Mozenrath
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 4, 2023 10:05:08 GMT -5
On Friends, Monica once constructed a foreskin for Joey out of lunch meat to help him get an acting role. No, this legitimately happened.
What are some other batshit insane plots or gags that spring to mind?
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Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 4, 2023 10:12:24 GMT -5
Laura Winslow actively does not like Steve Urkel. Yet she toys with his feelings and leads him along so she can get good grades at the science fair. So Steve Urkel creates a god damn nuclear bomb and it explodes.
The end.
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Post by BRV on Jan 4, 2023 10:57:04 GMT -5
"Pigmalion" from the seventh season of "King of the Hill."
This is the one episode I can't wrap my head around. Like, even as bad as "King of the Hill" got in seasons 12 and 13, it still had one foot firmly in reality. But "Pigmalion" was just so out of leftfield that it feels like one of those episodes that exists only in rumor alone, like a "King of the Hill" version of the Squidward Creepypasta. And it can't even be waved away as a one-off Halloween-themed episode, because it aired in January.
It's unnecessarily dark and that's before we get to the mentally-ill business tycoon who may or may not have a bestiality fetish dressing up like a pig and getting slaughtered in front of Peggy and Luanne, who seem to shrug off his presumably gory death almost instantly. It touches on so many taboo issues - mental illness, controlling relationships, date rape, Oedipus complexes, incest (?) - but whiffs so poorly on every one of them that you're wondering how this episode passed through the chain of command without someone stepping in and saying, "Uh, guys, this one's not gonna work."
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jan 4, 2023 11:29:12 GMT -5
The Bundys go to the UK.
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agent817
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Post by agent817 on Jan 4, 2023 12:01:10 GMT -5
"Pigmalion" from the seventh season of "King of the Hill." This is the one episode I can't wrap my head around. Like, even as bad as "King of the Hill" got in seasons 12 and 13, it still had one foot firmly in reality. But "Pigmalion" was just so out of leftfield that it feels like one of those episodes that exists only in rumor alone, like a "King of the Hill" version of the Squidward Creepypasta. And it can't even be waved away as a one-off Halloween-themed episode, because it aired in January. It's unnecessarily dark and that's before we get to the mentally-ill business tycoon who may or may not have a bestiality fetish dressing up like a pig and getting slaughtered in front of Peggy and Luanne, who seem to shrug off his presumably gory death almost instantly. It touches on so many taboo issues - mental illness, controlling relationships, date rape, Oedipus complexes, incest (?) - but whiffs so poorly on every one of them that you're wondering how this episode passed through the chain of command without someone stepping in and saying, "Uh, guys, this one's not gonna work." To be fair, it was originally supposed to air in Season 5 as a Halloween episode, but was delayed twice. If you look closely at the animation, it looks a little different than episodes in Season 7.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Jan 4, 2023 12:32:45 GMT -5
"Pigmalion" from the seventh season of "King of the Hill." This is the one episode I can't wrap my head around. Like, even as bad as "King of the Hill" got in seasons 12 and 13, it still had one foot firmly in reality. But "Pigmalion" was just so out of leftfield that it feels like one of those episodes that exists only in rumor alone, like a "King of the Hill" version of the Squidward Creepypasta. And it can't even be waved away as a one-off Halloween-themed episode, because it aired in January. It's unnecessarily dark and that's before we get to the mentally-ill business tycoon who may or may not have a bestiality fetish dressing up like a pig and getting slaughtered in front of Peggy and Luanne, who seem to shrug off his presumably gory death almost instantly. It touches on so many taboo issues - mental illness, controlling relationships, date rape, Oedipus complexes, incest (?) - but whiffs so poorly on every one of them that you're wondering how this episode passed through the chain of command without someone stepping in and saying, "Uh, guys, this one's not gonna work." To be fair, it was originally supposed to air in Season 5 as a Halloween episode, but was delayed twice. If you look closely at the animation, it looks a little different than episodes in Season 7. Plus in the first season we had Bobby get hypnotized by a fire ant queen. So its not like they were strangers to out there plots.
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Sephiroth
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Post by Sephiroth on Jan 4, 2023 12:43:58 GMT -5
With sone of the misadventures Frasier and Niles got into, you’d think the city of Seattle would have labeled them a public menace
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 4, 2023 12:50:44 GMT -5
<ducks in> The Pregnant men episode of the Cosby Show <ducks out>
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Post by Feyrhausen on Jan 4, 2023 13:03:56 GMT -5
Not a weird plot per se but it was weird to watch. In the last season of Perfect Strangers Larry and Balki were going to be fathers. Larry has a dream where he and Balki are babies in a giant nursery set.
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Post by James Fabiano on Jan 4, 2023 13:39:31 GMT -5
Laura Winslow actively does not like Steve Urkel. Yet she toys with his feelings and leads him along so she can get good grades at the science fair. So Steve Urkel creates a god damn nuclear bomb and it explodes. The end. I feel a LOT of later Family Matters qualifies.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Jan 4, 2023 13:53:47 GMT -5
Laura Winslow actively does not like Steve Urkel. Yet she toys with his feelings and leads him along so she can get good grades at the science fair. So Steve Urkel creates a god damn nuclear bomb and it explodes. The end. I feel a LOT of later Family Matters qualifies. Family Matters and Married with Children both went into craziness. Family Matters around the time of the aforementioned nuclear bomb episode, or maybe the jet pack flight to Step by Step. Married with the aliens stealing Als underwear (or was it socks?)
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Post by agent817 on Jan 4, 2023 14:04:08 GMT -5
I feel a LOT of later Family Matters qualifies. Family Matters and Married with Children both went into craziness. Family Matters around the time of the aforementioned nuclear bomb episode, or maybe the jet pack flight to Step by Step. Married with the aliens stealing Als underwear (or was it socks?) There was also that Hell episode of Married with Children when Al sold his soul to play for the Chicago Bears and then dies on the field. Then the rest of the cast dies and joins him in Hell.
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Post by CMWaters on Jan 4, 2023 14:08:17 GMT -5
Family Matters and Married with Children both went into craziness. Family Matters around the time of the aforementioned nuclear bomb episode, or maybe the jet pack flight to Step by Step. Married with the aliens stealing Als underwear (or was it socks?) There was also that Hell episode of Married with Children when Al sold his soul to play for the Chicago Bears and then dies on the field. Then the rest of the cast dies and joins him in Hell. IIRC, that one also had a tie-in promotion with "The Mask" where they superimposed effects like from the movie on a scene or two in the episode when it first aired. Meanwhile, even if it did lead to a spin-off series, the Mork episodes of "Happy Days".
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Post by Feyrhausen on Jan 4, 2023 14:39:08 GMT -5
Family Matters and Married with Children both went into craziness. Family Matters around the time of the aforementioned nuclear bomb episode, or maybe the jet pack flight to Step by Step. Married with the aliens stealing Als underwear (or was it socks?) There was also that Hell episode of Married with Children when Al sold his soul to play for the Chicago Bears and then dies on the field. Then the rest of the cast dies and joins him in Hell. Oh there was all kinds of nuttiness, like the UK episode with the witches curse mentioned by someone else. The aliens is just the first ep I can remember where something truly crazy happened.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 4, 2023 15:00:33 GMT -5
Phoebe rejecting evolutionary science.
Ross was basically framed as being the antagonist.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 4, 2023 15:37:13 GMT -5
I still like the variation the short lived That’s My Bush took on a cliche sitcom premise.
Laura views Karl as hapless and lovelorn. So she sets him up with someone. He ends up having sex with this person. But instead of Karl just finding love with the new woman or the twist of him ending up with Laura in the end, there’s a third option. Another co-worker asks Laura what the hell she thinks she’s doing. It turns out Karl was married all the time and Karl just thought Laura was helping him cheat on his wife.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Jan 4, 2023 15:39:55 GMT -5
Phoebe rejecting evolutionary science. Ross was basically framed as being the antagonist. Even worse than that... Phoebe finds a stray cat that she believes has her mothers soul. Ross finds a lost cat poster that shows the cat belongs to a little girl who misses it. Ross is the bad guy for telling Phoebe that the cat is not her mother and needs to go home to its owner.
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Post by dav on Jan 4, 2023 15:48:07 GMT -5
That one episode of FRIENDS where Chandler pretends to be a woman's ex so he can manipulate her into sleeping with him.
Seriously, was there a single character on that show that wasn't a skeevy arsehole?
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Jan 4, 2023 15:57:36 GMT -5
I now present to you:
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Post by y4j1981 on Jan 4, 2023 20:39:46 GMT -5
Family Matters and Married with Children both went into craziness. Family Matters around the time of the aforementioned nuclear bomb episode, or maybe the jet pack flight to Step by Step. Married with the aliens stealing Als underwear (or was it socks?) There was also that Hell episode of Married with Children when Al sold his soul to play for the Chicago Bears and then dies on the field. Then the rest of the cast dies and joins him in Hell. I believe the plot was Al sold his soul to the Devil to "play great football & LEAD the Bears to the SuperBowl."..the catch being he said 'lead them to it' when he should have said 'play & win the SB' But that reminds me of a earlier episode, a Xmas one where Al is fixing the Xmas lights and gets zapped. Leading him to encounter his guardian angel, played by Sam Kinison. Who showed Al what would happen if he never been born. One of the points being Peggy & kids would be happier & Peg would have married someone else. Her new husband, played by Ted McGinley, who would join the cast 2 years later as Marcy's new husband Jefferson
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