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and today we're counting down our picks
for the top 10 exact moments that ruined
tv shows
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that's it that's it
no i don't buy it that is not the reason
you made us listen to this
for this list we're taking a look at
some of the precise events in tv shows
where they were either ruined
or began to decline in quality naturally
since most of these involve the plot
there will be spoilers ahead if you
think we ruined our own list by not
including some moments be sure to tell
us which one's in the comments
number 10 deb catches dexter dexter
while there are plenty of points where
this show about a serial killer killer
is said to have gone off the rails
such as its infamous finale the
proverbial nail and dexter's coffin came
earlier
the season six finale sees dexter's
adopted sister deborah catch him in the
act of murdering the season's villain in
a church
maybe everything is exactly
as it should be while on her way there
to confess her very
non-sisterly feelings for him you told
me you accepted me being a killer i feel
like if you love me you'll accept this
if i love you if i love you i went to
the church that night that you killed
travis marshall to tell you that i'm
in love with you still kind of gross but
moving on
although deb learning the truth had a
lot of potential all
it really did was put a character who
had already gone through the ringer in
earlier seasons through even more trauma
and damaged the one consistent
relationship dexter still had left on
the show
number nine lois and clark's first
wedding lois and clark the new
adventures of superman well we're
getting married in four days and
i've never been happier in my life and
every time that things are going great
between us something happens
and i just know that something bad is
gonna happen to mess up our wedding i
just know it will they or won't they
romances are
tough to pull off and mixing them with
superheroes is doubly difficult
nevertheless lois and clark managed to
pull it off at least for its first few
seasons
while the show could certainly get
ridiculous in the ways they managed to
stop the two leads from getting together
nothing beats their first attempt at
getting married which is disrupted by
lois being replaced with a frog eating
clone
and a further story arc involving
amnesia how are you feeling
fine i guess
i'm sorry do i know you ugh not even
silver age comics were this cheesy
don't be ridiculous if i give you the
gun i can't shoot lois duh
you're not going to shoot lowers you're
not
okay they were but this was the 90s we
thought we were past that kind of thing
number eight connor and corty angel
while angel's son conor remains a
polarizing
figure among fans of the show it isn't
until season four that he actually helps
ruin it
let's give cordy a little space it's not
like the world's gonna end right this
second
one episode sees conor and cordelia his
father's on off love interest
have sex which starts a literal
apocalyptic event
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not only does the event herald doomsday
within the show it also marks the
downturn in quality from then on
granted the next season does shake
things up but by then the shine was off
the apple
also it's just really disgusting
cordelia knew him as a baby and while
time travel means he's technically of
age cordy is possessed at the time so
she isn't really consenting to it
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number 7 season 2 and beyond heroes
this super-powered drama had one of the
most pronounced sophomore slumps in
all of tv
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after telling a mostly self-contained
story of ordinary people with
superpowers coming together to save the
world in season one
season two meandered through several new
and often unresolved plot points
before ending abruptly due to the
writer's strike the show
never really recovered from the blunders
made during season 2 and seemed to
flounder for a direction
like we love styler but the villains
should have died at the end of season
one
not stick around for the whole show i
almost forgot how good this feels
cake number six eric leaving that 70's
show
this 70's themed sitcom may have been
hanging out with a whole gaggle of teens
and their parents but let's be real
eric foreman was the protagonist so when
actor topher grace departed the show at
the end of season 7 that 70s show was
left without its central character but
i've accepted that you're leaving and
i'm ready to let you go
oh mom although the rest of the cast
forged on without him season eight was
just a mess with a ton of plot lines
that fell flat
like hyde's stripper wife or jackie and
fez getting together
our first kiss has to be romantic and
spontaneous
and as a guy it's your job to completely
plan that out
i hate being the guy sure eric returned
for the finale but by then
the 70s were over five four
three two one
number five sherlock's over under
explained return
sherlock it really bothers you what what
people say
about me i don't understand why would it
upset you this modern update of sherlock
holmes started strong
with engaging spins on old mysteries and
the great chemistry between its two
leads
you deciding deciding whether to come
back with a warrant and arrest me
you think standard procedure should have
gone with him however the season two
finale which saw sherlock somehow
fake his death by jumping off a building
marked a turning point in the series
after years of fans obsessing over how
he did it the show returned with half a
dozen possible versions of how it
happened
none of them definitive which many saw
as the creators thumbing their noses at
the fan base
what are you out of your mind
i don't see why not it's just as
plausible as some of your theories look
if you're not going to take it seriously
though
i do take it seriously this
unfortunately began a trend of
increasingly incredulous twists that had
fans longing for the early days of the
show but he's dead i mean you told me he
was dead moriarty
absolutely blew his own brains out
number four cliffhanger bait the walking
dead
depending on who you ask the walking
dead has either always been a shambling
monstrosity
or it's more of a recent development
however most
will agree that the finale of season six
was a breaking point
broke the rules so folks had to die
the one who fired the first shot we
strung him up to make an example of him
could have stopped there the protracted
finale builds towards the confrontation
with negan
who then murders one of the group before
a cut to black
the blatant manipulation of the
audience's care for the characters
meant to keep them hooked for the next
season soured many fans on the show
and the fact that one of the two men
killed glenn had already received a
fake-out death earlier in season six
felt especially gratuitous
you can breathe you can blink
you can cry
hell you're all gonna be doing that the
moment showed fans that deaths were just
stunts rather than a way to progress
characters or the story
number three the mother dies how i met
your mother
i'm serious i like this girl so here's
the deal
with the deal robin's my new best friend
nobody bangs her
hey hey hey she only rejected me three
times she's still very much in play
although the entirety of the sitcom's
final season raised a few eyebrows
given that it's mostly set over a few
days it's only in the show's last
episode that fans declared it had been
ruined
after getting to know and coming to love
the titular mother tracy
fans were heartbroken to learn that
shortly after ted finally meets her she
later
died of an unspecified illness while
this was bad enough
the follow-up reveal that ted still has
feelings for robin
whose wedding to barney had been the
focus of the season made it feel like
the creators were shoehorning an idea
planned years ago that no longer applied
to the characters
and that kids is how i met your mother
that's it that's it
no i don't buy it that is not the reason
you made us listen to this
number two literal cork lost this
complex
mystical mystery focused show was
divisive and
much discussed throughout its run and
even today you want to know a secret
jack
something i've known a long long time
you're dead but the final straw for many
occurred in its finale
in an earlier episode in the final
season the mysterious island's immortal
projector jacob
describes the location as being like a
cork preventing evil from spreading to
the rest of the world
cork is this island
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and it's the only thing keeping the
darkness
where it belongs fair enough it's a neat
metaphor however
some fans could not help but facepalm
when the glowing source of the island's
magical powers revealed in the final
episode had a
literal cork in it
we're all for striking imagery but even
the show's die hard fans have to admit
that's
a little on the nose before we get to
our top pick
here are some honorable mentions
charlie's death
two and a half men sheen may have been
winning but without him the show
started losing
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the carver reveal nip tuck rarely has a
twist been so obvious and so ridiculous
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william's parentage the x-files just
when you thought the smoking man
couldn't get any more creepy
mulder's not the father
i'm asking who's the father
i am william is my son jack bauer's
family are terrorists
24. the guy's a terrorist magnet your
co-workers
they're all dead because of me i
arranged everything
i set the timetable i
paid off the killers his name isn't
michael vaughn
alias what a twist just kidding it sucks
fun what are you telling me
for starters my name isn't michael
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every day number one king bran
game of thrones season 8 of game of
thrones is largely agreed upon by most
fans as being a step
down from the rest of the show envelopes
violent
still while the exact moment it was
ruined is up for debate we'd argue that
the last straw was probably the election
of bran stark as king of westeros will
you lead the seven kingdoms to the best
of your abilities
from this day until your last day
why do you think i came all this way at
best the kids spent the last few seasons
as a passive observer
which made him boring and at worst he
used his powers of long foresight to
manipulate those around him
causing mass murder to ascend to the
throne making him unsympathetic
either way fans felt like they and
westeros deserved a better story than
bran
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