I disagree with this image and raise the point that fans are finicky children.

  Lets talk about amazing shows that went for years with no real collapse in quality instead.

>>18284>>18285
These are ALSO valid points of discussion I approve of.

>Every TV Show. Ever.
Many British tv shows have two seasons and both are ***.

>>18289

did you just censor yourself?

>>18285

Fuck year Drew Carey.

All the relationship arcs were kinda lame though.

>>18285

That was a good show.

I think Seinfeld had the same over-all quality through out the series, and I really think people who loved the show, loved it all the way through, and those that hated, hated it all the way through as well.

I think it mainly had something to do with Larry David refusing to change anything, and kept doing it how he liked to do it.

>>18292

Disturbing as hell arcs all of them and I loved it!!

Friends I can see as waffling towards the end seasons

I think that Seinfeld was a really good example of this model as well as the vast amount of '90s sitcoms. Very few I think are actually good enough that they bow out properly.

Did Roseanne follow this pattern? I don't remember if the last few seasons were good or not, just that they were...different.

>>18326

Minus Tom Arnold, I think they were still pretty good. But Goodman could carry a scene alone very well.

That image is actually pretty accurate in my experience. A little more critical than I would be, but otherwise just about right.

Off the top of my head I'm thinking of Scrubs and Buffy being pretty perfect examples. I actually still continued to enjoy both into their seventh seasons, but they definitely showed their age by that point--and were at their peak from season 3 to season 5.

That pretty much applies to every Eccentric Genious show and Initials for a Title show.

>>18290
No. Those are three stars as in the OP.

>>18285

>>18337
Scrubs was at it's peak between seasons 1-3. It showed signs of life for a few seasons after that, but after the episode where Cox loses his patients due to rabies, the show never reached that level of quality again.

>>18377
The Wizard of Oz episode was pretty cool.

Okay, mostly I just like hearing The Worthless Peons / The Blanks singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

I never really liked Scrubs... I don't like Zach Braff, and hospitals give me the willies. When I watch the show in syndication -- or did -- all I cared about was Dr. Cox, and spent most episodes waiting around for him.

All the dipping into fantasy reality, it felt a lot more like Family Guy's non sequiturs, and they just... weren't fun for me.

On a side note, both seasons of Quantum Leap were fantastic.

sliders only had two good seasons, season 3 is when it turned awful

Angel was a pretty good example of this, essentially just falling apart when Conner came into play.
I still have a bizarre love for the last season though, I suppose if for nothing else it really disrupted the status quo.

Also: Puppet Angel.

>>18382
See, for me Scrubs lost it's sparkle waaaaay back in Season 2, episode 1. I was just pissed off that everything got resolved with no real effort, that the writers just went "fuck it, status quo".

>>18281

"The Simpsons"

The had really gone off the rails after 10th season.

The social satire had been muted, the Flanders got flanderised (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization), and ideas are repetitive, for example "Bart sees his future".

Red Dwarf. What is there to discuss, the whole 20 years later thing should have never existed. The 6th season was still very damn good, if not the best, though.