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Episodes You Never Make it Through

posted 9 years ago by tooclosetothetv
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I have never made it through the one with Eileen Brennan as the advice columnist from San Francisco. (The episode title escapes me now.)Last night it was just because I was tired and fell asleep, but in all the years I've watched MSW I have never made it through that one!

Others in that category are the one about the family department store and the one where a historic building is about to be torn down and her editor is either a victim or an accused killer.

If anyone knows the outcome of the Eileen Brennan one, holla back!

[–] tooclosetothetv 9 years ago

I'm adding to my own list any episode centered around Donna and Grady!

The fact that they were both accountants and talked a lot about accounting in "Just Another Fish Story" -- who thought that made compelling television?

The episode where they go to her parents house in Fishkill and someone is murdered at a wedding is high concept, as was the one where they house sit in Cabot Cove. Boo.

When she was pregnant she wore the most God-awful maternity clothes. And her baby voice drove me nuts! You're a grown woman, Donna, use your big girl voice.

I liked Grady on his own in The Death of Sherlock Holmes, Broadway Malady and Crossed Up.

[–] lucyrfisher 9 years ago

Any episode set in Ireland or featuring an "Irish" person. Severe attack of the begorrahs. Also can't stand the ones set in the South, or on ranches. Full of incomprehensible local colour. I prefer the ones set in NY - the hotel rooms! The clothes!

[–] snsurone 9 years ago

But, as one who lives in NYC, I was able to see scenes that were definitely fake.
For example, there's one of Jessica and a man exiting the #8 subway station.
There is NO #8 subway line anywhere in New York!

Somebody fell down on their research!

[–] CarolTheDabbler (521) 2 years ago

They may have used a non-existent number on purpose, for basically the same reason that Cabot Cove isn't a real town. That way, they don't have to be consistent with the real one (plus it may help avoid lawsuits).

[–] thepansybastard 8 years ago

I disagree. I LOVE ALL of the Grady episodes, and in particular, the Donna and Grady episodes. I didn't know it at the time, but those two are married in real life.

I am an accountant myself, so perhaps I didn't mind the technobabble?

[–] misspoodellecrawford 8 years ago

It might be more accurate to say that the episodes I got through (barely) once but will never watch again are the ones with Dennis Stanton. I find them heavy-handed, and Michell is, frankly, so heavily made up that it is painful to watch him creaking through the episode. I know he was supposed to be this dashing man of mystery and romance who drifted in and out of Jessica's life in various colorful locales, but I just saw them as a lame attempt to give an aging ham actor some work for old times' sake.

[–] letterl 8 years ago

It's strange how people have different tastes. Of the bookend episodes, I liked the Dennis Stanton ones the best.

"Murder, She Wrote" is my favorite series of all time (I own all the seasons on DVD) and feel sort of guilty by even thinking anything negative about this beloved mystery series but there are some episodes I just ignore when I sit down for binge viewing: "Jack and Bill"...and any of the episodes from New Orleans (except the one from the first season). I hate those accents.

[–] Stratego (29413) 4 years ago

"It's strange how people have different tastes. Of the bookend episodes, I liked the Dennis Stanton ones the best."

I dislike the bookend episodes, but I agree those were the most watchable of them.

[–] kharabear97 8 years ago

I actually enjoyed those episodes, mostly because of Hallie Todd. :). She created a great character as Rhoda Markowitz

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[–] snsurone 8 years ago

Most of the episodes from Season #8 onward are bad, but to me the very worst is "Something Foul in Flappeville" which "introduced" Angela's grandson Ian Shaw who got special billing in the opening credits.
I don't think I ever saw a kid so untalented! Every time he opened his mouth, he dragged the story down.
Not that it was much of a story to begin with; I couldn't make heads or tails of it!

[–] whoanelly (1560) 4 years ago

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[–] Stratego (29413) 4 years ago

The bookend episodes.