Worst episode of your favorite TV show(s)

[scorptatious]

MLP FIM: "Spike at your Service"

I don't know, I just didn't like this episode very much. Something tells me Spike wouldn't just straight up abandon Twilight just because Applejack saved his life. Plus in previous episodes, it kinda shows that he's not always into working and he even left to find out about his dragon heritage.

One of the newer episodes, "Just for Sidekicks", I felt did a much better job at portraying Spike's personality.

 

[scorptatious]

Pick almost any episode of Dexter's Lab after they began re-airing it. The episode titled "Go Dexter's Family Go!" was especially bad and kind of crapped on the episode the song originated from.

Wait, re-airing it as in making new episodes, or reruns? And for how long has it been going on? I haven't watched Cartoon Network in a long time, so I don't know much about what shows are or aren't running anymore.

 

[Fappy]

Pick almost any episode of Dexter's Lab after they began re-airing it. The episode titled "Go Dexter's Family Go!" was especially bad and kind of crapped on the episode the song originated from.

Wait, re-airing it as in making new episodes, or reruns? And for how long has it been going on? I haven't watched Cartoon Network in a long time, so I don't know much about what shows are or aren't running anymore.

New episodes. Mind you these "new" episodes aired like... 6 or 7 years ago at the very least. They began production after the original creator and some of the voice actors had moved on.

 

[scorptatious]

Pick almost any episode of Dexter's Lab after they began re-airing it. The episode titled "Go Dexter's Family Go!" was especially bad and kind of crapped on the episode the song originated from.

Wait, re-airing it as in making new episodes, or reruns? And for how long has it been going on? I haven't watched Cartoon Network in a long time, so I don't know much about what shows are or aren't running anymore.

New episodes. Mind you these "new" episodes aired like... 6 or 7 years ago at the very least. They began production after the original creator and some of the voice actors had moved on.

Ah, okay. I think I know what you're talking about now. I've seen a couple of those episodes via Boomerang, and I didn't really like them much. I remember watching one episode that involved an ostrich, and I couldn't help but think, "this is just stupid, what the heck did I see in this show?".

Turns out those were the bad episodes.

 

[TK421]

The Foxy arc on One Piece was pretty bad. It was filler though.

Soul Eater: The ending

Bleach: Anything after episode 310/311 or so. It was a pretty great show up until then, but they acted like new stuff was gonna happen and just kept up the same cycle. Big bad guy beats up Ichigo/Ichigo unlocks hidden power/Ichigo beats bad guy(s).

Spoiler

They even acted like he would lose his powers, but they just gave them right back to him anyway >:[

 

[BM19]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned "Beer Bad" from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

You know, the one where Buffy and some people turn into cavemen from drinking beer that some random guy spiked with some poorly-explained potion, and then there's a really overt (I mean, it's in the TITLE) message about how alcohol is terrible?

I love that show, but Jesus... What a terrible episode.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Doctor Who: "Love and Monsters" Just what the bloody hell were they thinking?

Ninja'd so hard.

I couldn't believe how terrible it was. It didn't even seem to be from the same show. And the alien was so stupid, it seemed like it was designed by a 5 year ol- OH WAIT.

I'll also throw in "All About the Mormons?" form South Park. It just annoyed me because it utterly ignored everything wrong with the Mormon faith and seemed to suggest it's perfectly reasonable and if you criticize it, you're an asshole

 

[Robot Number V]

I want to go again to mention that even though Last Airbender was a kid's show, some of the filler episodes were pretty...wretched. The one with the underground maze and the traveling hippies to comes to mind, and the one with the canyon with the two tribes that hated each other. I mean, there are plenty of other episodes that actually teach kids valuable lessons(or whatever) WITHOUT being cringe-worthy, but these....weren't it.

Also, the filler episode of Legend of Korra that focused on the love triangle was boring as fuck. I honestly don't think any of the characters (except maybe...shit, the non-bender girl. I have no idea what her name is.) came out of that sub-plot looking good. Korra is petty and self-centered, Mako is pretty damn inconsiderate and dickish to both of the girls he's got a thing for, and Bolin just comes off as a massive wimp. I'm just saying, that whole subplot was worth then worthless and token, it actually hurt the characters.

Well, that's enough petty complaints about children's shows for today.

 

[Epona]

There's a couple episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that come to mind. The one where Dax falls in love with a guy whose planet vanishes all the time. But that pales in comparison to the episode where half the cast goes to Risa, which was just painful. And there was the one where Quark dressed up as a woman, I don't even know what that was meant to be.

Most of the Ferengi episodes suck but atleast they were better than TNG's Ferengi episodes like The Last Outpost.

You're kidding!

'Round my way folks consider the episodes featuring Ferrengi or Cardassians as pretty much the only watchable DS9 episodes. Also episodes where Odo is a miserable curmudgeon, but not episodes where Odo pines for love or acceptance or his people. The episodes of DS9 that suck are the episodes where they ask us to care about Bajoran politics, Dax being a Mary Sue, or Bashir trying to get him some.

The best DS9 episodes were about the Dominion War.

 

[shadyh8er]

The episode of South Park that took place in a water park. It was literally just one long piss joke. The name of the episode was even "Pee."

 

[maconlon439]

The Episode of Psych guest starring Jane Lynch. I think Jane Lynch is a fine actress and I've liked her in other stuff, but throughout the episode Detective Lassiter lusts over her character. I think she's a fine actress, but Jane Lynch is not an overly attractive woman, and I find Detective Lassiters behavior very unrealistic.

 

[shadyh8er]

Forgot one: The Cowboy Bebop episode about feng shui (forgot the name).....that was just so outta place.

Boogie Woogie Feng Shui is what it's called. I've yet to meet anyone who likes that episode.

 

[Alcamonic]

Stargate Universe - More or less whole of Season 1 and 2. Very few decent episodes were had. Those that featured and centered around Nicholas Rush (played by the great Robert Carlyle) were watchable.

Edit: It's not my favourite show by any means, but it (barely) takes place in the same verse as SG1 and Atlantis, so it counts.

 

[Kinitawowi]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned "Beer Bad" from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

You know, the one where Buffy and some people turn into cavemen from drinking beer that some random guy spiked with some poorly-explained potion, and then there's a really overt (I mean, it's in the TITLE) message about how alcohol is terrible?

I love that show, but Jesus... What a terrible episode.

I was on the way, but you got there first. Damn that was rubbish. Deliberately so, by all accounts (the heavy handed anti-alcohol message was specifically intended to secure funding from some campaign, or something), but "so bad it's bad" is not something to aim for. I can almost let it off for "Foamy!" (and replace it with "Listening To Fear" or most of the second half of S7), but not quite.

Red Dwarf: As the user name suggests, I love you guys; but there is no excuse for "Duct Soup".

Skins: When it's good, it's the greatest thing on television. When it's bad, it's S3 "Cook". Even the fourth Effy episode made a modicum of thematic sense; "Cook", on the other hand, is the nearest the show has ever come to all-out filler. (I haven't watched most of S5 or S6 yet.)

The Simpsons: Clip shows are almost universally terrible (the one glorious exception is, of all things, "Yes Virginia, There Is A Hercules"), but "All Singing, All Dancing" mentioned above takes the cake.

Doctor Who: "Fear Her" is worse than "Love And Monsters". There, I said it.

 

[RaikuFA]

It's not my favorite show but my GF wanted me to watch an episode of Law and Order SVU. Boy did I regret it. The episode is called "True Believers" and is about a white girl that gets raped at gunpoint by a black guy. Why am I bringing up their ethnicities? Cause the guys lawyer sure loves reminding the viewer. His whole defense is "She's white therefore she can't tell the diffrence between black people therefore shes a racist and has it in for black people." Not only does this work and he walks but this "lawyer" goes up to the female lead(who by the way promised this girl that he would not walk.) and pals it up with her. Fucking disgusting garbage. The only way they could redeem themselves from this is if they do a episode where it turns out that he forged evidence during the trial.

Also I've been getting into Criminal Minds and there's two episodes(well three but one's a two parter) that I'm not a fan of. The first one is Mosley Lane. Despite it having a happier ending than most episodes of this series, the criminals were the problem. They never explained why the criminals did what they did. It was just them kidnapping no rhyme or reason. The same with the two parter "Lo-Fi" and "Mayhem" it was just "terrorism, just cause".

 

[Traveling Hero]

I was going to say the last episode of Battlestar Galactica, but The Woman King was far worse. I had ALMOST forgotten it's existence, so... thanks for that. (._.)

 

[Kitsune Hunter]

The Big Bang Theory: At the start of the series, I liked Leonard, he was an adorkable woobie that just wanted to get the girl, but as the series went on, he became more of an asshole, best summed up by Sheldon when he said, "I used to have sympathy for the Leonard character, but now I just find him to be whiny and annoying". However any likability I had for Leonard died after the Season 5 episode, "The Good Guy Fluctuation" where he cheated on his girlfriend Priya, I don't like her in fact I hate her, but still you just don't do that you fucking douchebag and he actually believes he was a good guy for admitting it to the girl he was cheating with, what a douchebag

Naruto and Bleach filler: Do I even need to explain this?

How I Met Your Mother: The Wedding Bride, Now I don't really like Ted all that much, but he didn't deserve what happened here. Earlier on in the series, Ted was left at the alter by his soon to be bride, Stella and left him a note explaining that she ran off with her douchebag ex-boyfriend Tony. Later on Tony would make a film called the Wedding Bride which is pretty much a big F you to Ted whereby in the film Tony paints himself as one big Mary Sue and paints Ted as massive asshole who treated Stella like crap. This really pissed me off that Tony got away with that, not to mention just like my choice for the Big Bang Theory, I really hate cheaters