No, sorry you didn’t dream the Voyager episode. It was called “Threshold” and is near universally regarded as the worst Voyager episode.
Not only was the plot ridiculous, there was also the little point of them going warp 10… which means they were occupying all points in the universe simultaneously… which would be problematic for any number of reasons.
Was that in the later seasons? I kinda vaguely remember something like that, but I stopped watching in season 4. The worst House episode I saw was “One Day, One Room”. I wanted to shoot that suicidal pregnant rape victim by the end. Uhg.
Even though I loved TNG, there were some notable episodes that I skip:
-Firefighter.
->(female) Partner is marrying his brother. Cameron thinks it’s broken heart syndrome.
->Electroshock therapy
->cameron offers condolences to partner for taking away from the wedding.
->partner isn’t in a relationship with partner
->spinal meningioma is messing with his brain, creating false memories.
you probably got the plot mixed up because there was a lot of House/Cuddy/Drugs drama as well as the culmination of the trial brought on by House being a dick to the cop in the clinic.
Supernatural “Bugs” was so bad that even the show itself slammed it a few years later in “the monster at the end of this book” last season.
I thought about mentioning this episode in my first post in this thread, but I feel that Route 666 really blows it out of the water in badness. It is still terrible, though. Magical Indian! Night only lasts 10 minutes! BUGS?! WHAT?
Also, something went terribly amiss in the writing and everyone mixes up the words “calvary” and “calvary”. Horrible.
I think these are the only two episodes of the show I’ve never rewatched. Even when I got my friend into the show and watched a lot of stuff for the second time with her, I told her that if she wanted to watch Bugs or Route 666, she could do it by herself. (Fortunately, she did go ahead at watch Red Sky at Morning on her own before I could give her an ultimatum on that one also. The third worst episode ever, and the other episode they later mocked in The Monster at the End of This Book. Even the tuxes couldn’t save that one.)
I had forgotten that episode. There is a similar one in season ten called “Enemies” which is a parody of Friends. Except for a few of the regular cast members in the opening and closing scene, the characters and the plot have nothing to do with Married With Children. It was almost unwatchable.
I opened the thread just to mention “The Woman King.” The idea of Helo trying to get back in the crew’s good graces makes total sense, but I can’t believe no one-a fellow writer, an actor, the director, an assistant director, the person who ran the craft services table-ever pointed out how ridiculous the main premise was.
I’m sorry, but the part where the Doctor is poisoned and he has to play charades with Donna made the episode worthwhile to me.
-Joe
I caught a couple minutes of that very episode early this AM when flipping through channels – it was on TBS, as they often run a strip of MWC episodes at that time.
The ST:TOS Space Hippy episode could have been redeemed at the end if the pretty acid planet had burned a few dozen of the freaks to crisps. But sadly they decided just to burn a few of their feet instead.
A worse Dick Van Dyke is “The Twizzle”. Produced at the height of the Twist dance craze, it’s very embarrassing to watch.
Let’s say you were a fan of the original Battlestar Galactica. Now suppose that the very last episode of the original series had been a setup for Galactica 1980. An episode which basically said “the show you knew is dead; here’s what’s going to take its place”.That is how bad the last episode of the first season of Dark Angel was. I watched the first episode of season Two, discovered that the season One cliffhanger wasn’t an aberration, and never watched it again.
It was a backdoor pilot. I guess Huggy Bear didn’t have enough mojo to earn his own show.
God, that one was…I mean, first, they’re going with the idea that ECT can be used to create such severe, permanent retrograde amnesia that it would leave (as they said in the episode) the guy not only unable to remember someone, but erase all the skills he’d ever learned to perform his job, but that they were still going to do it to him. To treat a heart problem.
Jesus, Walter “Icepick to the Brain!” Freeman would have thought that was excessive. A witch doctor wearing a skull for a hat would probably think that was irresponsible medicine. I mean, my God…when I think a medical procedure is unconscionable butchery, you KNOW something is seriously wrong!
(…)
Oh, and about the Star Trek Hippie episode…didn’t the Space Hippies program the ship’s computer to find Eden for them? How was that supposed to work, exactly? Was that like Jet Jaguar programming himself to grow into a giant?
I’d be willing to give Shades of Gray a pass because of the writers strike. They needed a show and yes, showing clips was lame, but there was a reason. I haven’t watched it in a while, but I was impressed with Frakes’ acting in the beginning when he calmly explains that he’s been stabbed by that thorn. You’re right though, they could have done far better for a finale.
I’d throw Skin of Evil up there with the bad TNG eps mentioned. Basically after a year, Denise Crosby decides she wants out so they write an episode where she dies because an animated puddle of evil goo threw her across the set. Then the resolution at the end? Picard beams down and says “You’re evil, we’re leaving.”
I loved that one, myself.
Bart: Dad! L.T.'s gone crazy! [Homer loooks up and sees L.T. leaned over the wheel with gritted treeth and wide staring eyes]
Homer: [knowingly] Yeah, that’s the look all right!
Homer’s implied expertise kills me every time.
If I had to pick a worst, it’d be that sappy Michael Jackson episode, or possibly the Lisa-goes-vegetarian one. Lisa episodes generally.
The one where Lisa goes vegetarian is one of the best episodes ever. That’s the one with the Flanders family reunion (“Buenos-ding-dong-didlyos, senor”), Ralph eats a worm and Miss Hoover tells him to take a nap (“Oh boy, sleep, that’s where I’m a Viking”), and the Troy McClure educational film about eating meat.
There’s even a flying pig over the closing credits. What more could you want from an episode, man.
People listing “The Simpsons” episodes from the heyday of that series really suggests to me that said folks haven’t watched an episode in, oh…five seaons, at least.
i’ve invoked references from that episode almost every week of my life stretching back to 1995.
-you don’t win friends with salad.
-the (colored chalk) was forged by lucifer himself
-when pigs FLY! … um… no… i’d still prefer not to
-when i grow up, i’m going to BOVINE university
and most often:
-it’s just a little (dirty/slimy/airborne/etc) it’s still good it’s still good.