Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio? - Worst episode of TV of all time

[kentrout0]

Worst episode of television even made.

This is not hyperbole. "Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio" is the Worst...Episode...Ever.

This is worse than every television that took place before episode of this television and worse than every episode of television that took place afterwards. A random episode of NewsRadio was infinitely superior.

Where to begin?

The first plot was a typical, uninspired, predictable, cookie cutter story line that anyone from the 90s had seen over and over again. The one child character idolizes an elite baseball who charges him $50 for an autograph, just like the pros apparently do. Funny how I never heard David Ortiz, Alex Rodriguez, Chase Utley, Mike Trout, Derek Jeter, Albert Pujols, or Ichiro Suzuki ever do anything like that. The screenwriter, Julia Newton really did her homework on that one. At the end, the good guys get their revenge and the bad guy walks away ashamed. How original! I certainly never saw that one coming.

The second plot was embarrassingly bad. Feminist propaganda is the best way to describe it. One teenage daughter has to wear a pregnancy pad for school, you know, just how students do in real life. After she complains how tired she is, the older son says, “Man, chicks are such wimps” and later “Being pregnant is no big deal. Women just milk it for all its worth.” As someone who spent entirely too much time watching sitcoms, I can honestly say that I have never head such horrible lines of dialogue in my life. What country on earth do people talk like that? How that ever made it to the final cut is truly astounding.

The older son makes a bet with another daughter that he can wear the pads for a weekend because you know why wouldn't he do that? His father is dragged into it by the mother despite the fact he was unwilling to do so. Unsurprisingly, the females win the bet and the men have to say they're the weaker sex while they kiss the women’s feet. Can you imagine the outrage if the outcome was the other way around? The script surely wouldn't have see the light of day. Can ANYONE name an equivalence where the men were victors and the women were humiliated? Are there any women out that beyond Julia Newton who things women are physically stronger than men?

The dialog was so horrendously bad, Julia Newton should have been ashamed of herself. How she could have shown her face at the table read is beyond me. She clearly chose to promote her feminist ideology over anything that was the least bit of entertaining. It’s evident why her career came to a screeching halt in the 90s.

Lastly the acting, or lack there of, by Staci Keegan and Suzanne Somers in not just this episode but throughout the entire series was so over the top and not up to industry standards.

This episode reminds me of an elementary school play that was written by the students and not the gifted ones.

[RetroGuy2000]

I was laughing with you because I remember how bad this episode is. It's clear they made JT be a sexist pig as a straw man. I enjoyed "Step By Step", but this episode really was lousy.

(For me, the worst episode of TV, ever, is the ninth-season episode of Roseanne, called "Roseambo" (9-09) where Roseanne dresses as a ninja to rescue Hillary Clinton from terrorists.)

[TVFactFan]

Now I want to see this episode because I saw that its a reference made to Three's Company in this episode

[JO Sweet Heart]

I remember this episode. I love it because Cody doesn't hesitate to give Brenden's favorite ball player the attitude adjustment that he was in such sheer and severe need of.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

[Lorimar Television]

Nah I can think of far worse eps

[Furienna]

While I don't remember this particular episode, I see what you mean.
It is really aggravating to see these "women have to be better than men at everything" plots.
They are mostly unrealistic and simply misandrist.
And no, there's no way that anybody could ever make an episode about men treating women this way and play it for laughs.

And I'm a woman, so I can only guess what a man would feel...

[TMC]

How about "The Un-Natural" for the title of "worst" Step by Step episode? In it, Frank is coaching a little league team and during the playoffs, Mark wants to join the team but Frank won't let him. After he cries and whines about it to Carol, Frank lets him join the team and in the end, Mark has the game winning hit in the championship game. So there are two morals to this story:

1. The individual comes before the team.

2. If you don't get what you want, pout and whine about it until you get your way.

[Sonny Carson]

Originally Posted by TMC

How about "The Un-Natural" for the title of "worst" Step by Step episode? In it, Frank is coaching a little league team and during the playoffs, Mark wants to join the team but Frank won't let him. After he cries and whines about it to Carol, Frank lets him join the team and in the end, Mark has the game winning hit in the championship game. So there are two morals to this story:

1. The individual comes before the team.

2. If you don't get what you want, pout and whine about it until you get your way.

Yes this episode is much worse!

[Furienna]

Originally Posted by TMC

How about "The Un-Natural" for the title of "worst" Step by Step episode? In it, Frank is coaching a little league team and during the playoffs, Mark wants to join the team but Frank won't let him. After he cries and whines about it to Carol, Frank lets him join the team and in the end, Mark has the game winning hit in the championship game. So there are two morals to this story:

1. The individual comes before the team.

2. If you don't get what you want, pout and whine about it until you get your way.

This is weird because I can only remember an episode where Carole pushed Mark into playing baseball.