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Honestly I never hated anything as much as I hate How I Met Your Mother ending... It just didn't make sense for me. All that time building up Barney's and Robin's realitionship just to destroy it in few minutes and pushing her back to Ted wasn't right. I mean come on...
I 100% agree. They spent the entire season showing they belong together from him talking about him pursuing her to him telling her the truth about the locket. They loved each other. And to throw that away in an hour was awful!!!
When did they build up Barney and Robin's relationship again? The time that being with each other made them both miserable or the time they cheated on their lovers, and swore to break up in order to be with each other, only for Robin to stab Barney in the back and stay with Kevin? Only buildup that spells out is DOOM!
The mother dying wasn't the problem. They teased for years that the mother was dead. It was the whole Barney and Robin relationship they had been building up for years and spent an entire season getting then married only for them to be divorced within the first 15 minutes of the finale because of really stupid reasoning, just so Ted could get back with Robin.
The idea that there was something wrong with the mother was never established early on in the series. Hell, they even joked with Stella being the mother in one episode, and she didn't appear til season 3. Producers didn't even know who they wanted to have as the mother til after season 4.
I still love HIMYM Tbh.. But They really shouldn't have seperated Barney and Robin, The entire final season was based on d wedding and the last episode they throw it all away!
I feel sorry for Barney. Sure, he's a womanizer but you can see his feeling to Robin is real and the fact he wants kids while Robin hates kids piss me off. And the final moment when he's carrying a baby really show that he wants a family on his own so bad.
The sad thing is Barney really tried to accommodate and adapt himself in Robin's lifestyle so she could follow her dreams, but she took him for granted and then when he finally has enough she thinks maybe they weren't meant to be together. At least Barney got his happy ending. AND as the "Lobster Theory" proved Robin only wants things she can't have. Who else is to say she wouldn't later divorce ted because she wants to "be free again"? That's why i hate her character so much, She NEVER did anything for anyone (or if she did, it as like 3 or 5 times) yet almost everyone had to sacrify something for her (and even an episode showed her as the self-centered person she is now that she has an engagement ring)
I had loved Aria and Ezra's romance. I thought they did the "forbidden love" trope really well by having it portrayed as two people in unfortunate circumstances that couldn't resist their feelings for each other no matter how much they tried to stay away and respected each other to wait until Aria was 18 to do the big do. The whole thing started because he thought she was in college. But then all of the sudden somebody decided it would be brilliant to make Ezra a stalker who approached the girls knowing who they were??? all to write a book???? (which completely contradicted everything in prior seasons, as if continuity errors weren't annoying enough) and turned Ezra into a predator and a creep with priors ruining anything that was potentially romantic about their relationship. I'm still mad.
How I Met Your Mother left such a horrible taste in my mouth. The last season was already weak except for the resolutions, but then the last episode basically retconned all our expectations
Sarah Olivier Theoretically, maybe. But, logistically (among a ton of other things) it doesn’t at all... www.google.com/amp/s/amp.thisisinsider.com/why-dan-humphrey-cant-be-gossip-girl-2017-9
if i recall didnt Ted reject Robins offer to get back together on her wedding day or something. i mean seriously that last season was even convincing us that Ted and Robin are not meant for each other. then suddenly im meant to believe she was the one after all. they tried to do the Ross and Rachel from Friends but failed. i mean that show atleast showed us why the couple were meant for each other
Newhart's dream ending was brilliant. It was a joke on Dallas, and the fact that they recreated The Bob Newhart Show complete with his old bedroom, and even brought back Suzanne Pleschette for that one scene, was hilarious.
Legion - Exactly... the only thing I can watch (and enjoy immensely) is Barney's video of Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit But ANY of the reruns? Nope - they are all ruined.
You know what frustrated me the most? The end of Barney and Robin's marriage. I mean,I'm still thinking if they were a good match since Robin hesitated before the ceremony. But what the worst for me is, is what Barney was doing after the end of their marriage. Like he's changed, why was he back with his old habits? But I loved his words to his daughter. Sometimes I think that maybe I should re-watch the series because I was 20 when it ended so maybe I was immature and now it would make more sense to me but I'm not sure.
Anika... I'm well older. Nope - you were wise; go with your instinct. It stunk! I thought Barney and Robin were always a better match. They should have stayed with it. And instead ended with the mom coming in and telling Ted - - "OMG! That's your favorite story... let them GO already!" and then they host a evening party with Barney/ Robin and Marshall/Lilly. They sit around a kitchen table laughing over beers as it fades to black. Not the most dramatic - but satisfying.
I'm okay with the mother being dead at the end of it, that to me was okay and made sense. However, I do think that Ted going after Robin again was a mistake. The whole show they did allude that they were more than friends, but every time they were in a relationship it didn't work for many reasons. The whole 9th season dealt with Ted having to let go of Robin, but then he just falls back into her. They were never a happy, perfect couple and they had many differences that didn't work, which made the ending seem weird. I felt that after the show was over, if the story continued, Ted would fall in love with Robin again and it wouldn't work out again, leaving him even more crushed. I love Robin and how the character was written, but it was clear she was not right for Ted. However, I am okay with the mother (Tracy) being dead, even though I wished they developed her more and we got to know more about her. The whole series, there were no perfect, happy endings for anyone, and that's not always how life works. Even if Ted went through a lot during the series, it doesn't mean everything in his life will be perfect just because he got married. It also gives a reason why Ted is telling the story, I know it's years later, but I still think it's something Ted would do for his kids. with that being said, Victoria is the best girlfriend Ted ever had
I agree. I think Victoria would have been a good person for him. Robin and Ted were great friends but they were so different and wanted different things. I hated the ending too. I could have gotten behind the mother dying but the fact they pushed him into Robin's arms again annoyed me.
Brett Daigle If Ted had to be with someone after Tracy's death, it should've been Victoria. Robin and Ted weren't meant for each other, they were too different to make it work long-term. Ted had way more chemistry with Victoria and the writers made her into Emily from Friends.
I think Ted and Robin getting together in the end is actually justified more than we realize. In season 7 I believe, Ted and Robin are talking at Punchy’s wedding I believe, and Ted is down because he can’t find “the one” and Robin tells him that there are two things that need to happen for that to happen to him. Chemistry and Timing. She then says that he definitely has chemistry but the timing hasn’t been right. In a way, that was foreshadowing to the ending of the show. Ted and Robin always had chemistry but now in the year 2030, the timing is finally correct, as Robin is now living in New York after experiencing the whole world with her work. The only thing that I still disagree with is how her and Barney got divorced so quickly after devoting a whole season to their wedding
@@tammy3545 I think it's established knowledge that had the series ended after season 1, Victoria would've been the mother. That's why she was the best girlfriend for Ted
If you wish, only keep the its of Ted almost going to Chicago, then his meeting with Tracy, and put a voiceover over all the important episodes and your own explanation about why the story kept focusing on robin (Say, the Mother almost died, but Robing offered herself to save her in a surgery, and both made it Ok; OR say Ted was diagnozed with Alzeheimer, or something; OR my favorite to imagine: Ted suddenly stops the story, summarizes what his kids did after telling the story for the first time, and now asking WHy they wanted to hear the stor a second time. They say "To Stall" and they drive him to meet the gang and tracy to celebrate the anniversary planned by tracy to recreate that moment. THEN we get the recreation of the moment and the first meeting shown back to back PLUS cameos of the gang in the "present")
It's only stupid if you weren't paying attention to the show. They were alluding to that for years before the show ended. It was always what they were going for, and they gave lots of clues. Plenty of RUclips videos to show they did it. It's fine if you didn't like it, but it's not dumb.
Ending killed the whole show for me... hey let's develop Barney, no nevermind back to being a whore.. If I knew the show was going to disregard itself in the last 3 to 4 episodes I would've never wasted time watching it
Jay Arr What I hated was that he kicked himself for the marriage not working claiming he ruined it but they showed it was because Robin was always busy and never had the time to make the relationship work because her career. So when Ted rushes to her at the end it seems like they kinda live happily ever after which never sat right with me because it kinda felt like the universe screwed Barney over by getting with her before she was done traveling around the world while Ted apparently just had to wait a few years then ask her out again
To be fair to HIMYM, they clearly filmed half the discussion, with the kids, of that ending, way back during season 1. Clearly planning for that ending since then. HOWEVER, I guess they didn't planned for Ted and Robin to have so little chemistry...
@@brianhenson8083 Exactly right. If Rose had Charlie in that pit for four years to keep him with her forever, why did she actively pursue Walden at least twice?
Buffy doesn’t deserve to be here. The plot twist made enough sense in the narrative. It also didn’t negate nor ruin anything previously established in the show.
Right! And it didn’t take the whole season!? Buffy found out in like three episodes!? Plus it added a new layer for Buffy... giving her someone to live for and bring out a parental side
The HIMYM twist was just such a slap in the face to all the fans, robin admits when asked that she doesn't love ted and in final season describes him as "guy i probably should have ended up with", I understand that disease is obviously a real thing and the show was going for a somewhat more grounded ending but would it have really been that much to ask for him to end up with the mother, still burnt from that ending :(
Hannibal0098 Agreed, although with all the time they wasted with the entire last season, they could have spent that time on ted and the mothers relationship which we disappointingly only got snippets of.
Dawn doesn't belong on this list. Her appearance is perfectly consistent with the premise of a show about the supernatural. I mean, the show was about vampires, werewolves, demons and witches for god's sake. You want to tell me people had a problem with a girl being magically inserted into Buffy's life? Nope, love Dawn.
Agree!!! Dawn story line was really cool. I remember thinking what the hell?!? Did I skip a season what happened? Even though I watched it while it was currently airing. What?!
The ending of HIMYM nullified the whole show, all the emotions and the development of the characters turned out to be absolutely worthless. It is impossible to rewatch the episodes without feeling depressed thinking that Barney and Robin will divorce and the mother will die. That finale killed the vibe of the whole show.
Buffy's plot twist with her sister doesn't belong here, 1st of all, Dawn is not Buffy's secret sister. Then it wasn't brought at the end that Dawn turns out to be a key to another world, we know that way before the character does. To continue, everybody does act like everything is normal because they were implanted fake memories so that Dawn's presence flies under the radar, so to say....So sorry modjo, but you got it wrong.....
Not only that but the monks made Dawn out of the Slayer's essence, so she was indeed related to the Buffy as it was how they could hide Dawn from Glory. In fact, when Dawn finds out what she is, and doubts everything, Buffy tells her that they are made of the same stuff and that makes them truly sisters. It is also why Buffy can do what she does to stop Glory and close the dimensional portal the end of that season.
I loved that twist (if it is one). Mostly because Joss Whedon managed to slip in atleast three spoilers for Dawn and nobody noticed at the time, but in hindsight they were awesome. 1st in the shared dream Buffy and Faith have in the final episode of season 3 ("little sister is comming soon"), second in the shared dream they have mid-season 4 (the episode where Faith wakes up again, "I hope you are prepared, she's almost here") and third Buffy's dream segment in the last episode of season 4 (Buffy: "I have to go now", Tara's answer: "Be back before Dawn.", after Buffy remembers the shared dream she had with Faith).
technically dawn wasn't a plot twist or a secret in "buffy" she was new and they explained why she was there and how. they only acted like she had always been there because in there minds atleast she had been
“After nearly a whole season” Did any of you even watch Buffy? Dawn is introduced at the very end of the first episode of season five and Buffy finds out who she is in episode five. That’s not nearly a whole season. Dawn was even hinted at as early as season three. It was very subtle, but this show was planned out pretty well. Although I’m pretty sure asking WatchMojo to actually do research is a bit too much.
That bugged me too. A lot didn't like the Dawn thing so while I disagree it was one of the 10 worst ever some might disagree with me. But they clearly didn't bother to do their research at all.
Also, saying it wasn't worth it is a stretch, considering that season 5 is considered to be one of the show's best, which is in large thanks to its villain
I have never in my life heard a Buffy fan enraged over bringing Dawn into the series. It was incredibly smart and preplanned. I love seeing the clues when you rewatch the show. Joss Whedon planned Buffy 2-3 seasons in advance. In the last episode of season 3 Buffy has a dream where Faith says: “Little Miss Muffet counting down from 730”, foreshadowing someone, which we now know is Dawn, two years later. There are other hints much closer to her first appearance. Also, her being the Key is revealed very early on in the fifth season.
I give a pass to the Simpsons plot twist. They acknowledged they would all pretend it never happened. They were ripping on shows that pull that sort of stuff.
The Simpsons was at its worst when it parodied interminable things interminably, all with the attitude, "Hey, it's a PARODY of bad TV!" "Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" also fits the bill here. You don't get a pass just because the thing you're parodying is bad, too.
Re Buffy: Dawn was a fantastic plot twist, it took real guts by the writers and it worked! Plus, Dawn was a great addition to the show and became one of my favourite characters.
Rewatch Buffy, if you have the time, especially the season 3 finale, the episode where Faith wakes up again in season 4 and the last episode of season 4, and pay special attention during the dream sequences.
Idk why you didn't think that Ted's wife was dead.... He is telling his kids a story of how he met their mother. One does that because their wife/husband is no more. Also, robin and Ted were always hinted to to ending up together so, everything added up
Y'all are insane; the ending of "Newhart" was the greatest series ending EVER!!! It turned the whole "it was a dream" trope on its ear. It wasn't bad; it was GENIUS!
I'm not too interested in hearing their opinion on Buffy season 5 when they clearly don't even know what happened in season 5. Dawn was revealed to be the key in the 5th episode, not after most of a season as they say in this video. Also season 5 is the favourite season of many Buffy fans. It really doesn't belong on this list. For one thing, Dawn's sudden appearance was DELIBERATELY confusing. Do a little more research, WatchMojo. Don't make statements about something you don't actually know about.
For me it wasn't that I didn't like Dawn, I hated how all the characters changed. Not in a, "they grew up and changed," way, but in an, "someone who never watched the show wrote these episodes," way. And season six was the worst.
@@nicholasonciul5770 If you mean what WatchMojo mentioned, well, they kinda presented it wrong, Dawn was one of the best additions to the world(not because of her character, even though her character is nicely written, she comes of annoying-as any 14 y/o in that show would come off like. she's a nice addition cuz she makes a lot of room for storytelling, the whole season 5 is about her & that season is arguably the best season of the show) & the mystery of her character unravels only 3 episodes later. plus, in the context of the show, & how it was played, it was really awesome. that's actually Buffy for you: the name of the show is corny, the ideas & what fans usually argue about would probably seem stupid in the eyes of an outsider, but if you watch it(till the end of season 2, because season 1 is a bit rushed) you'll definitely fall in love with the show, it's truly one of the greatest TV shows in the history, & I usually don't make a bold statement like that.
The "Newhart" ending was actually amazing. One, it was clearly a parody of the Dallas dream thing. Two, it made it a dream of his character from his previous show, and actually got Suzanne Pleshette to come back to reprise his wife from said show.
WHAT? Buffy's 5th season is Buffy's best season. Few shows are able to introduce new regular characters and refresh a show like Dawn's introduction did
Agree even if I was to ignore they clearly didn't do their research as the part about "after dragging it out for almost the entire season before revealing she was the key" is straight up innacurate. That is a favorite season for many. Controversial for sure but not up there with most of this stuff which is largely ruled to be a bad idea by the vast majority of their shows fans.
Plus they revealed she was the key pretty early on in the season didn’t they? It was honestly and ingenious way to introduce a new character late into a show
HIMYM... Where do I even begin? The one and only show I have never given a re-watch because of how depressing it was. Just can’t put myself through it again and I LOVE those characters.
"After nearly a whole season of frustratingly few answers, she was revealed to be the key to hell." Ummm you mean after 4 episodes of a 22 episode season????? The audience (and Buffy, Giles, and Joyce) find out about Dawn in episode 5. Joss had that planned and even foreshadowed on more than one occasion since season 3. Do your research!!
I don't think that the whole "Seymour Skinner secretly being an imposter" twist will ever really be forgotten, but for mostly the wrong reasons. The show writers were obviously trying for shock value, but they threw a huge curveball at us by having Skinner not be who we thought he was. It's arguably the moment where the show's quality dropped, and the plots stopped relying so much on realism that the previous seasons were fueled on. Even many of the writers have disowned this episode, and it's hardly ever mentioned again!
I would actually call the distancing from reality a reaction to "Homer's Enemy." As a representative of our own reality dropped into the insanity that is Springfield, it is Frank Grimes' mission to kill our suspension of disbelief. I actually liken it to what Family Guy did in the Season 8 episode "Jerome Is The New Black" where Quagmire deconstructs Brian as a character. Both The Simpsons and Family Guy dealt with this sobering dose of reality in their own ways: While FG decided to dive head-first into that "uncomfortably real" territory by making the rest of the cast equally "flawed," The Simpsons decided to distance themselves from that in order to maintain that suspension of disbelief. At least, that's my working idea of what happened.
I suppose the worst thing about this episode is that it showed that anything could happen, only to return to the status quo in the end. There is no real progression of characters and they never have to suffer the consequences of their actions.
Caitriona Quigley I hate it with simsons when they redcon itself Like with Agnes is angry at skinner for doing a kick in her womb, can't be true if skinner is the fake one. And other similar new stories with skinners past
Haha, distancing from reality? I'm no Simpsons expert, but I have been going through the series on DVD, currently on season 6, and reality has been distant from the start my friend. So far pre-season 6 there's been; Bart going to France and suddenly speaking French, while foreign exchange students are espionage super spies, Homer surviving that fall into the Gorge, Bart stumbling into a job for the mafia as a bartender, Martin's rocket powered soapbox racer, subsequent crash and survival, Homer becoming a manager to a country singer, a baseball mascot, an astronaut, a monorail driver (and everything else in that episode) A baby translator, everything about Kamp Krusty, Bart's elephant, Tamzarian's pursuit of Bart for skipping school, and killer Itchy & Scratchy Robots at a Jurassic Park-esque theme park. I honestly feel like at this moment that most complaints about the Simpsons now vs then is just thick nostalgia glasses and that maybe "Principle and the Pauper" just woke the audience up to the absurdity that's been inherent in the show all along.
bustedsim You've got a point there. It's possibly nostalgia that keeps us thinking of the Simpsons favourably. I know that part of the show's appeal is to present everyday situations, and to offer up outlandish or goofy solutions, while still being something that the mainstream audience could relate to. The twist just took it a step too far, in my opinion.
I wish Quantum Leap was on here somewhere, because everyone thought he would be able to go home from all the good he did, but was stuck in time for the rest of his life. Saddening.
Dawn was not actually a key to hell. She was they key to unlock the gates between all existing dimensions. Did anyone actually watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer? ;)>
The ending of "How I Met Your Mother" pretty much renamed it, "How Meeting Your Mother Never Mattered, Because I Just Want to Bang Your "Aunt"." I really disliked "Buffy", but I thought that the sister plot was actually kind of clever and added to what was generally a soap opera with "vampires".
The Newhart show being a dream, was actually well received. It was a comedy making fun of the of the problems it had with the last 2 seasons, by making the whole thing a dream, thus making fun of the show and the cliche, both.
“Dad is this gonna take awhile.” “Yes dear. It will take about 8 years, 9 seasons, and one terrible scenario to tell you kids who I met your mother... who dies so that I can actually boink my friend.”
It did. Mentioning that at the end made no real sense. As far as it-was-all-a-dream, Dallas was the rule, and Newhart was the exception. It's like this Mojo video had its own Worst Plot Twist Ever.
The Newhart one was hilarious. You can do that with a sitcom, but doing that with a drama? No, that's just stupid and makes people realize they wasted so many hours on a story that never happened.
Agreed! I remember watching that finale and it was great... very well executed! However, the plot twist that was really messed up (and I'm surprised didnt make this list) was the show St. Elsewhere, in which it was revealed in the finale that the entire series was just imagined by an autistic boy, staring at a snow globe.
The St. Elsewhere plot twist ending was bad. The Newhart plot twist ending was brilliantly funny (and that happened after both the Dallas and St. Elsewhere endings).
"After nearly a whole season of frustratingly few answers, Dawn was revealed to be the key to hell." Well... 5 episodes but... I guess that's basically the same huh
Dawn coming into season 5 of "Buffy" was planned since the prior year (if not since the beginning). The reason was revealed in episode 6, not the end of the season! Dawn was the character that Buffy was willing to die for. Do you actually watch these show?s!
It was actually episode 5 not six, and I am not saying that to be a know it all but it is even MORE rediculous it was only 5 episodes in and they called it the whole season. The payoff being good or bad is subjective but they flat out didn't drag it out all season before FINALLY revealing it. That is straight up, 100% false based on actual facts.
Faith mention that the Lil sis is coming right when the both look the dawn out the window.... Also, it was not a plot twist, watchmojo doesn't know what a plot twist is.
Dreams as plot twists are so lazy in my opinion, if they can be wonderfully executed with the story then they can be fine a little cliche at most but most of the time dreams being the thing to explain it all isn’t the best.
The Newhart ending was a brilliant use of being a dream. It worked because the show was bizzare from the beginning with all the weirdo denizens of that New England town. The ending explained everything and was a perfect coda to Newhart's original show.
Man that HIMYM final season in general. I expected the mother to die hence Ted telling the story but Cristin Mioloti was amazing so it's tragic she wasn't introduced earlier. Spending a whole season building up a wedding to then break Barney and Robin in the finale was an insane decision. As was showing Josh as old Ted in that final segment after years of Bob Sagat narration.
While the Buffy twist was jarring at first, I think Dawn added another layer to the show and it worked overall. So I wouldn’t necessarily call it a bad twist, just a really unusual one.
The milisecond I saw How I Met Your Mother, I click, 1 like 1 sad react. Such an amazing series, though somewhat sensible and decent was a shitty twist :(
Top 5 Cartoon Could've worded it out better, what I meant was it made sense somewhat in the grand scheme of things, but the actual twist as a whole was shitty.
@Kanye West Also, the fact that when he refers to Robyn throughout the series to his kids, she's always "Your aunt Robyn". After seeing the finale, that just didn't sit right with me. I haven't been able to watch the show since then.
Disagree on the Buffy plot twist, as it was fitting in building the S5 arc, leading up to Buffy sacrificing her life to save the world and her sister. Yes, Dawn was annoying, but that was the point. An even worse plot twist was in S7 where the gang end up throwing Buffy out of her house during the apocalypse and Buffy pretty much accepting it rather than calling them out on their ungratefulness. .
Just based on the ones I've seen in depth, I agree that the Simpsons and Heroes twists here were poor, but actually they revealed the truth about Dawn fairly early on; the only 'season-long' part of the storyline was how long it took Glory to learn the truth.
Buffy having a sister was not the twist. That was the set-up. Dawn being revealed to be The Key was not a twist, it was a revelation. A plot twist is something unexpected. Also, she is revealed to be The Key within the first 10 episodes.
chapita PE me neither. It was fully appropriate for these characters. I guess some people wanted an action/ thriller based plot twist that made their jaws drop like the previous season did instead of an emotional twist which this one was
Djrobinv Yes! Exactly. Thought, i agree on lost being lazy with answers in the Island (Black smoke, Jacob, Island as well), i think that the flash sideways were the best of season 6 along with the ending. I loved it!
The closest they got to justifying the inclusion was: 'We wanted something "more."' The usual complaints of people who don't like the flash-sidewayses or ending or Season 6 in general was they wanted to tie into the Sci-Fi/fantasy "mysteries" of the smoke monster or island moving or.. etc. The flash-sideways were a super-extended epilogue to the series rather than part of the main plot. I think a much stronger criticism of Lost would be that I think that this whole series was just a fight between smokey and his even-worse brother, which just.. it just feels lame. But... no complaints here about the sideway-world, even if it lagged in the middle of the season because they needed to spread things out.
Dawn's arrival in Buffy is extremely well-foreshadowed and the season in which she emerges is probably the series' most popular season. Doesn't belong on this list.
Himym made us deeply care for the mother so much so that we cared for here more than the other cast members by the and of the series, accepting the fast integration of her into the group but in the end they had to kill her.....if not they would have been able to make a few ep to seasons if they wanted to in the future....
What about Moesha where the dad wasn't the uncle to Moesha's cousin but his father as well. I know Brandy & Ray J are siblings in real life, but come on. Even the actors playing the parents didn't like that storyline.
LETS GET ONE THING STRAIGHT adding Dawn out of nowhere and having all the characters not blink an eye at her existence was PURPOSELY confusing suspenseful and incredibly interesting. S5 is one of the best Buffy seasons and that whole execution and unfolding of that story was genius as was 99% of the series of Buffy as a whole. KEEP ITS NAME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH.
Rewatching HIMYM the ending actually makes sense. When we first saw it air weekly and we were anxious to find out who the mom is, the ending seemed like a let down. But if you rewatch it without the teasing and waiting, you'll see the show was always leading up to him and Robin.
It wasn't a bad plot twist for Buffy. The key would have been a bad plot twist if it had been done at the end of a season. Dawn was actually mentioned in a few episodes at the end of the previous season, just in a very cryptic way because there was no reason to think they meant Dawn as a name and not just the word. But moreover, it was good for the story arc and made Buffy grow as a character. It can be debated, but I don't think she would have jumped in the portal if the monks hadn't done exactly what they did.
I really wish Pretty little liars had been on this list. Like that was literally SUCH a good show we so much drama and suspense and very satisfying when we finally learned who A was and even more so when then introduced a second A. Then, they had the AUDACITY to make it be Spencer’s long lost twin? Are you KIDDING ME? I was sooooo upset and the whole thing was so stupid.
Dawn was never a secret sister! In fact season 5 was the best most cohesive season of all. Dawn's storyline propelled the show forward. Buffy doesn't belong on the list
There is two tv twists that should have been in the list: 🚨SPOILER ALERT 🚨 1) Joey and Rachel having a relationship in 8th season of Friends 2) Debra Morgan being in love with Dexter (her adopted brother ) in the show Dexter
That Newhart ending was actually really funny and people thought it was funny at the time. Also, I think most BTVS fans ended up liking Dawn and went with what Joss Whedon was doing.
I'll give you an up-thumb for the first sentence, and take exception on the second. I understand what Joss Whedon was doing; I just thought it was bad. Particularly bad when a theoretical 15-year-old girl in high school can't seem to find anything to do or any friends of her own and spends the entire season whining about why she can't hang out with her older sister. And particularly bad when the whole season is so glum and miserable that it's just depressing to watch. I remember thinking (right before I stopped watching), "If I wanted to be this depressed I'd watch the news, that way at least I'd be informed and depressed."
I didn't mind the mom dying in how I met your mother because I had suspected it for at least 3 seasons when I was guessing, but barney and robin getting married then divorced so ted and robin can end up together in the end was dumb
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Nah Himym should have been #1
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WatchMojo.com eff you watch mojo HIMYM ENDING WERE PERFECT AND REALISTIC AND NOT AS BORING AS THE ALTERNATIVE ENDING
This deserves a part 2
"It was all a dream" is honestly the worst and laziest twist for any TV show or movie
They did that on "Married With Children" as well but it was kind of justified.
I hate dreams in movies/shows PERIOD. Waste of time.
Or "The character that everyone thought was dead from the beginning is actually alive of all time!"
miukitty100 I loved it Alice..! In Wonderland! The Disney masterpiece.
Lazier than the UFO cliffhanger from "The Colbys"?
Honestly I never hated anything as much as I hate How I Met Your Mother ending... It just didn't make sense for me. All that time building up Barney's and Robin's realitionship just to destroy it in few minutes and pushing her back to Ted wasn't right. I mean come on...
I 100% agree. They spent the entire season showing they belong together from him talking about him pursuing her to him telling her the truth about the locket. They loved each other. And to throw that away in an hour was awful!!!
I just can't watch any old episodes of it anymore. I had DVD's of every season (apart from the last one) and sold them on eBay. Worst ending ever.
Thank you
When did they build up Barney and Robin's relationship again? The time that being with each other made them both miserable or the time they cheated on their lovers, and swore to break up in order to be with each other, only for Robin to stab Barney in the back and stay with Kevin? Only buildup that spells out is DOOM!
The writers wrote the ending in season one
The mother dying wasn't the problem. They teased for years that the mother was dead. It was the whole Barney and Robin relationship they had been building up for years and spent an entire season getting then married only for them to be divorced within the first 15 minutes of the finale because of really stupid reasoning, just so Ted could get back with Robin.
the stupid reason was, "we had shot the kids reactions during season 2, and now it's set in fucking stone"
The idea that there was something wrong with the mother was never established early on in the series. Hell, they even joked with Stella being the mother in one episode, and she didn't appear til season 3. Producers didn't even know who they wanted to have as the mother til after season 4.
EXACTLY. The mom dying kinda made sense. BUT WE ALL KNOW THAT TED AND ROBIN EVENTUALLY BROKE UP AGAIN
Ammar Farooq No, I mean the character's reasoning was stupid. They shouldn't have even gotten them married if they were just going to get divorced.
huffy619 It was established if you paid attention to how the kids talk with their dad but that doesn't make the ending less stupid
Robin had so much more chemistry witb Barney. It was such a let down how they ended that show.
I still love HIMYM Tbh.. But They really shouldn't have seperated Barney and Robin, The entire final season was based on d wedding and the last episode they throw it all away!
HIMYM was awesome for 1 reason and 1 reason only "NEIL PATRICK HARRIS"!!!
VIPAnna92 ikr 😌
I feel sorry for Barney. Sure, he's a womanizer but you can see his feeling to Robin is real and the fact he wants kids while Robin hates kids piss me off. And the final moment when he's carrying a baby really show that he wants a family on his own so bad.
The sad thing is Barney really tried to accommodate and adapt himself in Robin's lifestyle so she could follow her dreams, but she took him for granted and then when he finally has enough she thinks maybe they weren't meant to be together. At least Barney got his happy ending.
AND as the "Lobster Theory" proved Robin only wants things she can't have. Who else is to say she wouldn't later divorce ted because she wants to "be free again"?
That's why i hate her character so much, She NEVER did anything for anyone (or if she did, it as like 3 or 5 times) yet almost everyone had to sacrify something for her (and even an episode showed her as the self-centered person she is now that she has an engagement ring)
Jamie Jovi Barney and Robin are absolutely the types to fail their first marriage, get over it
What about pretty little liars? It was such a freaking mess
Actually they tied it up nicely half way thru season 6. But then they added another season and a half.
Like how tobys mom died when he was 8 but, we see her when he is 15
They could make a whole list on Pretty Little Liars, lets be real lmao
I had loved Aria and Ezra's romance. I thought they did the "forbidden love" trope really well by having it portrayed as two people in unfortunate circumstances that couldn't resist their feelings for each other no matter how much they tried to stay away and respected each other to wait until Aria was 18 to do the big do. The whole thing started because he thought she was in college. But then all of the sudden somebody decided it would be brilliant to make Ezra a stalker who approached the girls knowing who they were??? all to write a book???? (which completely contradicted everything in prior seasons, as if continuity errors weren't annoying enough) and turned Ezra into a predator and a creep with priors ruining anything that was potentially romantic about their relationship. I'm still mad.
I specifically looked up this topic because I thought PLL would be #1 on the list. Dang it.
How I Met Your Mother left such a horrible taste in my mouth. The last season was already weak except for the resolutions, but then the last episode basically retconned all our expectations
plankerton the last episode put me off the show for life. I used to love it until that time.
Dan being Gossip Girl makes no sense!!!!!
no it does
@@saraholivier1349 How I'm confused
Sarah Olivier Theoretically, maybe. But, logistically (among a ton of other things) it doesn’t at all...
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Yes it does
The entire show makes no sense.. But it was entertaining.
I'm still pissed of about HIMYM 's ending!!! What was the point of the whole show???????
Totally agree!
Morgane Nicolas it was so he could tell his kids all the women he banged before he met their mother
fox_in _xxs_clothes exactly!
if i recall didnt Ted reject Robins offer to get back together on her wedding day or something. i mean seriously that last season was even convincing us that Ted and Robin are not meant for each other. then suddenly im meant to believe she was the one after all. they tried to do the Ross and Rachel from Friends but failed. i mean that show atleast showed us why the couple were meant for each other
Watch the alternative ending, it lessens the anger.
Newhart's dream ending was brilliant. It was a joke on Dallas, and the fact that they recreated The Bob Newhart Show complete with his old bedroom, and even brought back Suzanne Pleschette for that one scene, was hilarious.
I absolutely agree.
BEST ending of a show EVER!
I suspect it was more of a joke on "St. Elsewhere" which gave us the worst finale twist in television history.
The breaking bad alternative ending was also good. Cranston’s Malcom in the middle character Hal dreamed that he was Heisenberg!
Thank God they chose the ending for that show. The key on endings is "Don't mess it up."
The finale for How I Met Your Mother literally negated the purpose of the entire 9th season
The entire show.
It made the show unwatchable for me.
I used to love the show, even the reruns, but due to that finale, I can't bare to look at it anymore.
Legion - Exactly... the only thing I can watch (and enjoy immensely) is Barney's video of Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit
But ANY of the reruns? Nope - they are all ruined.
You know what frustrated me the most? The end of Barney and Robin's marriage. I mean,I'm still thinking if they were a good match since Robin hesitated before the ceremony. But what the worst for me is, is what Barney was doing after the end of their marriage. Like he's changed, why was he back with his old habits? But I loved his words to his daughter. Sometimes I think that maybe I should re-watch the series because I was 20 when it ended so maybe I was immature and now it would make more sense to me but I'm not sure.
Anika... I'm well older. Nope - you were wise; go with your instinct. It stunk!
I thought Barney and Robin were always a better match. They should have stayed with it. And instead ended with the mom coming in and telling Ted - - "OMG! That's your favorite story... let them GO already!" and then they host a evening party with Barney/ Robin and Marshall/Lilly. They sit around a kitchen table laughing over beers as it fades to black. Not the most dramatic - but satisfying.
I'm okay with the mother being dead at the end of it, that to me was okay and made sense. However, I do think that Ted going after Robin again was a mistake.
The whole show they did allude that they were more than friends, but every time they were in a relationship it didn't work for many reasons. The whole 9th season dealt with Ted having to let go of Robin, but then he just falls back into her. They were never a happy, perfect couple and they had many differences that didn't work, which made the ending seem weird. I felt that after the show was over, if the story continued, Ted would fall in love with Robin again and it wouldn't work out again, leaving him even more crushed. I love Robin and how the character was written, but it was clear she was not right for Ted.
However, I am okay with the mother (Tracy) being dead, even though I wished they developed her more and we got to know more about her. The whole series, there were no perfect, happy endings for anyone, and that's not always how life works. Even if Ted went through a lot during the series, it doesn't mean everything in his life will be perfect just because he got married. It also gives a reason why Ted is telling the story, I know it's years later, but I still think it's something Ted would do for his kids.
with that being said, Victoria is the best girlfriend Ted ever had
I agree. I think Victoria would have been a good person for him. Robin and Ted were great friends but they were so different and wanted different things. I hated the ending too. I could have gotten behind the mother dying but the fact they pushed him into Robin's arms again annoyed me.
The mother getting a divorce from ted would have been better than the mother dying
Brett Daigle If Ted had to be with someone after Tracy's death, it should've been Victoria. Robin and Ted weren't meant for each other, they were too different to make it work long-term. Ted had way more chemistry with Victoria and the writers made her into Emily from Friends.
I think Ted and Robin getting together in the end is actually justified more than we realize. In season 7 I believe, Ted and Robin are talking at Punchy’s wedding I believe, and Ted is down because he can’t find “the one” and Robin tells him that there are two things that need to happen for that to happen to him. Chemistry and Timing. She then says that he definitely has chemistry but the timing hasn’t been right. In a way, that was foreshadowing to the ending of the show. Ted and Robin always had chemistry but now in the year 2030, the timing is finally correct, as Robin is now living in New York after experiencing the whole world with her work. The only thing that I still disagree with is how her and Barney got divorced so quickly after devoting a whole season to their wedding
@@tammy3545 I think it's established knowledge that had the series ended after season 1, Victoria would've been the mother. That's why she was the best girlfriend for Ted
I came to see that stupid himym ending
If you wish, only keep the its of Ted almost going to Chicago, then his meeting with Tracy, and put a voiceover over all the important episodes and your own explanation about why the story kept focusing on robin (Say, the Mother almost died, but Robing offered herself to save her in a surgery, and both made it Ok; OR say Ted was diagnozed with Alzeheimer, or something; OR my favorite to imagine: Ted suddenly stops the story, summarizes what his kids did after telling the story for the first time, and now asking WHy they wanted to hear the stor a second time. They say "To Stall" and they drive him to meet the gang and tracy to celebrate the anniversary planned by tracy to recreate that moment. THEN we get the recreation of the moment and the first meeting shown back to back PLUS cameos of the gang in the "present")
It's only stupid if you weren't paying attention to the show. They were alluding to that for years before the show ended. It was always what they were going for, and they gave lots of clues. Plenty of RUclips videos to show they did it. It's fine if you didn't like it, but it's not dumb.
Ending killed the whole show for me... hey let's develop Barney, no nevermind back to being a whore.. If I knew the show was going to disregard itself in the last 3 to 4 episodes I would've never wasted time watching it
Jay Arr What I hated was that he kicked himself for the marriage not working claiming he ruined it but they showed it was because Robin was always busy and never had the time to make the relationship work because her career. So when Ted rushes to her at the end it seems like they kinda live happily ever after which never sat right with me because it kinda felt like the universe screwed Barney over by getting with her before she was done traveling around the world while Ted apparently just had to wait a few years then ask her out again
To be fair to HIMYM, they clearly filmed half the discussion, with the kids, of that ending, way back during season 1. Clearly planning for that ending since then. HOWEVER, I guess they didn't planned for Ted and Robin to have so little chemistry...
What about the plot twist that Charlie was still alive at the end of Two and a Half Men just to kill him again
I'll definitely agree with that, especially since you know it was only done to serve as a cheap shot against Charlie Sheen.
Rose killed Charlie. She was a stalker after all.
Yeah
@@brianhenson8083
Exactly right. If Rose had Charlie in that pit for four years to keep him with her forever, why did she actively pursue Walden at least twice?
@@patriciamassa7829 She is Rose
I can never watch HIMYM again because of that stupid ending.
Same here.
I have rewatched the series 4 times. Only saw the last two episodes once
I stop when ted meets tracy
Snap. It just took everything good away from the show. Even watching the redone ending doesn't do it for me anymore.
Watch the alternate ending.
The HIMYM finale poisoned most of the show for me.
God bless the guy who made the alternate ending.
Pretty little liars Spencer has a twin named Alex
Ugh yes. There were too many twins on that show so it wasn't a huge surprise.
maxine chan yeah I didn't like that twist at all
Oh don't remind me
I agree
I came to post this. So many years wasted for that trash ending.
Buffy doesn’t deserve to be here. The plot twist made enough sense in the narrative. It also didn’t negate nor ruin anything previously established in the show.
Super Skully i agree.it makes sense in their crazy world and I liked it
I disagree.
Yeah that's what season 5 was about how even though dawn is not buffys sister she would not let anything happen to her
They should have put there Cordelia season 4 (Angel) stuff instead
Right! And it didn’t take the whole season!? Buffy found out in like three episodes!? Plus it added a new layer for Buffy... giving her someone to live for and bring out a parental side
The HIMYM twist was just such a slap in the face to all the fans, robin admits when asked that she doesn't love ted and in final season describes him as "guy i probably should have ended up with", I understand that disease is obviously a real thing and the show was going for a somewhat more grounded ending but would it have really been that much to ask for him to end up with the mother, still burnt from that ending :(
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Lilly Browne p?
The alternate ending is better.
Hannibal0098 Agreed, although with all the time they wasted with the entire last season, they could have spent that time on ted and the mothers relationship which we disappointingly only got snippets of.
Not all fans. I love the ending. Barney is meant to be a single daddy.
The worst plot twist was that HIMYM was not the top of this list.
Dawn doesn't belong on this list. Her appearance is perfectly consistent with the premise of a show about the supernatural. I mean, the show was about vampires, werewolves, demons and witches for god's sake. You want to tell me people had a problem with a girl being magically inserted into Buffy's life? Nope, love Dawn.
ME TOO
Agree!!! Dawn story line was really cool. I remember thinking what the hell?!? Did I skip a season what happened? Even though I watched it while it was currently airing. What?!
toobbeebopper also, her appearance was mentioned two seasons before.
The ending of HIMYM nullified the whole show, all the emotions and the development of the characters turned out to be absolutely worthless. It is impossible to rewatch the episodes without feeling depressed thinking that Barney and Robin will divorce and the mother will die. That finale killed the vibe of the whole show.
Buffy's plot twist with her sister doesn't belong here, 1st of all, Dawn is not Buffy's secret sister. Then it wasn't brought at the end that Dawn turns out to be a key to another world, we know that way before the character does. To continue, everybody does act like everything is normal because they were implanted fake memories so that Dawn's presence flies under the radar, so to say....So sorry modjo, but you got it wrong.....
tonyofthenight it was not a plot twist. Watchmojo doesn't know what plot twist means
Not only that but the monks made Dawn out of the Slayer's essence, so she was indeed related to the Buffy as it was how they could hide Dawn from Glory. In fact, when Dawn finds out what she is, and doubts everything, Buffy tells her that they are made of the same stuff and that makes them truly sisters. It is also why Buffy can do what she does to stop Glory and close the dimensional portal the end of that season.
I loved that twist (if it is one). Mostly because Joss Whedon managed to slip in atleast three spoilers for Dawn and nobody noticed at the time, but in hindsight they were awesome. 1st in the shared dream Buffy and Faith have in the final episode of season 3 ("little sister is comming soon"), second in the shared dream they have mid-season 4 (the episode where Faith wakes up again, "I hope you are prepared, she's almost here") and third Buffy's dream segment in the last episode of season 4 (Buffy: "I have to go now", Tara's answer: "Be back before Dawn.", after Buffy remembers the shared dream she had with Faith).
Agreed! But I think dawn must had to die.
Exactly
technically dawn wasn't a plot twist or a secret in "buffy" she was new and they explained why she was there and how. they only acted like she had always been there because in there minds atleast she had been
how i met your mother's ending actually ruined the entire series.
I can't even watch the reruns. It's just - no.
@@katherynemero9355 Me too, it just killed it for me
The HIMYM finale completely ruined the show for me. I have no interest in ever watching it again.
“After nearly a whole season” Did any of you even watch Buffy? Dawn is introduced at the very end of the first episode of season five and Buffy finds out who she is in episode five. That’s not nearly a whole season. Dawn was even hinted at as early as season three. It was very subtle, but this show was planned out pretty well. Although I’m pretty sure asking WatchMojo to actually do research is a bit too much.
That bugged me too. A lot didn't like the Dawn thing so while I disagree it was one of the 10 worst ever some might disagree with me. But they clearly didn't bother to do their research at all.
Yeah and they foreshadowed it heavily in Season 4's dream sequences.
Omg it was foreshadowed? Now I have to rewatch
Madalynn Mason there are several references to Dawn as early as season three.
Also, saying it wasn't worth it is a stretch, considering that season 5 is considered to be one of the show's best, which is in large thanks to its villain
I have never in my life heard a Buffy fan enraged over bringing Dawn into the series. It was incredibly smart and preplanned. I love seeing the clues when you rewatch the show. Joss Whedon planned Buffy 2-3 seasons in advance. In the last episode of season 3 Buffy has a dream where Faith says: “Little Miss Muffet counting down from 730”, foreshadowing someone, which we now know is Dawn, two years later. There are other hints much closer to her first appearance. Also, her being the Key is revealed very early on in the fifth season.
I wasn't enraged at the addition of Dawn, but neither was I a fan of it. I think I eventually got to used to it, but at first, it wasn't great.
I give a pass to the Simpsons plot twist. They acknowledged they would all pretend it never happened. They were ripping on shows that pull that sort of stuff.
The Simpsons was at its worst when it parodied interminable things interminably, all with the attitude, "Hey, it's a PARODY of bad TV!" "Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" also fits the bill here. You don't get a pass just because the thing you're parodying is bad, too.
This was and still is the worst episode of the simpsons
Re Buffy: Dawn was a fantastic plot twist, it took real guts by the writers and it worked! Plus, Dawn was a great addition to the show and became one of my favourite characters.
Rewatch Buffy, if you have the time, especially the season 3 finale, the episode where Faith wakes up again in season 4 and the last episode of season 4, and pay special attention during the dream sequences.
I hate that caracter 😕
The whole Dawn thing sucked.
(Nothing against the actress)
I hated her the first watching, but second time around she wasn’t so bad. Anyways, compared to Kennedy she was a freaking dream.
HIMYM is definitely the worst plot twist !
Aimee Blondel Agreed
Yeah...:( I just finished binge watching the whole show and was left a little disappointed with the last episode
Patrick Leonello Same, very disappointed!
I still have not been able to watch the reruns of that show, they pissed me off so much with that ending that I now hate the whole series.
Idk why you didn't think that Ted's wife was dead....
He is telling his kids a story of how he met their mother.
One does that because their wife/husband is no more.
Also, robin and Ted were always hinted to to ending up together so, everything added up
Y'all are insane; the ending of "Newhart" was the greatest series ending EVER!!! It turned the whole "it was a dream" trope on its ear. It wasn't bad; it was GENIUS!
Absolutely!!!!! GENIUS, original and funny. Best ending ever.
Cetrion is saying f you to this finale by saying to SubZero that he and Raiden being in the Injusticeverse was absolutely real
Buffy doesn’t deserve to be on this list because viewers knew there would be a good reason for Dawn.
She was a key and then Buffy kills herself to protect... a key. An annoying key everyone hated.
I agree. It didn’t negate or ruin anything.
The character of Dawn was annoying. The twist was really good, as was season 5 in general.
Out of all the teen dramas i watch in the beginning of my youth, Buffy & Angel were the only series i re watch over & over. Love Dawn.
I'm not too interested in hearing their opinion on Buffy season 5 when they clearly don't even know what happened in season 5.
Dawn was revealed to be the key in the 5th episode, not after most of a season as they say in this video.
Also season 5 is the favourite season of many Buffy fans. It really doesn't belong on this list. For one thing, Dawn's sudden appearance was DELIBERATELY confusing.
Do a little more research, WatchMojo. Don't make statements about something you don't actually know about.
Why the hell is Buffy on the list? Because people dislike Dawn? That doesn't make it a bad plot twist
KngFln That doesn't even make Dawn a plot twist. Watchmojo doesn't know what a plot twist is.
I havent seen the show but that sounds pretty dumb
KngFln That's the sad part about mentioning Buffy in this sad list. Nobody disliked Dawn, she was even included in the comic books seasons!
For me it wasn't that I didn't like Dawn, I hated how all the characters changed. Not in a, "they grew up and changed," way, but in an, "someone who never watched the show wrote these episodes," way. And season six was the worst.
@@nicholasonciul5770 If you mean what WatchMojo mentioned, well, they kinda presented it wrong, Dawn was one of the best additions to the world(not because of her character, even though her character is nicely written, she comes of annoying-as any 14 y/o in that show would come off like. she's a nice addition cuz she makes a lot of room for storytelling, the whole season 5 is about her & that season is arguably the best season of the show) & the mystery of her character unravels only 3 episodes later. plus, in the context of the show, & how it was played, it was really awesome. that's actually Buffy for you: the name of the show is corny, the ideas & what fans usually argue about would probably seem stupid in the eyes of an outsider, but if you watch it(till the end of season 2, because season 1 is a bit rushed) you'll definitely fall in love with the show, it's truly one of the greatest TV shows in the history, & I usually don't make a bold statement like that.
How I met your mother's ending wounds me deeply
The "Newhart" ending was actually amazing. One, it was clearly a parody of the Dallas dream thing. Two, it made it a dream of his character from his previous show, and actually got Suzanne Pleshette to come back to reprise his wife from said show.
Futurama has an "all a dream" episode and becomes the hero. Newhart does it and it becomes the enemy. That doesn't seem fair does it?
WHAT? Buffy's 5th season is Buffy's best season. Few shows are able to introduce new regular characters and refresh a show like Dawn's introduction did
I know. It didn’t ruin anything previously built-up or established in the show.
I'm partial to season 6, myself, but agree that 5 is excellent. The only season I can't stand was 7.
I'm a huge fan of season 6. I wasn't big on season 7, but it's grown on me. It did have some really great moments. It just felt different.
Agree even if I was to ignore they clearly didn't do their research as the part about "after dragging it out for almost the entire season before revealing she was the key" is straight up innacurate. That is a favorite season for many. Controversial for sure but not up there with most of this stuff which is largely ruled to be a bad idea by the vast majority of their shows fans.
Plus they revealed she was the key pretty early on in the season didn’t they? It was honestly and ingenious way to introduce a new character late into a show
The Buffy twist was actually really smart tho. Tf are y'all smoking?
I disagree.
Exactly. That twist was written well.
Same with Lost and Roseanne. Please explain how they are supposed to be Bad? Explain WM!
Her death was not bad it was the robin bit which was shit
The HIMYM ending was the most frustrating thing I’ve ever witnessed
HIMYM... Where do I even begin? The one and only show I have never given a re-watch because of how depressing it was. Just can’t put myself through it again and I LOVE those characters.
just skip the final episode.
Me too. I loved it though.
I stop at the second to the last episode. I hated that they destroyed everything in one hour. It was awful.
"After nearly a whole season of frustratingly few answers, she was revealed to be the key to hell." Ummm you mean after 4 episodes of a 22 episode season????? The audience (and Buffy, Giles, and Joyce) find out about Dawn in episode 5. Joss had that planned and even foreshadowed on more than one occasion since season 3. Do your research!!
I don't think that the whole "Seymour Skinner secretly being an imposter" twist will ever really be forgotten, but for mostly the wrong reasons. The show writers were obviously trying for shock value, but they threw a huge curveball at us by having Skinner not be who we thought he was. It's arguably the moment where the show's quality dropped, and the plots stopped relying so much on realism that the previous seasons were fueled on. Even many of the writers have disowned this episode, and it's hardly ever mentioned again!
I would actually call the distancing from reality a reaction to "Homer's Enemy." As a representative of our own reality dropped into the insanity that is Springfield, it is Frank Grimes' mission to kill our suspension of disbelief.
I actually liken it to what Family Guy did in the Season 8 episode "Jerome Is The New Black" where Quagmire deconstructs Brian as a character. Both The Simpsons and Family Guy dealt with this sobering dose of reality in their own ways: While FG decided to dive head-first into that "uncomfortably real" territory by making the rest of the cast equally "flawed," The Simpsons decided to distance themselves from that in order to maintain that suspension of disbelief. At least, that's my working idea of what happened.
I suppose the worst thing about this episode is that it showed that anything could happen, only to return to the status quo in the end. There is no real progression of characters and they never have to suffer the consequences of their actions.
Caitriona Quigley I hate it with simsons when they redcon itself
Like with Agnes is angry at skinner for doing a kick in her womb, can't be true if skinner is the fake one.
And other similar new stories with skinners past
Haha, distancing from reality? I'm no Simpsons expert, but I have been going through the series on DVD, currently on season 6, and reality has been distant from the start my friend.
So far pre-season 6 there's been; Bart going to France and suddenly speaking French, while foreign exchange students are espionage super spies, Homer surviving that fall into the Gorge, Bart stumbling into a job for the mafia as a bartender, Martin's rocket powered soapbox racer, subsequent crash and survival, Homer becoming a manager to a country singer, a baseball mascot, an astronaut, a monorail driver (and everything else in that episode) A baby translator, everything about Kamp Krusty, Bart's elephant, Tamzarian's pursuit of Bart for skipping school, and killer Itchy & Scratchy Robots at a Jurassic Park-esque theme park.
I honestly feel like at this moment that most complaints about the Simpsons now vs then is just thick nostalgia glasses and that maybe "Principle and the Pauper" just woke the audience up to the absurdity that's been inherent in the show all along.
bustedsim You've got a point there. It's possibly nostalgia that keeps us thinking of the Simpsons favourably. I know that part of the show's appeal is to present everyday situations, and to offer up outlandish or goofy solutions, while still being something that the mainstream audience could relate to. The twist just took it a step too far, in my opinion.
I wish Quantum Leap was on here somewhere, because everyone thought he would be able to go home from all the good he did, but was stuck in time for the rest of his life. Saddening.
Charley Bice That show was such a classic.
Eventually He became the captain of the USS Enterprise NX-01
i was so sad that Sam didnt get to go home :(
Love that show. As much as I hate movies and shows being rebooted, this show being rebooted would actually be good I think.
@Jkd Buck76 it actually made perfect sense. I'm just glad that he took the time to help Al get his wife back. That was the best part of the ending.
I actually liked the Dawn plot twist in Buffy.
Aurora THANK YOU! I was going to say that.
Completely agree!
Dawn was not actually a key to hell. She was they key to unlock the gates between all existing dimensions. Did anyone actually watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer? ;)>
I haven’t seen the show but the way they describe it, it sounds pretty good
Alpha I loved it too
The ending of "How I Met Your Mother" pretty much renamed it, "How Meeting Your Mother Never Mattered, Because I Just Want to Bang Your "Aunt"."
I really disliked "Buffy", but I thought that the sister plot was actually kind of clever and added to what was generally a soap opera with "vampires".
The Newhart show being a dream, was actually well received. It was a comedy making fun of the of the problems it had with the last 2 seasons, by making the whole thing a dream, thus making fun of the show and the cliche, both.
The Newhart thing was genius. Just genius.
You missed the perfect opportunity to say “The Gossip GIRL was actually a Gossip GUY”
The himym ending only shows ted going after Robyn again, I personally chose to believe that barney is currently sitting naked on her couch
The mother and ted deserve a happy ending
“Dad is this gonna take awhile.”
“Yes dear. It will take about 8 years, 9 seasons, and one terrible scenario to tell you kids who I met your mother... who dies so that I can actually boink my friend.”
The Newhart ending is brilliant.
HIMYM ending infuriated me, so much that I cried. Barney and Robin were great together and Ted and Tracey would have been a beautiful couple.
No. You must show the entire "Newhart" clip. It's actually brilliant.
It was brilliant. And I thought I remember it getting positive response from audiences at the time.
It did. Mentioning that at the end made no real sense. As far as it-was-all-a-dream, Dallas was the rule, and Newhart was the exception. It's like this Mojo video had its own Worst Plot Twist Ever.
The Newhart one was hilarious. You can do that with a sitcom, but doing that with a drama? No, that's just stupid and makes people realize they wasted so many hours on a story that never happened.
Agreed! I remember watching that finale and it was great... very well executed!
However, the plot twist that was really messed up (and I'm surprised didnt make this list) was the show St. Elsewhere, in which it was revealed in the finale that the entire series was just imagined by an autistic boy, staring at a snow globe.
The St. Elsewhere plot twist ending was bad. The Newhart plot twist ending was brilliantly funny (and that happened after both the Dallas and St. Elsewhere endings).
"After nearly a whole season of frustratingly few answers, Dawn was revealed to be the key to hell."
Well... 5 episodes but... I guess that's basically the same huh
Dawn coming into season 5 of "Buffy" was planned since the prior year (if not since the beginning). The reason was revealed in episode 6, not the end of the season! Dawn was the character that Buffy was willing to die for. Do you actually watch these show?s!
It was actually episode 5 not six, and I am not saying that to be a know it all but it is even MORE rediculous it was only 5 episodes in and they called it the whole season. The payoff being good or bad is subjective but they flat out didn't drag it out all season before FINALLY revealing it. That is straight up, 100% false based on actual facts.
Thanks DanTheMan. l was too lazy to get the discs out.
She is first mentioned in season 3.
Faith mention that the Lil sis is coming right when the both look the dawn out the window.... Also, it was not a plot twist, watchmojo doesn't know what a plot twist is.
Buffy really doesn’t deserve to be on this list- the twist was amazing and the end of Season 5 was brilliant and heartbreaking
Dreams as plot twists are so lazy in my opinion, if they can be wonderfully executed with the story then they can be fine a little cliche at most but most of the time dreams being the thing to explain it all isn’t the best.
Futurama is the only time I've seen the dream as a plot twist done right. They even follow dream rules.
You are so right
The Newhart one was amazing. It shouldn't have even been mentioned on this list.
Going back in time to stop something from happening is also a bad way to tell a story. Happens more in books though.
The ending of Newhart was genius, and HIMYM was way worse than anything else.
Other than that... yeah, you've pretty much got it right.
The Newhart ending was a brilliant use of being a dream. It worked because the show was bizzare from the beginning with all the weirdo denizens of that New England town. The ending explained everything and was a perfect coda to Newhart's original show.
I'm sorry but what the hell is Buffy doing on this list. Dawn's coming was already foreshadowed in Season 3 finale. "BE BACK BEFORE DAWN"
Man that HIMYM final season in general. I expected the mother to die hence Ted telling the story but Cristin Mioloti was amazing so it's tragic she wasn't introduced earlier. Spending a whole season building up a wedding to then break Barney and Robin in the finale was an insane decision. As was showing Josh as old Ted in that final segment after years of Bob Sagat narration.
As the creators said, Josh deserved to play himself as an older man in the final.
47D then the creators made a stupid decision hiring someone else to do narration for 9 years. The alternate ending that was released was much better.
Watchmojo seriously need to stop roasting HIMYM every possible chance they get
Um I’m sorry WatchMojo but the Buffy one was fully explained out in the 3rd or 4th episode...... so anyone who watched it knew from then onwards
While the Buffy twist was jarring at first, I think Dawn added another layer to the show and it worked overall. So I wouldn’t necessarily call it a bad twist, just a really unusual one.
HIMYM ending still burns.
You forgot Sherlock's secret sister or that Charlie was alive on the 2 and a Half Men Finale.
The milisecond I saw How I Met Your Mother, I click, 1 like 1 sad react. Such an amazing series, though somewhat sensible and decent was a shitty twist :(
Xyril Einzen Carin that’s like saying it was okay but it was the worst experience I’ve had in my life, it makes no sense.
Top 5 Cartoon Could've worded it out better, what I meant was it made sense somewhat in the grand scheme of things, but the actual twist as a whole was shitty.
Xyril Einzen Carin however Barney and Robin breaking up and Robin getting together with Ted made no sense and was also shitty
@Kanye West Also, the fact that when he refers to Robyn throughout the series to his kids, she's always "Your aunt Robyn". After seeing the finale, that just didn't sit right with me. I haven't been able to watch the show since then.
No Way! The series finally of “Newhart” was the greatest of all time.
Disagree on the Buffy plot twist, as it was fitting in building the S5 arc, leading up to Buffy sacrificing her life to save the world and her sister. Yes, Dawn was annoying, but that was the point.
An even worse plot twist was in S7 where the gang end up throwing Buffy out of her house during the apocalypse and Buffy pretty much accepting it rather than calling them out on their ungratefulness. .
It still sucked. Planned or not.
I can remember screaming at my tv for a while after I saw the end of HIMYM. That being said, I only saw it once and it was a BIG mistake.
Newhart was actually hilarious at the time. It connected the old show with the new and was a twist no one saw coming.
Buffy has a secret sister?!?!
That's not a secret it was huge plot point
Newhart had the greatest and funniest plot twist of all time.
Just commented that before I saw your comment... Totally agree. So unexpected, original, and totally hilarious!!
The Newheart twist is amazing and hilarious. I can’t believe you’d put it on par with the How I met your mother twist. Disgraceful
I haven't watched any of the shows on this list except from How I Met Your Mother and that show ending pissed me off a lot
Lost is actually an incredibly good show. :D
I hated the how I met your mother ending but for the DVD they did alternative ending you can search it up on RUclips
It's the only bit of HIMYM I will watch now.
Just based on the ones I've seen in depth, I agree that the Simpsons and Heroes twists here were poor, but actually they revealed the truth about Dawn fairly early on; the only 'season-long' part of the storyline was how long it took Glory to learn the truth.
Rose Quartz being Pink Diamond was one of the worst twists ever.
I am sorry but "Buffy has a secret sister" is an absolutely wonderful twist and it was written pretty well.
Um, Dawn's existence as Buffy's sister is explained within a couple of episodes, not after a whole season. Do your research..
Buffy having a sister was not the twist. That was the set-up. Dawn being revealed to be The Key was not a twist, it was a revelation.
A plot twist is something unexpected.
Also, she is revealed to be The Key within the first 10 episodes.
So you’ve put LOST on the list but dont give any valid reason why it SHOULD be on the list...
I love the flashsideways plot. Dont understand why Its so hated
chapita PE me neither. It was fully appropriate for these characters. I guess some people wanted an action/ thriller based plot twist that made their jaws drop like the previous season did instead of an emotional twist which this one was
Djrobinv Yes! Exactly. Thought, i agree on lost being lazy with answers in the Island (Black smoke, Jacob, Island as well), i think that the flash sideways were the best of season 6 along with the ending. I loved it!
Because there aren't any reasons to criticize it. You liked it or not but it doesn't harm the story in any way.
The closest they got to justifying the inclusion was: 'We wanted something "more."'
The usual complaints of people who don't like the flash-sidewayses or ending or Season 6 in general was they wanted to tie into the Sci-Fi/fantasy "mysteries" of the smoke monster or island moving or.. etc. The flash-sideways were a super-extended epilogue to the series rather than part of the main plot. I think a much stronger criticism of Lost would be that I think that this whole series was just a fight between smokey and his even-worse brother, which just.. it just feels lame.
But... no complaints here about the sideway-world, even if it lagged in the middle of the season because they needed to spread things out.
Dawn's arrival in Buffy is extremely well-foreshadowed and the season in which she emerges is probably the series' most popular season. Doesn't belong on this list.
If you haven't done already, can you do Top 10 best CSI Las Vegas Episodes or moments.Also I really enjoyed the flash sideways episodes in Lost
Denise F YES!!!!!!!!!
^*THIS*
Everyone craps on the end of lost cuz they didn't really understand it
Himym made us deeply care for the mother so much so that we cared for here more than the other cast members by the and of the series, accepting the fast integration of her into the group but in the end they had to kill her.....if not they would have been able to make a few ep to seasons if they wanted to in the future....
What about Moesha where the dad wasn't the uncle to Moesha's cousin but his father as well. I know Brandy & Ray J are siblings in real life, but come on. Even the actors playing the parents didn't like that storyline.
Kevin Riley yea I didn’t like it either
Well still it was more disappointing having no real ending and have a cliffhanger as the ending
LETS GET ONE THING STRAIGHT adding Dawn out of nowhere and having all the characters not blink an eye at her existence was PURPOSELY confusing suspenseful and incredibly interesting. S5 is one of the best Buffy seasons and that whole execution and unfolding of that story was genius as was 99% of the series of Buffy as a whole. KEEP ITS NAME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH.
The Buffy twist wasnt bad. For a supernatural show the twist made sense it just depends on if you like Dawn or not.
Rewatching HIMYM the ending actually makes sense. When we first saw it air weekly and we were anxious to find out who the mom is, the ending seemed like a let down.
But if you rewatch it without the teasing and waiting, you'll see the show was always leading up to him and Robin.
What's the fun of watching nine seasons when you knew the end game in episode one? That's just stupid.
The Dawn twist actually worked pretty well, and season 5 ended up being one of the best in the series
Yep, season 5 is a masterpiece.
The ending of "Newhart" was flat out EPIC!
*The HIMYM & Gossip Girl twists pissed me off HUGELY when they happened!* 😧😧😧
It wasn't a bad plot twist for Buffy. The key would have been a bad plot twist if it had been done at the end of a season. Dawn was actually mentioned in a few episodes at the end of the previous season, just in a very cryptic way because there was no reason to think they meant Dawn as a name and not just the word. But moreover, it was good for the story arc and made Buffy grow as a character. It can be debated, but I don't think she would have jumped in the portal if the monks hadn't done exactly what they did.
I really wish Pretty little liars had been on this list. Like that was literally SUCH a good show we so much drama and suspense and very satisfying when we finally learned who A was and even more so when then introduced a second A. Then, they had the AUDACITY to make it be Spencer’s long lost twin? Are you KIDDING ME? I was sooooo upset and the whole thing was so stupid.
Not to mention they reveal that spencer’s mom isnt really her birth mom like 10 episodes before the end
Dawn was never a secret sister! In fact season 5 was the best most cohesive season of all. Dawn's storyline propelled the show forward. Buffy doesn't belong on the list
There is two tv twists that should have been in the list:
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1) Joey and Rachel having a relationship in 8th season of Friends
2) Debra Morgan being in love with Dexter (her adopted brother ) in the show Dexter
That Newhart ending was actually really funny and people thought it was funny at the time. Also, I think most BTVS fans ended up liking Dawn and went with what Joss Whedon was doing.
I'll give you an up-thumb for the first sentence, and take exception on the second. I understand what Joss Whedon was doing; I just thought it was bad. Particularly bad when a theoretical 15-year-old girl in high school can't seem to find anything to do or any friends of her own and spends the entire season whining about why she can't hang out with her older sister. And particularly bad when the whole season is so glum and miserable that it's just depressing to watch. I remember thinking (right before I stopped watching), "If I wanted to be this depressed I'd watch the news, that way at least I'd be informed and depressed."
Newheart’s finale was GENIUS!!
I didn't mind the mom dying in how I met your mother because I had suspected it for at least 3 seasons when I was guessing, but barney and robin getting married then divorced so ted and robin can end up together in the end was dumb