What about Married with Children’s It’s A Bundyful Life?
For procedurals, the shows where they battle a hacker are inevitably ridiculous. Even shows grounded in reality chuck that out the window and give the hacker godlike powers to do absolutely anything.
Episodes with regular characters being sloppy drunk.
In all honesty, anything anti-Catholic. For that matter, any criticism of long standing tradition gets to me.
And any episode that tries to tackle affirmative action is my cue to change channels.
You mean, like on Paper Chase? :dubious: 
The episode that guest stared batman’s butler Alfred? Yeah. But I didn’t think TPC was all about AA.
…by typing on a keyboard really really fast.
It wasn’t, but that episode has always stuck in my mind.
Funny, I don’t remember Alfred in it. But I think the guy who tried to have Clint Eastwood rubbed out in The Gauntlet was.
Star Trek: TOS: Any of the episodes where Kirk gives an “inspirational” lecture/sermon, especially to justify why he’s violating the Prime Directive to screw with some “stagnant” civilization.
OTOH, the time-travel episode “The City on the Edge of Forever” was widely thought to be one of the best episodes evah!
The ones where the main character makes an unlikely friend - an old person, or a street kid, etc. The pair becomes very close and the main character learns a life lesson in the process. Then at the end of the episode, the friend moves away or dies and is never spoken of again.
The episode where the parents, or parents to be, have to impress people at an exclusive preschool.
The Simpsons just did the ultimate cop-out “it was all just a dream” episode. Grrrr.
. . . How often does one see an anti-Catholic ep of any series? Nothing comes to mind. When mainstream TV skewers “long-standing tradition,” the tradition is usually racism, sexism, etc.
No matter which side it takes?
Once you know what a “backdoor pilot” is, they’re easy to spot. It’s that wierd episode that brings in a bunch of people you’ve never seen before, and spends most its time on them, with the main characters pushed into a supporting role. What’s really going on is the network is hoping to generate interest for a new show.
NCIS: Los Angeles did this (The “Red Squad” episode), and Burn Notice had one of these as well.
These two are why I came in here. Especially the twin thing. Of course, Star Trek did it OK, but they had to give Spock a beard to make it work. But, honestly, how many times am I supposed to fall for identical cousins? Granted Shakespeare did it a couple times entertainingly, but I am willing to bet that even the patrons of the Globe were going, “Oh, come on, Bill, we are not buying this!”
Wait? What? Which episode?
I’d love to see Virgil in some show, but not that annoying jackoff played by Patton Oswalt.
Or stoned. Always terrible.
Wings had IMO a great Rashomon episode. When it was Antonio’s turn to recount the story, it was an old Italian black and white movie replete with stereotypes.
Complete with the dream-within-a-dream-which-is-real part.