Worst episode of your favorite TV show(s)

[JagermanXcell]

Can't really recall some of my favorite classic TV shows, so I'll use a most recent show: Persona 4 the Animation.

Ironically the worst was the final FINAL episode 26: "No One Is Alone"
The entire series was paced very nicely to accommodate the games story line, episode 25 having this feeling of just epic to the point where it felt like the final battle, but of course Persona 4 isn't Persona 4 without the grand scale of the True Ending... it didn't turn out well...

26 fell flat, sure it had really cool final battle and the neat Yu resolve, but the REAL final battle with the REAL antagonist was dumbed down drastically, not to mention all that good pacing throughout the series all of a sudden felt rushed and desperate for an extension over 30min. Its as if the episode's budget was cut and there was little time for polish, leaving me a bit confused at main plot points in the episode... at least I think they were main plot points... or something. This was the finale, so to see it done in such an awkward fashion was really disappointing.

 

[Arakasi]

Any clip show?
And having just watched the last episode of Malcolm in the Middle, that wasn't great.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Breaking Bad: I can't think of one.

Walking Dead: Most of season 2.

Community: The one where Abed makes a religious film.

Dexter: I'm sure there's been more than a few duds but I can't think of them off the top of my head.

Game of Thrones: Can't think of one in particular but there are a few that jump around too much to really have a sense of anything happening in the episode.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The one where Dee seduces an army guy over the internet.

 

[crotchdot]

Most of the second season of the Walking Dead was meh, some episodes were downright bad.

I'll second that. Although it picked up again in season 3 when Jesus left the show.

 

[crotchdot]

Breaking Bad: I can't think of one.

For me it's the bottle episode with the fly (can't remember which season). I appreciate that they'd gone over budget with some big explosions that season, and as much as it was something of an acting tour de force for Brian Cranston, it was also a pretty boring episode. But bottle episodes usually are.

 

[Ghaleon640]

There were a couple episodes of Desert Punk where the main character was just too much of an asshole. But then again, that was the point of the show. He kept becoming almost endearing at moments because he was the main character, but there would always be some new big step up in being an asshole.

 

[Ghaleon640]

Most of the second season of the Walking Dead was meh, some episodes were downright bad.

I'll second that. Although it picked up again in season 3 when Jesus left the show.

I hear Robert Kirkman was responsible for season 2. (The writer of the comic.) Great talent for comics, (Someone should do something with Invincible) but not quite so for television.

 

[Happiness Assassin]

Most of the second season of the Walking Dead was meh, some episodes were downright bad.

I'll second that. Although it picked up again in season 3 when Jesus left the show.

I hear Robert Kirkman was responsible for season 2. (The writer of the comic.) Great talent for comics, (Someone should do something with Invincible) but not quite so for television.

I heard that it more had to do with the fact that budget was the same as the first season, but with twice the episodes. Essentially they had to piddle around just to save money.

 

[MarlonBlazed]

I recently had the misfortune of seeing what is known as the worst episode of Transformers G1 ever made.

http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/B.O.T._(episode)

 

[Roggen Bread]

The LARPing Episode of Supernatural (S08E11).
While it was somewhat funny the whole thing was just so... forced...

 

[mrhappy1489]

Does Sherlock count? They seem more like TV movies than episodes of a show... Regardless, I don't seem to get why a lot of people seem to like The Blind Banker. I thought it was rather uninteresting compared to the rest.

Of other shows: "Dragon Quest" of MLP and the first damn episode of Game of Thrones.
Dragon Quest was cliched, boring and offensive to dragons, which are the best things ever.
The first episode of Game of Thrones consisted mainly of dialogue between characters I hadn't had any reason to care about yet about nothing that's particularly interesting until you know the characters.

That's pretty much what it was like in the book though in Bran's first chapter. It's basically there to give that glimmer into the vast world that lies ahead, although I do agree that it's not exactly fast paced. If I had to think of an episode from one of my favourite tv shows, it would probably be the episode of Game of Thrones in season two where Jon runs of with Yigritte. Theres so much awesome Qhorin dialogue that's missed out on and it's just really disappointing. I didn't dislike the dialogue or anything, it just made everything that happens to Qhorin that less significant. They could have honestly replaced him with a talking pumpkin and it would have changed anything. Captcha: What For, that is exactly the question I was asking captcha.

 

[Happiness Assassin]

Most of the second season of the Walking Dead was meh, some episodes were downright bad.

Battlestar Galactica messed up most of the major character changes in the fourth season pretty badly.

I remember the last episode of Seinfeld being one of the most disappointing episodes of that show.

EDIT: Also The Legend of Korra was just completely boring when the focus was that love triangle cliche.

The fuck? Legend of Korra was one of the best animated series in the last decade!

Bad episodes:

House M.D.: Pretty much season 8
Sherlock: The Hounds of Baskerville (though they made it up with the awesome "Reichenbach Falls")
The Simpsons: All Singing, All Dancing (WTF)

Exactly and that is why I didn't like the love triangle. While everything else was top notch, it was merely par for the course. Boring. Meh. And when you a have a show that is anything but, then it really stands out.

 

[Dwarfman]

Babylon 5 "Grey 17 is Missing". The sad part is that the B plot involving Londo and Raefa is pretty cool. Why oh why did they have an A plot where Garibaldi gets lost in Grey section get's caught by religous nut jobs then has to fight his way past the WORST MONSTER IN THE HISTORY OF HISTORY to escape. Not even Freddie Kruger and ironic gospel singing could save that episode.

 

[Dwarfman]

Andromeda - Quite a bit of Season 4 and 5, honestly. I just... don't know what they were doing there, and I doubt none of the actors knew either.

Very interesting thing there. The original writers had a disagreement with the top brass about where the show was going to go. The writers wanted to do the Baylon 5 thing. That is to say progressive story yadda yadda. The producers and what not wanted a cash cow TV. So the original writers left the show at the end of season 1 or there abouts.

They had enough content to get by for season 2 and then season 3 started getting weird in places. Incidently end of third season was when the actor playing Tyr stepped down from the main cast, because he didn't like the "new" direction his character was going.

 

[Reaper195]

There were a few episode of the beginning of season 2 in The Walking Dead. That was possibly the slowest shit I've ever seen a show ever do.

 

[SajuukKhar]

The very last two episodes of Evangelion.

Such a great show, almost ruined because of how bad the final two episodes were.

Luckily, they made it up with the End of Evangelion movie.

 

[Frybird]

Some had been mentioned already, but anyway:

Doctor Who - "Love and Rockets" - New Who had a good bunch of Episodes that were "meh" or even "bad" (Fear Her, Night Terrors and the Sontaran Two Parter come to mind), but all of them had at least something redeemable to them. "Love and Rockets" however, is just awful.

Futurama - "The Sting" - I know a good bunch of people like this episode, but i found the whole "Leela goes crazy and stuff" schtick rather tedious and the concept of the episode a bit forced (did anyone actually think Fry would die??). Dishonorable Mentions go to "Attack of the Killer App" and "Proposition Infinity" for being mostly lame episodes with cheap gags that happened to be aired right next to each other and giving ever Fan Nightmares about whether the whole revived season would be like this.

South Park - "Make Love, not Warcraft" - Once again, i know many people who like this episode, and i can only believe that they must've been blinded by the fact that it cleverly uses actual WoW Ingame Footage. For me, that makes it look like a shameless ad, and the jokes of this episode were old and very lame (MMO Nerds are fat lazy people who take thier game far to seriously? Never heard that one before!)
Also "Scott Tenorman must die"...one shocking conclusion does not make a good episode, and none of it was funny.

Community - "History 101" i think...the new one - I really really did not want to jump on the "Community sucks without its creator" bandwagon, but my god, this episode seemed to be written by someone who does not get, and worse, does not like Community. It had all the supposed elements - the over the top sexuality of the Dean, Weird TV-Delusions from Abed, a sorta-kinda movie parody, Troy acting childish, Pierce making lame gay jokes - but all of them seemed lifeless, forced and badly written, and i waited for all of it being a big punchline and it never happened.
Also, i kinda hate the first Episode/Pilot. It seems uninspired and all of the characters are introduced in a way that makes them look boring or unlikeable. It actually convinced me that Community must suck, and i ignored the show for far too long until a friend of mine showed me the error of my ways.

Battlestar Galactica (new) - "The Woman King" - While there are technically worse filler episodes, i found this one the most annoying. "Look, we have Fantasy-Racism! Too bad we never talked about it before and never really will talk about it again. But we have something really important to say, like, racism is bad and stuff".

Adventure Time - "Trouble in Lumpy Space" - a very boring episode that introduced a character i don't really like (even though i admit that even LSP has some great moments) and only has one or two good jokes. There might be worse episodes, but this one is the second segment of the very first episode, so it gives the entire series a rather bad start.

Sherlock - "The Hounds of Baskerville" - They tried to modernize one of the more "mysterious/supposedly supernatural" Stories and they just failed. It seems that the middle episode of each run will always be disappointing, but even "The Blind Banker" was far better than that.

Cowboy Bebop - "Pierrot le Fou" - While i can't deny that the episode is very, very creepy, i also just find it too mad and "out there" for the series to really enjoy it.

I think i'm done for now