# Terrible episodes of great shows. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 4, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-episodes-of-great-shows/848934 "2020-03-04T18:47:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-episodes-of-great-shows/848934/141 "2020-05-02T13:42:49Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > In the DS9 documentary, Behr says they played it for laughs and he regrets that. > > **Come Along Home** is the worst DS9, I think. There’s one scene where Nana Visitor is hopscotching across the room and you can actually see her roll her eyes. **Move Along Home** (“Allamaraine, count to four, Allamaraine, then three more”) ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-episodes-of-great-shows/848934/142 "2020-05-02T18:05:36Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > …I thought I’d rewatch **MASH** too, but the first episode was so cringe-worthy (they were auctioning off a nurse, for Christ’s sake) I gave it up. Lots of rank ethnic stereotyping in the first few seasons of **MASH** , too. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-episodes-of-great-shows/848934/143 "2020-05-02T19:29:39Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > **Move Along Home** (“Allamaraine, count to four, Allamaraine, then three more”) I thank you for correcting me, but not for the earworm. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-episodes-of-great-shows/848934/144 "2020-05-02T20:25:56Z")
> [@LLCoolL](#): > > > [@ivylass](#): > > > > …I thought I’d rewatch MASH too, but the first episode was so cringe-worthy (they were auctioning off a nurse, for Christ’s sake) I gave it up. > > Lots of rank ethnic stereotyping in the first few seasons of **MASH** , too. One of the minor characters in I think the first season was a black surgeon nicknamed “spearchucker”. Googling, apparently he threw javelin in high school or college, but still, it’s not good. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-episodes-of-great-shows/848934/145 "2020-05-02T20:51:51Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I thank you for correcting me, but not for the earworm. Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-episodes-of-great-shows/848934/146 "2020-05-02T20:54:11Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > One of the minor characters in I think the first season was a black surgeon nicknamed “spearchucker”. Googling, apparently he threw javelin in high school or college, but still, it’s not good. He was in the movie too. The official story is that he was dropped after the first season because they found out that there were no black surgeons in MASH units in Korea (no word on whether there were psychic corporals). ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-episodes-of-great-shows/848934/147 "2020-05-02T22:32:41Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > One of the minor characters in I think the first season was a black surgeon nicknamed “spearchucker”. Googling, apparently he threw javelin in high school or college, but still, it’s not good. I’m guessing that even at the time the book was published (1968) and the film was made (1970), “spearchucker” was already recognized to be a racist epithet. My interpretation is that the characters referred to their colleague with the epithet as a form of particularly (and deliberately) obnoxious trash talking. Not a true attempt to put him in an inferior position, such as calling him “boy”. I’d guess the character was dropped from the series because they didn’t have much for him to do, and the producers were cutting costs. ---
**Author:** ![Calavera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calavera/32/70_2.png) [@Calavera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calavera)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-episodes-of-great-shows/848934/148 "2020-05-04T22:37:35Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > In the DS9 documentary, Behr says they played it for laughs and he regrets that. > > **Come Along Home** is the worst DS9, I think. There’s one scene where Nana Visitor is hopscotching across the room and you can actually see her roll her eyes. I’d say the better explanation would be that Kira is rolling her eyes. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-episodes-of-great-shows/848934/149 "2020-05-05T21:50:33Z")
> [@Calavera](#): > > I’d say the better explanation would be that Kira is rolling her eyes. No, I think the actor is rolling her eyes at the ridiculousness of the scene. There’s a similar scene in ST Voyager where Janeway gets stuck in some silly black and white holoprogram of Paris’s. Kate Mulgrew is also rolling her eyes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-episodes-of-great-shows/848934.md?page=7)