Good Show, Bad Episode

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aclark1994

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Has there ever been a time where you think a normally good show turns out a stinker of an episode? Here are a few of my examples...

Family Guy - "McStroke" - Not only was this episode the weakest in that generally weak season, but the message kinda bugged me. Peter eats too many hamburgers and gets a stroke, so what does he do? Sue the fast food restaurant, despite the fact that his stroke was caused purely by his own idiocy and lack of self-control. The kicker? Peter wins the lawsuit, and the audience gets a vegetarian message (Hamburgers are made from cows? NO WAI) shoved down their throat.

Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends - "Everyone Knows It's Bendy" - Ah, the infamous Bendy episode. Most people know why it's on this list. Literally all the main imaginary friends were blamed and punished for Bendy's troublemaking. Even Wilt, who was the goody-two-shoes of the house was blamed for some reason. The worst part was that Bendy never even got some form of comeuppance, he just walks away. The same thing goes for "Foster's Home For Make-Em-Up Pals", only on a smaller scale.

South Park - "Cartoon Wars, pt. I" - Mean-spirited Family Guy bashing. The whole thing makes Matt and Trey look incredibly smug, as if they exist on completely seperate plane of comedy than everyone else. The fact that Seth didn't retaliate and take an oppotunity to bash SP (and for that matter, The Simpsons) right back just made Matt and Trey look worse IMO. The second part was better, but part one was just immature and uncalled for.
 
Note: I'm using stars as paragraph breaks because it won't work for me for some apparent reason. So Please bear with me XD that said: ****************************************************8 Theres alot I can't think of right now (but I'm with you on the bendy episode) Heres what I can remember at the moment during the time I liked (or still like) these shows: Fairly Odd Parents: first, yes I realize the shows quality diminished greatly around season three, but this had to be the worst episode from the series IMO. The episode "It's a Wishful Life". BOY, was this episode mean spirited. Timmy wishes he was never alive,but it turns out life is better without him. Talk about a real picker upper *rolls eyes* I like dark humor as much as the next person but this was just really pathetic and uncalled for... ********************************************************** And for another Hartman work. Danny Phantom back when I liked the show, the episode "Urban Jungle". God was this episode TERRIBLE. I know I know, when it was aired it was out of place, but thats not the point. This episode was boring, overhyped, and pointless. Oh boy!, Danny gets a new power! big whoop. The villain sucked too. ********************************************************** South Park: Ok, I LOVE South Park. But these are two episodes that dissapointed me. "More Crap" and "The China Probrem" really did nothing for me.
 
The Simpsons episodes "That '90s Show" and "Three Gays of the Condo". '90s Show was pointless, and made no sense. Gays of the Condo was just... I don't even know how to say it.
 
In the series Kim Possible you had at least 1 bad episode per season, and in fact each season had a different plot.. while the idea behind the plot was good, the excution made the episodes definitely bad.

Let's start off with Season 1 and the worst of the Worst, "Royal Pain". In this episode Kim and Ron are supposed to be protecting a prince by the name of Wally from a bunch of assassins (The Knights of Rodhegan). But what killed this episode was the sheer execution of Prince Wally. I mean after looking at him, and listening to his voice, you wish the Knights would come along and definitely put Wally (and the rest of us) out of our misery. I mean snide, stuck up, self centered Wally was indeed a "Royal pain in the butt. And after seeing this episode, I have to say that I was thankful I didn't assassinate Wally myself!

In Season 2 you have Ron Millionaire. Now while the plot was where Ron got himself a royalty check for 99 million dollars for his cullinary creation, (The Naco) and selling it for a pittance. You would think that the money wouldn't change Ron..(or Kim for that matter), But Suddenly you had Ron spending thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars at a pop, and for of all things, worthless items (A Diamond Pinky Ring? I think Denver would have been a better bargain). But in the end Drakken winds up with Ron's cash and blows it on a secret lair and a laser ray that blows up the lair in one fell swoop. No Iceland for Shego either.. But in this farce Money didn't buy anyone any happiness, including the viewer.

In Season 3, we had "And the Molerat will be CGI." In this episode the idea was that some Hollywood director would produce a "Kim Possible Movie", and that the stars that would play Kim and Ron would be much like their real counterparts. But instead you have a half crazed director who's thinking inside the box, an actress (known as Heather) who definitely is more popular than Kim, and Ron's counterpart (Quinn) who would spout "Whatever" rather than "Booyeah". And Poor Rufus gets turned into a CGI Animatronic.. All for the sake of Hollywood.. Thank god this episode almost didn't make it to the cutting room floor.

And finally

Season 4's "Grande Size Me". If Peter Griffin eating too many hamburgers and having a "McStroke" wasn't bad enough, Here we had Ron Stoppable trying to prove to Principal Barkin (who's a teacher for health Class) that Bueno Nacho food is healthy.. That is until Ron falls in a vat full of chemicals that turns him into a 15 foot tall raging "Hulk Thing" after vegging out on nothing but Bueno Nacho Food.. While the Plot was funny, the deliverance was worse than a Happy Meal from McDonalds. After all this was probably Disney's way at getting back at McDonald's for selling all those Happy Meals with Cheap Disney toys.


And finally we have "Graduation" (Pts 1 and 2) In this end of the series storyline with Kim and Ron having to face the fears of Graduation from High School. While the episodes really tell a story of two friends who were going to go different directions, Disney Mucked up the works and decided to rush this one rather than working it out like they did in "So the Drama" IMHO, if Bob and Mark had a say in that, then this would have been the best darn thing to come down the pike. Instead, the Disney execs had the final say and thumbed their nose at this series. It's sad to say good bye to a duo like these two kids, but in the end, Disney did no real favors for cutting a show short which still had a lot of potential (College anyone?)

But still 5 bad shows.. out of 87 total.. still a pretty good track record when it comes to a series that was truly a blessing.

:coyote:
 
Invader Zim, despite how great it truly is, has a few:
The Girl Who Cried Gnome
Mortos der Soulstealer
The Voting of the Doomed

Those episodes are utterly boring and should have been swapped for a few better episodes that would have been produced if the show wasn't canceled early.

Also the worst episode of South Park has got to be A Million Little Fibers.
 
I'm gonna have to rock a few from the DCAU. If you like these episodes, that's totally cool with me. I have no problem with that at all. To each his/her own, but these episodes have been known to cause cancer in laboratory mice or, at the very least, in ME. Here goes:

"I've Got Batman in my Basement" from Batman: The Animated Series. Oi, vay! I have a rule: Children should never be able to outsmart/defeat/one-up/get the drop on PROFESSIONAL CAREER CRIMINAL MASTERMINDS! This episode is about a group of kids from junior high sticking it to the Penguin for 15 straight minutes like we strayed into a test pilot for the Home Alone Animated Series.

The whole thing did nothing for me but knock Batman down several pegs and, worse, made the Penguin look even MORE lame than he usually does. Ouch!

"Monkey Fun" from Superman: The Animated Series. Written by Evan Dorkin, whom I'm convinced hates me despite the fact that we've never actually met. This episode follows Supes around for what feels like an hour and a half as he attempts to wrangle Lois Lane's childhood pet monkey Beppo, who has grown to freakin' ginormous size due to - ah, hell, forget it! Who cares? Where's Metallo? Where's Parasite? The show didn't run THAT long! Did we really have time to devote an entire episode to the Man of Steel battling a ten-story chimpanzee? Apparently, yes.

"This Little Piggy" from Justice League Unlimited. Wouldn't it be funny if Wonder Woman got turned into a pig and Batman had to sing a Harry Akst number from the Prohibition Era in order to change her back to normal? In a word: NO! In TWO words: HELL, NO! Again, this just felt like the creators wanted to stick it to the Bat in this episode. It's also the only other place in the history of the known universe where you can catch a scene of Red Tornado showing off his considerable yet oddly unsettling "Pig Calling" ability. Where's my action figure of that, huh?

(pulls Red Tornado action figure's string) "Suuuueeeeeeeyyyyyy!!" (shudders, throws it into trash can, sulks)

That's all I got for now, but I'LL BE BACK!
 
Most of the episodes from TMNT that occured later on in the series circa 1994 or so, I can't remember the episode names however.
 
First of all, I would like to second Tuscuncyote's mention of 'Grande Size Me.' So bad, I've never even watched it the whole way through. I don't have anything against the other eps he mentioned, though Graduation could have been much better with just a few changes...

A thread like this cannot be complete without a mention of X-Men: Evolution 'Sirens'. Let's have a girl power episode! Sparked by a completely out-of-character comment from a character who never-before and never-after showed the slightest sign of chauvanism! Lets have the good-girls team up with the bad-girl and dress as angry biker chicks! Lets do a girl-power episode where the girls go totally out-of-control and over-the-top and nearly kill someone without even knowing it! And then lets have said chauvanist prevent said murder and never mentioning it to the out-of-control girls.... Ill-concieved on so many levels...
 
Spongebob Squarepants- "All That Glitters"- That was one of the worst Spongebob episodes I have ever seen. The episode combines "monster patties", ignorant doctors, superior machines with French accents, and public nudity into one completely stupid and pointless episode.
 
Family Guy has had a bunch of stinkers, including last Sunday's episode.

Recess was a consistently good show, but one episode that rubbed me the wrong way was "Me No Know", where Vince was the only person who wasn't allowed to watch a new popular movie. That exact same plot was used in Disney's Doug two years earlier.
 
South Park - The China Probrem: Indy gets raped by Lucas and Spielberg, Butters shoots someone in the crotch, Indy gets raped by Lucas and Spielberg, Butters shoots someone in the crotch, Indy gets raped by Lucas and Spielberg, Butters shoots someone in the crotch, end episode.
 
I can't recall the name of the episode but it was an episode of South Park that had something to do with Oprah's vagina holding her hostage or something like that... I really don't remember and it had basically nothing to do with any of the South Park characters but I remember that turned it off about halfway through because of how stupid it was.
 
"The Moldy Touch" from Chowder. As much as I like Chowder, this episode was just so horrible. It didn't do anything for me at all and in my opinion, it doesn't feel like Chowder at all. The humor was wierd and it was just...blah!
 
That episode of Chowder where they were trying to get juice or whatever from those giant fruits, that was pretty lame. The episode didn't make me laugh in the least and Chowder was barely even in that episode.
 
Actually, that episode was titled "A Walk on the Wild Side". And I'm surprised you didn't mention the absolute lowest moment of the ep: that gawdawful pop song they stuck in the middle of the story. Furthermore, there was an obvious hiccup in the story which made no sense at all, yet the writers never came up with a plausible explanation for it: from the start of the episode when the 'girl power' team The Bayville Sirens is first formed, it's just Jean, Amara and Tabitha, and when they first go out and start doing the little girl power thing out in the streets, it's still just those 3. Then during the song, they are suddenly and without explanation joined by Kitty and Rogue. Why? They weren't involved in the story's plot at all, and they had no reason to be there, yet for the remainder of the episode they were just there in the group as if they'd been there all along, with no logical reason given why they would just join in on this from out of nowhere.

It's Girl Power, it doesn't have to make sense. :rolleyes:
 
tucsoncoyote interestingly enough none of those are my least favorite episode of the series. That dishonor belongs to Queen bebe.
 
Every series is guranteed to have at least 1-2 bad episodes a season, maybe more depending on how long the season is. It does not matter if you are Batman TAS, Gargoyles, Ben 10, Samurai Jack, Star Wars, Transformers, Thundercats, GI Joe, Golion, Heroes, Simpsons, Gundam, Ghost in the Shell, etc, you are always guaranteed a bad episode.
 
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