Worst episodes of the best shows

[The Landstander]

Out of the AS Shows you like, which episodes just didn't do anything for you? A few of my picks:

Home Movies: "Identifying a Body"
People seem split on this episode. I'm on the weaker episode camp. I just wasn't funny. Brendon and McGuirk had some good scenes together (as far the characters go anyway), but the big laughs were few and the time inbetween was mostly cheap jokes ("Road trip!", for example)

ATHF: "PDA"
Nothing specifically wrong with this one, I just didn't find it funny, except maybe for the Submarine scene. And the character at the end (Raoul?) just seemed tacked on and pointless.

Sealab "Bizarro"
Most of Sealab's comedy comes from complete randomness and stupidity, but it didn't work at all here. The Bizarro Characters themselves were kind of funny (and maybe the Storm/Bizarro Stormy thing), but thats about it.

That's all that came to mind at the moment. Any others?

P.S. I didn't notice any big thread with this topic in the archives. If it's been done, or its too generic or something, just lock it.

[Aurochs]

Sealab "Bizarro"
Most of Sealab's comedy comes from complete randomness and stupidity, but it didn't work at all here. The Bizarro Characters themselves were kind of funny (and maybe the Storm/Bizarro Stormy thing), but thats about it.

Bizarro was the best one in my opinion.

Let's see...there aren't really ATHF, Sealab, Brak Show, or Home Movies episodes I don't like, but there are ones I like better then others.

[rmarti3926]

Do you know that Sealab 2021 ep when it look like a less comedy-oriented, straight-faced redub of a Sealab 2020 episode?

IMHO, that is the show's worst episode.

[Aurochs]

A lot of people hate that episode. I enjoy it. It leads up to Sealab exploding.

[RedBoot]

7211, wasn't it? I liked that one because of its concept. One thing about Sealab is that it's always trying new ideas. 7211 didn't work as well as say Tinfins or Swimming in Oblivion, but they had a cool concept.

I thought PDA was kinda funny, but I've liked most every ATHF. If I had to pick one I liked the least, I'd say Ol' Drippy. There were some good lines (particularly "Idle hands spend time at the genitals") but I felt it was a little weak overall.

[dogboyfan]

Worst ep of Inuyasha was Jinenji Kind But Sad. It had nothing at all to do with the main plot of the story, and no Sango. Grrrr!

[hs232]

Gateway shuffle was the worst episode in Bebop, but it was still good. The whole ape thing wasn't as interesting as many of the other plot lines.

[JeffTMBG]

I'll agree with PDA and 7211, but Bizarro is probably my favorite Sealab. Other than that, I'd have to go with 'Psychlohoma' from the Brak show. Ordinarily Brak is the weakest show on the block, but I find this episode particularly insufferable to the point that I don't believe I've sat through the whole thing in one sitting yet.

[Masamune2052]

.:Inu Yasha - #12 - Soul Piper and the Mischievous Little Soul:.

No shards, no character development, and to top it off I don't get to see the girl go to Hell. This is just a filler episode that was used to put some padding into the series and it just didn't do anything to me. I was with Inu Yasha the whole time when he kept telling Kagome "Leave it alone, ghosts and spirits are different from demons, you just can't kill them with a sword". I think the only thing worthwhile in this episode was seeing those steel bee insects repairing Tetsusaiga's sheath.

[TnAdct1]

When it comes to Cowboy Bebop, the worst episode IMO is Black Dog Seranade. While the episode is Jet's "dealing with his past" episode (which explains how he got his robotic arm), the fact that Jet is last on my list of favorite Bebop crew members (with Spike and Ed in the top two slots), along with the fact that the rest of crew had minimal screen time in the episode, caused me to dislike this episode. After that, the second worst would be Wild Horses (that episode just wasn't interesting).

Joe Klemm

[Venom]

I enjoyed Black Dog Serenade, it was interesting to learn about Jet's past... I was wondering how he injured his arm. I would have to say my least favorite is Wild Horses, it just didn't have anything that really held my attention. Sealab "7211" is not interesting to watch reruns of, but it was interesting the first time.

[StrangerAtaru]

HM: "Dad": Landstander knows of my chagrin towards this episode. I say that if it weren't for the introduction of Brendon's dad (who has a few funny lines here, but works better later), this episode would be worthless! Other ones which I have a low tolerance of include "I Don't Do Well at Parent-Teacher Conferences", "Identifying a Body", and sort of a half-love, half-hate relationships with "Bad Influences" (hate the overweight stuff, love McGurk and Lynch's double date) and "My Cheatin' Heart" (which completely falls apart in the second half)

Sealab: "7211": It was just distracting watching all these characters act normal for once. That should be the joke, but it never works to me.

CB: "Wild Horses": And the sad thing is this is on the Perfect Collection! Every time I try to watch this one, I feel like falling asleep. I guess something should have held my interest, but nothing really did. My second place here would be "Boogie Woogie Feng Shui", but that at least has some more interesting things than "Wild Horses".

As for whoever said "Gateway Shuffle", that is just a fun one. Nothing wrong with bioterrorism threats and Faye crossing the Bebop's path once again (even if she is my least favorite character....and even she's not bad)

[The Landstander]

I, for one, like "7211". It's sort of a reverse humor thing (it reminded me of some SGC2C episodes, like "Sharrock") in that nothing funny is happening. And I also have to say that at the end, with the submarine they just freed blowing up Sealab I was laughing pretty damn hard.

I'll continue defending "Dad" by saying that Andrew & Brendon made the epsiode great. And although Eddie was a cheap joke at best, McGuirk worked really well off him. But to each his own.

[JDuncan]

Sealab 2021: I hate to follow the crowd on this one, but 7211 is the worst one. All things considered, though, it wasn't really intended as a normal episode so I'm going to disqualify it. The worst "normal" episode is probably "Bizarro" (which is kind of ironic). It's not bad, just average and repetitive, though I guess that's what they ware going for.

Brak: "Mobab" is the worst Brak Show IMO. It has its moments, mostly in the middle when Dad and Brak are coping with Mom's absence, but its just not very interesting or entertaining to me.

Cowboy Bebop: Session 21 "Boogie-Woogie Feng Shui" was the worst of the Bebop fillers. With no development of the main characters, and an uninteresting main plot about characters I didn't care for.

Home Movies: "Four's Company". I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote my initial review for this one. The whole Octavio plot was sitcom-ish and just didn't work. Not completely horrible though, what with the supermarket scene and the Mcguirk plot in general.

[Zyzzybalubah]

Sealab 2021: 7211. Read everyone else's opinion, it was a stinker!

Brak: Dinner Party. It was okay, but compared to some other episodes, it just wasn't funny and was pretty boring at times. Plus Rhonda's voice got pretty annoying.

Cowboy Bebop: The episode where Ed was playing Chess. It was just non interesting filler material.

That's all I can think of for now.

[DianaGohan]

Hmm, Bad episodes of good shows, eh? Well, here are mine.

Sealab 2021: All That Jazz- Except for anything involving MC Chris, this episode was not only boring and unfunny, but incredibley painful to watch. There is virtually nothing you can do to sustain a man being crushed by a soda machine for entertainment values, even though the crew tried their damndest too (which were probably even unfunnier then the idea. Yeah, a scorpion and a teeth collecting robot may sound like lots of fun, but not when used over and over for the same basic joke). There is no real point in watching the first 10 minutes of this episode: just skip to when Murphy comes out of the soda room and you'll get a few laughs from old company excutives dancing around like idiots to the beat stylings of MC Chris, but otherwise, forget about it.

Brak Show: Bawk Ba Gawk: Anygood this episode had (Giganticon, friendship ointment song, the introduction to all the main characters, etc.) were ruined by the appearence of that stupid chicken, Bawk Ba Gawk. His annoying clucking, crapping, and pecking antics completley turned the episode downhill, and Brak's obsession with him seemed out of character (and with Brak, being OOC means definite trouble). Even for an opener, there is no excuse to produce such stupid and useless characters. Hopefully, the creators have learned their lesson and will continue to provide use with decent new characters and never bring back old chicken b****.

Home Movies: Well, mainly anything from the UPN era (Except for "The Art Of Sucker Punch"), and also "School Nurse" mainly for it's overuse of grossout jokes and not enough of the type of HM humor that I can really enjoy.

I think that's basically it. Any other bad episode has already been mentioned or is just a bad episode that's part of a bad show.

[Oglethorpe]

Sealab: Hail Squishface.

"oh i get it. toilet humor. do you know anything funny about FARTS?"

Master Loo said it, the Sealab writers should have listened.

i didn't mind 7211. it was funny seeing Murphy have a clue.

[Mitsuko]

All I can really think of is episode #11 of Inuyasha, "Terror of the Ancient Noh Mask". That episode really had no point except to serve a filler, and in my opinion wasn't even that good for a filler. I'm not saying it was just plain terrible, but I think a better job could have been done.

~Mitsuko~

[Aurochs]

Actually, the dinner party episode of Brak is my favorite.

I guess if I had to chose my least favorite of every show, these would be it. But the episodes I mention still made me laugh, they're just my least favorites by default;

Sealab; Hail Squishface: As much as I enjoyed the references to Gremlins, Troubles with Tribbles, The Herculoids, and Castle Wolfenstein, flatulence jokes really just push my buttons. Although if I look past that, there are some funny moments.

The Brak Show; Bawk ba Gawk: It has it's moments, but it's the piliot, so it's kind of mediocre.

ATHF; Rabbot: Dittio.

Lupin III; Cursed Case Scenario: I enjoyed the humor, but the plot was nonsensical

Futurama; A Leela of her Own: God, I hate baseball

Home Movies; Politics: I liked the references to Frank Sinatra, but as a season premiere it was kind of rusty.

Cowboy Bebop; Gah! I can't do it anymore! These are great shows! Ahh!

[StrangerAtaru]

Landstander: McGurk didn't help "Dad". Crazy Eddie was just too tasteless for the show, and I just didn't like McGurk's sudden urge to become a big brother. I think he was just tacked into the episode for no reason and ended up with a weak plot overall. The only good thing of the whole episode were the interactions of Brendon and Andrew, nothing more.

As for "7211", I know it was supposed to be ironic, but it just came off as moronic.

BTW: Am I the only one who "respects" the UPN 5? Sure they weren't perfect, but I liked both "The Art of the Sucker Punch" and "Brendon Gets Rabies" (one of my favorites of season 1), not to mention some of the weirdness of "Get Away From My Mom!" (well, mostly because of "Dark Side of the Law" and the early Brendon/McGurk characterizations) But on the other hand, "I Don't Do Well at Parent-Teacher Conferences" is crap (except for the movies) and "We'll Always Have Thursdays" was saved by some second-act jokes. (like the "Casablanca" takeoff and McGurk's revenge on the exchange student)

[eyager]

InuYasha: The Toad Who Would Be Prince The humor was really kind of flat. Both the Toad Demon and Nobenga were not very compelling characters. Not much action or drama.

ATHF: PDA Shake drowning meatwad wasn't very funny. The plot was random, almost like it was written on a napkin.

Sealab: 7211 Enough said.

Harvey Birdman: Shaggy gets busted They wasted their one shot at parodying Scooby Doo. Too many missed opportunities and wasted time. The skit on Saturday Night Live was much funnier than this.

[The Landstander]

Landstander: McGurk didn't help "Dad". Crazy Eddie was just too tasteless for the show, and I just didn't like McGurk's sudden urge to become a big brother. I think he was just tacked into the episode for no reason and ended up with a weak plot overall. The only good thing of the whole episode were the interactions of Brendon and Andrew, nothing more.


though i agree it probably would've been better had McGuirk not been in the episode at all, i meant that McGuirk working off the character of Sick Eddie was funny at times (particularly when he first introduces Eddie to the soccer team). Eddie himself was a cheap joke, but I was saying the plotline wasn't without a few good moments (and yea, the big brother thing was tacked on at the end). And the Brendon/Andrew interactions that made the episode were good enough to save it from being a bad episode (IMO).

i forgot about Harvey Birdman....ill say "Shoyu Weenie" for worst one on that show, though not for any specific reason (I just didn't find it that good).

[hs232]

Theres alot of Inu-yasha filler episodes in the begining, and everyone has pointed all of them out. As the show goes on, the fillers get less frequent and are more about the battle with Naraku.

[IWDP Lim]

Well, since no one seems to be touching on this show yet...

Space Ghost : Coast to Coast - Lateshow : Out of all the episodes, this one is probably the hardest one for me to watch. Not because I hate David Letterman mind you, but because parodies of him never seem to get it right. They always seem to just focus on one thing and then strech that out for the whole joke, and with this one being one of the half hour episodes, gah, it's jsut painful. I don't even like Sweet for Brak all that much, but Lateshow makes that one look like Knifin' Around. Blech.

[TnAdct1]

Harvey Birdman: Shaggy gets busted They wasted their one shot at parodying Scooby Doo. Too many missed opportunities and wasted time. The skit on Saturday Night Live was much funnier than this.

Personally, I thought that was one of the funniest episode of Harvey Birdman so far. Among the funniest parts include the live-action prologue, the "out of context" footage of the gang smoking weed, and Harvey's Tab fantasy.

Joe Klemm

[Dogasu]

Space Ghost C2C: Those Momentary episodes. Blech.

ATHF: The leprechaun episode. I mean, it was alright, but not the usual A+ humor that ATHF usually has.

Brak Show: That rapping episode. Worst 15 minutes of my life.

Trigun:
The episode where Milly and Meryl help that guy protect his land from the Nebraska family's daughter (or whatever relation she is to the dude in episode 5). It was just boring, and Vash had a total of two minutes screentime, if that much. This episode's only slightly worse than the clip episode, though.

[Spastic Minnow]

Of the shows I really like I can't name a single "bad" episode, but some I can name at least one show that I like the least.

The Brak Show- Poppy - the idea of Brak getting a nose is funny, but it doesn't go too far.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force- PDA - IT's a forgetable episode that simply doesn't grab me.

Sealab- 7211 - I really appreciate it and found it funny when I watched it, but it's not one you want to watch multiple times

Futurama - A Pharaoh to Remember - The later Bendercentric episodes are my least favorite episodes of Futurama, this once has him at his least likable, too many jokes where the punchline is simply that Bender is a conceited jerk.

[Rikou]

Cowboy Bebop: Brain Scratch. I don't know, this show just always got on my nerves, it was boring and slightly disturbing. The only good part is Ed in a dress.

[Lonestarr]

Futurama: "A Pharoah to Remember" - Spastic Minnow put it best.

Sealab 2021: "Der Dieb" - I didn't have to think about this for too long. Unpleasant yet asinine, with an ending that makes me wanna throw things at my screen - heavy things.

The Brak Show: "Mother, Did You Move My Chair?" - Now, I was hard-pressed to find an episode I hated, but of all of them, I like this one the least. It seemed pointless to me.

Home Movies: (tie) "Business and Pleasure" and "Shore Leave" - The former is just shameful in how Brendon is treated and the latter (save for the last ten minutes) went on forever with little in the way of humor.

[StrangerAtaru]

A third for "A Pharoah to Remember". What made Bender so obsessive about wanting to be remembered, I don't know, but it was stupid. The only thing I did like about the episode was how they made fun of Elton John.

[Jade_GL]

I just have to speak up in defense of the PDA episode of Aqua Teen. I mean, with one watching I wasn't so impressed, but I kept going back and rewatching, and I got a chance to watch it with my BF, a huge tech nut. The tech satire is sharp and hilarious, especially when you watch it with someone who really has that kind of attachment to their PDA, my BF being an example of that. Also, Romulox (sp?) was darn funny, even if a bit random. The easy-flow elbow gag was priceless, and I've taken quite a few quotes from that ep and put them into my vocab. So, I don't think it's the worst by far of ATHF.

The worst is the second appearance of the aliens, the German aliens, where they duplicated Shake. Just not as sharp as their original appearance, and it was just a chore, especially when you compare it to the multiple, and hilarious, visits by the Moonanities.

Also, the Circus episode was kind of lame too, but not the worst.

My least favorite episode of Harvey Birdman had to be the episode with the Japanese pop band suing because their song was copied. The only funny gag in the episode was the stuff that Peanut said, and the ending with the German version of the song on TV. That's it.

Anyway, I don't watch CN anime stuff, so I can't comment on any of that stuff.

[candy17]

When it comes to Cowboy Bebop, the worst episode IMO is Black Dog Seranade. While the episode is Jet's "dealing with his past" episode (which explains how he got his robotic arm), the fact that Jet is last on my list of favorite Bebop crew members (with Spike and Ed in the top two slots), along with the fact that the rest of crew had minimal screen time in the episode, caused me to dislike this episode. After that, the second worst would be Wild Horses (that episode just wasn't interesting).

Joe Klemm

Are you kidding me? Black Dog Serenade was good. Wild Horses sucked IMO.

And now, my list of good shows with bad episodes:

Futurama: Bender Gets Made (Bendfellas): Don't get me wrong, I liked it on FOX, but it was somewhat ruined when CN muted out the Jesus in Holy Zombie Jesus. Plus, it didn't interest me.

The Ripping Friends: Stinky Butt: This was something Ren and Stimpy would do and it fell flat on RF.

Oblongs: The Golden Child: Didn't like it period and thought it was stupid to edit the line, "Go back to France you stupid kraut" just by muting out the last word. If CN really wanted to edit the line, they should have cut the guy saying it. Call me a pro-censorship advocate, but it's crazy enough to work (I'm against censorship, BTW. I was just grabbing at straws)

Lupin the III: Crude Reproduction, Perfect Frame: I hated it when Jigen and Goemon blamed Lupin for being a murderer. Surely they would have known that Lupin didn't do it.

That's it for now.

[candy17]

Harvey Birdman: Shaggy gets busted They wasted their one shot at parodying Scooby Doo. Too many missed opportunities and wasted time. The skit on Saturday Night Live was much funnier than this.

What sketch on SNL had Scooby Doo on it? I'm a fan of SNL and I need to know!

[PluribusFinn]

Sealab: "legend of bagger vance"... how can this episode not have been mentioned yet? it's a effin' trainreck! it makes me sad that the legend mc chris had to pick this one to be his last...

Harvey: definitely "dabba don". i know no one will agree with me but in my opinion it put too much emphasis on parodying the original show (in an unfunny manner) and not enough emphasis on the random-insanity humor we all know and love.

[Spastic Minnow]

Harvey: definitely "dabba don". i know no one will agree with me but in my opinion it put too much emphasis on parodying the original show (in an unfunny manner) and not enough emphasis on the random-insanity humor we all know and love.

I'll second that, I forgot to put it on my list. Definitely the weakest of the episodes. Funniest parts were the bits when none of the Flinstones were around, like the boss talking to Harvey under the desk with the mint plant.