I just turned on MacGyver on TVLand. I used to love that show. When I was a kid, I thought it could do no wrong. Then there were a couple episodes that even my infant mind could tell were horribly silly. The one I just saw was one of them. It was the episode where he dreamed he went back to the old west. Jack and Peter and Penny and Murdock were all there. At the end, Murdock shot him and the bullet hit his old-west style Swiss Army Knife. Then he woke up and the same knife with the bullet hole was still in his pocket.
That was a bad episode, but not the worst. I think the official worst episode prize for this particular series is when MacGyver dies and finds himself on a boat to the underworld with his dead grandpa. At the end of the episode he builds a gadget that helps him get off the boat and miraculously comes back to life.
The final episode was also pretty terrible, but I think these two episodes were the absolute nadirs.
When did your favorite series jump the shark?
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I try not to go back and watch old favorites of my childhood because they can never measure up to my memories.
-Trevor
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Pretty much any Holodeck episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Especially when they ended up in the wild west.
Posted by Speed 2: Cruise Control (Member # 6765) on :
Okay, here's one. What about that episode in the first season of 24 when Jack's wife gets amnesia? Then her memory comes back in two hours.
That's some fine quality television. I didn't have the same level of respect for the show after that one.
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Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
Speed, let's not forget the one where MacGyver winds up in King Arthur's court.
Posted by Speed 2: Cruise Control (Member # 6765) on :
Oh, good call. That's a classic of terrible televison.
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
quote:Pretty much any Holodeck episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Agreed. I think the writers basically throws in a "holodeck out of control" episode whenever they run out of ideas.
However, the Data-as-Holmes episodes were pretty interesting. I also like it when the crew (mostly Wes and Jordi) use the holodeck to pick up chicks.
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
I watched Alias waaaaay back when in its first or second season. After Arvin Sloane got in trouble with his SD6 cronies for telling secrets to his wife, they decided not to make him kill her because she was dying of cancer and only had a few weeks to live. So the wife is in the hospital with severe pain, and all the sudden the doctor comes in and says that the pain is due to a miraculous healing and she is cured. That was just too much for me...I stopped watching it after that. And the fact that Sydney wore such funky-colored wigs. I mean, spies are supposed to be inconspicuous. Duh.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Yeah well, I watched "Alias" with the same jaundiced eye I watched any of the Bond flicks.
Based on that, it was a lot of fun.
-Trevor
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
As for TNG, I LOVED the holodeck episodes! However, I did not like them much at all in DS9.
Posted by Speed 2: Cruise Control (Member # 6765) on :
Good job, Mr. Psychologist.
quote: All right, here's the deal. I don't believe in that gobbledygook about a subconscious or any other witchcraft. I won't take pills, and I won't let you hypnotize or molest me.
-Hank Hill
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Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
SeaQuest, second season. They started pulling all sorts of paranormal things into it, and it scared my young self. That, and it had been a strictly "mundane" show before that, so the weird body-possessing creatures came out of nowhere.
And for me, at least, Sliders jumped the big shark when they killed the professor.
Okay, so they weren't great shows, but they were enjoyable ones. Until the shark. Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
X files. I don't know which seasons... probably around the 6th. Which ever one where they got rid of Mulder for the terminator dude. But worse was when she had a baby and Mulder was the dad. Perhaps because I was anti-Mulder and Scully getting it on.
Posted by Speed 2: Cruise Control (Member # 6765) on :
Kind of like Red Dwarf when they brought back Kochanski. Especially season 7, when they had her and lost Rimmer. What a bummer that was.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
The entire second season of "Dark Angel".
I was absolutely hooked on that show during the first season. Log off the internet, close the door, shut off the ringer on my phone. Leave me alone, I'm watching "Dark Angel". Never missed an episode.
Then the second season came around and the show rapidly and completely degenerated into pure crap. The animal people were bad enough, but the Halloween episode was inexcusable. Then when the guy who had killed himself earlier, so they could put his heart into Max to save her life, came back . . . yeah, I completely stopped watching at that point. So did everyone else, apparently. The show itself died not long thereafter.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
OH yeah, Verily, I loved Dark Angel, the first season. And then it deteriorated and the plot became rediculous. It was so close to becoming an Alias, but it never got there.
AJ
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
I'm not old enough to have seen Macgyver, but i saw one episode with Nazi's who were trying to revive theuir cause in the western U.S. I thoght that was pretty bad writing. They even tried to gas Macgyver. But, just before it was all over for Macgyver, he blew up the double layer steel door with a lightbulb.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
dude, that's typical Mac Gyver.
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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
On the one hand, I'm glad neither Angel nor Buffy ever jumped the shark.
On the other hand, that's only because they're both off the air.
Dagonee
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
quote:I watched Alias waaaaay back when in its first or second season. After Arvin Sloane got in trouble with his SD6 cronies for telling secrets to his wife, they decided not to make him kill her because she was dying of cancer and only had a few weeks to live. So the wife is in the hospital with severe pain, and all the sudden the doctor comes in and says that the pain is due to a miraculous healing and she is cured. That was just too much for me...I stopped watching it after that. And the fact that Sydney wore such funky-colored wigs. I mean, spies are supposed to be inconspicuous. Duh.
Hey... don't knock Alias! That was a great episode.. the pain of knowing your wife will live but you have to kill her now. And the final of Season One... DAMN! Sloan told his wife the truth.. and there were playing this hyper sad N. Merchant song over it and she tore him a new one and he's all crying and stuff... ahh.. so cool. And those wigs are cool!
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