My favorite example of this was an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer with the incredibly subtle title, "Beer Bad." Buffy goes to some frat parties where the beer turns people into actual monsters or something. Ha ha, metaphors. The show's budget was cut during that season so they thought to make up the difference by writing this mess and getting some of that government money.


Then after the episode was completely made, the government refused to pay for it because the story was "otherworldly nonsense." And so the Buffy crew were left with a shit episode, no money to show for it, and worst of all, they had to work under Joss Whedon.

Joss Wheden sucks. So overrated