Good Show, Bad Episode

[chdr]

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.

[J!!!]

Robotech-Ep 38 This episode was nothing but a recap told by new characters nothing more it made me sad when I saw it

[ChowderFan]

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.

Strange... I actually love all those episodes you've mentioned.

[strawberryjuice]

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.

[DonkeyKongSong]

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.

[tucsoncoyote]

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:

[weirdojace]

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.

[Sabregroove]

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!

[TheTerror]

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.

[Crash]

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...

[WolfGran]

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.

[PositronShooter]

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.

[mojokingbee1]

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.

[Eddy]

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.

[blazecat]

"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!

[TheTerror]

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.

[Starbro]

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...

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:

[creativerealms]

tucsoncoyote interestingly enough none of those are my least favorite episode of the series. That dishonor belongs to Queen bebe.

[mowub]

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.

As well as "The Itchy And Scratchy Movie."

[Goodfellow]

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.

[Monterey Jack]

"A Walk On The Wild Side" has cute X-Girls dancing around in sexy outfits.

Good enough for me. ;)

[mowub]

Until the DTV movies came along, many considered That's Lobstertainment! to be the only bad episode of Futurama. Mostly because it focused too much on Zoidberg, there wasn't any real action, and wasn't as funny. In the commentary, one writer admits that while writing this, "Somewhere in the middle, I lost Fry and Leela," then tacked on that substory about them being trapped in the La Brea tar pit.

[Terra Branford]

Code Geass- "Love Attack"

Some may disagree, but I didn't think their attempt at humor was very good. I will admit that it had its moments though. But at the end of the episode, it wasn't that good.

[Dr.Pepper]

Dexter's Lab -Labretto: I just really hated the opera singing

[Lonestarr]

tucsoncoyote interestingly enough none of those are my least favorite episode of the series. That dishonor belongs to Queen bebe.

He had some good choices, but any worst KP episode list without "Return to Wannaweep" = fail.

[Dr. Daedalus]

Until the DTV movies came along, many considered That's Lobstertainment! to be the only bad episode of Futurama. Mostly because it focused too much on Zoidberg, there wasn't any real action, and wasn't as funny. In the commentary, one writer admits that while writing this, "Somewhere in the middle, I lost Fry and Leela," then tacked on that substory about them being trapped in the La Brea tar pit. I actually like that episode. Now "Three Hundred Big Boys", that's a different story.

[Dub C]

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...

Such disdain I have for this episode! I'm not sure if I should thank you or hate you for reminding me of it! :p

As for my own choice; Batman TAS episode Critters. The villain for this week's episode, a farmer that splices animals...yeah! I'm supposed to take him seriously given all the villains in Batman's Rogues Gallery. When this episode first premiered, I remember sleeping thru parts of it, & I NEVER found myself bored watching this show.

Maybe I'll think of more later.

[Craig Crumpton]

"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.Agreed on that one, and with Dub C who mentioned "Critters." Another ep I didn't care for at all was "The Underdwellers." I thought "Sewer King" was quite possibly the worst villain in the entire Rogues Gallery, and the entire episode just seemed a little too ridiculous for my tastes. Later, I learned that Bruce Timm said that BS&P had caused some drastic edits and changes for the tone and content of the ep. Timm was even quoted as saying, "If we were doing it today, we probably would have decided not to do the show."

It did have a poignant moment in it though, when Batman said "Children and guns do not mix... ever!"


"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.If you listen to the crew commentary on the JLU S1 DVD, the entire episode was intended as a farce and an homage to the "Bewitched" TV series. And they even acknowledge that they knew some fans wouldn't "get it".

I did. I thought it was very amusing and so refreshingly different from the rest of that season. I find it fascinating when established shows take risks and do something out of the ordinary. Timm even admits on the commentary that he'd been watching a lot of Buffy and Angel at the time, and "This Little Piggy" was inspired by more whimsical eps from those shows.


Dexter's Lab -Labretto: I just really hated the opera singingI loved that episode. I'm not exactly "into" opera either, but I found the singing hilarious. Parts of the lyrics were a little forced, but overall I thought it was very entertaining.

[Lavenderpaw]

Dexter's Lab -Labretto: I just really hated the opera singing


I liked it. :anime:

[J. B. Warner]

Until the DTV movies came along, many considered That's Lobstertainment! to be the only bad episode of Futurama. Mostly because it focused too much on Zoidberg, there wasn't any real action, and wasn't as funny. In the commentary, one writer admits that while writing this, "Somewhere in the middle, I lost Fry and Leela," then tacked on that substory about them being trapped in the La Brea tar pit.

I think the only real problem I have with "That's Lobstertainment" is that Calculon is wildly out of character - it doesn't seem like him to threaten people with murder if he doesn't win an Academy Award. And since that's the driving plot point for Act III, it kind of brings the episode down a few notches.

I can still think of worse episodes, though. "The Cryonic Woman", for instance.

[FriendlyMushroom]

Avatar- "The Great Divide"

Pointless, did absolutely nothing to further the plot (other so-called filler episodes have in one way or another). The show's recurring antagonists were absent, the plot stupid, and the resolution ridiculous. Why didn't they just ferry the whole group on Appa in several trips?

[creativerealms]

Avatar: Ember Island Players, Ok I get it the creators and writers are aware of the fans, aware of their comments and complaints and so on. I get it and it's fun on that level. But this is still a pointless recap that's not a real recap episode that could have been better used for other things. This type of episode would have been better for one of those Avatar shorts.

[Neo Yi]

Danny Phantom - It's just easier for me if I stated 90% of Season Three was an overwhelming insult to the series, but since I can only chose one, "Boxed Up Fury"--the absolute worse that DP could and has ever punched out. Its ridiculous take on Pandora's Box is diminished further by Box Ghost's poor performance as a serious villain--largely just himself, only with more power (his 5-second appearance in "TUE" was more threatening -- and convincing!), Pandora's weak appearance and lack of personality, ugly animations and color, and more unnecessary push-and-shove of the deteriorated Danny/Sam pairing -- made even more pain-inducing when the writers again had to stoop the mature Danny into a blatant idiot for Miss Canon Sue to correct/help him. Something is wrong when I complain about a dialogue problem with Danny's inexcusable lack of knowledge on what a Pegasus is.

Xiaolin Showdown - The Demon Seed: When the series gets funny, it gets funny. When it gets serious, it gets serious. But when it gets really weird, it gets...weird. Or bad, in this case. Because the idea of a great evil being a talking french plant is just something I can't take seriously, no matter what. Even for a cartoon. Even if it wasn't meant to be taken so heavily, the fact that the episode treated it as such really didn't help.

[mowub]

I can still think of worse episodes, though. "The Cryonic Woman", for instance.

I totally agree with that. At the end, after Fry nearly risked his life in Death Boarding, Michelle got impossibly b****y towards Fry, calling him a loser in 2000 and (supposedly) 4000. When Fry tries to explain that he fits in 3000, she goes "Stop standing up for yourself Fry! When we get back to the hole, we're going to have a long, boring talk about our relationship!" Very unrealistic dialogue and acting, as though the writers were copping out. Not to mention I can't stand Sarah Silverman's other stuff, including her crappy Comedy Central program.

[Dr. Daedalus]

"Cryonic Woman" isn't Futurama's strongest (I too don't take to Fry's girlfriend), but it gains major points for its twist ending of "Duh, it's L.A." when Fry is dumbfounded how it can be the year 3000 and yet people are savages.

[Sabregroove]

If you listen to the crew commentary on the JLU S1 DVD, the entire episode was intended as a farce and an homage to the "Bewitched" TV series. And they even acknowledge that they knew some fans wouldn't "get it".

Oh no, I "got" it. I just didn't WANT it! :D

I'll give that episode credit for having one of my favorite lines from all of JLU history, however. When Buwanna Beast is talking to the other pigs about where Diana might have gone:

Buwanna Beast: "Come on, guys. Help me out here: newcomer, silver bracelets... kinda stuck up." LOL!

[TKnHappyNess]

For the Johto saga of Pokemon, plenty of fillers that make no sense. 4Kids could've easily skipped a lot of them. One ep that was just plain stupid was "Heartbreak of Brock" because they had a girl who initially fell for Brock, but only because she wanted to get married. She also fell for James in that ep before finally deciding on a doctor she only met at the end. Waste of half an hour, and shows just how badly a girl can destroy a guy's emotions and trust in women.

[J. B. Warner]

For the Johto saga of Pokemon, plenty of fillers that make no sense. 4Kids could've easily skipped a lot of them. One ep that was just plain stupid was "Heartbreak of Brock" because they had a girl who initially fell for Brock, but only because she wanted to get married. She also fell for James in that ep before finally deciding on a doctor she only met at the end. Waste of half an hour, and shows just how badly a girl can destroy a guy's emotions and trust in women.

I'll admit there were a lot of pointless fillers in Season 4, but "The Heartbreak of Brock" wasn't one of them. Considering how little they gave Brock to do in Johto, having an episode where he almost gets the girl was a nice change of pace. They replicated the success in Season 5 with "I'm Just Waiting on a Friend", where Brock is attracted to that girl who turns out to be a kitsune (which was also a great throwback to the Japanese culture-influenced episodes of Season 1).

I still think the worst episode of "Pokémon" is "A Way Off Day Off" from Season 2. It's literally an episode where nothing happens - the gang sits around, Ash ponders the GS Ball, Scyther and Charizard don't get along, Jessie and James attack and get blasted off, and it all occurs without any plot whatsoever. When people badmouth the writing on "Pokémon", it's episodes like this that back up their argument.

[Mini Garbonzo]

What about A Leela of Her Own? I always felt like that episode was one of the worst of the entire series, the way they treated Leela in that episode went a bit too far for me.

[FGfan]

Anyone remember that one show, "Mummies Alive?" I used to catch that one all the time, and I remember the occasional episode where it would just be a random, typical life story, no actual conflict. >.<


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.

That was one of the most brilliantly written episodes in the history of the show, and provides a unique perspective on the hypocritical nature of censorship.

Futurama's Jurassic Bark. Tragic, and an episode I don't recommend anyone go anywhere close to touching.


I'll admit there were a lot of pointless fillers in Season 4, but "The Heartbreak of Brock" wasn't one of them. Considering how little they gave Brock to do in Johto, having an episode where he almost gets the girl was a nice change of pace. They replicated the success in Season 5 with "I'm Just Waiting on a Friend", where Brock is attracted to that girl who turns out to be a kitsune (which was also a great throwback to the Japanese culture-influenced episodes of Season 1)..

Pokemon seasons 3-5, IMHO, are a euphemism for "bad filler".

[Mini Garbonzo]

Futurama's Jurassic Bark. Tragic, and an episode I don't recommend anyone go anywhere close to touching.

But because of the fact it was tragic is one of the reasons that made it such a great episode.

[Kitschensyngk]

The Boondocks: "Tom, Sarah and Usher"
Tom DuBois finally grows a backbone...only for Usher's bodyguards to thrash him within an inch of his life.

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: "Foster's Goes to Europe"
It would have been a great episode if not for one little thing...THEY DIDN'T.

Sealab 2021: "ASHDTV"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I THOUGHT YOU SAID PENIS LOL FUNNIEZ!!!

Naruto: "Ino Screams! Chubby Paradise!"
Fat Elvis-impersonating Lotharios and projectile urine.

The Powerpuff Girls: "City of Frownsville"
It was late in the series. I assume they ran out of ideas and decided to rip off Yogi's Gang.

[DarthGonzo]

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: "Foster's Goes to Europe"
It would have been a great episode if not for one little thing...THEY DIDN'T.

That was the joke.

[Crash]

Actually, that episode was titled "A Walk on the Wild Side".

Heh. You're right. Guess it was so bad I blocked out the name from my memory....

[Kitschensyngk]

That was the joke.

I know, but I would have LOVED to see a few episodes about their trip.

[Darklordavaitor]

If you listen to the crew commentary on the JLU S1 DVD, the entire episode was intended as a farce and an homage to the "Bewitched" TV series. And they even acknowledge that they knew some fans wouldn't "get it".

I did. I thought it was very amusing and so refreshingly different from the rest of that season. I find it fascinating when established shows take risks and do something out of the ordinary. Timm even admits on the commentary that he'd been watching a lot of Buffy and Angel at the time, and "This Little Piggy" was inspired by more whimsical eps from those shows.

Glad to see I'm not the only one. I'm hit or miss on random comedy episodes like "This Little Piggy", but I felt that it totally hit the mark on the quirky side.

[ShaqZX]

Avatar: Ember Island Players, Ok I get it the creators and writers are aware of the fans, aware of their comments and complaints and so on. I get it and it's fun on that level. But this is still a pointless recap that's not a real recap episode that could have been better used for other things. This type of episode would have been better for one of those Avatar shorts.

True- I LOATHED THIS EP. Thankfully, the last 4 eps. made up for this lackluster failure... At least in my opinion.
No points for what basically comes off as a clip show- which is something that Plagued Gundam Wing and Gundam Seed, to note some examples, though those shows suck as it is altogether...

[ShaqZX]

Dexter's Lab -Labretto: I just really hated the opera singing

I never liked this show, anyway. Even as a kid, I hated it- and this one episode alone showed me how much of an emo Dexter is, and eventaully opened my eyes to how overrated and lame this show is, sadly.

I have this message to summarize/debunk in reality, this episode, AS WELL AS THIS THIS WHOLE SHOW: More and more, I realize, you can book smart as all high heaven like Dexter, but if you're not even the least bit street smart like Dee Dee is, which will get you far in the real world, you're going to be a loser for the rest of yor life.
Harsh, but true!

And that's how I felt about this ep (and sadly this show), to regard it all...

[Burdette25159]

TMNT: "Blast from the Past" A worthless clip show in my opinion

Family Guy: "McStroke" Peter eats too many burgers and gets a stroke in the process

Kim Possible: "Grande Size Me" Ron Stoppible in a effort to prove that Bueno Nacho's food is HEALTHY! falls to a vat full of chemicals turning him into a monster in the process! Funny plot but this was executed poorly

Digimon: "The Good, The Bad, and The Digi" of all the episodes of the first two seasons, the season 2 episode "GBD" is the worst, Biyomon is kidnapped by Starmon and the Digidestined (With Sora in tow) must go to a Old Western town to rescue her, good idea on PAPER but this was executed poorly, not only that but for the US version they renamed Revovlermon, Deputymon. Too many cowboy puns and the card playing was annoying.

Adventures Of Super Mario Bros 3: "Kootie Pie Rocks", Nobody has metioned this episode yet but this episode aired two weeks before Milli Vanilli (Who guest starred in the episode) were reveled to be nothing more then lyp-syncers. Watching a cutscene of Bowser JR beginning his invasion of Baseball Kingdom in "Mario Super Sluggers" is better viewing.

[Mesousa]

What about A Leela of Her Own? I always felt like that episode was one of the worst of the entire series, the way they treated Leela in that episode went a bit too far for me.

I don't know why people hated the episode, it's actually one of my favourites. There were many scenes that reminded me of many films by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, many quick gags.


Adventures Of Super Mario Bros 3: "Kootie Pie Rocks", Nobody has metioned this episode yet but this episode aired two weeks before Milli Vanilli (Who guest starred in the episode) were reveled to be nothing more then lyp-syncers. Watching a cutscene of Bowser JR beginning his invasion of Baseball Kingdom in "Mario Super Sluggers" is better viewing.

Still, Peach in a Milli Vanilli shirt is priceless. :p

[FGfan]

Digimon: "The Good, The Bad, and The Digi" of all the episodes of the first two seasons, the season 2 episode "GBD" is the worst, Biyomon is kidnapped by Starmon and the Digidestined (With Sora in tow) must go to a Old Western town to rescue her, good idea on PAPER but this was executed poorly, not only that but for the US version they renamed Revovlermon, Deputymon. Too many cowboy puns and the card playing was annoying.

Oh, you're not kidding. 02 in general was lousy IMHO (especially after the Kaiser arc ended), but no episode was so poorly executed as that.

Meanwhile, two horrible episodes from Simpsons' godly era (1-10): All Singing, All Dancing, and, worst of all, The Principal and the Pauper. The former was abominable and frankly has yet to be topped for how inconsequential it was, and the latter was just horrible, suddenly resetting facts (which are then, poorly might I add, reset again).

[Shredhead]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (I'm not counting Fast Forward and Back to the Sewer or this would be a big list)

-Fathers & Sons: This just felt like an unnessary retcon and while I like the Turtle kids in the other falshback episodes the bucktooth baby versions were annoying.

-Garbageman both apperances he had: The first apperance was kind of a ripoff of a Batman the Animated Series were a fatguy made slaves out of homeless people except with a really stupid twist of wanting to take over the world with garbage. The second apperance wasn't much better.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

-Hypno-Germ: This didn't even feel like an Aqua Teen ep. The Beans and Germs were just plain stupid it was so random that it just wasn't even funny. Funny thing I found out Tim and Eric was involved in this episode I swear everything they touch just sucks.

X-Men

-Jubilee fairytale story: I like Jubilee I really do but I can understand why people hate her in the 90's toon thanks to episodes like this and the christmas episode. Pretty much Jubilee tells abunch of kids a story that takes place in a fairytale setting with the X-Men playing diffrent characters. Jubilee was a warrior princess elf, gambit the hot guy thief(Yeah he didn't change much except the new voice actor) Wolverine lame ogre sidekick who talked like Scooby Doo. It just gets worse from there especailly when they show Sabertooth which is sadly his last apperance in the show.

Batman: TAS

-I got Batman in my Basement: Like others have said kids shouldn't be able to beat criminel mastminds. Well unless they were trained by Batman and wear tights but other then that no they shouldn't.

South Park

-One Million Little Fibers: I guess the Pip and Butters solo episodes did well so they thought Towlie solo episode would do good sadly they were wrong. I swear at times I think Matt and Trey just tried to make a crappy episode.

Dragonball Z

-Cant remember the name but its during the Freeza Saga Bulma looses a Dragonball and fights a giant crab and some henchmen. It was beyond boring I just hope that it gets deleted in Dragonball Kai.

Thats all I can think of right now.

[Scirel]

Avatar- "The Great Divide"

Pointless, did absolutely nothing to further the plot (other so-called filler episodes have in one way or another). The show's recurring antagonists were absent, the plot stupid, and the resolution ridiculous. Why didn't they just ferry the whole group on Appa in several trips?


This is by far Avatar's worst episode, for everything you just said. It was even mocked in "Ember Island players".

[Lord Pumpkin]

Daria- "Depth takes a Holiday" Many Daria fans, me included, didn't like this episode with teen dressed up like holidays. Didn't make no sense.

Drawn Together- "Spelling Appplebees" Captain Hero killing people just so Princess Clara can go out with him is stupid, due to her car crash fetish. The ending stunk, when Hero killed the Disney Princesses just to teach Clara a lesson.

[Dr. Daedalus]

Meanwhile, two horrible episodes from Simpsons' godly era (1-10): All Singing, All Dancing, Hey, it was still better than "Another Simpsons Clip Show".
and, worst of all, The Principal and the Pauper. That's the most underrated Simpsons episode of all time. I tend to agree with Ken Keeler on his views of the episode.

[J. B. Warner]

Hey, it was still better than "Another Simpsons Clip Show".

And even then, "Another Simpsons Clip Show" still kind of works as a parody of clip shows in general, when you consider that half the wraparounds are recycled animation with looped dialogue, resulting in a show that's approximately 12% new footage.


That's the most underrated Simpsons episode of all time. I tend to agree with Ken Keeler on his views of the episode.

Seconded. I sided with most other folks on this one until I heard the commentary and realized what it was really all about.

[Mesousa]

Powerpuff Girls: "Twisted Sister" - The episode was well until the sad ending. That ruined the episode for me, because it was incredibly unnecessary. The sister the girls created dies and...that's freakin' it. Watched it once, never saw it again. :shrug:

[All Star Blitz]

I don't know if my Shinola detector is broken, or if I'm just insanely forgiving, but I don't recall ever seeing a "bad" episode of a series that I liked. I've thought that some were weaker than others, sure, but if I can find SOMEthing worthy in an episode I'll generally give it a thumbs-up.

With that in mind though, I will say that "Scott Tenorman Must Die" is the episode that made me stop watching South Park. When Cartman revealed that he had chopped up Scott's mom and put her in the chili, my reaction was "Okay, what the [bad word]? That's just... way too [even worse word] for my tastes." It just seemed so much more gruesome than South Park episodes I'd seen before. (P.S. I've heard that this ep's plot references some literary work that escapes me. But still, yuck times Numberwang.)

[Bloody Marquis]

I don't know if my Shinola detector is broken, or if I'm just insanely forgiving, but I don't recall ever seeing a "bad" episode of a series that I liked. I've thought that some were weaker than others, sure, but if I can find SOMEthing worthy in an episode I'll generally give it a thumbs-up.

With that in mind though, I will say that "Scott Tenorman Must Die" is the episode that made me stop watching South Park. When Cartman revealed that he had chopped up Scott's mom and put her in the chili, my reaction was "Okay, what the [bad word]? That's just... way too [even worse word] for my tastes." It just seemed so much more gruesome than South Park episodes I'd seen before. (P.S. I've heard that this ep's plot references some literary work that escapes me. But still, yuck times Numberwang.)
Apparently, it's ending is supposed to be similar to the Shakespeare play Titus Andronicus.

[All Star Blitz]

Apparently, it's ending is supposed to be similar to the Shakespeare play Titus Andronicus.

Not surprisingly, I'm the kind of person who just stares blankly at the TV whenever a Shakespeare category comes up on Jeopardy!.

[Itchy]

While I love Tiny Toons, I hated Buster and the wolverine. The jokes weren't that funny and the animation was sloppy.