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** Fourthed. There was even an episode where Malcolm worked up the balls to say "No" to Lois, asking her if she intended to watch over him when he's married or 30 years old. From what I read, only one season after he shows regret for costing Reese a girlfriend, he lists all the horrible things Reese has done to him while Reese himself is in the army. Francis realizes what a horrible person Lois is, and [[Calling the Old Man Out|told her in no uncertain terms how much he openly hates her]] before choosing his own path in life. Horrible as life was for him up in Alaska, at least he had the balls to sever ties with Lois. This goes to show how little respect Malcolm has for himself, even though he realizes and resents just as much what a control freak she is and how much a mess their lives are as a result. I would sympathize with other [[Butt Monkey]] characters like [[Love Hina|Keitaro Urashima]], [[Mad Magazine|Monroe]], [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Shinji Ikari]], [[Family Guy|Meg Griffin]], [[Everybody Hates Chris|Chris Rock]], [[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya|Kyon, or Mikuru Asahina]]. Malcolm? All I can say is, [[What an Idiot!]]! I like to imagine that one day, he wises up and betrays his whole family. It's the only thing keeping me from hating this episode more.

** The worst thing about that episode is that it shows how much of a manipulative bitch she is. Seriously, she told Malcolm that he's one of the few people that listens to their conscience, so now she made sure he'd tune it out? WTF. This troper can't help but feel that all of Lois and Hal's kids should have been adopted by different families. But that pales in comparison to ''Army Buddy''. Getting right to the sucky point, Reese's army buddy reveals to Lois that she has a crush on her, and her response is, not an exact quote but, "It's not that I'm not flattered but I have a family, five kids..." She says that pretty casually and makes no mention of the pedophilia (given the buddy's age, it would have been statutory rape, not paedophilia) that would be involved. Out of all the times she exploded, I am surprised this wasn't one of them.

** You couldn't have said it better. The purpose of the police officer is to maintain law and order in our towns and cities. And now its newest member is a sex-crazed idiot who can barely run his own life.

** An episode that really pissed me off was one where Red took the Vista Cruiser from Eric. Eric lost it because Kelso gave him a purple nurple, causing him to swerve and scratch the paint on a fire hydrant. Kelso and the others bailed when Red showed up. Later, they are in a car Kelso borrowed and get arrested because the car was reported stolen. Kelso also wastes their one phone call because Jackie mistakes the call for roleplaying. They get freed, and what happens then? Kelso and Jackie get laid. It frustrated me because Kelso was a complete jackass the entire episode, and he get no retribution (the car was accidentally reported stolen, Kelso had it legitimately). I could forgive Kelso being a cop because he was at least a bad cop and ended up as a bouncer in the finale, but the fact that he endangered everyone and got Eric in trouble with Red over the scratch (Red doesn't buy that Eric was arrested) makes me pissed that they reward his dickish behavior with sex. Fuck Kelso.

* 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.