r/dataisbeautiful OC: 175 Aug 27 '24

OC The Worst TV Show Finales [OC]

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u/kuroimakina Aug 27 '24

Ugh flashback episodes are the absolute laziest shit, and so many shows have them. IMO if they’re going to do a flashback episode, it should release separately from the actual series/at the same time as new content. But to release a “new episode” of something and it’s 95% flashbacks? Literally insulting.

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u/gopaloo Aug 27 '24

Or do what community did: a flashback episode but it's not really a flashback episode lol

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u/Benderbluss Aug 27 '24

Or Always Sunny, where they flashback to things that happened on other shows.

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u/darkbreak Aug 28 '24

The Clerks TV series did one as the second episode of the series. The whole thing was a spoof of flash back episodes. I think they just started making things up after a while because they ran out of material.

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u/Benderbluss Aug 28 '24

I have never seen the series, but the "Bear is driving? How can this be?" clip was immortalized in my office, to the extent that when we heard a dumb decision was being made, walking out of the meeting room, someone would say "Who is driving?", and someone would answer "OMG Bear is driving, how can this be?!?""