21 Plot Points That Destroyed Perfectly Good TV Shows

When Fonzie waterskied over that big fish, he left a legacy of bad TV but also gnarly waves in his wake. That shark isn’t what plunged Happy Days into the toilet, however — it merely heralded it. If only all series could be so lucky. The ones that are not end up thoroughly decimated by one plot line that’s simply too stupid to survive.

For user rayray1010, it was “killing Laurel Lance” in Arrow. “They had shown that someone would be killed, had Felicity get shot, had Felicity break off her engagement to Oliver, started teasing a possible reunion between Laurel and Oliver, and then just killed Laurel and made Felicity basically the main character of Arrow,” they told r/AskReddit. “Season Four was the worst season of Arrow. Adrian Chase was a great villain in Season 5, but Arrow was mostly downhill after this decision.”

They then asked, “What single plot decision ruined a good television series?” and all kinds of poor decisionmaking followed.