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** Goldeneye101: "Wi-fi in the Sky" is another crap episode. With Nick's advertising campaign being every single episode being a "special", I was actually expecting something good. What I got was one setting (the airplane) and absolutely idiotic jokes. After about 15 minutes, it got worse and worse. Then, Tori's sister needs to use the bathroom and goes to the first class one instead of the coach. I felt like that one wasn't too bad, but then she came back to say that she stole [[Perez Hilton]] 's camera. Now, Perez Hilton... wasn't exactly very likeable to many people. I was hoping and praying that they wouldn't show the guy... but at the end of the episode, they do. Complete with Tori saying "Oh my God, you're Perez Hilton!" And an applaud track. Really, Nick. The guy is gay, yet calls [[Black Eyed Peas|Will.I.Am]] a faggot, he gets punched by the band's manager because of it and is offended by it. He took an upskirt picture of [[Miley Cyrus]] (then 17) and somehow dodged arrest. He called Michael Jackson's death a hoax. He said everyone in my hometown was a retard because of a former mayor, even inviting a horde of guests to slam it. And yet, the fuckhead still gets screentime... on a show for pre-teens. I would have been absolutely offended if I was a mother letting my kid watch that show and knew who the guy was.

** "Tori Gets Stuck." From the toy car in Robbie's intestine, which was just unnecessary disturbing and squicky [[Nightmare Fuel]], to the doctors letting Trina and Cat just walk into a friggin' TB ward, so Trina can record a deathly ill man's cough and use it for her stupid role. Then the hospital makes Tori give three pints of blood! And the doctor almost outright tells her he has no clue at all if it's safe (which it most likely isn't...two pints is touchy enough). And the blood she gives isn't even used, since it explodes all over Tori and Robbie, making that entire plot almost entirely pointless. And then during the play, Tori passes out from having to give so much blood! And then somehow it's supposed to be funny that Trina catches TB from being in the TB ward... It's a life-threatening condition, you idiots! And nobody helps her because her illness makes her role "more realistic." Can you say worst episode? I can and will. Bonus points for Jade stealing Tori's medical records in the beginning [[Karma Houdini|and getting no comeuppance for it whatsoever,]] and using them for something that could've damn well killed her (exposing her to flowers she is allergic to).

** "Prom Wrecker" was absolutely terrible. Tori was just at her worst here. While normally I can put up with her when Jade is being a jerkwad, here she was just completely uncaring and rude to Jade when she finds out that her prom leaves her unable to do her art project. To put this in further perspective, look at Wok Star, when the entire gang played parts in helping Jade save her play from Mrs. Li turning it into a mess. Then, compare that to this, where noone gives a flying flip about Tori's prom leaving Jade unable to do her project or even calls Tori out on her behavior. Then, right when people start to leave the prom and it looks like Jade is finally going to have her chance, Trina reminds Tori to announce Prome King and Queen...and [[Yank the Dog's Chain|Tori makes Jade queen and Doug king]]. So, in short, Tori gets Jade's performance knocked, gets back at her, and [[Karma Houdini|gets no punishment whatsoever]]. Seriously, at that point I would have just had them have a [[The Bad Guy Wins]] ending after that, because it was deserved in such a situation. Also, the running gag of Andre and Sherry repeatedly kissing got old incredibly quickly. To make matters worse, this episode could have been awesome, [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|but was nothing but a bunch of wasted potential]]. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Bonus points]] for when Robbie thinking Cat was making up lies about her date, and walking away right before we see him on screen. Tsk. Sorry Dan, not your best work.

** I'm just going to say it: I fucking hate Jade. How did such an unlikable bitch become an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]? What really did it was in the episode where Tori was being stalked by Ponnie. The episode just ends with Jade shaving Cat's head and we just leave on that. [[Karma Houdini|No well-needed retribution]] or anything. Jade even said it in front of the councilor that she was going to 'get Cat,' and didn't so much as suspend her. Sikowitz flat out said that it was Cat's problem too. [[Adults Are Useless]] doesn't even cover it. The students are being educated by morons! I haven't seen a school staff this idiotic since [[Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu]].

** The hiring of Jordan the Personal Assistant. She was hired to be Deangelo's assistant but he's fired the same episode she was hired so naturally, shouldn't they get rid of her? Nope. They were obviously trying to get some sex appeal to keep viewers, copying the hiring of Erin. However Erin had a reason to be hired and Erin is genuinely funny. Jordan isn't even a good straight man and they do not need a personal assistant in an office that already has a receptionist, Office Administrator and a temp.

* [[The George Lopez Show]]: Ok, so George finds out his daughter is dating someone he doesn't like. So after arguing with her a bit, she says she almost a woman and she can do whatever she wants. What does he tell her? [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|He basically tells her to get out out and he won't come looking for her]]. Ok, so she runs away and he starts to feel like crap. What does his wife tell him? It wasn't his fault and he was trying to protect her. If I was her, I would've fucking kicked him out. Let me remind you everyone was acting like it was no big deal, and [[What the Hell, Hero?|nobody called him out on it at all]]. How he's even likeable as a character anymore is beyond me.

*** I found that arc bad for the opposite reason. Carmen and Max's behavior was what infuriated me. Carmen, when your dad has a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] [[Papa Wolf]] reaction to you running away, the correct response is to realize how wrong you were and accept his offer to come home with open arms, not reject and disown him in front of a celebrity who could tell the world about it no less. And then she insists that George and Angie are "treating her like a baby and controlling everything she does". Yeah, [[Sarcasm Mode|because wanting to know if you're safe, alive and haven't been taken advantage of soooo makes them control freaks]]. Meanwhile, Max is more preoccupied with Carmen getting punished and never once shows any actual concern for his only older sister being alone somewhere with a boy who has taken advantage of innocent girls, and could do it again with her! And when she doesn't get punished, he not-so-subtly threatens to run off himself. Dear God, these kids.

* In episode 17 of [[Choujin Sentai Jetman]], the group is out shopping, the girls going through swim suits, when Ako suggests to Kaori that one suit in particular would be appealing to Ryu. Gai, [[Sarcasm Mode|being the model of emotional maturity that he is]], decides right then and there to grab Kaori by the arm and drag her away from the others, ignoring everyone yelling at him, and takes her into an elevator to isolate her from everyone. When he starts talking about [[All Men Are Perverts|all men being wolves]], she thinks its a joke, but she quickly realizes it isn't, and visibly becomes scared. Then a power outage strikes, and Gai, [[Sincerity Mode|being the emotionally immature belligerent dick that he is]], decides that then is the time to invade Kaori's personal space and to demand to know if she loves or hates him. And yet, this is supposed to be the [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] of Jetman? This is supposed to be one of the most popular characters in the whole of the [[Super Sentai]] franchise? [[Precision F-Strike|Fuck him]], I don't care how many "Badass" stunts he pulls in battle, none of them were worth that one scene, not that it was an isolated incident mind you.

* I know it's rather odd seeing a [[Disney Channel]] show being on this page, but this troper recently watched an [[ANT Farm]] episode that pretty much made this troper give up on [[Disney Channel]] completely. In the new episode PatANT, the [[Alpha Bitch]] of the show goes through a "Boy Who Cried Wolf plot" pretending to be hurt and everybody believed it. But in the end, she actually does break her legs. So what does the cast do? [[Kick the Dog|They just fucking leave her there, now not believing her.]] Holy hell, Disney, I know she was an [[Alpha Bitch]], but come the fuck on! That's just fucking harsh, even for a Disney Channel show. [[What Happened to the Mouse?|And did I mention that this is the last we see of her, which means we don't know what happens to her?]] They were trying to force us to think she deserved it, but it's just [[Disproportionate Retribution]], plain and simple. It's just sad how Disney Channel went from teaching life lessons to sadistic comedy like this on their shows.

* Now normally I like [[Tosh.0]], I understand the humor etc... But in the 4th Season episode. Where Daniel takes the $24000+ that he made auctioning off all the memorabilia from his show, and rather than donate it to Charity or something like that. He proceeds to blow it all on one hand of Blackjack in Vegas. And then he has the nerve to make a joke about it. Now I understand it's a comedy show, and the people who paid in that auction expected to see him do something stupid with the money... But for me, it just seemed like a giant middle finger to people who could have put that money to good use.

* [[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 [[Author On 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.