Shows and/or episodes that can't stand the test of time....

[1pooh4u]

There are tons of old shows or episodes that don't hold up to the test of time.

 

The Honeymooners might be a good example of this.

 

Another example: The X Files, not as a whole, but for sure the episode The Great Mutato fails.

In this episode Dana and Scully investigate a case where a woman claims to have been impregnated

by an alien or some other unknown entity. Turns out it was a human scientific experiment that was lonely so he drugged and raped women.

Mutato was a huge Cher fan and in the end everyone felt bad so instead of jail he is taken to a Cher concert on the government dime.

I like the episode except the ending is all lol, wut.

 

So now it's your turn to don your monocle and top hat and talk about shows that fail today's world

[tsar4]

Every "On a very special..." episode.

 

WKRP in Cincinnati (syndication after the music licensing ran out) - some of the songs were pertinent to the plot/joke and when they had to drop the songs - anyone watching that had never seen the original was completely lost.

 

[Mix]

The Bachelor and the Bachelorette...

 

These two shows are so flawed...I really hate them, but they just keep on churning out season after season....I've gotta look up the divorce rate of the winners...i'm sure it's hilariously sad

[mthor]

I love the original Star Trek, but I cringe every time I see them flip switches on one of the consoles, work the levers  on the transporter, or look at dials with analog readouts. I mean, touch screen technology has been available for over 20 years, there are kids who can't read any kind of analog display, and it's not even the 23rd century yet.

[mochi]

I have several

 

full shows

 

Whatever happened to Robot Jones/ this show should've been better than it was, but several mistakes were made, first was that every joke was a very specific 70's pop culture reference, which none of the children watching would understand, and by very specific I mean it would be literally impossible to get any of the jokes if you had not watched the specific show and/or scene the joke was refferencing, the second mistake was the fact that Cartoon Network at some point rerecorded the whole show replacing Robot Jone's voice with an actual child, despite half of the show's humor coming from his unexpressive computerized voice

 

Regular show/ if you replace the word 70's with 80's this show has the same main issue as Robot Jones, in that it's jokes are so dated and specific that it cannot appeal to anyone who did not live through the 80's, also, IMO all the characters are far too annoying to be likeable

 

Xiaolin Showdown/ this one is a strange example, it doesn't do anything that specifically dates it but it balanced humor terribly, it's only likeable character was the brunt of ALL of it's violent humor, and it was actually absurdly racist if you payed attention to what was actually happening, each main character represented a racist caricature of a random ethnicity, Omi was a small chinese boy with permanently closed eyes bright yellow skin who spoke broken english, Raimundo was a man slut spicy latino boy, Kimiko was a cute thing and tech obsessed japanese girl who constantly wore crazy clothes, and Clay (the white one) was the most mild, he was still sort of a stereptype (since he was a cowboy) but he was considered one of the wisest members of their team....which is actually a positive thing

 

solitary episodes of shows

 

the Bunny episode of the original Powerpuff girls/ it's actually unofficially banned from television for it's rather negative (which is an understatement) portrayal of neurodivergent people,

meanwhile

there is an almost identical post movie Spongebob episode called "Sister sam" which still airs on occasion

 

any episode of Steven Universe featuring Renaldo/ he's a terrible character and should not exist

 

I'm sure I'll think of others later

 

[StarPanda]

All of them 

[Chapinator_X]

The episode of The Office that dedicated to Entourage' and the "Let's hug it out, bitch" quote. On the same note, the Entourage episodes that date themselves by showing off old PS2 games the characters got into.

 

Any episode of Celebrity Deathmatch where the famous person was only relevant in the late 90's or the mid-2000's (ex: Natalie Imbruglia & The Real World cast members, or Mike Jones & Ashlee Simpson, etc). On top of that, childish toilet humor takes up more of the jokes than pop culture references, so you'd be more likely to see a celebrity shoving their hands down their pants to use their soiled hand or clothing as a weapon than seeing props from their movies/videos being used.

 

The Breaking Bad episode where Jesse happily plays Sonic 06.

 

The times where Chappelle Show would make fun of things from the 2000's like Lil Jon, Dubya, GTA 3, and Howard Dean's "BYAAH". Mencia's Lil Jon ripoff with the Sean Paul skit applies too.

[1pooh4u]

Every "On a very special..." episode.

 

WKRP in Cincinnati (syndication after the music licensing ran out) - some of the songs were pertinent to the plot/joke and when they had to drop the songs - anyone watching that had never seen the original was completely lost.

I've never watched WKRP after it went off the air. That's nuts  ::spin::

[1pooh4u]

The Bachelor and the Bachelorette...

 

These two shows are so flawed...I really hate them, but they just keep on churning out season after season....I've gotta look up the divorce rate of the winners...i'm sure it's hilariously sad

They really get married after?  I thought they were only kidding  >

[1pooh4u]

I love the original Star Trek, but I cringe every time I see them flip switches on one of the consoles, work the levers  on the transporter, or look at dials with analog readouts. I mean, touch screen technology has been available for over 20 years, there are kids who can't read any kind of analog display, and it's not even the 23rd century yet.

Star Trek freaks me out with the shit we actually do have from the original that's now obsolete  >

[1pooh4u]

I have several

 

full shows

 

Whatever happened to Robot Jones/ this show should've been better than it was, but several mistakes were made, first was that every joke was a very specific 70's pop culture reference, which none of the children watching would understand, and by very specific I mean it would be literally impossible to get any of the jokes if you had not watched the specific show and/or scene the joke was refferencing, the second mistake was the fact that Cartoon Network at some point rerecorded the whole show replacing Robot Jone's voice with an actual child, despite half of the show's humor coming from his unexpressive computerized voice

 

Regular show/ if you replace the word 70's with 80's this show has the same main issue as Robot Jones, in that it's jokes are so dated and specific that it cannot appeal to anyone who did not live through the 80's, also, IMO all the characters are far too annoying to be likeable

 

Xiaolin Showdown/ this one is a strange example, it doesn't do anything that specifically dates it but it balanced humor terribly, it's only likeable character was the brunt of ALL of it's violent humor, and it was actually absurdly racist if you payed attention to what was actually happening, each main character represented a racist caricature of a random ethnicity, Omi was a small chinese boy with permanently closed eyes bright yellow skin who spoke broken english, Raimundo was a man slut spicy latino boy, Kimiko was a cute thing and tech obsessed japanese girl who constantly wore crazy clothes, and Clay (the white one) was the most mild, he was still sort of a stereptype (since he was a cowboy) but he was considered one of the wisest members of their team....which is actually a positive thing

 

solitary episodes of shows

 

the Bunny episode of the original Powerpuff girls/ it's actually unofficially banned from television for it's rather negative (which is an understatement) portrayal of neurodivergent people,

meanwhile

there is an almost identical post movie Spongebob episode called "Sister sam" which still airs on occasion

 

any episode of Steven Universe featuring Renaldo/ he's a terrible character and should not exist

 

I'm sure I'll think of others later

I remember Xiaolin Showdown. I loved Jack Spicer but yeah the characters are more caricature than anything.

You hate Reynaldo that much?  He's an asshat but teachable.

 

The movie Gone With The Wind. Why is this still a classic?

[1pooh4u]

All of them 

Stahp some hold up.

 

 

All in the Family. Dead show

[1pooh4u]

The episode of The Office that dedicated to Entourage' and the "Let's hug it out, bitch" quote. On the same note, the Entourage episodes that date themselves by showing off old PS2 games the characters got into.

 

Any episode of Celebrity Deathmatch where the famous person was only relevant in the late 90's or the mid-2000's (ex: Natalie Imbruglia & The Real World cast members, or Mike Jones & Ashlee Simpson, etc). On top of that, childish toilet humor takes up more of the jokes than pop culture references, so you'd be more likely to see a celebrity shoving their hands down their pants to use their soiled hand or clothing as a weapon than seeing props from their movies/videos being used.

 

The Breaking Bad episode where Jesse happily plays Sonic 06.

 

The times where Chappelle Show would make fun of things from the 2000's like Lil Jon, Dubya, GTA 3, and Howard Dean's "BYAAH". Mencia's Lil Jon ripoff with the Sean Paul skit applies too.

Shows that reference technology inevitably shoot themselves in the foot, especially if there's nothing else to make it funny or in some cases scary.

 

The VHS movies. Don't kids ask wtf is a VHS?

[1pooh4u]

I can't think of one off the top of my head, but I can do the opposite & name a surprisingly contemporary episode w/The Jefferson's transgender episode where George's old war buddy has transitioned & meets up w/George & he takes the news very well.

That's pretty surprising considering the show's gotta be almost 40 years old.

 

 

[Chapinator_X]

Reminds me of the South Park episode where all of the kids mock Token for being extremely rich because his house has a DVD player. It was in 2001, but when the DVD release of that season came out, even the guy in the commercial was saying "Now we all have DVDs!"

[1pooh4u]

42 this year

Lol damn I gotta see if I can find that episode I don't remember it at all.

[Admin]

culture changes and evolves with time. 

 

so - while anything can ultimately be entertaining to somebody, I think it's true that nothing truly can withstand the weight of that progression.

 

Even stuff I like, between the look of it, the style being tied to the times in which it was made, cultural references that have lost relevance, technological advancements making it somewhat obsolete by any current production standard, and other things, it doesn't actually hold up ultimately.

 

but also I'm not sure that matters.  I mean, I like what I like.  Some of it (well, I guess pretty much all of it) doesn't really hold up after 10 or 20 years or so.  But who gives a shit if you're enjoying something? 

 

 

[Mix]

They really get married after?  I thought they were only kidding  >

 

looked it up and apparently some don't....they just date after the show then quietly brake up and sell the expensive engagement ring they gate from the show...that's false advertising 

 

anyway, of the ones that do, only four are still together  >

[nameraka]

[Skinko]

I would say the first 2 seasons of South Park doesn't hold up at all.

 

Not even for the same reasons as later seasons, which don't stand up now because the references are so of their time (how many kids these days know who the fuck Saddam Hussein is).

 

I think the first couple seasons are just not funny.