(Hated Trope) Endings so awful they completely destroy the legacy of the media.

[u/MeepMan324]

1. Two and a Half Men's final episode teased Charlie Sheen's character coming back and going to harm the other characters whilst also having insults to his character and Charlie Sheen himself. It's clear the director had a grudge and the ending where his character comes up to knock then get crushed by a piano before it cuts to the director before he says "winning" before getting crushed by another piano
2. This was an upbeat animated show about a magical teen princess. The writers desperately wanted a romantic endgame for her and her best friend, but the way they got there was essentially multiversal omnicide. To stop a villain, the main character unilaterally decides magic is the root of all evil and destroys it entirely. By doing this, she casually commits mass genocide against every purely magical being in the multiverse. It also triggers a massive apocalyptic event that violently crashes different dimensions together into a chaotic hellscape. But the show frames this horrific, mass-extinction catastrophe as a sweet, triumphant ending just because two teenagers get to hold hands in the rubble (Star Vs The Forces Of Evil)

[u/OnRoadRadio]

Funny, "it was all a dream" I like a day 1 lesson in bad storytelling.

I've never heard of this and apparently Denzel Washington plays a Doctor on it? Is it worth giving it a watch today?

[u/OfficeMagic1 → u/OnRoadRadio]

Because St. Elsewhere and Hill Street are spin offs, and because Dt. Munch was on so many shows, hundreds of different shows are also the imagination of Tommy Westphall, including Cheers, Arrested Development, and Sesame Street.

[u/NarcolepticEgret → u/OfficeMagic1]

Wait, Munch as in from Law and Order and his show before that down in Baltimore (I forget the name)

[u/Slideways → u/NarcolepticEgret]

Homicide: Life On The Street