I love TV. But even with my favorite shows, there are some episodes I just never want to watch again.
To be fair, only 1 through 8 in this list are my carefully considered favorite shows. Let 9 and 10 not be considered some of my favorite shows in Mandie canon, but they are shows I overall like very much other than a specific episode.
1. The Simpsons.
Tie between "Lisa the Iconoclast" and "My Sister My Sitter." They are both episodes where Lisa gets shat on a lot, and I don't really care about that, because that's kind of a running gag. But both premises make me uncomfortable. In "Lisa the Iconoclast," the entire town insists on believing something that is not true for no reason, Lisa is bullied for protesting it, and eventually just gives in.
In "My Sister My Sitter," everyone in the family is terrible. Telling your 10-year-old son that his 8-year-old sister is in charge of him is just asking for everything that happened, but Bart's antics are not funny at all and just mean and uncomfortable to watch. And just like "Lisa the Iconoclast," Lisa just stops defending herself for no good reason.
You might be surprised "Lisa Goes Gaga" didn't top the list here, since it's considered the worst episode. But it's just a completely empty episode. It didn't make me laugh, but it didn't make me uncomfortable like the prior two episodes did.
2. Game of Thrones.
"The Bells." I mean. Come on. I have a tattoo of a Daenerys Targaryen quote. I need no explanation here.
3. Breaking Bad.
There are no bad episodes of this show. So I'm just going to call out "Ozymandias" because even thinking about it makes me depressed.
4. Malcolm in the Middle.
"Graduation." Like Breaking Bad, there are no bad episodes of this show, but as someone from Malcolm's generation who went to college and it was kind of worthless for quite some time, I hated that Malcolm's family made him turn down a lucrative job that was just being handed to him and made him go to a school where he'd be forced to work as a janitor to afford tuition. And then at graduation, congratulated his brother Francis for accepting a lucrative job that was just handed to him.
I mean we knew Hal and Lois were bad parents, earlier in the season they stole a scholarship check from Malcolm and spent it on a dollhouse that they immediately set on fire, but dude, this episode made me feel bad for him.
5. It's Always Sunny in Philadephia.
"Charlie and Dee Find Love." Charlie's relationship with the waitress is poisonous. This episode makes it look like his stalkery things were a good thing and it made me very uncomfortable.
He does, in a later season, win over the waitress, even if just for one episode, but it's because of something kind and sincere he said to her, not because of his weird stalkery stuff.
I've always really hated storylines that promote that if you just keep at it, you'll eventually get the girl. It's why I don't like Futurama. I can tolerate it in Always Sunny because the show is just so ludicrous, but this episode bothered me for making it look like stalking someone is perfectly fine.
6. Family Guy.
"Send In Stewie, Please." How could an episode with Ian McKellan as the guest star be so bad? I never, ever want to see Stewie blowing out a huge snot bubble while rapping "Alexander Hamilton" again.
A lot of people rage quit after the episode where Stewie and Brian are locked in a bank vault, but they managed to create another episode consisting just of two characters in a room, where something gross happens at some point, that is even worse. The conversations that Brian and Stewie had in the bank vault at least had some emotional weight, and the thing with Stewie trying to return his sweater was kind of funny. In "Send In Stewie," Stewie blows a huge snot bubble, rambles about pretty much nothing, and then lets Sir Ian McKellan die rather than letting him know about what he just revealed about himself during his therapy session, which is ... nothing.
7. BoJack Horseman.
"BoJack Hates the Troops." This episode isn't terrible, but it's not funny, and not up to the quality of the rest of the show, so I usually tell people they can skip it.
8. Rick and Morty.
"Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim's Morty." OK, so a lot of their episode titles are puns, but look how much this one was reaching. The whole episode was. The thing with the dragons was really weird. It's not really easy to write a coherent review of a Rick and Morty episode but I'd skip this one.
9. Black Mirror.
"Be Right Back." Freaking painful to watch. Enough said.
10. Solar Opposites.
"Terry and Korvo Steal a Bear." I just found out this show existed a few weeks ago, and for the most part I loved binging it, but not this episode. I would have died for that cartoon mouse. You bastards.
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