# Things you like to see happen on next season's TV shows (possible spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179 "2009-08-29T18:36:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/21 "2009-09-03T12:48:35Z")
On NCIS, I want Ziva to be rescued by the team, come back to DC, be reinstated as Mossad liaison, then have shrieking monkey sex with Tony… only to discover that they’re entirely incompatible in bed, and with the tension between them finally extinguished they can get back to work without all the insufferable will they/won’t they flirting nonsense. (However, if they do feel the need to connect two of the regulars of NCIS sexually, the most screamingly obvious couple has been right under our noses from the very first episode. They flirt, they whisper in each other’s ears, they have no respect for one another’s personal space, they have intuition about one another, he’s always bringing her gifts… Abby & Gibbs. No one else could make more sense.) On _HIMYM_ I want Barney and Robin to do anything BUT hook up. That would be the ruination of the show. We already have a couple. We will get another, in the form of Ted + Whoever We’re Led to Think Is the Mother But Won’t Be The Mother for this season. We don’t need Barney & Robin and it would kill the Barney character. Similarly, no Penny & Leonard hookup on BBT and no Chuck & Sarah hookup on Chuck. (Which isn’t coming back until March of next year?!?! Boo!) I want to see the Amazing Race not go to: India, China, Singapore, Hong Kong or Australia. I want to see the original penalty structure resumed, the return of the surprise!Yield, no more Intersection, more Fast Forwards available and no more “marked for death” non-Philimination legs where the teams have to do both Roadblocks on the next leg. If you’re last, you’re out. I’d also like CBS to move it to a night that won’t have it interfered with by football, but I’m not holding my breath. I want to **not** see Tom DeLay on Dancing with the Stars. We need another pre-season disqualifying injury, like with Jewel and Nancy O’Dell. I want Grey’s Anatomy, Ugly Betty and Heroes to make me interested enough to bother again. But they won’t. I want Private Practice to not half-ass this bit with the psycho chick stealing Violet’s unborn baby. Either save Violet & the baby and eliminate psycho, or let Violet & baby both die. Don’t use this as a setup for a relationship or not a relationship with Peter (or Cooper or Sheldon). Don’t use this as a setup for post-partum depression + mourning. Don’t use this as a setup for anything other than the meaningful reactions of those involved (who survive) to a serious trauma. Don’t let this be forgotten by episode 4 but don’t let it also be the setup for Violet to end up a drug addict or something. I’d also like to not be so invested in this damn show but that’s not going to happen either. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/22 "2009-09-03T15:14:45Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > I want Private Practice to not half-ass this bit with the psycho chick stealing Violet’s unborn baby. Either save Violet & the baby and eliminate psycho, or let Violet & baby both die. Don’t use this as a setup for a relationship or not a relationship with Peter (or Cooper or Sheldon). Don’t use this as a setup for post-partum depression + mourning. Don’t use this as a setup for anything other than the meaningful reactions of those involved (who survive) to a serious trauma. Don’t let this be forgotten by episode 4 but don’t let it also be the setup for Violet to end up a drug addict or something. I’d also like to not be so invested in this damn show but that’s not going to happen either. You’re not alone. :o ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/23 "2009-09-03T15:21:24Z")
I would like to see a massive uprising of disgusted viewers demanding Private Practice be taken off the air forever; and every writer associated with it, and every actor on it, banned from working ever again. Why? Because that cliffhanger was offensive to the max and the most appalling thing I have ever seen on TV in my entire life, and I am no spring chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/24 "2009-09-03T17:40:02Z")
Minor spoilers for Supernatural(regarding the casting of Satan): [spoiler] It’s Mark Pellegrino, who played Jacob on Lost. [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/25 "2009-09-03T18:27:36Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Except that in virtually every show which has relied on this sort of sexual/relationship tension thing, the consummation usually results in a spectacular shark-jumping. The only way to save it is to break it off immediately (a la _Friends_) and reinstate the “will they ever get (back) together” vibe. Maybe, maybe not. Chuck Lorre is a talented writer - witness his handling of Jake becoming a teenager in _Two and a Half Men_. I thought for sure the show would jump the shark once Jake hit puberty, but it’s managed to stay funny. He could probably handle a Sheldon/Penny relationship. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/26 "2009-09-03T19:53:53Z")
> [@LiveOnAPlane](#): > > On _CSI:Miami_, I want to see Horatio’s sunglasses get run over by the Hummer. Would Horatio be wearing them at the time? That could work. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/27 "2009-09-03T20:29:02Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > He could probably handle a Sheldon/Penny relationship. :smack: That was supposed to say **Lenoard** /Penny relationship. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/28 "2009-09-04T00:15:09Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > In the season finale of _In Plain Sight_, Mary has been shot in the abdomen and critically wounded. Now of course she’s going to live and return to work as a U.S. marshall- there wouldn’t be a show if she didn’t. On second thought… what if they shot a “Mary dies” episode, and arrange to air it if the show isn’t renewed? Has any show ever had the stones to do this? That would be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/29 "2009-09-04T00:45:44Z")
> [@h.sapiens](#): > > On “Bones”, I’d like to see the “Booth might be suffering from amnesia” cliffhanger dropped as quickly as possible, even if it means that Booth was playing a cruel joke on Brennan by pretending to have amnesia. I want the whole show to stop sucking. Stop it! Right now! ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/30 "2009-09-04T01:06:34Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > Similarly, no Penny & Leonard hookup on BBT and no Chuck & Sarah hookup on Chuck. (Which isn’t coming back until March of next year?!?! Boo!) Isn’t it a little late for that? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/31 "2009-09-04T01:20:16Z")
Ditto wanting UGLY BETTY to get better. I really enjoyed it the first couple of seasons but this last one was one long “who the hell cares?” series of plotlines and non-arcs. Maybe with the addition of Matt as the spoiled dilletante son of MODE’s new partner/Betty’s new boss there’ll be some tension but I’m not optimistic. I do know that Betty finally gets her braces off this season (America Ferrera said this in a TV interview) so maybe they’ll work on her bangs as well. I hope they concentrate more on Justin than they did last season (when it was basically a “yeah, he’s still alive” occasional mention) and give him more scenes with Marc (he brings out the best in Marc and their scenes together are always good, and yet last season they only had _one_ together the entire year). I’d also love to see a romance between Claire (Judith Light) and Ignacio (Tony Plana) and I’d really like them to bring back Cliff (Marc’s grungy chubby boyfriend) and Yoga (Claire’s cellmate turned post-release snob). Frankly I wouldn’t mind if Daniel married Sylvia and the two of them moved to Buenos Aires as I’m kind of tired of both of them, but you can’t have Justin with Sylvia and you can’t really have MODE without Daniel. Or can you… ============================== For BURN NOTICE: I’d love to see Michael and Fi deal with a pregnancy scare. I’d also like to have some sort of truce twixt Michael and “they who burned him” so that he could concentrate just strictly on “private agent” type work; I know that Miami is a huge city and all but sooner or later he’s not going to be able to show his face without getting it shot at by somebody he’s double-scammed or helped bring down under another identity. I’d love to see an episode in which Sam’s estranged dad, a Howard Hunt/G. Gordon Liddy style Cold War operative and assassin, learns he’s dying and wishes to reconcile. He also (ala Hunt) makes grandiose implications about knowing a lot more about the JFK assassination and other scandals and wants Sam to help him find the person he thinks is really responsible, which also happens to be tied in with those who burned Michael. Later in the episode Sam learns that in reality his dad is as backstabbing and dirty dealing as ever, has been blackmailing politicians or public figures for decades with information gathered on them or their family while an operative, and now one is trying to kill him (though he doesn’t know which one- could be a Bush, a Kennedy, a Rockefeller, or could be that week’s special guest star) and just needed Sam’s help in finding out who and stopping them. Why do I want a story to involve Sam and his dad, you ask? Because I’d love to see [Bruce Campbell](http://www.sfuniverse.com/files/2009/01/bruce-campbell-burn-notice.jpg)and [James Best](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2264/2158747343_5507ff2b5e.jpg?v=0)play father and son; to me they look a lot alike and Best is a good actor who I’d like to see have a great role that’s far far away from Roscoe P. Coltrane to cap his career with.😉 =============================================== For 30 ROCK, just keep doin’ what you doin’. It’s nowhere near the shark yet. I’d like to meet Kenneth’s family though- his [Bible beating mom](http://www.dailymakeover.com/blogs/hueman-behavior/Madonna%202009.jpg), his [notorious skirtchaser dad](http://www.insidesocal.com/outinhollywood/,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,leslie.jpg), [grandma](http://www.randomhouse.com/features/fannieflagg/fannie_dvd/art/FannieFlaggDVDcover.jpg), and perhaps his [brother](http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2008/04/matthew-mcconaughey-400a052207.jpg) and [sister](http://www.enjoyfrance.com/images/stories/world/entertainment/Britney-Spears-new-album-birdhday.jpg) or[two](http://www.devendo1981musicmovies.com/halle-berry.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/32 "2009-09-04T01:35:57Z")
For _Big Bang Theory_- continuing both the family theme and the show’s already considerable crossovers from another show- In one episode Penny’s [identical twin sisters](http://entimg.msn.com/i/500/replacementactors_500x250.jpg) visit and Leonard is confused that she can’t tell them apart. Leslie is confused that her [lesbian mom](http://deceiver.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/roseanne.jpg)is cheating on her[girlfriend](http://www.pr.com/upload/article_attachment_1181963653.jpg)with [somebody else](http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/gallery/childstars/michael_fishman2.jpg). Leonard must deal with unwanted and blatant advances from the chain smoking former Soviet scientist [Nobel laureate mentor](http://broadwayworld.com/columnpic/FH000006.jpg) who has asked him to write an article with her that could put him on the path to his own Nobel. Sheldon takes his [visiting mom](http://www.stiboo.com/pics/Laurie%20metcalf.jpg) to The Cheesecake Factory when lo and behold not only is Leonard Nimoy there but he makes a beeline to their table, where he asks Sheldon’s mom to pose for him in a photographic collection of nude 60 year old midwesterners, and she accepts. Sheldon is at once ecstatic over the chance to get to know his god but at the same time devastated at the notions of his mother being nude, so much so that [his father’s ghost](http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/mb/the_wrestler_arrivals_081208/john_goodman_5218372.jpg)comes to him in a dream. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/33 "2009-09-04T01:48:43Z")
I’d like to see a new series on the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim lineup that wasn’t created by a team of schizophrenics with a substance abuse problem. And maybe a sci-fi series on Fox make it to a third season, so I can finally feel secure enough to risk watching it. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/34 "2009-09-04T02:04:41Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > And maybe a sci-fi series on Fox make it to a third season, so I can finally feel secure enough to risk watching it. Similarly I’d like to see something on HISTORY CHANNEL that involves things that happened in the past other than Nostradamus, the Bible Code, and or Mary Magdalene’s child Lamby McJesus but does not in any way involve ice roads, trucks, loggers, or prison gangs, unless said icey road truck logging prison gangs happened a very long time ago and weren’t “predicted” by Nostradamus or the Bible Code or claim to be the last descendant of Christ. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/35 "2009-09-04T02:21:23Z")
I’d like to see an all nude episode of Fringe. It’d probably only star Walter, though ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/36 "2009-09-04T02:31:07Z")
I’d like Heroes to get back on track, mostly by doing something else with Ali Larter. Her first character(s) were fairly interesting, but she’s not that great of an actor. She has two looks, the blank stare with the teeth showing and the blank, kind of angry stare with the teeth showing. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Shroud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@The\_Shroud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Shroud)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/37 "2009-09-04T03:17:13Z")
I’d like to see Pam and Jim quit _The Office_. I love them, but their story ended 2 seasons ago. Same with Cameron and Chase on _House_. I’d like to see the _Scrubs_ spinoff defy the odds and succeed creatively. The show was long in the tooth, but I could easily enjoy 8 more years of Dr. Cox. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/38 "2009-09-04T16:26:20Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I’d like Heroes to get back on track, mostly by doing something else with Ali Larter. Her first character(s) were fairly interesting, but she’s not that great of an actor. She has two looks, the blank stare with the teeth showing and the blank, kind of angry stare with the teeth showing. I thing she’s a graduate of the Jessica Lange school of Dramatic Arts, along with Milo Ventimiglia. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/39 "2009-09-04T16:31:08Z")
I would like to see a “Top Chef” in which one of the 756 cameras int he kitchen actually catches the cheater/saboteur who messes with somebody elses food and that person gets summarily dismissed with truly humiliating contempt. Second would be a show in which the film proves that nobody actually did mess with it, and the whiner is just trying to cover up a dumb mistake. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179/40 "2009-09-04T16:47:02Z")
On Ros na Run - I’d like to see O’Dowd come back and whack both Daniel and Tadhg before being crushed by a passing lorry. Frances then takes over Tigh Tadhg and gives Jason the boot for good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-like-to-see-happen-on-next-seasons-tv-shows-possible-spoilers/508179.md?page=3)