The Office; Niagara, (AKA Jim and Pam’s wedding).
I just saw it. It was slightly off, I agree, but I think it’s a stretch to say that they were ‘completely’ out of character. Quality wise the episode was on par with one of the more uneven episodes of season 1 or 2.
Really? I thought that was one of the best episodes of the series.
I liked the candy lineup
The Nikki/Paulo ep really wasn’t bad. It had good Sawyer/Hurley action, we got to see Arzt again, and it killed off two annoying characters it the most horrific death of any character on Lost.
Season 2 of New Who, “Fear Her.” (The 2012 Olympic Games one)
For one, the possessed girl was a TERRIBLE actress, and her “scary voice” was just annoying. Secondly, the plot itself didn’t seem to make sense, though I admit I only half-watched. Some small alien came to Earth, possessed this girl, and made her draw things and those things gets trapped in the drawings, somehow? So The Doctor and Rose try to get the alien to leave by locating it’s ship, but it still won’t leave…then it does, because of the Olympic Torch? Why did it want to trap people in the drawings in the first place?
Oh, but there’s also some creature in the closet the little girl made independent of the alien that’s still around and scary but then she screams and it goes away? What?
Also, even though Season 4 had a lot of good episodes, I hated Donna so FUCKING MUCH that she almost ruined all of them. God, all she did was complain and scream in that loud, annoying voice of hers. (I’m just now watching the specials at the end of Season 4 and I’m afraid she’ll come back…they all come back…)
What’s wrong with this one? I thought it was clever and a nice change for Star Trek. I can’t think of anything particularly wrong with this episode that’s any different from what Star Trek was like at the time.
I remember watching the Sopranos episode “D-Girl” and thinking, “Celebrity cameos already? Insider meta-commentary on the film industry? It’s only the second season!” I couldn’t swear it’s worse than some clunkers from the fifth or sixth seasons, but it was the first (and for a while the only) one that made me think, what the hell was that?
I’m sure I’ve said this before in similar threads, but for Futurama, I’d nominate “A Pharaoh to Remember.” Just 22 minutes of Bender being a jerk, but hey - that alien planet is like ancient Egypt, so that must be funny, somehow!
So did I. I reuse, “Twix! They were all Twix!” more than I probably should.
I liked that episode, except for the silly part when they all danced down the aisle. I’m bothered when characters are acting in out of character ways. e.g Stanley dancing down the aisle. We all know that the real Stanley would never do that.
Oh! And the scene where they all sang Michael that stupid 900 and something minute song. Awful.
The Friends episode “The One With Ross and Monica’s Cousin”. Joey and Monica devise a way to make Joey appear uncircumcised? Ross hits on his cousin? Man, did that suck. Usually, even during a not-great episode of Friends, there’s usually something redeeming about it- a good B-plot, a few funny lines here and there, a good guest star, etc. This one was so bad that it’s the only one I skip when I’m watching the DVDs.
I gotta go with the Fluke Man from season… 2, I think ? The authors of the show were well aware how bad it was, as they took many swipes at it during later episodes. Also, it makes zero fucking sense. Neither did the Werebat from a (much) later episode.
I don’t mean just on its premise, because God knows there were lots of cool X-Files episodes based on hare brained bases - but those two are not even internally consistent. And they use shit locations, have crap dialogue, no suspense or gripping factor whatsoever… pure shlock.
That’s also true of the whole mytharc past season 5 or so, but at least that’s… I dunno, consistent shlock. The Fluke Man was shlock out of nowhere, to nowhere.
I loved that episode. Maybe you have to have watched a lot of a real fake reality show like Ghosthunters to “get it”.
There are a couple of “Married with Children” episodes where they tried to introduce spinoff shows. One with a bunch of lame ass college students (that included Keri Russell from “Felicity”), the other “Top of the Heap” with Matt LeBlanc and his equally loutish father.
A bunch from the third season of “Star Trek TOS” but probably the worst was the planet with over population and Kirk caught on a deserted ship simulation.
Family Ties–The VSE where Alex’s best friend (never mentioned before or after) dies.
Something similar happened in another episode, only it was Mallory’s never before or after seen best friend who died (OF SUICIDE!) and instead of Mallory going a little crazy over it, it was the friend’s mom who went a little off, and started treating Mallory like her dead daughter.
Which only leads me to conclude, unless your name is Skippy, do NOT befriend the Keatons. I can only imagine if the show had lasted a few more years we would’ve wound up with dead friends for Jennifer and Andy.