Supernatural. Oh my God. I used to love the show, but after the Season 5 peak it just decreased into the bullshit that is Season 10. Boring, repetitive plot lines, bland story arcs that are usually resolved in no more than 3 episodes and an overused, easily predictable structure. Its a damn shame, because it's been my favourite show since I've been a kid, but this season needs to be its last - I can't see it improving anytime soon.
I couldn't agree more! I love the first 5 series, and I tried to like the new ones, but they're just not good. Boring, trying too hard to be funny, and way too much fanservice :(
Jake Matton Most people agree that the show went downhill after it's fourth season. There are still some very good episodes here and there, including the second movie. But the vast majority of episodes from season 5- are absolutely terrible.
Once Upon a Time FOR SURE. After season 1 (which was brilliant!) it has been getting progressively worse... When they introduced the characters from Frozen I just noped out of it.
+Friday I still watch it for the characters, and sometimes they still have interesting ideas and very good episodes (I absolutely loved the season finales for seson 3 and 4), but I basically agree. It's typically a show which should have had a fixed runtime around 3 seasons or so, so the writers could plan a bigger continous plotline (the show now really suffers from having two plotlines per season) and wrap up the show nicely when it was still good and interesting. It's not a good sign when you pray for a once beloved show that it's next season would be the last.
Their lists are still 70-100% agreeable and the content is still good. I'm not going to so "you do better" or whatever bitchy remark you'd expect a nay-sayer to say but... like... What other content besides what they're covering could they possibly do? The standards haven't really dropped and it's surprising just how many topics they HAVE covered... How on earth is this the top comment though?... oh wait, I'm on youtube.
My name Um, have you seen Watch Mojo's recent videos or are you just blind? They are *quite literally running out of ideas* The next thing they'll make is "Top ten toe nail clippings that look like actors" because that is how *fucking interesting their videos are*, I stop watching there terrible channel a month ago.
+Bianca Busogi definitely agree; i think the show got too caught up on its own hype; there are a lot of things that are left unanswered and doesn't seem like they ever will be. i still don't believe CeCe was ever the real A; i think the Liars were getting way too close and the real A needed a distraction for them and voila! here comes CeCe with her story. it's like the entire show is one big red herring.
Dexter Morgan your finale is just like the finale of Death Note. everyone wanted a happy ending for you. but here is the thing, YOU DIDNT DESERVE A HAPPY ENDING. you became a monster. monsters dont deserve a happy ending
Trevan Higgins In my personal opinion, I think the show started going downhill after season 9. I mean, I don't really have a whole lot of ill feelings towards the show, cause I still kinda like it even though I don't watch any of the new episodes but from what I've been hearing, it sounds like the show really needs to start heading towards a conclusion.
The spongebob squarepants movie was not bad at all, I think it's pretty good and it still has the humor of the older episodes. I think spongebob should've ended at the movie.
They'd better end it soon. I've stuck with it more than a lot of people I know but it definitely needs to start winding down. At least make some sort of story progression. The whole of last season was basically pointless.
How I Met Your Mother. Talk about losing your mojo in a single season and totally ruining your show with a single episode. It ended so bad, it killed the How I Met Your Father spinoff before it even began casting.
The show wasn't ruined by the finale. HIMYM was a great series despite the disappointing finale. I think the last season wasn't great as well. The rest of the show was very well written and funny.
The show was absolutly ruined for his final episode. It was so bad, that i couldnt watch a single episode of any season of the show. It was completly ruined. I have never experience that before.
I completely agree. I loved that show so much, but knowing what happened in the last episode, I will never see it the same way, no matter how hard I try.
+Joaquin Fracchia same here used to love watching repeats now I can't even look at the actors I'm so mad at the writers directors producers CBS anyone who had anything to do with that show.
It was from season 10 episode 8 called Freefall...a helicopter was on top of the hospital getting rdy to take off when something malfunctioned and it came crashing down and Romano had just walked outside when he was crushed beneath it
+Jennee Reedus As I remember, he had previously been injured by a helicopter (did he get an arm chopped off?) and - despite the odds - just about recovered his career as a surgeon, making his death darkly comical.
Yeah, that really needs more context, but I guess it does get the point across: the title, ER which is short for emergency room, indicates it's a hospital drama, so I guess that scene was a way of quickly conveying how the show dived off the deep end. And by the look of it, is was a high dive into a sheet of concrete painted to look like a pool.
can we agree that cartoons like spongebob and the simpsons should not be on the list? i feel like the cartoons stay they same, we just get older and develop different humor.
that man forever i actually like both, kids nowadays will say the old ones are "stupid" and the new ones are "funny". its all about us getting older. Of course most people who grew up watching spongebob are going to prefer the old ones
Yeah naturally, I guess it's all apart of nostalgia when it comes to that sort of thing. However in Spongebob's case I certainly feel that the show has lost key people behind the scenes that gave it that magic spark from back in the day. Just in my opinion :)
For me, aside of some of the shows on this list which I do agree, it would be How I Met Your Mother. I like at first, like it a lot in fact, but then it's just starting to diminish.
JMT Well, we have our own opinion. And I'm not saying it became a bad show, still a good show. It's just for me the excitement is not as big as before. But, it's good if you still really like it..
+Erepyon it might seem less interesting, but it was always funny, that never changed, and finale was weird but still i'l always remember it as one of the funniest shows
zer0 95 Oh, I agree with it being one of the funniest show. I'm not saying it becomes a bad show, it's just that, like you said, less interesting over time.
Doctor Who, I would say still has enough pearls in their later episodes to forgive (or at least overlook) the number of times they crawl up their own butt for ideas. HIMYM, I wouldn't say they lost their mojo, but they probably could've cut a season out and not lost anything. My main issue is how they ended the finale. Seemed like too much of a cop out to go with the popular choice. Family Guy, definitely agree with you. Never was a big fan, but the beginning seasons were a lot better, roughly around the Y2K episode is where it went downhill for me. Walking Dead, I just never liked.
Cant really say anything for doctor who. Never watched it since it isnt all that big over here in Germany i guess. I never watch Family Guy in seasons so i dont know. How I met your mother was never really horrible (besides the horrendous "rushed" finale) but season 9 and towards the end of season 8 it got quite bad. The walking dead after lori finally died was great. Season 2 was just not the walking dead. I am still pumped for the new season.
Season 8 of DW is up and down, 5/6 of the episodes have been either boring or confusing. And the only really good ones have been the 2 with the young girl (yesterday and last week!)
A bit harsh on SpongeBob aren't we? Yes it has most definitely lost its Mojo but after season 5 is where it really wen't downhill not after season 3. Also the Movie was pretty damn good in my opinion, it had that trademark spongeness to it!
I love Grey's and But I totally agree with this comment... Every character I love either gets killed off, isn't there anymore or lost that spark of why I love that character 😪 I wish they didn't kill off Derek.
+KindredofLegousa Well after what he did, it was rather a nice way of getting rid of him. But actually Grey's was overly dramatic all along and when Yang got that huge ice thingy in her chest and Owen, not even part of the team by then, had to pull it out, it was getting a bit too much. And then the lion, and the shooting, and the plane crash. It was just a bit too much. I like a good drama, but not one every single season, so I can predict it. Nope, that's getting lame.
Rampagethecrab98 They had mojo when Stewie was focusing more on world domination and killing Lois than just being pretty gay. Before you accuse me of being a homophobe I suggest watching all the seasons... if you can.
I'm actually surprised you guys put Simpsons on this instead of Family Guy. Yes, I'm a diehard Simpsons fan, yet I know it's nowhere near as good as it used to be, but Family Guy is still ongoing, and is a ton worse than the Simpsons. Just stupid cutaway gags that make no sense at all, same character gags, nothing really changes about it. At least with the Simpsons, there are SOME moments of character development. Family Guy shows nothing of the sort.
I love the Simpsons. And Iv never liked family guy it just seems kind of stupid especially with its dumb jokes and incredibly un-witty low brow humor And not to mention the even stupider south park.
I love the Simpsons too, but at this point they're surviving solely by threatening to kill off characters and doing crossovers. Family Guy isn't doing too well, but they actually did kill off a major character (Although it was a cheap cop-out) and they've always done stupid cutaways. That's just what Family Guy is.
I'm a pretty die hard fan too and I agree with its inclusion over Family Guy. Thing is, if you watch an episode from season 4 of the Simpsons...and then watch one from say...season 23, the difference is insane. I think that makes it far more worth a note, because it's fall from grace was just so much steeper than FG because it was just THAT good in its hay day. I'm not exactly a fan of Family Guy, but I don't think it's fall from grace has been as steep...mostly because it was never on nearly the same high as the Simpsons was at one point.
when a tv show spends 25 years going on there are bound to be changes: if it hadn't i think it probably would've died long ago. but aside from homer constantly choking bart and bart telling his teachers to eat his shorts i don't see that it has gone too far from it's original mantra. the simpsons has always been sort of the idealistic tv version of a "dysfunctional" family that still works somehow even tho they're totally screwed up. and maybe that's the constant that doesn't change because everybody can relate to dysfunction in their own family atleast to a certain extent.
GLEE deserves a spot in the list, I think even the first, I mean, most of its fans are agree that it should end in season 3, still, Glee had another 3 seasons, losing at least the half of its fans in season 4 and continued for two season more even after the death its principal male character; season 5 was a complete fail, with which lost the half of the half of its fans, and then I think the writers thought that they hadn't nothing more to lose, so made of season 6 a complete joke, recurring even to use the hypnosis for develop a storyline of "love", and if that is not enough, then we have a terrible wasted finale of 2 hours boring and more boring with most of storylines without closed. And that is how Glee taught us to lose a MOJO, GLEE is a master in this topic. 😢😓😩
+Laura Molano GLeeK glee should have ended in season two. the second half of three wasn't too bad but the first half was just embarrassing - even worse than the later seasons.
+palefox I disagree, season 3 is masterpiece compared to the whole plot and character development disaster that was the fifth season. It was after the puppets episode when I finally said to myself - that's it, I can't take it anymore. Boring, autotuned to the point where you can barely tell the voices apart, songs didn't help either. But the thing I hated most is that all these obnoxious characters got great amounts of screen time and eventually a happy ending. To me, celebrating spoiled bitches like Sue or Santana was a clear sign that the audience has jumped the shark as well as the show itself. No wonder the last three seasons ended up being a notorious case of fanservice gone wrong.
***** yeah, s3 was good in comparison to what it became but it was still a terrible season, with the exception of the run up to nationals/graduation. the end of s2 was pretty poor too - it went downhill really fast in 2010.
palefox Some critics say that Glee went downhill from the Pilot and never fully recovered since :) Still, up until the season 4 premiere it was my guilty pleasure and then just became a constant struggle that wasn't really worth it.
That's a minority opinion though. Supernatural is one of those rare shows most people think has stayed consistently good. Many comparisons can be made to X-files since they're similar shows. Whilst Supernatural in later seasons stayed interesting and fun X-files really went off the rails in later seasons.
Meagan collins How is it repetitive? CSI is repetitive. But most shows (that aren't police procedurals) can't go on for as long as Supernatural has without changing things up. It's why so many similar shows (like X-files) HAVE lost steam in later seasons. But Supernatural has really done a fantastic job with their lore in creating new and interesting situations and villains to deal with. The major complaint I've heard about Supernatural is it not being repetitive enough (aka, the people who still want the show to be about Sam and Dean on the road). I must say I've never come across someone complaining about the opposite before. o.0
Don't get me wrong i love supernatural, but i'm talking about the theme of angst constantly, I love how caring Sam and Dean are for each other, but every other episode they have a new secret that they never seem to be able to communicate to each other. And then one of them are dying or evil or something. Same with Cas, he's always hiding something from them. It's just getting really tiring, As you said i miss the old episodes where each one was scary and they had a good case.A lot of my friends who watch the show feel the same way.
Mie R I've watched Supernatural since the pilot, and I believe the show lost its luster after Season 5. It got pretty repetitive that I didn't even finish Season 9. I just want the show to end on a high note and not drag on more than it has to. Stop trying fangirl and stop trying to deny the show has lost its mojo.
I do too, honestly I'd say that it hasn't become a bad series, the main issue The Simpsons has is that it's not really trying new things so it feels mediocre a lot of the time. It's not like when I watch modern Family Guy episodes and think it's unwatchable because of how the writers just don't care and try to write the characters as unlikable as possible. In the Simpsons no matter how mediocre the episodes are the family is still at its core a loving family who are there when it matters for each other.
Im with you brother! While yes, its not as great as earlier seasons, its sill incredible how after 26 years I am still laughing. They have become part of my family and a part of me, which is they live on.
Supernatural. It's been going on since 2005. 11 years. The director says there's no set end date. Talk about beating a dead horse, bringing it back to life, killing the reanimated dead horse's brother, and then one upping them next season. You're literally fighting god and his sister in this season and now they're going to try to take it up a notch further? Good luck.
I agree. Now there's another show runner, a third one, and he wrote the awful season finale. I'm sure Supernatural won't last too long now. Even one of the actors wants out of it, and I don't blame him.
It was great up until the end of season 5 where it was originally meant to end. They however got new writers in and continued it, I find it okay here and there but for the most part it's really gone down hill.
Agreed! Supernatural is by far my favorite show and has been since 2005. But I've watched the series just get ridiculous. I enjoyed Season 10 somewhat but Season 11... It's time for the Winchesters to put the impala in the garage for good soon because I don't want to have to watch them take on God's uncle Jim or something next season.
most of the reason for the decline in wit of the simpsons is because the writers have to compete with unwitty crude humor of south park and family guy. And I think family guy should be on this list as well.
You've clearly either never watched South Park or are too stupid to understand its humor. It may be crude, but it's anything but unwitty. Especially as they get one episode done in 6 days while the Simpsons or Family Guy (Both shows I'm a fan of as well) take 9 months to write, voice, animate and release a single episode. Google "six days to air"" for proof.
Just gonna give my two cents do people actually think that the original episodes of the Simpsons are smart and witty really how is this even a thing its mostly slapstick and toilet humour still good though but i prefer the newer episode
Jack Loader Compared to family guy, south park, American Dad and the rest of its competitors are much more slapstick than the Simpsons is. There are many illusions and hidden messages and meaning the Simpsons that makes it witty.
tnsvictory Again, so does south park. It's witty as fuck if you're smart enough to understand it. Did you watch that episode where Tom Cruise was literally trapped in Stan's closet? Tom Cruise didn't want to come out of the closet!!
Fakus Namus South Park is quick to animate because the graphics are not on par and the voice actors are as rich, famous, and stuck up. But for the real quarrel I have with your comment is that while South Park, like every show, has it's meanings and wit; the majority of every season I watched, the south park game, and the movie have all been "slapstick" and crude humor revolved around daring and nearly sickening (to some people) plots. I enjoy the creativity of South Park, and I love the crude and unrestrained parody once in a while, but South Park just is too materialistic and shit-faced to be taken seriously. Kinda like Robot Chicken, too much of a certain thing is just not good at all. The real reason that the Simpsons is so appealing is that there are many many many different characters. Everyone can relate to one of those characters at any point in their life, I used to like South Park alot, but there are no characters I can relate too.
Season 2 and 3 were shit.....part of season 4 but gotta admit the last couple episodes of season 4 were great..if season five sucks............then its over. I just want this show to be good again but my hopes are for the new walking dead series being made.
BITE YOUR TONGUE! Or...hold your fingers. Walking dead season 2 was about the humanity that was left in the world. And all the other season are amazing!
Lion Morris ew season 2 was beyond stupid. Opinions. But seriously it sucked so bad...season 3 was sooooooo BORING...4 was meh...until the last couple episodes which where surprisingly good.
+Max Jerome Ever since I heard about the "Jaw's Effect" I realized there are a lot of other movies/shows that do something similar. They show you a glimpse of what is possible or what could happen but most of the time they don't show you jack crap. You think if a typical person had super powers they would use them as sparingly as the cast of heroes did? I'm not expecting people to run around blowing crap up 24/7 but come on.... lol
Agreed. The show had potential but the storylines kept going in too many directions without a linear direction. Also I hated that the would introduce new people with powers and Skylar would kill them two episodes later. Oh well it certainly didnt hurt the careers of Zach Quinto and Hayden Panitiere
+chapsticky00 But MisFits bounced back over Time.. Season 3 started to be a bit boring but still was epic here and there even without Nathan and Season 4 was the worst but Curtis had the best episodes in it.. BUT SEASON 5 was AWESOME again and closed the show with PROPPER STORYLINES and an awesome developement and the show became an awesome ending
I always thought Glee should have just stayed for one season and then stopped. The first season showed a bunch of nobodies and popular kids who still managed to get along, and showed that everybody has problems no matter who they are, but together we can all overcome it. It showed losers that they're not really losers. At the end the thing they tried so hard to get, they didn't win. They just plain lost, the club was even meant to be disbanded. Yeah they were upset, but they were happy that they'd had that time together and didn't regret leaving it all behind. It was powerful, because it showed you don't have to win if you want to be a winner. There's nothing wrong with that. The more its gone along, the more it lost that, and now its an upsetting shadow of its former self. I'm sorry to people who don't agree, but I'm used to watching shows that tend not to continue just from its popularity. Things get so off topic that way, and its not enjoyable.
I stopped telling things apart. But the last season I saw was the one I hated the most. It'd lost everything that had made it special, I think I was only watching it by that point because I was being a completionist.
Tifa Lockhart I absolutely loved Glee and I really hoped as s3 was coming to an end they would leave it there. It would've left a good legacy and all that.. it's just so awful now. I really wanted to watch s5 just to complete the show but it became an actual waste of my life so I stopped. It really annoys me these writers only cared about the extra money and has given the show a bad name.
I don't actually remember where I stopped watching anymore. It was where some of them graduated and were out living their lives and they still wouldn't stop it. They even brought in all those other kids to have a sufficient number still at the school. It just wasn't the same anymore, it's meaning was lost. Saying it should've stopped at one season may be a bit extreme, but it's understandable because that's where it's meaning was most apparent. I think my opinion is affected because I primarily watch anime, which even in Japan, is not watched by everyone. Usually things that have sources like books, comics, etc to base it off are better, and most anime is like that. Because they generally do have a source material and they are severely affected by schedules, many of them only go for a few episodes (12-24), so only about one or two seasons. Of course there are those with a couple hundred episodes, but those are an exception. Because of this they tend not to have the ability to completely lose their point, some of them don't even have the opportunity to get all their point through because companies decide they won't be very popular before they air and they're altered to a be a shorter series. Coming from a situation like that, it's extra annoying for me when I see shows still going just for the money. I've even seen it happen with a book series that was perfectly fine at one book, so it has 13.
My main problem with the direction it went is that instead of choosing songs to fit the episode they just chose a theme and tried to shoe horn it in to the story. Case in point the Rocky Horror episode. That was painful to watch,
DrunkenPrayer The songs were plainly better earlier on. I just don't like dragging things on since I generally watch shorter series. It felt like Glee did that.
Jene' Walker Well when it's like the only sitcom on tv that appeals to most of joe public, it isn't all that hard to be no. 1. This is an average episode of Big Bang: 1. Sheldon has a problem with something 2. Talks to Amy about his problem 3. Amy makes joke about not having sex 4. All 4 boys in cafeteria at uni, wollowitz makes sarcastic joke 5. Sheldon says "that was was sarcasm?" and then does that retarded laugh 6. Leonard talks to penny, penny talks about girly shit or country shit, whatever the episode needs her to be that week. 7. Sheldon then tries to enact plan 8. Plan doesn't work out 9.HILARITY ENSUES 10. Show just ends, no wrap up or resolution. It just ends. [Insert Bazingas, Nerdy references, "science stuff", howards mother and raj being pervy for filler].
Survivor does not belong here at all. The show has gotten BETTER over the years.The last 4 years have been a Renaissance for Survivor. The show was never about actual survival, it was always about "who was voting for who". That's what makes every season different and unique. It's not just the same crap over and over again like "Naked and Afraid" for example.
@@dhenderson1810 Actually, although nowadays they stay in Fiji, seasons 1-32, they travel to new locations. Like some of them were such different settings and they weren't all beaches.
Absolutely, you can also say the same about Avatar: The Last Airbender, Teen Titans (the 2003 show, not that crap they have now), and (at least in my opinion) the Twilight Zone.
I so agree the story was getting VERY stale like in season 4 i was just like... dafuq is this shit? nothing is happening... AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED about skylar.... She's like lisa in the simpsons.... when they start focusing on her the show is just SHIT.
Anthony Fish Well, the last episode of the Teen Titans really f*cked me up, I was like "WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING? Why Terra doesn't remember Beast Boy? Why was Slade a robot? Where does the white monster comes from?" If wish they never aired that episode and just let "Titans forever" as the last episode.
Ikr? Buffy the Vampire Slayer would be remembered perfectly had it ended at Season 5. (Though I personally like Season 6, but most people don't). Which is why I just wish shows would end on a high rather than being like Supernatural which is trying to push a stale storyline into its tenth season.
Lost for sure. No show has pissed me off more than that show. I usually enjoy anything I watch but that show after the third season just became annoying as hell.
I LOVED series 1 and 2, and I enjoyed series 3, but I really didn't like the rest of it :/ Such a shame, it could have been great if they didn't put too many mysteries in it that they couldn't explain.
Yeah and when you compare it to Family Guy, it still has a sense of dignity. I'm one of those people who defends The Simpsons because to its credit while the modern episodes are flawed, I will give the Simpsons credit that it gets creative and unpredictable with its writing and jokes, and it still does have a sense of heart and dignity and the crew behind at least try. With Family Guy, it looks like they're not even trying from its lack of jokes, lack of fun, entertaining and likeable characters, how repetitive its become like always starting with the Griffins watching TV and the TV saying, "We now return to____" and how Family Guy has became just boring.
Sometimes Yes. Sometimes No. Depending upon what the episode is about. Still you're right about The Simpsons. It's absolutely not as painful as Family Guy.
I would agree. I'm obviously not a constant viewer, but I've seen new episodes while my daughter watched it that were nearly as good as the episodes I remembered. Still, episode one was a glorious, completely retarded, masterpiece of children's programming.
It really has though, the jokes have become so stale now and the plots are so half assed compared to earlier seasons. Though, the comment about the movie was so wrong. The movie was one of the last good things to come from Spongebob and was even well received.
***** I hate it because almost nothing great happens unless someone dies or they're some plot twist. Also, this hype about zombie shit and all is really stupid.
Zefo No I liked the first and the second season. Then it was messed up but I at least I enjoyed the witch season. But season 5 was bad, maybe entertainment but bad and season 6 and the last one were not only bad also boring, VERY boring. I couldn't even finished a lot of episodes, I skipt the most of the last one, I was falling asleep with that one.
Felipe Nachmanowicz Because even though in my opinion it was a good series maybe except for the last series as it was tedious, it wasnt exactly popular especially when compared to the shows on this list
The first season of Heroes was absolutely epic - but its undenieable that it all just went downhill from there. I still watched and liked the other seasons but it just didnt manage to get as good as the first one.
Also, I think in season two,they pretty much resurrected one guy(father of the cheerleader)with a blood transfusion. So,you cured death,and just forgot about it.
HIMYM was actually very well liked throughout all eight seasons, and I think most people will tell you that it was always fairly strong throughout all of them. People only really got sour to the show after the finale let everyone down.
That tv show was a total waste of time. Yes every season their was two or three good episodes but the rest was shit. Old jokes and the reliance on Barney to throw a joke was annoying ! And the ending ! It's Was a total bs
+EmoKat I think it was hurt pretty badly by the screenwriters' protests during its second season, which cut it in half. Personally I found 3rd chapter (1st half of s3) to be a decent comeback, but chapters 4 and 5 were when it went downhill for good for me.
+Jyggalag for me the show barely even hold my interest to the end of 1st season, thus I never bothered with 2nd season. Remember very well how much advertised and hyped the series was though.... Oh well, atleast every one of these series did better than the biggest fail in TV-history....Terra Nova. Intersting setting and biggest budget in history of TV-shows wasted by terrible script writing and utterly uninteresting characters (why the fuck they had to turn it into your average family drama, that no-one cares about, I cant understand)
***** I stand by the opinion that Family Guy HAD some good episodes, but yeah, it's...not good now. I think WatchMojo left it off the list for fear of their lives, though.
Shows that started amazing but turned to shit: (personal opinion) How I Met Your Mother (after Season 6) Spongebob (after the movie) Dexter (finale) Scrubs (Season 9) Fairly Odd Parents (After Poof was born) Family Guy
i sorta agree about AHS ... Although the first season was good the next two not so much freak show was great and the newest season hotel is hard to want to watch
Despite the lack of focus of The Simpsons' episodes, if I was forced to choose, I'd pick that over Family Guy. Family Guy's been fucking stale for many years. And Quagmire, one of the show's more well-known characters, is as tired as the show itself. Plus, at least the Simpsons gave us Halloween episodes for years. Also, I'm surprised Lost didn't make it on the list. After the first season, shit went downhill from there when it became increasingly clear that the writers and producers didn't know where the fuck the show was going. If you have to announce, three seasons in (half way through the series) that you're going to conclude the show in three more seasons, then you know people are tired of your bullshit. But, to me, tv in general lost it. In the last few years, I've watched less and less of it. For around a year now, I've only watched about an hour a week of Shark Tank. That's it. I've actually considered getting rid of my tv. I don't even watch tv shows online, which it why I scoff when I see these fucking networks or sites based on subscription, expecting people like me to pay to watch these shows on their platforms. Like, "why the fuck would I pay to watch this bullshit on your site, if I didn't care to watch it for free?"
Interesting. There is a strong consensus that TV is in a new golden age right now, with better quality shows that are even more lucrative than movies. So, I would say that TV hasn't lost it.
withlove312 People have always expressed the sentiments of the "golden age in television" for decades, even going back to 1950s. So this sentiment isn't new. No generation wants to declare that something sucks under their era. It's the reason why you have Generation X'ers and the Baby Boomers before them, bitching about Generation Y'ers/Millenials supposedly being "lazy" and "spoiled," despite the fact that they fucked up the economy and sold the succeeding generation's future to lobbyists and corporations for political and personal gain, all the while they enjoy their social security checks. Add to this, Americans are too dependent and reliant on their information about the world through the US media notoriously known for its propaganda and programming and molding people's views on social, economic and political issues. Like the militarization of America. You see and hear slogans, even on daytime talk shows, vomit the sentiments of "support the troops." No, they're fucking US Murderers and Terrorists. It sucks. Television sucks.
Batman The news is irrelevant in the case I am trying to make, and a whole other kettle of fish I'm not getting into. I'm talking about fictional entertainment. And the accepted golden age for television was in the 1950s. There may have been others who claimed different eras as a "golden age," but those claims have not gathered traction and thus shouldn't be taken seriously. The 90s was considered the golden age of sitcom for obvious reasons. But that is beside the point. If you don't watch a lot of tv, and by your own admission you don't, and all you do watch are cherry-picked things you don't like, I don't understand how you can claim something as grand as "TV sucks," because the evidence is against you. The production values, writing, acting talent and so forth have increased dramatically and so has the diversity of shows. That's all.
withlove312 Television programming is programming period. It doesn't matter whether the program is news or "fictional entertainment." It programs and molds the American mind to think a certain way that has often created negative perceptions, outright stereotypes and propaganda among its American and international audiences. Cinema does this too with its portrayal of Native Americans, Middle Easterners, Asians, etc.
Batman So, in other words... you have no argument?? Again, not saying anythings that negates what I say with reason. You're just making ideological points. -_- I'm out.
If you want the gameplay watch Big Brother but the production on that is kind of annoying. There are some seasons though like, seasons 6, 10, 14, and 16
Larry Morgan It's about surviving the vote. If it was about surviving in terms of not dying, then it would literally be the hunger games. Or battle royale or whatever.
Family Guy got worse after season 8. It resorted to cut-away gags to pad the runtime, numerous personality changes to its main cast, tacked on social commentary, unfunny humor, and let's not forget that infamous stunt Seth McFarlane pulled in killing off Brian, and bringing him back again via time travel. Even that Simpsons crossover premiering season 13 proved unredeemable.
Really? Did you find them insulting every last religious person on the planet funny? How about that horrible message to abuse victims in Seahorse Seashell Party, did you find that funny?? Or how about them using incest by having Peter marry his own fucking SON?!?! You must've found that just hilarious right?
This list was posted back in 2014. The current season (32) and previous season (31) of Survivor are up there with their best ever. It's had a resurgence of late and most fans would agree it's def got it's mojo back.
+Jose Luis Vazquez ...That show seriously wore out it's welcome years ago, DAMN that used to be a great show. Grey was charming and cute, now she's always moody and angry now, the show lost it's charm the same way ER did.
I agree with rollerman95 Not about How I Met Your Mother - IMO if bowed out gracefully - like it or not. But the Simpsons? Or, any of the two or three shows that are still on the air. And just because people voted on it does not make them right nor does it say "you don't get an opinion because other people voted." Some of these list do have a "what the hell are you thinking" factor - so if it isn't WM, then the question goes to the people who voted. Everyone has a right to their opinion, and just because someone disagrees does not mean they are 'haters" or deserve such nonsense like "leave the feed." If you only watch what you "agree" with, perhaps you should get out more and try to think for yourself for a change. What the hell is the fun of a world where everyone agrees on everything?
Yeah, but it's hard to count season 9 of Scrubs as an actual Scrubs season. It was basically a spin-off with some of the regular characters either making guest appearances or sadly becoming a main character. Scrubs will always have just 8 seasons to my friends and I. Season 9 was just season 1 of Scrubs: Med Students
Heroes is a source of great frustration for me because the first season was very well done and the series had a mountain of potential. The instead of sticking to their own formula they started to stumble all over the place and repeatedly break continuity getting worse and worse.
Lost, Law and Order, Secret Life of an American Teenager, King of the Hill, Ghost Hunters, Supernatural, Wipeout, Fear Factor, Prison Break, The Mentalist, Home Improvement-Makeover Edition, Man vs Wild, Dual Survival, Hell's Kitchen
right on dual survivor what kind of a moron take keeps a show going after a host gets fired and to make it even worse the other original host left it should've been canceled 2 seasons ago
Lost? No way. All the shows on this list went to sh*t because they overstayed their welcome. Lost had a 6 season plan from the very start, and executed it perfectly. Fanboys like to sh*t on it because they didn't answer EVERY single mystery, but why does everything need to be spoon fed to them like children? But that never changed the fact the writing was every bit as good in the final season as it was in the first.
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Obvious choice for #1 is Prison break. It lost its Mojo after the first season finale when the writers suddenly realized (much too late) that a show called "Prison Break" needed its cast to be in prison planning a break out and could not work with them out on the loose. Epic fail of a show.
tuvoksg1 Actually Prison break list me mid season. Just way too many wacky coincidences. It was like - oh, come one, even if he was pathologically meticulous, he couldn't have thought of that.
Your choice of spongebob saying it lost its mojo is utter BULL for 1 it's still airing today & everyone still loves spongebob just as much as they did the first day he hit our tv's + there was absolutely nothing wrong with the movie so I think you should do more research before making these type of videos, its not the first time you've been waay off field with some of you're accusations
Yeah I agree, I watched Spongebob as a kid, and now my 3 kid's still enjoy it as well. was legitimately surprised to see it on this list. that as well as the Simpsons, but I suppose it's all subjective.
I agree because all my friends are making fun of me for watching it and I'm like hey it's a good show its progressively getting better with each episode it's the only show that I watch beside awkward on mtv, adventure time and regular show (Cartoon Network), and teen moms
As WatchMojo is always biased towards American shows I'm not surprised it isn't on here, but Primeval on itv was definitely a show that lost its mojo here in the UK.
Well most of the shows that are watched in the UK and here in Ireland are American. So its understandable why the list is mostly American shows. But they are Canadian so they would have considered shows on BBC and ITV. Also most British shows end before they lose their Mojo or keep the show going strong like Doctor Who for example (well we'll see after the current series ends).
JakeHMW I wasn't complaining about anything, I was just making a statement that from a British perspective, Primeval would have been one of the shows that would be on there for us. And I believe sleazybtd is right and it's a Canadian Company.
Prison Break was so good for the first two seasons, and then got really, really bad when they put him back in prison to escape again, and then bring down some government conspiracy.
IveGotToast yeah I agree, the whole government conspiracy and the company and all that bullshit, took the concept too far but I guess they had to do something, I mean he couldnt just keep getting put in prison and breaking out season after season or could he???? hmm?
WillPG1212 Well if you were looking for a show about surviving on an island the first season was great but yea as the show went on it got more philosophical with stuff.
Survivor? Really? The strategy - who is voting for who - is what makes that show so good. If it was all about building fires and shelters and such, then nobody would have watched it for more than a few seasons. What would be the point?
I'm not surprised of The Simpsons taking the top spot. What will it take for The Simpsons to FINALLY exit the airwaves? REALLY LOW ratings? Creators pulling the plug? Fox pulling the plug? After two decades on the air, the only things that keep this show interesting are the guest voice appearances by celebs and the annual Treehouse of Horror episode.
The stranger I have up until Season 10 on DVD. I listened to every commentary. And you could tell how much fun they had. They even told stories on how just reading the scripts at the table made them laugh. If anyone there has an ounce of honesty can´t tell that the series is funny anymore. And like I said it´s not that they don´t make you laugh anymore it´s just that they can´t even make you smile. But, you want to know how The Simpsons can make you sick? Try living in Spain. Here, since series started back in 1989 have never, EVER, stopped being broadcast. ...and you´ll say: "Like everywhere". Not precisely. I mean that they show 2 episodes daily all days of the week (yes, all 7 days no matter if there´s a holiday or not). And to make matters worse since a couple or so years ago they´ve started airing 2 more episodes daily. That´s 4 Simpsons episodes daily; 28 episodes per week, 1,460 episodes per year. What happens when they´ve reached the current Season? Easy. Start over from episode 1. ...and trust me. People watch them every single time.
Once Upon a Time, Supernatural, Vampire Diaries, Nashville. That's my list. I tried to keep watching, even forced myself for a few years to keep on going with Supernatural and Vampire Diaries, but it's just not the same. It's sloppy, and boring, and seems like every episode is just a dice thrower.
Dexter only has one bad season which is its final season. Even though some seasons, like season 2, aren't at the same quality as the rest of the show, it's still in all a fantastic show. Also I think Prison Break should had been on this list since its third season is unnecessary, and its fourth season is absolutely terrible.
KingBowserVlog The idea of that episode was good, but its execution was terrible. Like I said there are some seasons where the quality dips, and that the last season is an abomination, but in all it's a great show.
Heisenberg Dexter went downhill after season 4, Maybe because season 4 was genius and season 5 was…. meh. Gosh I hated Lumen. Kinda sad. Still one of my fav Tv Shows
Miss Headlines Really? Lumen was one of my favorite characters, and yeah the season before her appearance was the pinnacle of the series. I hated Hannah.
i disliked season 4 for a few resons. 1) they couldn't get rid of actors ex. keep bringing back ice girl. (her son as well) 2) telepath guy is a terible character the only purpose he surved was the inception thing in the finale. and yet he is still focussed on way too much. 3) good Villains but the final fight season 4 sucked.
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I'm surprised that Grey's Anatomy and Ugly Betty weren't on this list. Or maybe it was just me who lost interested in them? SNL should be up here as well. It has it's moments, but really has lost it's mojo. Also The Game. It was great as a comedy then they changed it to a drama and that's when it went downhill.
magickmidget Yes, he was awesome, and the actor who plays him (I'm to lazy to look it up right now) is much hotter than McDreamy. In my opinion. I was heartbroken when he got killed off...
I disagree about "Ugly Betty," but I wholeheartedly agree about "Grey's Anatomy" and "The Game." They've just gotten horrible. I stopped watching "Grey's..." after Izzie started hallucinating about Denny's ghost, and I quit on "The Game" after they moved to BET.
Prison Break was solid right up until the end though. The first season is still by far the best but I wouldn't really say it lost steam. It really didn't go on long enough to lose steam either...
me either ... I went off it around seasons 6 might have been 5 ... lol been too long since I watched it... I play the game though LOL the one on the phone
Family Guy officially jumped the shark when they killed off Brian last season only to bring him back 3 episodes later; there's a difference between jumping the shark and losing your mojo...
season 1 was epic,season 2 was ok it had flaws due to the WGA strike and season 3 yes i will admit that it really disappointed me, but season 4 was really damn good
I loved season 1 and season 2 was okay but by the 3rd season it was obvious that they were struggling to continue with a show that they really only had one season of original writing for. I've never wanted to see season 4...
season 4 was open ended. there's a preview for volume 6 so I guess it's nit the perfect end. BUT I LOVE THE SERIES SO MUCH. the 1st season just presented so much potential and when people did not see what they wanna see they started ditching it, which just sucks
Fun fact: The reason why _Spongebob Squarepants_ sucks now is because creator Stephen Hillenburg (R.I.P.) intended for the 2004 movie to be the series finale. But the movie proved so successful, that _Nickelodeon_ asked for more episodes and that was out of Hillenburg's hands, so he resigned as creator until he returned for the 2015 movie _The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water._
So the moral of the story is, Hollywood, let the franchise end when it makes sense for the story to end. Don't drag it out longer than it needs to be.
Hollywood wants to squeeze all the money it can from it´s franchises.
As long as shit sells...
This is PRECISELY why we can't have nice things.
They get ruined.
And f**** the public.
Simpsons & X Files were awesome and ended like garbage.
skepticaldemocrat Exactly! That is one lesson Hollywood is NEVER going to learn for that very reason. Milk that bitch dry!
Hugo Lalumiere
"Milk that bitch dry!" You described perfectly all fiction industry!;)
The spongebob movie was awesome! How dare you?!
IKR! Spongebob never went down hill and I cant wait for the second movie!
Yeah but the show started sucking immediately after the Movie
After the movie, everything else has Suuuuuucckkked!
BALD! BALD! BALD! BALD!
Kyle Broflovski And South Park just keeps on getting better and better.
You forgot big bang theory, oh wait that show's always been an overhyped piece of shite.
No. Just no.
Sebastian hejhej what do you mean no? it's utterly horrible and gets worse every year.
Thank you! At last someone spoke up! Saying the BBT is crap is almost blasphemy to most ppl. Unless everyone secretly hates it??? hmm.
It disturbs me how people like it as much as they do, rather than just seeing it as a generic not particularly funny sitcom. Oh well
It was funny at first but has been bland ever since season 5 though the latest season is an improvement on the last.
1999-2004 had the best spongebob episodes ever. After 2004, they got a new writer and everything collapsed.
Ye it was entertaining but not as good as the first seasons
Than the old writer came back for a few seasons & it wad good again than he died & the other writer came back.
Supernatural. Oh my God. I used to love the show, but after the Season 5 peak it just decreased into the bullshit that is Season 10. Boring, repetitive plot lines, bland story arcs that are usually resolved in no more than 3 episodes and an overused, easily predictable structure. Its a damn shame, because it's been my favourite show since I've been a kid, but this season needs to be its last - I can't see it improving anytime soon.
I couldn't agree more! I love the first 5 series, and I tried to like the new ones, but they're just not good. Boring, trying too hard to be funny, and way too much fanservice :(
whaaaat? still the best show ever!!
Couldn't agree more. I love the first five seasons of SN. I bailed after season 6. It's become a sad joke.
IM CRYING SPN IS LIFE
so I'm not the only one who though " Supernatural" should've ended after season 4. Awesome!
Two and a Half Men truly broke my heart. It was the funniest show ever, and suddenly it turned into the worst trash ever.
it had his moments later, like when Allen pimped out Walden to lonely housewives
@@hyacinthbucket5062 I think the 11th season was ok, but most everything with Ashton Kutcher was terrible.
...it's a flat out terrible show. Doesn't matter who's in it.
When I saw spongebob, I'm like what?? LOL
Jake Matton Most people agree that the show went downhill after it's fourth season. There are still some very good episodes here and there, including the second movie. But the vast majority of episodes from season 5- are absolutely terrible.
***** Exactly LOL
Jake Matton Spongebob literally went downhill after the First Spongebob Movie, and when I saw it I believe that was the show's best peak yet.
DrevlikDehGamer I don't really care about Spongebob...
Jake Matton Hey don't ruin my childhood.
Once Upon a Time FOR SURE. After season 1 (which was brilliant!) it has been getting progressively worse... When they introduced the characters from Frozen I just noped out of it.
+Friday the frozen season had to be the worst! it was obviously they sold themselves out to whatever disney character was most popular at the moment
+Friday I still watch it for the characters, and sometimes they still have interesting ideas and very good episodes (I absolutely loved the season finales for seson 3 and 4), but I basically agree. It's typically a show which should have had a fixed runtime around 3 seasons or so, so the writers could plan a bigger continous plotline (the show now really suffers from having two plotlines per season) and wrap up the show nicely when it was still good and interesting. It's not a good sign when you pray for a once beloved show that it's next season would be the last.
+Carla Whitehead Probably I am shallow, but I still liked the Frozen plotline. :D
Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold and Belle are pretty much the only reason I watch Once Upon a Time
Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold and Belle are pretty much the only reason I watch Once Upon a Time
You forgot Watchmojo.
Ha
You sir, have achieve all of my likes! :D
Well, someone has to have crappy top lists too in entertainment, right?.
Their lists are still 70-100% agreeable and the content is still good. I'm not going to so "you do better" or whatever bitchy remark you'd expect a nay-sayer to say but... like... What other content besides what they're covering could they possibly do?
The standards haven't really dropped and it's surprising just how many topics they HAVE covered...
How on earth is this the top comment though?... oh wait, I'm on youtube.
My name Um, have you seen Watch Mojo's recent videos or are you just blind?
They are *quite literally running out of ideas*
The next thing they'll make is "Top ten toe nail clippings that look like actors" because that is how *fucking interesting their videos are*, I stop watching there terrible channel a month ago.
Am I the only one who still loves Spongebob? :(
***** No, no he's not.
no i still find that stupid cartoon really really funny especially when you are high
Rahul Chadha she's*
I only like to watch the old spongebob epsiodes. The new ones are shit.
Don't worry, stoners still do.
If you work as security at Samsung, does that make you Guardian of the Galaxy?
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Banter
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Thank you. You've made my evening. :)
*cough* Pretty Little Liars *cough*
Agreed.
+Bianca Busogi God I was wondering how this was not on the list. It got so convoluted so fast that even trying to watch it as a favor got really hard.
+iEatEmos I know, and now with the whole 5yrs forward thing it's getting worst.
+Bianca Busogi definitely agree; i think the show got too caught up on its own hype; there are a lot of things that are left unanswered and doesn't seem like they ever will be. i still don't believe CeCe was ever the real A; i think the Liars were getting way too close and the real A needed a distraction for them and voila! here comes CeCe with her story. it's like the entire show is one big red herring.
a little or a lot, everyone is weird Wow, that'a actually a really interesting theory
You people just need to accept that I wanted to become a lumberjack.
Dexter Morgan your finale is just like the finale of Death Note. everyone wanted a happy ending for you. but here is the thing, YOU DIDNT DESERVE A HAPPY ENDING. you became a monster. monsters dont deserve a happy ending
Spoiler bitch!!
Phoenix Oroboros lol most people who watched this video doesn't know what death note even is
Phoenix Oroboros he wasn't a monster he was the act of natural selection in human form
Phoenix Oroboros Well, Light didn't have a happy ending. He goes completely insane.
As much as it pains me to say this...
*takes deep breath*
Family Guy.
Trevan Higgins In my personal opinion, I think the show started going downhill after season 9. I mean, I don't really have a whole lot of ill feelings towards the show, cause I still kinda like it even though I don't watch any of the new episodes but from what I've been hearing, it sounds like the show really needs to start heading towards a conclusion.
TheJayster57 I completely agree
Ross Malone
Thank you
I like FG, but it ain't what it used to be.
+Trevan Higgins
Family Guy never had any mojo to begin with...
Heroes was killed by the writers' strike
Those were dark times
how is grey's anatomy not on this list?
Apparently we had to make room for SpongeBob SquarePants..ugh
When I was little I remember when fairly odd parents was good but after they brought in the baby the show was never the same for me
That's true.
And now there is a dog
Alan Rivero really? Wow...that show is now officially out of ideas
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Alan Rivero *sigh* wow.. .just.....wow
The spongebob squarepants movie was not bad at all, I think it's pretty good and it still has the humor of the older episodes. I think spongebob should've ended at the movie.
That was the oringial plan
flaming shotgun ken
Eh.... Grammar please?
It was supposed to end it, but since the ratings were high, they began milking it afterward.
The Walking Dead anyone ?
JediJackalope nah that's still pretty good and there hasn't really been a point when I think it should end there is still so much conflict left.
The walking dead didn't even start
I agree, season 1 was really good, after that it all went to shit
They'd better end it soon. I've stuck with it more than a lot of people I know but it definitely needs to start winding down. At least make some sort of story progression. The whole of last season was basically pointless.
BinaryHodder well maybe your friends stopped watching it but its popularity grew with every season so thats not really a valid point.
How I Met Your Mother.
Talk about losing your mojo in a single season and totally ruining your show with a single episode. It ended so bad, it killed the How I Met Your Father spinoff before it even began casting.
The show wasn't ruined by the finale. HIMYM was a great series despite the disappointing finale. I think the last season wasn't great as well. The rest of the show was very well written and funny.
The show was absolutly ruined for his final episode. It was so bad, that i couldnt watch a single episode of any season of the show. It was completly ruined. I have never experience that before.
I completely agree. I loved that show so much, but knowing what happened in the last episode, I will never see it the same way, no matter how hard I try.
+Joaquin Fracchia same here used to love watching repeats now I can't even look at the actors I'm so mad at the writers directors producers CBS anyone who had anything to do with that show.
The series was still brilliant, the last three episodes were a complete letdown though, especially in terms of what they did with Barneys character
What the absolute FUCK was that scene from ER
It was from season 10 episode 8 called Freefall...a helicopter was on top of the hospital getting rdy to take off when something malfunctioned and it came crashing down and Romano had just walked outside when he was crushed beneath it
+Jennee Reedus As I remember, he had previously been injured by a helicopter (did he get an arm chopped off?) and - despite the odds - just about recovered his career as a surgeon, making his death darkly comical.
Yeah, that really needs more context, but I guess it does get the point across: the title, ER which is short for emergency room, indicates it's a hospital drama, so I guess that scene was a way of quickly conveying how the show dived off the deep end. And by the look of it, is was a high dive into a sheet of concrete painted to look like a pool.
+Cakeordeathism He got his hand cut off and sown back on.
+esadday Oh yeah. poor Rocket Romano. He was a total dick, but that is some bad luck.
Supernatural should be on this list. The fandom knows it's true too.
I still see lots of fangirls but I don't really remember it.The last time I watched it was the first season and I didn't really get into it.
But...but...muh Dean x Cas!!!
No. I strongly disagree with you although I think that the show hit a peak in the Leviathan series...
I respect your opinion but me on the other hand is glad that it isn't on the list
I agree, after season 5 the plot lines didn't flow together as smoothly and often seemed forced.
can we agree that cartoons like spongebob and the simpsons should not be on the list? i feel like the cartoons stay they same, we just get older and develop different humor.
but the old episodes are still great, the newer ones not so much
that man forever i actually like both, kids nowadays will say the old ones are "stupid" and the new ones are "funny". its all about us getting older. Of course most people who grew up watching spongebob are going to prefer the old ones
Yeah naturally, I guess it's all apart of nostalgia when it comes to that sort of thing. However in Spongebob's case I certainly feel that the show has lost key people behind the scenes that gave it that magic spark from back in the day. Just in my opinion :)
that man forever lol maybe i havent seen recent episodes
No because the old episodes of those shows still hold up, they just got worse due to lack of ideas
For me, aside of some of the shows on this list which I do agree, it would be How I Met Your Mother. I like at first, like it a lot in fact, but then it's just starting to diminish.
+Erepyon Nah.....I think it aged perfectly.
JMT Well, we have our own opinion. And I'm not saying it became a bad show, still a good show. It's just for me the excitement is not as big as before.
But, it's good if you still really like it..
+JMT except for that ending , i gotta say
+Erepyon it might seem less interesting, but it was always funny, that never changed, and finale was weird but still i'l always remember it as one of the funniest shows
zer0 95 Oh, I agree with it being one of the funniest show. I'm not saying it becomes a bad show, it's just that, like you said, less interesting over time.
I'd say Doctor Who, How I Met Your Mother, Family Guy, and The Walking Dead lost their mojo for me.
Doctor Who, I would say still has enough pearls in their later episodes to forgive (or at least overlook) the number of times they crawl up their own butt for ideas.
HIMYM, I wouldn't say they lost their mojo, but they probably could've cut a season out and not lost anything. My main issue is how they ended the finale. Seemed like too much of a cop out to go with the popular choice.
Family Guy, definitely agree with you. Never was a big fan, but the beginning seasons were a lot better, roughly around the Y2K episode is where it went downhill for me.
Walking Dead, I just never liked.
Doctor Who is still pretty good the latest series is a bit iffy so far but we'll see at the end of the season.
Doctor Who lost its mojo in the mid 80s.
Cant really say anything for doctor who. Never watched it since it isnt all that big over here in Germany i guess. I never watch Family Guy in seasons so i dont know. How I met your mother was never really horrible (besides the horrendous "rushed" finale) but season 9 and towards the end of season 8 it got quite bad. The walking dead after lori finally died was great. Season 2 was just not the walking dead. I am still pumped for the new season.
Season 8 of DW is up and down, 5/6 of the episodes have been either boring or confusing. And the only really good ones have been the 2 with the young girl (yesterday and last week!)
A bit harsh on SpongeBob aren't we? Yes it has most definitely lost its Mojo but after season 5 is where it really wen't downhill not after season 3. Also the Movie was pretty damn good in my opinion, it had that trademark spongeness to it!
No the movie was put after season 3 and the movie was supposed to be the end of Spongebob.
I agree, there are solid and great episodes after season 2, and a couple of occasional good episodes post S05, but nothing worthy on the last 2 or so
For me it was season 7 where it got bad.
After the movie, it went bad. The humor was childish and nonsensical compared to seasons 1-3.
Agreed, the movie was great
What about Grey's Anatomy?
Iris De Graaf omg thank you! killing off every loved character throughout the 11 years its been airing tends to make a show lose its mojo.
I love Grey's and But I totally agree with this comment... Every character I love either gets killed off, isn't there anymore or lost that spark of why I love that character 😪 I wish they didn't kill off Derek.
Dennielle Oredina same, Izzie, Mark and George were my favourite characters :(
Iris De Graaf Yeah, I'm feeling after Yang left, now Derek, the show is on its final leg.
+KindredofLegousa Well after what he did, it was rather a nice way of getting rid of him.
But actually Grey's was overly dramatic all along and when Yang got that huge ice thingy in her chest and Owen, not even part of the team by then, had to pull it out, it was getting a bit too much. And then the lion, and the shooting, and the plane crash. It was just a bit too much. I like a good drama, but not one every single season, so I can predict it. Nope, that's getting lame.
The Big Bang Theory. Frankly quite unwatchable these days!
Abhishek Mukhopadhyay it's always sucked
Fuck you
Hey that show is still funney.
it and the show friends were never funny
@@brucew3693 I think big bang theory had its moments, friends was always overrated.
Big Bang theory wasn't on here cause it always sucked
DISAGREED!!!
Amen to that brother!
Please explain how Big Bang Theory does not suck
Ketan P It's my opinion bra, don't throw a hissy fit.
Also it's the only time i'll say "DISAGREED!!!" ever.
Either you're 12 years old or your IQ is 50...
Surprised Family Guy did not make this list
Yea, theyve basically hit the same point the simpsons did but in less time
I'm not! They never had any Mojo to begin with!
Rampagethecrab98
They had mojo when Stewie was focusing more on world domination and killing Lois than just being pretty gay. Before you accuse me of being a homophobe I suggest watching all the seasons... if you can.
Family guy has only gotten funnier
AidanIsThisGuy this guy...this guy gets it!
I'm actually surprised you guys put Simpsons on this instead of Family Guy. Yes, I'm a diehard Simpsons fan, yet I know it's nowhere near as good as it used to be, but Family Guy is still ongoing, and is a ton worse than the Simpsons. Just stupid cutaway gags that make no sense at all, same character gags, nothing really changes about it. At least with the Simpsons, there are SOME moments of character development. Family Guy shows nothing of the sort.
Sometime I think WatchMojo worship Family Guy like a cult
I love the Simpsons. And Iv never liked family guy it just seems kind of stupid especially with its dumb jokes and incredibly un-witty low brow humor
And not to mention the even stupider south park.
I love the Simpsons too, but at this point they're surviving solely by threatening to kill off characters and doing crossovers. Family Guy isn't doing too well, but they actually did kill off a major character (Although it was a cheap cop-out) and they've always done stupid cutaways. That's just what Family Guy is.
I'm a pretty die hard fan too and I agree with its inclusion over Family Guy.
Thing is, if you watch an episode from season 4 of the Simpsons...and then watch one from say...season 23, the difference is insane. I think that makes it far more worth a note, because it's fall from grace was just so much steeper than FG because it was just THAT good in its hay day.
I'm not exactly a fan of Family Guy, but I don't think it's fall from grace has been as steep...mostly because it was never on nearly the same high as the Simpsons was at one point.
when a tv show spends 25 years going on there are bound to be changes: if it hadn't i think it probably would've died long ago. but aside from homer constantly choking bart and bart telling his teachers to eat his shorts i don't see that it has gone too far from it's original mantra. the simpsons has always been sort of the idealistic tv version of a "dysfunctional" family that still works somehow even tho they're totally screwed up. and maybe that's the constant that doesn't change because everybody can relate to dysfunction in their own family atleast to a certain extent.
Family Guy definitely lost it's mojo.
Now the jokes are 1/2 "Stewie is gay" and 1/2 "Meg is ugly". Pathetic, compared to its incredibly funny first four seasons
GLEE deserves a spot in the list, I think even the first, I mean, most of its fans are agree that it should end in season 3, still, Glee had another 3 seasons, losing at least the half of its fans in season 4 and continued for two season more even after the death its principal male character; season 5 was a complete fail, with which lost the half of the half of its fans, and then I think the writers thought that they hadn't nothing more to lose, so made of season 6 a complete joke, recurring even to use the hypnosis for develop a storyline of "love", and if that is not enough, then we have a terrible wasted finale of 2 hours boring and more boring with most of storylines without closed. And that is how Glee taught us to lose a MOJO, GLEE is a master in this topic. 😢😓😩
It might have gotten worse but it was still a good show
+Laura Molano GLeeK glee should have ended in season two. the second half of three wasn't too bad but the first half was just embarrassing - even worse than the later seasons.
+palefox I disagree, season 3 is masterpiece compared to the whole plot and character development disaster that was the fifth season. It was after the puppets episode when I finally said to myself - that's it, I can't take it anymore.
Boring, autotuned to the point where you can barely tell the voices apart, songs didn't help either. But the thing I hated most is that all these obnoxious characters got great amounts of screen time and eventually a happy ending. To me, celebrating spoiled bitches like Sue or Santana was a clear sign that the audience has jumped the shark as well as the show itself. No wonder the last three seasons ended up being a notorious case of fanservice gone wrong.
***** yeah, s3 was good in comparison to what it became but it was still a terrible season, with the exception of the run up to nationals/graduation. the end of s2 was pretty poor too - it went downhill really fast in 2010.
palefox Some critics say that Glee went downhill from the Pilot and never fully recovered since :) Still, up until the season 4 premiere it was my guilty pleasure and then just became a constant struggle that wasn't really worth it.
Sadly Supernatural :(
That's a minority opinion though. Supernatural is one of those rare shows most people think has stayed consistently good. Many comparisons can be made to X-files since they're similar shows. Whilst Supernatural in later seasons stayed interesting and fun X-files really went off the rails in later seasons.
Mie R My biggest problem (and i think a this goes for a lot of people) is how repetitive supernatural is.
Meagan collins How is it repetitive? CSI is repetitive. But most shows (that aren't police procedurals) can't go on for as long as Supernatural has without changing things up. It's why so many similar shows (like X-files) HAVE lost steam in later seasons. But Supernatural has really done a fantastic job with their lore in creating new and interesting situations and villains to deal with. The major complaint I've heard about Supernatural is it not being repetitive enough (aka, the people who still want the show to be about Sam and Dean on the road). I must say I've never come across someone complaining about the opposite before. o.0
Don't get me wrong i love supernatural, but i'm talking about the theme of angst constantly, I love how caring Sam and Dean are for each other, but every other episode they have a new secret that they never seem to be able to communicate to each other. And then one of them are dying or evil or something. Same with Cas, he's always hiding something from them. It's just getting really tiring, As you said i miss the old episodes where each one was scary and they had a good case.A lot of my friends who watch the show feel the same way.
Mie R I've watched Supernatural since the pilot, and I believe the show lost its luster after Season 5. It got pretty repetitive that I didn't even finish Season 9. I just want the show to end on a high note and not drag on more than it has to. Stop trying fangirl and stop trying to deny the show has lost its mojo.
Unpopular opinion... I still like new simpsons
yup, me too
I do too, honestly I'd say that it hasn't become a bad series, the main issue The Simpsons has is that it's not really trying new things so it feels mediocre a lot of the time. It's not like when I watch modern Family Guy episodes and think it's unwatchable because of how the writers just don't care and try to write the characters as unlikable as possible. In the Simpsons no matter how mediocre the episodes are the family is still at its core a loving family who are there when it matters for each other.
Im with you brother! While yes, its not as great as earlier seasons, its sill incredible how after 26 years I am still laughing. They have become part of my family and a part of me, which is they live on.
some are okay but some u just wanna skip over.
Huh I guess is not that unpopular after all!
Supernatural. It's been going on since 2005. 11 years. The director says there's no set end date.
Talk about beating a dead horse, bringing it back to life, killing the reanimated dead horse's brother, and then one upping them next season.
You're literally fighting god and his sister in this season and now they're going to try to take it up a notch further? Good luck.
I agree. Now there's another show runner, a third one, and he wrote the awful season finale. I'm sure Supernatural won't last too long now. Even one of the actors wants out of it, and I don't blame him.
It was great up until the end of season 5 where it was originally meant to end. They however got new writers in and continued it, I find it okay here and there but for the most part it's really gone down hill.
Whatever you say, dude.
You can't one up the apocalypse.
Agreed! Supernatural is by far my favorite show and has been since 2005. But I've watched the series just get ridiculous. I enjoyed Season 10 somewhat but Season 11... It's time for the Winchesters to put the impala in the garage for good soon because I don't want to have to watch them take on God's uncle Jim or something next season.
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Um ... I still love Survivor.
#1 and #2 are on point though.
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Reality shows ruined tv!
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most of the reason for the decline in wit of the simpsons is because the writers have to compete with unwitty crude humor of south park and family guy. And I think family guy should be on this list as well.
You've clearly either never watched South Park or are too stupid to understand its humor. It may be crude, but it's anything but unwitty. Especially as they get one episode done in 6 days while the Simpsons or Family Guy (Both shows I'm a fan of as well) take 9 months to write, voice, animate and release a single episode. Google "six days to air"" for proof.
Just gonna give my two cents do people actually think that the original episodes of the Simpsons are smart and witty really how is this even a thing its mostly slapstick and toilet humour still good though but i prefer the newer episode
Jack Loader Compared to family guy, south park, American Dad and the rest of its competitors are much more slapstick than the Simpsons is. There are many illusions and hidden messages and meaning the Simpsons that makes it witty.
tnsvictory Again, so does south park. It's witty as fuck if you're smart enough to understand it. Did you watch that episode where Tom Cruise was literally trapped in Stan's closet? Tom Cruise didn't want to come out of the closet!!
Fakus Namus South Park is quick to animate because the graphics are not on par and the voice actors are as rich, famous, and stuck up. But for the real quarrel I have with your comment is that while South Park, like every show, has it's meanings and wit; the majority of every season I watched, the south park game, and the movie have all been "slapstick" and crude humor revolved around daring and nearly sickening (to some people) plots. I enjoy the creativity of South Park, and I love the crude and unrestrained parody once in a while, but South Park just is too materialistic and shit-faced to be taken seriously. Kinda like Robot Chicken, too much of a certain thing is just not good at all.
The real reason that the Simpsons is so appealing is that there are many many many different characters. Everyone can relate to one of those characters at any point in their life, I used to like South Park alot, but there are no characters I can relate too.
the walking dead?
Season 2 and 3 were shit.....part of season 4 but gotta admit the last couple episodes of season 4 were great..if season five sucks............then its over. I just want this show to be good again but my hopes are for the new walking dead series being made.
BITE YOUR TONGUE! Or...hold your fingers. Walking dead season 2 was about the humanity that was left in the world. And all the other season are amazing!
Lion Morris ew season 2 was beyond stupid. Opinions. But seriously it sucked so bad...season 3 was sooooooo BORING...4 was meh...until the last couple episodes which where surprisingly good.
charles scab second half of season 4 was shit and dont expect season 5 to get any better. Worst period in comics
***** aw darn .....well if it doesnt ill just drop this shit and wait for the new show where they have creative freedom.
Heros went left very quickly. Too bad it was a pretty good show
+Max Jerome Ever since I heard about the "Jaw's Effect" I realized there are a lot of other movies/shows that do something similar. They show you a glimpse of what is possible or what could happen but most of the time they don't show you jack crap. You think if a typical person had super powers they would use them as sparingly as the cast of heroes did? I'm not expecting people to run around blowing crap up 24/7 but come on.... lol
Agreed. The show had potential but the storylines kept going in too many directions without a linear direction. Also I hated that the would introduce new people with powers and Skylar would kill them two episodes later. Oh well it certainly didnt hurt the careers of Zach Quinto and Hayden Panitiere
***** Love missed Misfits! This first 2 seasons.
+chapsticky00 But MisFits bounced back over Time.. Season 3 started to be a bit boring but still was epic here and there even without Nathan and Season 4 was the worst but Curtis had the best episodes in it.. BUT SEASON 5 was AWESOME again and closed the show with PROPPER STORYLINES and an awesome developement and the show became an awesome ending
To quote Nostalgia Critic from his Top 11 Simpsons Episodes, " Oh god! Is it still on?!"
Ikr?!
Bravo! xD
I always thought Glee should have just stayed for one season and then stopped. The first season showed a bunch of nobodies and popular kids who still managed to get along, and showed that everybody has problems no matter who they are, but together we can all overcome it. It showed losers that they're not really losers. At the end the thing they tried so hard to get, they didn't win. They just plain lost, the club was even meant to be disbanded. Yeah they were upset, but they were happy that they'd had that time together and didn't regret leaving it all behind.
It was powerful, because it showed you don't have to win if you want to be a winner. There's nothing wrong with that.
The more its gone along, the more it lost that, and now its an upsetting shadow of its former self. I'm sorry to people who don't agree, but I'm used to watching shows that tend not to continue just from its popularity. Things get so off topic that way, and its not enjoyable.
I stopped telling things apart. But the last season I saw was the one I hated the most. It'd lost everything that had made it special, I think I was only watching it by that point because I was being a completionist.
Tifa Lockhart I absolutely loved Glee and I really hoped as s3 was coming to an end they would leave it there. It would've left a good legacy and all that.. it's just so awful now. I really wanted to watch s5 just to complete the show but it became an actual waste of my life so I stopped. It really annoys me these writers only cared about the extra money and has given the show a bad name.
I don't actually remember where I stopped watching anymore. It was where some of them graduated and were out living their lives and they still wouldn't stop it. They even brought in all those other kids to have a sufficient number still at the school. It just wasn't the same anymore, it's meaning was lost. Saying it should've stopped at one season may be a bit extreme, but it's understandable because that's where it's meaning was most apparent.
I think my opinion is affected because I primarily watch anime, which even in Japan, is not watched by everyone. Usually things that have sources like books, comics, etc to base it off are better, and most anime is like that. Because they generally do have a source material and they are severely affected by schedules, many of them only go for a few episodes (12-24), so only about one or two seasons. Of course there are those with a couple hundred episodes, but those are an exception. Because of this they tend not to have the ability to completely lose their point, some of them don't even have the opportunity to get all their point through because companies decide they won't be very popular before they air and they're altered to a be a shorter series.
Coming from a situation like that, it's extra annoying for me when I see shows still going just for the money. I've even seen it happen with a book series that was perfectly fine at one book, so it has 13.
My main problem with the direction it went is that instead of choosing songs to fit the episode they just chose a theme and tried to shoe horn it in to the story. Case in point the Rocky Horror episode. That was painful to watch,
DrunkenPrayer The songs were plainly better earlier on. I just don't like dragging things on since I generally watch shorter series. It felt like Glee did that.
The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother should have made the list or at least have gotten a mention.
Agreed specialy for Himym
Jene' Walker Well when it's like the only sitcom on tv that appeals to most of joe public, it isn't all that hard to be no. 1.
This is an average episode of Big Bang:
1. Sheldon has a problem with something
2. Talks to Amy about his problem
3. Amy makes joke about not having sex
4. All 4 boys in cafeteria at uni, wollowitz makes sarcastic joke
5. Sheldon says "that was was sarcasm?" and then does that retarded laugh
6. Leonard talks to penny, penny talks about girly shit or country shit, whatever the episode needs her to be that week.
7. Sheldon then tries to enact plan
8. Plan doesn't work out
9.HILARITY ENSUES
10. Show just ends, no wrap up or resolution. It just ends.
[Insert Bazingas, Nerdy references, "science stuff", howards mother and raj being pervy for filler].
Was TBBT even good to begin with?
Don't forget Modern Family
starkiller23610 Nope
Survivor does not belong here at all. The show has gotten BETTER over the years.The last 4 years have been a Renaissance for Survivor. The show was never about actual survival, it was always about "who was voting for who". That's what makes every season different and unique. It's not just the same crap over and over again like "Naked and Afraid" for example.
GanondorfBowserHatch 100% agreed.
Then why set it on an island every season? Why not do the same concept, but set it somewhere else?
@@dhenderson1810 Actually, although nowadays they stay in Fiji, seasons 1-32, they travel to new locations. Like some of them were such different settings and they weren't all beaches.
This is why people should stop asking for "Breaking Bad Season 6"
Absolutely, you can also say the same about Avatar: The Last Airbender, Teen Titans (the 2003 show, not that crap they have now), and (at least in my opinion) the Twilight Zone.
I so agree the story was getting VERY stale like in season 4 i was just like... dafuq is this shit? nothing is happening... AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED about skylar.... She's like lisa in the simpsons.... when they start focusing on her the show is just SHIT.
Humpsterlicious Skyler is probably one of the best characters in the show, I'm sorry, she just is.
Anthony Fish Well, the last episode of the Teen Titans really f*cked me up, I was like "WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING? Why Terra doesn't remember Beast Boy? Why was Slade a robot? Where does the white monster comes from?" If wish they never aired that episode and just let "Titans forever" as the last episode.
Ikr? Buffy the Vampire Slayer would be remembered perfectly had it ended at Season 5. (Though I personally like Season 6, but most people don't). Which is why I just wish shows would end on a high rather than being like Supernatural which is trying to push a stale storyline into its tenth season.
Lost for sure. No show has pissed me off more than that show. I usually enjoy anything I watch but that show after the third season just became annoying as hell.
Lost was awesome all the way through
Lost was good right until the finale...
I LOVED series 1 and 2, and I enjoyed series 3, but I really didn't like the rest of it :/ Such a shame, it could have been great if they didn't put too many mysteries in it that they couldn't explain.
Why the actual fuck is Nicki Minaj on ANY, type of talent show?
King of the Dwarves So..?
King of the Dwarves Doesn't change the fact that she's devoid of any musical talent.
The producers were getting desperate.
***** I suppose.
What are you talking about? She's the perfect person to host a soulless-lack-of-talent show like American Idol.
man the Simpsons is still awesome
Yeah and when you compare it to Family Guy, it still has a sense of dignity. I'm one of those people who defends The Simpsons because to its credit while the modern episodes are flawed, I will give the Simpsons credit that it gets creative and unpredictable with its writing and jokes, and it still does have a sense of heart and dignity and the crew behind at least try. With Family Guy, it looks like they're not even trying from its lack of jokes, lack of fun, entertaining and likeable characters, how repetitive its become like always starting with the Griffins watching TV and the TV saying, "We now return to____" and how Family Guy has became just boring.
Compared to Family Guy, yes. Alone, it sucks.
Sometimes Yes. Sometimes No. Depending upon what the episode is about. Still you're right about The Simpsons. It's absolutely not as painful as Family Guy.
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS DID NOT LOSE ITS MOJO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey
Nah it sucks now
Right. It never had any to begin with.
I would agree. I'm obviously not a constant viewer, but I've seen new episodes while my daughter watched it that were nearly as good as the episodes I remembered. Still, episode one was a glorious, completely retarded, masterpiece of children's programming.
It really has though, the jokes have become so stale now and the plots are so half assed compared to earlier seasons. Though, the comment about the movie was so wrong. The movie was one of the last good things to come from Spongebob and was even well received.
WatchMojo lost their Mojo... just kiddin' or am i?
* cough cough * walking dead * cough cough* *throws up*
That overrated show never had moho to begin with imo.
It was good until about season 3 (?) when they found the prison.
*****
I hate it because almost nothing great happens unless someone dies or they're some plot twist. Also, this hype about zombie shit and all is really stupid.
TEC1
Indeed, generic Zombie-Stuff
*****
Right, its not even CREATIVE Zombie Stuff, just the stereotypical shit
I must be the only person in the world to enjoy every seasons of Dexter. Sure last wasn't awesome, and makes some odd choices, but I still enjoyed it.
I loved it till the end
It fell apart at The Trinity Killer... let alone the following seasons. That aside, we can all agree the finale was absolute garbage.
ronnor001 .he's gonna butcher those damn bears.
Why isn't True Blood in this list?
PalmurcioWorld Look into your heart. Was True Blood ever good?
Zefo No I liked the first and the second season. Then it was messed up but I at least I enjoyed the witch season. But season 5 was bad, maybe entertainment but bad and season 6 and the last one were not only bad also boring, VERY boring. I couldn't even finished a lot of episodes, I skipt the most of the last one, I was falling asleep with that one.
PalmurcioWorld Short answer: cause it never had mojo.
Felipe Nachmanowicz Because even though in my opinion it was a good series maybe except for the last series as it was tedious, it wasnt exactly popular especially when compared to the shows on this list
PalmurcioWorld or stargate?
Heroes was fucking awesome! I loved that show! Peter, Sylar and Hiro...loved them!
The first season of Heroes was absolutely epic - but its undenieable that it all just went downhill from there. I still watched and liked the other seasons but it just didnt manage to get as good as the first one.
It's coming back next year :D
First season: amazing.. second season: alright.. third season: this is terrible. fourth season: god end this now
In season1 they made the characters too powerful, which they tried to fix in later seasons, but the damage was already done.
Also, I think in season two,they pretty much resurrected one guy(father of the cheerleader)with a blood transfusion. So,you cured death,and just forgot about it.
surprised there wasnt any HIMYM
I never liked that show at the beginn XD
DasKame I did, but it became crappy the last few seasons, especially the last one
RobsReviews
Nah, it was way to Formular for me, but i nver liked "Friends" too
HIMYM was actually very well liked throughout all eight seasons, and I think most people will tell you that it was always fairly strong throughout all of them. People only really got sour to the show after the finale let everyone down.
That tv show was a total waste of time. Yes every season their was two or three good episodes but the rest was shit. Old jokes and the reliance on Barney to throw a joke was annoying ! And the ending ! It's Was a total bs
In my opinion, Heroes was not that bad. The 5th volume wasn't the best, but it was still good, and I don't think Heroes deserves all that hate
+EmoKat I think it was hurt pretty badly by the screenwriters' protests during its second season, which cut it in half. Personally I found 3rd chapter (1st half of s3) to be a decent comeback, but chapters 4 and 5 were when it went downhill for good for me.
+Jyggalag yeah, I think it started to lose its mojo when Peter's powers changed. Like, he was so OP and powerful, but then he became ordinairy
+Jyggalag for me the show barely even hold my interest to the end of 1st season, thus I never bothered with 2nd season. Remember very well how much advertised and hyped the series was though....
Oh well, atleast every one of these series did better than the biggest fail in TV-history....Terra Nova. Intersting setting and biggest budget in history of TV-shows wasted by terrible script writing and utterly uninteresting characters (why the fuck they had to turn it into your average family drama, that no-one cares about, I cant understand)
I loved the original heroes, but when they restarted it with Heroes Reborn, the show made me cringe. I knew it wouldn't make it past 1 season.
I agree with you, but don't think there was a 5th season, it ended in season 4 as far as I remember.
Family Guy. That is all.
An honorable mention max in this case...
The EYGMAN I don't think the Simpsons has went gone as bad as Family Guy, at least the Simpsons is watchable.
Haruhi Suzumiya thats why we have Cleveland show
***** I stand by the opinion that Family Guy HAD some good episodes, but yeah, it's...not good now. I think WatchMojo left it off the list for fear of their lives, though.
Family Guy was never that great though. It is bad sometimes, at moments it is absolutely hilarious but most of the time it's just sort of... "Meh".
Sesame Street--When Elmo became the "star" in the mid-90s!
Shows that started amazing but turned to shit: (personal opinion)
How I Met Your Mother (after Season 6)
Spongebob (after the movie)
Dexter (finale)
Scrubs (Season 9)
Fairly Odd Parents (After Poof was born)
Family Guy
metallicak5 Heroes (halfway through Season 2)
metallicak5 Poof is slang in Australia for being a gay!
metallicak5 Family Guy after season 4
I definitely agree that HIMYM turned to shit after season 6!
American horror story lost it at freak show
+Austin Mead Anything Ryan Murphy makes turn to shit after a couple seasons.
i sorta agree about AHS ... Although the first season was good the next two not so much freak show was great and the newest season hotel is hard to want to watch
agreed!!
more like Hotel
I agree. I'm trying to watch but so far have only watched 3 or 4 episodes.
Despite the lack of focus of The Simpsons' episodes, if I was forced to choose, I'd pick that over Family Guy. Family Guy's been fucking stale for many years. And Quagmire, one of the show's more well-known characters, is as tired as the show itself. Plus, at least the Simpsons gave us Halloween episodes for years. Also, I'm surprised Lost didn't make it on the list. After the first season, shit went downhill from there when it became increasingly clear that the writers and producers didn't know where the fuck the show was going. If you have to announce, three seasons in (half way through the series) that you're going to conclude the show in three more seasons, then you know people are tired of your bullshit. But, to me, tv in general lost it. In the last few years, I've watched less and less of it. For around a year now, I've only watched about an hour a week of Shark Tank. That's it. I've actually considered getting rid of my tv. I don't even watch tv shows online, which it why I scoff when I see these fucking networks or sites based on subscription, expecting people like me to pay to watch these shows on their platforms. Like, "why the fuck would I pay to watch this bullshit on your site, if I didn't care to watch it for free?"
Interesting. There is a strong consensus that TV is in a new golden age right now, with better quality shows that are even more lucrative than movies. So, I would say that TV hasn't lost it.
withlove312 People have always expressed the sentiments of the "golden age in television" for decades, even going back to 1950s. So this sentiment isn't new. No generation wants to declare that something sucks under their era. It's the reason why you have Generation X'ers and the Baby Boomers before them, bitching about Generation Y'ers/Millenials supposedly being "lazy" and "spoiled," despite the fact that they fucked up the economy and sold the succeeding generation's future to lobbyists and corporations for political and personal gain, all the while they enjoy their social security checks. Add to this, Americans are too dependent and reliant on their information about the world through the US media notoriously known for its propaganda and programming and molding people's views on social, economic and political issues. Like the militarization of America. You see and hear slogans, even on daytime talk shows, vomit the sentiments of "support the troops." No, they're fucking US Murderers and Terrorists. It sucks. Television sucks.
Batman The news is irrelevant in the case I am trying to make, and a whole other kettle of fish I'm not getting into. I'm talking about fictional entertainment. And the accepted golden age for television was in the 1950s. There may have been others who claimed different eras as a "golden age," but those claims have not gathered traction and thus shouldn't be taken seriously. The 90s was considered the golden age of sitcom for obvious reasons.
But that is beside the point. If you don't watch a lot of tv, and by your own admission you don't, and all you do watch are cherry-picked things you don't like, I don't understand how you can claim something as grand as "TV sucks," because the evidence is against you. The production values, writing, acting talent and so forth have increased dramatically and so has the diversity of shows. That's all.
withlove312 Television programming is programming period. It doesn't matter whether the program is news or "fictional entertainment." It programs and molds the American mind to think a certain way that has often created negative perceptions, outright stereotypes and propaganda among its American and international audiences. Cinema does this too with its portrayal of Native Americans, Middle Easterners, Asians, etc.
Batman So, in other words... you have no argument?? Again, not saying anythings that negates what I say with reason. You're just making ideological points. -_- I'm out.
Survivor was never about the survival aspect, it was always about the gameplay.
Gameplay? What are we, playing COD?
Larry Morgan Survivor is a GAME show that involves strategy in order to win.
I know, but gameplay seems a little out of place in that sentence. Plus saying SURVIVOR was never about SURVIVING is just silly.
If you want the gameplay watch Big Brother but the production on that is kind of annoying. There are some seasons though like, seasons 6, 10, 14, and 16
Larry Morgan It's about surviving the vote. If it was about surviving in terms of not dying, then it would literally be the hunger games. Or battle royale or whatever.
Make the top 10 UA-cam Channels that lost their mojo, you should be the number 1 guys, sure!
Tobuscus too
Pewdiepie.
Smosh definitely
All of you guys can suck my ass cos all these are awesome channels
sam cunningham fuck u they suck like you
7:00
"Anything after season 3 is, well, just not 'sponge worthy'..."
+Citrus Borne I just loved this Seinfeld reference XD
That one made me think about Elaine...
(I think about Elaine a LOT!).
+Citrus Borne Hahaha that Seinfeld reference!
Family Guy got worse after season 8. It resorted to cut-away gags to pad the runtime, numerous personality changes to its main cast, tacked on social commentary, unfunny humor, and let's not forget that infamous stunt Seth McFarlane pulled in killing off Brian, and bringing him back again via time travel. Even that Simpsons crossover premiering season 13 proved unredeemable.
Really? Did you find them insulting every last religious person on the planet funny? How about that horrible message to abuse victims in Seahorse Seashell Party, did you find that funny?? Or how about them using incest by having Peter marry his own fucking SON?!?! You must've found that just hilarious right?
family guy doesn't funny moments anymore it has just turned into the worst adult cartoon show
This list was posted back in 2014. The current season (32) and previous season (31) of Survivor are up there with their best ever. It's had a resurgence of late and most fans would agree it's def got it's mojo back.
the show is stupid
Grey's Anatomy???? Hello????
+Jose Luis Vazquez ...That show seriously wore out it's welcome years ago, DAMN that used to be a great show. Grey was charming and cute, now she's always moody and angry now, the show lost it's charm the same way ER did.
Grey's Anatomy is still amazing
amazing? not really, OK...yes
+bigbabysld but ER still had awesome comeback episodes/Seasons t shine again and the final few seasons (12 to 15) were epic
What are you thinking? Survivor is about the strategy and not about surviving in the wild. Its not "Naked and Afraid"... come on now
that's why its's called survivor. to SURVIVE in the wild! it's not called "Strategy"
Really? Not How I Met Your Mother? Simpsons? SERIOUSLY?!! Ok, stupid list after stupid list after stupid list... It's time to say goodbye
You know people vote on the lists right?
They barely go off of the votes
rollerman95 How I Met Your Mother??? LOL Bye! You won't be missed, by literally anyone..xD
If you don't like it, then vote. Viewers vote on every single list before it comes out.
I agree with rollerman95 Not about How I Met Your Mother - IMO if bowed out gracefully - like it or not. But the Simpsons? Or, any of the two or three shows that are still on the air. And just because people voted on it does not make them right nor does it say "you don't get an opinion because other people voted." Some of these list do have a "what the hell are you thinking" factor - so if it isn't WM, then the question goes to the people who voted. Everyone has a right to their opinion, and just because someone disagrees does not mean they are 'haters" or deserve such nonsense like "leave the feed." If you only watch what you "agree" with, perhaps you should get out more and try to think for yourself for a change. What the hell is the fun of a world where everyone agrees on everything?
top 10 shows that ended too soon
top 10 shows that ended at just the right time
and which list does breaking bad win?
just right time
***** disagree well written and incredible plot twists.
Braking Bad ended just right, one more season and it would have bombed bad.
Commenting before watching, American Idol needs to be on this list.
I am pleased.
Scrubs is another contender for this list, with it's last season completely changing the cast for the worse.
Oh and Skins, first two seasons were great 3rd and 4th okay 5th and 6th horrible.
I love Scrubs so much but I couldn't watch the first episode of season 9 without cringing
Possibly, but most of this list the shows had several seasons to really go down hill. Scrubs was very strong for 8 seasons.
Matthew Rowland
Thats true atleast they let scrubs die with it's dignity after realising their horrible mistake.
Yeah, but it's hard to count season 9 of Scrubs as an actual Scrubs season. It was basically a spin-off with some of the regular characters either making guest appearances or sadly becoming a main character. Scrubs will always have just 8 seasons to my friends and I. Season 9 was just season 1 of Scrubs: Med Students
Heroes is a source of great frustration for me because the first season was very well done and the series had a mountain of potential. The instead of sticking to their own formula they started to stumble all over the place and repeatedly break continuity getting worse and worse.
Well Heroes Reborn is coming soon. Lets hope that eases the pain a little for those of us that watched Heroes destroy itself.
To be fair they got screwed by the Writer Strike and lost a lot of great potential with that.
TheCinemaJudge Many good shows got fucked by the writer strike sadly :'(
I agree, i hope that the new series coming out in the fall of 2015 is as good as series 1 (^_^)
Make mine a double Really??? OMG
Lost, Law and Order, Secret Life of an American Teenager, King of the Hill, Ghost Hunters, Supernatural, Wipeout, Fear Factor, Prison Break, The Mentalist, Home Improvement-Makeover Edition, Man vs Wild, Dual Survival, Hell's Kitchen
I agree, add Walking Dead (though it thought it was never good) Bones and ALL COP SHOWS AND SOAP OPREAS
right on dual survivor what kind of a moron take keeps a show going after a host gets fired and to make it even worse the other original host left it should've been canceled 2 seasons ago
InfiniteIdeas Just.....no.
Lost? No way. All the shows on this list went to sh*t because they overstayed their welcome. Lost had a 6 season plan from the very start, and executed it perfectly. Fanboys like to sh*t on it because they didn't answer EVERY single mystery, but why does everything need to be spoon fed to them like children? But that never changed the fact the writing was every bit as good in the final season as it was in the first.
InfiniteIdeas you're trolling right?
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what about grogvand that cartoon was complete crap
This episode is too similar to the top 10 shows that jumped the shark
What about WatchMojo?
C5ONUTUBE Hehe, don't know what your askin buddy.
What about Family Guy most people know as of 2014 it is less fresh then The Simpsons
Putting The X-Files and Dexter next to Survivor and American Idol. That makes total sense.
Obvious choice for #1 is Prison break. It lost its Mojo after the first season finale when the writers suddenly realized (much too late) that a show called "Prison Break" needed its cast to be in prison planning a break out and could not work with them out on the loose. Epic fail of a show.
Lol yep. The first season was awesome though. Still ranks as one of the best seasons of a show I've watched. So addictive.
Season 2 actually worked pretty well too. It involved the trying to get away. Leaving the prison is just the start.
After season 2 though it started to become crap
tuvoksg1 Actually Prison break list me mid season. Just way too many wacky coincidences. It was like - oh, come one, even if he was pathologically meticulous, he couldn't have thought of that.
If only it was a one season show.
They missed the biggest one of all THE OFFICE.
True
Should have ended when Michael Scott left.
The US remake was never quite as good as the original, through no fault of the cast, though.
True. Good thing the last few episodes were great. They wrapped up the series nicely. At least in my opinion.
aizat27
Agree - from Paper Airplane they were all good. Michael Imperioli as Dwight's Karate kuru cracked me the hell up
Your choice of spongebob saying it lost its mojo is utter BULL for 1 it's still airing today & everyone still loves spongebob just as much as they did the first day he hit our tv's + there was absolutely nothing wrong with the movie so I think you should do more research before making these type of videos, its not the first time you've been waay off field with some of you're accusations
Are you kidding? Spongebob was great, but the new episodes just suck.
Nah I'd have to disagree with you there dude, spongebob will never be boring.....never been anything but positivity
Yeah I agree, I watched Spongebob as a kid, and now my 3 kid's still enjoy it as well. was legitimately surprised to see it on this list. that as well as the Simpsons, but I suppose it's all subjective.
CanadianRM4 Silence America's hat!!!
I agree because all my friends are making fun of me for watching it and I'm like hey it's a good show its progressively getting better with each episode it's the only show that I watch beside awkward on mtv, adventure time and regular show (Cartoon Network), and teen moms
Hate to say it but Once Upon a Time. It started losing it's mojo around season 3 and I feel like 6 should be the last season.
As WatchMojo is always biased towards American shows I'm not surprised it isn't on here, but Primeval on itv was definitely a show that lost its mojo here in the UK.
Yes
Well most of the shows that are watched in the UK and here in Ireland are American. So its understandable why the list is mostly American shows. But they are Canadian so they would have considered shows on BBC and ITV. Also most British shows end before they lose their Mojo or keep the show going strong like Doctor Who for example (well we'll see after the current series ends).
Considering watchmojo is american, i doubt they think anything else than america exists, like any american.
SuperPopcornPopper
Watchmojo is Canadian.
JakeHMW I wasn't complaining about anything, I was just making a statement that from a British perspective, Primeval would have been one of the shows that would be on there for us.
And I believe sleazybtd is right and it's a Canadian Company.
The Simpsons is one of the only shows that got better with time.
And I was expecting Lost and Prison Break to be on the list.
Prison Break was so good for the first two seasons, and then got really, really bad when they put him back in prison to escape again, and then bring down some government conspiracy.
And I didn't even make it through Season 2. Season 1 was just too good for me. It was hard to top that.
IveGotToast yeah I agree, the whole government conspiracy and the company and all that bullshit, took the concept too far but I guess they had to do something, I mean he couldnt just keep getting put in prison and breaking out season after season or could he???? hmm?
Prison break yes... lost? Lost is for me the best tv show of all time.
root8ble Ok. I never watched Lost. I just heard that the fans were greatly disappointed by the end.
LOST for me :S amazing first season, all downhill from there.
also Prison Break, but at least they stopped relatively fast compared to some.
WillPG1212 LOST? I'd say as the show went on it got better
yeah you arent the only one who thinks so. i think the majority agrees with you.
WillPG1212 Well if you were looking for a show about surviving on an island the first season was great but yea as the show went on it got more philosophical with stuff.
i wasnt looking for anything particular. i just didnt like the direction it took is all.
WillPG1212 i guess I get where you're coming from, in general though Lost tended to pick up as the seasons went on
Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars, American Horror Story and Grey's Anatomy definitely belong on this list.
I saw that Grey's Anatomy was still making new episodes and I was like "Bitch this ain't 2006"
American horror story becomes worse and worse lol
Chris The Awesome it should've ended at season 10 honestly
Hold the phone, the SpongeBob Movie was pretty damn good as far as I'm concerned.
Survivor? Really? The strategy - who is voting for who - is what makes that show so good. If it was all about building fires and shelters and such, then nobody would have watched it for more than a few seasons. What would be the point?
Why set it on an island every season then?
I'm not surprised of The Simpsons taking the top spot.
What will it take for The Simpsons to FINALLY exit the airwaves?
REALLY LOW ratings?
Creators pulling the plug?
Fox pulling the plug?
After two decades on the air, the only things that keep this show interesting are the guest voice appearances by celebs and the annual Treehouse of Horror episode.
They should really ditch the celebrity's and use the budget for better writers
The show is probably going to outlive its creator at this point.
I agree, you have to draw the line somewhere.
I say they've come this far to 3 decades....so season 30 will probably be the last.
The stranger I have up until Season 10 on DVD. I listened to every commentary. And you could tell how much fun they had. They even told stories on how just reading the scripts at the table made them laugh.
If anyone there has an ounce of honesty can´t tell that the series is funny anymore. And like I said it´s not that they don´t make you laugh anymore it´s just that they can´t even make you smile.
But, you want to know how The Simpsons can make you sick? Try living in Spain. Here, since series started back in 1989 have never, EVER, stopped being broadcast.
...and you´ll say: "Like everywhere".
Not precisely. I mean that they show 2 episodes daily all days of the week (yes, all 7 days no matter if there´s a holiday or not). And to make matters worse since a couple or so years ago they´ve started airing 2 more episodes daily. That´s 4 Simpsons episodes daily; 28 episodes per week, 1,460 episodes per year.
What happens when they´ve reached the current Season? Easy. Start over from episode 1.
...and trust me. People watch them every single time.
Once Upon a Time, Supernatural, Vampire Diaries, Nashville. That's my list. I tried to keep watching, even forced myself for a few years to keep on going with Supernatural and Vampire Diaries, but it's just not the same. It's sloppy, and boring, and seems like every episode is just a dice thrower.
I agree except for once upon a time the first 2 seasons sere goos the 3rd lost but the 4th got me back in it.
Nah Supernatural is still great. Okay I gotta admit that season 7-10 were kind of pointless and boring but season 11 is great!
lol supernatural became bad after 2 seasons???lol read wiki after first two seasons supernatural became awesome to be honest!!!!and is still great!!
He said Once upon a time......lolertard
+Aimée Stylinson-Phan lol season 11
Dexter only has one bad season which is its final season. Even though some seasons, like season 2, aren't at the same quality as the rest of the show, it's still in all a fantastic show. Also I think Prison Break should had been on this list since its third season is unnecessary, and its fourth season is absolutely terrible.
You really like Season 6? The episode with Dexter's brother was abhorrable.
KingBowserVlog The idea of that episode was good, but its execution was terrible. Like I said there are some seasons where the quality dips, and that the last season is an abomination, but in all it's a great show.
Heisenberg Dexter went downhill after season 4, Maybe because season 4 was genius and season 5 was…. meh. Gosh I hated Lumen. Kinda sad. Still one of my fav Tv Shows
Miss Headlines Really? Lumen was one of my favorite characters, and yeah the season before her appearance was the pinnacle of the series. I hated Hannah.
I think the worst season was season 7. I kinda liked the last one.
Personally, I thought Heroes was great throughout all of the seasons.
I thought Season 1 and 3 were great, 2 was just okay, 4 was garbage. Hopefully Reborn is like 1 and 3.
i disliked season 4 for a few resons.
1) they couldn't get rid of actors ex. keep bringing back ice girl. (her son as well)
2) telepath guy is a terible character the only purpose he surved was the inception thing in the finale. and yet he is still focussed on way too much.
3) good Villains but the final fight season 4 sucked.
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CSI Las Vegas is still going on. It CSI New York and Miami that are gone.
Those 2 should of been on the list instead of the one you guys just showed.
***** win^^
+shadownumber206
They actually don't chose the picks themselves based on their own personal opinion, they have votes online.
+Shadownumber206
I guess it's time you Find another channel that makes top ten videos then.
expecting smallville. but i guess it doesnt count since it redeemed itself in teh last 2 seasons.
LOST. Was great thru season 2, then plummeted in quality. It was also _THE_ show at the time.
Season 3 was weaker than average, but seasons 4-6 were gold.
#1 The Simpsons, I call it.
Nailed it!
Nice
WatchMojo used to flat out WORSHIP that show!
I'm surprised that Grey's Anatomy and Ugly Betty weren't on this list. Or maybe it was just me who lost interested in them? SNL should be up here as well. It has it's moments, but really has lost it's mojo. Also The Game. It was great as a comedy then they changed it to a drama and that's when it went downhill.
My favorite actor/doctor was killed off on Grey's Anatomy, I stopped watching after that.
MsCartoon23 McSteamy?
magickmidget
Yes, he was awesome, and the actor who plays him (I'm to lazy to look it up right now) is much hotter than McDreamy. In my opinion. I was heartbroken when he got killed off...
I disagree about "Ugly Betty," but I wholeheartedly agree about "Grey's Anatomy" and "The Game." They've just gotten horrible. I stopped watching "Grey's..." after Izzie started hallucinating about Denny's ghost, and I quit on "The Game" after they moved to BET.
agreed
Prision Break went on for waaaaay to long, should have had a dishonourable mention at least.
Prison Break was solid right up until the end though. The first season is still by far the best but I wouldn't really say it lost steam. It really didn't go on long enough to lose steam either...
I think I gave up on Prison Break a few episodes into season 2.
Used to love the Simpsons, haven't watched an episode in five years
me either ... I went off it around seasons 6 might have been 5 ... lol been too long since I watched it... I play the game though LOL the one on the phone
After the movie came out, it began to decline in quality
Same here. I don't watch anything past season 15 at the latest.
i havent watched in 15 years.
The Simpsons should end after their 25th season. Family Guy is getting up there as well. Their crossover episode was evidence of that.
they are on their 26th season idiot. and not happening, expect it to go onto 30.
I thought the episode 2 of 26 season was great.
The Simpsons should have ended after season 10.
Juguis S You need to STFU and GTFO
Family Guy officially jumped the shark when they killed off Brian last season only to bring him back 3 episodes later; there's a difference between jumping the shark and losing your mojo...
Not even an honorable mention for WatchMojo.com?
Lmao yes
I thought Heroes was great. Especially it's season 4 finale which was a accidental perfect end to the series.
Heroes fall Season after Season after Season, sadly
season 1 was epic,season 2 was ok it had flaws due to the WGA strike and season 3 yes i will admit that it really disappointed me, but season 4 was really damn good
I loved season 1 and season 2 was okay but by the 3rd season it was obvious that they were struggling to continue with a show that they really only had one season of original writing for. I've never wanted to see season 4...
season 4 was open ended. there's a preview for volume 6 so I guess it's nit the perfect end. BUT I LOVE THE SERIES SO MUCH. the 1st season just presented so much potential and when people did not see what they wanna see they started ditching it, which just sucks
@Pharaoh Islands to be more precise volume 3 was...not really a disaster but more like a disapointment
Fun fact: The reason why _Spongebob Squarepants_ sucks now is because creator Stephen Hillenburg (R.I.P.) intended for the 2004 movie to be the series finale. But the movie proved so successful, that _Nickelodeon_ asked for more episodes and that was out of Hillenburg's hands, so he resigned as creator until he returned for the 2015 movie _The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water._