Ever Watched A TV Episode That Pissed You Off So Much You Quit Watching The Series?

[xplosive59]

The final episode of Clannad: After story pissed me off so much, I can't stand reset button endings dammit! Luckily the show was over then.

 

[Fidelias]

That show called Scandal.

It starts off with an episode about a gay war hero, where the moral of the story is basically that all Republicans and/or military are homophobic assholes.

Being a generally open-minded republican who has parents in the military, I was extremely pissed.

But then they continue with an episode about this old lady who was pimping out girls (that's the phrase, right?) and the team gets her off the hook.

Now, I don't think prostitution is that terrible a crime. In fact, I'm probably the most open-minded guy you'd ever meet. I think it would be better if we found a way to regulate it so the people involved didn't have to deal with such a crappy life. Find some way to protect them and all that.

But as it is right now, this IS a crime. This old lady managed to make a TON of money for herself and got away with it for years! And we're supposed to sympathize with her because she's playing the "but I'm just a nice old lady" card?! Yeah, sure, she had her children to worry about, but she should've thought about that before she broke the law. Anyone who is intelligent enough to make a lot of money running an illegal business is definitely intelligent enough to do the same (or at least close to the same) with a legal job.

Oh, and while I'm on my rant; The Good Wife.

There is an episode where a witness is a woman who cheats on her husband. If she takes the stand, her affair will come out.

Now, for those of you who don't know, the main character of this show is a strong woman (Alicia Florrick) whose husband had cheated on her. She then had to suffer through a trial as a witness, which was practically torture to her. Keep this in mind.

So the witness is begging Alicia not to let her up on the stand. She asks how Alicia could do the same thing to this woman as someone had done to Alicia. And Alicia actually pities her!?

Alicia did not cheat on her husband, this woman did. The witness got people in trouble because of what she did. The show kept casting the man she cheated with as the bad guy, but what did he do? He didn't have a wife or girlfriend! It's still a little scummy to sleep with someone you know has a relationship with someone, but he isn't responsible for her actions! And yet HE'S the bad guy? Because the woman obviously had no friggin control over herself?! How come people don't realize that this is just as sexist as "women belong in a kitchen"?

Ugh! I hate it when shows and stuff do that!

Sorry about the rant, but I just needed to get that off my chest.

 

[kortin]

The Pilot for Breaking Bad.

Holy shit, I've seen a lot of bad pilots in my time, but that one takes the cake. I could not make myself watch any more of that bile.

 

[l3o2828]

Every 3 episodes on Grey's anatomy.

Now for a serious answer: Glee. I can't recall the exact point, but for some time every episode has been written poorlier than the one before. I have stopped watching it for good.

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

Andromeda season 3 finale.

Spoiler

The series actually started off pretty strong, with engaging stories and interesting sci-fi concepts, but around Season 2-3 the writers seemed to get bored and dumbed the series down and added more unpleasant cheese than a Kraft dinner. So because the commonwealth was boring, they totally destroyed it all within about 5 minutes, and that was pretty much the last straw for me.

There's a reason for that. The star, Kevin Sorbo, campaigned to get Robert Wolfe (the executive producer, head writer, and co-creator of the show, and an actual science fiction writer) fired because Sorbo thought the show was too complicated and needed more humor. Basically, he wanted Hercules in Space. By the time it was clear that the whole thing had been a huge mistake, the show was canceled.

 

[debtcollector]

Second season of the Walking Dead. After they spent the entire first half looking for the same girl, I realized that the writers were pretty much making stuff up as they went.
Also, second season of Sword Art Online. I could have handled it if they had just used different characters, but nope! The strong female protagonist is reduced to a princess in a cage, the main character who went through hell to escape his virtual prison happily dives into another one, and the villain is some pervert who wants to marry a comatose girl and also calls himself the "King of the Fairies" in his spare time. What went wrong?!
Finally, not a TV show, but I stopped reading Critical Miss after the writers thought that they could do a continual narrative with character drama. They can't. (Protip: Character growth is important if there is a continuity, and making your protagonist evolve past being a self-centered insufferable ***** would be a good first step. On a similar note, don't make the moral of your story arc be "Continue being a self-centered insufferable ***** who uncaringly hurts other people because that's who you are .")

 

[Woodsey]

Lost. I decided I might as well give it a chance a couple of months ago (despite knowing about the shit finale that was plastered everywhere on the internet half a decade ago)and got up to the start of season 3. Nope. Nope. NOPE. God damn it Abrams, you could have had it all... but you fucked it up. You fucked it up real good.

Season 3 is the low point, and it was their excuse to the network to give the show a finite number of series so they could sketch it out properly. (Assuming your complaint is how the pacing really starts to drag, if not, then I would recommend injecting three milligrams of taste into your blood stream per day.)

Heroes went downhill near the end of season two in my opinion.
The writer's strike at the time didn't help much either.
Walking Dead has gotten kinda of terrible.
But I think it may be just the dialogue that annoys me. Too much cheesy melodrama.

Are you up to date on TWD? Season 2 was terrible, season 3 has been great so far.

 

[Gizmo1990]

The (very short lived) Dresden Files

In one of the episodes, Bianca was a vampire character and begged for help from Dresden.

Meanwhile, your favorite poster Tippy2k2 had just finished reading "Grave Peril" (terrible timing for the show...).

Now I'm not going to spoil anything but if you were a fan of the book series, you know what happens. In the TV Show...Bianca was a good guy. Nope. I'm out TV Show. I can accept a lot of changes to the series but that is one change that I will NOT accept and am appalled that they made such a drastic change.

In hindsight, I hate the show but I will always be greatfull to it. I saw the show first and throught it was ok so I got the first 3 books, which made me see how bad the show was but gave me my all time favorite book series.

The final episode of Chuck kinda ruined the series as a whole for me, and I loved the series as a whole. I just don't think I'm ever going to be able to watch it again, knowing what happens at the end.

I loved Chuck but the last few episodes killed it for me. I was gutted. But Jeffster doing Take on Me was epic!

OT: I stoped watching Supernatural after seeing the first few episodes of season 6. It was only ment to go on for 5 seasons. The 5th delt with The Devil himself and them trying to prevent the apocalypse. After that the show seems small and dull to me.

 

[Signa]

It's been a while, so I can't remember the exact episode, but in Family Guy, there was an episode revolving around Brian's Girlfriend. It was then that I realized that the plot of the episode was covered in about 5 minutes, stretched throughout the episode, and the rest was all gags. A lot of them weren't even funny gags, just ones that would waste more time to fill their time slot.

Conversely, I was enjoying American Dad for making the gags become setups later in the episode. After 4 seasons or so, they started dropping the setups for gags, just like Family Guy, so I called it quits. Not right away though, there was the Rapture episode that was amazing. It was an episode so good that I stopped watching, because it was a good ending to the show, and I knew it wasn't going to get better than that.

I watched a couple episodes after, but the first season finale of Battlestar Galactica pretty much killed my interest in the series.

Spoiler

Specifically, the part where Grace Park's character is confronted by all the cylon versions of her that are naked in a space craft hangar for no discernable reason other than the show's writers wanted to titilate the audience with some naked Asian ladies. Except, they cast a completely unnatural shadow across all the boobs and genitals to keep it safe for TV.

It completely broke my sense of immersion to the point that I completely stopped caring about the show. It showed me that the show's producers were cynically trying to manipulate their audience with hints at adult content that served no purpose other than being scandalous, but when push comes to shove they will not follow through.

I'd much prefer either a fully-clothed army of gynoids that are clothed because clothes are useful when you're walking around on a flight-deck full of heavy equipment, or a show like Rome that has the guts to put some boob on screen (even if in a non-sexual way). And once I was consciously aware of how the show was trying to manipulate me, I just stopped caring.

Fuck that show. The nudity didn't even bother me that much, it was Boomer's actions throughout that ending.
First she was like "I'm not a cylon!", and then her sisters tell her that they love her and so she blows them all up. And then she completes her mission as a cylon. I get that she was a double agent, but she couldn't make up her mind about who she wanted to be. Fastforward a season or two, and she hates the humans again, even though one of her models is living with the humans just fine.

And that's another rant: The episode where she and the cylon that was with Gaius are starting a rebellion of sorts. I think anyone would agree that a person's life experiences is what shapes their personality and choices (and the show acknowledged that at some point too). Yet when Boomer died her consciousness was uploaded to all similar cylons, but only the one that resurrected as boomer gave a damn about her experiences.

The only reason why I stuck it out through the whole show is I put it on my PSP to watch during my lunch breaks. I wouldn't have had anything better to do without it.

 

[Anti-American Eagle]

Criminal minds, CSI (all of them), the big bang theory, most shows on fox (seriously these people go out of their way to cancel the good ones, but let the bad ones go on painfully long), lost, star wars the clone wars, deadliest warrior, manswers, a thousand ways to die, battlestar galactica, caprica, heroes, chuck, extra credits, zero punctuation, the big picture, jimquisition, eureka, warehouse 13, continuum, stargate atlantis, any anime i've ever watched, my little pony, chuck, escape to the movies, xplay, andromeda, bones, NCIS, greys anatomy, cleveland show, etc...

I could go on forever. And to be clear most of these were either the pilot or some random point where I had enough. Most of them should be self explanatory.

Edit: more stuff I thought of: drawn together, any kids show, supernatural... there will be more soon, I promise

 

[Gorden Springel]

The Pilot for Breaking Bad.

Holy shit, I've seen a lot of bad pilots in my time, but that one takes the cake. I could not make myself watch any more of that bile.

Ironic considering your avatar is from Gurren Lagann, good anime but started out terribly.

 

[Duck Soup]

Twin Peaks. It didn't so much piss me off as I guess I just expected more from it.

Warning: If you don't yet know how Laura Palmer died and don't want it spoiled then don't click the spoiler tag. Seems like an obvious thing but you never know.

Spoiler

I was really disappointed because they left all these clues pointing to something/someone specific and then we find out that she was actually killed by "magic". I'm serious. I stopped watching after that.

 

[Tony2077]

Andromeda season 3 finale.

Spoiler

The series actually started off pretty strong, with engaging stories and interesting sci-fi concepts, but around Season 2-3 the writers seemed to get bored and dumbed the series down and added more unpleasant cheese than a Kraft dinner. So because the commonwealth was boring, they totally destroyed it all within about 5 minutes, and that was pretty much the last straw for me.

Warehouse 13, Season 3 Finale.

Spoiler

Some people love this series, but after season three I couldn't take it anymore. The main characters where impossibly goofy and the artefacts became boring and predictable. The entire series felt like babies first X-Files, with any kind of story complexity and seriousness nowhere to be found. It was when the two main characters were running about a fully functional pyramid of doom, solving puzzles like it was the frigging crystal maze or something that I gave up.
I could point out how the series could have been done better, but I don't have to because "The Lost Room" already exists.

Honourable mention: SeaQuest DSV.

Spoiler

I did actually watch this all the way through, so it technically doesn't count, but I *should* have stopped watching it.
I started watching this back in the 90's, because I'm fascinated with the ocean as much as space. While the pilot episode was a bit dire, I remember the first season having great storylines, really interesting concepts as to how we as a culture would 'move' to the bottom of the ocean and an array of really smart and well thought out technologies (like WSKRS). While there was a small element of the supernatural, it was still pretty grounded. Then at the start of season 2 the writers started to chew at the leash of restraint, and we started getting ghosts and aliens in like every other episode. Then in season 3, the writers had finally finished chewing though their leash and were now madly running about the garden like jabbering idiots.

Sadly the thing that seems to be a fairly common factor with stuff like this, is that the producers/writers create a sci-fi series but realise that it's not drawing the attention of the mainstream audience. They then adjust dumb it down to make it accessible to these audiences. Sci-Fi fans get fed up and stop watching; mainstream audiences are still not interested. Series cancelled.

well in Andromeda's case its because the good writer left and some moron took over

I've never had that happen other then the first episode of death note

 

[kortin]

Ironic considering your avatar is from Gurren Lagann, good anime but started out terribly.

I don't think it's ironic. I think it proves my point. I've seen a lot of bad pilots. I still enjoyed the first episodes of TTGL far more than the first episode of Breaking Bad.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Lost. I decided I might as well give it a chance a couple of months ago (despite knowing about the shit finale that was plastered everywhere on the internet half a decade ago)and got up to the start of season 3. Nope. Nope. NOPE. God damn it Abrams, you could have had it all... but you fucked it up. You fucked it up real good.

Just be happy you got out before the end.

OT: Does picking the last episode of a show count? Because after I watched the last episode of Lost I pretty much said "fuck this show" and vowed never to rewatch a single episode and to regard the series with utter contempt.

 

[VoidWanderer]

Being a huge fan of the Sword of Truth books, then watching the first 10 mins of the pilot episode...

 

[sammysoso]

Almost every episode of the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica, when it was obvious the writers didn't have a clue what they were doing (actually it kind of started in season 3). Plot threads being rapidly picked up and dropped, characters changing on a whim.

But the first season was so damned good, I felt obligated to finish it.

 

[Irridium]

The Walking Dead show. Stopped sometime around the middle of the first season. It was just a bunch of assholes being assholes for the purpose of creating drama. I didn't care about anyone, and was constantly rooting for the zombies to kill them all. I was never a fan of the series though, so I wasn't heart-broken over it or anything.

Although I still like the series, one episode of Adventure Time pissed me off and I stopped watching episodes for a while.

Spoiler: Jake the Dad spoilers.

This is the anticipated episode where Lady gives birth to her and Jakes kids, the kids themselves are cute enough and the episode was going well, but then they pull a fast one by the end, Jake was planning on moving into Lady's house to live with her and the kids, but at the end of the episode, he goes back to the treehouse, claiming the kids are old enough to take care of themselves, therefor, keeping the status quo.

The reason I am pissed was that I was looking forward to seeing this episode and how much impact it would have on the series. The writers obviously did not like the idea and axed the kids out of the show as quick as possible, the episode itself was rushed (needed 2 episodes) and I doubt the kids will even appear again.

Which annoys me because very little would be changed. The episodes usually started with Finn and Jake in the treehouse, the episodes could have started with Finn visiting Jake, or vice versa. The whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth.

I'll start watching the series again, but that was tremendously disappointing. If they wanted to keep the status quo, why make such an episode in the first if they bunked out of the idea?

Yeah, about the same reaction I had. I still watched it, but I was dissapointed. Especially since this show is usually pretty good at doing changes like that and going with them.

 

[BX3]

Man, I read a lot of these responses and feel like a manchild, because most of the shows I've quit for this reason have been cartoons. XD

Anyway, for me, there have never been specific points or single episodes that pissed me off to the point of not watching anymore, because I'm a man of great patience and can usually bite the bullet in the hopes that the show in question gets better (I'm usually right). However, there have been a lot of slow burns: shows that gradually started earning my ire until I eventually came to a realization that I wasn't enjoying myself anymore and just gave up.

The big three in my head are:
The Proud Family ("Jeez, some of the characters in this show are assholes")
Ed, Edd n' Eddy ("Jeez, EVERYONE in this show is a HUGE asshole.")
and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends ("GAWD, Bloo is SUCH an asshole!")
There are probably more, but these are the 3 hugest offenders. I take no shame in saying "screw those shows", I don't care how well received they were.

I also gave up on TTGL, not because of the pilot though - if bad pilots were all that kept me from shows, i never would've bothered with Azumanga Daioh. ZING! Anyway my gripe was mostly during its 2nd season. I get that the show was supposed to be incredibly over-the-top, and I genuinely enjoyed that about it, but at some point after the time skip, it became a game of "who can die in the most explodiest way possible?" That paired with the ending turned me off it for good. Yoko still has a place in my heart though.
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There are a ton of other shows I quit (Spongebob, Scrubs, Family Guy, Naruto, etc), but those were due to boredom rather than anger.

 

[Gigano]

Only once, though very recently. I dropped the third season of "Borgen".

By the middle, it simply became too preachy. Along with a drop in story quality, with plots obviously constructed to inelegantly drive points home, and with most of the the nuance that it had previously maintained thrown out the window in favour of black and white caricatures.