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* The [[FOX]] 25th Anniversary Special was a Dethroning Moment for the Fox Network. I will admit that parts of it were quite nice, including the Fox Sports segment; and I liked that ''[[Firefly]]'', ''[[Dollhouse]]'', and ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' each got a [[Shout-Out]] for their respective fanbases. That said, long-running Fox shows such as ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'', ''[[King of the Hill]]'', ''[[COPS (series)|COPS]]'', ''[[America's Most Wanted]]'', and ''[[Mad TV]]'' each got VERY minimal screentime; and they didn't even mention favorites like ''[[Parker Lewis Can't Lose]]'' or ''[[Futurama]]'' (each of which had three seasons on Fox), despite showing clips from a TON of reality shows cancelled after only one season.<ref>I almost complained about the lack of [[Fox Kids]] recognition, including the failure to recognize what a boon ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' was for the network, but then I remembered that other companies now own most of those shows, and it would have been legal hell if Fox had mentioned the block.</ref>
* [[How I Met Your Mother|How I Met Your Mother's]] seventh season finale "The Magician's Code". It's bad enough they went with the safe route and revealed Barney & Robin would end up together despite spending the entire episode building up his relationship with Quinn. But then there's what they do with Ted. He calls Victoria again to attempt tying up that loose end, she happens to be in the city and she shows up wearing a wedding dress. Victoria then says they should run away together, and as they're driving Ted tells her no as he was once left at the alter. BUT THEN he decides "ah screw it" and runs away with her anyway. God damn it writers! Do you learn nothing?
* The seventh season finale of [[Bones]] was wall-bangingly ludricous. I won't even go into how the evil genius super-hacker serial killer Pelant is somehow able to thoroughly screw Brennan and everyone else around her using the ''bar codes from library books''. Pelant knows things and does things he simply should not be able to do. In that, they're physically and technologically impossible. He's beyond [[Crazy Prepared]]; he's impossibly prepared. He's able to effortlessly exploit every flaw in the legal system to turn it against the heroes, despite the heroes's track record of trustworthiness, and despite the fact that he's a convicted felon who doesn't even own a computer. NO ONE is that smart. Or that prepared. Max's speech about "the system" comes dangerously close to some kind of Anti-Establishment [[AuthorWriter Onon Board]] speech. The entire premise of the episode seems designed to prove that the system is evil, you can't win against it, and the only solution is to chuck it all and run.
* ''Sportsnation: Basketball's 101 Most Disrespectful Moments'' may be the worst thing that's ever aired on any ESPN network (worse than ''The Decision''). For one, most of the clips are simply dunks (apparently it's "disrespectful" to get an easy basket) instead of something like a flagrant foul or a brawl. Also the commentary is awful (it's mostly just the two hosts saying "That's disrespectful" for an hour), the music consists solely of ten-second loops of the same two songs, half of the clips feature Duke or North Carolina, the audience consists of brain-dead teenagers who will react to anything and no one in the room seems to know what disrespectful means. This is a clear example that ESPN will air anything nowadays, no matter how low quality.
* America's funniest home video: One video had a kid with diarrhea crying on the toilet while the mom is filming and laughing. How is that funny? The only sympathy for the kid in the clip was from the family dog. Worse it won the 10,000 dollars. Yeah good thing you have the money because the kid will need it for therapy after this. Also how are kids of people vomiting funny? Laughing at someone who is sick and humiliated is just wrong.
** Now, I may be in the minority when I say that I tolerated the Fuegelsang/Fuentez era of AFV and found some moments pretty funny. That being said, their "Seven Deadly Sins" special contained a moment so awful and disgusting it nearly made me swear off the series forever. The episode in-and-of itself is fine at first with each segment of clips focusing on a different sin (a pretty clever idea, I must admit). But, then we get to the theme of "Pride". What sort of clips do they decide to show their audience? Why, babies vomiting of course. Just...no, eww, no. I want to watch people getting into wacky situations. Not change the channel the moment "Junior" decides to literally show us what he had for breakfast. Have the producers forgotten the show is called ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]'' and not "Babies Barf-O-Rama"?
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