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Take a tv series and add your own plot twists that would totally sink the show and send its viewers scrambling to change the dial.  The show may be successful or it may be well on its way to screwing itself over anyway (but hey, why not speed up its demise?).

Ones I thought up for Breaking Bad:
Walt comes home and discovers, to his surprise, that the whole family wants in on the meth-making business.  Everyone (including the baby) is dressed up in yellow suits, ready to start cooking.
Also..
Towards the conclusion of the series, a nervous Jesse decides to do one last cooking session with Walt.  When he arrives at the lab, the lights are all off.  When he flips on the lights, all of Walt's family (including Hank and Marie) shout "SURPRISE!" and Jesse sees that Walt has set up the whole meth-cooking scheme to get Jesse to learn about chemistry.  A very confused Jesse is embraced by Walt, who tearfully exclaims how proud he is of his ex-student, and has a celebration cake for Jesse along with balloons, party favors, confetti and streamers.

Wow, that would pretty much guarantee the end of the series, as no one would watch anymore.  :teddyr:

What stupid/funny plot twists could YOU add to a series (old OR recent) that would eff it up irreparably?

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: At the end, DNA tests reveal that the mother cheated on the narrator, and he's not the children's real father.

^ Good idea!

A rather generic idea that would screw up any series would be to give the main character super powers and a cape.
I'm imagining Dexter flying over Miami in a superhero costume, looking for bad guys to kill.

There is no mother. There are no children. Ted is dying alone because no woman was "good enough" for his asinine romantic idealist standards and he's prattling to two figments of his dementia-fused imagination. Fin.



I always felt a little cheated that THAT 70S SHOW didn't end with Red finally losing it (possibly Kitty dies, or it just truly sinks in what wastes of space his offspring are, coupled with the downspiral his career took in the later seasons), murdering all those slacker douchebags who never left his basement, and moving to Detroit.

The group from Walking Dead goes to Washington DC in the 2nd season.

(genuinely been waiting for higher infrastructure plot arc since the CDC place, joking aside I think Walking Dead could have benefited from some of the cool stuff Revolution did regarding new groups formed and whatnot)

The plane crash survivors of Lost finding out that they actually didn't survive and they've been in purgatory the whole time.
Alexis of Dynasty is not really such a bad person at all.
Sam of Quantum Leap was behind it all the time and never made the leap home.
The A Team just kept on running from the law.
Bobby of Dallas didn't die, he was just in the shower.

Oops: those things really did happen, didn't they?  :wink:

Just about everything I'm watching now (Well, except maybe Doctor Who), two words:

MARTIAN TRIPODS

 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

Once Upon a Time/ Agents of SHIELD crossover.

Considering they are owned by the same company, I'm pretty sure somebody it trying to make it work.

Make that crossover about Martian Tripods, and the shark will have been jumped!  :bouncegiggle:

The X Flies: Fox Mulder and Dana Scully find out that The Cigarette Smoking Man is their father and that Walter Skinner is the actual baddie.  :wink:

      Ben Matlock turns out to be a pedophilic necrophile.

Yup lol. That would totally screw up it up alright.  Good one. :thumbup:


Gilligan's Island

The Russians start WW3...
The Professor picks all this info up on the radio and tells everyone - there is no home to go back to.

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They all live happily ever after on the island - no visitors - no crazy adventures - no wacky plans to escape the island.

A hip-hoppin' black couple (Ice Cube and Queen Latifah) move next door to the Douglases in GREEN ACRES and the Douglases (and the other Hooterville residents) slowly adopt their ways.  Gangstas, goofy black stereotypes and other assorted shenanigans join the "fun".  The title gets changed to GREEN AKIZ.

The Munsters

Christopher Lee (Dracula) visits 1313 Mockingbird Lane (1965)
(http://www.followingthenerd.com/site/wp-content/uploads/christopher-lee-dracula.jpg)

Christopher Lee (Dracula) demands that Lilly starts to drink blood once again - and wreck havoc on the town.
(http://www.uncleodiescollectibles.com/img_lib/Munsters%2061%205-3-13.jpg)

She does. Lilly also convinces Herman and the family to drink blood as well.
(http://timewantsaskeleton.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/lillyandherman.jpg?w=487)

The people in town show up with the police and US Army. The Munsters take the back road out.
They then move back to the old country. Transylvania awaits the horrors.
(http://www.uncleodiescollectibles.com/img_lib/Munsters%20482%205-20-13.jpg)

1313 Mockingbird Lane is now a horror museum (1967)

Firefly: It gets revealed that the Reavers are the result of a Prozac regimen gone horribly wrong.

Wait...

Honey Boo Boo - the family uses some of the money they've made to buy a nice home in a legit area of town.

just about anything I've been watching lately, I could throw in some Martian Tripods & an apathetic Cartaphilus St. Longinus...

I wish that happened.  The final season of the series had them finally caught and put on trial.  Eventually they were offered a pardon in exchange for doing various high-risk covert operations under the command of a former Army General.  They also had another member forced on the team. 

How well received was this? 
Well, when was the last time you heard anybody talk about General Stockwell or Frankie "Dishpan Man" Santana when they talk about the A-team?

Family Guy: An entire season of the family doing nothing but watching episodes of Bob's Burgers in which that family does nothing but watch episodes of Archer whose entire cast does nothing but watch Family Guy...watching Bob's Burg <BLAM!>

Heads across America would explode, either from radically altered reality or suicides, but I think that would actually kill 3 shows at once.

And on the final episode, we see Homer Simpson turn off the TV that was watching all of them. 

Longmire:

Near the end of the final episode, right as every loose end is about to be tied up, jump cut to a child playing with his cowboy and Indian toys, which look like and share the names of the major characters in the show.  His mother calls him to dinner and he runs off, leaving the toys piled on the floor.

The Mentalist:

Have Patrick Jane meet Red John and kill him after Red John taunts him about his family's murders, which will be one of the most perfect endings to a TV show ever.  Then keep going for another season or two.  Oh, wait ...

Dexter:

At the end of the final episode, reveal that the entire series was all in the imagination of a pimply, bullied, young teen.  All the villains are other kids who beat him up or teachers he doesn't like.  The show was nothing but his revenge fantasy.

Game of Thrones:

Suddenly have aliens invade out of nowhere and slaughter everyone with laser guns, force fields, mechas, and stuff.  No plot lines resolved, no loose ends tied up, nothing.  The entire show was a waste of time because nothing mattered in the end.

Mad Men:

The entire last season forgets everything that happened previously and introduces a new cast of characters: a spoiled young pop star and his handlers.  The show is now set in the present day and each episode deals with the pop star's handlers getting him out of a new sticky situation he's put himself in.  They constantly say things like, "We must be mad men to do this job."

Doesn't that pretty much sum up every single TV series ever made?

Castle: the writer is actually the criminal mastermind behind every case.  :buggedout:

Bones: it is discovered that no character on that show actually has any.  :tongueout: :twirl: :wink:

Olivia Benson actually did all the crimes on SVU. the detective thing was fever dreams or something