TV moments that made you scream in rage or frustration.

[Barack Clinton]

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.

[akiratubo]

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.

[lester1/2jr]

the opposite actually. Yesterday I was drunk and watching Fast Money going "I LOVE Melissa Lee" the host.

[Flick James]

Any portion of an episode of Ally McBeal that I've made the mistake of watching.

[lester1/2jr]

whenever Hillary comes on.

[AndyC]

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.

[Jim H]

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.

[Trevor]

When some idiot renamed TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES as TEENAGE MUTANT HERO TURTLES. 

[akiratubo]

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.

[AndyC]

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.

[ulthar]

Any time I see "the news."   

[Mr. DS]

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. 

[Flick James]

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.

[AndyC]

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.

[Doggett]

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 ?!?!?!