# TV shows that lived past their expiration date **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 19, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-lived-past-their-expiration-date/313126 "2005-07-19T12:18:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-lived-past-their-expiration-date/313126/41 "2005-07-20T16:27:11Z")
> [@ArrMatey!](#): > > as I sometimes call it, ‘Gilligan’s Island writing’. (“You know, the episode where they -almost- make it off the island, then don’t!”) I loved that episode! Then, there was the one where Gilligan screwed up their communications device, and the one where the Skipper beat up Gilligan… Hmmm…there was definitely something funny going on there. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-lived-past-their-expiration-date/313126/42 "2005-07-20T16:30:21Z")
I agree with the X-Files, and stopped watching at some point in season 5. However, I did pick it up again in the last month or two and I have to say that the Brady inspired episode had a nice throw back feel to it. Of course the last episode sucked mightily. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-lived-past-their-expiration-date/313126/43 "2005-07-20T17:02:38Z")
> [@JerH](#): > > While the series didn’t reach its true low point until Season 5 (with Dawn’s introduction and the robotic Buffy), this season turned the series from “a nice girl and her friends, fighting the undead and just trying to make it” to “Hey! Let’s throw in _another_ completely-out-of-nowhere plot twist that barely makes sense.” The main evidence is Riley’s transformation from “nice guy that Buffy met” to “secret government agent”, and Willow becoming a lesbian despite seriously crushing on Xander and Oz during the first several seasons. Howling in the wilderness, my friend. Howling in the wilderness. ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-lived-past-their-expiration-date/313126/44 "2005-07-20T17:19:40Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > Don’t forget insane. Waitaminute. [A minute passed. Then another. Then, another minute passed. This was followed by another minute. Then, a minute which seemed to last an hour but was really only a minute . . . passed.] I don’t see anywhere where I agreed with someone who was called insane. Or does it mean I’m insane because I don’t remember being called insane? Or is using complete non-sequiters a sign of being insane? The penguin on your telly will now explode. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-lived-past-their-expiration-date/313126/45 "2005-07-20T20:43:40Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > I loved that episode! Then, there was the one where Gilligan screwed up their communications device, and the one where the Skipper beat up Gilligan… > > Hmmm…there was definitely something funny going on there. > > Stranger It was to have been revealed in the final episode that The Professor was, in fact, Dr. Josef Mengele and was sabotaging their “rescue” all along. Unfortunately the writer changed it to a show about a guy in a gorilla suit just before press time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-lived-past-their-expiration-date/313126.md?page=2)