Has there ever been a TV show that doesn't make any sense to you, either in theme or in content?

Me personally, I could never understand why Darrin Stevens on Bewitched didn't want Samantha to use her witchcraft. I would take full advantage of something like that, if I were him.

I always wonder how Benson went from being a servant on Soap to a lieutenant governer on his own show.

Cosby kids. Theo, Vanessa and Rudy...ok I can buy it...but Sandra and Denise. Nah. They STOOD OUT like red (literally!) thumbs.

How come on the first couple seasons of Roseanne, her father would occasionally come and visit and was a funny good guy that Roseanne and Jackie liked but then out of no where him out to be a cheating monster who beat them as kids and they never got along with.

Cory and Tapanga on Boy Meets World hated each other at first, but then were suddenly in love and getting married.

Wadsworth wrote:

Cosby kids. Theo, Vanessa and Rudy...ok I can buy it...but Sandra and Denise. Nah. They STOOD OUT like red (literally!) thumbs.

That's nothing, look at The Jefferson's. Tom and Helen Willis were an interracial couple who had a biological daughter who was black and a biological son who was white.

On the Golden Girls...the first time Dorothy's son came to visit he was twenty-nine years old, the next time he was twenty-three, then last time he was thirty. His age was mentioned in all three episodes, with no consistency. Furthermore, Dorothy supposedly gotten married as a pregnant teenager (in one episode they said she 19 y/o at the time, in the other she was 17) and was with Stan for 38 years. Who was THAT child? The two the audience met were noticeably younger. Blanche's daughter Becky was introduced as a short, obese when she first appeared...after that she was tall and rail thin. Rose's kids names changed almost every time they were mentioned, and in one episode Rose refereed to So and So Nylund as her adoptive parents, even though "Nylund" was her married name. There were a ton of continuity goofs on that show.

When Mama's Family originally aired on NBC in the early 1980s, Vint (who was initially portrayed as more of a tough guy, then later as more of a goofy creampuff) had two teenage kids. When it later continued in first run syndicated episodes, his two kids totally disappeared and were never mentioned again. Earlier on, Naomi was brassy, sharp tongued and would zing Mama's insults right back. On the syndicated episodes, she was sillier, more playful and would sort of just let out a frustrated sigh at Mama's name calling.

During the first season of Gimme A Break, Nell was jovial and sweet to the kids. After that, she was often tart and crass with them.

On Married With Children, Kelly started out as more of a juvenile delinquent w/a rebellious, bad girl attitude....but had common sense. As the show went on, she devolved into a fluffhead bimbo. During season one, Al and Peg were more serious, and "real." As the show went on, they became cartoons.

When The Simpson's first aired, Bart was the focus....while Homer was the grumpy dad. Later Homer became sillier and sillier, and would be the focus of the show. Now, who knows? I think the last time I watched, the show focused more on the TOWN than the Simpson family.

Daria on Beavis & Butthead wasn't nearly as cynical, wordy and down trodden as she would be on her own show.

Grace Under Fire: I don't get what happened to the oldest boy. One minute he's like this short kid who's about 12 years old, then in the next episode he's this tall teenager who's about 16. Like come on don't they think people will notice?

On the pilot episode of Full House, they were living in a big mess, and all three men were portrayed as slobs. Then they started to write Danny Tanner as a life long clean freak who could not tolerate disorder.

All the time!

How the hell do they write out main characters and then to everybody it's like they never existed? Like when they wrote Judy out of Family Matters.

Supernova wrote:

How the hell do they write out main characters and then to everybody it's like they never existed? Like when they wrote Judy out of Family Matters.

I don't mind them deciding that a certain character isn't working and abruptly writing them out if it's early in the series. But don't do two or three seasons with the character and then suddenly make like they never existed. I can forgive Chuck Cunningham, but not Judy Winslow.