Family Guy - While more "Flanderization" when all the characters became parodies of their previous selves, the real thing is when all of a sudden every joke needed to be "explained". i.e. someone trips while running and then one of the character says "AHHH HE TRIPPED AND HE FELL". Ruined every joke for me, was done with it after that. Kind of one decision, I'm sure someone said "people don't get the jokes" and ruined the show for me.

House - When they suddenly swapped the cast out. Some people really liked it, for me that was the end of the original premise of the show.

How I Met Your Mother - Lily and Marshall's baby. Having a baby in a show is always kind of the "Okay the romance story is over and the writers are out of ideas" but it was done so badly. Lily was always an extremely selfish character, and she was insufferable through everything, from making the literal choice to have a child based on some fated chance to shaming Marshall for having the gall to - go to work to support all of them while she did... nothing? Did she even have a job? Constant guilt trips and manipulation, she was the worst character but their relationship was just straight-up toxic when she got pregnant.

That 70's Show - Having Donna stay home from college - 4 years of characterization thrown out the window. She was always a strong independent woman and now she's just apparently throwing away her future? She attends remote classes for a while then it just disappears. Then suddenly Eric has this big revelation later that him marrying her might lead to an unsatisifed future? It was all just very clear that the writers didn't know how to handle her being gone - a very common coming of age issue

X-Files - The move to California. Enough said.

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

On a smaller and younger scale it was like this with the Super Friends (justice league).

Superman: "I'm going to punch this asteroid that was on a direct course to destroy metropolis which will break it in half, one half fills the gap in a bridge a train is about to cross and the other plugs a hole in a dam"

superman proceeds to do just that and it pissed very young me off.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The Super Friends was a wild show. There's an episode where they fight the literal fucking Titanic and kill it by tricking it into running into another iceberg. I'm not joking or exaggerating.

[–] tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

can't wait for the 2070s to see this happen to 9/11

[–] figjam@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

I need to see this.

[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That sounds hilarious

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

super campy and amazing