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Title: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Barack Clinton on January 18, 2011, 12:54:56 AM
Have you ever seen something that made you just scream in rage or frustration at the TV because it was so bad, so awful, so stupid, etc that you just couldn't stand it?

One for me was an early ep of "star trek enterprise" that had a couple of the crew land on a comet to "explore' it.

Well, they were walking on the comet like it had more than the .0001g such a small, low density body would have. That was bad.

Then the comet had a quake, and a fissure opens up, and the shuttlepod with the two bozos gets stuck inside it, until archer swallows his pride and asks a vulcan ship to tractor beam them out because the shuttlepod was stuck in the comet fissure and the guys couldn't get out.

OK, a comet pretty much has a low gravity well, being mostly low density iced with some rock tossed in here and there, and it's usually failry small, in terms of the nucleus, not the tail it gets when it hits the inner system and starts outgassing volatiles.

So a comet will likely have like a tiny, tiny percentage of a percent of a gravity well. Meaning our heroes could have each grabbed the shuttle with one hand, crouched and leaped off the comet and back towards enterprise taking the shuttle with them.

Really, being stuck in a comet's gravity would be like being held down by a flea.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: akiratubo on January 18, 2011, 07:17:52 AM
On an early episode of Lost, they were setting up an incestuous relationship with Boone and his sister but took great pains to make sure the audience knew they were only siblings by adoption (or marriage, whichever).

I thought, "Well, this show doesn't have any balls," and quit watching it after that.  (And from what I know of where the show ended up in later seasons, thank goodness.)

Not that incest gets me hot or anything but, if you're going to go there on your show, just GO THERE.  Don't take the easy way out.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: lester1/2jr on January 19, 2011, 10:08:06 AM
the opposite actually. Yesterday I was drunk and watching Fast Money going "I LOVE Melissa Lee" the host.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Flick James on January 19, 2011, 10:43:41 AM
Any portion of an episode of Ally McBeal that I've made the mistake of watching.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: lester1/2jr on January 19, 2011, 10:47:21 AM
whenever Hillary comes on.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: AndyC on January 19, 2011, 10:51:49 AM
On an early episode of Lost, they were setting up an incestuous relationship with Boone and his sister but took great pains to make sure the audience knew they were only siblings by adoption (or marriage, whichever).

I thought, "Well, this show doesn't have any balls," and quit watching it after that.  (And from what I know of where the show ended up in later seasons, thank goodness.)

Not that incest gets me hot or anything but, if you're going to go there on your show, just GO THERE.  Don't take the easy way out.

I immediately thought of the finale of Lost. After following that entire series, with all of the interesting questions and enticing possibilities, THAT was what they considered a resolution? They left a lot either unexplained or glossed over, and what was explained was just plain dumb.

And back in the early seasons of Star Trek: TNG, for any episode where a fight would be inevitable until a peaceful solution would appear out of nowhere at the last minute. As if I was expected to enjoy being teased with the possibility of excitement for most of the episode and having it yanked away suddenly by a piece of lazy writing.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Jim H on January 21, 2011, 03:13:32 AM
I'm not invested in it enough to literally scream, but the parts in the new V where they go on about "human souls" are just so stupid it boggles my mind.  More like, how could the Vs be so stupid.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Trevor on January 21, 2011, 04:34:01 AM
When some idiot renamed TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES as TEENAGE MUTANT HERO TURTLES.  :hatred:


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: akiratubo on January 21, 2011, 10:12:53 AM
And back in the early seasons of Star Trek: TNG, for any episode where a fight would be inevitable until a peaceful solution would appear out of nowhere at the last minute. As if I was expected to enjoy being teased with the possibility of excitement for most of the episode and having it yanked away suddenly by a piece of lazy writing.

Action scenes cost money.  Diplomacy (i.e. talking) doesn't.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: AndyC on January 21, 2011, 11:40:36 AM
And back in the early seasons of Star Trek: TNG, for any episode where a fight would be inevitable until a peaceful solution would appear out of nowhere at the last minute. As if I was expected to enjoy being teased with the possibility of excitement for most of the episode and having it yanked away suddenly by a piece of lazy writing.

Action scenes cost money.  Diplomacy (i.e. talking) doesn't.

Fine, but a good writer would make the diplomatic solution seem less like it was pulled out of his butt. And a good writer would build tension instead of anticipation, so viewers would feel relieved, rather than cheated. Those episodes were written in a way that they built up to action that didn't happen. If you want me to like the crafty diplomatic solution, make me dread the potential violence, not look forward to it. The original series did it all the time. Kirk talked his way out of a fight in some of the best episodes, because they were written so that the battle of wits was exciting. There was tension, and the audience gave a damn about the outcome. And there was usually something more at stake than just peaceful ideals. A shooting fight would have consequences more dire than just diplomacy failing and people potentially getting hurt. The Corbomite Maneuver is a great example of an episode with real tension and a peaceful outcome that was satisfying.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: ulthar on January 21, 2011, 11:53:01 AM
Any time I see "the news."   :hatred:


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Mr. DS on January 21, 2011, 12:10:16 PM
When they cancelled Rome, Deadwood and Arrested Development.  Did HBO really need another season of The Sopranos or Sex In The City btw?

Watching The Cleveland Show made me groan the other day.  There is no comedic appeal in that show...none. 



Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Flick James on January 21, 2011, 01:21:42 PM
When they cancelled Rome, Deadwood and Arrested Development.  Did HBO really need another season of The Sopranos or Sex In The City btw?

Watching The Cleveland Show made me groan the other day.  There is no comedic appeal in that show...none. 



I haven't watched The Cleveland Show although I am a big Family Guy fan. Spinoffs just tend to scare me away.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: AndyC on January 21, 2011, 03:16:37 PM
When they cancelled Rome, Deadwood and Arrested Development.  Did HBO really need another season of The Sopranos or Sex In The City btw?

Watching The Cleveland Show made me groan the other day.  There is no comedic appeal in that show...none. 



I haven't watched The Cleveland Show although I am a big Family Guy fan. Spinoffs just tend to scare me away.

I can't think of too many straight spinoffs that worked. I mean same character, same actor, not originally meant to have his own show. Frasier was probably the most successful, and that was a rare situation of a show well-tailored to a particularly suitable character. Wasn't a case of taking a one-note supporting character and tossing him into a stock sitcom. The spin-offs that worked for me were usually either spin-offs in name only, with very loose ties to the original (Trapper John M.D., CSI Miami, etc.) or spin-offs that were really just original shows whose characters were slipped into existing hits for a couple of episodes (Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, etc.) Very few real spinoffs get anywhere.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Doggett on January 21, 2011, 05:21:08 PM
Bridezillas.

Why are these men marrying them !
Where do these women come from, and being an ignorant, childish, selfish, shallow, rude, obnoxious woman is not an attractive quality.

WHY DO THEY BEHAVE LIKE THAT ?!?!?!

 :bluesad:


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: AndyC on January 21, 2011, 06:38:18 PM
Bridezillas.

Why are these men marrying them !
Where do these women come from, and being an ignorant, childish, selfish, shallow, rude, obnoxious woman is not an attractive quality.

WHY DO THEY BEHAVE LIKE THAT ?!?!?!

 :bluesad:

Low-budget reality TV. Hate it. Lately, my wife has taken to watching shows about children's beauty pageants. I don't understand the appeal. Morbid curiosity, I suppose. I look at those shows and I don't scream, but I do feel very, very depressed at the "parenting" I see, not to mention the level of shallowness and just plain stupidity.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 21, 2011, 07:13:06 PM
Bridezillas.

Why are these men marrying them !
Where do these women come from, and being an ignorant, childish, selfish, shallow, rude, obnoxious woman is not an attractive quality.

WHY DO THEY BEHAVE LIKE THAT ?!?!?!

 :bluesad:

A drink for you, mate. I can't stand Bridezillas either.  :cheers:

My wife watches it   :lookingup:

And I agree...what corner of the U.S. did these spoiled b!tches come from?  Compared to them, most people in New Jersey look somewhat polite and mannered!





Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 21, 2011, 07:18:32 PM
Bridezillas.

Why are these men marrying them !
Where do these women come from, and being an ignorant, childish, selfish, shallow, rude, obnoxious woman is not an attractive quality.

WHY DO THEY BEHAVE LIKE THAT ?!?!?!

 :bluesad:

Low-budget reality TV. Hate it. Lately, my wife has taken to watching shows about children's beauty pageants. I don't understand the appeal. Morbid curiosity, I suppose. I look at those shows and I don't scream, but I do feel very, very depressed at the "parenting" I see, not to mention the level of shallowness and just plain stupidity.

Agreed.  These kids are growing up way too fast and they will never have normal lives. They grow up expecting everyhting to be thier way, when they want it and how they want it, with the usual tragedies attached.

Anyway, what TV moments make me scream?

Every time Jerry Springer is on....I have no idea why that show is so popular.  I HATE IT.

It's the same damn thing every time. Stereotypical white trash folk discuss and deal with their infidelity, laced with live action wraparound catfights or a round of boxing over some worthless broad.  It's the most worthless show on TV and a waste of airtime.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Mr. DS on January 21, 2011, 08:34:59 PM
I'd say a good percentage of TLC programing makes me grown. 


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 22, 2011, 03:15:16 PM

Every time Jerry Springer is on....I have no idea why that show is so popular.  I HATE IT.

It's the same damn thing every time. Stereotypical white trash folk discuss and deal with their infidelity, laced with live action wraparound catfights or a round of boxing over some worthless broad.  It's the most worthless show on TV and a waste of airtime.

That show's not still on, is it?   That's incredible!  :buggedout:

And depressing.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: AndyC on January 22, 2011, 07:09:40 PM
I'd say a good percentage of TLC programing makes me grown. 

TLC went from a channel that made up the majority of my TV viewing in the 90s, to a collection of some of the most mindless sh!te on television today.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Mr. DS on January 22, 2011, 09:45:49 PM
I'd say a good percentage of TLC programing makes me grown. 

TLC went from a channel that made up the majority of my TV viewing in the 90s, to a collection of some of the most mindless sh!te on television today.
Its a bit of an oxymoron to call it the "learning" channel.  What can you learn from it?  Being an annoying family with way too many kids can make you a millionaire while doing nothing of interest on camera. F-that sh!t man... :thumbdown:


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: El Misfit on January 22, 2011, 10:46:15 PM
I haven't seen TNA in over a month, but before I left, I screamed when Jeff F'ing Jarrett nearly killed Kurt Angle. Tazz had to literary get out if his seat and stop Jeff from continuing assault Kurt. I saw a recap the other day, and when Kurt's ex came on, I screamed b***h because she knew what Jeff did and didn't let Kurt get his revenge. Jeff thinks that he's a champion, he is- The Champion of being Eric Bischoff's and Hulk Hogan's b***h! :hatred:


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Killer Bees on January 23, 2011, 02:16:51 AM
Any time I see even a microsecond of Sex And The City.

I don't understand how these women are role models.  They are selfish, shallow, self absorbed, money hungry s!uts and I'm not surprised regular women turn into bridezillas if they think these characters are anything positive to look up to!    :hatred:


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 25, 2011, 05:00:07 PM


Every time Jerry Springer is on....I have no idea why that show is so popular.  I HATE IT.

It's the same damn thing every time. Stereotypical white trash folk discuss and deal with their infidelity, laced with live action wraparound catfights or a round of boxing over some worthless broad.  It's the most worthless show on TV and a waste of airtime.

That show's not still on, is it?   That's incredible!  :buggedout:

And depressing.

Amen to that, brother!


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on January 25, 2011, 05:11:23 PM
Any time I see even a microsecond of Sex And The City.

I don't understand how these women are role models.  They are selfish, shallow, self absorbed, money hungry s!uts and I'm not surprised regular women turn into bridezillas if they think these characters are anything positive to look up to!    :hatred:

Just like Jersey Shore..  The show has done damage to an already tarnished image because of the loud, rude, assertive aggressive muscle-headed people that populate that part of New Jersey.  Not to mention the complaints from a few Italian-American groups over the image it presents.

But that's MTV for you... it's all about image and the hell with substance. No wonder our kids are tunring out to be self-entitled, assertive agressive little beasts. 


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Ted C on January 25, 2011, 05:42:15 PM
In Syfy's "Lightning Strikes" when a bolt of lightning thrown by the evil lightning monster cuts a car in half, and the storm chasing scientists don't mention that lightning should not be able to do that to a car!


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Killer Bees on January 27, 2011, 10:25:53 PM
Any time I see even a microsecond of Sex And The City.

I don't understand how these women are role models.  They are selfish, shallow, self absorbed, money hungry s!uts and I'm not surprised regular women turn into bridezillas if they think these characters are anything positive to look up to!    :hatred:

Just like Jersey Shore..  The show has done damage to an already tarnished image because of the loud, rude, assertive aggressive muscle-headed people that populate that part of New Jersey.  Not to mention the complaints from a few Italian-American groups over the image it presents.

But that's MTV for you... it's all about image and the hell with substance. No wonder our kids are tunring out to be self-entitled, assertive agressive little beasts. 

I've never seen Jersey Shore (I don't watch much tv apart from the news).  But I've heard a lot of people complaining about how truly awful it is.

Seriously, anyone who calls himself The Situation, is deluded and uneducated on a massive scale.   :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: InformationGeek on January 28, 2011, 03:47:44 PM
I actually like the George Lopez Show, but the fact that ABC cancelled that show just so they can have this show based on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H02iwWCrXew

Well that's just ticks me off.

Oh yeah, the ending to Dinosaurs and ALF, but we all know why that frustrates us.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Wag on January 28, 2011, 08:08:49 PM
When any of a number of TV series got cancelled.

Also in Star Trek Voyager, how Janeway continually beat The Borg


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: akiratubo on January 28, 2011, 08:13:15 PM
Janeway

That's really all you needed to say.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: AndyC on January 29, 2011, 01:48:46 PM
When any of a number of TV series got cancelled.

Also in Star Trek Voyager, how Janeway continually beat The Borg

As for the Borg, that moment came for me with TNG, when the full implications of Hugh became apparent. They went to the trouble of creating a race that was immune to diplomacy, totally dispassionate, devoid of human-like values, and bent on taking over everyone and everything they happened to notice. A race that did not allow time to talk, and required immediate action. You meet the Borg, you either fight or run, and running only buys time. In the end, you need either superior strategy or superior firepower. The Borg were a perfect means of escaping the idealistic corner the producers had painted the show into, allowing the crew to just mix it up with an enemy once in a while, without a big moral dilemma.

Then Hugh came along and f**ked it all up. Dammit.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: JaseSF on January 29, 2011, 02:06:26 PM
That we never got Season Two of The Silver Surfer...

When they moved the location shooting of The X-Files from B.C. to L.A. (to me, the show was never the same after that).


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Wag on January 29, 2011, 08:33:12 PM
Then Hugh came along and f**ked it all up. Dammit.

I was okay with Hugh to an extent although I get where you're coming from. If the Borg were as relentless and unyielding as they initially seemed, then ultimately the Borg would have assimilated everything. I can imagine producers realising they had created something that could end the Federation and panicing.

Janeway however took them on loads and if you think back to the presence they had in their first appearances and the Wolf 359 stuff and compare that to the Borg-lite in Voyager. Voyager should not have been able to survive one encounter with a Borg vessil, let alone ally with them. Like you said, are immune to diplomacy, or at least they were. Until Species 3...whatever. Another thing that annoyed me. It was like Voyager was constantly trying to up the ante with action, excitement and the like, but it ended up stupid for it. We didn't need a race that was even more powerful than the Borg. The Borg should have still been menacing all these years later.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: vukxfiles on January 31, 2011, 03:33:45 AM
In Buffy's earlier episodes whenever a vampire is sucking blood out of the person there is no blood shown. Not on the wound, not on the mouth of the vampire. Stupid producers don't have balls to put blood in a VAMPIRE show.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on February 01, 2011, 12:28:09 PM
The A-Team.  It used to get me mad that bullets would never harm anyone, because we know in real life the result is a little different.  A million bullets would fly and the bad guys would escape from the cars or trucks totally unhurt.

Not only that, but the A-Team would constantly shoot out car and truck tires with precision marksmanship, and they always managed to make a weapon of mass destruction out of nothing more than a wad of gum, a shoelace, and a tin can.

All in all, the suspension of disbelief and the sanitization of firearms use and the entire predictability of the show was what ground my gears. I used to wind up calling them "The Gay Team" after a while, like I'm sure most of us did.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: The Burgomaster on February 03, 2011, 10:15:51 AM
When I see those investment shows where so-called "experts" yell at each other about the best stocks to invest in.  My father has these shows on a lot when I go to my parents' house and I keep asking him, "Why do you watch this crap?"  It's pointless.  One person says, "this stock is a great investment" and the person on the other side of the table says, "no, it's a terrible investment," and by the end of the show nothing gets resolved.  Watch something ENTERTAINING dad!


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: AndyC on February 03, 2011, 11:50:42 AM
When I see those investment shows where so-called "experts" yell at each other about the best stocks to invest in.  My father has these shows on a lot when I go to my parents' house and I keep asking him, "Why do you watch this crap?"  It's pointless.  One person says, "this stock is a great investment" and the person on the other side of the table says, "no, it's a terrible investment," and by the end of the show nothing gets resolved.  Watch something ENTERTAINING dad!

Wow, and I thought it was weird for my dad to constantly watch the weather channel. At least weather reports are somewhat useful and not particularly annoying.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: ulthar on February 03, 2011, 12:37:57 PM

Wow, and I thought it was weird for my dad to constantly watch the weather channel. At least weather reports are somewhat useful and not particularly annoying.


Ugh.  The Weather Channel.

Their forecasts have gone to the crapper in the past couple of years.

Just yesterday, the TWC app on my phone said it was raining and I was standing in 70 degree sunshine.  Yes, anyone can get it wrong sometimes, but they are consistently off the mark - at least here.

weatherunderground.com (which uses NWS data directly)  is much better.

But I just don't get it.  The guys around here will stay glued to TWC (there are a couple of reasons for this), and it is almost funny to watch them get worked up about the forecast.

The really sad ones are the guys that walk into the Capn's Lounge (from outside) and turn on the weather channel to "see what the weather is."  Note the "IS."

I've gotten many a blank stare for asking "Why don't you just look outside to see what the weather is?"  It's like they just don't believe it is {whatever is happening} until some talking head on the TV confirms it.


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: AndyC on February 03, 2011, 01:19:55 PM
The Weather Network, in Canada, has been pretty far off the mark in terms of forecasts, and frequently off with their current conditions. Used to be much better in the early 90s. The forecasts were more accurate, and they had some attractive ladies doing the reports. Not hotties so much as distinctive women who were attractive in more of an everyday way, which is more appealing in a way. I knew a few guys who tuned in for the "eye candy."

Lila Feng was a particular favourite, and apparently still has a following working for CNN Worldwide. Most surprising, almost 20 years have passed, and she's still cute as a button.
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5100/5413298879_30cfa16859_z.jpg)


Title: Re: TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.
Post by: 66Crush on February 10, 2011, 10:35:19 PM
It always bugged me that on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Angel got away with killing Miss Calender. Oh sure he went to hell, but he came back. It seemed like Buffy would stop her friends from taking revenge on she ever happend to be sleeping with. By the time the show ended I kind of hated Buffy's character. It also bugged me that Cordelia was killed off instead of written out. I think it's because it was Joss Wheadon's crybaby way of punishing Charisma Carpenter because they didn't get along. I hate when writers don't take the fans feelings into consideration when they do that to a major character. When I was a kid it made me angry when the kids wouldn't let the Trix Rabbit have any cereal, I wanted him to kill those little jerks. Guess I have issues.