Fans have a close relationship with their favorite shows. But sometimes, those shows
let us down, and they actually have to apologize for doing us wrong. Here are a few that had
to say they were sorry to mend our broken little hearts.
Chuck Lorre for Two and a Half Men
Two and a Half Men had enough of an audience to last for 12 seasons, but no one ever made
the mistake of confusing it with quality TV. Not even the show's co-creator Chuck Lorre.
At the 2014 Television Academy Honors, Lorre won an award for his latest show, Mom, and
used his speech to apologize for bringing it into the world at all:
"To do a show about people trying to redeem their lives and to salvage and repair the
damage they've done, well, for me that's an opportunity to apologize for Two and a Half
Men."
Hmmm. Apology...not accepted.
Dan Harmon for Community
The cult sitcom Community seemed to be constantly embroiled in trouble during its six-season
run. In an effort to alleviate some of the tension, NBC fired creator and showrunner
Dan Harmon.
"Buenos dios, children!"
After fans protested and ratings dropped, the network brought Harmon back. In celebration,
the embittered Harmon publicly trashed the episodes filmed without him. Not cool.
Harmon quickly wrote a very long apology directed towards the show's fans, actors, and crew,
saying, "Even if my goal had been to hurt someone, it would never have been you."
Chris Evans for Top Gear
When Top Gear lost all three of its popular hosts after Jeremy Clarkson's infamous punch-drunk
assault of the show's crew, the BBC scrambled to keep its top-rated show running with new
hosts and new gimmicks. Unfortunately, one of those gimmicks included doing donuts around
a respected war memorial, Whitehall's Cenotaph. The stunt was quickly called out by veterans
before the show even got to air. New host Chris Evans apologized, saying he and the
crew were "mortified," and promised that shots of the memorial would be cut out before the
show made it to air. Good idea.
Everyone on Star Trek: The Next Generation for “Code of Honor”
Watching the third episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation is enough to leave you astonished
that the show actually made it through a single season. "Code of Honor" portrays a backwards
vision of a tribal space-Africa. While the episode attempts to deliver a message about
accepting different cultures, it misses spectacularly, falling into blatant racism and sexism.
"Yar is to become my First One." "I challenge your right of supersedence!"
"No woman has challenged supersedence for over two hundred years!"
"The right is mine, and I will have it."
At different times, almost everyone involved with the show has apologized for its existence.
Actor Jonathan Frakes stated that Trek creator Gene Roddenberry would have been embarrassed.
Actor Brent Spiner remarked that the show never got "quite that bad again," and Michael
Dorn simply called it "the worst ever filmed."
Robert Kirkman for The Walking Dead season 6 finale
For The Walking Dead comic fans, Negan is the ultimate villain, and the entire TV series
was a buildup to the moment that his barbed-wire bat came down on a beloved cast member's dome—a
moment they were cheated out of when the show cut to black at the end of season 6:
"You can breath, you can blink, you can cry. Hell, you're all gonna be doing that."
Fans were enraged at the cliffhanger, prompting creator Robert Kirkman to apologize in the
letters page of The Walking Dead #154. Sort of.
"For some of you, [the cliffhanger] backfired and you're angry. And for that I'm sorry."
It’s not much of an apology, but it's better than nothing. Thanks?
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