What episodes of your favourite shows do you find to painful to watch?

[DeadmeatDiggory]

What episodes stand out as ones you just cant bring yourself to sit through again? Maybe they were too sad, or maybe just to horrible to endure a second time.

For me, it's Futurama's "Jurassic Park". The scene at the end, when Fry's dog Seymour sits out front of the Pizza Shop, waiting for his master to return, growing older as the years go by, finally putting his head down, closing his eyes, and dying... breaks my heart everytime and makes me loose it.

I can't bring myself to sit through again.

 

[Starbreaker]

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I love Lost, but Fire+Water from the 2nd season has to be the most terrible episode ever.. even the ending doesn't redeem it.

 

[D Man]

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I love Lost, but Fire+Water from the 2nd season has to be the most terrible episode ever.. even the ending doesn't redeem it.

Completely agreed, and I'd probably add "Stranger in a Strange Land" to that list. The other "living with the Others" eps work a hell of a lot better in succession on DVD, but that one has little to no redeeming qualities.

There are also a ton of TNG and DS9 episodes on this list, but my guess is they're the common "hated" ones, so I don't need to go all out. (DS9 Ferengi outings, TNG season 1 nonsense, etc.)

I can't say there's an episode that's too sad for me to watch again...I feel that that sort of thing is part of the whole experience, and to avoid it because of how it makes me feel just wouldn't work for me. Futurama's "Jurassic Bark" is one of those, and so are numerous episodes of Lost, nuBSG, TNG, B5, Friday Night Lights (sorry, not SciFi, but it's on my favorite shows list)...etc. The most emotional episodes are often the best of the series, so I can't see why I'd want to avoid a re-watch.

 

[StarshipDefiant]

Re: What episodes of your favourite shows do you find to painful to wa

What episodes stand out as ones you just cant bring yourself to sit through again? Maybe they were too sad, or maybe just to horrible to endure a second time.

For me, it's Futurama's "Jurassic Park". The scene at the end, when Fry's dog Seymour sits out front of the Pizza Shop, waiting for his master to return, growing older as the years go by, finally putting his head down, closing his eyes, and dying... breaks my heart everytime and makes me loose it.

I can't bring myself to sit through again.

Same here, the first time I saw that episode, I just wasn't the same for days. I was beyond depressed and barely spoke, I know it's a TV show, but I have two dogs, so it hit close to home. I've been thinking about running through Battlestar Galactica (the new one) again, yet so many episodes have some scenes that I just can't stand to sit through for one reason or another. Something a char I like do, something others do, etc...

 

[DeadmeatDiggory]

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Same here, the first time I saw that episode, I just wasn't the same for days. I was beyond depressed and barely spoke, I know it's a TV show, but I have two dogs, so it hit close to home. I've been thinking about running through Battlestar Galactica (the new one) again, yet so many episodes have some scenes that I just can't stand to sit through for one reason or another. Something a char I like do, something others do, etc...

I'm in a similar boat, Starship. I lost a dog only a few years before the episode aired, a dog who always seemed closer to my mother, but waited until I returned home before dying. So stuff like that really hits home for me.

 

[Mistral]

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Same here, the first time I saw that episode, I just wasn't the same for days. I was beyond depressed and barely spoke, I know it's a TV show, but I have two dogs, so it hit close to home. I've been thinking about running through Battlestar Galactica (the new one) again, yet so many episodes have some scenes that I just can't stand to sit through for one reason or another. Something a char I like do, something others do, etc...

I'm in a similar boat, Starship. I lost a dog only a few years before the episode aired, a dog who always seemed closer to my mother, but waited until I returned home before dying. So stuff like that really hits home for me.

My Dog Skip must be hell for you, then.

 

[LitmusDragon]

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I haven't rewatched Lost yet. I'm going to wait till it finishes airing then marathon it. However, I am not looking forward to much of Season 2, or that episode where we learn about Jack's tattoo.

Touching on Trek-

About the only episode of DS9 I can't stand is Muse. I also dislike Little Green Men for some reason I can't quite put my finger on. Maybe because of it's utter predictability. As soon as you know the premise "Quark travels back in time and causes the Roswell crash" you pretty much know exactly how everything else in the episode is going to play out.

For TNG I think it would be "The Outrageous Okona". Party because the Okona character himself is kind of obnoxious, and partly because everyone else in the episode fawns over him like he's Errol Flynn or something.

 

[Warp Coil]

Re: What episodes of your favourite shows do you find to painful to wa

Angel:
half of season one (episodes like "The Bachelor Party", "She", "The Ring", "Blind Date")
"The Shroud of Rahmon"
"The Thin Dead Line"
"The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco"

Battlestar Galactica:
"Black Market"
"The Woman King"
"A Day in the Life"

Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
"The Pack"
"I Robot, You Jane"
"Some Assembly Required"
"Inca Mummy Girl"
"Go Fish"
"Beer Bad"
"Doublemeat Palace"
"Hell's Bells"
"First Date"

ST:TNG:
Many season one episodes (such as "Code of Honor", "Justice", "Angel One", "Symbiosis")
Many season two episodes (such as "Loud as a Whisper", "The Schizoid Man", "The Dauphin", "The Royale", "Shades of Grey")
"The Vengeance Factor"
"The Most Toys"
"Man of the People"
"A Fistful of Datas"
"Homeward"
"Masks"

DS9:
Nearly any Ferengi-themed episode (such as "Rules of Acquisition", "Profit and Loss", "Prophet Motive", etc.)
"Babel"
"Move Along Home"
"The Storyteller"
"Rivals"
"Paradise"
"Heart of Stone"
"The Muse"

 

[DeadmeatDiggory]

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Same here, the first time I saw that episode, I just wasn't the same for days. I was beyond depressed and barely spoke, I know it's a TV show, but I have two dogs, so it hit close to home. I've been thinking about running through Battlestar Galactica (the new one) again, yet so many episodes have some scenes that I just can't stand to sit through for one reason or another. Something a char I like do, something others do, etc...

I'm in a similar boat, Starship. I lost a dog only a few years before the episode aired, a dog who always seemed closer to my mother, but waited until I returned home before dying. So stuff like that really hits home for me.

My Dog Skip must be hell for you, then.

I tend to stay away from that stuff now.

 

[Pemmer Harge]

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Babylon 5 is probably my favourite TV show and I like pretty much all of it, even most of the weaker episodes. However, Infection was cringe worthy, due to Michael O'Hare's way over the top performance in the showdown with the bad guy.

Deep Space Nine has a bunch: Let He Who is Without Sin..., Profit and Lace, Take Me Out to the Holosuite.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer has Get it Done. In a show like this there's a limit to how much of a jerk you can make your main character and Buffy went way beyond that limit here.

The Simpsons has a number of truly painful episodes, especially Homer Vs Dignity and The Strong Arms of the Ma. Those are almost unwatchable.

 

[Harvey]

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Babylon 5: River of Souls. The episode "TKO" as well.

 

[RandyS]

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Babylon 5: River of Souls. The episode "TKO" as well.

Both of those yeah. Also the first season episode (I don't remember the title) where Franklin couldn't operate on a kid because his parents thought he would die if they cut him open.

Also City on the Edge of Forever and Return of the Archons from Star Trek TOS, and The Inner Light from TNG.

 

[Starbreaker]

Re: What episodes of your favourite shows do you find to painful to wa

Both of those yeah. Also the first season episode (I don't remember the title) where Franklin couldn't operate on a kid because his parents thought he would die if they cut him open.

I always see a lot of hate for this episode, but I liked it.

 

[OmahaStar]

Re: What episodes of your favourite shows do you find to painful to wa

In season 5 of Angel, there's an episode where Angel turns into a muppet. A fucking muppet. I cannot stand that episode, it is painfully horrible, and I skip over that episode now.

In season 2 of Lost, just about every minute that psycho bitch ana lucia is on screen. Except for her final scene. That, I watched repeatedly.

I dunno what the Fivers are talking about. The only painful episode of Babylon 5 is "Sleeping in Light" ... but that's painful because it's so sad, and it is impossible to watch without a box of kleenex.

 

[FreezeC77]

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You know what's made that episode of Futurama even more of a bummer since I first saw it? I found out where the got the idea from and the true story of a Japanese dog named Hachiko from the 20s/30s I think it was. Just google it. I never put 2+2 together before and connected them, I knew of Hachiko being considered the name of a 'loyal dog' in Japan, but never knew about the origins of it. There was a japanese movie in the 80s about the story and apparently Richard Gere has lifted the premise and made a movie based on it.

 

[Kegg]

Re: What episodes of your favourite shows do you find to painful to wa

Both of those yeah. Also the first season episode (I don't remember the title) where Franklin couldn't operate on a kid because his parents thought he would die if they cut him open.

I always see a lot of hate for this episode, but I liked it.

Me too. And as far as bad B5 goes, "TKO" is silly, at least. "The best there's ever been!"

"A Prefect Murder" would be my pick from Farscape for being frelling unbearable dren. A bad episode on repeat. Yech.

Can't think of any sci-fi that's hard to rewatch because it makes me too emotional, though. I do have to mentally prepare myself for 2001, it's never a movie I just feel like popping in, I kind of plan an evening around it.

 

[Mistral]

Re: What episodes of your favourite shows do you find to painful to wa

Babylon 5: River of Souls. The episode "TKO" as well.

Both of those yeah. Also the first season episode (I don't remember the title) where Franklin couldn't operate on a kid because his parents thought he would die if they cut him open.

Also City on the Edge of Forever and Return of the Archons from Star Trek TOS, and The Inner Light from TNG.

Hmm, interesting choices re Star Trek. You actually picked two of the most popular episodes ever aired from any of the series, huh? Well, to each his own. I'm with y'all on TKO - damned if i know how they thought that "fit" the series...

 

[MyCylon]

Re: What episodes of your favourite shows do you find to painful to wa

As in painfully bad:

Quite a few DS9 ones, including (but not limited to) "Time's Orphan", "Resurrection" or "Let He Who Is Without Sin ...".

Fortunately, there are no nuBSG ones I find painful to watch .

 

[FPAlpha]

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Don't remember the episode but i think near the end of season 2 TNG where Riker falls into a coma and relives some painful moments.. absolute horrible clip show

Another one is the near rape of Sharon on BSG.. that was so intense, frightening and scaring that i've only ever seen it in the original airing once and then never again. That one seemed too real.

 

[mimic]

Re: What episodes of your favourite shows do you find to painful to wa

Buffy - I Robot You Jane, Killed By Death, Where the Wild Things Are, Listening to Fear, Hell's Bells, Grave, Same Time Same Place, Get It Done

Doctor Who - Daleks in Manhatten/Evolution of the Daleks, The Last of the Timelords, Planet of the Dead

BSG - Black Market