Andy Griffith Show, where Gomer joins the Marines as the spinoff for the Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. show. Instant channel changer.
The Musical Episode. The show doesn’t matter. At no point have I ever watched a TV show and thought, “You, know these folks should do a musical episode”.
Babylon 5 has a few, with many in the first season. I skip over a lot of the first season. The show was still coming together.
**Battlestar Galactica **- the black market episode was subpar. Even Ronald Moore has said the final cut of the episode was a mess compared to what they had thought. The racists doctor episode was also a bit of a letdown.
X-files - I won’t mention season 8 or 9. In the prime of the show, they still had Space and First Person Shooter, terrible episodes.
I’ll fourth or fifth this one. Wow, it was terrible.
It can feel forced, but I like Buffy’s a lot. And Scrubs was fun. Even Lexx’s was kind of cute.
FWIW, I’m a straight American man, and I know zilch about football. Nor have I ever been moved to fill that gap in my knowledge.
“Once More with Feeling” being the exception that proves the rule.
Granddaddy of them all: “Plato’s Stepchildren” on ST: TOS. Most of the third season is terrible, if not virtually unwatchable, but this one takes the proverbial cake!
For me, it’s a lot easier to list the few good episodes of TNG than it is to pick out ones I dislike.
Also, any episode of MASH*** where Hawkeye is the focus. I can’t stand Alan Alda!
I don’t hate them, but I really don’t care for any episode of MTM where the focus was on Mary and her so-called love life. Why a woman like that would date guys who looked like they just walked off the set of a third-rate porn flick is beyond me. The show was much funnier when it focused on other characters in her ensemble.
The SDMB is not a message board where one would respond “+1” but I agree here. What casts me in a more unusual light is that I am a straight male from Nebraska, where Husker Football is the unofficial state religion, who knows or even cares anything about football at all.
I’m very fond of the Buffy one. Otherwise, ugh.
The episode of “All in the Family” where Edith gets raped. I saw it once; there’s no way I’m ever watching it again.
Is it a case of "that was good but I NEVER need to see it again?
The entire last season of Psych.
True enough, but it did have the really funny bazooka gag.
It was the '70s. ALL the guys looked like that.
Yeah, but some were a lot seedier than others. Those were the ones she almost always ended up dating.
Ohhh, I like “Him.” It was a goofy season 2 style episode with some great bits in it.
“Conversations with Dead People” is good except…it needed to be Tara and I’ll never forgive Amber Benson for refusing to play it.
Venture Brothers “What Goes Down Must Come Up” (the M.U.T.H.E.R episode). It has some of my favorite lines “Have you got any pants…like any extra pants?” and includes just about all my favorite characters but over all its a dumb episode that requires the tag at the end to explain anything that happened.
For the record, she avoids being raped by throwing (boiling water? hot casserole?) something off the stove at her assailant as he backs her towards the stove. But I agree that it’s not an episode I’d ever need to see again. It’s not “bad” but it’s not what I watch the show for, either.
The episode of Louie where he goes to Afghanistan, the whole thing is so embarrassing, from it’s cheezy production values that make a MASH episode look like Ben Hur, to its vaguely racist paternalism to the Afghans, to its lazy final lesson whereby Americans and Afghans find peace through a baby duck. Yuck.
Any geek that would be satisfied with the extremely tiny bit of information from watching the game should probably turn in his geek card.
No, the real problem is that no self-respecting geek would need a tutor. You want to know about football? You look it up online. You read how it works and them maybe watch a game to see if you get it.
You especially don’t ask Sheldon, the type of geek who, if he knows about the game, will only know about it from a technical perspective.
Just to continue the hijack about nerds and football, I learned the essentials from playing a handheld electronic football toy as a kid. (Looking it up online wasn’t an option back then.)
Might be sacrilege to say anything bad about Firefly, but of the episodes that aired I always thought Heart of Gold (the one where they go to defend the brothel from a shootout) is a pretty weak entry.
Furthering the hijack: I must be a lot less geeky than the typical Doper.