# Sorry. That episode simply never happened, and you'll not convince me otherwise. (spoilers likely) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-that-episode-simply-never-happened-and-youll-not-convince-me-otherwise-spoilers-likely/525995 "2010-01-22T15:45:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-that-episode-simply-never-happened-and-youll-not-convince-me-otherwise-spoilers-likely/525995/121 "2010-01-29T16:53:51Z")
Actually, I just watched the first three eps; plenty of laugh tracks throughout. (Though I seem to recall that Sorkin was forced into it by the network.) ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-that-episode-simply-never-happened-and-youll-not-convince-me-otherwise-spoilers-likely/525995/122 "2010-01-29T17:17:42Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > Actually, I just watched the first three eps; plenty of laugh tracks throughout. (Though I seem to recall that Sorkin was forced into it by the network.) Then I’m sorry. For that simply never happened. And you’ll never convince him otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-that-episode-simply-never-happened-and-youll-not-convince-me-otherwise-spoilers-likely/525995/123 "2010-01-29T17:51:28Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I was never that much of a Wesley-hater so for ST: TNG I’m going with _Genesis_. Troi turning into a frog-person, Riker a caveman, Picard a lemur and a strange proto-Worf were all bad enough, but Beverly Crusher acts completely brain-damaged for the entire episode (“Those look like venom glands - let me put my face right next to your mouth to look at them. Aagh!”) and laughs off her little “oops, I created a plague that infected the whole crew” mistake at the end even though a couple of crew members actually **died** (killed by the Worf-thing). Ha ha! What larks! > > Also, while I try not to worry too much about ST science-y stuff, I am very sure that cats did not evolve from iguanas. Really they didn’t. Even Ed Wood would have balked at that. I remember taking issue with Beverly’s contention that diseases are traditionally named after their first identified sufferers. I can think of plenty of diseases that were instead named for the doctor or doctors who first described them. I would like to think that she was so embarrassed at her fuck-up that she passed the naming off to Barclay. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-that-episode-simply-never-happened-and-youll-not-convince-me-otherwise-spoilers-likely/525995/124 "2010-01-29T19:11:10Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > There was a very subtle one in the [first episode](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKaO-hsb3vM) (go to 3:40). > > I think it was on a few more after that, but I’m not about to go through them all to check. > [@postcards](#): > > Actually, I just watched the first three eps; plenty of laugh tracks throughout. (Though I seem to recall that Sorkin was forced into it by the network.) You guys really need to get your hearing checked. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-that-episode-simply-never-happened-and-youll-not-convince-me-otherwise-spoilers-likely/525995/125 "2010-01-29T19:42:18Z")
"Just Shoot Me’ was such a piss poor show I know they could not never done the Donnie epsiode. CHicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot PPPPPIIIIIIEEEE. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-that-episode-simply-never-happened-and-youll-not-convince-me-otherwise-spoilers-likely/525995/126 "2010-01-29T20:24:55Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > It is a pity that the original show **The Prisoner** only had 16 episodes, they were all so good. One more couldn’t have hurt could it? > Shame really. > Be seeing you. What I appreciate about The Prisoner is that not only was there not a 17th episode, but that the 16th wrapped things up so well\*. I credit the fact that they didn’t let McGooHam write the finale – George Markstein and David Tomblin came through with their usual brilliant plotting and dialog. - (while still leaving enough intrigue for the feature film\*\* that followed) \*\*(But… That Would Be Telling…) ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-that-episode-simply-never-happened-and-youll-not-convince-me-otherwise-spoilers-likely/525995/127 "2010-01-29T20:49:00Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > You guys really need to get your hearing checked. What? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-that-episode-simply-never-happened-and-youll-not-convince-me-otherwise-spoilers-likely/525995/128 "2010-01-29T23:28:22Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > "Just Shoot Me’ was such a piss poor show I know they could not never done the Donnie epsiode. > > CHicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot PPPPPIIIIIIEEEE. I disagree that “Just Shoot Me” was piss poor–just average. That being said, that particular episode (if I may use a sports comparison) was like a baseball player who never hits more than a .285 average and 20 home runs per season suddenly hitting .360 with 55 home runs for one year before returning to his normal offensive numbers the following season. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-that-episode-simply-never-happened-and-youll-not-convince-me-otherwise-spoilers-likely/525995/129 "2010-01-30T02:37:13Z")
The final episode of **Dollhouse** (aired tonight). It was completely unnecessary; the series actually ended just before the “Ten years later” title in the previous one. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-that-episode-simply-never-happened-and-youll-not-convince-me-otherwise-spoilers-likely/525995/130 "2010-01-30T16:32:05Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > what? You really need your hearing checked!!! ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-that-episode-simply-never-happened-and-youll-not-convince-me-otherwise-spoilers-likely/525995/131 "2010-01-31T00:53:09Z")
I’m glad they never had a BSG episode with, say, a John Hodgeman cameo, because that would just be lame for everyone involved. I’m also glad Phillip Pullman quit when he was ahead, because The Golden Compass was a great book and I’d hate to see that awesome female protagonist turn into a fawning glorified penis-cozy in subsequent books the same way that, say, Stephen King never wrapped up It. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-that-episode-simply-never-happened-and-youll-not-convince-me-otherwise-spoilers-likely/525995.md?page=6)