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Which TV show went from being awesome to being terrible?

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lespaul
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4:18p, 10/16/19
TV shows seldom go out on top (Seinfeld comes to mind)

some are meh their entire run.

Most shows jump the shark at some point, then fall off, then go off the air.

Some get really bad before the plug is pulled.

Some shows were awesome at their peak, them completely sucked at the end.

Which TV show has the biggest ratio of (awesome at its prime) divided by (sucked at the end)?

The first one that comes to mind is that 70's show. Really good at some point, and the last season was a nightmare. Maybe 9/1 for a ratio of 9.

Happy days comes to mind too. Went from the Fonz battling the Malachi brothers in a smash up derby and making out with Pinkie Tuskadero to plot lines involving Chachi and Joanie (with Fonzie being a teacher). Maybe a ratio of 9.5/0.5.

Any others come to mind?
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Tobias Funke
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4:22p, 10/16/19
Family Matters
Weeds
Handmaid's Tale (still going, I know)
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Jack Bristow
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4:22p, 10/16/19
Game of Thrones
Heroes
The Unit
Prison Break
Arrested Development
Community
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4:26p, 10/16/19
Drew Carey Show
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beanbean
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4:40p, 10/16/19
The Walking Dead
Dexter
When the Dukes of Hazzard brought in Vance and Coy
When Scooby Doo brought in Scrappy
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4:42p, 10/16/19
How I met Your Mother
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Liquid Wrench
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In reply to beanbean • 4:43p, 10/16/19

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When Scooby Doo brought in Scrappy

Bold gambit to get the younger crowd interested.
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4:48p, 10/16/19
The Office after Steve Carrell left. They managed to pull together a decent final season and good finale, but it really went downhill with no Michael.
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Lt. Joe Bookman
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5:00p, 10/16/19
Modern Family was good for several seasons, but has been pretty terrible for the last few years.
The Simpsons
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5:00p, 10/16/19
American Horror Story - After Season 1

So good. After that even the okay seasons you are trying to talk yourself into being good.

Power. Somewhere around season 3 they lost me. I've tried twice and can't do it.
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5:03p, 10/16/19
The Walking Dead
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Duncan Idaho
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5:09p, 10/16/19
In terms of a smooth glide from awesome to ****, nothing even comes close to sons of anarchy.

It peaked in the first episode and slowly glided down with each episode in each season getting progressively worse and worse until the masterpiece of crap that was the finale.
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5:15p, 10/16/19
Stranger Things
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5:15p, 10/16/19
Wrestling
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5:19p, 10/16/19
Entourage
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In reply to Gigem314 • 5:28p, 10/16/19
Gigem314 said:
The Office after Steve Carrell left. They managed to pull together a decent final season and good finale, but it really went downhill with no Michael.


The Office was never terrible tho. Even in its meh last 3 seasons it was still so much better than 90% of network tv
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In reply to Gig-Em2003 • 5:29p, 10/16/19
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Entourage
Agree with this.

Personally though, and I know I'm in the minority on this I thought LOST got really bad. At least it couldn't keep my interest. Again, know I'm in the minority.

I'd sayTwin Peaks, but again some people may just say I didn't get David Lynch as an artist (although I loved the first few episodes).
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5:30p, 10/16/19
Walking Dead and Dexter


Also, American Idol after they stopped being mean to people
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C@LAg said:
Lt. Joe Bookman said:
Modern Family was good for several seasons, but has been pretty terrible for the last few years.
The Simpsons
Think about this:

The Simpsons has been crappy since before the current class of Freshmen at A&M were born.
True story. It fell of a cliff around the year 2000. It's been bad longer than it was good.
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5:39p, 10/16/19
Sons of Anarchy
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In reply to Orlando Ayala Cant Read • 5:57p, 10/16/19
Orlando Ayala Cant Read said:



Personally though, and I know I'm in the minority on this I thought LOST got really bad. At least it couldn't keep my interest. Again, know I'm in the minority.
I'm with you brother, and so is my wife. First season was solid, then it was all wtf for us.

Wow, it feels good to get that off my chest.

(Is this what gay people coming out of the closet feels like?)

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Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, uh, your opinion, man.
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6:09p, 10/16/19
Heroes
Modern Family
Dexter
The Simpsons
Walking Dead
Fringe
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In reply to Jack Bristow • 6:14p, 10/16/19
Jack Bristow said:

Prison Break


THIS! Wow that show turned into crap
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aTmAg
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6:16p, 10/16/19
The Tyrant.

I thought it was great until the last season, then it got stupid. Apparently FX thought so to, as they cancelled the crap out of it and I didn't care.
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Raptor
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6:36p, 10/16/19
I don't think all of these shows went bad. I think they got too popular and had everyone weighing in on what they thought would/should happen. Many of these shows were ruined at water cooler and in message boards.


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In reply to Raptor • 6:39p, 10/16/19
You really don't think any of those shows declined as they went on?
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6:45p, 10/16/19
Scrubs
HIMYM
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6:48p, 10/16/19
Not that it was super awesome but as a kid I thought it was a fun show. The last season was sooo cringe worthy.

The A Team.
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oragator
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7:02p, 10/16/19
Every old sitcom that thought adding a kid would save the show.
Family Ties, Growing Pains, The Brady Bunch, etc.
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7:30p, 10/16/19
Homeland
Sherlock
Transparent
Orange is the Black

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In reply to Duncan Idaho • 7:50p, 10/16/19
Duncan Idaho said:
In terms of a smooth glide from awesome to ****, nothing even comes close to sons of anarchy.

It peaked in the first episode and slowly glided down with each episode in each season getting progressively worse and worse until the masterpiece of crap that was the finale.

My gut reaction to this question was SOA and Heroes.

The only blip on the downhill slide that you alluded to was the season finale when Opie got to off the psycho lady cop. That was an awesome episode.

But other than that, you're spot on.
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7:57p, 10/16/19
True Detectives season 1 was great...season 2 was garbage.
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