Is this the year of hallucinations? Booth is seeing cartoon characters on Bones (brain tumor). Izzy is seeing Denny on Grey's Anatomy (brain tumor). House is seeing Cutthroat Bitch (vicodin).

Are there any worse clichés this year?

It's not just from this year, but I'd say the worst cliche in scripted television is the closing montage of characters with a popular song playing.

How about calling Cuddy, Cutthroat Bitch whenever she is referenced.

Željko Ivanek

Prison Break did this as well

Frack

This one has escaped the Battlestar Galactica universe and is turning up in other places.

Actually, it was .

But hey, it's an easy mistake to make

I don't know.. the old stand by of "easy knock out concussion" always makes a strong showing.. I mean come on, Smallville alone sometimes had 2 or 3 with in one ep! Bunch of shows use it anytime they need someone to just not see something or quickly end a fight.

worse cliche, IMO, is how money/gold has no weight.. 10million in a duffle bag? Sure no problem throw it over your shoulder.. Random gold bar? Put in your shirt pocket, like it's a cell phone.

but that does not tend to show up as much as hallucinations and concussions.. We need a show where the guy get a concussion, then a hallucination about stealing gold that is impossibly light.. Cliche trifecta!

I get annoyed by "Frack", because I didn't watch that show (I didn't know where the word came from until someone here told me) and I doubt the majority of people who hear it (who aren't on boards like this) would get the reference either.

I gave up on Smallville a long time ago (around the time Lana was possessed by a witch), but if that show's to be believed, a any blow to the head will not only knock you unconscious for the next ten minutes, but leave you with rather convenient amnesia.

Just to provide a small counter to that, there's a scene late in the first season of Breaking Bad where a character gets sent to the hospital due to another character beating the hell out of him with a sack full of cash.

Cuddy and Cutthroat Bitch (Amber) are two different people.

I heard someone use frack on a non-genre show this week (can't remember which). I had to LOL.

how about calling amber cut throat bitch everytime she is mentioned.

Bleh, I haven't watched Bones yet...didn't know about the brain tumor. Thanks!

There are a lot of shows on tv that try too hard to be quirky, like the awful Unusuals.

30 Rock did this as well with Kenneth seeing everyone as puppets.

I believe it was Dollhouse (last week's episode).

It was used on "Better Off Ted".

The Wire always did this extremely well, albeit not a popular song.

Only that wasn't a hallucination, it's just how he sees the world. Much like Tracy sees everybody as him.

Not strictly a cliche, but it seems I can always count on a character to say at some point during an episode "You have no idea..." as in "You have no idea what I'm capable of" or "You have no idea what you've just done".

Or the ever-popular "You have no idea who you're dealing with".

All the Star Trek shows have a cliche, using the term "some kind of...." or "some sort of..." to describe something unknown.

THAT was it! Thanks.

BTW, great show.

I hope it's renewed but that's a long shot. It was a lot of fun.

I'd say it's the one that gets overused almost every year for one major series or another.

Killing off a character.

From the previews it appears NCIS was going to do it, but since I didn't watch, I don't know for certain.

CSI: New York is definitely going that route according to their previews for Thursday, but no idea of who except it's not Mac.

Doesn't anyone just retire, get promoted or just quit. From these shows, you'd think those who investigate crimes are more at risk that soldiers in wartime.

I am really getting sick of the cliche where an episode starts off with some WTF scene then the rest of the episode is labeled "48 hours earlier" or something. So overused.