The Worst Single Episode

[X Pac Heat]

Breaking Bad - Fly

Enough said.

 

[Judge Holden]

Why the stanky ass buck breakin fuck has this Palaeolithic thread come back to life?!

Well guess since im here and since someone has already noted how utterly dated my OG post here was, may as well do a retrospective of it

As a shameless ripoff of the already existing "Best Single Episode" thread, this one deals (naturally) in the worst single episode of any TV series that is not only wretchedly bad but does an active disservice to the series/franchise as a whole.

Ah....how cute that at this time my concern was mere "episodes" fucking franchises up and not whole fucking series/movies/whatever completely killing it beyond repair

To start us off I will pick out the worst single episode of......DOCTOR WHO!!!!

This post would be made extremely fucking obsolete barely a year later with the fucking moon episode I have rage sperged at length over many, many times, and then made Ultra-fuckin-jesus-CHRIST-obsolete circa 2017 come the era of fully pozzed doctor who

Love and Monsters: A story of one proto brony/loveshy/furry/otherkin....

HAH.

Just a heads up niggers, these groups were at one....unbelievably innocent and naive time...considered the absolute primary number one cancers of the internet in particular and society as a whole. Now the bronies are going extinct even in autist territories, loveshies were rebranded as "Incels" and turned into a media boogieman, furries.....ok furries are still an absolutely primary number one cancer, and otherkin who are so fucking eclipsed by all the new infestations post 2013 that i genuinely have not seen or heard word of them for years until I read this old post.

... social reject and freak obsessed with finding the Doctor because of some barely explained bullshit gathers a group of even more irritating freaks to sperg about the Doctor and engage in activities that make on pine for the subtle comedy and quiet dignity of Jar Jar Binks....

*sobs in remembering when that shit was the benchmark of bad star wars and bad science fiction*

....until a morbidly obese "Fat Bastard" rip off absorbs them all except the protagonist until the Doctor shows up to dispose of the monster and turn a woman into what an internet reviewer succinctly summised as a Blowjob Dispensing Slab of Concrete (and yes, this is explicitly stated in the episode) at which point the episode mercifully stops.

Internet reviewer in question was that TGWTG spawn nash, whose review i watched on youtube prior to writing this post IIRC, and who since became in and of himself an infinitely greater source of embarrassment and humiliation than this episode could ever dream of, with his most notable exploit being cucked out of his family home by cletus the trannified yokel (formerly known as hope chapman)

Featuring the very worst writing and dialogue every put to Doctor Who

HAH.

(and the doctor being absent for almost all of it)

HAH.

the most irritating and obnoxious characters ever shown in the series over the past 50 years

ooohh gaaaaaaaawd.

who do retarded and utterly pointless bullshit for 40 minutes on behest of the shittest villain in the series run

Jesus christ the hindsight....the hindsight is physically painful here....i cant even be bothered to link the fcking trump episode....

played by the most godawful stand up comedian ever birthed in Britain

Mother of god even this fucking off the cuff insult has aged like warm cum in the congo now we live in the currentyear of john oliver and james cordon

and the absolute most wretched story ever concieved by any series ever

JESUS CHRIST YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING IDEA HOW WRONG YOU WERE YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING NIGGER

this episode pretty much put me off the revived series for months, and is easily the worst doctor who episode ever made.

Yeah.......i honestly dont think I have anything to say here. Past Holden was a le'reddit tier well of cringe and autism at best but his absolutely stunning naivete of just how bad shit was oh-so-soon gonna get genuinely makes me feel sorry for him.

He truly had no idea of what was coming....

 

[starborn427614]

Wasn't Love and Monsters a show that featured a fan-designed character from a contest? I remember watching Nash's review of it years ago and him mentioning something like that.

Anyway, I'd nominate "The Principal and the Pauper" from the Simpsons as being a divisive episode that nobody liked. It was so hated, even by the showrunners, that they pretty much disregard it as canon.

Yeah it was a kid who designed it.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

What was the South Park episode where Cartman ropes Butters into holding up a PF Chang's and they shoot a guy in the dick? I just remember finding that episode aggressively unfunny.

Edit:

Past Holden was a le'reddit tier well of cringe and autism at best but his absolutely stunning naivete of just how bad shit was oh-so-soon gonna get genuinely makes me feel sorry for him.

He truly had no idea of what was coming....

Dude, past Freaker was a tumblrino socialist dating an uggo who was about to go genderspecial. Most of us were retarded in 2013.

 

[Judge Holden]

What was the South Park episode where Cartman ropes Butters into holding up a PF Chang's and they shoot a guy in the dick? I just remember finding that episode aggressively unfunny.

The China Probrem, and while its quality was somewhat lacking....hoo boy did it call certain things about what was gonna happen to certain franchises....

 

[Return of the Freaker]

The China Probrem, and while its quality was somewhat lacking....hoo boy did it call certain things about what was gonna happen to certain franchises....

Omg the A plot was so bad it blocked my memory of the George Lucas stuff

 

[Dysnomia]

Sopranos "mergers and acquisitions". Subplot is one of the capos chasing down the principal of his old school because the principal's mum is bullying his mum at a nursing home, A plot is Tony wanting to have sex with a woman but he feels gross about it because someone he hates already had "penisary contact with her Volvo". then when Tony finds out they did not have real sex (by asking his sister) he is okay with it.

WWE Raw - either the Raw Strike episode in 2011 or Christmas Eve 2012 where alberto del rio runs over santa claus.

Family Guy - Brian and Stewie locked in a bank or the second episode of Brian and Quagmire's dad's love story where it's "Family Guysplaining" how the show is totally not transphobic guys, basically apologising for the original episode. just cowardly.

As far as Family Guy goes. Yeah. The bank vault one was horrid. But so was the Stewie/Brian mutant puppy one. And they already did that stupid plot with Seabreeze and Lois' dad. Guess they run out of ideas quick.

With Roseanne I want to say all of the last season which doesn't canonically exist now anyway. But if I had to pick I would say the last episode just because it sucks so hard. It's revealed that the entire series is a book that Roseanne started writing during a first season episode where her family sets up a writing studio in the basement. It turns out that all the characters were slightly altered for her book with Darlene and Becky's boyfriends switched ect...

It was just so stupid. Roseanne was probably expecting everyone to think she was this super clever genius but it's universally hated as is the entirety of the last season that she used as her American AbFab test kitchen. Thank the gods that her version never got off the drawing board. Can you imagine?

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

As far as Family Guy goes. Yeah. The bank vault one was horrid. But so was the Stewie/Brian mutant puppy one. And they already did that stupid plot with Seabreeze and Lois' dad. Guess they run out of ideas quick.

The worst Family Guy episode was easily the three parter where they killed Brian for a quick ratings publicity grab.

 

[frozenrunner]

This is going to be difficult, because, upon reviewing episode summaries, all this bullshit didn't happen in a single episode like I remembered. But it's bad enough (and in a great show) that it should be mentioned. And as soon as I mention the show, people who have seen it will know what I'm going to say.

HBO's prison drama OZ was a big hit back when it debuted. In a lot of ways it put HBO on the map for dramatic TV, and great series like The Sopranos and Deadwood arguably wouldn't have been made without OZ paving the way. While it might not have been as great as those later shows, it was damn good for most of its run. The show's high notes easily rank among the best dramatic scenes HBO has ever aired. And the cast was outrageously good.

But something happened during the second half of the fourth season, and I would love to know the behind-the-scenes explanation. Because some truly retarded plot shit does down.

OZ makes it clear from the beginning that the show's world isn't the real world. The titular Ozwald State Penitentiary is called "Oz," and the setting of most of the action, M block, is an experimental area of the prison (with more inmate freedom but less privacy... think glass cell walls) called... "Em City." People get violently assaulted and murdered at an alarming rate, but the experiment is never considered a failure no matter what happens. It's all very theatrical, and the show knows that, and it's all part of the conceit of the entire experience that the audience accepts so the show can happen.

Having said that, the show manages to feel pretty grounded most of the time. However, halfway through the fourth season (after a big dramatic climax that ended with the death of a major character), they came up with this fucking bullshit:

• Despite being an incredibly dangerous prison where people are getting shanked and assraped regularly per episode, someone thinks it would be a good idea to temporarily house some illegal Chinese immigrants in M-Block until they can be deported. (Because I guess there is literally no other place in the United States to house them.) Of course one of them gets fucking murdered. (All of this nonsense happens in the 10 episode of the season, "Conversions." The immigrants stick around until they are written out in the 12th episode because their plotline is stupid.)

• In the next episode (episode 11, "Revenge is Sweet"), two incarcerated brothers volunteer to be part of an experimental drug trial that will allow them to shave time off their sentences. The drug artificially ages people to the age they would be at the end of their original sentence. This idea was so fucking stupid the writers started writing it out the following episode (where it worked but outright killed another prisoner in the same drug trial) and dispensed with it entirely the episode after that. The living, affected inmate returned to his original age and appearance, indicating that the creators of the drug had somehow discovered a way to reverse aging as well as accelerate it. Nobody comments on this remarkable discovery, and everything goes back to normal because, I assume, the writers wanted to forget it happened.

That is a lot of stupid in the course of, like, 4 episodes. Some viewers hate the musical episode with a passion (I thought it was great fun... and you can't waste Rita Moreno on the cast without giving her a chance to shine in her native waters), but that's a stylistic choice for an episode format, not a plotline. There is no question these plotlines are way more fucking dumb.

So I'll pick episode 11 of the fourth season, "Revenge is Sweet," because not only is the idea of a rapid aging drug way too far out for a show like Oz, and not only do they ignore the profound implications of how the drug works and is recovered from, but they completely miss the point of a prison punishment by conflating it with the aging that happens during the sentence, which makes no sense at all.

 

[Watcher]

Breaking Bad - Fly

Enough said.

Nah Fly’s great. It’s a great character driven episode that takes advantage of its premise to just show the characters off. It really shows off how different Jessie and Walter are and how they approach the problem differently.

 

[Jeff Boomhauer]

That episode of The Simpsons where Maude dies is my personal least favorite. Depending on who you ask, every episode after season (X) is awful, but I personally can handle every season up to the movie. This one, though, just sucks all around.

It made me sad when I was a kid.
I didn't like it when I was a teenager, even when I was more accepting of edgy humor.
I hate it now as an adult.

The worst part is, they killed her over her voice actress quitting due to not getting her flights to the studio paid for...and then said voice actress ended up coming back to the show, anyway. So not only was Maude killed out of pettiness, it all ended up being pointless in the long run.

 

[Sneak 'n' Snore]

I'll avoid the post revival Futurama episodes and go with the episode where Hermes and Fansworth get into an arguement with their sons and they start a delivery service themselves from the original run.
Its just an unfunny episode by pre-revival standards and Cubert is such an unlikable character.

 

[starborn427614]

I'll avoid the post revival Futurama episodes and go with the episode where Hermes and Fansworth get into an arguement with their sons and they start a delivery service themselves from the original run.
Its just an unfunny episode by pre-revival standards and Cubert is such an unlikable character.

That's usually one I skip whenever I rewatch the series. Even with the great commentary it's dull.

 

[X Pac Heat]

Nah Fly’s great. It’s a great character driven episode that takes advantage of its premise to just show the characters off. It really shows off how different Jessie and Walter are and how they approach the problem differently.

Yeah but it's the worst episode of Breaking Bad. That just goes to show how good Breaking Bad is.

 

[66andtwothirds]

As far as Family Guy goes. Yeah. The bank vault one was horrid. But so was the Stewie/Brian mutant puppy one. And they already did that stupid plot with Seabreeze and Lois' dad. Guess they run out of ideas quick.

only funny scene from this one was when brian says stewie should get rid of it and stewie goes "just say the word! or are you too scared?"

"abortion! abortion i want you to get a big fat abortion!"

"you can't even say it".

another bad one in a similar vein is Fresh Heir where peter tries to marry Chris to get his inheritance from the grandfather. it includes a gag where chris "teaches" the grandfather to masturbate and it is implied chris did it to the grandfather with his hands.

 

[Calandrino]

In this episode, Tom Paris turns into a salamander and rapes Janeway.

That summary makes it sound better than it really is.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

And then there's "Threshold." Oh God, Threshold. In this episode, Tom Paris turns into a salamander and rapes Janeway.

That was probably the singles biggest "WTF?" moment in the history of Star Trek.

At first the episode was interesting. OK, Paris goes to Warp 10 and has adverse effects, which makes for a good singular story and answers the question as to why advancing beyond Warp 9 isn't used to get them home faster. Alright, I'm on board.

And then it ends with that out of nowhere fucking weirdness. I think the hilarious part for me was how casual Janeway was about after the fact. She was like "Oh well, you turned me into a mutant salamander and we had lizard baby abominations. Crazy stuff happens in space!".

I don't know, maybe I'm weird, but I wouldn't be able to go back to normal after that, lol.

 

[Damien Thorne]

The final episode of Dexter was pretty fucking horrible.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

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.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I'll avoid the post revival Futurama episodes and go with the episode where Hermes and Fansworth get into an arguement with their sons and they start a delivery service themselves from the original run.
Its just an unfunny episode by pre-revival standards and Cubert is such an unlikable character.

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.