History NeverLiveItDown / LiveActionTV

** The infamous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sggmx8vysoc "bad pussy"]] line uttered by Tyene Sand to Bronn is forever associated to the poorly-received [[IdiotPlot Dorne arc]] in Season 5. This line became a FanNickname for Tyene.

* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': The lack of comic characters in the first season and the general weakness of the early episodes. The quality picked up substantially in later episodes and introduced a number of actual comic characters like Comicbook/{{Mockingbird}} and [[Comicbook/AllNewGhostRider Ghost Rider]] (with two previous characters also turning out to be [[CanonCharacterAllAlong Canon Characters All Along]]), but a lot of people will never forgive the show for the mediocrity of its first season.

** The franchise as a whole has yet to live down casting a black guy as the black ranger and an Asian gal as the yellow ranger in the first season. This was actually the result of a last-minute casting change, and it took everyone several episodes to realize the UnfortunateImplications. But that didn't stop them from changing Native American Tommy into the red ranger for ''Zeo''.

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' racked up a lot of criticism in its third season for the writers apparently having a rule that there could only be one black man on the show at a time, and any time a new one showed up you could count on the one already there being killed off. This was the result of some unfortunate timing in just two episodes, and also ignores Michonne (a black woman) being a major character.

** Lancelot has a reputation among the fandom for being something of a dolt. This is distinctly odd considering he is one of only ''two'' characters to have deduced that Merlin has magic, and picks up on the sparks between Arthur and Guinevere before even ''they'' are fully aware of it. Yet so many times you'll see him described as "a bit dim", perhaps because he takes the HonourBeforeReason trope UpToEleven.

** On a production-related example, there's Jonathan Tzachor, who while was a producer involved in some of the most well-liked seasons in the franchise (''In Space'', ''Time Force'')... no fan of the franchise who also watches the rest of the franchise or [[Franchise/SuperSentai the source material]] is going to forgive him for his production Misdeeds on ''Turbo'', ''Samurai'' and ''Megaforce''. The former is considered the worst series of Saban's original tenure with the franchise, while the latter two are generally seen both as subpar to their source material, and the worst seasons of ''Power Rangers'' overall[[note]]although one can argue that it's partially due to Nickelodeon deciding to limit ''Power Rangers'' to 20 episodes per season in the case of ''Samurai'', as well as the fact that, due to the source material being made at a time when ''Power Rangers'' was canceled, and the possibility of it being adapted wasn't considered, it was very heavily rooted in Japanese culture, no such excuse exists for ''Megaforce'', which had an angel and a pirate theme in it's first and second halves respectively, and they had ''2 years'' to prepare for it[[/note]]. This list initially included ''Wild Force'', but Wild Force was not screwed over by any once source; instead its problems arose from Production conflicts between Tzachor, Disney (who had just bought the rights to the franchise from Saban as the show was half-way finished and didn't know what to do with it or how to manage it when they got control), Wild Force's Writing staff put in Place by Showrunner Judd Lynn before he left...and conflicts with Wild Force's Source material ''Gaoranger'' that Didn't work in the original Series at all and thus likewise weren't addressed to mediate their issues in Adaptation. Tzachor's a Producer that's been long called out for his belief in "lazy Adaptation" of Super Sentai into Power Rangers almost directly despite their disparate lores--this laziness also seen in any episode Tzachor personally directed to the point rangers are both morphed and unmorphed in the same scene as he couldn't be bothered to provide the footage the editors needed correctly--and that's where much of the problems with the series he's in charge in lie. Likewise, the previously mentioned ''Turbo'' has most of the show's problems in its unwatchable first half be caused between Tzachor himself wanting the show to follow the motions of the Comedy sentai ''Carranger'' it was based on in order to return the series to what it was in MMPR season 1, and MMPR season 3/Zeo Showrunner Douglas Sloan who wanted to continue the darker, more serious and serialized storyline they'd been running with the last two seasons. Tzachor pulling rank over story direction and likewise refusing to allow a proper transition between the end of Zeo and beginning to Turbo in any way that made sense was what ultimately screwed over and caused the disparate tone of the first half, eventually leading to Sloan and the ENTIRE WRITING STAFF QUITTING in protest. [[note]] Doug Sloan would then, ironically, regain control of Power Rangers under Disney with ''Ninja Storm'' and ''Dino Thunder'' to properly guide the franchise back onto course, something Tzachor didn't see through because Disney found that they could not work with the man at all. [[/note]] During The second half of the season, Judd Lynn who Replaced Sloan managed to watch Carranger and see what the show had of merit that was usable in adaptation and was able to talk sense to Tzachor to rebalance things while (mostly) avoiding the more idiotic and widely despised elements of Carranger, thus leading the back-half of the season to widely be considered an improvement over the first and outdo ''Carranger'' for the same material; [[note]] this is also noticeably helped by the cast changeover mid-season helping give Lynn blank slates to work with as opposed to long-established characters being shoved into roles they didn't fit for, something else Tzachor had to have explained to him on why the first-half didn't work.[[/note]] Leading to Lynn formally replacing Tzachor as the actual Showrunner of ''In Space'' until ''Time Force'', ultimately being the one responsible for the successes in the series Tzachor is mistakenly given credit for making good.
*** Judd Lynn himself has gained his own level of Infamy with ''Dino Charge'' onwards Power Rangers being almost as Bad as Tzachors. This is unfortunately creditable to the fact that the production staff provided that he came into are...well, just plain incompetent from a lack of training, and no capable way to get them to learn to improve.

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'':
** Most fans would prefer to forget that Emma's temporary boyfriend Walsh [[spoiler:was in fact a flying monkey]]. Others keep bringing it up as often as possible.
** The showrunners have said that the fans have ''never'' stopped giving them grief over [[ArtisticLicensePhysics Tamara's taser]].
* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
** Daniel Jackson's many deaths/resurrections/ascensions (although that last one only happened twice). It's lampshaded in the series itself. Wiki/TheOtherWiki used to list them; [[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Jackson_(Stargate)&oldid=236270772 it's about 22 times.]] And Samantha Carter [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun blew up a sun]].
** Cameron Mitchel has lost his pants twice. Twice is not always. And yet...
* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': Rodney [=McKay=] blew up a solar system (''though he'd like to remind you that it was actually just five sixths of it'').
* ''Series/StargateUniverse'': Nicholas Rush dialed an untested address into a gate, marooning him and most of his coworkers on an ancient ship. Let's just assume that being hired as a scientist by Stargate Command requires high knowledge of StuffBlowingUp.
* In the Franchise/StargateVerse, the Goa'uld sarchophagus is a healing device that can reverse pretty much any injury seen thus far that does not violate the ChunkySalsaRule. Many characters have been brought back from apparent death by it (Poor Daniel has had several turns in it.) However, there was an episode called "Need" in which the guest star of the week asked Daniel, "Have you ever wondered what happens if you use one while healthy?" Turns out the answer to that is it's like a drug. ''If you use it '''repeatedly''' when '''healthy,''''' you become addicted and start to go dark side. But try telling that to fans: ever since "Need," the sarcophagus has been treated as an insta-evil-ifying ArtifactOfDoom: imagine the [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings One Ring]] and the [[Franchise/SpiderMan Venom Symbiote]], roll 'em together, then make 'em about forty times worse. Never mind that in ''real life'' we have something that promotes healing, but can become quite horrible with overuse, or use when not actually suffering from the condition it's made for; we call it… [[spoiler: ''every medication in the history of ever''.]] The writers fall into the trap once (the Tok'ra don't use sarcophagi for fear of becoming like the Goa'uld. Again, ridiculous when "Need," the episode that introduces the drug effect, also makes it abundantly clear that it's only through misuse that this happens!) but later episodes have again had the sarcophagus used on those who really ''did'' need its healing properties, most memorably to allow Baal to horribly torture O'Neill to death over and over and over and restore him for more; Daniel ''feared'' that the sarcophagus might begin to mess with O'Neill's head but it never happened.

-->...I, the Ninth Doctor, vow to save the universe and all you apes in it.

* In ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', Jan only said "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!" ONCE in the whole series.
** The line underwent MemeticMutation thanks to a series of early-'90s "Weekend Update" sketches on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', in which Melanie Hutsell's unhinged Jan appeared as an editorial commentator. Its iconic status was further sealed by ''[[TheFilmOfTheSeries The Brady Bunch Movie]]''.

*** The portrayal of Kirk as a universal cad is probably in part related to the fact he is usually presented against Spock: who is consistently unflappable and unemotional, making Kirk's reactions seem more extreme by comparison. Contrast this with the same Captain-Number One relationship in TNG wherein the serious-seeming Picard looks far more stuffy alongside the more outgoing, flirtatious Riker.

* ''Franchise/PowerRangers''
** Besides Billy's braininess, Trini's translating, Zack's dancing, Kim's gymnastics, and Jason's jocular nature, no other quirk for any of the ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' from the first season lasted for longer than that [[CompressedVice particular episode's plot requirements demanded it]]... except for [[EnsembleDarkhorse Tommy's]] being a complete scatterbrain, written into the series to justify his absence (since his Franchise/SuperSentai counterpart [[KilledOffForReal didn't last too long]]). This took root in the fanon after a single episode and ultimately got many a CallBack in subsequent incarnations. It's all the more amusing for the fact Tommy is the TropeNamer for {{Sixth Ranger}}s.
*** Hilariously called back by Kat and Hayley in both his original exit in ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' and his earliest episodes of ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder''.
*** And [[SelfDeprecation by the man himself]] in the first episode of ''Dino Thunder'' where, during an escape from a T-rex, he locks the doors of his car... and then realizes he's in a Jeep. "[[LampshadeHanging Yeah, real great, Tommy.]] ''[[LampshadeHanging Lock the door.]]''"
** Despite being a minor character, Tommy's [[RealLifeRelative brother]], David, is most remembered for being disappointed that he lost a sparring match with Tommy.
** Likewise, ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' will never live down that one episode where the Rangers got baked into a giant pizza. It even got a good-natured jab in the 10th anniversary episode.
** Fans will never let TJ live down the fact that he sacrificed the Zords at the end of Turbo, leading to Divatox's victory over the rangers. Similarly, Tommy's appearance in ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'' is remembered for one thing: [[MemeticMutation "SACRIFICE THE ZORDS!"]]
** The franchise as a whole has yet to live down casting a black guy as the black ranger and an Asian gal as the yellow ranger in the first season. This was actually the result of a last-minute casting change, and it took everyone several episodes to realize the UnfortunateImplications. But that didn't stop them from changing Native American Tommy into the red ranger for ''Zeo''.
** On a production-related example, there's Jonathan Tzachor, who while was a producer involved in some of the most well-liked seasons in the franchise (''In Space'', ''Time Force'')... no fan of the franchise who also watches the rest of the franchise or [[Franchise/SuperSentai the source material]] is going to forgive him for his production Misdeeds on ''Turbo'', ''Samurai'' and ''Megaforce''. The former is considered the worst series of Saban's original tenure with the franchise, while the latter two are generally seen both as subpar to their source material, and the worst seasons of ''Power Rangers'' overall[[note]]although one can argue that it's partially due to Nickelodeon deciding to limit ''Power Rangers'' to 20 episodes per season in the case of ''Samurai'', as well as the fact that, due to the source material being made at a time when ''Power Rangers'' was canceled, and the possibility of it being adapted wasn't considered, it was very heavily rooted in Japanese culture, no such excuse exists for ''Megaforce'', which had an angel and a pirate theme in it's first and second halves respectively, and they had ''2 years'' to prepare for it[[/note]]. This list initially included ''Wild Force'', but Wild Force was not screwed over by any once source; instead its problems arose from Production conflicts between Tzachor, Disney (who had just bought the rights to the franchise from Saban as the show was half-way finished and didn't know what to do with it or how to manage it when they got control), Wild Force's Writing staff put in Place by Showrunner Judd Lynn before he left...and conflicts with Wild Force's Source material ''Gaoranger'' that Didn't work in the original Series at all and thus likewise weren't addressed to mediate their issues in Adaptation. Tzachor's a Producer that's been long called out for his belief in "lazy Adaptation" of Super Sentai into Power Rangers almost directly despite their disparate lores--this laziness also seen in any episode Tzachor personally directed to the point rangers are both morphed and unmorphed in the same scene as he couldn't be bothered to provide the footage the editors needed correctly--and that's where much of the problems with the series he's in charge in lie. Likewise, the previously mentioned ''Turbo'' has most of the show's problems in its unwatchable first half be caused between Tzachor himself wanting the show to follow the motions of the Comedy sentai ''Carranger'' it was based on in order to return the series to what it was in MMPR season 1, and MMPR season 3/Zeo Showrunner Douglas Sloan who wanted to continue the darker, more serious and serialized storyline they'd been running with the last two seasons. Tzachor pulling rank over story direction and likewise refusing to allow a proper transition between the end of Zeo and beginning to Turbo in any way that made sense was what ultimately screwed over and caused the disparate tone of the first half, eventually leading to Sloan and the ENTIRE WRITING STAFF QUITTING in protest. [[note]] Doug Sloan would then, ironically, regain control of Power Rangers under Disney with ''Ninja Storm'' and ''Dino Thunder'' to properly guide the franchise back onto course, something Tzachor didn't see through because Disney found that they could not work with the man at all. [[/note]] During The second half of the season, Judd Lynn who Replaced Sloan managed to watch Carranger and see what the show had of merit that was usable in adaptation and was able to talk sense to Tzachor to rebalance things while (mostly) avoiding the more idiotic and widely despised elements of Carranger, thus leading the back-half of the season to widely be considered an improvement over the first and outdo ''Carranger'' for the same material; [[note]] this is also noticeably helped by the cast changeover mid-season helping give Lynn blank slates to work with as opposed to long-established characters being shoved into roles they didn't fit for, something else Tzachor had to have explained to him on why the first-half didn't work.[[/note]] Leading to Lynn formally replacing Tzachor as the actual Showrunner of ''In Space'' until ''Time Force'', ultimately being the one responsible for the successes in the series Tzachor is mistakenly given credit for making good.
*** Judd Lynn himself has gained his own level of Infamy with ''Dino Charge'' onwards Power Rangers being almost as Bad as Tzachors. This is unfortunately creditable to the fact that the production staff provided that he came into are...well, just plain incompetent from a lack of training, and no capable way to get them to learn to improve.
* On ''LoveHate'', fans act as if "Coola boola!" is Fran's catchphrase -- he only ever says it once (season 3, episode 1). Similarly, Tommy only asked for a "fizzy orange" once (season 4, episode 1).
* On ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' Shaw is short and everyone has noticed, from one of her descriptors on her medical files being 'compact', to the actress tweeting that she's "not that short". And of course it gets a mention in every fanfic.
* On ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', Hardison has this over the time he was kidnapped by the Russian mob while pretending to be Parker(the world's greatest thief). Parker herself had the incident in which she stabbed a mark with a fork while she was supposed to be getting information from him.
* On an episode of ''Series/{{QI}}'', Creator/StephenFry asked a question about an ancestor of his, C. B. Fry, who was one of the best athletes of his time and was offered the throne of Albania in the aftermath of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. He mentioned that C. B. had the ability to jump backwards from standing onto a mantelpiece and that was all the panellists wanted to talk about from that point on, refusing to engage with the actual question or any of C. B.'s other impressive achievements, to the point the Stephen eventually just yelled "I wish I'd never mentioned the bloody mantelpiece".

* While ''The Shield'' star David Rees Snell (aka "Ronnie Gardocki") had a manly beard for the bulk of the series, it's not the beard that the actor is most remembered for facial hairwise; it's his magnificent PornStache that David Rees Snell had for the first two seasons of the show.
* Burt Newton's infamous line about Muhummad Ali at the Australian Logies: ''I like the boy''. Meant without any malice at all, but he will be forever known (outside of Australia) as 'That racist guy who nearly got beat up by Muhummad Ali'.
* Find yourself on a long-form [[RealityTV reality gameshow]]? Don't say anything silly in the first week!
** ''Series/JerseyShore:'' [[MemeticMutation "Come at me bro!"]]
* ''Franchise/KamenRider''
** [[Series/KamenRiderBlack Shadow Moon]] is undoubtedly the most popular Franchise/KamenRider villain. And that's all he's remembered as. Even though before his canonical death in Series/KamenRiderBlackRX, he had a last-minute HeelFaceTurn that's always forgotten in favor of how ''kickass'' he was as a villain. (This is even in-show: in Kamen Rider World, he was the BigBad, and ''giant-sized for no good reason,'' and the first ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' movie has an AlternateUniverse Shadow Moon who [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] two Riders with the power to destroy the world ''at the same time'' until ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' shows up and completely turns the tables. Not one word about getting Nobuhiko back to his family's side has ever come up in his non-Black or Black RX appearances.)
** Two things from ''Series/KamenRiderBlade'''s first episode. Kenzaki's overacting and slurring of words, and Tachibana(-san) just watching him due to his supposed betrayal of BOARD.
** ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' fans will not let go of the scene in episode 6 where Eiji [[ItMakesSenseInContext tries to ride an untransformed Ridevendor]]. It's even made it into at least one officially released figure!
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' :
** Many fans tend to ignore Michael's more positive (or at least less negative) traits after his MoralEventHorizon moment in season 2 (i.e. [[spoiler: murdering Ana Lucia and Libby]]). While the act was certainly indefensible (which makes this a partial case of JustifiedTrope), fans gloss over the fact that having your son kidnapped by strangers on a weird island doesn't exactly make a loving parent rational, nor did the fans acknowledge what he did AFTERWARD, which contradicts the assumption that he's an amoral, heartless bastard. This includes neverending guilt for doing the aforementioned act, which sparked numerous suicide attempts, and a last ditch effort to help the friends he betrayed on the island. Hell, even Hurley later forgave Michael for what he did, despite him [[spoiler: killing Hurley's girlfriend Libby]]. Good luck finding fans who feel the same way Hurley did. Or maybe after screaming "WAAAAALT" too much, people started considering him only as The Guy Who Screams "Walt", even after he built two rafts, or after Walt and him stopped sharing any screentime.
** Jack is rather well-known for his frequent emotional outbursts (Jears) around the interwebs. In the actual show, he's a mostly-stoic character (for the first few seasons, anyway) who relies on logic and rarely tells people how he feels.
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': MSTings have a RunningGag dubbed "Crow Syndrome", where Crow (or another character) almost constantly makes sexually suggestive riffs and gets a FirstNameUltimatum from the TeamDad. This seems to be based entirely on the episode ''[[Series/GeminiMan Riding with Death]]'', where '''everyone''' uses the film's trucking scenes as [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything sex metaphors]]; Crow is just the one who takes it a hair too far and gets chewed out by Mike. Of course, usually he displays PingPongNaivete; compare to the episode where he puts together a presentation about how women don't exist, despite interacting with Pearl Forrester for years. In regards to [=MSTings=], Crow Syndrome has become a DiscreditedMeme and is now viewed as something to be avoided.
** Amusingly enough, most people tend to forget that in the ''Riding with Death'' episode, Mike himself makes a suggestive joke shortly after reprimanding Crow, who responds "And you think '''I'm''' bad?".
** If you went strictly by {{MST}}ings, Tom Servo's head exploded every other episode. It only happened four times in ten seasons: Two of them in [[OldShame the disavowed Season 1]], and none after Season 4.
*** Unless you also count [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie The Movie]], where poor Tom kept getting hit by death rays.
* ''{{Series/Merlin|2008}}'':
** Lancelot has a reputation among the fandom for being something of a dolt. This is distinctly odd considering he is one of only ''two'' characters to have deduced that Merlin has magic, and picks up on the sparks between Arthur and Guinevere before even ''they'' are fully aware of it. Yet so many times you'll see him described as "a bit dim", perhaps because he takes the HonourBeforeReason trope UpToEleven.
** Guinevere's reputation as a useless DistressedDamsel. She had a total of two episodes in five years dedicated to rescuing her, and both times she was extremely outmatched. Other times, she [[ActionGirl spends most of her time rescuing other people.]]
** In fanfiction, Gwaine is always referring to Arthur as "Princess". In truth, he never actually does this in the show and it all stems from one episode in which he says "Don't be such a princess" to Arthur.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Fans never let Counselor Troi live down [[CaptainCrash crashing]] the ''Enterprise'' in ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'' and ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', usually prompting a WomenDrivers joke.[[note]]Which itself is an example of this trope, since in the actual show there have been numerous female helmswomen, none of whom crashed the ship in the process.[[/note]] In her defense, in ''Generations'', the main hull had just blown up and the saucer section was effectively out of control for even the most experienced pilot, and in ''Nemesis'', she was ordered directly by Picard to do so [[RammingAlwaysWorks to try and stop the Scimitar]].
** There's also the fact that, when looked at in context, the fact she was able carry out an emergency crash landing of a galaxy class starship which was completely out of control and do so with ZERO FATALITIES, is REALLY impressive.

* Though Tim Taylor of ''Series/HomeImprovement'' had had many, many, ''many'' accidents over the years, for some reason he never lived down that one time he glued his forehead to the table.
** Except, maybe, sticking his tongue to a frozen hammer in the first ChristmasEpisode.
** Many ''Tool Time'' fans also bring up the time he fell through the roof of a port-a-potty.
** And the wooden beam that he hit Bob Vila on the back of the head with.
* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'':
** Jake Martin: chicken connoisseur. Though he was only shown eating chicken in one episode, you'd think that he eats it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
** Zig Novak: Though the majority of fans have since moved on, there are still some fans refusing to forgive Zig for his indirect role in driving Cam to suicide.
* ''Series/{{Glee}}'':
** Fandom will probably never forgive Finn for inadvertently causing Santana to be outed not only to the entire school, but the entire ''town''. It just goes to show how selective fandom's memory can be, since Finn only snapped back after being bullied by Santana all day and had no idea that he was being filmed by someone who was out to get [[ItMakesSenseInContext Sue Sylvester.]]
** Will probably never be forgotten for blackmailing a student into joining the club by planting drugs in his locker.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': The fandom will never forget about Carla making JD move out of the apartment (that was his to begin with) once she and Turk got married.
* People are never going to let ''Series/TheDatingGame'' live down the fact that they let Rodney Alcala, a registered sex offender who later turned out to be a serial killer, not only get on the show, but win the episode he was in.[[note]]While they obviously didn't know that, he had enough of a criminal record that a background check should have disqualified him. He only won the televised game; the woman who picked him backed out almost immediately due to his creepy behavior and is thankfully alive and safe. You may think a serial killer wouldn't [[TooStupidToLive murder someone he appeared alongside on national television]], but one look at his CourtroomAntics after he was caught shows that [[EvenEvilHasStandards he was irrational even for a serial killer]].
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': As befits a show that ran for 15 Seasons and has a very opinionated fanbase, there are some moments that stick out.
** For a show created by and for straight guys, meant to be a broish answer to Buffy, the show sure is famous for its HomoeroticSubtext. Seriously, people who know nothing else about the show probably know about the controversy over making Destiel canon, the [[IncestYay incestuous subtext]] or the long debate about the show's queerbaiting. In fact, after 15 seasons, the most talked-about element of the final season was the [[BuryYourGays inept]] attempt to make Destiel sort of canon.
** The show is also notorious for its crappy treatment of female characters, especially love interests. More than one was killed off because the writers listened to the loudest internet fans, many of whom were YaoiFangirl types who hated any female that threatened their slash fantasies. Plenty of fans, in fact, liked ''some'' of those characters and new fans are often bewildered by the abrupt exit/gruesome deaths of female characters. This was so egregious that at least [[Creator/MishaCollins one actor]] called out the show for it. On top of that, the show had a habit of producing meta episodes with TakeThat stories about their fans that were played off as good-natured ribbing but can come off as the writers bitterly resenting the same fans they continuously appeased. On top of that, the writers created a lesbian friend for the Winchesters to serve as a surrogate sister that would not inspire the jealous rage of fangirls, and she was gruesomely [[BuryYourGays killed off]] in a manner that offended both fans and nonfans of the character.
** In Season 4, Sam bleeding and killing a nurse who is possessed by the devil after she's begged for mercy still bothers people. He's being manipulated by Ruby and thinks he's stopping the Apocalypse, but it still made people very uncomfortable.
** Castiel becoming the BigBad of Season 6 could have been avoided if he had just revealed his plans to Sam and Dean rather than concealing his deal with Crowley. Instead, he betrays his friends, backstabs Crowley and goes insane with power. Some fans are still resentful the writers turned a popular character so dark, and despite the redemption arc he was given some fans don't forget.
** Sam quitting hunting and ignoring a phone call from Kevin in Season 8 so he could hang out with a girlfriend who had pushed him into adopting a dog will never be forgotten. Fans hate the girlfriend, who was a veterinarian and should have known not to push a drifter with no resources into adopting a dog, and they still resent Sam for his entire involvement with her. Seriously, the vet is hated more than the demon Ruby, see above, and they hate Ruby.
** Dean throwing a human Castiel out of the bunker in Season 9 felt wildly out of character. While it's somewhat justified in that Dean thinks he's saving Sam, the fact that Dean throws his vulnerable best friend out with no resources and knowing how few coping skills Castiel has and that he's being hunted by angry angels made Dean look terrible.
** The Winchester brothers simply forgetting/ignoring that their half-brother is trapped in a cage in hell with Michael and Lucifer for about a decade is one of those things the fandom will never let the writers forget. It's even lampshaded in the episode "Fan Fiction."
* ''{{Series/MASH}}'': The show is haunted by the episode "House Arrest," which features Hawkeye and Trapper displaying a shockingly cavalier attitude about rape. The producers have openly apologized for it.
* Creator/DennisFranz [[FanDisservice showed his naked ass]] for a very small part of one episode of ''Series/NYPDBlue''. Ask a casual fan and you'd think the guy never wore pants.

* Jessica Brody from ''Series/{{Homeland}}'' going on a racist tirade about how evil Islam is in the season two premiere, capped off by desecrating her husband's Quran. The idea was apparently that her major concern was him keeping his conversion hidden from her for so long, but it certainly doesn't come off that way.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Daenerys actually did more things in season 2 than run around yelling "Where are my dragons?" It didn't even start until the season's second half. But that second half packed in so much of it, while everyone else was doing much more interesting things, that it really sticks in the mind. Creator/EmiliaClarke herself even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDPLsIpCCB8 poked fun at it]].
** The infamous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sggmx8vysoc "bad pussy"]] line uttered by Tyene Sand to Bronn is forever associated to the poorly-received [[IdiotPlot Dorne arc]] in Season 5. This line became a FanNickname for Tyene.
** Sansa is still remembered for her [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter crush]] on [[TheSociopath Joffrey]] in Season 1, particularly for lying about him attacking a butcher's boy, and blaming her little sister Arya for defending the boy and publicly calling Joffrey out for his actions. Since then, Sansa's probably had the most CharacterDevelopment in the whole cast, but from the amount this story pops up you'd think she was throwing servant boys under the bus every other episode.
** Jaime raping Cersei in "Breaker of Chains." The viewers will never let him live that down, no matter what he did afterward or what character development he got. Made even worse by the episode's director insisting it was supposed to be a consensual sex scene even though he was aggressive and she resisted at first, and refusing to acknowledge that it could possibly be seen as anything but that. The show still carried on with him having his usual PetTheDog moments and acting his usual self with nobody in the show making a big deal out of it, but the fandom will never forget it, no matter what good things he may have done afterward. The writers tried really hard to make him likable again after that, but nothing could redeem him in some viewers' eyes.
* Most casual fans of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' know the titular heroine as a high school cheerleader who kills vampires. The last time Buffy shows any interest in cheerleading ''at all'' is in the third episode of the very first season. After that she practically never mentions it again. The identification of Buffy as a cheerleader seems to have been a holdover from the [[Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer original movie]] which featured it much more prominently. The first season's opening also features Buffy as a cheerleader.
* ''Series/GilligansIsland'': Gilligan is so infamous for "always" accidentally ruining the Castaways' plans to get off the island that JustEatGilligan became a meme and then a trope. But a dedicated fan decided to watch every episode and make note of the number of episodes the castaways tried to get off the island and the number of those episodes where their plans were ruined by Gilligan. It turns out Gilligan bungles their plans in exactly 17 episodes. Which is still a lot, but it's less than half of the number of episodes the Castaways tried to escape, 37. More importantly, there were 98 episodes in total. So Gilligan botched the Castaways rescue/escape attempts less than half the time they tried and in only a little more than a sixth of all episodes.
* The TV show ''Cheaters'' is mainly remembered for one thing: the episode where host Joey Greco got stabbed.
* ''Series/TheSopranos'' is remembered as a great show, but the main thing that it's known for fading to black mid-scene at the end of the SeriesFinale.
* Felicity was one of the most popular characters in the first two seasons of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', which ironically proved to be her undoing in Season 3. After their killing off Sara Lance in the season premiere went over horribly with the fans, the writers essentially made Felicity their mouthpiece to defend the storytelling choice, having her make completely out of character statements that Sara's sister Laurel deserved to be Black Canary far more than her, apparently banking on her popularity to get the fans on board with it. It backfired big time as many fans turned on Felicity as well, and even the ones who still liked her hated those scenes and simply argued that the writers should be blamed rather than the character. Ultimately the backlash became so huge that they brought Sara BackFromTheDead for the spinoff ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow''.
** How could anyone forget the time when Felicity [[spoiler:blew up an entire city because she somehow wasn't able to redirect the bomb to either the ocean or a much less populated place than its original destination?]]
** ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'': [[spoiler:The double wedding, in which Barry and Iris, whose first attempt at a wedding had already been ruined by the invasion from Earth-X, are finally about to exchange their vows, and Felicity pipes up, deciding that she and Oliver should take advantage of the situation and get married at the exact same time]]. Granted, for many it was just the straw the broke the camel's back after having to endure three and a half seasons of Felicity being a CreatorsPet / EscapistCharacter, being never called out on her selfishness (though on the following episode of ''Series/TheFlash2014'', Barry and Iris [[TakeThatScrappy throw some subtle shade on her and Oliver, by returning their wedding present]]), and talked up as if she were the most perfect person in all of the Arrowverse. Either way, that moment forever cemented Felicity Smoak as one of the most hated characters on television ''not'' to be a villain or an antagonist of some fashion, and the most hated character in the Arrowverse overall.
* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': The lack of comic characters in the first season and the general weakness of the early episodes. The quality picked up substantially in later episodes and introduced a number of actual comic characters like Comicbook/{{Mockingbird}} and [[Comicbook/AllNewGhostRider Ghost Rider]] (with two previous characters also turning out to be [[CanonCharacterAllAlong Canon Characters All Along]]), but a lot of people will never forgive the show for the mediocrity of its first season.
* ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'': [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/come-on-its-2015-current-year According to knowyourmeme.com]], "'Come On, It’s 2015', sometimes iterated as >[Current Year] or 'It’s 2015,' is a catchphrase expression often said by users on 4chan’s /pol/ (politically incorrect) board to mock English comedian and pundit John Oliver’s frequent resort to reminding his viewers of the present year as a straw man argument against ideas and beliefs which he deems to be old-fashioned or conservative." John's use of this is so "frequent", in fact, that the amount of times he has used it on his show in the manner described is exactly zero. He made an offhand remark in a similar vein on another show once, and he used "it's 2014" as the setup to a joke (''not'' as a part of his actual argument) in his segment on beauty pageants. According to his detractors, this is effectively the same as doing it OnceAnEpisode.
** The Brazilian version of ''Last Week Tonight'', ''Greg News'', did this to Flavio Bolsonaro, politician and son of the country's president. After showing a clip where a politician said that Flavio [[PottyFailure soiled himself]] during a debate for the 2016 municipal election, the show's host never mentions Flavio again without saying he's in a BringMyBrownPants situation.
* It will be a long time before hardcore television fans forgive Sony Pictures Television for plastering older logos with their "[[FanNickname Bars of Boredom]]" logo since 2002, to the point where it tends to come up any time Sony acquires another company.
* In ''Series/FakingIt'', Liam sleeping with Amy (and vice versa) after the former found out that Karma was lying to him when she said she was a lesbian (which he probably should have guessed by all the times she wanted to make out with him, but still...) and the latter was rejected as a romantic partner by Karma. In the fandom, the scene is something the writers never lived down, thanks to a majority LGBT fandom furious that yet another lesbian was "turned straight" on television.
* SpaghettiWestern fans remember the ''Series/{{Rawhide}}'' episode "Incident of the Black Sheep" for little more than being the episode that got Creator/ClintEastwood his StarMakingRole on the big screen as the Man with No Name.
* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': Barry's time-travel that resulted in the [[Recap/TheFlash2014S3E1Flashpoint Flashpoint]] timeline. Website/{{Reddit}} blamed Barry for everything that went wrong on television for months afterward. "Goddammit Barry, stop sticking your dick in the timeline!" And when his daughter from the future Nora introduced herself by saying she'd messed up the timeline herself, the unanimous fan reaction was that she's definitely Barry's daughter.
* ''Series/TheNightlyShow'' already had a ToughActToFollow in replacing ''Series/TheColbertReport'', which helped make sharp political satire cool. In an early episode, host Creator/LarryWilmore had Bill Nye on its panel to discuss space exploration, only for him to be peppered with dismissive anti-science jokes from comedians on the panel. Fairly or not, viewers perceived Wilmore as catering to the lowest common denominator, favoring shallow and easy jokes over an interest in complicated subjects. The fledgling show never emerged from this perception and was canceled after only 19 months on the air.
* In the early 1990s, there was a span of game shows that aired on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}: ''Series/NickArcade'', ''Series/GetThePicture'' and ''[[Series/DoubleDare1986 Family Double Dare]]''. Each one had a trip to Universal Studios in its grand prize rotation, which was ''where the shows were taped''. Fans remember these shows for being cheap simply because of that grand prize alone.
* Poor Northern Calloway. He served 18 seasons on ''Series/SesameStreet'' as one of the human cast members and appeared in a few specials like "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street" & "Don't Eat the Pictures." And yet, all people remember about him is that he had a mental breakdown [[note]]during which he did some questionable things, but keep in mind he had very well known and legitimate mental troubles.[[/note]] which forced him off the show, and died. It probably doesn't help that, unlike much of the rest of the human cast, his character David was basically TheGenericGuy and had nothing that really helped him stand out from the others.
* Of all the over-the-top [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman situational]] gadgets Batman has pulled out over the years, ''Series/Batman1966'''s infamous shark repellent spray will probably never be forgotten. It's been referenced in multiple adaptations since.
* One of the most famous moments of ''Series/LALaw'' is how Rosalind Shays was written out: falling into an empty elevator shaft to her death.

* Most casual fans of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' know the titular heroine as a high school [[TheCheerleader cheerleader]] who kills vampires. The last time Buffy shows any interest in cheerleading ''at all'' is in the third episode of the very first season. After that she practically never mentions it again. The identification of Buffy as a cheerleader seems to have been a holdover from the [[Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer original movie]] which featured it much more prominently. The first season's opening also features Buffy as a cheerleader.

* ''WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman'': A Season 3 episode has Fetchers creating a cake protector that managed to hold 135 pounds. An overzealous Ruff decides to put the protector to the ultimate test by pitting it against ''a monster truck''. He almost immediately regrets it once he sees the thing in motion, and Grandma Ruffman [[NeverLiveItDown never lets him live it down]] for the rest of the series.

** ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'': [[spoiler:The double wedding, in which Barry and Iris, whose first attempt at a wedding had already been ruined by the invasion from Earth-X, are finally about to exchange their vows, and Felicity pipes up, deciding that she and Oliver should take advantage of the situation and get married at the exact same time]]. Granted, for many it was just the straw the broke the camel's back after having to endure three and a half seasons of Felicity being a CreatorsPet / TheScrappy / EscapistCharacter, being never called out on her selfishness (though on the following episode of ''Series/TheFlash2014'', Barry and Iris [[TakeThatScrappy throw some subtle shade on her and Oliver, by returning their wedding present]]), and talked up as if she were the most perfect person in all of the Arrowverse. Either way, that moment forever cemented Felicity Smoak as one of the most hated characters on television ''not'' to be a villain or an antagonist of some fashion, and the most hated character in the Arrowverse overall.

** ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'': [[spoiler:The double wedding, in which Barry and Iris, whose first attempt at a wedding had already been ruined by the invasion from Earth-X, are finally about to exchange their vows, and Felicity pipes up, deciding that she and Oliver should take advantage of the situation and get married at the exact same time]]. Granted, for many it was just the straw the broke the camel's back after having to endure three and a half seasons of Felicity being a CreatorsPet / TheScrappy / EscapistCharacter, being never called out on her selfishness (though on the following episode of Series/TheFlash2014, Barry and Iris [[TakeThatScrappy throw some subtle shade on her and Oliver, by returning their wedding present]]), and talked up as if she were the most perfect person in all of the Arrowverse. Either way, that moment forever cemented Felicity Smoak as one of the most hated characters on television ''not'' to be a villain or an antagonist of some fashion, and the most hated character in the Arrowverse overall.

** ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'': [[spoiler:The double wedding, in which Barry and Iris, whose first attempt at a wedding had already been ruined by the invasion from Earth-X, are finally about to exchange their vows, and Felicity pipes up, deciding that she and Oliver should take advantage of the situation and get married at the exact same time]]. Granted, for many it was just the straw the broke the camel's back after having to endure three and a half seasons of Felicity being a CreatorsPet / TheScrappy / EscapistCharacter, being never called out on her selfishness, [[note]][[spoiler:though on the next episode of [[Series/TheFlash2014 The Flash]], Barry and Iris [[TakeThatScrappy throw some subtle shade on her and Oliver, by returning their wedding present]]]][[/note]] and talked up as if she were the most perfect person in all of the Arrowverse. Either way, that moment forever cemented Felicity Smoak as one of the most hated characters on television ''not'' to be a villain or an antagonist of some fashion, and the most hated character in the Arrowverse overall.

* People are never going to let ''Series/TheDatingGame'' live down the fact that they once let a registered sex offender who later turned out to be a serial killer not only get on the show, but win the episode he was in.

** How could anyone forget the time when Felicity [[spoiler:blew up an entire city because she somehow wasn't able to redirect the bomb to a much less populated place than its original destination?]]
** ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'': [[spoiler:The double wedding, in which Barry and Iris are about to exchange their vows, and Felicity pipes up, deciding that she and Oliver should take advantage of the situation and get married at the exact same time]]. Granted, for many it was just the straw the broke the camel's back after having to endure three and a half seasons of Felicity being a CreatorsPet / TheScrappy / EscapistCharacter, being never called out on her selfishness and talked up as if she were the most perfect person in all of the Arrowverse. Either way, that moment forever cemented Felicity Smoak as one of the most hated characters on television ''not'' to be a villain or an antagonist of some fashion, and the most hated character in the Arrowverse overall.

*** It was addressed before then - one earlier episode showed them to have ''somehow'' got up a staircase without it actually being shown on screen.

** A recurring joke about the Daleks is their inability to go up stairs. Two Classic serials ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase The Chase]]" in 1964 and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E1DestinyOfTheDaleks Destiny of the Daleks]]" in 1979) have characters pointing this weakness out - in the latter case, it's key to the Doctor's plan to escape! This weakness was addressed in the 1988 serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance of the Daleks]]", but the jokes persisted at least up until 2005, when "Dalek" -- which also addressed this point -- was shown. It's perhaps worth pointing out that, by the time the first story aired, the audience of ''Doctor Who'' was roughly three guys and a dog, so it's possible that not enough people actually saw it for the change to sink in.

*** To add more to this: Despite Kirk having a borderline memetic status in pop culture as a notorious charmer of {{Green Skinned Space Babe}}s (aka Orion women) such a thing never actually happens in the series. The closest thing to this happens in the "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E14WhomGodsDestroy Whom Gods Destroy]]" episode, where said Orion woman is the one ''who tries to seduce Kirk'', but fails when he proves able to IgnoreTheFanservice, and she is then [[YouHaveFailedMe killed by her boss for this failure]].I n general it's far more common for Kirk to be the one (initially, he doesn't often say no) pursued by the woman and not the other way around, in universe CHEKOV takes the initiative with women more than Kirk does.
** The fact that Kirk is a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SmarterThanYouLook bonafide nerd]] who came fourth from, top of his class in the academy and hacked an unwinnable computer scenario because he was too stubborn to accept failure, are aspects of his character that are often missed.
*** The portrayal of Kirk as a universal cad is probably in part related to the fact he is usually presented against Spock: who is consistently unflappable and unemotional, making Kirk's reactions seem more extreme by comparison. Contrast this with the same captain-number one relationship in TNG wherein the serious seeming Picard looks far more stuffy alongside the more outgoing, flirtatious Riker.
** Kirk is also notorious in and out of universe for violating the Prime Directive. However in many such cases, Kirk is responding to situations where it has ''already been broken'' — either by other Starfleet officers, civilian spacers, or worse hostile forces such as the Klingons — and is merely trying to repair or minimize the damage without making it worse. Additionally, at other times Kirk would gladly comply with the Directive and be on his way...only to be ''ordered'' to violate planetary sovereignty by his superiors (see "A Taste of Armageddon").

*** To add more to this: Despite Kirk having a borderline memetic status in pop culture as a notorious charmer of {{Green Skinned Space Babe}}s (aka Orion women) such a thing never actually happens in the series. The closest thing to this happens in the "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E14WhomGodsDestroy Whom Gods Destroy]]" episode, where said Orion woman is the one ''who tries to seduce Kirk'', but fails when he proves able to IgnoreTheFanservice, and she is then [[YouHaveFailedMe killed by her boss for this failure]].

** The Fourth Doctor actually wasn't as big on the [[TrademarkFavouriteFood jelly babies]] as people remember -- at least until the Graham Williams era [[LighterAndSofter kicked off]]. He offers some to Sarah and Harry at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot Robot]]" and tosses the bag to Vira at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E2TheArkInSpace The Ark in Space]]", and a second bag appears amongst various CowTools when turning out his pockets in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]" (in a scene that's really easy to miss). That's it for the whole of Season 12. They don't appear at all in Season 13. In fact, the Doctor uses his ''yo-yo'' gimmick more frequently than the jelly babies in the Hinchcliffe era (making nine appearances versus the jelly babies' six appearances). Somehow, simply because it was featured early on, the jelly baby association stuck enough that featuring more jelly baby scenes in Season 14 ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E4TheFaceOfEvil The Face of Evil]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]" both use jelly babies cleverly) was catering to fan demand (see the letter to Creator/RobertHolmes featured on the DVD of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius The Brain of Morbius]]" in which a fan asks what happened to the Doctor's jelly babies). It's not until Season 15 that the "Hello, I'm the Doctor, would you like a jelly baby?" routine begins to show up, and even then it's still absent more often than it's used.

** The show is also notorious for its crappy treatment of female characters, especially love interests. More than one was killed off because the writers listened to the loudest internet fans, many of whom were YaoiFangirl types who hated any female that threatened their slash fantasies. Plenty of fans, in fact, liked ''some'' of those characters and new fans are often bewildered by the abrupt exit/gruesome deaths of female characters. This was so egregious that at least one actor called out the show for it. On top of that, the show had a habit of producing meta episodes with TakeThat stories about their fans that were played off as good-natured ribbing but can come off as the writers bitterly resenting some fans.

** For a show created by and for straight guys, meant to be a broish answer to Buffy, the show sure is famous for its HomoeroticSubtext. Seriously, people who know nothing else about the show probably know about the controversy over making Destiel canon, the [[IncestYay incestuous subtext]] or the long debate about the show's queerbaiting. In fact, after 15 seasons, the most talked-about element of the final season was the inept attempt to make Destiel sort of canon.
** The show is also notorious for its crappy treatment of female characters, especially love interests. More than one was killed off because the writers listened to the loudest internet fans, many of whom were YaoiFangirl types who hated any female that threatened their slash fantasies. Plenty of fans, in fact, liked some of those characters and new fans are often bewildered by the abrupt exit/gruesome deaths of female characters. This was so egregious that at least one actor called out the show for it. On top of that, the show had a habit of writing meta episodes TakeThat stories about their fans that were played off as good-natured ribbing but can come off as the writers bitterly resenting some fans.

** For a show created by and for straight guys, meant to be a broish answer to Buffy, the show sure is famous for its HomoeroticSubtext. Seriously, people who know nothing else about the show probably know about the debate over making Destiel canon or the [[IncestYay incestuous subtext]] or the long debate about the show's queerbaiting. After 15 seasons, the most talked-about element of the final season was the inept attempt to make Destiel sort of canon.
** The show is also notorious for its crappy treatment of female characters, especially love interests. More than one was killed off because the writers listened to the loudest internet fans, many of whom were YaoiFangirl types who hated any female that threatened their slash fantasies. Plenty of fans, in fact, liked some of those characters and new fans are often bewildered by the abrupt exit/gruesome deaths of female characters. This was so egregious that at least one actor called out the show for it.

** For a show created by and for straight guys, meant to be a broish answer to Buffy, the show sure is famous for its HomoeroticSubtext. Seriously, people who know nothing else about the show probably know about the debate over making Destiel canon or the [[IncestYay incestuous subtext]]. After 15 seasons, the most talked-about element of the final season was the inept attempt to make Destiel sort of canon.

* One of the most memorable moments of British chat show ''Parkinson'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kek1vs6bM2k was when he interviewed Rod Hull]], who attacked Michael Parkinson with his puppet Emu. In later years, Parkinson lamented that despite all the star guests he had interviewed during his career, he would always be remembered for "that bloody bird."

** Amy Pond sexually assaulted the Doctor at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone Flesh and Stone]]". Even thought she never does it again and remains faithful to her fiancé then husband Rory for the rest of her run, some fans still resent her for this. Steven Moffat quickly came to regret writing the scene, and especially playing it for laughs.
** Rory has been referred to ''in-show'' as "the man who dies and dies again." He's only done it for real once. He's just... very good at creating the ''illusion'' of death. By accident. Lots. It's also strange that Rory alone is remembered for this -- Steven Moffat has a habit of having ''everyone'' die a lot.

** For a show created by and for straight guys, meant to be a broish answer to Buffy, the show sure is famous for its HomoeroticSubtext. Seriously, people who know nothing else about the show probably know about the debate over making Destiel canon or the [[IncestYay accidental incestuous subtext]]. After 15 seasons, the most talked-about element of the final season was the inept attempt to make Destiel sort of canon.

* In the Franchise/StargateVerse, the Goa'uld sarchophagus is a healing device that can reverse pretty much any injury seen thus far that does not violate the ChunkySalsaRule. Many characters have been brought back from apparent death by it (Poor Daniel has had several turns in it.) However, there was an episode called "Need" in which the guest star of the week asked Daniel, "Have you ever wondered what happens if you use one while healthy?" Turns out the answer to that is it's like a drug. ''If you use it '''repeatedly''' when '''healthy,''''' you become addicted and start to go dark side. But try telling that to fans: ever since "Need," the sarcophagus has been treated as an insta-evil-ifiying ArtifactOfDoom: imagine the [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings One Ring]] and the [[Franchise/SpiderMan Venom Symbiote]], roll 'em together, then make 'em about forty times worse. Never mind that in ''real life'' we have something that promotes healing, but can become quite horrible with overuse, or use when not actually suffering from the condition it's made for; we call it… [[spoiler: ''every medication in the history of ever''.]] The writers fall into the trap once (the Tok'ra don't use sarcophagi for fear of becoming like the Goa'uld. Again, ridiculous when "Need," the episode that introduces the drug effect, also makes it abundantly clear that it's only through misuse that this happens!) but later episodes have again had the sarcophagus used on those who really ''did'' need its healing properties, most memorably to allow Baal to horribly torture O'Neill to death over and over and over and restore him for more; Daniel ''feared'' that the sarcophagus might begin to mess with O'Neill's head but it never happened.

** A lot of traits associated with the Doctor's character in general are actually just traits of the more popular incarnations, usually the Fourth or Tenth - a sort of vague conglomerate ShallowParody Doctor who wears Victorian clothing and a long scarf, eats jelly babies, is always comically dramatic about everything, suffers great and dramatic internal conflict over [[DirtyBusiness all the genocide he has to do]], kisses teenagers and cries about it, and won't touch a gun. Gareth Roberts (a writer on the New series) pointed out in an interview that there's an idea that the Doctor talks in AntiquatedLinguistics, something only so much as touched upon by the Fourth and Sixth, and even then only in moments.
** The Fourth Doctor actually wasn't as big on the [[TrademarkFavouriteFood jelly babies]] as people remember - at least until the Graham Williams era [[LighterAndSofter kicked off]]. He offers some to Sarah and Harry at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot Robot]]" and tosses the bag to Vira at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E2TheArkInSpace The Ark in Space]]", and a second bag appears amongst various CowTools when turning out his pockets in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]" (in a scene that's really easy to miss). That's it for the whole of Season 12. They don't appear at all in Season 13. In fact, the Doctor uses his ''yo-yo'' gimmick more frequently than the jelly babies in the Hinchcliffe era (making nine appearances versus the jelly babies' six appearances). Somehow, simply because it was featured early on, the jelly baby association stuck enough that featuring more jelly baby scenes in Season 14 ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E4TheFaceOfEvil The Face of Evil]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]" both use jelly babies cleverly) was catering to fan demand (see the letter to Creator/RobertHolmes featured on the DVD of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius The Brain of Morbius]]" in which a fan asks what happened to the Doctor's jelly babies). It's not until Season 15 that the "Hello, I'm the Doctor, would you like a jelly baby?" routine begins to show up, and even then it's still absent more often than it's used.

*** The Doctor from the ninth onward in general. With the original series' NoHuggingNoKissing rule being relaxed in the new series, any sign of him not being completely asexual is treated as him having become a sex maniac to rival [[ExtremeOmnisexual Jack Harkness]]. In fact, he gets kissed, to his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yoi4wM0Jiw hilarious]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UsUSx8rfsc bewilderment,]] as a RunningGag and so does a lot of snogging ''whether he wants to or not,'' and has had flirtatious teasing with several characters, and that is quite a change from the classic series, but that's light-years away from "every companion is also a love interest, and he's banging every RecurringCharacter on the side." In fact, a theme that's ''also'' played up more in the revived series is how ancient and alien and alone the "lonely god" is, making the normal idea of a romance with him impossible (as several characters who have loved him have learned. River Song would give ''anything'' for their arc to be about "consummating" anything. Though yes, technically she ''is'' his wife. As always with the Doctor, it's complicated.) ShippingGoggles combine in a very nasty way with the fandom's defensiveness of his asexuality: In most shows, to fans, the two leads being close means they're shagging. In Doctor Who, the two leads being close means they're shagging - and therefore the Doctor and the series are ruined.
*** From the other direction when it comes to the Doctor's asexuality: The idea that he's ''completely'' asexual and aromantic mostly derives from the Fourth Doctor's line to Countess Scarlioni in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]", "You're a beautiful woman, probably." Since the First Doctor's first companion had been his own ''granddaughter,'' chances are that line wasn't intended to say romance is 100% foreign to him - and Tom Baker's delivery of the line leaves open the interpretation that he's conveying to her that he's aware that she's trying to use her attractiveness to distract him. (Supporting this is that the line takes place while the two are drinking together, and follows some {{UST}}-laden interactions between them such as the Countess and Count discussing how the 'tall man' must have found her attractive, and the Doctor collapsing into her lap.)

** The Ninth Doctor called humans '[[FantasticRacism stupid apes]]' once, but it's become something very strongly associated with his character - not just in fanfiction, where he drops 'ape' at least once a fic, but Creator/ChristopherEccleston even did it himself while briefly reprising his role [[CreatorBacklash (!)]] in a guest video for the BFI's ''Doctor Who'' 50th Anniversary party:

** Rose Tyler eats lots of chips. She doesn't, they're mentioned in her first two episodes, then she eats some in her first finale and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]]". But fans are convinced.

** Amy Pond sexually assaulted the Doctor at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone Flesh and Stone]]". Even thought she never does it again and remains faithful to her fiancé then husband Rory for the rest of her run, some fans still resent her for this. Stephen Moffat quickly came to regret writing the scene, and especially playing it for laughs.
** Rory has been referred to ''in-show'' as "the man who dies and dies again." He's only done it for real once. He's just... very good at creating the ''illusion'' of death. By accident. Lots. It's also strange that Rory alone is remembered for this - Steven Moffat has a habit of having ''everyone'' die a lot.

** Kirk is also notorious in and out of universe for violating the Prime Directive. However in many such cases, Kirk is responding to situations where it has ''already been broken'' — either by other Starfleet officers, civilian spacers, or worse hostile forces such as the Klingons — and is merely trying to repair or minimize the damage without making it worse. Additionally, at other times Kirk would gladly comply with the Directive and be on his way...only to be ''ordered'' to violate planetary sovereignity by his superiors (see "A Taste of Armageddon").

** [[Series/KamenRiderBlack Shadow Moon]] is undoubtably the most popular Franchise/KamenRider villains. And that's all he's remembered as. Even though in his canonical death in Series/KamenRiderBlackRX, he had a last moment HeelFaceTurn, that's always forgotten in favor of how ''kickass'' he was as a villain. (This is even in-show: in Kamen Rider World, he was the BigBad, and ''giant-sized for no good reason,'' and the first ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' movie has an AlternateUniverse Shadow Moon who [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] two Riders with the power to destroy the world ''at the same time'' until ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' shows up and completely turns the tables. Not one word about getting Nobuhiko back to his family's side has ever come up in his non-Black or Black RX appearances.)

** Many fans tend to ignore Michael's more positive (or at least less negative) traits after his MoralEventHorizon moment in season 2 (i.e., [[spoiler: murdering Ana Lucia and Libby]]). While the act was certainly indefensible (which makes this a partial case of JustifiedTrope), fans gloss over the fact that having your son kidnapped by strangers on a weird island doesn't exactly make a loving parent rational, nor did the fans acknowledge what he did AFTERWARD, which contradicts the assumption that he's an amoral, heartless bastard. This includes never ending guilt for doing the aforementioned act, which sparked numerous suicide attempts, and a last ditch effort to help the friends he betrayed on the island. Hell, even Hurley later forgave Michael for what he did, despite him [[spoiler: killing Hurley's girlfriend Libby]]. Good luck finding fans who feel the same way Hurley did. Or maybe after screaming "WAAAAALT" too much, people started considering him only as The Guy Who Screams "Walt", even after he built two rafts, or after Walt and him stopped sharing any screentime.

** For a show created by and for straight guys, meant to be a broish answer to Buffy, the show sure is famous for its HomoeroticSubtext. Seriously, people who know nothing else about the show probably know about the debate over making Destiel canon or the [[IncestYay accidental incestuous subtext]]. After 15 Seasons, the most talked-about element of the final season was the inept attempt to make Destiel sort of canon.

** Castiel becoming the BigBad of Season 6 could have been avoided if he had just revealed his plans to Sam and Dean rather than concealing his deal with Crowley. Instead, he betrays his friends, backstabs Crowley and goes insane with power. Some fans are still resentful the writers took a popular character so dark, and despite the redemption arc he was given some fans don't forget.

* Jessica Brody from ''Series/{{Homeland}}'' going on a racist tirade about how evil Islam is in the season two premiere, capped off by desecrating her husband's Quaran. The idea was apparently that her major concern was him keeping his conversion hidden from her for so long, but it certainly doesn't come off that way.

** Jaime raping Cersei in "Breaker of Chains." The viewers will never let him live that down, no matter what he did afterward or what character development he got. Made even worse by the episode's director insisting it was supposed to be a consensual sex scene even though he was aggressive and she resisted at first, and refusing to acknowledge that it could possibly be seen as anything but that. The show still carried on with him having his usual PetTheDog moments and acting his usual self with nobody in the show making a big deal out of it, but the fandom will never forget about it no matter what good things he may have done afterward. The writers tried really hard to make him likable again after that, but nothing could redeem him in some viewers' eyes.

* ''Series/GilligansIsland'': Gilligan is so infamous for "always" accidentally ruining the Castaways' plans to get off the island that JustEatGilligan became a meme and then a trope. But a dedicated fan decided to watch every episode and make note of the number of episodes the castaways tried to get off the island and the number of those episodes where their plans were ruined by Gilligan. It turns out Gilligan bungles their plans in exactly 17 episodes. Which is still a lot, but it's less than half of the number of episodes the Castaways tried to escape, 37. More importantly, there were 98 episode total. So Gilligan botched the Castaways rescue/escape attempts less than half the time they tried and in only a little more than a sixth of all episodes.

** How could anyone forget the time when Felicity [[spoiler: blew up an entire city because she somehow wasn't able to redirect the bomb to a much less populated place than its original destination?]]

* SpaghettiWestern fans remember the ''Series/{{Rawhide}}'' episode "Incident of the Black Sheep" for little more than being the episode that got Creator/ClintEastwood his StarMakingRole for the big screen as the Man with No Name.

* In the early 1990s, there was a span of game shows that aired on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}: ''Series/NickArcade'', ''Series/GetThePicture'' and ''[[Series/DoubleDare1986 Family Double Dare]]''. Each one had a trip to Universal Studios in its grand prize rotation which was ''where the shows were taped''. Fans remember these shows for being cheap simply because of that grand prize alone.