There are two I can think of right now that really get on my nerves. Yes, they are from sitcoms and should be taken lightly, but I can't help but be irritated when I watch them.

1. On Friends, when Joey tries to dump a one night stand - played by Kristin Davis - but Rachel and Phoebe try to convince him not to because they get to know her - and like her - so they try selling her to him based on the fact that "She knows five languages!" Joey scoffs sarcastically "Gee, you guys really know what guys want!" Sure, it played for some laughs, but it realllly bothers me that it also plays into the stereotype that really intelligent women can't get a man, and that men only want women for looks/sex. It's irritates me to the point where I can't watch that particular scene.

2. On Saved By The Bell, after Zach and Kelly break up, his friends set him up on a succession of dates which he takes to to movies. The first girl is an avid reader, the second an athlete, and the third is overweight. Again, all played for laughs. And who does he pick? The fourth date - a pretty, slightly dim, pink-wearing blonde who is the only girl that gets so scared when there's scene of violence in the movie that he has to hold her, while the same scene doesn't faze the former three. Sure, the reader talked too much, the athlete overpowered him when he tried to leave, and the overweight girl ate all his popcorn and then wanted to go for lasgana, but it still reinforces the stereotype that you have to be pretty, dumb and fragile to get a man. (And they obviously over-emphasized their character traits to make them look bad, so it would make "sense" for Zach to choose the blonde). So if you're intelligent, strong, and happen not to fit the female standard of beauty - forget about dating, ever! And if you're a guy, when it comes to women, you can't think beyond looks, because you're too shallow for that.

1. On Scrubs, Sean has given up a job to be with Elliot, and Elliot is so overjoyed that she can't stop crying. Soon after, JD tells her that he loves her, and she immediately destroys a perfect relationship with her perfect match for douchey-leroux. Fine, I could accept that she would choose JD because of their close friendship and their past together, but then he, after being together for less than a day, JD decides he doesn't want her, and soon breaks up with her. Not only did he just destroy her mentally, but we never get to see Sean again. Fast forward to a few years later, Elliot's engaged to Keith, and once again JD decides he should destroy her relationship and hook up with her...and she considers it. Bitch, please! Cut the ass out of your life and find your Sean-lobster! Come on!

2. On Video on Trial, Perez Hilton refers to Lindsey Lohan as "fire-crotch". Now, as a redhead, I just have to let everyone know that are crotches are not on fire. And we don't appreciate being called this. It's not okay to discriminate against people because of their skin colour, and it's not okay to discriminate against hair colour. Fuck you, Perez...part of my anger might stem from my utter loathing of Perez Hilton.

The nickname actually has nothing to do with her hair color. A year ago, Brandon Davis called her that while on a rant about her "apparent" sluttiness during a party. Since, people like Lohan, Britney and Paris have all been called "fire-crotches".

I am so with you on that! (even if it's not the reason for Lohan being called that) That nickname sure can make a 15 year old girl feel really uncomfortable. Man, I used to dread chemistry class, sitting next to the most annoyingly shamless kid and the biggest douchebag in my grade.

I never understood why blondes and brunettes never had to endure that uncomfortable line of questioning.

Third season of 24, Chloe is willing to let CTU perform blood tests on baby Angela rather than say that it is Chase's baby. The hell?

Buffy in season two: 'You can attack me...but nobody messes with my boyfriend'. You go, feminist icon!

It seems like these could all go under "Angry Up the Blood" moments, but here goes . . .

1. On Seinfeld, when Elaine is being stalked by the woman who doesn't move her arms, she goes to her friends and the police for help and they all respond, "Oooh, catfight! Rawr!" Stalking and violence are no laughing matter, even if it's between two women.
2. Ditto with the episode of Boy Meets World after Corey and Topanga break up and Eric stalks Topanga.
3. A few weeks ago on American Dad, Roger decides that he can get a new blender by getting married and registering for it. He goes on jdate (for the goyim, that's a Jewish dating website) and starts dating a woman who fits every JAP stereotype. She is over 35, desparate to get married, had a nose job, has a New York accent even though the show is in Virginia, obsessed with money, controlling over the men in her life, etc. I don't get irked by every Jewish stereotype on TV, but there is a way to present them that is satirical and points out that they aren't true. American Dad didn't do that. It was lazy writing, not funny, and makes Jewish women look bad.

Serious in a different way, but I think I've been putting way too much thought into how time and causality work on Doctor Who. I'm getting to the point where I'm going to start making charts.

Speaking of cartoons, I'm glad my kids are too old to watch Rugrats, because that show drove me bonkers. It was cute and all, but the no-account parents were always leaving their kids in the charge of someone incompetent (like Grandpa, who fell asleep at the drop of a hat), then the kids would get into some kind of horrific danger. You people shouldn't have kids if you can't look after them better than that!

(Yup, I take that way too seriously.)

I take the whole premise behind the show 'House' perhaps a tad too seriously. Yes, the acting's generally good, and there's drama, blah blah blah. Even so--here's a doctor who's generally an ass to everyone, patients included; practically the whole staff knows he's on drugs, and he violates medical ethics at least once per show. And, he's still working and getting away with it. I know I'm supposed to just let the non-reality of the situation go and just enjoy the ride, but it's nigh impossible.

Once again, on Scrubs, I just can't take how cruel Dr. Cox can be to everyone sometimes. I can understand that he wouldn't want JD to be Jack's godfather, but he didn't have to be such a dick about inviting everyone to the baptism aside from him. It made me really upset, which confused me because I hate JD with a passion. And it got worse after Cox's daughter was born (though, I would be mad if my daughter ended up being named after JD, too).

Yeah, but growing up and hearing that everywhere just immediately brought flashbacks of being taunted as a ginger. Although, I mostly got carrot-top, because we male gingies don't get called fire-crotch quite as often. I would like to point out that carrot tops are green, though. ;)

There was a Season 8 episode of Roseanne where Jackie and Roseanne work as free sample vendors in a grocery store. Jackie is outselling Roseanne and being a brat about it, Roseanne can't take it, and a food fight commences; first they just throw cereal on the other person's side and it's not a big deal. Anyway, Jackie squirts dish soap over Roseanne's apron (keep in mind nothing ever got on Roseanne's head or face), and takes a seat ... and then Roseanne goes "Jackie, got milk?" and dumps a QUART OF MILK over her head. I watched it as a kid and never got over it.

I'm also taking Rosie O'Donnell leaving The View way too hard.

Every single time there are Evil Twins in a sci-fi show, I get mad. I'm so tired of tired twin cliches, but especially that one.

I mean, I love The X-Files, but when there are more several episodes using that basic plot in the first two seasons alone? (Yes, I am counting "Eve".) C'mon, now, show some creativity! And also: for the record, no twin I've ever met is evil. Argh.

I do the same thing with the Laws and Orders. Especially SVU. The show will obviously want us to sympathize with one of the cops or to think the court is being unfair or something. Still, I'll be yelling at the TV that the court made the right call and have the cops ever heard of illegal search and seizure? Or the cops will want the DA to do something and she'll refuse on the grounds that it's unethical or there isn't sufficient evidence. The cops are supposed to be all driven and heroic, but a lot of the times they end up being totally criminal and unconstitutional in their actions.

Pretty much everything that Kirk ever did on Gilmore Girls. But the kicker was when he drove a car through the diner window. Even worse, Rory thought it was really cool. I was horrified.

When Monica couldn't control her greedy little ass long enough to wait for Chandler to come home before she opened their wedding presents. Also when she lied, manipulated and misrepresented herself in order to adopt a baby. Who would give her kid to someone who did the stuff she did? It was really offensive.

I agree. It was a very "the end justifies the means" mentality.

When it comes to fictional tv, I take everything too seriously. Everything. I worry and fret about people who aren't real. I'm hurt and offended, or thrilled and exhilarated, by things that aren't happening to non-existent men and women.

I need help.

Speaking of adoption, in the series finale of King of Queens, Doug and Carrie decide to adopt a child from China. They put their name on the list, then immediately have a big fight and separate. A month (yes, one mere month) later, Carrie gets a text message that a 4-day-old girl is "theirs". They both jump on a plane and right there and then get their baby and take her back to NYC.

Now, KOQ was never much for the details, but there are so many things wrong about that -- the ridiculously short wait, no home visit, the age of the baby, not needing visas, getting the child and being able to take her home right away -- well, it's been a couple weeks and I still have it flit through my head and steam me.

Shelwood - The King of Queens finale bugged me too.
Not only was the adoption unrealistically quick and easy, but then she immediately gets pregnant. Yeah, the old stereotype that infertility isn't real, once you relax because you're able to adopt, you get pregnant.

When Mrs. Peel left with her husband at the end of Diana Rigg's time on The Avengers. I couldn't believe she did that, and I obsessed about it for... oh, let's see... guess it's about 40 years now...

TudorQueen, I'm the same way. I get way too serious about all of it. I can't tell you how many times my husband has turned to me and said "Gee, hon, it's good to know you don't take this too seriously."

Anyway, the most recent one was on 24. When Audrey's father insisted that he stay away from his daughter and said, in regards to what had happened to her, "This is all your fault. You're bad luck, Jack. Everything you touch dies" [paraphrased]. I wanted to jump through the tv and strangle him. It's not Jack's fault that Audrey insisted on trying to find him in China. Jack had no idea that Audrey was there looking for him--he was too busy trying to survive the days of torture they were putting him through!

How about an embarrassing admission about a Reality Show? When Jenna won over Matt in Survivor: Amazon, I actually lost sleep over it. Her win was so highschool that I saw red for days.

On Nickelodeon's Unfabulous, Geena asks if she can look at a nerdy student's yearbook. The student asks if he'll get it back and Geena snots, "Why? It's not like anyone signed it." I know it's just a tween show, but it just seemed like such a mean comment, especially from a character that I'm supposed to like.

Also, on Scrubs, Dr.Cox punishes his interns by making them run laps around the hospital. One of the interns comes up to him, wheezing, and says that she's having trouble with her asthma. Dr. Cox just screams at her to keep running. As someone whose sister has asthma and whose cousin has nearly died from asthma complications, I don't find it very funny when it's dismissed or mocked.

I quit Smallville when Clark had sex with Lana. It may not have been a big deal, but I'm stubborn about Lois being the first one he had sex with.

Speaking of babies, I get insanely angry when serious problems are dealt with in the 22 minutes of a sitcom episode and are then never seen or heard from again. Examples include: post-partum depression (Scrubs comes to mind), difficulty breastfeeding (Mad About You), and the logistics of having a baby in your life at all (pretty much any sitcom that includes a baby, such as Mad About You or Friends).

I own this thread but stangely enough I can think of any examples right now except to say I agree this

Slightly embarrassing, but my moment is from Saved by the Bell of all things. I remember being a tween girl a being OVERLY excited that Zack Morris had hooked up with Lisa Turtle. They made a big deal of those two discovering feelings for eachother and even got in an onscreen kiss (cue the "whoos" from the annoying fake audience) and then...POOF it was like it never happened. I remember tuning in to SBTB on the following Saturday eager to see their relationship play out and then getting NOTHING. BOO SBTB people, BOO.

Obviously it still bothers me to this day.

My mother took Rachel's twin birth on Another World way too seriously. She was like "That Rachel is obviously past her change of life! And she's having Carl's babies! He was a bad guy once! What would Mac think?" She was so upset that she never watched the show again.

Interesting topic:

For me, it was the episode of Friends, where Ross was getting some kind of dinner/award from his work, he invited his "friends", but they almost didn't make it, because they were all acting like childish jerks. Monica got a call from an old boyfriend (the one played by Tom Selleck), and she was flipping out, and acting like a crazy person. Joey and Chandler were getting into a silly fight, over who gets to sit in a chair (which led to Joey putting on all of Chandler's clothes.) Rachel kept changing her mind over what to wear, and when Ross finally snapped and yelled at her to just put something on, she threw a hissy-fit, and changed into her pajamas, claiming she just wouldn't go at all. I can't remember what Phoebe was doing, during all this.

It was played for laughs, but I found myself hating it. Ross can be annoying, but this was clearly a big moment for him, and I though his so-called "friends" (and girlfriend, in Rachel's case), were acting like spoiled, selfish brats. I seriously at the time, wanted Ross to beat them all up. They did end up making the dinner on time, but I remember thinking very little of everyone, by the end of the episode.

She got a stain on her dress and was trying to figure out different ways to cover it up.

Yeah, this one got me too. After all the flak my side of the argument got here, I have no intention of delving too deeply at this point, either. Oh, and I also like to get to the theater allowing enough time to get snacks, find a seat while the lights are still on, settle in, and see the previews. That preference apparently is also too anal for many people...

Constance's (the immigration worker on Ugly Betty) harassment of Betty's father. The stalking, the ankle bracelet, the lying---the whole thing was horrific. It was supposed to be silly and funny, but it was terrifying. I wanted to throw up in frustration every time she was on screen. It struck me as so terribly unjust and wrong, and I felt trapped in a cage just like Ignacio, and almost wanted to flee the show to get away from that one storyline, it was so upsetting.

Claire's attempted rape on Heroes. At the end of the day, it seemed that the whole point of the storyline was simply to show the secret weakness of her power (ie., lodge something in her brain and she'll be dead until it comes out). I really wish they had decided to do that via something other than a teenage rape scene that was forgotten after two episodes. Even though a lot started happening in Claire's life, I think it sent a bad message to girls who maybe wouldn't get over it that quickly. Also, I thought her vigilante justice thing sent an equally bad message about how to deal with people who hurt you.

For some reason, even though I really do love Niles Crane, something about the way he refused to remember who Roz was in the first seasons of Frasier makes me incredibly upset. It was the one super-snotty thing he did that truly upset me. It was supposed to be funny just like all their other ridiculously snobby habits, but it was worse because it was directed towards a perfectly nice character. Nothing's worse than being introduced to someone ten times and never having them remember you.

After reading about the King of Queens finale, I am so very glad that I didn't watch that crappy show. My husband and I are planning to adopt from China. We made that decision a couple of years ago but have to wait to begin the process until we've got a bigger place. And then we have to come up with the money, and THEN the process can take up to eighteen months or more. Seeing people on television get these insta-families (Monica and Chandler's surprise twins, ugh) kills me. It's just not that easy, not that inexpensive, and not that fast for those of us who can't pop out our own.

Oh, and there's no way a four day old orphan in China would have been cleared for adoption. First of all, how would the authorities know if an abandoned child was four days or three days or five days old? And abandoned children have to be thoroughly examined and tested before they're cleared for adoption, and such a young newborn being available for adoption is extremely rare, if not unheard of. Geez, If I'd seen that KoQ episode, I think I would have burst a blood vessel.

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You think that's unrealistic? It may not be the norm, but it's certainly not uncommon. I worked for a small surgical practice of four partners when I was younger. One of the doctors was a total bastard to patients and employees alike, two were sleeping with patients, one was sleeping with the receptionist and hitting on the rest of us, at least one liked his drink, and all of them handed out the painkillers like candy, at least at first. I have no idea if any of them was helping himself to meds, but I wouldn't be at all shocked. They were all married, by the way, with children, and were considered good, respectable doctors, highly recommended by their peers.

I hate this episode as well for the exact same reasons. I have ranted and raved about it for far too much longer than it deserves. It is just so rude.

I went to a total bastard doctor once and he was a total bastard. I never went back and I complained to the clinic. I'm sorry, but when you're going to cut up a teenage girl's face, you be nice to her! And you be nice to her mom! Jerk. But I digress.

I can't believe House isn't always in court. I know if I was under his care and some of the things that happened to his patients happened to me during the course of treatment, I would have a lawyer all over it. I'm not litigious or anything, either - but if the top of my head explodes or my eye pops out of its socket or blood starts pouring out of whatever, you can bet I'm going to make sure it wasn't caused by all their crazy-ass treatments.

It seems like any time House gets in legal trouble, everybody's all "Oh, House - you so crazy!" I find it hard to believe that any hospital would keep him on staff practicing - the potential financial liability is astronomical.

Except maybe that person finally remembering your name, and then spending the next six years dreaming up ways of calling you a whore in "polite" company? I don't know - I think Roz might have gotten a bit nostalgic for the days when Niles couldn't be bothered to remember she had a name.

I didn't actually hate that 'Friends' episode when I first saw it. Then I saw a rerun with my mother, and she went off on how she hates the episode for the very reasons you gave here, and suddenly I completely agreed with her. I don't even LIKE Ross as much as the other characters, but I am SO on his side there.

Perhaps it's because a few of you mentioned Scrubs that I was reminded of something that really bothers me about that show. There have been more than a few times when the janitor is downright sadistic to JD, and it sort of creeps me out. One that stands out was when he stuck JD in a water tank or something like that for a whole day, which probably upset me way more than it should have, however I saw it as simply cruel, and uncomfortable, not funny.


Once? I don't believe there are any other kinds in real life.

Especially Rachel. Ross should have dumped her ass right then.

Speaking of Friends, the one where he and Rachel broke up? Just caught it recently, and it really got on my nerves. Rachel broke up with him, changed her mind, and then broke up with him again because he had sex with someone - while they were broken up? I will never understand the condemnation of a man who sleeps with another woman when he's not with you. It's a stupid, somewhat selfish perception for a woman to have, IMO, and I hate that it's perpetuated often on TV.

It's also the reason I hated when Rory, from Gilmore Girls, couldn't forgive Logan for sleeping with some bridesmaids. So, you two broke up, and he sleeps with other women (which, you knew he was promiscuous when you entered into a relationship) while he's not with you, and that's nearly unforgiveable? What confused me even more is that there were some legitimate reasons to end a relationship with him at the time - his irresponsible behavior, drinking habit, etc. Yet, the unforgiveable sin is him sleeping with someone when he's not with you? Since when does anyone dictate another person's sex life?

I am SO glad I found this thread. Because there's something that happens in sitcoms every so often that I take MUCH too seriously and it just drives me up the wall. It's when people get married without getting a marriage license.

On "Spin City," Mike and his fiancee got married on the spur of the moment, and the Mayor of New York City performed the ceremony. (The Mayor should have known better.)

On "Friends," Frank Jr. and Alice walked by a courthouse and impulsively decided to get married. Maybe they obtained a marriage license, but in New York City, you have to obtain your marriage license at least twenty-four hours before you can get married.

On "Will & Grace," Grace and Leo saw a big gathering of people in Central Park, and Katie Couric (who played herself) told them that it was a mass wedding, and she told them that they were a cute couple, and they should get married, too, so they did. They eventually found out that they weren't really married, not because they didn't have a marriage license, but because the judge who performed the ceremony wasn't licensed to perform marriages in New York State.

On "Just Shoot Me," Elliot and Maya were determined to stop the marriage of their co-worker, who they thought was getting married in a mass wedding set up by a religious cult. Unaware that their co-worker was getting married in a church, they crashed the mass wedding and then found out that they were married, too, because they were there. Then they consulted the religious cult's lawyer, who went out of his way to tell them that he was not a member of the cult, and the lawyer didn't even say, "Relax. You didn't get a marriage license. You're not married."

On "The Drew Carey Show," Drew and Kate got married on the spur of the moment at City Hall. However, I don't know if there is a waiting period in Cleveland after a couple gets a marriage license.

Speaking of the finale of "The King of Queens," Arthur and Veronica got married in Poughkeepsie, New York on the spur of the moment, and the ceremony was performed by a rabbi, who not only knew that they didn't have a marriage license, but that neither one of them was Jewish.

Why, oh why does this bother me so much?

I'll join you in obsessing over that detail. In fact, I take it one step further -- because it's not enough to just get a license, it isn't actually a legal marriage until the new spouses, the person who performed the ceremony, and the two witnesses sign the dang license. Merely uttering the words I do? Not a legal marriage. All the various "I can't believe I'm married" hijinx drive me up the wall beyond reason because of that. (In real life, many of the weddings in my family actually included a portion near the end where all the appropriate parties signed the license. I come from a practical family.)

No, it's true. I've been to some bastard doctors at walk-in clinics and stuff, but if a doctor is a bastard to me, I make a note not to back to him/her again. Thus, the first time House had done something, well, House-y, that would have also been the last time.

Ugh, yes. It's one thing to ignore the waiting period, but to have people accidently do some lame cermoney and suddenly they're married and everybody believes it's true? It's as bad as the time DJ accidently married that kid on Full House when they walked around the kitchen table. Just because you believe it don't make it so, people.

[small voice]Aw, we're not all that bad. Really, I hope I'm not at all like House.[/small voice]

But seriously, I wouldn't trust my life to several doctors that I know/work with. I can't understand why House isn't charged with malpractice all the time. I've never seen anyone get away with that level of bastard-iness. Speaking of medical shows, I was really really bothered by a recent Scrubs episode dealing with cochlear implants. The way they so casually dismissed a very sensitive and controversial issue was very bothersome to me and I couldn't let it go. I can't even watch reruns of that show anymore because it bothered me so much.

I can't get too upset with House since I've met too many blandly nice but utterly fucking useless doctors in real life. One of whom told me "It'll get better on its own" and landed me in the hospital for over two weeks on massive doses of painkillers while I still twitched violently from the pain every time I tried to swallow. I could totally live with an exploding head (so to speak, heh) if it was eventually fixed in the end.

I understand it though, since I can still go off on an hour-long rant about how Big Brother All-Stars (a term which I thought had been completely devalued by Survivor, but apparently not) signals the end of humanity as we know it. That still makes me ill to think about, and I cannot understand why everyone looks at me funny when I tell them it was so offensive that I will never, ever watch that show again and seriously considered boycotting CBS. And I'd still really, really like to slap everyone involved with that debacle until my strength gives out.



Last time I heard, there was a 5 day waiting period between applying for the license and issuance in Ohio.

Yes! I hate Rachel and her entitled attitude. I did not agree with her when she did not support Ross and his awards dinner and I absolutely could not stand her during the Ross/Rachel break up. I especially hated her in the episode when she would not allow Ross to go up to her family's lodge after he helped the "Friends" with their car. I think they ran out out of gas and Ross drove miles out of his way to assist them.

I started watching The Shield a few months ago on regular TV (I don't have cable) and I had to stop because of the Acevedo assault. Its too bad because the show is really good, but that episode really disturbed me in a profound way. I hate Vic because his actions indirectly caused the assault to occur. Vic gets to play the hero of the show, but really he is not. He is no better than the drug dealers and gang bangers that he thinks he is better than.

MaggieCat, I hear you on Big Brother All Star. I have calmed down a bit, but I cannot stand Mike and Will for how they basically dogged people to win a lousy $500,000. I hate that Erica and Janelle fell for their crap, but I still cannot stand those jackasses.

Is that what happens later on?!?! (I'm still on the season 2 dvds.) Oh, how horrible. Now I'm upset all over again.

No, you like way too much cool music to be like House, as evidenced by your posts in the Music Videos thread. All doctors can't be like House because I'm married to one and if he was like House, I'd have killed him and fed him to some feral cats.

I took a very silly moment on a very silly soap opera way too seriously, and I still do. On General Hospital, Sonny (the greasy, short mob boss) was dating precious and much younger ingenue Emily. Emily gets drunk one night and they talk (he condescendingly, she drunkenly) on a couch. When Emily passes out, Sonny calls his bodyguard over to carry Emily up to bed.

The fact that the hero of the damn show (don't ask how a mob boss is a hero on a show not Sopranos) has to outsource the task of carrying his girlfriend to bed pissed me off no end. I would be offended beyond belief if my man had another guy carry me to bed. See? Silly moment, way too serious reaction.

Aw, thanks Split Ends. Together we can bask in the glow of our combined excellent taste in music.

There was a lot of heated discussion on this particular topic in "The Race Card" thread. I remember hearing that the network didn't want to go the route of an interracial couple but it was never made absolutely clear why they completely ignored that plot-line. Speaking of SBTB, I hated how they had Zack make a 1502 on the SATs. First of all, that is not a real score! You can't get 2 points on the SATs. They also had the whole plot of him getting into Yale with that score alone (while the implication was that he never made good grades) while Jessie got a 1205, another impossible score! Ugh! It was too much to handle for my uber-nitpicky self.

Ack! I had no idea this might be a spoiler for anyone. I'm truly sorry if you're upset. But, yeah: Niles loses no opportunity of calling Roz slutty. I'm pretty sure it happens in Season 2 as much as anywhere else.

My orthodontist father is just like House at home, but never to patients' faces. Hey, you would be too if you had to deal with all the morons he does, both patients and staff. He even got nerve damage in his foot last year so he's starting to walk just like House.

Topic? The mini story arc in season one of Desperate Housewives with Claire the nanny pissed me off to no end. Lynette hires her by poaching her away from a family that is rather callous toward her but pays her very well, then sabotages her efforts when she feels threatened by the kids becoming closer to Claire than her. Finally she fires this poor woman after Tom sees her naked. I've long been hoping for Claire to return, accusing Lynette of basically destroying her life.

In Sesame Street, it used to piss me off to no end how Mr. Snuffleupagus would wander off before Big Bird could prove to his friends he was real.

OMG, I hated (Ugly) Betty's entire trip to Mexico. They said they were in Guadalajara, which is a real city with actual paved roads and even *gasp* automobiles, not cactus paradise. And while I understand to some point having Ignacio talk to his sister, who has always lived in Mexico, in English (even though it doesn't make any sense AT ALL), having all of the supposedly Mexican characters have a horribly accented Spanish, and some of them not even speaking it properly, in a show that is supposed to have a gazillion Hispanics working in it-- GAHHH!!!

Also, even though I watch it pretty religiously, the writing on Lost irritates me so much. No, really. It's called a "follow-up question". Real people use them all the time. And don't even get me started with all those pointless "mysteries" (and/or cast members) you keep throwing in only to drop into oblivion 10 minutes later. Seriously.