The Worst TV Show Finales

By BoMcCready on Reddit’s DataIsBeautiful

I almost threw my phone across the room when I saw Scrubs on this list, but then I saw that they used season 9 as their basis for the “ending,” which, of course, is preposterous.

I was committed on seeing the whole scrubs series but when season 8 ended it had such a great closure I just couldn’t make myself to keep watching.

Season 8 is the last season, you watched all of scrubs and you had the beautiful finale (as even the data shows, it’s amazing and my eyes always wet when I rewatch it).

There is no season 9. There is a spinoff show, called “scrubs med”, which takes place in a med school and has some of the scrubs characters as teachers but they are there just as supporting characters. Somebody in charge of the show decided that for scrubs med to be successful it had to be branded as scrubs “proper”, so the show was released as scrubs, season 9.

Obviously it tanked. Too bad, because I think it was a nice show after all.

Ye, I would have loved a spinoff as well. They underestimated the emotional closure the S8 finale had. That’s the MBA brainrot

there is no season 9 in ba sing se

My wife and I say the same thing, in fact I’ve never seen season 9 she won’t let me haha

Any idea what the huge season 6 single episode dip was? The musical?

Looks like it’s “My Night to Remember”, which is a clip show. Which tend to have poor ratings as a concept.

I’d have to agree. Remembering the days when you’d wait a week or two for the new episode on TV just for it to be a compilation of scenes from older episodes…

I actually thought the musical episode was quite well done as far as musical episodes go.

They absolutely should have just done it as a spin off series instead of tacking it on the end of the actual series.

Wait, no lost? Ah kids these days.

Speaking of kids no Quantum Leap either. It’s ending was also terrible.

At least “Poochie died on the way back to his home planet” was spelled correctly.

To be fair they didn’t expect it to be the end. They had been cancelled and only had time to change the final message to say he never came home.

When I saw what the list was about, Lost was the first series that came to mind.

Probably excluded if it missed the minimum 7.0 average rating for the series, which it would have if we take the numbers on Lostpedia. I have no idea if those are accurate though, since it shows the final episode having better rating than all other episodes in the final season.

People were too confused by the ending to rate it correctly.

It was a little trippy

Exactly what I came to say!

Probably because the ending is good. Re-watch the show, but focus on the characters other than the mysteries.

What happened to myth busters?

They changed the format in the last season and did a bunch of smaller myths and the build-team was less involved. They basically knew they weren’t going to do any more, so none of the cast were invested.

If you’re referring to Kari, Grant, and Tori they got rid of them completely as I recall.

Kari, Tori, and Grant left when they asked for more money and discovery said no. Fuck discovery for running a good thing. Same mother fuckers ruining HBO and warner brothers.

The 15th season didn’t include any of the original cast. Not even Adam and Jamie.

I think the other reply to you may be talking about previous seasons, after the build team left, but that’s not the season that’s being marked as last in the image. I’m a bit iffy on how the seasons are numbered, but I believe the build team was gone for seasons 13 and 14 with just Adam and Jamie hosting, then season 15, the final one, was the one with two completely new hosts.

and the very last episode was just an interview reviewing the best moments, not a bad episode per se, but not worth it of a series finale

This is nice, but I’d like more to see the opposite, where the series went out on a perfect note. Like Breaking Bad or M*A*S*H (imho).

It was pure fan service but both Parks and Recreation as well as Schitt’s Creek can go on that list.

The most recent Futurama series ending was 10/10.

They brought it back again but whatever that show is goated

Futurama has nailed two out of its four finales. “The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings” seemed impossible to beat, but holy shit, “Meanwhile” pulled it off.

“What do you say? Wanna go around again?”

Or a show that got better just before it was canceled. Entreprise is a good example of a show that was just finding its voice just before the end. Even on this graph, the last season has some lows, including the finale of course, but it’s more consistent than the first seasons.

House M.D.
The Black Adder
Fawlty Towers

The thing about House is that it had been bad for 3 seasons (and that’s being generous) before the finale. Does it really count as a bad finale if the series was already falling apart?

Perhaps I’m the exception for loving every episode; haven’t noticed any degradation in quality whatsoever.

I like TNG a lot but I think the last season was the second worst season after only the first season. Peak TNG was season 4-5 IMO.

I have to say “All Good Things” (the TNG finale) was pretty decent. Though the rest of season 7 just felt like they had run out of ideas and were raiding the reject pile from previous seasons.

And Dexter completely fucked it TWICE!

More on the way! Apparently they’ve renewed two more shows. And supposedly even Michael Hall is in one of them!

I look forward to seeing what the wigs department has in store for us.

I genuinely wouldn’t even be mad if they do it

What?? They better not make his douchy kid the star… I swear to God

They just need to make the reboot a dream sequence and restart.

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