I didn’t think it was actually…bad. It set up the whole “shadow” thing (with the organic tech) and gave us a few hints about organic tech. Although the ending just sucked donkey balls. (The sentinal-bots killed everyone who wasn’t genetically pure and wiped out the whole race because no-one’s 100% genetically pure? A) It was a blatant swipe from X-Men 57-59. and B) the X-Men ended it better: Sheridan does a Cap’n Kirk “confuse the robot” gambit. Boring. Cyclops tells the “Wipe out impure people” that the sun is the source of all mutations so go attack the sun". Much better)
The one with the lady Dr. Mengele (G’kar’s first assistant went nuts and tried to kill her) was in the same category–not good or anything, but not to the status of actually being bad.
Or the one (that cemented my dislike for Dr. Franklin*) where he just casually ignores a patient’s wishes (the Space-Jehovah’s Witness Kid) and his parent’s wishes AND the Captain’s wishes and performs surgery on him against his will “for his own good”.
There’s a bunch in the first half of the first season that aren’t good but aren’t actually bad either.
*I hate the character–he’s an arrogant, smug, pompous, self-righteous prick (which is wonderful characterization and the actor was fantastic)
I was going to nit back that it should be Armen, a popular Armenian name. How hard is that? Armenia => Armen. However, it seems the Simpson writers misspelled it. Now I really hate that episode.
The Enterprise finale sucked - come on, take the prequel and spend huge amounts of time on a stupid, dead end Riker B plot that not even TNG really cared about. And end the series in a holodeck in Enterprise D? And close the series using TNG stock shots?
I believe this episode was written for the defunct Star Trek Phase II series that was cancelled when they decided to make ST TMP. They simply crossed out Ilia’s name and put Troi in it’s place.
I would actually go with the entire 5th Season of TWW. So much character assasination happens that season that its hard to stomach. It has a few bright spots, such as “The Supremes”, but not much else.
Turnabout Intruder was shown roughly two months after it was originally scheduled to air. It aired in June of 1969, the last of the episodes to get its original airing.
It may be that The Way to Eden was actually the last broadcast episode during the summer’s re-runs, but I haven’t been able to confirm that or disprove it.
Not saying this is my favorite show, but it might be someone’s!
Last night I was watching, with my gf who was not in the US at the time of the original airing, a DVD I picked up at the 99 cent store - a collection of episodes of Chico and the Man starring the late Freddy Prinze.
In the last episode of 6 on the DVD, Prinze was noticeably spaced out, and missing lines, ad-libbing others, and even seemingly ad-libbed a knife to his throat gesture for comedic effect.
Since I didn’t recall the details of his death, I looked it up this morning so I could share with my gf.
Turns out, he killed himself hours after taping that show.
While it may not be the worst show in the series, killing yourself surely raises the bar of self-critiquing to an entirely new level!
It’s the worst season, true, although I can still watch most of the episodes on DVD. It improves after that (although never again to the Sorkin level). That particular episode of the 5th season just fills me with GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
C’mon - any discussion about the worst TNG episode has to begin and end with the “Riker gets stabbed by a thorn” episode. It wasn’t even an episode - it was a clip show with more clips than any clip show I can recall. I’d say it was about 95% previous footage, with about two minutes of Riker, Troi and Pulaski. Complete waste of time.
Going back a ways, there was an episode of Nothern Exposure where Shelly couldn’t stop singing. She would sing instead of talk, while everyone else just talked. Unwatchable.
At the time it pissed me off because I got what they were trying to do, but it was too preachy and condescending to me even then. It’s the only episodes I will not watch in reruns.
I liked the episode Han and just watched it a couple weeks ago. The actor playing the pianist had such heart-breaking expressions on his face, like noble resignation.
I had forgotten about South Park’s Lemmiwinks. That was pretty bad. The musical Joseph Smith/Mormon one was excruciating. So was the lice one. I think Lemmiwinks though is the worst.
My own Heroes pick is Episode 3.04 “I Am Become Death” in which Peter travels to the future in the company of his saturnine future incarnation. And from there, the show decides to not only piss all over every bit of characterisation of every character, it also decides to throw out such things as narratives that make any sense. Plus, they introduced a bunch of plotpoints which were never heard of every again, which, as they all stunk was probably no bad thing but did mean they were a massive waste of time.
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Redeemed only slightly by waffle Sylar (but that hair! Ugh) and a nuclear detonation.
Bingo. Some slap ass retconning contrivance to get Sylar and Elle together, and rehabilitating Meredith into a competent agent-just so she could become a cheating, blackmailing ditz when Claire meets her a few (weeks, months) later? Then becomes cool agent chick again when she tries to waterboard Claire? Did not compute.
That episode never existed and you can’t make me believe it did.
The Office. I don’t know the episode - or even the season - but I speak of the one where there is a dinner party at Michael and Jan’s new condo. The entire episode was full of awkward anger. It was painful to watch.
Arrested Development is by far my favorite show, but the six episodes with Charlize Theron were dreadful. The series was falling apart because the network kept messing with it, so I understand what happened, but it was like watching a different show.