Yahoo Lifestyle Honestly, These 23 TV Episodes Make Me Wonder How They Even Made It Past Script Approval
Reddit user @moon_jock asked Reddit, "What’s the worst episode of a good TV show ever made?"
"Worst" is obviously a subjective opinion, but these responses have many supporters, so who I am to argue?
1."That one episode of Stranger Things where Eleven went to some shit city to hang out with the most stereotypical goons that reeked of them playing at a lame spin-off attempt."
2."When Eric went to Africa and was replaced by Randy in [That] 70’s Show."
3."Where do I start with Game of Thrones final season 🤣"
"Game of thrones last episode was a painful disaster."
4."I’ll get hate for liking The Big Bang Theory, but the episode where Sheldon can’t figure out why his equations or some shit isn’t working out, and has to keep visualizing electrons and other atoms with food and other stuff, until he discovers electrons act as particles and waves. Every basic college level physics class explains this and he, a genius holding several degrees, needs peas to help him have this scientific breakthrough. Pisses me off."
5."The TNG episode where [Dr. Crusher] has sex with a [Scottish] ghost."
6."That episode of Blue’s Clues where Steve went to college."
Of course, we can't forget the original "bad" episode:
7."When Fonzie jumped the shark."
Bonus Community reference from u/ShawshankException, "Oh, and for the record? There was an episode of Happy Days where a guy literally jumped over a shark. And it was the best one."
8."The one episode of Lost that explains where Jack got his Tattoo. Season 3 episode 'Stranger in a Strange Land.'"
9."Series finale of Dexter. Felt insanely rushed, Dexter didn’t behave the way we as viewers know he would behave and they just ended it in a terrible way. I was furious. That was 10 years ago and I’m still furious."
10."Popular shows making PSAs/“very special episodes” is very common. But mother of God, what the fuck was going on when Joss wrote “Beer Bad” for [Buffy the Vampire Slayer]???"
11."[How I Met Your Mother] show finale."
"Honestly more so those last few minutes, it wasn’t necessarily bad that Tracy… you know, but Ted’s kids being so apathetic and getting him to run back off to Robin again was such a slap in the face. And pretty much all because they were so insistent on not just re-recording the '[And] that kids, is how I met your mother' scene because the kid actors are older now?"
"I feel Ted could have had a whole new character arc about moving on regarding Tracy and the things he learns from that, but I’d still rather have a cut short open ended finale than what we got in the very last few moments"
12.[Grey's Anatomy] musical episode. ['If I Lay Here…'] ugh.
13."Doctor Who. The moon is an egg. Don't remember the actual name of the episode."
-u/rdkitchens (The episode is named "Kill the Moon," by the way.)
14."The last episode of The Man in the High Castle. It’s almost as if they never planned an ending and just rushed it all in the last 20 minutes. What a waste of a series."
15."The episode of Ted Lasso where we find out that his old couple’s therapist who convinced his ex wife that she needed space away from Ted is now dating said ex wife."
"It completely undermines one of the major messages of the first two seasons which was that therapy is important and nothing to be ashamed of. Now they tell their audience that if you go to therapy there’s a chance that your shrink will manipulate your wife into leaving you for him.
The worst part, though, is that nothing is made of the massive obvious ethical violations that accompany a therapist dating their [ex-patient]. Instead the show thinks that Ted’s arc over the season should be learning to be ok with it."
16."Letterkenny’s 'Fartbook'"
"I can’t BELIEVE that’s the 3rd (?) episode of the whole series overall - how it retained the same audience after that, sheesh."
17."[Seinfeld, 'The Dog'] Easily the worst, half the episode is the dog barking and Jerry yelling back at the dog, nothing funny happens the entire episode."
18."Chuck was the biggest heartbreak I've ever suffered from a TV show. I will periodically groan out loud, and my wife will immediately know, 'Are you thinking about the end of 'Chuck' again???' It could be months between, but the groan is known."
19."First episode of [Black Mirror]. Show is great and I assume they wanted to weed out those who wouldn't make it through."
20."The Rick & Morty episode 'Rise of the Numbercons'. Just terrible. You could explain to me what they were trying to parody, but I won't care, it was so poorly done and so unnecessary."
21."Star Trek: The Next Generation, 'Code of Honor'. "Let's make 'the planet of the black people' as a thing and make them all superstitious, tribal, and stealing the white women." Most of the cast have said they regret making the episode."
22."First episode of the last season of [Brooklyn Nine-Nine]. Too much...too much. Rosa quitting and becoming a pothead and Jake becoming a bully [were] not endings we needed."
23."The Golden Girls one with Rita Moreno where they tried to force a spin-off to happen... basically it opens with Rose and Sophia talking about some people you've never heard of... then we go to those people's house and the main characters leave us there, with these strangers, for the rest of the episode. Confusing and bad."
Which good TV shows had some really stinker episodes? Let us know in the comments!
Note: Some responses have been edited for length/clarity.
