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Wait, no lost? Ah kids these days.
Speaking of kids no Quantum Leap either. It’s ending was also terrible.
To be fair they didn’t expect it to be the end. They had been cancelled and only had time to change the final message to say he never came home.
At least “Poochie died on the way back to his home planet” was spelled correctly.
When I saw what the list was about, Lost was the first series that came to mind.
People were too confused by the ending to rate it correctly.
It was a little trippy
Probably excluded if it missed the minimum 7.0 average rating for the series, which it would have if we take the numbers on Lostpedia. I have no idea if those are accurate though, since it shows the final episode having better rating than all other episodes in the final season.
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Exactly what I came to say!
Probably because the ending is good. Re-watch the show, but focus on the characters other than the mysteries.
I think they included Scrubs “9th season” which was actually a prank that didn’t happen, the real finale looks pretty highly rated
The biggest mistake they made was calling it Season 9.
Had they made a spin off style show with a slightly different name and called it season 1, I bet the viewers would have lowered their expectations and had more time to accumulate to the new cast.
It was meant to be a spin-off called “Scrubs: Med School” and would have been better received in that light.
There was a massive change in cast, new set and setting, a move to academia, etc. It wasn’t Scrubs, but a spinoff featuring Turk and Cox.
Yeah and I don’t like the inconsistency. If they include the continuation of Scrubs, they should have done the same with Dexter.
You mean you haven’t seen the Scrubs webseries?
That is the ninth season.
This is nice, but I’d like more to see the opposite, where the series went out on a perfect note. Like Breaking Bad or M*A*S*H (imho).
It was pure fan service but both Parks and Recreation as well as Schitt’s Creek can go on that list.
The most recent Futurama series ending was 10/10.
They brought it back again but whatever that show is goated
Futurama has nailed two out of its four finales. “The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings” seemed impossible to beat, but holy shit, “Meanwhile” pulled it off.
“What do you say? Wanna go around again?”
Or a show that got better just before it was canceled. Entreprise is a good example of a show that was just finding its voice just before the end. Even on this graph, the last season has some lows, including the finale of course, but it’s more consistent than the first seasons.
- House M.D.
- The Black Adder
- Fawlty Towers
The thing about House is that it had been bad for 3 seasons (and that’s being generous) before the finale. Does it really count as a bad finale if the series was already falling apart?
Perhaps I’m the exception for loving every episode; haven’t noticed any degradation in quality whatsoever.
Oh, I thought it was going downhill once he went to rehab. I stopped watching after he went to prison.
I absolutely loved that season. It was something fresh, a new way to see how Gregory handles the outside world without losing his wits when the chips are down.
Star Trek TNG
I like TNG a lot but I think the last season was the second worst season after only the first season. Peak TNG was season 4-5 IMO.
I have to say “All Good Things” (the TNG finale) was pretty decent. Though the rest of season 7 just felt like they had run out of ideas and were raiding the reject pile from previous seasons.
I almost threw my phone across the room when I saw Scrubs on this list, but then I saw that they used season 9 as their basis for the “ending,” which, of course, is preposterous.
I was committed on seeing the whole scrubs series but when season 8 ended it had such a great closure I just couldn’t make myself to keep watching.
Season 8 is the last season, you watched all of scrubs and you had the beautiful finale (as even the data shows, it’s amazing and my eyes always wet when I rewatch it).
There is no season 9. There is a spinoff show, called “scrubs med”, which takes place in a med school and has some of the scrubs characters as teachers but they are there just as supporting characters. Somebody in charge of the show decided that for scrubs med to be successful it had to be branded as scrubs “proper”, so the show was released as scrubs, season 9.
Obviously it tanked. Too bad, because I think it was a nice show after all.
Ye, I would have loved a spinoff as well. They underestimated the emotional closure the S8 finale had. That’s the MBA brainrot
there is no season 9 in ba sing se
My wife and I say the same thing, in fact I’ve never seen season 9 she won’t let me haha
Any idea what the huge season 6 single episode dip was? The musical?
Looks like it’s “My Night to Remember”, which is a clip show. Which tend to have poor ratings as a concept.
I’d have to agree. Remembering the days when you’d wait a week or two for the new episode on TV just for it to be a compilation of scenes from older episodes…
I remember Stargate being notorious for those. At least one a season.
I actually thought the musical episode was quite well done as far as musical episodes go.
They absolutely should have just done it as a spin off series instead of tacking it on the end of the actual series.
Game of thrones was not mentioned in a single comment (at the time of writing this comment).
I guess it wasn’t soo bad on an objective scale but just fully killed the relevance of the show.
Legit I’ve never had a desire to rewatch any of it since the ending.
I remember seeing leaks being posted on freefolk and thinking no fucking way these are real, realising they were, and then shitting on the rest of the last season with my partner, only way we got through it.
I use Game of Thrones as a textbook example of how to write a show with a diverse set of characters, locations, and motivations (in the early seasons all those moving pieces fit together remarkably well), and also how not to do that, with all the plots going to pieces and the characters and their motivations falling apart in the last couple seasons.
It’s pretty amazing how strong the show starts and how hard it screws the pooch by the end.
As long as they had source material to follow, the showrunners did okay. When they passed the end of the latest book, it all went to hell.
The still had the source material, they just wanted to end it as soon as possible.
I’m not sure how you could capture the cultural significance of the show in this type of graph.
I don’t know what y’all are talking about about. GoT ended after season 5. It’s a shame they never finished it.
I find it weird how a lot of people always talk about the ending of game of thrones was bad, bit season 7 was just as bad or worse. Season 6 was pretty bad as well, all it had going was basically: man i wonder what the next season is like. I don’t even think the ending is too bad, it’s just implemented horribly. They just needed to end it as quickly as possible. Season 7 was pretty much the low point for me. It became like a twitter show. Oh people like that character, he’s not gonna fie and gets more screen time. Or i don’t remember what season it was, but i remember watching it and thinking: why are they focusing the camera so much on this random ginger soldier. I only figured out way later that he’s a singer who had a cameo in the show. The show had so many flaws that people (me too) just overlooked because i was just interested in where it’s going and i haven’t read the books at this point. But when season 8 came around people just realised that it’s in fact not going anywhere.
One of the things that Game of Thrones did well early was always ensure the payoff was worth it. If you didn’t like an episode here or there, it was fine because it advanced the plot enough that you still followed the breadcrumbs and another episode down the line made it worth it.
Season 8 was so bad because many people tolerated elements of seasons 5, 6, and 7 because they were hoping for payoff. When that payoff was underwhelming at best and utterly nonsensical at worst, people tuned out fast. People spent hundreds of hours over a decade watching the show and discussing it with their friends, and in the end, it wasn’t worth it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen something disappear so completely and quickly from the cultural zeitgeist.
I was going to argue that while season 7 was bad, it wasn’t as bad as season 8. But then, I remembered how shit the Beyond the Wall episode was.
- They come up with the stupidest fucking idea of catching a wight. Jon Snow saw them at Hardhome. It was an insane number of dead people. How the fuck do they think they are going to trap something that is dead?
- Why the fuck are wights doing squad patrols throughout north of the wall? They’re fucking dead. They don’t need rest, food, or water. Just scatter wights throughout the area as lookouts.
- Why in the ever loving fuck are they sending the most important characters to go on a suicide mission?? I’m not even going to elaborate on that.
- We saw the entire party leave the Wall and walk around searching for wights. When they get to that little island and start fighting them, all of a sudden, there are all these unnamed characters showing up just to die. Where the fuck did they come from‽
- They send a kid that grew up entirely in King’s Landing on an unarmed marathon to get help. The kid, malnourished, dehydrated af, and alone, covers a distance that took them days to travel. Once there, they send a raven to cover half the distance of the entire island to get Danerys to fly to find them. Except Danerys has never been north of the Wall. How the fuck does she know where she is going??
I gotta stop. This is just too stupid.
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Where is the HIMYM hate? I never had an ending piss on the viewer more than how that train wreck ended. Made essentially 48 hours play over an entire season that meant nothing, and as an extra shocker even the twist meant nothing and only served as a reminder that the whole season meant nothing.
I wish I still had my writeup on that last season, and especially the episode How Your Mother Met Me, which I think was a genuinely terrible episode that removed all depth from the Mother, and the only reason I think it got any praise was because of the ukalele rendition of La Vie En Rose at the end.
But yes, that entire season undid 8 years of character development for most of the characters, spent the entire season building up to the Barney & Robins wedding, which it then immediately undid, spent an entire season overdeveloping Barney to being a genuinely good person whose whole persona was a simple act of benevolent revenge…only to undo it and have him revert back to being a POS womanizer (until he knocks up some lady), gives us this big buildup for Tracy only to mention in passing that she died…like seriously it was about 7 seconds, and show Ted literally and figuratively letting go of Robin once and for all…only for him be like "oh yeah if was you i loved all along at the end.
The problem is they wrote the ending to the series in season 1 so they could film it with the kids. Then the show’s popularity resulted in extra seasons with more character growth that they had to erase for the ending they had already written.
Although I don’t think there was ever a chance I wouldn’t have been annoyed by the ending. I was annoyed through all of season 2 when Ted and Robin were dating because we were told episode 1 that she was Aunt Robin.
I liked it because that’s kind of how real life actually ends up
I rewatched recently, and while I love seeing the mother, that last season is quite bad.
But, GoT is worse and I refuse to watch “Season 9” of Scrubs, so HIMYM is not my priority for hate on this list.
(Also, complaints that annectdotally confirm the data don’t seem to be the most useful comments.)
Try the alternate ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5toL5HmQl8I
This is the proper ending HIMYM should have had. It doesn’t shit on the characters, and is satisfying. My head canon is this ending.
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What happened to myth busters?
They changed the format in the last season and did a bunch of smaller myths and the build-team was less involved. They basically knew they weren’t going to do any more, so none of the cast were invested.
If you’re referring to Kari, Grant, and Tori they got rid of them completely as I recall.
Kari, Tori, and Grant left when they asked for more money and discovery said no. Fuck discovery for running a good thing. Same mother fuckers ruining HBO and warner brothers.
Fuck Discovery for ruining a good thing
A few years ago I was rewatching the Smyths edit of the show and I was wondering if it was ruined or if the show just was a product of its time and couldn’t exist in <modern year>
I think the internet has turned urban legends on their head. What constitutes a plausible myth has changed. We can just search for a lot of these now (and back then too, but it was less common and there was less stuff online). A lot of new urban legends are floating around now, but I don’t know, a lot of these early episodes tackled timeless schoolyard myths.
But the point wasn’t always to test the myth, the myth was just a premise to see them build things and blow them up. Even when I remembered the outcome from when I was a kid, I loved rewatching some of these episodes. It was really interesting to see how they set their experiments up as well. Very practical, very “workshop-brained” in the very best way.
But more than that, I think there’s just no way any network is bankrolling anything like that anymore. My understanding of TV show finance is very limited but I can’t see a modern Mythbusters being profitable, between the insurance and the networks’ unfailing appetite for canceling shows and writing them off, especially expensive shows. Didn’t Netflix make a spiritual successor with the B team only to cancel it, back when Netflix was just blowing up in popularity?
I firmly believe Mythbusters was made in the best possible era for it. Right when the internet was becoming a part of everyone’s lives but not to an intrusive level. Right when there was enough public interest in educational (well, educational-adjacent) TV and right when it was feasible to make the show.
Of course I’d like Mythbusters to exist in some form today. Maybe a tiny self-funded operation with its own in-house streaming site. But are there enough 25-40 year old vaguely nerdy types willing to pay for it? Adam Savage’s YouTube just isn’t the same. I appreciate it, but it’s a shadow of the real deal.
I do really miss seeing the world through the eyes of a kid flipping channels and landing on Jamie Hyneman creating a frozen poultry cannon.
Didn’t Netflix make a spiritual successor with the B team only to cancel it, back when Netflix was just blowing up in popularity?
Yeah, White Rabbit. I watched it an even then it was very appealing iirc
It ran until Grant died, rest in peace
To this day, losing Grant is still a kick in the head. I always root for Grogu in any context because that was one of his very last projects.
Oh shit, I thought he died after it ended. Still the worst celebrity death for me, and one of the few that I could care about.
What a great guy.
I do love his youtube channel. It’s like they’re specifically creating content to appeal to my personality. I don’t have a Youtube account but he’s the only one I actually check to see if there’s new videos on.
There was a guy on YouTube who built a rig to see if it was possible to cook a turkey by slapping it, and I got emotionally invested in his process!
The 15th season didn’t include any of the original cast. Not even Adam and Jamie.
I think the other reply to you may be talking about previous seasons, after the build team left, but that’s not the season that’s being marked as last in the image. I’m a bit iffy on how the seasons are numbered, but I believe the build team was gone for seasons 13 and 14 with just Adam and Jamie hosting, then season 15, the final one, was the one with two completely new hosts.
and the very last episode was just an interview reviewing the best moments, not a bad episode per se, but not worth it of a series finale
How is Mythbusters on there? It’s not like there was some kind of plot to follow, loose ends in the storyline, or some kind of contrived plot device to finish everything off.
A couple of years after the show originally came to an end, Discovery tried to revive it but with a completely different crew running everything. It was terrible and Discovery ended the revived show after a handful of episodes. That’s why the last few dots on the plot are all way down there, not just the final episode. As the revived show went, the finale wasn’t really any worse (or better) than the others.
Yep, I remember that. I watched one episode and never watched it again. I guess I had it in my head that “That’s not Mythbusters…” and let it go.
Also they Moved mythbusters from Discovery (basic cable) to a higher tier that included The Learning Channel and lots of other stuff I wasn’t interested in fucking with the plan for - iirc this was the last two years. Discovery ran the new eps in re-runs later.
I do recall they kept moving the time slot around. Frustrating as heck if you wanted to watch the show.
this is not the worst finales, it’s the finales that had the worst ratings vs series average. if anything this is about series that fell off near the end. there are many shows that were popular near the end, so people tuned in to the finale (which would mean a high rating) and hated the finale anyway. Seinfeld is the most popular example, even though i don’t really agree with the consensus myself.
Also, doesn’t a show that was consistently bad have a bad finale? The finale could even be a high point of the otherwise bad show and still be worse than any of the ones on the list.
exactly… definitely an interesting list; i just think it doesn’t reflect what the title says.
How is My name is Earl not on the list? 4 years and they don’t even have the respect to give a damn finale.
Supernatural, blacklist, and castle were really rollercoasters of good and bad episodes and seasons lol
By the end of Supernatural even the hardcore fans were like “stop the beatings, it’s already dead”
This graph just highlights the problem with popular TV shows that had no real plan for where they would go.
You do a season, it’s popular, people want more. Eventually your quality declines, people lose interest and they just end weakly, if they even get that rather than abruptly cancelled.
If we only had one season of Heroes, we’d still be talking about it in the same hushed tones as Firefly, but it didn’t and so we don’t. It’s just another in a long line of shows that started interesting, and quickly became mediocre. For that reason I’m kind of glad Firefly only got one.
I really don’t want a show that lasts for 10 seasons. That’s a massive time commitment. I want a story in as few episodes as it takes to tell it well. At least have an outline of what’s going to happen, even if you haven’t written it all out in full.
I really don’t want a show that lasts for 10 seasons.
Same. I like it when shows do not overstay their welcome, and like it much worse when the writers pad the story for an extra season or three.
The IT Crowd is a fine example of this. Any more, or any less, and we might have been disappointed as an audience.
Meanwhile it is my hope that What we do in the Shadows knows when to call it quits.
depending on the show, community for example you can kinda just wrap it up and end it whenever you feel like due to the show writing.
I believe there’s an entire episode written as the ending of the show, only to come back because actually get fucked, and the weird thing is that it kinda works.
And Dexter completely fucked it TWICE!
More on the way! Apparently they’ve renewed two more shows. And supposedly even Michael Hall is in one of them!
What?? They better not make his douchy kid the star… I swear to God
They just need to make the reboot a dream sequence and restart.
I look forward to seeing what the wigs department has in store for us.
I genuinely wouldn’t even be mad if they do it
What happened to Myth Busters?
Different crew. It was so badly reviewed, viewer count fell off a cliff, so Discovery pulled the show after season 15.
Edit: To be clear, season 14 was the final season with the original hosts. Discovery renewed it for season 15, two years later after casting new hosts
How the fuck is Star Vs. The Forces of Evil not on this list?
Star betrays her own established character and kills billions because of a forced ship.
Wait, what! I only saw until midway, but now I’m curious. What happens?
Tl;dr
Star gets mad at her mother, screams “It’s not a phase mom! Toffee did nothing wrong.”
Decides that magic should be destroyed forever because Mewnie’s Queen is too good at it and because Marco is dying from a magical poison. So it is destroyed in every universe because Glossaryck said “Star is the main character so what she wants is morally right.”
Then he dies because he is a magical creature.
Star realizes that even though the poison no longer exists, there is no way to see Marco again because the fucking portal network is now gone for good…
So she uses the last of magic to realize she’s made a horrible mistake and goes back in time to stop herself from destroying magic…
Naw I’m kidding she actually makes Mewnie crash into the Earth the planets begin to merge, causing cataclysms on both planets that kill many in the process…
The show pretends this is a happy ending as we see Star’s friends magically survived the merging of the planets thanks to Princess Horsehead (who should be dead as she is a magical creature but consistency is for losers)
RIP: Spider with a top hat, everyone in the literal afterlife, and the millions of people who Star killed in the cataclysm of Mewnie and Earth merging.
Funfact: People who would watch a show like what the first two seasons promised are fans of magic existing more than they are of genocide. So this ending was not well liked and I personally do not consider it canon.
Especially since so many fanworks have Star hanging with Dipper and Luz from Gravity Falls and Owl House who being seekers of the supernatural would never be able to in canon forgive Star for this…
That’s… a way to end a show. Now I’m glad I didn’t continue watching it.
Thanks for the info!
…huh
I kinda dropped off when I realized the show was going to have a plot and shipping and I was just looking for a gag cartoon. Don’t think I could have predicted that.
