I will go with Rhoda(1970s tv show) Season 5.

They produced 13 episodes(4 unaired according to Wikipedia).

If it was meant to be a situation comedy but then you could have fooled me.

Does anyone know(without looking it up) what replaced it?

The Office after Steve Carell left. Just awful.

And whoever thought bringing back Scrubs for a final season without the leads would be a good idea.

Rhoda? Might as well throw in My 3 sons, or Marcus Welby MD or Bonanza.

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Okay seriously. I'd have to vote for Hawaii Five-O on CBS, the 2010 version. Once Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park left it just wasn't the same show. By the time the final season aired, it was obvious Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan were just collecting checks and didn't care anymore.

The Walking Dead for the last six or so seasons.

I concur about Hawaii 5-0.

Park and Kim both deserved equal paychecks to O’Loughlin and Caan by the time contract negotiations were ready for renewal. When the series started, ok I get it. They were supporting cast. But in the later seasons, they had way more screen time, even more than the main guys. Especially more than Caan who was missing from 2-3 episodes per season at that point. Why he get those days off? Haha

Last season of the original Hawaii Five-0 really stunk too.
Two and a Half Men after Sheen left. Last season really stunk. Series finale was funny though.

I personally thought Seinfeld went from great (almost every episode was gold) to average (only a few gems each season) during its last three or four years.

I think my #1 pick would be True Blood though...a really good first season, and a decent couple of seasons after than - and then pretty much awful in Seasons 4 through 7.

Desperate Housewives had one good season out of the last five,

The Goldbergs

I assume you're talking about The Goldbergs that ran from 1949-1957, because the one that's on ABC now has at least six more seasons in it.

And they will all be bad, I have confidence.

Dexter. Both the original and the reboot bonus season.

Gossip Girl, the original not the HBO Max reboot. That ran 7 seasons and it was probably 3 seasons too long. I watched every episode, but it became a slog to watch to the end.

Shameless really went out with a lame final season, they were clearly hampered trying to film it in the pandemic. American Housewife was also really bad at the end, with stories of an hostile work environment, Julia Butters leaving and the Anna-Kat role horribly miscast, Ali Wong only Zooming in.

Falling Skies - First two seasons were good. All downhill from there

Big Bang Theory season 12 was pretty bad.

Too stale and nothing memorable.

My answer by a long shot. The show that I at one point was such a fan of that fell off so hard. Also the only show to my knowledge to botch a series finale not once but twice.

The character of Dexter Morgan is great and Michael C Hall is awesome in the role, but just a shit show after season five (four was the last truly great one but I still enjoyed five).

The Office is a good answer too. Personally I would say it went downhill before Steve Carell left though. It started out as a sitcom I really enjoyed but it just got to be too much. I could only get on board with Michael’s antics and being so oblivious for so long.

I’ve always thought the cutoff for me was around season four. Season five is when I stopped watching altogether. I’ve only seen a handful of later season episodes.

This is a show that went from cultural phenomenon to laughingstock in the relative blink of an eye. It began when they started savoring the smell of their own farts, and really thought the audience would gobble up whatever lazy, pretentious swill they served. The quality of the series fell off a cliff and hit bottom without a bounce once Rick left.

Same. The Office's turning point was Season 4, Episode 3. Once you take your loveable quirky character and turn him into brain damaged idiot whom you wonder how he even ties his shoes then there's a problem.



There were plenty of good episodes after this one, but this was the pivotal point of no return.

Similar to the office, The Walking Dead's turning point was for the same exact reason. And it was long before Rick left. You take two great and seemingly smart characters (Darryl & Rick) that don't suffer the same problems as the other idiots in this apocalypse and turn them into bumbling morons. It should have been time to start wrapping things up at that point.



I'll dive into the 90's for my suggestions.

er - I don't even know how many but it's probably more than 3 bad final seasons. That was one of my favorite shows that seemingly went off the rails and was just creatively bankrupt by the end.

X-Files (original run) - likewise, this show lost a lot of steam trying to drag shit out too long and despite Doggett being a good character the show was just spent in 7, 8 and 9.

NYPD: Blue - bit of an asterisk on this one. The last few seasons of Blue were rough but the final season made up for it and was one of the best seasons the show had in years.

24 - Not the 90s but let's be honest, after season 5 with President Logan it was all downhill from there. 6 is widely considered the worst season, 7-9 was a mixed bag. IIRC, the odd numbers (7 & 9) were decent and evens (6 & 8) left a lot to be desired.

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Oh, I agree the show had been bumbling downhill for a while by the time Rick left. I mention his departure because to me it sort of marks the twine for when the show fully bottomed out and finished squandering the good will it had built up from the strong early seasons. Since then it remains an amateurish and pointless mess.

Rescue Me

Homeland

Rescue Me and Homeland are both very good ones.

My vote is for Lost. I know most hated the final season, but I really did not anything after S4.

Supernatural pretty much sucked after season 5.
Chuck season 5 as terrible too.

Flash was good for the first 2 seasons, then went steadily downhill