We need to make TV great again by implementing the following:
- At least one clip show episode per season
- Heavy-handed anti-drug plots and messages, preferrably featuring gangs that look like they’re from The Warriors selling crack
- “Very Special Episodes” about topical real-world issues like acid rain or stranger danger, ending with segments with the actors talking to the audience and making some kind of call to action
- Episodes that are built entirely around stock footage from recycled old films that the studio or production company owns
- Related to the last point, episodes that are built entirely around existing sets from the studio’s other productions, such as generic Western towns
Episode where a drastic change happens (someone dies or gets divorced idk) and then the next episode goes back to the status quo without acknowledging what happened
Let's not forget about introducing character traits that are just blatantly contradicted in following episodes
One episode showing main character having a crippling fear of clowns stemming from a traumatic childhood experience, 3 episodes later they say they learned juggling at clown college
I like when in the first episode of the first season of the walking dead they canonically establish that zombies get more active at night, then after that episode the writers completely forgot about and it's never an important lore detail ever.