The Worst Single Episode

[Sneak 'n' Snore]

Post-revival it has to be the Obama birth certificate episode. The episode was about a perfect guy that was running for world presidency, but he was from the future and the world constitution forbids people that haven't been born yet (due to how it's written). So Nixon demands the guy presents his birth certificate. Surely an episode that people will understand a decade afterwards.

Not only was it a full episode sucking up Obama's cock, it actually makes the point of arguing that the rules for presidency shouldn't matter even if they were actually violated, because Obama is so perfect and will make everything better.

Absolutely. I can kinda give some of the revival episodes a pass but that one is just dicksucking.
Baffling how even Nixon's head can't salvage that one.

 

[Hummingbird]

The spores episode of The Cosby Show where Cliff has a dream where he, his son and sons-in-law get pregnant. And Cliff gives birth to a large sub sandwich. It's pretty damn bad.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Post-revival it has to be the Obama birth certificate episode. The episode was about a perfect guy that was running for world presidency, but he was from the future and the world constitution forbids people that haven't been born yet (due to how it's written). So Nixon demands the guy presents his birth certificate. Surely an episode that people will understand a decade afterwards.

Not only was it a full episode sucking up Obama's cock, it actually makes the point of arguing that the rules for presidency shouldn't matter even if they were actually violated, because Obama is so perfect and will make everything better.

I mostly agree, but I think the Nutopia episode was worse. That's where the old, trashy lady makes an The Office reference even though that show would have been from the Stupid Ages. And it was all to rip on fan-service nudie calendars.

 

[Jason Wynn]

No one’s said Spock’s Brain from the original Star Trek yet? It’s pretty corny, even by OS Trek standards. It did give us the classic line “brain and brain!! What is brain?” line so at least there’s that.

 

[anti SJW]

I don't know if its the worst, but The Long Night for Game of Thrones might be the single most damaging episode in the history of TV.

That was the episode that took GoT from the pinnacle of pop culture and dragged it through the mud. I can definitely say that was the moment I stopped caring.

Was that the last season, battle of Winterfell where you couldn't see anything?

I don't know what episode was worse, that one or the last 2 of the series.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Total DramaRama's infamous Total Eclipse of the Fart episode, which features a fairy that sniffs toddler's farts, comes to mind. It's pretty much the definition of DeviantArt fetishes being showcased on a children's television show.

Another disturbing fact about this episode was that LeShawna's voice actress, Bahia Watson, actually got nominated for, and won, an award for her performance on this very episode.

 

[Hummingbird]

There was that one Dexter's Lab Christmas episode had a pretty crappy moral at the end that makes it one of the worst.

 

[Massively Strong Greed]

Stimpy's Pregnant.
Shit baby. That is all.

 

[Overcast]

Stimpy's Pregnant.
Shit baby. That is all.

I got confused at first, but then I remembered I was thinking about the one where Stimpy got depressed over missing his fart.

 

[Massively Strong Greed]

Post-revival it has to be the Obama birth certificate episode. The episode was about a perfect guy that was running for world presidency, but he was from the future and the world constitution forbids people that haven't been born yet (due to how it's written). So Nixon demands the guy presents his birth certificate. Surely an episode that people will understand a decade afterwards.

Not only was it a full episode sucking up Obama's cock, it actually makes the point of arguing that the rules for presidency shouldn't matter even if they were actually violated, because Obama is so perfect and will make everything better.

“Attack of the Killer App” is really bad too, especially the scene with the vomiting two-headed goat or Leela’s singing boil.

 

[The Penultimate Warrior]

Saddlesore Galactica for The Simpsons. Whilst perhaps not the most unfunny, it was the one where they showed they had truly lost the plot with their magical elf jockeys. Or that Lady Gaga one, which was so pathetic I can't be bothered to look up the episode title.

 

[Massively Strong Greed]

Saddlesore Galactica for The Simpsons. Whilst perhaps not the most unfunny, it was the one where they showed they had truly lost the plot with their magical elf jockeys. Or that Lady Gaga one, which was so pathetic I can't be bothered to look up the episode title.

There are some other really dumb ones you probably don’t know about. Look up “The Scorpion’s Tale,” “Moe Goes from Rags to Riches,” and “The Man Who Came to Be Dinner.” Only look up “Lisa’s Belly” if you’re ready to be horrified.

 

[Hummingbird]

There are some other really dumb ones you probably don’t know about. Look up “The Scorpion’s Tale,” “Moe Goes from Rags to Riches,” and “The Man Who Came to Be Dinner.” Only look up “Lisa’s Belly” if you’re ready to be horrified.

You mean like this?

Spoiler: Yikes

 

[TV's Adam West]

Sons Of Anarchy was a fun show dealing with drug selling, gun running and the inner turmoil of a biker gang in California. Had a few bad episodes, but still enjoyable enough that I finished it.


So why the FUCK is there an episode about a kid using a gun that the Sons Of Anarchy sold to commit a fucking school shooting?

My bad ass biker show, has a literal fucking school shooting episode.

 

[anti SJW]

Back in the 70s and 80s, alot of the sitcoms would do "clip shows" where it was just some of the main characters saying "Hey, remember when this happened?" Then they'd show the clip of it from an earlier episode.

 

[Super Hans]

Sons Of Anarchy was a fun show dealing with drug selling, gun running and the inner turmoil of a biker gang in California. Had a few bad episodes, but still enjoyable enough that I finished it.


So why the FUCK is there an episode about a kid using a gun that the Sons Of Anarchy sold to commit a fucking school shooting?

My bad ass biker show, has a literal fucking school shooting episode.

The Sons of Anarchy fandom is fucked in their collective head. For some reason, they think that they're a bunch of cool dudes instead of scum that are middlemen between Hamas and smaller gangs. My guess is that Kurt Sutter wanted to knock some sense into them and make the fandom realize that what Samcro does enables bad shit to happen, and no better way to drive that home than a bunch of dead kids.

And they had to escalate the stakes for the last season, too. Kinda wrote themselves into a bind when the middle arc was messing with the international drug trade.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

This far into the thread and no mention of "Billy?" For shame.

"Billy" was an episode of Angel, and the retarded follow-up to the quite solid "That Vision Thing." In that episode, Wolfram & Hart (the evil supernatural law firm that would eventually become the show's big bad) strong arms Angel into breaking into the depths of hell and freeing one of the people there, someone so bad that he got locked away in a private inferno, secluded from the other denizens. When Angel frees the guy, though, he turns out not to have horns or fangs or tentacles, he appears to be an ordinary guy without any indication of who or what he really is. The episode ends with him free, and zero clues as to what he could possibly have done to merit the VIP treatment in hell.

Good setup, right? No way they'll squander it with a pants-shittingly retarded reveal, right? Think again, my friends- Angel was a generally solid show, but it was also a Joss Whedon show, and few people go full retard like Whedon. As it turns out, the guy (Billy) is part of a Kennedy-esque political family and has super misogyny powers. No, that's not a typo. His superpower is that his touch turns men into Lifetime villains, because apparently all men have some primordial hatred of women that he brings to the surface. The episode goes pretty much how you'd expect, with him finally being shot to death by evil lawyer Lilah Morgan (slay kween!) Man, if bullets did the trick, makes you wonder why they even bothered with the private cell.

"Billy" manages the dubious distinction of being both terrible on its own and retroactively ruining a good episode.

 

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

I don't how anyone can name a specific Simpsons episode. There's a period from like 1999 - 2007 where there are entire seasons of garbage. Off the top of my head I remember the Phantom Menace episode where Bart and Skinner have a shrimp sword fight while Duel of the Fates blares in the background (they're allergic), culminating in them falling into a vat of shrimp and getting deformed. Or the NSYNC navy episode. Just god awful no effort trash.

As for an episode of a show I HAVE seen, I'm gonna go with the series finale of How I Met Your Mother. Man, was that not handled well at all, basically using the finale they had planned when the show was only going to be two-three seasons long and keeping it as the ending even though the show lasted nine seasons.

My mind is blown that you posted this in 2014. I could sworn that crap ended just a couple years ago, but no it was actually seven.

I've probably mentioned this before, but the King of the Hill episode where Cotton dies is easily the worst in the series. One of the hallmarks of the show was that it always had heart, so after Greg Daniels left they immediately wrote Cotton out in one of the worst ways possible, having him get put in the hospital after choking on shrimp during a PTSD episode at a Benihana. Dude was a crotchety prick, but there were episodes that showed he really did care about Hank, and his dislike of Peggy was dealt with when he helped her learn to walk again and she helped him get a plot in the Texas State Cemetery for his wartime heroism. His final scene on the show is Peggy berating him for being a bad man and hoping he'll live forever to see how nobody likes him, at which point he literally kills himself to spite her.

 

[Ron Jeremy Stan Account]

I was watching the Simpsons marathon today, and realized the very first episode of Simpsons I didn't like was "Burns, Baby Burns", where Burns' deadbeat son comes to town, and finally meets his dad. The Rodney Dangerfield one, it wasn't him that made it bad, it was the storyline. It's all downhill after the cider factory. So that's my "worst single episode".

I have to disagree with you on that specific episode, but – you are kind of on the right track. For you see, most Simpsons aficionados and Golden Era puritans often pinpoint Season 8 [the season with Burns, Baby Burns] as the true turning point into the silver, bronze, and eventually zombie eras.

So, whilst I have to disagree with your assessment of that particular episode, I will however agree that the whole season seems a bit off and definitely began the slow decline into mediocrity.

 

[That Chris Guy]

Saddlesore Galactica for The Simpsons. Whilst perhaps not the most unfunny, it was the one where they showed they had truly lost the plot with their magical elf jockeys. Or that Lady Gaga one, which was so pathetic I can't be bothered to look up the episode title.

Saddlesore Galactica was the first of two episodes that made me quit The Simpsons for good. After watching that stupid crap, I saw the one where Homer loses his finger and it all magically resolves itself in the end. At that point, I realised it was all stupid, unresolved stories that could shart out any ending moving forward, and promptly quit. Haven't watched a newer episode since.