# The "Spock's Brain" thread -- worst episodes of your favorite series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 2, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spocks-brain-thread-worst-episodes-of-your-favorite-series/179246 "2003-06-02T23:02:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spocks-brain-thread-worst-episodes-of-your-favorite-series/179246/41 "2003-06-04T21:23:01Z")
Aside from Musicals, every single episode that features “guest stars” from another show, like when Kramer showed up on Mad About You. The Law & Order episode featuring the cast from Homicide was another awful example. Seinfeld: The episode where Kramer gets Elaine’s friend pregnant and screams “She’s laaaaate!!” out the window. Something was off that whole episode. WKRP: The one where Venus gets set up by a look-alike hood. Really preachy and strange. The Shield: The one where they go back to “Day 1” - weakest episode in a great show. ER: I couldn’t even bear to watch the episode with Sally Field doing her “crazy” act. I think it made me stop watching the show it was so bad. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spocks-brain-thread-worst-episodes-of-your-favorite-series/179246/42 "2003-06-04T22:11:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by leechbabe \* > **The episode of Twin Peaks where Miguel Ferrer’s Acerbic Forensic Examiner comes back to town, walks into the room and he and the Sherriff (Who’s been his mortal enemy since day one) hug each other like old buddies. Nothing like doing a complete 180 on a character to screw up a perfectly good episode.** Keep in mind that I haven’t seen that brilliant series since it originally aired but I think you missed the point here. I actually remember this and it was a great moment. In their previous encounter, the sherriff punched Ferrer’s character and the character explained how he was non-violent in the Ghandi model and that he really loved the sherriff. I recall reading that that was supposed to be the end of Ferrer’s character but that the reaction was so positive that they brought him back. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Leechboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@Leechboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leechboy)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spocks-brain-thread-worst-episodes-of-your-favorite-series/179246/43 "2003-06-04T22:31:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hajario \* > \*\*Keep in mind that I haven’t seen that brilliant series since it originally aired but I think you missed the point here. I actually remember this and it was a great moment. In their previous encounter, the sherriff punched Ferrer’s character and the character explained how he was non-violent in the Ghandi model and that he really loved the sherriff. I recall reading that that was supposed to be the end of Ferrer’s character but that the reaction was so positive that they brought him back. > > Haj \*\* I rewatched the entire series over a week a couple of months ago, and it stuck out like a sore thumb. Mind you, my chronology is pretty hazy too, those later, post laura episodes sucked on a fairly huge level. (Ted Raimi is killed an turned into a giant chess piece WTF?) ---
**Author:** ![Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bren_Cameron_1)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spocks-brain-thread-worst-episodes-of-your-favorite-series/179246/44 "2003-06-04T22:50:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JRDelirious \* > **Haven’t seen any mention of “Your Final Battlefield”, though, the one with the black-n-white guys ( “Isn’t that in the southern part of the Galaxy?”) .** That would be “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.” Yep, it stunk. So did The Omega Glory, Spock’s Brain, The Way to Eden (the hippie episode). And Bread and Circuses has to be an all-time low in an impressive string of them. For STTNG, I’m voting for Skin of Evil and/or the one where Wesley was going to be executed by the Californians. Oh, wait, that one where the Traveller told him he was special is a good contender too. X-files, I gave up before the last season, but the ones that stick out in my memory as being truly bad were the one from Cancer Man’s point of view (was that First Person Shooter?) and Home, which I know a lot of people liked but I thought it reeked. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spocks-brain-thread-worst-episodes-of-your-favorite-series/179246/45 "2003-06-04T23:50:40Z")
B5: Gray 17 is Missing. 'nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spocks-brain-thread-worst-episodes-of-your-favorite-series/179246/46 "2003-06-05T00:49:11Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Sam Stone \* > \*\*The M_A_S_H episode where Hawkeye and Margaret bump uglies. \*\* Oddly enough, that was the first episode I saw. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spocks-brain-thread-worst-episodes-of-your-favorite-series/179246/47 "2003-06-05T02:30:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\*I think the worst eposode of **ST:TOS** was the one where Kirk, Spock and McCoy go on a rescue mission to a planet inhabited by the Mongol-like “Coms” and the savage “Yangs”. > > “Yangs. Yanks? Yankees!” > > “Coms… Comunists?” > > And then they bring out Old Glory and Kirk recites the Preamble to the Constitution. Ooh, that was cheesy! \*\* You know what’s most depressing about this episode? _ **Roddenberry** wrote it!_ ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spocks-brain-thread-worst-episodes-of-your-favorite-series/179246/48 "2003-06-05T09:28:41Z")
_Married With Fishsticks_ on _Xena_. As bad as the title is, the episode is even worse. How that piece of amphibian excrement made it to the screen is utterly baffling. I looked at it dumbfounded, unable to believe my eyes. It’s probably the only _Xena_ episode I didn’t like. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spocks-brain-thread-worst-episodes-of-your-favorite-series/179246.md?page=2)