BSG should never have been brought back after the Writers’ Strike.
It is one of my all time favorites, even with the final few seasons, but Gilmore Girls was terrific until Rory’s sophomore/junior year in college. Then she became a totally different person and they had few ways to mesh the two storylines since they weren’t together enough. They wrapped it up very nicely in the end, but Rory was never the party girl she became.
$5 says it gets better when he goes.
-Joe, betting on a non-shit replacement
Even though it was still occasionally pretty good during it’s last couple of seasons, Fraiser had mostly run out of any really funny ideas in the final few years…
I guess Kelsey Grammer needed the money to continue meeting his various alimony obligations so he could keep fucking/impregnating a new 20-year old every couple of years.
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Scrubs lasted a season past when it should have died.
I believe that Roddenberry was the producer or executive producer for the entire run of the original series, which includes the stinker episodes you mention.
Although Roddenberry was credited as executive producer for the entire run he withdrew from active involvement in production during the 3rd season. He wasn’t happy with the Friday night death slot or budget cuts.
I manage to enjoy seasons 5 - 7 by pretending it’s a different show. There are still some very good episodes in those seasons (mostly in 6 and 7 - 5 is painful and must simply be gotten through for some continuity’s sake), and it’s still a better show than most of what’s on TV in those seasons. It’s just not up to the quality of the seasons 1 - 4, against which MANY shows strive in vain.
Happy Days stayed on way too long.
I disagree with this because I think the show belongs in a different category - shows that had great ideas that ended up poorly executed. I’d say “Heroes” was more stillborn than went on too long.
I’ve been having trouble catching “House” this year, and finally caught a couple of episodes, and I’m a little underwhelmed, after loving the show from Day One. It could just be that I caught a really weak episode - the one with the smallpox/cat scratch fever.
My votes for this are “X Files” (like everyone else) and “Lois and Clark.” I enjoyed both shows tremendously, and just didn’t bother watching the last one or two seasons - I don’t even remember why now. I imagine I just lost interest. Oh yeah, “Beauty and the Beast” was another show like that for me.
Yeah, but that was really a spin-off called Scrubs Med. It should not have carried the Scrubs name.
Exactly. This is what I was saying.
Long before. Long, long before.
desperate housewives and chuck, they are not that great to begin with but they seems to be rehashing the old plot these days.
Northern Exposure. After Rob Morrow left, the new couple who showed up were just irritating. Didn’t fit in well.
Andromeda, yes! The last season they didn’t expect to be back, so there was no money. Lexa Doig was out on pregnancy leave. The last season was set in a bar, apparently in a desert ghost town - ridiculous! The only reason I watched was to see if they ever managed to start up the Andromeda and get out of there; and the Penthouse Pet in the pink jumpsuit was kind of cute.
Another vote for ER. It started going downhill after George Clooney left in season 5, and it really should have ended, as others said, with Dr. Greene’s death. It went over a cliff when Dr. Carter, the last original character, left in season 11. I thought Noah Wyle was a really talented actor (cute, too) and was willing to watch just for his character, but after he left it was full of too many random people to keep track of. I developed a mild connection to Luka Kovac but didn’t give a crap about the rest of the characters and then even he left and they still didn’t end it.
The original CSI sucks without Gil Grissom and should have been canceled at that point.
I’ve stopped watching House but if they had a show that consisted of a solid hour of nothing but Hugh Laurie and Robert Sean Leonard sniping at each other, I’d gladly watch it.
ER ended for me when Dr. Romano died & everyone had a larf pissing on his memory.
I never watched much, but that’s the guy who got his arm cut off by a helicopter and then was later killed by a helicopter crashing on top of his head, right?
Cuz I saw about 4 episodes of the show over 15 years and those were two of them. As someone who didn’t have any emotional attachment to the character I thought it was hilarious.
-Joe
Me, too. I hated Dr. Romano. I think the scene where he had all the med students practicing procedures on a live comatose patient (before Carter came in and stopped it) pushed me over the edge into hoping he met a really unpleasant, wacky demise. And then it actually happened.
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