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I think the weak episodes have to be most of Season 4 of Yellowstone. That entire season was not as great compared to the current season which is more engaging storywise. Season 4 was pretty much an ad for the spin-off series especially the Four Sixes scenes with my least favorite character of the show (Jimmy).
In before "Fly" in Breaking Bad.
Peak GoT had "The Bear and the Maiden Fare" which fucking sucked. And surprisingly so considering that was one of the GRRM episodes.
Buffy had Beer Bad.
Considering how top-notch I thought the rest of the season was, House of the Dragon's The Green Council sucked. Surprising because I thought the Greens plotting around Viserys' death would be an entertaining scenario, but then they decided to frame the entire episode around finding Aegon in a whorehouse, and it was just bad.
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Wait, wasn’t that the episode where Theon loses his, well, you know…?
Loved that scene, I watch it over and over!
No just kidding, that episode was boring as hell.
Some of the one-off episodes of the Battlestar Galactica remake that weren’t part of the main storyline. Black Market and Sacrifice come to mind
The Families Ties two-parter where the uber-aware Keatons realize that for the last fifteen years they've been living in a restricted neighborhood full of violent segregationists.
Black Market was the FIRST thing that jumped to mind from the prompt.
It's really easy to forget that Star Trek TNG season 7 was mostly pretty weak because the finale, "All Good Things" was incredible. But the worst of that mostly bad season was Sub Rosa.
Anything with a dream sequence
I don’t give a shit about dream sequences
I love Lost from beginning to end but I skip Stranger in a Strange Land on rewatches
Half the season was "Family member of main character never discussed or seen before appears" kind of stories. The weakest kind.
A big chunk of Twin Peaks season 2. David Lynch left the show shortly after the killer reveal early in the season and woah boy does it show. Granted, I loved a lot of the zany fucking storylines like Civil War Ben and super strong Nadine, but it got pretty rough as it went on.
Thankfully, Lunch returned for the season finale and landed the ending. Fire Walk With Me and The Return were masterpieces.
King of the Hill—“Peggy’s Pageant Fever”. Peggy’s character’s entire conceit is that she’s oblivious. About most things. That episode was both tough to watch and too much like other Peggy-centric episodes but just not as good (e.g., 11:1, “The Peggy Horror Picture Show”).
The Chicago episode of Stranger Things.
Every Lost fan immediately points to 2 episodes being the absolute worse and no one disagrees. The one you mentioned and the Nikki and Paulo episode, Expose.
Looks at Doctor Who
Take your pick...
Book readers were very disappointed in that episode. The Green Council plotting the usurpation of the Crown is a really interesting section of Fire and Blood and rife with cool angles a live action depiction could take. Sadly, they fumbled it. It’s not a horrible episode but it didn’t live up to its potential.
Beer Bad in Buffy.
ay tone, this guy says he hates dream sequences
Like how did that even get greenlit on a conceptual level. An episode about the origin of... Jack's tattoos. I do not think you could have found a single fan that gave even the tiniest of shits.
Feel like this episode was made to force ABC to allow Lindelof & Cuse to end this show
It was early on in the series, but the Seinfeld episode where he had to dog sit for the drunk guy was awful.
Sacrifice made star buck look really dumb when they just changed on there. Why would a pilot be in charge of a hostage situation. Wouldn't the marines been better equipped.
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I actually liked this episode but I watched during a binge. Must have been some frustration waiting a week for that episode lol
The great divide in avatar is pretty dumb. That is a skip
I dunno 3rd rocks was pretty trippy and awesome.
Happy Endings - the series premier. Very weak; almost cringey. And the subsequent few episodes after that weren't great either.
But from the second half of Season 1 onwards, it grew exponentially in quality, and eventually became one of my favorite sitcoms ever created.
The Saturday morning cartoons episode of Futurama is one episode I truly despise. Apparently this one is pretty widely hated amongst the fanbase too
The last episode of _The Prisoner_ .
It exposed the entire series as a fraud.
This is why I stopped watching Archer. I know they're out of the coma stuff now, but I just can't seem to bring myself back.
Do you guys not do pile-ons?
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Oof madone, he looks terrible!
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I had that episode on a few days ago, and the "dog" sounds like some guy barking in the next room. I found this equally bizarre and funny.
Lost fans don't hate Expose. They hate how Nikki and Paolo were parachuted into the season in general.
Expose is actually a great episode: fun and campy (and just the right amount of cruelty, considering the negative reaction to Nikki & Paolo) and a perfect eject button for two characters that simply weren't working on the show.
It's the only filler on the show. I absolutely love that In "The Ember Island Players", they acknowledge how bad it is and skip it on-stage too!
I get where they were going with it, if he's supposed to kind of be the peace mediator then they should show him doing that. But it had plot holes and in the end aang had to lie to even get it to work, which doesn't show him as being capable since that's usually not going to work. Bad episode in an otherwise perfect series
When sons of anarchy went to Belfast.
Jesus fuck.
Most holiday episodes
I already hate Christmas for my own reasons, but the schlock most shows put out for their Christmas episodes is just cringe.
Except for it’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Seeing Charlie bite into Santa’s neck was awesome
The ZZ Top crossover episode of King of the Hill was pretty bad. Felt really forced, wasn’t funny, and totally out of left field.
SHUT UP LATOYA!!
The Mister Terrific episode of The Golden Girls.
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Every season of Yellowstone
The Columbus episode of Sopranos
All of the Will Ferrell episodes of the office.
Futurama Christmas episodes were great.
Than why is it your favorite show?
Pretty sure Larry David played the dog
I guess I should have read the title of the post a little better 🙂
All the Dawn centric episodes of Buffy
Any of those 90s sitcoms that did an entire episode of just clips of previous episodes. Maybe that worked before binge watching was a thing but nowadays I just skip it.
He's back on the sweet-and-creamy!
It was needed so it could get bad reviews to kill the storyline
All the CW shows I used to watch that had to fill 22 episode orders always had a crappy Valentine’s Day or whatever offshoot holiday episode that just sucked.
I miss seasons 8-10 so bad
I know I’m gonna get backlash for this, but in Breaking Bad the episode “The Fly”. I know it gave important backstory and character development, but I just thought it was the most boring episode of the series.
The little brother’s line of “ALEX IS SICK!” When Alex P Keaton explains to him that money doesn’t matter was funny, but the rest of the episode was out of place and dumb
Them finding the fly in the supermethlab in Breaking Bad. I remember it was late at night and my roommate and I both had stuff to do the next morning, so we said we were only gonna watch one more and then we would be done for the night. It ended up being that episode. We felt so cheated that it was an hour of Walter and Jesse trying to kill a fly that we made a special exception and said that the episode didn’t count and that we would watch one more.
This is true for everything apart from the leftovers (if you'd call those episodes dream sequences) where they are the best episodes of the show
The walking dead when they introduced that that corny ass character with the pet tiger on a chain or something. Literally shut it off and never watched another episode.
It was already getting to be way over the top, this just was just the last straw I think. I don’t even remember the specifics of the episode, just the ridiculousness that had taken over the show.
Fly.
The Hey Arnold Christmas episode where they flashback to Vietnam hits different.
I loved Expose.
"Nikki and Paolo. I guess we didn't know you very well. And it appears you killed each other for Diamonds."
The Woman King. I don't know why but that episode just feels like a slog. I much prefer Black Market tbh
If you haven't watched community I would recommend it in part due to their holiday episodes. All of them are fantastic takes on holiday episodes.
Jeeeeeesus CROIST Jackie boy
I stopped watching a little after the reveal. I couldn’t tell where the show was going, what was important, and it felt really aimless. No idea that David lynch had left part way through, but I guess that explains why I lost interest
Stargate SG-1's Season 1 episode "Emancipation".
RAZZLE DAZZLE!!!
It helps if you realize it’s based on a comic book. I’d also recommend the comic, I love it.
They were in negotiations with ABC for an end date, so a lot of the middle of S3 is just treading water. They got their end date, and the back part of S3 was really strong for it.
I LOVE Exposé on rewatches. It's so fun. When it aired though? Absolutely pissed me off.
The Great Divide - Avatar
I loved "Northern Exposure," but I cannot bear to re-watch the episode where Shelley Tambo wakes up one morning and sings everything instead of talking. It was so cringey. I don't know how Cynthia Geary or the other actors got through it.
Ooooo you got me there
Arnold was the only city kid (like me) that I saw on TV at the time, so he gets a pass to my Christmas hate. Fuck that was such a great show.
Oh I’ve seen it all, believe you me.
They also did that for the last episode of "Leave It to Beaver" in 1963. Ward and June and the boys go through a family photo album recalling incidents from the boys' childhood. Not only was it boring, but it didn't make sense, because no one was on hand taking pictures when those incidents occurred.
Can't believe they killed Fisk off like that. And in a shitty filler episode too boot.
Like everything else related to the Pegasus, he was doomed to die for shitty reasons.
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Such a bad episode. There isn't a single thing in Sub Rosa that isn't uber cringe, unnerving, and generally just bad.
Beverly boinking Casper the (Not) Planet Scotland Ghost, and getting off is peak bad Trek. Worse than Georgies romance episodes. Worse than all of VOY. Worse than Code of Honor. Worse than PIC and DISC combined (and that's saying something).
Edit: Spelling
I stopped watching after S2 whne it took the whole season for us learn what everyone k ew, that it was the little girl in the barn the whole time. Oh, and the unlimited ammo cheat when they fight the hoard.
The gas leak year.
Ya that’s a good point. I guess I thought for how far we were into the series it didn’t seem “comic booky” until that point. I know that sounds dumb to say about a series based on zombies.
I was a little disappointed at the finale of ‘Extraordinary Attorney Woo’ - but otherwise a really great show…
Letterkenny is an amazing show, but Fartbook is so skipable.
Expose is now a cult classic Lost episode.
Khary Payton is a really cool dude though.
Breaking bad - the fly episode
The Sopranos is the only exception, Chase nailed exactly what it feels like to be in a dream.
I feel like "Futurama ______ episodes were great" fits most trends
Pretty Boy Fleezy is easily the worst episode of Boondocks. It's a rehash of an older (also not great) episode, but much more mean-spirited.
Those 4 extra random boba fett episodes when I just wanted to see Mando and Grogu reconnect
Agreed! I skip them on rewatches
Oh really? I thought they were pretty good. D’Angelo was an interesting chatter
Series Finale of Seinfeld. I get it, but I feel like they could have gone with another story line more similar to the rest of the series
Any show that travels to a different location, especially Vegas.
The pilot of the US version of The Office. The scene for scene recreation of the British version is just cringe.
I felt bad for bodybuilder Kai Greene ("Funshine") because he wrote how much he was looking forward to the finished episode, where he end up having the worst acting I have seen on ST.
I liked Belfast, everything before that dragged
Our true enemy. Has yet. To reveal himself.
The original Quantum Leap where Sam traded places with a vampire.
It was typically because of budget overruns. Some episodes were more expensive than planned and to save money they would do a clip-show.
Was looking for this…always tell newbies to skip that episode
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What really sucks about his character is the time he took up during Michael’s last episodes. Goodbye Michael is excellent except for whenever we cut back to Ferrell.
I never got the hate for this one, I always thought it was awesome. Eleven learning to treat her anger as a gift was really cool development.
Yes! The goodbye Michael episodes are wonderful but I could’ve done without D’Angelo being around.
Agree to disagree! I personally thought his character was too forced. I also don’t really enjoy Will Ferrell so I’m probably a little biased. I just didn’t like the chemistry when he was manager/training to take over.
Fly- Breaking Bad
I love that scene. Classic! Sopranos dream sequences were unrivaled.
Herstory of Dance is pretty good though.
Stargate SG1 season 1 episode 4 - Emancipation
Holy shit is this one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. Stargate SG1 is in my top 5 shows ever, but this episode just has no redeeming qualities.
The lone filler recap episode in fullmetal brotherhood where hohenhiem gets drunk and talks about the exposition we already had on the boys and their lives.
Completely stops the momentum in an otherwise perfect 64 episode show.
I swear to god I feel like this episode was a fever dream. I thought I made it up in my mind and then I found it it existed, yet I can barely remember the details.
Just rewatched the series again and I def skipped that episode
Theres literally 4 post above you saying the same thing...
I think you’re right about it being forced but that personally made it funnier for me. I feel like Will Ferrel is such a loud/ present person that seeing him not fit in was pretty interesting. Really glad he was a temporary character though. I’m definitely biased towards him though because I love step brothers.
Series 1, episode 2 of Spaced. It's probably my favorite show of all time, it's so funny and clever and referential. I show it to everyone I can, and everyone is on board after the first episode and completely lose interest after "Gatherings". You need to know the characters a little better to get the "funny" in that episode. It sucks, because then no one wants to pick it up when things get really good. And it's not such a commitment! Only 14 episodes total! But yeah, that one is a bit of a dud.
ER: Secrets and Lies from S8. I don’t get how so many people love it? Most of the characters in that episode act like they’re 12 years old and discovered sex for the first time. And why Carter and Luka would want to fight over Crabby Abby is beyond me anyway.
I also didn’t like The Good Fight from S5 with Carter and Lucy chasing their tails to find the father of the girl with the rare blood type…only to find out he was in the diner across the street the whole team.
Golden Girls: Been watching this a lot lately since I’ve been laid off and it’s good comfort TV. But I have never liked the two-parter in S4 where Sophia marries Max. They have no chemistry and it’s so awkward and forced. (Dis)honorable mention to the Empty Nest plot in S2 as well.
Anyway, five dollars a pound.
TUSH IN PLAY. TUSH IN PLAY. I say this to my cat when I’m giving him booty bongos.
It’s a great episode but where it was placed was awful. It should’ve been before the cliff hanger of the previous episode. On rewatched I make it seem before so it fits better.
I loved that they shot certain scenes in what was clearly Southern California but changed the road signs and slapped a blue tinted lens on the camera lol.
Anything after season 4 of Oz, although it did get better in the final series.
Breaking Bad after Gus' death.
First episode of Spartacus.
Any sit com episode with those flashbacks with endless jump cuts. Also any show that had episodes that were musical. I'm looking at you, Community
Not only do I love expose but I love Nikki and Paolo
The best was the Clerks cartoon. It only lasted six episodes I think, and the 2nd episode was a clip show episode of basically only the first episode and random things that never happened
This is the episode that ended my binge, I can’t wait to get back into the show but I watched every chapter until this backdoor pilot and haven’t come back
Yeah, for the record: In retrospect, I think it’s easy to love Nikki and Paolo when you understand that their introduction is leading to a fun, dark-comedy murder send-off instead of more overwrought mythology/mystery box stuff. (Which I also love, but Lost had enough of that already.)
Community did something similar where they show clips the audience has never seen
I’m really not a fan of the liberties they take from the source material. I strongly suspect that this setup will leave people dissatisfied with the endgame of the show. It feels like the greens are not even a little sympathetic and Rhaeneyra is Daenerys 2.0.
The Great Debate
I must be the only person who thinks the finale is a perfect end to the series.
The zombie episode from Samurai Champloo. One of the worst episodes of anything I've ever seen. Totally unnecessary
I’m a die-hard 90s Star Trek fan. I love Voyager (the one with Kate Mulgrew and Jeri Ryan) but Jesus H Christ, there are way way way too many clunkers. Like when Harry falls “in love”.
The West Wing episode "The Long Goodbye" where CJ goes home to visit her dementia-suffering dad and sleep with Matthew Modine.
I liked the idea of the finale and the bringing back of characters. I just didn’t find it that funny
Brady Bunch didn't have weak episodes.
Weak episode? Hm. Episodes 1-7 of Season 7 of Game of Thrones, as well as episodes 1-6 of Season 8.
Yeah wasn’t a huge fan of that episode either. It’s not specifically one episode, but there were like 2-3 episodes in a row in the early seasons where Jesse’s storyline was super weak as well, and made the show as a whole slow down a ton. There was an episode where his whole motivation was getting a car out of the impound lot, and falling into a porta-potty, and by that point I had almost given up on the whole series. Thankfully I stuck around and it got a lot better!
But yeah I’d say the flu was the weakest single episode of the series.
It's $4 a pound. But with the way inflation is these days...madone.
It's over for the little guy.
It's anti Italian discrimination
Lost - Stranger in a Strange Land + Fire and Water
Definitely not. Fire and Water is the one Lost Fans Point to, not Exposé.
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That was very funny haha
Ugh such a bad show
The word Buffy makes me want to rewatch all over again
Seasons 11, 12 and Flux are dogshit. I literally can’t rn lol
Same i get emotional remembering actual character arcs and plotting
Straight trash
Andor on the other hand, best SW thing ever
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