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

[StarshipDefiant]

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BSG the Black Market, I can agree on that, and mostly the way it ends. After all that, the response to Apollo was basically "Yeah, so my kid becomes a sex slave, whatever, Never show up again" I know it was a bleek and depressing environment, but come, on...

 

[Teiwaz]

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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.

'Believers' is the Babylon5 Episode.
It's not one of my favs, not much in it to contribute to the story arc, it was basically a filler episode. There are quite a lot like it in the first series.

Season 3 - 'Point of No Return' and 'Severed Dreams' Now, those are episodes that give me a little shiver every time I see them.

'Sleeping in Light' and the preceeding episodes as the main crew all leave always make me depressed, the story is over. And the scene as Delenn and Sheridan leave the Station, watched by Ambassador Vir and the others is so sad as you know that their stories will never be told.

 

[Small White Car]

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

Oh come now. I REFUSE to believe that 'Take me out to the Holosuite' can make the list for a series that contains 'The Passenger' and 'Move Along Home' and 'The Storyteller' and 'If Wishes were Horses.'

Tell me the truth. You haven't watched any of those in a long time, have you? 'Holosuite' is like eating ice cream after watching those.

Anyone watch 'Psych?' The Christmas show where they meet Gus' parents was so bad I was convinced it was a prank show put on to punish the network.

 

[JiNX-01]

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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.

Jurassic Bark.

I also cannot bear to watch it.

 

[species5618]

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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

Shades of Gray...yep that was bad. Apparently they were over budget at the end of season 2 and had to resort to a 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.

Then you'd hate the extended version of that episode (Pegasus) included on the season 2.5 DVD set. In that version it wasn't an attempted rape, it was full out rape due to a couple shots added to the scene. Hard to watch for sure, but the extended version is superior to the broadcast version IMO.

 

[Kegg]

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^
Actually, it was the writer's strike, so they simply ran out of scripts to shoot.

 

[species5618]

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^^^

What for S2 of TNG? interesting...

 

[The Wormhole]

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S2 of TNG did indeed suffer from a writer's strike. That's why it had less episodes than usual. It also resulted in several abandoned scripts from the proposed Star Trek Phase II series of the 1970s being turned into TNG scripts and, unfortunately, a clip show.

 

[Canadave]

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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.

You don't like "Smile Time?" That episode is hilarious; it's one of my favourites. And it's a great counterpoint to the next episode, "A Hole in the World."

 

[OmahaStar]

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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.

You don't like "Smile Time?" That episode is hilarious; it's one of my favourites. And it's a great counterpoint to the next episode, "A Hole in the World."

Nope, can't stand that episode. I hate everything about it.

 

[payndz201]

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Most of Day 6 of 24 from episode 5 onwards was cringe-inducingly awful - the moment it was revealed that Day 5's Bluetooth Big Bad was Jack's brother, the season flew off the rails and never recovered. (Shame, because taken on their own, the first four episodes were awesome.)

And I'm sure there'll be mockery along the lines of "Don't you mean the whole series?" but the eighth season of Charmed, apart from the last ten minutes of the penultimate episode and the finale, was horrible. Yup, writing out both the male leads in order to introduce a hip new teen bimbo Poochie/Scrappy-Doo character couldn't possibly cause any fan backlash!

 

[Chris3123]

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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.

Ditto. It's the only episode of television that I vow never to watch again.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

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Deep Space Nine has a bunch: Let He Who is Without Sin...

I just turn the sound off and drool over Jadzia & Leeta.

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

Oh come now. I REFUSE to believe that 'Take me out to the Holosuite' can make the list for a series that contains 'The Passenger' and 'Move Along Home' and 'The Storyteller' and 'If Wishes were Horses.'

Tell me the truth. You haven't watched any of those in a long time, have you? 'Holosuite' is like eating ice cream after watching those.

I really like "Take Me Out to the Holosuite." "Death to the opposition!"

The episodes I tend to really hate are the Lets-make-fun-of-nerds episodes like Doctor Who's "Love & Monsters" and Stargate SG-1's "Avenger 2.0."

When I'm rewatching Angel, when it comes to "She," I just watch the bit at the beginning with Angel's bad dancing and then skip to the next episode.

 

[DeadmeatDiggory]

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And I'm sure there'll be mockery along the lines of "Don't you mean the whole series?" but the eighth season of Charmed, apart from the last ten minutes of the penultimate episode and the finale, was horrible. Yup, writing out both the male leads in order to introduce a hip new teen bimbo Poochie/Scrappy-Doo character couldn't possibly cause any fan backlash!

I'm right there with you on Season Eight. Now, I'll be the first to admit the show was far from perfect. But after facing off againist the Demon "so powerful" that not even the Source of all Evil could kill him and killing him, faking their own death so they can go into hiding and train the next generation of witches (about the best ending they could ever give us without bringing Prue back for an episode or two), for the show to go on for another season is just plain insulting.

And how it continued... with the three sisters moving back into their house, posing as their three female cousins; cousins who couldn't possibly exsist since it was established in the seven years before hand that both of their parent were only children. And then when they brought in Kaley Cucco's character, who asked them to train her, they refused!

It was like the writers completly forgot, or hoped we had forgotten how the last season ended. And then they spent a year shoving Cucco's character down our throats in the hope of getting a spin-off with her as the star, when any spin off should have centred around the next generation of Halliwell's.

I know the show wasn't Shakespere or anything, but c'mon, don't spend the last year of a shows run ruining everything that came before it.