J. Hova
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Post by J. Hova on Jan 4, 2023 22:30:41 GMT -5
Pretty much the entire last season of the original run of Roseanne and the series finale pretty much being a middle finger to the audience.
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tirtefaa
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If you wanna know the truth, you gotta dig up Johnny Booth.
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Post by tirtefaa on Jan 4, 2023 22:54:03 GMT -5
The last couple seasons of Perfect Strangers got weird for absolutely no reason. Whether it was them living in a haunted house (the house they had already been living in forever), them as babies, or an homage to the Honeymooners, it was too much for me to handle as a kid, and I was usually someone who would watch anything.
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Wade Wilson
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Post by Wardlow on Wardlow 54 on Jan 4, 2023 23:00:59 GMT -5
It was by design, but Soap had some pretty insane plots. Corrinne and Father Tim's baby being possessed by the devil, because Tim's mother's dying act was to put a curse on their marriage. Danny going undercover to try and escape the mob. Burt being abducted by aliens and replaced with a clone. Pretty much anything that involved Jody.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 4, 2023 23:09:35 GMT -5
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". Yeah, when Marcy smacks Jefferson I believe they did the tornado effect.
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Ben Wyatt
Crow T. Robot
Are You Gonna Go My Way?
I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jan 5, 2023 9:37:08 GMT -5
Pretty much the entire last season of the original run of Roseanne and the series finale pretty much being a middle finger to the audience. Oh yeah. Like, I totally understand what they (or she, because let's face it, it was all Roseanne) were going for, but I just don't get where anyone thought that was a *good* idea.
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Ben Wyatt
Crow T. Robot
Are You Gonna Go My Way?
I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jan 5, 2023 9:38:57 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? She had her moments, but I'd say Rachael. She actually grew as a person and ended up the least Flanderized.
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Dr. T is an alien
Patti Mayonnaise
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jan 5, 2023 12:59:16 GMT -5
Seriously, was there a single character on that show that wasn't a skeevy arsehole? Honestly, you can ask that question about a whole lot of sitcoms. You can at least respect the shows that embrace that from the start, but then they run into problems as the series runs on.
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Jan 5, 2023 14:11:49 GMT -5
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". I feel like I vaguely remember an episode of Mork and Mindy where Mork talked about his meeting the Fonz and they treated Happy Days as a TV Show in the M&M universe, while the show that we were watching was "real" That's kind of bizarre to me.
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Jan 5, 2023 14:15:04 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. For obvious reasons they couldn't keep making new episodes of that show, but "That's My Bush" has seemingly disappeared from the public conscious and doesn't come up in discussions about sitcoms
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CMWaters
Ozymandius
Rolled a Seven, Beat the Ads.
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Post by CMWaters on Jan 5, 2023 14:33:15 GMT -5
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". I feel like I vaguely remember an episode of Mork and Mindy where Mork talked about his meeting the Fonz and they treated Happy Days as a TV Show in the M&M universe, while the show that we were watching was "real" That's kind of bizarre to me. The Happy Days Multiverse is strange. But yeah, Mork appeared first on an episode of Happy Days...and then when "Mork and Mindy" got picked up, they added a bonus scene at the end of that first episode where Mork was assigned to the 70s. Later on a Happy Days clip show episode had Mork reappear. Biggest thing I remember from that is Fonz asking about cars and women in the 70s, and Mork replied "Both are faster".
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Post by peaches1 on Jan 5, 2023 15:44:57 GMT -5
Everybody Loves Raymond has an episode where Robert dates a woman who appears absolutely perfect for him until he sees her pluck a fly out of the air and surreptiously eat it. It felt like a parody of a Seinfeld plot.
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wildojinx
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 5, 2023 16:20:40 GMT -5
Speaking of skeevy characters, there's a Fresh Prince episode where he's dating a girl who doesnt want to have sex until marriage. So Will gets Jazz to pose as a priest who "marries" them. Thankfully Will's guilt catches up to him and he admits the lie to the girl, but still, if they wanted us to hate the protagonist of the show, good job.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Jan 5, 2023 17:33:29 GMT -5
Everybody Loves Raymond has an episode where Robert dates a woman who appears absolutely perfect for him until he sees her pluck a fly out of the air and surreptiously eat it. It felt like a parody of a Seinfeld plot. Actually it was Raymond who saw the girl eat the dead fly out of a napkin and then Deb tries to gaslight him because she thinks he's jealous of Robert.
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Cranjis McBasketball
Crow T. Robot
Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jan 5, 2023 19:28:35 GMT -5
Man, all the Married with Children episodes mentioned are some of my favourites.
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Post by Beebs is the Final Girl on Jan 5, 2023 21:05:48 GMT -5
It was by design, but Soap had some pretty insane plots. Corrinne and Father Tim's baby being possessed by the devil, because Tim's mother's dying act was to put a curse on their marriage. Danny going undercover to try and escape the mob. Burt being abducted by aliens and replaced with a clone. Pretty much anything that involved Jody. I loved that show. It was more believable than some daytime soap plots.
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Jan 5, 2023 21:32:51 GMT -5
<ducks in> The Pregnant men episode of the Cosby Show <ducks out> And Allen had a baby and explained the logistics of a man giving birth and even me at nine years And then one gives birth to a boat and cliff gives birth to orange soda and a hoagie. This episode was strange
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Post by bibboid on Jan 5, 2023 22:09:42 GMT -5
The series finale of How I Met Your Mother was an absolute FU to the viewers. They spent nine years building up to meeting the mother and one entire season setting up Barney and Robin’s wedding and then they just threw it all out in the first ten minutes of the finale. And the worst part is the writers knew they were doing that from day one because they filmed the children’s dialogue back in the first season.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Jan 5, 2023 22:23:27 GMT -5
Pretty much the entire last season of the original run of Roseanne and the series finale pretty much being a middle finger to the audience. The episode where Roseanne fights terrorists on a train is particularly beyond the pale.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jan 5, 2023 23:01:00 GMT -5
It was by design, but Soap had some pretty insane plots. Corrinne and Father Tim's baby being possessed by the devil, because Tim's mother's dying act was to put a curse on their marriage. Danny going undercover to try and escape the mob. Burt being abducted by aliens and replaced with a clone. Pretty much anything that involved Jody. Yeah it was by design. They constantly kept seeing how far they could push the envelope in regards to storylines, characters, and dialogue.
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Post by The Lach is very tired on Jan 6, 2023 3:35:17 GMT -5
The 1990s Australian sitcom "Hey Dad" was about a mild mannered Architect who worked from home & his family. The plot of the final episode revolved around the family being held hostage with a bomb in a VHS tape. Once the siege ended everyone forgot about the bomb in the VCR counting down . The last scene was the main character screaming as the timer hit zero.
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