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* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: A strange subplot dealing with "aging drugs" was dropped very, very quickly. Even referenced in the director's goodbye letter to fans.

* [[Better Than It Sounds]]: Lee Tergesen described it as the story "Of a young lawyer who gets raped and learns to like it".

* [[Complete Monster]]: Simon Adebisi and Vern Schillinger

* [[Never Live It Down]]: Once someone is raped, he's forever a "prag," and while he can earn some respect, he can have no real power in the social order unless he, personally, kills his rapist. If the rapist has left Oz or died some other way, then that's just too bad for the victim.

** The show itself is mostly remember in pop culture as being "that show with prison rape" and not for much else.

* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: Oh my God, [[Law and Order SVU|Elliot Stabler]] and [[Law and Order|Emile Skoda]], what the ''hell'' are you guys doing?

* [[Seasonal Rot]]: Season 4 significantly upped the number of character deaths and unbelievable storylines, but managed to stay compelling largely due to Adebisi's arc. {{spoiler|His death}}, which was followed a few episodes later by the infamous "Ageing Drug" storyline, is usually seen as a [[Jump the Shark]] that the series never recovered from.

* [[The Scrappy]]: Kenny "Bricks" (eye roll) Wangler manages to piss away all his sympathetic character development by being generally evil, whiny, and an all around insufferable punk. One cannot help but cheer when Guillaume Tarrant puts a bullet into his back.

* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: One can forgive the writers for not wanting to touch this with a 39 and a half foot pole, but a plot where Said and the other Muslims face increased discrimination in the wake of 9/11 would have been potentially brilliant, especially since Oz was one of the only shows running during the attacks to feature prominent Muslim characters.

* [[The Woobie]]: Beecher, Cyril, occasionally Alvarez, and Diane.

** Also Father Mukada, [[Reassigned to Antarctica|sent to Oz]] because he questioned the conservative views of his powerful church patron, is clearly out of his depth in the madness and brutality of a maximum security prison.