Moments in a TV show/Movie that made you stop watching

[McPuritania]

A lot of the "edgy" animated shows get that way after a while. I tuned out South Park somewhere around Manbearpig because all the wit and uniqueness had been replaced with topical shows and lazy, easy stereotypes. I don't even mind the Canadian South Park shows; some are among my favourites of the later seasons. But so often you can tell the guys were just flipping through a newspaper and said okay, that's what the next show's about, Jersey Shore! Or similar. And with South Park, the antisemitism really got old. Okay, they take pains to make fun of everyone, but they just keep on coming back to hammer on the Jews over and over and over again. Towards the end I remember rolling my eyes at the screen and saying: "Okay. We get it. You don't like Jews. Move on already!"

I never watched the Cleveland show. Just more lazy MacFarlane formula: fat bozo + hot wife + loser son + daughter who despises the dad + non-human best friend + evil small thing = show!



But is any of it funny? I'll still tune in an episode from the early seasons and actually laugh once in a while. The new ones? I've tried and I just turn it off after about ten minutes because I just don't find it funny. Gross and/or mean =/= funny.

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And I do recall the episode of King of the Hill people are talking about. Didn't like it much, but I didn't tune the show out because of it.

Yep. Just described American Dad perfectly. Well, except for the fat part. Maybe his chin counts.

I'll still watch Family Guy, but it for sure is really, really, mean spirited. If I was disabled, I would never watch that show. Every single Joe scene is just brutally nasty towards anyone in a wheelchair. The 5th mean joke about it was a little much, but they're on like, the 250,000th one.

 

[Shareefruck]

What do you think of Planet of the Apes, did the real monkey men use those movies as propoganda to help enslave the human race?


What DON'T you take personally, anyway?

I have no idea what that analogy even means

I like King of the Hill, appreciate the satire when it's present, and I didn't take that episode personally or feel any emotional outrage towards it as a Canadian (I have no concept of national pride whatsoever). If you had said "what DON'T I look at in a critical way?", then yeah, probably fair to say, nothing. This idea of lightening up and not caring about whether or not something seems sensible sounds bananas to me. All entertainment should be held to at least SOME minimal instinctive level of standards, IMO. You should never just go "whoopsy daisy-- whatever it does is whatever it does!" in an attempt to enjoy everything more than it's sensible to enjoy. That doesn't make sense to me.

I thought it was an awkward episode devoid of actual satire, that just seemed bizarrely mean-spirited without rhyme or reason. I wasn't offended by it, I just found it bad in a "Uhhh... This is weird. Where are they going with this? Oh.... Nowhere?" way. The defense "It's southerners who are unwise, what do you expect?" doesn't really make any sense or address the issues that the episode has, so I'm going to comment on it when I hear that.

Makes me wonder what Mike Judge was really thinking when he made that. Which angle did he find amusing and what was he poking fun at, really? It just seemed so bizarrely misguided and out of character for him (and like someone else said, bizarrely timed).

 

[HanSolo]

No specific moment made me quit watching, because Fear the Walking Dead was such a bland, dull tv show that I'm surprised I made it through the first season. And I'm not someone that gives up on tv shows very easily. Stopped after those 6 episodes.

I never watched past the first episode. I just didn't care enough.

 

[hototogisu]

Lost - I watched it on DVD after it ran its course. I was into it until about Season 5 when it started becoming really apparent the writers had no plan and were making it up as they went along. When Season 6 came out with the Japanese emperor and John Hawkes and Sayid as a zombie, I put it down and never went back to it, even though it was the last season. The story became so stupid and convoluted I didn't care enough to see it through to the end.

House of Cards - Loved Season 1. Thought Season 2 was good, but maybe a little weaker. Watched about half of season 3 and just couldn't stay interested. Spoiler: Frank as president wasn't nearly as interesting as Frank trying to become the president.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - I loved it until about the middle of season 2, then I just stopped watching. I may get back to it, but I really don't have a desire.

Same. I loved Season 1 and binged it in like 2 days...Season 2 came out how many months ago? And I still haven't finished it.

Season 1 was about Kimmy with her friends as background characters. Season 2 feels like the Tidus & Lillian show with Kimmy as a background character.

 

[Osprey]

While I've stopped watching numerous series simply from accumulated disinterest, I can think of only one time when a specific moment made me stop watching.

It was that scene in Star Trek: Voyager--I believe in Season 2--in which the officers are turned into slugs. As if that weren't bad enough, the Captain Janeway slug and her first officer start having uncontrollable slug sex (or something like that). Worse, it's presented as the most hilarious and awkward thing ever, since she and he had more of a head-butting brother-sister relationship. It just came off to me as intelligently as 5-year-olds going "ew, gross! You kissed your sister! LOL."

I didn't tough it out for a few more episodes, hoping that it'd get better, or even just let that episode finish. I literally stopped watching the episode at the point and, to this day, still haven't watched an episode of Voyager past that. It's too bad, because the first season wasn't bad. The series just jumped the shark after only a season or two, IMO, whereas it usually takes shows many more seasons to run out of ideas and lose direction.

 

[cupcrazyman]

Jar Jar Binks........drops mic

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Jar Jar Binks........drops mic

That whole movie is just a parade of racial stereotypes one after another. I have no idea how it didn't cause a firestorm considering it was released in '99.

 

[Stylizer1]

That whole movie is just a parade of racial stereotypes one after another. I have no idea how it didn't cause a firestorm considering it was released in '99.

People still had stones in '99.

 

[BonMorrison]

People still had stones in '99.

v edgy

 

[tarheelhockey]

That whole movie is just a parade of racial stereotypes one after another. I have no idea how it didn't cause a firestorm considering it was released in '99.

Jar Jar did kind of create a controversy at the time. It wasn't huge, but it definitely drew comment from the NAACP and that turned into op-ed fodder for a while.

Honestly, I think a lot of people were just trying really really hard to love those movies. I distinctly remember going through the cycle of denial-anger-depression-acceptance, starting partway through my first viewing on opening night when I was thinking "this can't be as bad as it seems right now... it just can't." That desperate need to see the best in them might have saved them from the kind of clear-eyed criticism that would have been leveled at a lesser franchise if it dragged out a bunch of ethnic stereotypes like that.

 

[SniperHF]

South Park - The Britney Spears Episode.

The Blacklist - Fake killing their co-lead. I'm really sick of virtually every show trying to rely on the premise that they can kill major characters. I generally watch shows because I like the characters and don't particularly like it when they murder them for a minor plot point in a one off episode.


And since everyone else is doing TWD:
When they brought the Governor back in that stupid episode with him and the family in the apartment. The increasing cartoonishness of the show already had me on the verge and everything I've heard about what's happened since I'd have quit at some point anyway. I just really hated the Governor though.

 

[ProstheticConscience]

Jar Jar Binks........drops mic

BUT...

...did anyone who saw Jar Jar not pony up for Attack of the Clones?

Nice thought, but fail, sir. Fail.

 

[Winger98]

The Killing - The last episode of season 2. Just couldn't buy her killing the guy, and it seemed like they just kept piling the misery on because that was the only way they could create drama/tension.

American Horror Story - first episode of the second season. Felt just like the first but even more scattershot and random.

Bob Ross - third episode of the second season, a winter scene. Dude. Your trees suck. Get over it.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

People still had stones in '99.

Accepting and using racial stereotypes = having balls? I'm perplexed. Can you elaborate?

 

[Eisen]

Walked out of the cinema when the bro-schmaltz in Point Break was too much.

 

[ArGarBarGar]

Bob Ross - third episode of the second season, a winter scene. Dude. Your trees suck. Get over it.

Get outta here

 

[TP]

Movies I couldn't finish...

La La Land. if I knew it was a musical prior, I might have finished it. my bad.

Godzilla - Final Wars. Matrix rip off, of the worst kind.

Jaws - The revenge. this movie still makes me mad.


thats what I remember for now

 

[DustyMartellaughs]

Oh also Trailer Park Boys after Season 5. I DID watch Seasons 6 and 7 but I don't even have anything after 5 on my hard drive because I couldn't stand it, and I was shocked it was still going on.

I have never seen a show so unapologetically milked past it's natural expiry date. It's awful. Just cringeworthy. And there's more to come. The die hards are people EXACTLY like the characters.

 

[Ralph Spoilsport]

Commercial breaks.

"And the person leaving Hell's Kitchen tonight is..." (cuts to commercial)...

**switches to hockey/baseball/news channel/etc.**

Suits. Mrs Spoilsport got into it a couple of seasons back. I have no idea if the world of high-stakes corporate law is really like this...it's probably incredibly dull in reality...but I thought it was smart and entertaining and I got hooked toward the end of the season.

Next season came and we started to watch and I thought...what happened? Suddenly all the story lines were about the characters' personal lives, dating problems, relationship issues. Were the writers all fired and replaced with soap opera writers?

 

[Shareefruck]

Commercial breaks.

"And the person leaving Hell's Kitchen tonight is..." (cuts to commercial)...

**switches to hockey/baseball/news channel/etc.**

Suits. Mrs Spoilsport got into it a couple of seasons back. I have no idea if the world of high-stakes corporate law is really like this...it's probably incredibly dull in reality...but I thought it was smart and entertaining and I got hooked toward the end of the season.

Next season came and we started to watch and I thought...what happened? Suddenly all the story lines were about the characters' personal lives, dating problems, relationship issues. Were the writers all fired and replaced with soap opera writers?

This kind of thing is infuriating.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Yeah I'm still gonna watch Season 11 when it premieres at the end of this month but I would have to say Trailer Park Boys after season 7. And as a huge TPB fan who'se seen them live 3 times it pains me to say this but I'll chime in.

Seasons 8 and 9 were pretty awful overall and season 10 was meh. Plus now that Lucy and J-Roc are gone, how much further can they sink??? Losing J-Roc's character will be a huge blow to a show that's probably already on it's last leg. And don't get me started on that flaming pile of **** that was TPB: Out Of The Park Europe.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Supernatural, season 7. I was excited they continued after season 5, but in all honesty they should have ended it after 5 seasons. It was a good story that had its climax in season 5.

Season 6 had some nice moments with old characters coming back and expanding further on the story. But in season 7, when they had episodes with fairies, dragons and lepricauns, I was done.

 

[SJSharksfan39]

I stopped watching Tree of Life about 20 minutes in because it was so boring

 

[kmad]

"I'm Donna, and I'm awesome." And then she sank a basketball shot. Suits, I think season 5 or something

 

[Spring in Fialta]

"I'm Donna, and I'm awesome." And then she sank a basketball shot. Suits, I think season 5 or something

That sounds dreadful. A buddy of mine tried to get me into Suits but I despised it.