Episodes that become pariahs

Sadly, it doesn't look like the Foster's writers have stopped doing these types of episodes. They've seen the many complaints about Everyone Knows It's Bendy and Foster's Goes To Europe, but then they still made another one... I Only Have Surprise For You.
 
I don't know which episode, but in the second to last old TMNT series, where the original writers (I'm guessing they knew they had a pink slip coming) created terrible concepts really didn't make things go smoothly. Advanced mutations? Lord Dregg? I feel sorry for Jeffery Scott working on the show, having to deal with the huge mess those guys left in the series.
 
It is a very bleak episode, yes. I agree with AhmedtheHead-- it's probably the darkest satire they've ever done because of it's cynical view on the world of The Simpsons and America in general. I found it brilliant and I find that a lot people don't neccesarily get the point or the concept. However, you're right to say it depends on your interpretation.

I also liked Things Change from Teen Titans. I found it very bittersweet and I can totally understand why some may find it unsatisfying (TC was very vague...)
 
I used to not like The Principal and the Pauper, but that was before I listened to the commentary and found out that there was actually a point to it.

And my only problem with Things Change is the fact that there was no explanation for how Terra came back.
 
"If It Smells Like An Ed" is the most frustrating episode of any show I have ever watched, and was the main factor in my decision to stop watching EEnE.
 
Seconded. I'm not going by popular culture's rules here, only my own, but any episode of a show in which an innocent character get relentlessly and mercilessly dumped on for the whole thing (Especially when he/she does nothing to deserve such harsh treatment in the first place), and then never receives any kind poetic justice at the end (with the perpetrators likewise never receiving any sort of come-uppance) automatically attains pariah status for me.
 
I thought this show had a large fanbase and someone would have mentioned it by now but one series has not 1, but 12 pariah episodes. And the show is:

Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles

Only the first episode of the 13 made is considered canon, and the rest has been set aside as not being part of the Gargoyles story.
 
Considering that they actually wound up changing it later, I don't think it was the parents mishearing it. You could argue that they blew it out of proportion anyway - maybe, maybe not - but putting together syllables until they form "Sonovovich" sounds pretty intentional to me.
 
Honestly I really liked the episode with Bendy and is one of my favorites for fosters. It just seemed really different from most episodes in the series. But thats just my opinion.

Hmm.. For Fairly Odd Parents the episode "It's a Wishful Life" caused alot of disdain from the fanbase if I recall. I thik because of how mean spirited and out of character (if thats how you would describe it?) the plot was.
 
I'm not sure if you mean "Which episodes do you find bad" or "Which episodes have controversial matters" but as for my finding what I thought was bad:

Foster's "Cheese A Go-Go".

It had the usual great writing of Foster's, ie: 1. Taking one idea and stretching it into endless possibilites 2. Making things as hetic as possible to drag and keep you interested 3. Interactions between all/most of the characters, etc, and yet, I had not been so bored with an episode of Foster's.

Because despite them doing all the things you would see in something like "Bus the Two of Us", each character had only one gag to stick to and said it throughout the episode making it boring and tiresome. You barely got to get sucked into the story because it felt like it they had a huge chunk of the beginning missing and just randomly started at the middle, not letting you know what's going on until half the episode has aired to at which point, you don't really care that much anymore.

And rather than having all the characters' plots or stories submerging into one, they all seemed to just go into their own plot in which all of them didn't have an ending.
 
What? :shrug:

Yes, it was clearly "Sonovovich" which - again - clearly sounds like the offensive phrase in question.

So yes, it was intentional.
 
Well, they were made to be annoying. The fact they are considered the most annoying in animation is actually a compliment to the creator of the character. :sweat:
 
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