[spoiler:For no reason at all, Marian goes to Guy of Gisborne, an highly unstable and violent man, and begins shouting that she could never marry him and she loves Robin Hood... and Guy, evidently deciding "IfICantHaveYou, nobody can", stabs Marian in the gut.]] And the kicker? The only reason all of this was done was for pure and simple ''shock value''! Season 3 was filled to the brim with WallBanger moments, especially thanks to the reviled AntiSue [[DamselScrappy Damsel]] [[TheWesley Wesley]] [[TheMillstone Millstone]] known as [[TheLoad Kate]], but ''that'' moment was [[RuinedFOREVER the beginning of the end.]]
* Aside from the Bonnie storyline, ''TheVampireDiaries'' was a really dumb show I kept watching because all my friends were telling me it was great. Around episode 6, former useless character Vicki was turned into a vampire and boy was I hooked. I was so interested to see what they would do with a newborn vampire, especially someone as tempermental as Vicki! And they killed her off the ''very next episode''. Way to throw an interesting plotline down the toilet just to prove AnyoneCanDie. No, people are much more interested in seeing Elena [[{{Wangst}} wangst]] over Stefan!
* Although most point towards the April storyline in season 6 of ''GilmoreGirls'' as having caused the series to JumpTheShark, there were a series of events towards the end of season 5 that caused the massive downward spiral of suckage for our girls. First off, the whole Logan relationship. Logan is a seemingly JerkAss minor character in his first few appearances but he wows Rory with some zany Life and Death Brigade antics and she changes her mind about him and derails her relationship with Dean after ending his marriage. Then Logan sends Rory into a few episodes worth of {{Wangst}} because Logan is a womanizer and she wants him to change so she can be in a relationship with him. After that, Rory becomes Logan's girlfriend and meets his family who are completely fucked up to her because she wants to be a career woman instead of just a trophy wife for Logan. [[ManipulativeBastard Mitchum]], Logan's dad, attempts to make it all okay by giving her an internship at a paper company he recently acquires. At the end of said internship, where nothing seemingly went wrong and Rory seemed to do a fine job as an assistant, Mitchum gives her a scathing performance review explaining to her that she may never amount to anything in her life more than someone else's assistant, [[CompletelyMissingThePoint despite the fact that Rory was never asked to any sort of writing as an intern]]. The real clincher is that all this does is make Rory have a completely OOC moment where she '''steals a fucking yacht'''. The next season opens with Rory living at the pool house with her grandparents and Lorelai and Rory, the eponymous Gilmore Girls, [[WallBanger not being on good terms with each other for about half a season]].
* ''[[TwentyFour 24]]'': 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 (don't worry, [[HeGotBetter he gets better]]), 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. ({{Crazyrabbits}})
** A close contender would be the short stretch of Season 1 when the writers couldn't figure out what to do with the Lady Bauers for a few episodes, so they have Teri get into a car accident and lose her memory so she wanders around doing nothing and Kim deciding that the only person she could trust in L.A. was the douchebag who kidnapped her that same morning.
*** Season 1 did have a few headscratching moments, and season 2's Cypress recording sideplot is pretty weak (and that includes the 25th Amendment plotline), but those don't come close to the sheer inanity of season 6. The moment season 5's BigBad was revealed as [[spoiler: Jack's brother]] in the fifth episode, this troper almost threw in the towel. Sadly, ItGotWorse, with [[spoiler: Jack's father also being a terrorist]], repeated storylines galore (another group of Muslim extremists?! another White House conspiracy?!), Chloe mostly bickering with husband Morris, terrible new characters all around (Jack wannabe Mike Doyle and Sandra Palmer being the worst of them), the most uncharismatic president in ''[[TwentyFour 24]]'' history, and a general lack of narrative cohesiveness. [[OutOfCharacterMoment Did I mention that Jack goes from psychologically scarred torturee to frightening torturer in the span of like five episodes]]? Also, like season 2's last third, season 6's [[spoiler: rescue-a-catatonic-Audrey]] subplot was much worse compared to the earlier episodes, and had very little connection with the main threat. Few episodes aside - mainly the opening four and the one with the brutal Jack-Fayed fist fight - season 6 was an entire year of DethroningMomentOfSuck. {{t3hdow}}
** The entire plotline in Day 8 with Dana Walsh being blackmailed by Kevin and Nick, and being hounded by their Probation Officer. Really, it dragged the first half of the season into levels worse than Day 6 at some parts.
*** Not only that, but when she [[spoiler:is revealed to be not only TheMole but also a stone-cold killer]] it makes you [[WallBanger wonder why she spent 12 hours letting those clowns dick her around]].
* The on-again-off-again romance of VeronicaMars and Logan was pretty complex and compelling, but did they really need to add in that time she finds out that he was getting started on sexually assaulting her together with a bunch of other guys that night she was drugged and out of it? And then it was a complete non-issue both from the character's and the writer's point of view. Good grief, lady, if you find out that on the night you were drugged and raped, your not-yet-boyfriend was also doing body shots off your nearly unconscious body together with his friends, you dump him, okay?
** The best part was in the near unwatchable Season 3, when Veronica blames her rape not on the guy who raped her; the guy who drugged his girlfriend's drink with GHB; or the guy who did body shots off her; but the girl who handed her a drink with spit in, not knowing that her own boyfriend had spiked it.
* Lana Lang's brief return to ''{{Smallville}}''. More specifically, the final scenes of that little five-episode excrescence, in which she completes her ascension to [[GodModeSue God Mode]] [[PuritySue Purity]] [[RelationshipSue Relationship]] [[CanonSue Canon]] [[MarySue Sue]]. (It says something that while many popular shows have a list of conflicting examples from different tropers, ''{{Smallville}}'' has just this one. And it ain't because Smallville is so good there's nothing else to criticize. No, this Moment simply Sucked ''that much.'')
** It was the 'Justice' League ''shooting Clark with a Kryptonite arrow'' that caused this Troper to stop watching the show altogether. Seriously, guys? That stuff is like the plague to Clark and you callously shoot with ammo made out of it. That's something a villain would do to him, and in fact '''did''', earlier on. This villain in question was a fanatical anti-meteor freak zealot, and the League acted just like him. Well done, ''{{Smallville}}''. Well done.
* Similarly, anyone who ever loved ''HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' (which basically means anyone who ever watched it), knows the DMOS. Frank Pembleton has left the force after being unable to meet his own standards for recuperating from a stroke. We meet his replacement at the beginning of the next season -- Detective Shepard, known to all the fans of the series simply as "Sheepdog". t wasn't that the actress wasn't as good as Andre Braugher -- she couldn't act. But even more so, every character seemed polluted by her presence -- Meldrick went from a tough-but-fair street cop to a misogynous jerk, Falsone became a lech, Bayliss took another spin on his random sexuality, and so on. She even messed up the otherwise perfect circular ending. Meldrick quotes her Pembleton's first-episode opening speech to Bayliss line for line as they wander through an alley. Except that was Bayliss' FIRST day in the unit, and Shepard had already been there for months. All it did was wistfully prove how badly the series had decayed. Curse you, NBC!
* ''{{Skins}}'' was a show that prided itself on presenting a (relatively) realistic depiction of teen life in modern Britain. And then Effy's psychiatrist beat Freddie to death with a baseball bat. This moment, intended as a ShockingSwerve, had this troper laughing like a drain at the sheer ludicrousness.
* For this troper, the infamous GainaxEnding of ''TheSopranos''.[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Possible symbolism]] aside, pretty much anything they could have come up with would have been better.
** {{Kamen Rider Kabuto}} - The entire "Dark Kitchen" story arc which culminates in a simple, anticlimactic monster of the week fight.
* Roughly 98% of ''GossipGirl'' fans are Chuck and Blair shippers. In fact, more than half the viewers only watch for this particular couple. So the episode "''Inglorious Bassterds''" was a massive DethroningMomentOfSuck in every way. They spent two years bringing Chuck and Blair together, and from around mid season two and onward they've established time and time again that these two would do ''anything'' for each other. When Chuck's [[EvilUncle Evil Uncle Jack]] steals the Empire hotel he tells Blair he'll give the hotel back to Chuck in exchange for a night with her. Blair tells him to go to hell, but as Chuck breaks apart more and more over the loss of the hotel and everything it symbolises she dons the dress Jack sent her and goes to him to trade herself for the hotel. After toying with her for a while Jack reveals that Chuck already knows she's there. Jack gave him a choice, the hotel or Blair, and he chose the hotel. All episode long he had just been manipulating the shit out of her, pushing all the right buttons to make her prostitute herself. He even bought the dress Jack sent her. When Blair confronts Chuck he basically tells her he did what he had to do to win, she went to Jack on her own and she once told him she would stand by him through anything. Needless to say Blair dumps him. A JerkAss character like Chuck is only likable if there is a line drawn somewhere, one person s/he would never treat horribly. With Chuck that person was Blair, and now he's just plain unlikable. And with the loss of the Chair ship, many fans are jumping ship.
* KamenRiderDecade, Decade's fight with Kivala makes Ouja's duel with Femme look like a fair fight.
* The GrandFinale of ''{{Seinfeld}}''. When it first aired, it started with a straight ClipShow with no framing device beyond Jerry breaking the FourthWall and saying "Let's take a look back at all those moments over the years." There was gratuitous use of that one Green Day song that gets used in all clip shows. Then the actual episode started, and by about halfway through, it turned into ANOTHER ClipShow. And if that's not enough, the entire plot setup is a huge WallBanger because Good Samaritan laws just ''do not work that way.'' Only a few states (Vermont and Minnesota, not Massachusetts where the episode takes place) have laws stating an unrelated person nearby ''must'' come to a person's aid, but this applies to when a person is injured or ill, NOT being threatened by a criminal. This would qualify as a situation where coming to the person's aid would place themselves in danger and therefore be exempted. Also, even if they were found guilty, these laws are considered petty misdemeanors at worst: punished by a $100-$300 fine with no jail time. The entire episode is YouFailLawForever as the main characters are all found guilty and sentenced to one year in jail for ''being bad people''. And to top it all off: an alternate ending is offered on the DVD where the Seinfeld gang is found Not Guilty. You hear about this, and you might get excited and think that there might be some redemption after all. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF2AeBtcFvE Watch it.]] It's the exact same footage that was shown, except the juror says "not guilty," at the end. That's it. A completely disappointing and stupid end to what was one of the best sitcoms of the nineties.
** You haven't even pointed out the single worst thing about that episode. The four principals spend the majority of the episode silent and motionless behind a desk rather than exhibiting the hijinks that we loved them for for so long. The bulk of the plot was nothing more than a bunch of guest stars showing up, recapping the plot of some previous episode, and disappearing. They didn't put any clever spins on any of it or tell jokes ''about'' the episodes in question, they basically just brought in a past character and stated what happened or showed a clip. Apparently we were supposed to get such a kick out of seeing all these characters again that we weren't supposed to notice that they weren't doing anything funny. Argue all you want about the stupidity of the episode's premise and the CriticalResearchFailure involved; the episode fails because it's unfunny, lazy comedy.
* The [[{{ITV}} Granada]] adaptations of ''{{Sherlock Holmes}}'' were noted for their loving fidelity to the original Doyle stories, the finely judged performances from Jeremy Brett as Holmes and David Burke/Edward Hardwicke as Watson and the high production values. Then came the episode 'The Last Vampyre'. How bad is this? It starts with Holmes trying to scare Watson with a pair of plastic Dracula fangs.
* An early episode of ''MindOfMencia'' opened with Mencia, in bed for some reason, receiving a phone call from what was supposed to be then-President 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 CriticalResearchFailure: Bush, and republicans in general, almost ''never'' advocate political correctness; if anything, it's a liberal democrat ideal. It would be like TheManShow doing a bit where BillClinton calls in and tells them that the [[{{Gainaxing}} 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, and it's the last scene I ever willingly watched of his series. --@/MrDeath
* {{Freaks and Geeks}}. Sam being forced to run naked through the entire school, after being forced out of the locker room by two bullies, because [[KarmaHoudini authorities don't care about everything that the bullies do to him and his friends]].
** For this troper, the next-to-last episode.
*** A Plot: Then-VP Bush comes to town! Naturally, Bush is painted as an Orwellian dictator who suppresses the students' freedom of speech. Lindsey heroically rebels! Never mind that she's associating her father's store with a political agenda he doesn't agree with!
*** [[TwoLinesNoWaiting B Plot]]: Sam dumps Cindy Sanders after she goes through severe CharacterDerailment, which begins with the revelation that she's * gasp* AN [[StrawmanPolitical EVIL REPUBLICAN BITCH]]!
*** C Plot: Interesting story regarding Ken and Tuba Girl, soured by being tied into the same episode as a pair of blatantly partisan garbage storylines.
* {{Wizards of Waverly Place}}. The episode where Alex is selling her t-shirts on school grounds, and gets a citizenship award later on. To start with, Justin gets pissed because Alex is selling t-shirts on school grounds, so he makes her pay a 75% tax that goes to the school. Reasonable enough. Later on, she gets called to the principal's office, and receives a citizenship award. She goes home later to rub justin's face in it. Justin gets pissed, and casts a truth spell on her to prove she's lying. She isn't, so his plan backfires. Later at Alex's accepance speech, justin belitles alex by saying she is selfish and needy person, DESPITE WHINING EARLIER IN THE EPISODE THAT HE DIDNN'T GET THE AWARD. but this isn't even the worst part... Alex still has the Truth spell on her, so she tells EVERYONE in the audience what she ''REALLY'' thinks about them. and guess what... Justin doesn't remove the truth spell the moment this becomes apparent, he just sits back, and watches her make a fool of herself with a fucking grin on his face. Alex has no friends afterwards, and is constantly ignored because of what she said to everyone... May i remind everyone that the only reason got this award was because JUSTIN MADE HER PAY A 75% TAX ON HER T-SHIRTS! Fuck you Justin, this is your definitive Dethroning Moment Of Suck!
* {{Ghost Whisperer}} officially fell off the throne when [[spoiler: Jim died, but instead of going into the light, he hijacked another man's body in order to still be with his wife, resulting in a poorly-written amnesia-like scenario.]] The entire plot arc was ridiculous and very uncomfortable to watch. The writers seemed to realize how badly they had screwed up and hit the reset button, but the show never recovered from that load of crap. [[spoiler: And it doesn't help that the current "five years in the future" plot they have going on right now has basically changed the entire dynamic of the show in addition to opening up numerous plot holes.]]
* {{Medium}} lost its charm with the [[spoiler: cliff-hanger where Allison was in a coma after a brain tumor caused a hemorrhage.]] They basically glossed over the entire cliff-hanger in the first couple episodes of the next season [[spoiler: and conveniently solved the problem of her losing her psychic abilities if the tumor was removed by casually mentioning that a small piece of it was left in her brain]], with everything pretty much back to normal by mid-season. It didn't help that they felt the need to briefly revisit the plot with a [[spoiler: bullshit "it was all a dream!" episode for the latest season finale]] or that the overall quality of the episodes has fallen drastically since that storyline was unveiled.

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[[folder:Battlestar Galactica]]
* The ending of the reimagined ''BattlestarGalactica''. It was a show that was surprisingly down-to-earth and realistic despite being set on a spaceship and following humanity as they desperately ran from a bunch of robots intent on finishing the job they started when they nuked the shit out of the humans, and even as the series went onand more and more spiritual elements entered the fray never seemed too out of hand. [[spoiler: It ended with a nice, big, UTTERLY FUCKING RIDICULOUS DeusExMachina in the form of Starbuck, accompanied by two more (Head Baltar and Head Six), who jumped the fleet to the planet that would become Earth, revealed she was an angel of God then fucked off forever.]] It was an utterly horrid ending to one of the best science fiction series on TV.
** While the ending was indeed a huge leap away from the gritty realism, the most baffling part for this troper was the resolution of the 'secret of the opera house'. They spend two fracking seasons foreshadowing it with prophetic dreams, as something where Hera gets abducted by 6 and Baltar, and what comes off it in the end? [[spoiler: Not only is it a minimal threat for Hera (the abduction she was just rescued from was a lot longer and more serious, and Cavil using a girl 1/4th his size as a human shield is pointless, even if he could have reasonably killed her without totaly screwing his own race), it is not only over in a few minutes (lengthened by a forgettable speach from Baltar that [[CharacterDerailment really shouldn't have impressed Cavil]]), but also has NO effect on the story whatsoever. Before the scene, the Cylons wanted to destroy Galactica. During the scene, they call a truce, but it's blown and they go right back to wanting to destroy Galactica.]]
** Another moment that completely derailed ''BSG'' was the third season episode "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. ({{Crazyrabbits}}}
** Most egregiously, the end of the otherwise quite decent second-season episode Epiphanies, in which [[spoiler: Laura Roslin was essentially [[ContractualImmortality shot in the cancer]]]] was the original point at which the show turned away from its DarkerAndEdgier "naturalistic science fiction" premise and willingness to take risks. It's unsurprising that the show's quality suffered a major dip for the rest of the season.
** I thought the [[spoiler: destruction of the spiritual stuff as ambigious]] was a bad move, but what really pissed me off was the survivor's utterly fucking ridiculous decision to [[spoiler: abandon all technology. Yeah good luck surviving without medication for your chronic illnesses, you utter morons! Not to mention the fact that the inevitable collapse means the loss of all records from the events of the series, letting the whole shebang happen again, whereas building a new civilization founded on the knowledge of the journey would actually, I don't know, stand a chance at subverting the cycle?]]
** The destruction of the Pegasus always left a bad taste in my mouth, because of the utterly fucking stupid tactics Lee Adama used. Leaving all your Vipers behind? Taking Pegasus right into the middle of the Cylon fleet? And then losing it, after Pegasus had previously escaped a Cylon trap involving three basestars and ''being hit by multiple nuclear missiles''? Under Lee's command, no less? It's true that the StatusQuoIsGod, but sacrificing a Battlestar that's bigger, more heavily-armed and boasting a better tactical advantage (the ability to make new Vipers) is just stupid all around. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job breaking it, Lee.]]
** ''Sacrifice''. Just... ''Sacrifice'' - or rather, its final scenes: after nearly two seasons of Billy and Dualla's on/off relationship and the episode's opening scene where he gives her his graduation ring, [[spoiler: Billy gets gunned down by the terrorists. So in the end, while Billy lies on a slab at the morgue with no one but Laura to mourn him, Dualla goes and checks on poor Lee who wasn't even hurt badly. Granted, Billy's actor wanted out to star in his own series - which didn't really go anywhere for him - but the horrible lack of setup for this development (scenes teasing Lee and Dualla's future relationship were filmed but cut for time) coupled with how little Dualla had interacted with anyone else at a personal level made her look like a cold, heartless bed-jumper who seemed all too glad Billy was removed from the picture so the Lee/Dualla pairing could unabashedly burn on-screen time. This troper was just too glad to see her blow her brains out - again, little to no foreshadowing to that twist either - nearly two seasons later after serving no purpose other than as Lee's obstacle to overcome before hooking up with Starbuck... again.]]
*** Removing Billy was the biggest case of WRITER-INDUCED DieForOurShip this troper has ever seen in a show. And they expected you to take it completely seriously! Billy was one of the few genuinely kind-hearted characters, and he's gone with barely a word. The kicker: They never mention him more than once or twice afterwards, EVER again. Throughout the entire series. They act like he was never there and Lee/Dualla were supposed to be a couple from the get-go.
*** Anastasia Dualla is one of the series' biggest DMoS given human form. At least the third season finale made Lee Adama's formerly unbearable character more dimension. That other bitch never had a chance.
** This troper was hooked on the original "Battlestar: Galactica", when Cmdr. Adama had a scene in the original episode where he was heartsick about leaving people behind to die because he simply didn't have room on the ships for them. Then I stopped watching the show completely when about 6-8 episodes later, they re-did "The Dirty Dozen" with a crew of "the worst criminals in the galaxy" who were being held on the "prison ship". If Adama had known about the prison ship in the original episode, he would have spaced these guys in a heartbeat to make room for more women and children. It represented a complete DMoS on the part of the writers and producers of the show.

[[folder:Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]
* {{BuffyTheVampireSlayer}} - the attempted rape. THE ATTEMPTED RAPE!!! Buffy laid there and ''cried'' and ''begged'' like a weak little {{Muggle}} victim, when she is the goddamn Slayer and could have put him through every wall in the house and beaten him to a pulp ...and has ''done so before''! (--explanation by {{Indigo}})
** And then sent her little sister to him for safety! In the same episode! Seriously!
*** As someone who can't get past that aspect of the Thomas Covenant books, I feel the need to defend Spike. In his mind, he wasn't raping Buffy. He was trying to engage in the same rough sex they had been having the entire season. I think the hypocrisy of this was only realized after the fact which is why it's not really addressed much after this episode. If everyone involved really felt he had been trying to rape her, don't you think Willow would have blown him the frack up?
** And you want to know what the worst part is? The very next episode, she was worrying about where he had gone to! Remember when this used to be a feminist show?
** From that same episode, [[spoiler:Tara's]] cruel, meaningless and wasted death.
*** [[spoiler:Tara]] was my favorite character. I felt betrayed for days after that.
*** Made even worse by the fact that she was moved to main cast credits for that episode. This troper threw an impromptu [[spoiler:"Tara]]'s a main character celebration" before she died. Afterwards I had a terrible bout of [[HesJustHiding denial]] before an breaking down into an epic bitch fit.
*** Personally, I didn't mind. Her personality throughout S6 just annoyed me to no end.
*** At least that Season Six monstrosity was over in three minutes, how about a six hour stream of suck?... Smashed. Wrecked. Gone. Doublemeat Palace. Dead Things. As You Were. C-C-C-COMBO!
** That entire, sick Willow-is-a-junkie plotline. How could they do that to Willow? Let me just say "Bored now."
*** The worst thing about that plotline is the underlying idea was actually good: Willow gained a great deal of power very quickly, and the idea of both having it go to her head and having her use it carelessly were set up well. And then they went from metaphor to literal, and... yeah.
** Buffy spending something like half a season moping over some jerk that slept with her and dumped her the next day. Yeah he's a schmuck. Yeah, he should have been more up front about pursuing his hedonistic lifestyle. But was he really worth moping over for several weeks? Did he deserve to be repeatedly assaulted and fantasized about being tortured? And Willow, your misandrist statements you made in "Beer Bad" piss me off to no small extreme. At least she got some comeuppance with the cave man beating her over the head. -- {{Peteman}}
*** Actually, that does work. Don't forget, this is Buffy, the one with all the control. And then she's used and tossed like a tissue. Major mental disjointing for her. It was a common theme in s4 about suddenly being a small fish in a big pond
*** About how Willow was there for Buffy after she was crying about Parker who she knew for like a week maybe, and then Buffy was bored about Willow being upset that Oz, Willow's longtime boyfriend left her. I know Buffy is supposed to be self centered but JESUS CHRIST, that is so awful.
*** Not to mention it adds a further WallBanger to the Spike/Buffy thing. You'd think after the Parker ordeal Buffy would come to be a little more choosy about who she sleeps with.
** '''Get It Done'''. Not to mention that the Slayer's origins are actually based in what looked like rape, Buffy-Stalin's speech really got to me. Buff, honey, a scared, young girl who never wanted this just killed herself. Would you mind showing her a little respect and not call her an idiot? Please and thank you.
*** This was a horrible speech from a horrible episode. Not only does Buffy essentially mock the girl's death, but decides to tear the entire group down and dismisses even her core group's contributions throughout the show's run. It really showed that Buffy at best could be oblivious to the contributions of her group, but at worst could disregard or be downright ungrateful for her friends' help. For me, Buffy's speech in this episode and her refusal in '''Empty Places''' to hear any alternative to her plan to fight it out at the vineyard (a plan that didn't seem to work out too well for the gang in the previous episode) made the mutiny against her seem somewhat justified.
**** Somewhat? Logically, it was definitely justified! She was being a terrible leader, and the fact that she turned out to be right, against all logic, was a moment of this for sure.
***** Even so, and all that may be true, however, after everything Buffy did for her and even committed suicide rather than allow Dawn to die, that ungrateful little [[TheScrappy brat]] turned against her sister and made her leave ''her own house''. This troper barely tolerated Dawn to start with, but that was just unforgivable.
****** So, just because someone died for you means you should let them lead you all to a painful death?
******* Well it's not like Dawn was going to be involved in the campaign. Fine, she could have voted against the plan if she didn't agree with it, but she had no right to tell Buffy to leave the house. That coming from your own sister is a bitter pill to swallow. If one of the other girls had asked her to leave, Buffy could have defended her position, but because it was Dawn, Buffy was kind of powerless against it and it robbed her of any further willpower to keep fighting her corner. A bit of a low blow.
******** But Dawn didn't even tell Buffy to leave. Buffy threw a hissy fit and told her that she had to be in charge of everything or she would leave, Dawn just said "OK then".
-->'''Buffy:''' I can't stay here and watch [Faith] lead you into some disaster...
-->'''Dawn:''' Then you can't stay here.
** The "loan shark" with ''a fucking shark head, bad suit and stereotypical Mafioso accent'', trying to collect ''kittens'' from Spike to ''pay off Spike's gambling debts''. The exchange from an earlier episode about playing poker with demons - with kittens as the stakes - was hilarious. How the idea of turning that joke ''into an actual plot-point'' (not to mention the fish-headed Mafioso demon) got past the story conference stage remains a mystery to me. "Aw, hell," someone may have said, "if we're gonna jump the shark, we might as well put the shark in the episode, too!"
*** If I'm not mistaken, that same episode also featured a ''Batman'' TV show-worthy freeze-ray, frosting a museum security guard who was ''featured on the TV news'' but yet was ''just being carried out'' as both Buffy and Spike arrived at the museum after ''walking across town'' to get there. All the good writers and show-runners must have been working on ''Firefly'' when that script got the green light... although how such howlers also made it past the cast and director is a riddle for the ages.
**** I don't think that was the same episode.
** Xander leaving Anya at the altar was the episode that did it for this troper. Seriously Joss Whedon, just because you [[DeusAngsMachina think "gritty" writing means making sure none of your characters ever get real happy endings]] doesn't justify welding an IdiotBall to Xander's face big enough for some serious CharacterDerailment. His later bs justifications of "taking it too fast" don't fit very well with other facts like how long the two had been living together, that they got a house together, and that XANDER made the proposal in the first place! This troper personally had to Handwave the whole episode as Xander suffering from magically-induced stupidity to get past it.
*** His fear for how it "might" turn out, if you think about it, are pretty much justified, seeing as his parents/the rest of his family came to the wedding...
*** This troper was FURIOUS after watching "Hell's Bells." Breaking up a marriage that you asked for just because you * might* turn out to be a jerk when you're older does not a good reason make. On top of that, in later episodes Anya is treated as if SHE'S the unreasonable one.
**** That's not to say that it was completely Xander's fault, either. Asking Xander to be perfectly okay with getting married after basicly being mind-raped is a little unreasonable. But then, it was expected that he'd be okay sharing a house with someone who tried to rape and kill him.
* In "Once More With Feeling", Buffy sings "So one by one, they turn from me. I guess my friends just can't face the cold. But why I froze, not one of them knows... and never can be told." What? Why you complaining about your friends not knowing how you feel when '''you don't tell them'''! They're not mind readers!
** Um... wasn't it obvious that she just didn't want them to feel guilty? She felt alone because no one knew, but she also didn't want to burden them with the knowledge.

[[folder:Doctor Who]]
* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E08TheHungryEarth The Hungry Earth]] / [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E09ColdBlood Cold Blood]]. On its own the story wouldn't have been anything offensive, but after 7 episodes of wonderfully consistent fairytales and impressive character development, the [[LevelBreaker sudden change]] to ''[[TwentyFour 24]]''-inspired politics complete with hostages and something resebling [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique torture]] was quite jarring. While the concept could have been pulled off well, the story seems like it was written for Tennant's doctor and one companion; Rory had no purpose in the story, which is especially saddening in context of [[CharacterDevelopment what]] [[DroppedABridgeOnHim happened]] immediately before and after the episodes. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job breaking the combo]] Chris Chibnall, and whoever let him write that story.
** Not to mention the pacing problems in Cold Blood. They rushed through a story that could have filled a two-parter on its own. There wasn't time to properly build tension or have a proper climax because they were too busy making sure that everything that had to happen happened.
* ''DoctorWho'': "Journey's End". So, ''so'' many reasons, including the regeneration tease, the Clone Doctor, the Doctor's reaction to the Clone Doctor's rational decision to kill the Daleks when they were clearly beyond redemption, the Doctor fobbing Rose off with the Clone Doctor, Donna defeating the Daleks with Time Lord leet haxxor skillz, Donna being given a psychic lobotomy, the Earth being towed back whilst that "you should feel moved now" music plays in the background like a cue card and Davros being downgraded from MagnificentBastard to a Dalek pet just to sate the wrath of the FanDumb that objected to him ever overshadowing his creations despite being ''far'' more interesting than they are. ~ Main/{{Renita}}
** At the risk of earning the ire of Nine fans, [[GentlemensDame883 I]] found his chickening out of destroying both the Daleks and Earth in "Parting of the Ways", given his previously established Badassitude in taking Van Statten's gun to use against the Dalek and not flinching from Margaret Blaine's attempted shaming of Team TARDIS in "Boom Town", to be one of these.
** "The Christmas Invasion". If Harriet Jones is supposed to bring a Golden Age to Britain, [[Main/{{Rushi}} I]] believe that Ten should have let her do it. Or the Reapers should have shown up and screw him and Rose over for messing up the timeline or something.
*** In "Doomsday", it's mentioned that Harriet Jones is the President of Britain in Pete's World, leading the Golden Age over there. Which just raises more questions.
*** Actually, this also raises a {{wallbanger}} of its very own: when Pete mentions that Harriet's the president in that world, Ten sternly warns him to keep an eye on her. ''WHY?!'' See, up until then, this troper believed that Ten had removed Harriet from power on a spur of the moment decision, and actually regretted it when he took the circumstances into account some time later. And then along comes '''this''' episode, in which he decides "Well, she blew up a shipload of slavers that were either off to pillage another planet, or return with their armada to burn Earth to ashes... so she must be evil no matter what the circumstances or the universe! Pete, keep an eye on this woman who hasn't even encountered alien life yet, because I know she can't be trusted even though I've never met this version of her!"
*** This troper just figured he was miffed at her for ruining his moment. The Doctor regenerated, saved the world, sent the villains packing, and then Harriet goes and explodes them into snow to keep them from telling other people about Earth. She totally ruined his moment of look-at-me, I saved the day, and basically said that he was wrong to let them go scot-free. He's a guy who walks the time-continuum saving worlds from villains without anything to keep him accountable for his actions, and now he's Mr. No-Second-Chances. It's not noble, and it's not pretty, but it's plausible. And it's kinda almost human.
*** Well, the problem I had wasn't just that the Doctor ruined Harriet's career and Britain's Golden Age for the sake of his cocaine-addled ego, but the fact that he worried that the version of her living in Pete's world might be a potential dictator simply for being Harriet Jones. Is it human to hold a grudge against a someone you've never even met because they have the same name as the woman who punctured your ego all those many months ago?
*** Not that it was reasonable. Grudges are usually never reasonable; they're all emotion. But the clincher of it for me is the fact that the Doctor, in this post-Gallifrey scenario, doesn't have any accountability for his actions apart from himself and his companions, who are pretty interchangeable. Just look at what people do on the internet. Start with the trolling and end with the flames, and if you're really interested, go look at the viruses spread for no other reason than malice. Humans are practically completely anonymous online, and that gives them the freedom to do things they wouldn't do in a situation where the victim could do something about it. The Doctor is quite literally a man without a name, a country, or anyone to tell him no, with a time-traveling box, and that kind of power is very difficult to keep from abusing. What is it somebody says... "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
** On the subject of Journey's End, after pulling the [[TonightSomeoneDies "this is the story of how I died"]] line with Rose at the end of Series 2, to spend the entirety of Series 4 building up some big tragedy for Donna, to explicitly say, again, that TonightSomeoneDies, and then ''pull the exact same line trick again'' was something of a WallBanger. Not that I specifically wished Donna dead, but I couldn't believe they'd do FromACertainPointOfView twice.
** "Planet of the Dead." Stealing is great if you do it for kicks, UNIT couldn't send an armoured car through the wormhole to tow the bus out...
*** This troper's girlfriend spent most of that episode shouting 'Send a bloody tank!' at the screen.
**** Tank?! Send the Tardis, they had it.
****** Yeah, we saw what happened to the bus: it got through in working order and able to protect the people inside. An ''armoured tank''- something specifically designed to survive a beating- should have been absolutely fine. And they didn't need to pilot the TARDIS; they could have just heaved it through the wormhole. It's designed for trans-temporal and -dimensional travel, and it's certainly lived through worse.
****** Plus the point that the TARDIS ''is'' easily movable from the outside. Remember all those times its been loaded onto a truck by, like, ordinary humans?
** ''The End Of Time'': Turning the entire human race into [[spoiler:John freaking Simm]] while [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome dramatic pounding music blares in the background]] is clearly meant to be horrifying, but it came across as [[{{Narm}} the most ridiculously absurd thing this troper had ever seen.]] I mean, they could've pulled a far more dramatic affect by just having people's eyes start bloody glowing and having them laugh evilly, or something...
*** And on that note, how about how [[spoiler: The Master]] suddenly has control over LIGHTNING and can FLY. Really? I just couldn't get over the ridiculousness of the Book of Saxon part either. I was all pumped for a rematch of epic proportions, what I got was...well a {{DethroningMomentOfSuck}}.
** ''The End Of Time, Pt 2.'' Oh, where to begin? (Contains spoilers.)
*** The [[spoiler: freakin' '''Time Lords''']] reduced to a glorified cameo.
*** [[spoiler: John Simm]] channeling The Joker (the [[LargeHam Jack Nicholson]] version) for his performance as [[spoiler: The Master]].
*** The tension in finding out whether or not [[spoiler:Donna's mind would burn if she remembered the Doctor and her time as a companion]] is [[RetCon completely annihilated]] when she [[spoiler:conveniently falls into a coma after she starts to remember, as part of an heretofore-unmentioned, ridiculous contingency plan by Ten]].
*** The ridiculous and shoddy green-screen effect of Ten [[spoiler:leaping out of the ship to crash into Naismith's estate, with David Tennant's cheesy "Look, I'm really falling!" face getting the most screentime]].
*** The 'dramatic' gun scene. [[spoiler: Was there ''really'' any doubt that The Doctor was going to shoot the computer maintaining the link?]] Not to mention that [[spoiler: the other supposed targets in question could both regenerate AND shoot '''lightning bolts from their hands''']]. It even underscores the power of the next scene, where [[spoiler:a pissed-off Master unloads all the electricity he has into Rassilon, driving him back into the gateway]].
*** The complete lack of wrap-up of Donna's story (seriously, getting married and PutOnABus when there's a completely good [[MissedMomentOfAwesome Time Nexus]] going to waste...) and several other subplots that were built up during Ten's reign.
*** Ten's final scene with [[spoiler:Captain Jack]]: he goes to a bar, and [[spoiler:helps Jack get laid]]. ''What''. ({{Crazyrabbits}})
*** The attempts to rewrite the canon in regards to regeneration, portraying the process as horrific and emotionally devastating for The Doctor, when in the past it's been used as fodder for jokes (including several times in the revived series) and described as a natural part of a Time Lord's life. Which, in turn, made all the weeping and gnashing of teeth in this episode a bit much to take. It's not as if The Doctor is dying permanently, and while he may look different and have some new personality traits, he's still The Doctor and retains all those thoughts and memories afterwards. The companions might be sad about losing 'their Doctor', but to have a [[strike:903]] 906 year-old Time Lord throwing a temper tantrum about it contradicts some four decades of canon and derails the entire episode. Plus, it makes things that much tougher for the new guy.
**** This troper was going to disagree with you, saying that maybe the Tenth Doctor feels differently about regenerating than previous Doctors did, because he ''does'' have a different personality. Then, I remembered that Ten has been through a situation just like this before- ''The Family of Blood'', when John Smith had to "die" to bring back the Doctor and save the world. When ''that'' happened, the Doctor explicitly said that he was everything John Smith was and more, but Joan rejected that explanation. Now at the end, Ten seems to be acting more like Joan than himself.
*** But the worst of all was The Doctor's 'Why Me?!?' speech bemoaning his fate to [[strike: die]] regenerate. Not only was the rant unbearably whiny, self-centered and completely OOC, it also came across as RTD using The Doctor as an AuthorAvatar ("[[spoiler: Look at all the wonderful things I've done! It's not fair that I have to leave!]]"), perhaps suggesting that his own departure isn't entirely voluntary. If the only reference to the Doctor's reluctance to regenerate had been Tennant's final line ("[[spoiler: I don't want to go."]]), the whole premise, while flawed, would have had so much more impact. Instead, we get this drek combined with the most maudlin, cliched and drawn-out [[strike: series]] season finale scenes I've witnessed in a long, long time, which sadly had the accumulative effect of making me almost RELIEVED that Tennant and RTD are done so we can move past the sentimental claptrap and get back to having fun.
*** The worst part might have been that, as part of the prolonged ending to the episode, Ten goes around basically saying goodbye to all of the companions he'd had during this regeneration, which went beyond touching goodbyes and into serious narm territory, as well as raising the question of why it took him so long to regenerate this time.
*** The worst part was the entirely arbitrary way the Doctor was "killed". He survives all the obvious death traps only to be killed because some moron [[NoOSHACompliance has designed]] a radiation venting system which apparently requires that one side of it be locked, from the inside, at all times (i.e. a person has got to be standing in it). It was probably supposed to make his death seem more noble and tragic, but it just came across as stupid.
**** What really got me here is the actual death trap - you know, the control chamber/radiation vent made of [[AppliedPhlebotinum Applied Phlebotinum]] glass so "the radiation can't escape." (Which is [[YouFailPhysicsForever questionable]] in any case...) There was a visible crack between the glass door and the wall. What?
*** How about Martha and Mickey suddenly becoming [[TokenShipping a couple]]? [[UnfortunateImplications "Gee, I'm so glad there was another black person on this show I could marry!"]] Not to mention that the [[WallBanger last we'd heard]], Martha was married (or at least engaged) to Tom Milligan. This troper was especially disappointed to see this happen in a show that has heretofore been quite good (at least in the new series) about treating interracial marriages as generally not a big deal.
**** It's not so much the race thing. It's just like they thought, "Oh no, the Doctor stole Mickey's girlfriend! The only way to make this better is for him to have introduced Mickey to his eventual true love!", ignoring the fact she was already engaged, as you mentioned. People have serious doubts for this relationship, as we have seen that Martha moves on from men pretty fast.
**** Or [[EpilepticTrees Micky was a pastor, and so "married" Martha to Tom Milligan.]] Please?
* No mention yet of Season 3's narm-tastic finale? After seeing [[spoiler:the Master conquer the Earth and convert it into a giant warship factory to eventually conquer the ''universe'', the second episode begins with a badass Martha travelling the world, ostensibly looking for the parts of a gun capable of killing a Time Lord. She's captured by the Master and forced to kneel before him... and then stands up, ridicules the Master for believing the story about the Time Lord-killing gun, and reveals that she's actually... been telling people about the Doctor. That's it. Just wandering around telling stories. Then the people of Earth use ''THE POWER OF BELIEF'' to bring the Doctor back to fighting form (which is so much less ridiculous than UNIT having developed a gun capable of killing Time Lords). The Master threatens to blow up Earth, but the Doctor talks him out of it by pointing out that the Master's far too egomaniacal to kill himself. Less than ten minutes later, the Master kills himself by refusing to regenerate after being shot by his wife. Because everyone else in the room was entirely willing to let the man who killed 600 million people on a whim, enslaved the rest of Earth's population, and spent the last year personally making their lives a living hell live. Oh, and then the Doctor erases the last year from time so that everything the Master did never happened.]] Can DeusExMachina get any more extreme?
** Agreed. The Doctor [[WhatAnIdiot preventing Jack from killing the Master when they were practically invisible]] also qualifies. As does the Doctor's pathetically weepy reaction to the Master's demise. The hero should '''never''' get teary-eyed about the death of a genocidal monster (even if said genocidal monster is a former friend and one of the last of the Time Lords).
** And I know that ''Doctor Who'' has never been known for the quality of its special effects, but everything about the Gollum-ified Doctor was just offensively awful.
* For all the RTD-bashing, we're missing one of the most infamous dethroning moments, which is more like a "[[DorkAge three year long drag]]" than a moment. Yes, we're talking about ColinBaker's tenure. The entire run. Poor Colin, having to deal with terrible storywriting (especially Pip and Jane Baker), ExecutiveMeddling, garish costumes, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Bonnie Langford]]. Hell, his intro story, ''The Twin Dilemma'', is consistently rated the worst ''Doctor Who'' story ever aired, and this is up against competition such as "Fear Her" and ''Time and the Rani'' (the latter a Pip and Jane story). At least Colin got part of his reputation back with the Big Finish stories, but it's still one of the most embarrassing eras of the show's entire run. --{{Tropers/Sceptre}}
* For further proof that there was ''DoctorWho'' before Russell T. Davies and it was also capable of blowing chunks, we have the aforementioned ''Time and the Rani''. If ''The Twin Dilemma'' is often considered worse than it, then it's only by a matter of degrees. It begins with poor Sylvester [=McCoy=] forced to wear the Sixth Doctor's suit and a terrible wig (Colin Baker refusing to come back to film a regeneration -- not entirely unreasonably, it has to be said, considering how he got the shaft) to do a regeneration sequence and, with poor acting that goes all the way from scenery chewing to DullSurprise, poor SFX and no plot to speak of, [[ItGotWorse only gets worse]].
* Re the above two: these aren't just judgements reserved to one person, either. In a ''DoctorWhoMagazine'' poll in 2009, rating all 200 stories that had aired at the time, ''The Twin Dilemma'' finished rock bottom with an average rating of '''38''' (the average being 70). ''Time and the Rani'' was 198th, with 42. Between them was ''Timelash'', another story infamous with Doctor Who fans for terrible quality.
* :For reference, in order: Colin Baker's stories finished 200th, 161st, 124th, 148th, 125th, 199th, 48th, and 142nd, and Colin finished last by average score. Colin can't get a break with the spinoffs either; ''A Fix With Sontarans'' and ''Dimensions in Time'' finished with 37. For Pip and Jane's stories: 148th, 142nd, and 198th. --{{Tropers/Sceptre}}
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[[folder:Heroes]]
* The first example to happen, and [[BeyondTheImpossible the example that tops them all,]] the Season 1 finale. People waited the entire season for what was supposed to be an epic battle topping all others. The two most powerful characters in the series, Peter and Sylar were about to square off, and all the events were coming to their climax. So how do the writers resolve this? They fill time until the last 10 minutes, Sylar is hit by a sign post and killed by Hiro in one blow, Peter doesn't even use any powers against him.
* The tedious, inane feudal Japan subplot in ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' season 2.
** The [[TheScrappy Toxic Twins]] subplot. Good ''lord''.
*** The [[TheScrappy Toxic Twins]] were originally meant to be an important part of the plot, with the girl gaining powers similar to her brother, only that she could absorb and destory TheVirus, saving the day. Of course, the Writer's Strike and Heroes' writers being the wusses they are deciding not to chance it and end the series quickly, making the Toxic Twins entirely pointless (Except with the girl now being Mohinder's love interest, pretty much [[TokenShipping just because she's the only other alive non-white woman in the cast]]) and leaving Peter's love interest stuck in a future that never happened. (CopperAlloy)
** The Detrhoning Moment of Suck in the first season was the subplot where Hiro and Ando get misled by a woman in Las Vegas, specifically the moment where Ando hides in the roomservice trolley and later when he hides under the bed while the supposedly abusive boyfriend dresses. Before that, the series had been able to avoid these lame kind of cliches. It had no use for the main plot either
** In season 3, it was Hiro losing his memory, and having to somehow work with two comic book geeks to get it back. Also, Hiro mentally regresses into a 10-year old.
*** One of those geeks was played by Seth Green, though, so the scene is awesome.
** It was the ham-fisted attempts during Season 3 to bring about a HeelFaceTurn for Sylar (and, to a lesser degree for part of the season, a FaceHeelTurn for Peter) by declaring that Sylar's power makes anyone who has it AlwaysChaoticEvil and that he'd actually be an agreeable, well-balanced guy without The Company secretly pushing him to indulge ''The Hunger''. Ultimately, the show cycled around from Sylar being "always evil" to being disposed to evil to being basically good but manipulated into evil to finally being capable of controlling ''The Hunger'' but choosing not to because he ultimately is a bad person. So over the course of the season, nothing changed except that Sylar has a few more powers and the audience is made to think he's dead again. [[DeathIsCheap He wasn't.]]
*** Then you had the writers trying to work it so that Sylar and Peter were brothers, [[AssPull despite their being absolutely no foreshadowing in the plot]]. It didn't matter anyway, as the whole thing was RetConned in half a season.
*** Anyway, the worst part about season 3 was the flashback episode "Villains" where everyone's connected. [[WallBanger Claire's mom caused the train wreck from season one....which had no bearing on the storyline at all]], [[WallBanger Noah and Elle made Sylar evil adding that much more]] [[{{Wangst}} Wangst fuel to the show drowning in its own melodrama.]]
*** Two Words: ADAM MONROE. They create an awesome "Ras Al Ghul" style immortal madman with cool powers, a nemesis relationship with Hiro and a deep backstory. What do they do? They bring him back, turn him into comic relief and then have him killed by the most pathetic villain on the show (Ooooo, Arthur Petrelli. he's soooo powerful. Except he was nearly killed by a FUCKING SOUP DISH. You'd never catch Mr Sinister or Magneto being killed by bad cooking) it was at that point that people realized the writers really don't give a damn about the fans.
** Season 3. [[AbortedArc Aborted arcs]], [[DroppedABridgeOnHim bridge drops]], meaningless plot ends introduced that no one gave a secound thought ever again, the worst VillainSue on television... this could go on forever.
** [[WallBanger Season 3 finale]]. Sylar kills Nathan Petrelli, then Matt, Noah and Angela brainwash him to take Senator Skyboy's place. Can we say, what were they ''thinking''? [[WhatAnIdiot This will NOT end well.]] Almost immediately after the episode aired, there was a mass exodus of the Nathan and Sylar fans, with many declarations of hate for Kring and much baying for ''blood''. It was not pretty - it almost rivalled the Whovian implosion after Journey's End. Plus Sylar kills Nathan?! This guy survived a NUCLEAR EXPLOSION and being shot in the chest, and suddenly Sylar makes with the fingerflick and that's it, game over?! Fail Heroes writers, FAIL. Also, Claire has HEALING BLOOD. Come ON, ''think''!. Some fans are hoping against hope that there will be some sort of resolution to this or retcon next season, but most have just given up in disgust.
** Halfway through the first season, after the seventh or eighth time that Sylar opened up someone's tasty head right behind Mohinder's back and Mohinder never figured out why he was leaving a trail of dead mutants behind him and that guy who he was driving around with. Which not coincidentally was also about the seventh or eighth filler episode before the first season was even halfway over. There is a limit to the number of times that Sylar can eat some tasty brains, Nathan can deny he has super powers, Peter can {{wangst}} about how he doesn't know how his super powers work, Claire can get beat up and then heal, Niki's evil side can make fun of her good side and Isaac can paint another mysterious painting without progressing the storyline at all before it's obvious the writers don't know where they are going with things.
** For me, what finally pushed it past the point of no return was the appearance of the creepy puppet master guy at Claire's home seeking her help. People couldn't figure out why she would deal with him at all, but knew the writers were going to subject the viewers to it, and decided not to go along with it anymore.
** The latest candidate? [[spoiler: After a long, protracted battle in between Matt Parkman and Sylar in Matt's mind, giving a real sense of conflict for a character that had no real fighting ability of note, ending in pretty much as fine a death scene as fans had seen in a while. Wonderful, superb. Of course, he's not really dead.]] Sure, it seems petty compared to the Virus Twins, but its just so sad how quickly they went from great scene to slap in the face.
** Mohinder shooting Bennet in "Cautionary Tales" brought the suckage for two reasons. One, it pointlessly handed Mohinder the VillainBall and the IdiotBall at the same time (his actions, while controversial, could have potentially made sense if they writing hadn't sucked so hard). Two, it tried to play Bennet's death as this heroic sacrifice, complete with SlowMotionFall, despite the fact that he'd spent almost the entire previous season acting like a controlling, paranoid dickhead to just about any character he came into contact with. To top it all off, it was a DisneyDeath and Bennet came back to life in the next episode. So two BadassNormal characters were turned into trigger-happy JerkAss morons '''for no reason at all!!!'''
** Claire's actions at the end of "Brave New World," more specifically [[spoiler: revealing the existence of specials to the world.]] It was beyond stupid, beyond selfish, beyond inconsiderate, it just might prove to be Heroes' crowning dethroning moment. Never mind the fact that her dad just told her minutes ago that doing so would be a really bad idea, never mind the fact that Claire never asked others like her if that's what they wanted, never mind the fact that people hate and kill each other on a daily basis for even minor differences like race or beliefs, never mind the fact that specials were being hunted just for existing ''last season,'' never mind the fact that we've already seen ''two'' BadFuture scenarios where specials being public knowledge was a very bad thing; no, it's all about Claire playing out her ''IJustWantToBeNormal [[IJustWantToBeSpecial or don't I]]" issues in the worst possible way instead of just getting over it all, and you just know the writers are going to play it up for more {{Wangst}} in the future. The only possible solace that comes from this is the possibility that her actions result in some NebulousEvilOrganization or somesuch capturing and dissecting her or some pissed off specials deciding to throw her into a [[KillItWithFire volcano]] for outing them.
** Mohinder. Super serum. Maya. This was when this troper turned the channel and never went back. Even the long-awaited Sendhil Ramamurthy shirtless scene wasn't enough to justify everything wrong with this sequence. The fact that they somehow managed to find an ''even bigger'' IdiotBall to hand Mohinder by having him inject himself with a totally unknown substance, for starters. But what was truly awful was how Maya begged for Mohinder's help with the superpower that had completely destroyed her life and made her a living pariah, and he rejected her... and then he later came on to her very aggressively and she passively went along with it. That had some INCREDIBLY creepy overtones, like could she really afford to say no to the one person who could help her? And this is AFTER Maya was already the victim of an implied AttemptedRape during her very first episode on the show and the general mindfuck she endured from Sylar (along with the various other assaults committed against other female characters that are dropped and never referenced again). It's one thing to suck at writing, but to apply your sucky writing to a topic as triggering as sexual assault, ''and'' to inflict all this on two of the few remaining characters of color on the show... just, fuck you, Kring.
** One moment that was definitely a DMoS for this troper was the way they handled Nathan recovering from being shot. First off, he's shot, which is supposed to be a shocking cliffhanger, as one of the main characters is dead (er... again). Then, the next chapter starts up, and he's miraculously healed. How, you ask? Oh, it turns out it was Linderman, somehow back from the dead. Well, alright, Linderman DOES have the power to heal others, so, I guess, that works. Except...a few episodes later, we find out that Linderman is actually an illusion, and he wasn't there at all. Alright, I guess that serves to bring back Maury Parkman and continue that story line (and thus bring in Arthur Petrelli). Except...if Linderman is an illusion, then WHO THE HELL HEALED NATHAN!? He was most certainly shot, and then he was most certainly healed. How the HELL did he recover from a gunshot?
*** And don't you dare say that Adam/Claire's blood had something to do with it. If that's the case, then where was the danger in him getting shot in the first place? If someone can become immortal by being injected with Adam/Claire's blood, then why doesn't everyone just get a shot and then everyone's immortal? And if her blood brought him back from the dead once, why did it not bring him back when Sylar killed him? The whole way they handled this was RIDICULOUS. If they had outright said, "Oh, by the way, it was Adam/Claire's blood that healed him, not Linderman" that would have been one thing- it would have been a total [[AssPull]], but at least it would show that they thought about it. But what do they do? NEVER BRING IT UP AGAIN. Never again does anyone bring up the question, "How DID Nathan get healed?" They just move on and act as if it was never an issue. After ten episodes pass without a single mention of how Nathan was healed, I gave up, and have never watched another episode since.
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[[folder:House]]
* ''{{House}}'' after the new cottage hiring competitition the fans were left with: Taub, Kutner, and "13". The writers decided to write the "13" character straight out of TheScrappy playbook. Taub and Kutner exist on the show for the sole purpose of talking about the character, she gets the MarySue treatment at every possible moment. And she gets more screen time than everyone else. To make matters worse Foreman was made her love interest so now the two most boring characters are suddenly taking up oodles of screentime away from far more interesting characters with better actors.
** [[spoiler: Kutner]]'s suicide. I realize the guy got a ''damn'' cozy job elsewhere, but there were better ways of writing him out. [[ViewersAreMorons Viewers are not morons]], we can tell when someone gets written out on short notice, and we tend to understand this. "Hey guys, I got a job working with the President!" would've been sufficient and delightfully meta. But no. Apparently, one of the ''only'' somewhat well-adjusted and good-humored characters on the show had "issues" he never told anyone about and wordlessly committed suicide, just so they could plop the [[{{Anvilicious}} suicide hotline]] stuff in before the credits. ''Epic fail''.
*** It's easy to complain knowing that the actor got another job, but that has nothing to do with his character's actions in storyline. Amazingly enough, many people who commit suicide appear "somewhat well-adjusted and good-humored" and never tell anyone about their issues. Plenty of people kill themselves wordlessly, which is kind of WHY those [[{{Anvilicious}} Anvilicious]] suicide hotlines exist.
** As it was said before, lots of people think that 13 is a bland, uninteresting character. Many episodes in season 5 were focused on her; ratings fell, and citical reception was much worse than for the earlier seasons. Several revievers stated that 13, and especially her relationship with Foreman is just boring. And so, in season 6, they write out... [[spoiler: ''Cameron'']].
** Tritter. In addition to being an evil and downright contemptible man that we're supposed to at least slightly agree with, at least two episodes in the previous season were there to hammer home the fact that, when House is in pain from lack of pills and trying another way around the pain, people almost die! Tritter was trying to kill patients!
*** This is besides the fact that, somehow, everybody magically forgot about lawyers. Didn't the hospital have an extensive defense team, as well as a large allotment of funds for legal trouble set aside by Cuddy in anticipation after hiring House in the first place? Not one of those lawyers thought to pursue a malicious prosecution route? Do we have a "You Fail Criminal Law Forever" page yet?
**** It goes beyond lawyers. Not once did Tritter ever present a warrant for all those random and highly illegal searches of hospital records and private residences. That trial would've been thrown out on its ass and Tritter would have been all kinds of sued.
**** There's even a scene where Tritter unilaterally revokes the settlement offer agreed to by the DA. At this point, it would be the DA that House would be dealing with, not Tritter, and Tritter would have absolutely zero say in what the settlement would look like.
**** And while I'm thinking about it, there's the immensely stupid ending to the whole plotline, where Cuddy reveals she switched the drugs before House could steal them. Now maybe the prosecutor had completely screwed up his indictment and left off an "attempted possession of a controlled substance" charge, but it would still be illegal to steal drugs you believed were a controlled substance.
** While most of these {{House}} entries raging on Thirteen appear to belong on {{The Scrappy}} page, a true {{Dethroning Moment of Suck}} exists in the episode, "Last Resort," where, after a [[spoiler:gun-toting man takes hostages at the hospital and makes it clear that he is perfectly willing to hurt or kill said hostages, House convinces the man to submit to an MRI scan which allows him to acquire the man's gun... but House gives the gun back again after the MRI results prove negative, allowing the man to once again threaten lives and come incredibly close to murdering Thirteen]]. Then again, given how much hatred there is for Thirteen...
* House giving a deaf patient a cochlear implant ''after the patient expressly said he didn't want one,'' for no real medical reason. Even by House's general standards of fast-and-loose JerkAss behavior, this was a truly offensive violation of the patient's boundaries and his body.
* House breaking up the marriage of Cameron and Chase, thereby ruining the lives of two people he's known and worked with for six years, just because he wants to keep one of them on his team was a definite DethroningMomentOfSuck even for House. Made worse by the fact that it was done by the supposedly 'reformed' House, yet was a greater Dick Move than many of his actions ''before'' he underwent therapy.
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[[folder:Lost]]
* In {{Lost}}: [[spoiler: Ana Lucia and Libby [[MoralEventHorizon being killed by Michael.]]]] That turned [[spoiler: Michael]] into a CompleteMonster for me.
** Agreed. And the worst thing was, they brought said CompleteMonster back two seasons later... and gave him a HeroicSacrifice. They should've let Hurley -- remember that guy who was in love with Libby, and would want to avenge her? -- chop him up with a machete. {{Pinata}}
*** Well, [[CharacterDerailment Hurley killing Michael]] would have been a DethroningMomentOfSuck in itself. Libby's death is the true WallBanger here, since the producers made [[TheScrappy Ana Lucia]] so unpopular they had to kill another character with her for ''shock value''.
*** And it was absolutely NOT an Heroic Sacrifice. It was much more {{Back For The Dead}}
** Kate's DMOS, for this troper, comes after she's been bouncing between Sawyer and Jack, and finally slithers into Sawyer's bedroom, coldly playing on his feelings for her so that he'll protect her from everyone she's pissed off. I started out liking Kate, but her increasing manipulative-ness--and decreasing ability to take care of herself without appealing to some dominant male--led to this dethroning moment. After that I officially changed her status from ActionGirl to TheScrappy.
** Everyones' reasons for the choices they made in the season 5 finale. Wanting to [[spoiler: nuke the island to change the past so that they never made it to the island, sure, but so you wouldn't remember your failed relationship?]]
** For this troper, Eko's moments before death. One of the defining doctrines of Christianity is that nobody's perfect. [[HumansareBastards Nobody's got it all together.]] So, for Eko, a Christian priest, to say that he was good enough on his own, that he'd never done anything wrong, and that he did not need to confess his sins because he didn't have any - that was tantamount to blasphemy. He was practically saying he was Jesus. And a Christian priest ought to have known better. All right, so he's a reformed gangster, but you'd think that after however many years he spent as a priest, listening to people confess their sins and praying for their souls and studying Scripture, he would have heard something about why all these people are lining up for the confessional. It's like he became a Christian and then kept on believing all the things he had believed before, only with a book to carry around with him so he looked official. And that was a real downer, because it sucks when writers take a mainstream religion, distort it, and nobody says anything about it. Done now. It's not exactly a throwaway "aspect". There are maybe 3 distinct points or themes that tend to form the basis of pretty much every denomination of Christianity. This is one of them. This troper, obviously, also had a problem with that scene, and not just because "Mr Eko" became one of his nicknames due to similarities.
** It's definitely worth noting that Eko was NOT a real priest. He pretended to be a priest to smuggle drugs, and kept up the lie on the Island. He was a Christian, but he was not nearly as knowledgeable as people seem to think. He made many blatant errors in talking about Christianity with other characters. It's either a case of {{Did Not Do The Research}} for the writers, or {{Fridge Brilliance}} for his character development.
*** He started off as a fake priest (at heart--legally a priest was exactly what he was from the beginning, even though this was accomplished through illegal means) but then seemed to consider it a sign when he found the miracle of Richard Malkin's daughter to be true after all, and he spent some time afterward (probably many years) as a believing priest in England. This was all before the island.
** The reuniting with Walt. For countless episodes he has been appearing and disappearing as a ghost, never speaking, always shushing in a ghostly manner. When they rescue him he's like 'Hey, missed you guys, glad to be back.' And noone cares to ask why he behaved like a spectre earlier.
* The Series 6 episode 'Across The Sea'. You peg it as the biggest mythology episode of the entire show, say it will prove that you've had the entire premise planned from the get go and that all the questions about the island and its guardian Jacob will be answered... Assume fans will have high expectations. [[spoiler: when all you reveal is that the 50-year-old Adam & Eve are actually 2,000-year-old Mommy and Smokey and that the island has a nice magical light at its core which does fun stuff when you pour water over it... expect a dethroning moment of suck]].
** What made it worse was the timing of the episode. Some heavy hitting stuff just happened to the main characters in the previous episode, and I wanted to know what happened next for them, but they did not feature in this episode at all. By the way, Across the Sea did not explain much that we didn't already know. Its revelatory value was minimal at best.
** Not of course to forget the massive continuity error with Adam & Eve. For something that is supposedly [[WordOfGod "planned from the beginning"]], the writers should have been able to remember that the two bodies were found in separate areas of the cave, but they go ahead and have Jacob leave them together because it better corellates with the [[FlashbackEcho flashback]] (or flashforward in literal terms) they wanted to use.
* One I've heard mentioned many times, and which I wholeheartedly agree with: [[spoiler: Jin deciding to stay with Sun as she drowns even though he could have escaped]]. The intended CMOH falls to pieces once you consider that [[spoiler: they have an infant daughter who would probably like to grow up having at least one living parent]]. I mean, come ''on'', we're supposed to approve of this decision? It's completely irresponsible.

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[[folder:Saturday Night Live]]
* Anyone else think that this years season premiere of ''SaturdayNightLive'' was absolutely terrible? I mean the Russian Brides, host: Megan Fox, your mom talks to Megan Fox, the fucking bike sketch and the terrible opener! Did the SNL writers try to test out that 1000 monkeys typing on a thousand typewriters theory or were they just really really stoned when they wrote the script?
--> '''Writer:''' Dude, you know what would be funny? A sketch where the people pretend like they're saying fuck but aren't! They could say like frick and freakin' and it'll be so funny, man.
--> '''Other Writer:''' Yeah! Oh but you know what would be funnier? If they were all on bikes when they did it!
** Casting Megan Fox didn't help matters any. She's good at looking pretty, but she has absolute tin ears for comedy (along with acting of any other sort). It's enough to make you miss George Wendt.
** Politics aside, SNL's Obama skits are probably the least accurate impersonations of any one person by any other person in the history of mankind. From Tina Fey's Palin to this in twelve months...?
** Not to mention Lorne Michaels writing off complaints about SNL's decline in quality by saying "the show was always better five years ago." Fine, Mr. Michaels, so don't even ''try'' to improve to program, then. If you've already accepted that the show sucks and won't get better, I guess it's okay for us to do the same.
** You could do a lot worse than the Megan Fox episode...and SNL did just that a few weeks later with the January Jones episode, which almost immediately earned a reputation as one of the worst episodes in SNL's 35-year history. A visibly nervous Jones kept screwing up lines, displayed zero comic skill or timing, and at one point even asked, ''on-air'', which camera she was on! Add to that some horrible sketches (Grace Kelly farting on the set of ''Rear Window'', resurrecting Kristen Wiig's not-much-missed bi-curious news reporter character, a gay-themed Jekyll and Hyde bit) and you had a perfect storm of suckage. Her only good performance was in pre-recorded MadMen-era educational film parody. In an interview with Jimmy Fallon earlier in the week, Jones admitted that she couldn't sing, dance or do impressions, and said that, in apparent total seriousness, she suggested the SNL writers put together a "Da Bears" sketch. As luck would have it, the only semi-good live sketch had Jones playing [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a cute blonde who's really dense, lacks a sense of humor, and has a way-out-of-date pop culture radar]].
* But it's not just in recent years that this has happened: the show's very first year had an episode hosted by Louise Lasser, who was visibly strung out on something as she kept slurring her lines or blowing them completely. One sketch even saw her get upstaged by a golden retriever. Lorne Michaels himself immediately declared the episode to be the sketch show equivalent of {{Canon Discontinuity}}; we're actually lucky that the master tape was still available for the season one DVD set.
** The thing is, while Louise Lasser certainly stunk it up, her episode wasn't as bad as it could have been: she was so coked up that she was only able to appear with another cast member in a single sketch so the bits without her worked pretty okay. However, when Milton Berle hosted, he presented a stream of vaguely racist jokes in his monologue, constantly mugged throughout each one of his many sketches, and, in general, came off like an egomaniacal prick. His is the only other show that Lorne refused to re-run.
*** The episode with Gabourey Sidibe was pretty damn bad as well, I think that it was both Gabourey as well as the writers. The digital short couldn't even give the episode a chuckle. The Steve Harvey sketch was going well just until her character came up. The only redeeming quality was MGMT's performance. Which we were forced to wait for.
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[[folder:Star Trek]]

* Tropers/DragonQuestZ: ''StarTrekVoyager'''s "Threshold". When you combine all the worst parts of the StarTrek franchise (ResetButton, HollywoodScience, TechnoBabble, SpecialEffectsFailure, and CharacterDerailment), can you blame the executives for all but declaring this CanonDiscontinuity? [[WordOfGod Brannon Braga himself]] even admits to screwing the episode up.
** And yet, "Fair Haven" and "Spirit Folk" manage to make "Threshold" look like Shakespeare. CharacterDerailment in spades for Janeway, who creates herself an ideal holographic man in the former and is prepared to ''see her crew die to save him'' in the latter. Stupid and insulting, and not just for Janeway.
* For Wil Wheaton, the Moment is beyond any doubt the ninth episode of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', called "The Battle". Hell, have you read [[http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/12/star-trek-the-next-generation-the-battle/ his blog when he reviewed it]]? It reminded us all why Wesley Crusher is, well..TheWesley.
** What about the {{Anvilicious}} Native American episode "Journey's End", where Wesley is... wait for it...revealed to be a being that transcends space & time. It almost made people ''wish'' they had gone for the MightyWhitey scenario they [[RedHerring appeared to be setting up]].
** "Second Chances". Maybe not a DM for everyone, but it just kills Riker's character by depicting his past self (Thomas) as a brash whiner and his later self (Will) as a dick. Perhaps the only consistent part is that he is kind of an arrogant jackass in both personas. The whole episode was just ... weird. Not really a [[WallBanger wall banger]], just weird.
*** Thomas has lived for eight years in complete isolation. You would expect that the first thing they would get him is a heavy dose of counselling and rehabilitation, and (if he wished to rejoin Starfleet) a battery of physical and psych evaluations. Instead, by the time he is back on board the Enterprise, he is already back in uniform. Far from having gone mad, the experience seems to have had little effect on him except to pause his emotional development. The entire show was written as if Thomas was discovered to not only have been stuck on the planet for eight years, but had furthermore been cryogenically frozen.
*** In spite of how traumatic that experience must have been, Will is quite immediately a dick toward him. Will's dickishness is magnified by the fact that he's been unfairly living a normal life for eight years, while Thomas must have been in some sort of hell. Of all the ways Will might act toward Thomas, being a dick just didn't seem to make any sense. In that sense it seemed like they were writing about the reunion of brothers who had previously been on poor terms with one another, which just does not seem to work here.
* ''[[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space 9's]]'' "Profit and Lace". Starting off with the very intriguing and hopeful possibility that the Dominion has destroyed Ferenginar, what could have been the best plot twist since "Rosebud!" degenerated into an absurd and insulting farce. ''Quark has a sex change in order to close a deal with an old and lecherous businessman''. It is, frankly, an insult to the human race as a whole. The episode can be summed up in three words: ''Worse than "Threshold"''.
** Even worse: this is the "improved" episode we got ''after'' Armin Shimerman (Quark) [[BigNo pitched a fit]] when he saw the original script. One can only imagine what it was like before.
* ''StarTrekEnterprise'' has the infamous "A Night In Sickbay". The common fan response is "good thing it took place there because it '''made us all sick'''."
** The worst moment is this...
--->ARCHER: "When I was in my early twenties on a trip to East Africa, I saw a gazelle giving birth..."
** Tropers/BryceBryans: Or the early "Dear Doctor" in which Archer decides not to help a race of dying people because he is led by HollywoodEvolution and believes helping them would violate a directive that hasn't come into existence yet. "Until I have that... ''directive''..."
** "These Are The Voyages" is almost universally reviled by fans (and the cast!), and for good reason: the series (and franchise finale) is a ''Next Generation'' episode in disguise, mixing {{Retcon}}s, out-of-character moments and a genuinely pathetic premise. However, in spite of all that, it ''might'' have been possible to excuse it as just being another lame episode...until the speech scene. Captain Archer is asked to give a speech during a ceremony making the founding of the United Federation of Planets, considered to be one of the defining moments in the history of that universe (and something the audience has never seen before). Captain Archer steps up to the podium, opens his mouth to say his first words...''and it cuts to Riker and Troi watching the ceremony for a few seconds before terminating the holodeck program and leaving''. It could have been one of (if not ''the'') best moments in a series that was ridiculed during its entire existence, but it ends up being a woeful end to the original franchise (as ''Enterprise'' was the last Star Trek series aired in the original universe). '''WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, BRAGA?!?''' ({{Tropers/Crazyrabbits}})
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***** And who could forget that [[RuleOfThree awful, awful, AWFUL]] third season episode which was ''supposed'' to be about GenderEquality but came off as [[StrawFeminist anything but]], especially with [[TheScrappy Dr.]] [[MarySue Miller]], a supposed adult who basically took [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk every word out of Turk's mouth as harassment]] and Carla ''taking '''her''' side''. [[{{Discontinuity}} I really want to forget that episode ever existed]].

** The "fairy-tale" episode was so bad that this troper just gave up on Scrubs altogether. Not only was it a lame premise for an episode, but it was execued badly. I almost wept at the bad-special-effect-fog-thingy that Cox defeated with his sword. The worst part though, was Jordan's totally serious "finish the story, I wanna know what happens" to Cox. This incredibly cheesy line belongs in an 80s sitcom for children, not the Scrubs I used to love.
***** And who could forget that [[RuleOfThree awful, awful, AWFUL]]] third season episode which was ''supposed'' to be about GenderEquality but came off as [[StrawFeminist anything but]], especially with [[TheScrappy Dr.]] [[MarySue Miller]], a supposed adult who basically took [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk ''every word out of Turk's mouth'' as harassment]] and Carla ''taking '''her''' side''. [[{{Discontinuity}}: I really want to forget that episode ever existed]].

***** And who could forget that [[RuleOfThree awful, awful, AWFUL]]] third season episode which was ''supposed'' to be about GenderEquality but came off as [[StrawFeminist anything but]], especially with [[TheScrappy Dr.]] [[MarySue Miller]], a supposed adult who basically took [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk ''every word out of Turk's mouth'' as harassment]] and Carla ''taking '''her''' side''. [[Discontinuity I really want to forget that episode ever existed]].

* ''BigBangTheory'': The Plimpton Stimulation. I'd be willing to believe that Leonard was trying to move on if he hadn't spent the entire previous episode sulking over it. He's just had his heart broken so why the hell is he suddenly jumping into bed with the first girl who offers? That's so out of character! For God's sake even Penny hadn't started dating again at that point! The only redeeming thing about it was that Leonard seemed to realise how stupid it was and went back to being a nice guy in the season finale.

** [[XJustX "Second Chances". Just... "Second Chances".]] Maybe not a DM for everyone, but it just kills Riker's character by depicting his past self (Thomas) as a brash whiner and his later self (Will) as a dick. Perhaps the only consistent part is that he is kind of an arrogant jackass in both personas. The whole episode was just ... weird. Not really a [[WallBanger wall banger]], just weird.

*** The 'dramatic' gun scene. [[spoiler: Was there ''really'' any doubt that The Doctor was going to shoot the computer maintaining the link?]] Not to mention that [[spoiler: the other supposed targets in question could both regenerate AND shoot '''lightning bolts from their hands''']]. It even underscores the power of the next scene, where [[spoiler:a pissed-off Master unloads all the electricity he has into Rassilon, driving him back into the gateway]]. SoYeah.

* Dear God, how come nobody is talking about [[spoiler:Lady Marian]]'s death in the last episode of the second season of ''Series/RobinHood''? [[spoiler:For no reason at all, Marian goes to Guy of Gisborne, an highly unstable and violent man, and begins shouting that she could never marry him and she loves Robin Hood... and Guy, evidently deciding "IfICantHaveYou, nobody can", stabs Marian in the gut.]] And the kicker? The only reason all of this was done was for pure and simple ''shock value''! SoYeah... season 3 was filled to the brim with WallBanger moments, especially thanks to the reviled AntiSue [[DamselScrappy Damsel]] [[TheWesley Wesley]] [[TheMillstone Millstone]] known as [[TheLoad Kate]], but ''that'' moment was [[RuinedFOREVER the beginning of the end.]]

* For all the RTD-bashing, we're missing one of the most infamous dethroning moments, which is more like a "[[DorkAge three year long drag]]" than a moment. Yes, we're talking about ColinBaker's tenure. The entire run. Poor Colin, having to deal with terrible storywriting (especially Pip and Jane Baker), ExecutiveMeddling, garish costumes, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Bonnie Langford]]. Hell, his intro story, ''The Twin Dilemma'', is consistently rated the worst ''Doctor Who'' story ever aired, and this is up against competition such as "Fear Her" and ''Time and the Rani'' (the latter a Pip and Jane story). At least Colin got part of his reputation back with the Big Finish stories, but it's still one of the most embarrassing eras of the show's entire run.
* For further proof that there was ''DoctorWho'' before Russell T. Davies and it was also capable of blowing chunks, we have the aforementioned "Time and the Rani". If "The Twin Dilemma" is often considered worse than it, then it's only by a matter of degrees. It begins with poor Sylvester [=McCoy=] forced to wear the Sixth Doctor's suit and a terrible wig (Colin Baker refusing to come back to film a regeneration -- not entirely unreasonably, it has to be said, considering how he got the shaft) to do a regeneration sequence and, with poor acting that goes all the way from scenery chewing to DullSurprise, poor SFX and no plot to speak of, [[ItGotWorse only gets worse]].

* ''StarTrekVoyager'''s "Threshold". When you combine all the worst parts of the StarTrek franchise (ResetButton, HollywoodScience, TechnoBabble, SpecialEffectsFailure, and CharacterDerailment), can you blame the executives for all but declaring this CanonDiscontinuity? (LordTNK)
** [[WordOfGod Brannon Braga himself]] even admits to screwing the episode up.

** Or the early "Dear Doctor" in which Archer decides not to help a race of dying people because he is led by HollywoodEvolution and believes helping them would violate a directive that hasn't come into existence yet. (BryceBryans) "Until I have that... ''directive''..."

* Pick an episode of ''TheSleepoverClub''. ANY episode. The antagonists are always - [[ChickFlick you guessed it]] - three boys, who act as a ''downright dumb portrayal'' of the male gender in every single, possible, ever conceivable occasion, and they're just ''meant'' to demonize boys. Maybe the creator of the series simply doesn't want girls to be attracted by dudes... who the hell knows.