I got this idea after reading this AVClub.com article about the second season of Last Man Standing being the "weirdest" for a sitcom since the fourth/final sesaon of 'Til Death:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/last-man-standings-second-season-was-the-weirdest,95857/

I also heard that the ninth/final season of How I Met Your Mother will take place over a single weekend (in essence, it seems to be aiming to be a sitcom version of 24):
http://tvline.com/2013/05/15/how-i-met-your-mother-season-9-spoilers-wedding-weekend-mother-introductions

Of the top of my head, I think that it goes w/o saying that you can't do a discussion regarding the all time "weird" seasons for sitcoms w/o talking about the last season of Roseanne, when the Connors won the lottery.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeasonalRot

I don't watch How I Met Your Mother but that sounds stupid. Who wants to watch a whole season that takes place in a single weekend?

Community Season 3 has to qualify. Some of the weirdest stuff that's ever made it to network television. It featured...

-An episode that showed seven different timelines of the same night
-An episode in which a "Glee club virus" took over the study group and turned them into gleeful singing freaks
-An episode done in the style of a Ken Burns documentary about a pillow fort
-An episode that took place almost entirely in Annie's mind
-An episode done in the style of a retro video game

My vote goes to the final season of Roseanne, and the last few seasons of The Drew Carey Show.

I also heard that the ninth/final season of How I Met Your Mother will take place over a single weekend (in essence, it seems to be aiming to be a sitcom version of 24):
http://tvline.com/2013/05/15/how-i-m...-introductions

That could be interesting if each episode really did it like 24 so that it takes place in real time- i.e. The whole episode should only portray 30 minutes of time, then- or more like 22 or so, with all the commercials. There are about 3540 minutes in a weekend (assuming you start the weekend at 5 PM on Friday and continue through all day on Saturday and Sunday, up to 5 AM on Monday). So that could theoretically offer 118 episodes to capture all the events of a weekend.
That would cover up to 5 seasons worth and then some (assuming most seasons have at least 22 episodes- though I know some have more and some have less.)

Home Improvement season 6 because the boys became teenagers and they forgot to change the opening credits for season 6 (1996-1997).

I think the final season of Roseanne takes the cake, it completely lost its way (which can happen to sitcoms) but also completely went off the deep end.

The last season of Roseanne is the one I always think of.

The final season of The Courtship of Eddie's Father (Season 3) was pretty weird. Stiller & Meara's characters running a phone answering service, as an episode subject? Pretty much the whole season was a departure from what made the first 2 seasons great.

I agree about the final season of Roseanne. I think season 8 of Family Matters was weird. The show had been getting sci fi but that season took it to another level. I don't think any episode was realistic that season.

I agree about the final season of Roseanne. I think season 8 of Family Matters was weird. The show had been getting sci fi but that season took it to another level. I don't think any episode was realistic that season.
I agree with both Roseanne and family Matters. The last season of each show was weird but I still loved watching.

I agree with both Roseanne and family Matters. The last season of each show was weird but I still loved watching.
Ditto :D

Except for Boy Meets World, most of the TGIF shows got progressively weirder as the season numbers increased.

I say Roseanne and its not even a contest.

That could be interesting if each episode really did it like 24 so that it takes place in real time- i.e. The whole episode should only portray 30 minutes of time, then- or more like 22 or so, with all the commercials. There are about 3540 minutes in a weekend (assuming you start the weekend at 5 PM on Friday and continue through all day on Saturday and Sunday, up to 5 AM on Monday). So that could theoretically offer 118 episodes to capture all the events of a weekend.
That would cover up to 5 seasons worth and then some (assuming most seasons have at least 22 episodes- though I know some have more and some have less.)
Then again, how much can really happen during two days? Most 30-minute-periods of your life would make a very boring TV show episode.

Except for Boy Meets World, most of the TGIF shows got progressively weirder as the season numbers increased.

Perfect Strangers stayed pretty true to its premise for its entire 8-season run, and the show never really got too bizarre.

The last season of Roseanne is the one I always think of.

http://whatculture.com/tv/10-once-great-tv-shows-that-descended-into-madness.php/6

I always liked Roseanne Barr and thought that her sitcom was very good. It had a huge following at one point simply because viewers could relate to it (who hasn’t had to worry about paying bills or had to work some crappy low-paying job that they despised?) and as a result the show was a hit. It stayed fresh and funny up until the point that someone thought that it would be a good idea for the Connor family to win the lottery-which changed the entire dynamic of the show. The Connors went from being a white trash family struggling to make ends meet to a white trash family with money that never had to worry about such things ever again.

Soon after the whole lottery fiasco (which ruined the show for a lot of people if you ask me) Dan cheated on Roseanne and everything started spiraling out of control to the extent that it just felt like a completely different show. Viewers eventually quit watching soon after and those who decided to stick around were treated to one of the biggest slaps in the face in the history of television thanks to a horrible revelation that took place toward the end of the last episode.


Read more at http://whatculture.com/tv/10-once-great-tv-shows-that-descended-into-madness.php/6#4paOrdGyjVCb3PqW.99

Community Season 3 has to qualify. Some of the weirdest stuff that's ever made it to network television. It featured...

-An episode that showed seven different timelines of the same night
-An episode in which a "Glee club virus" took over the study group and turned them into gleeful singing freaks
-An episode done in the style of a Ken Burns documentary about a pillow fort
-An episode that took place almost entirely in Annie's mind
-An episode done in the style of a retro video game
Yeah, I pretty much was done with the show by the end of season three. Things just got way too surreal, and the gimmicks which were once cute just got too frequent and felt more and more forced IMO.

Definitely Roseanne's final season. Never seen anything like it. Odd is an understatement.

Roseanne's final season is completely unwatchable nowadays and the finale just makes it worse.

I agree with Drew Carey. The gimmicks outright killed the show.

while certainly not at the top of the list, Boy Meets World should probably be on here somewhere.

Really the last 2 seasons of the show, once they entered college....the humor got so dumbed-down it was borderline ridiculous. Plus they made the Eric character basically mentally-challanged (He was always a dimwit, but watch the first 4-5 seasons of the show....then watch the last 1 or 2, and you will see what I mean).....Plus they added the overly dramatic storylines of Shawn's father dying and the Mathews baby struggling to live.

It was still a good show and I enjoyed it, but the last season or 2 is nowhere near the same as rest

while certainly not at the top of the list, Boy Meets World should probably be on here somewhere.

Really the last 2 seasons of the show, once they entered college....the humor got so dumbed-down it was borderline ridiculous. Plus they made the Eric character basically mentally-challanged (He was always a dimwit, but watch the first 4-5 seasons of the show....then watch the last 1 or 2, and you will see what I mean).....Plus they added the overly dramatic storylines of Shawn's father dying and the Mathews baby struggling to live.

It was still a good show and I enjoyed it, but the last season or 2 is nowhere near the same as rest

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SeasonalRot/LiveActionTV

Boy Meets World (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/BoyMeetsWorld): Season 7. It had a few good episode and some very memorable moments (i.e. "Playswithsquirrels"), but it was not very good overall. It had many wacky and cartoonish (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DenserAndWackier) plotlines that didn't fit with the series, tons of Mood Whiplash (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoodWhiplash) between the wacky plotlines and serious plotlines, Flanderization (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization) up the wazoo, especially with Eric who went from being ditzy to being mentally insane, and just not as many laughs to be had. Fortunately, this was the final season and the finale ended the series on a good note.

The last season of Boy Meets World wasn't as strong as the others, but I don't think it was outright bad. It closed off a lot of plot-lines and had some very funny moments (Playswithsquirrels) and had a pretty good ending. Compared to some of the others in this thread (Family Matters, and Roseanne) it got off pretty well.

I dont think Boy Meets World had any weird or bad seasons but I do agree 1000% about Eric. He was just so annoying and over the top in the last couple of years.

I dont think Boy Meets World had any weird or bad seasons but I do agree 1000% about Eric. He was just so annoying and over the top in the last couple of years.

I agree with you on both accounts, great show, but Eric became a clown. A few funny over the top moments, but most just had me rolling my eyes.

Any season where they have to write out a major character for a few episodes to accommodate the filming of a film is weird. Also, many shows that aired during the 2007-2008 season were weird because they had the strike interruption right in the middle of the season which either disrupted the flows of the show in the middle of the season (most shows) or cause a premature end to the season (many of the dramas, including Heroes).

Ditto :D

Roseanne and Family Matters Double Ditto!:D

Happy Days turned into stupid show in the end. :mad:

Definitely agree with Roseanne's final season. After they won the lottery, it really started going downhill. And I really hated the ending.

Also, Eric on Boy Meets World just acted plain stupid towards the end. I thought the show was still good, it's just that Eric really got on my nerves. He was pretty smart and hot during the first couple of seasons, then they just turned him into some big goofball!

Also liked Happy Days in the earlier seasons. Later on they added Roger, Flip, KC and Lori Beth more, which I didn't like. Also Richie was gone. They turned the Fonz from a leather wearing rebel to a creme colored jacket wearing teacher! I didn't like the later seasons.

That Roseanne final season is in a league all of its own. :eek:

That Roseanne final season is in a league all of its own. :eek:
I still don't understand it. :lol:

I still don't understand it. :lol:

I've yet to find someone who does! :)

The last season of Dobie Gillis was insane.

http://officialfan.proboards.com/thread/486902/times-when-shows-starting-aww

I'm not talking Jump the shark, or going downhill like most shows do. Or when shows do something drastically different like the last seasons of That 70's show, Roseanne, etc.

I'm talking like when a show goes on and on, gets low ratings, the network clearly doesn't give a crap, yet it doesn't get cancelled, so they start doing random crap that you can clearly see as a sign of the show giving up and screwing around.

For me, the most glaring example is Til death.

Originally, it started off as a Odd couple friendship of old married couple versus, young idealistic newlweds. Somewhere along the way, the neighbors vanished, and the Main Husband started getting into wacky adventures with his Adopted 40 year old black "Little brother". Then there was that year where he became best friends with Martin Mull, the guy who hated things as much as he did. Then that year where his new neighbor was Gilbert Gottfried and his gold digger wife. Old Kevin Nealon and his perfect doctor wife. Not to mention the daughter. Originally Kristin Ritter, who was pretty likable. Then some random girl who looked nothing like her. then a new girl who looked kind of like the first one. Then the daughter's new husband (the same guy the whole time) starts believing that he's trapped in a tv show and keeps breaking the 4th wall. The waitress from one of their dates becomes the new actress to play daughter a week later. Somewhere in there, they were friends with Anthony Anderson married to Margaret cho who'd randomly and awkwardly yell at him in Old lady Korean.

The only good thing about it was that it brought back Mayim Bialik before Big bang theory. Oddly enough playing a doctor, who looks like a hotter, more normal version of Amy Farrah Fowler.

Other shows that I could go on about:

Drew Carey show after Kate left to do scrubs, completely ruining the show. Also, they started doing wacky things to the theme song. Mimi got really weird, and I don't even remember what happened to Mr. Wicke.
I'd say The Neighbors, but that show already started off crazy and it's only the second season. But they're already mocking ABC for putting them on Fridays almost every episode.

Any of you guys got any other examples?

I want to say Yes Dear. I can't remember any specific wackiness more so than I can't believe it went on for like 5 years. I swear I thought it was cancelled like 3 times. Same goes for Rules of engagement.