Yesterday, we gave you our list of top 5 shows we’re going to miss. Today, we’re giving you the opposite: these are the top five shows that we couldn’t be happier to see leave the airwaves, making room for something next season that will hopefully be a lot better.

5. Flash Forward

Wonder if they saw their cancellation coming.
Flash Forward started with an admittedly intriguing concept: everyone worldwide blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds, in which time they see several months into their own futures. The series focused on a group of people trying to figure out how and why this blackout happened and whether they can change their own futures. Unfortunately, the writers dropped the ball on this one: a cast too large for us to keep track of combined with action that moved at a snail’s pace made Flash Forward a great idea that would’ve worked out better as a movie than the slow TV show it wound up being.

4. Accidentally On Purpose

Aired accidentally, canceled on purpose.
The first of a multitude of sitcoms to debut and get axed all at once this past season, Accidentally On Purpose follows the story of a career woman who has a one night stand, gets pregnant, and decides to move in with the child’s less-than-mature father and his friends. We’ve seen this before: it was called Knocked Up and was much better executed. This just means that CBS needs to find another sitcom to accompany the empty slot in its Monday night comedy block.

3. 10 Things I Hate About You

1. The plot. 2. The characters. 3. The pacing. 4...
Yet another case of déjà vu, 10 Things I Hate About You is based on the 1999 movie of the same name, which in turn is based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. This show is a very good example of why Shakespeare wrote comedies but never sitcoms. Like My Big Fat Greek Life, this movie-based sitcom was an uninteresting flop. We won’t miss this at all.

2. Scrubs

Someone ignored this show's Do Not Revive paperwork.
Unlike the previous two sitcoms on this list, Scrubs started out strong, running for seven seasons on NBC. Unfortunately, the writer’s strike cut the seventh and purportedly final season short. Scrubs then hopped networks, heading to ABC for its eight and final season, which wrapped up its loose ends and gave fans the wonderful finale they’d been clamoring for. ABC then put together a ninth season meant to focus on a new crop of medical students being taught by the more experienced characters the audience knew and loved. Of course, the audience hated it. Scrubs already had its happy ending – we’re glad the networks are finally catching on to that, even if it’s a season too late.

1. Heroes

Hero to Zero, a major flunk.
Oh goodness, where do we even start on this one? Heroes was NBC’s baby when it premiered, garnering incredibly high ratings with its superhero story, its engaging cast of characters, and the tagline, “Save the cheerleader, save the world.” Season 1 ended on a strong note and a cliffhanger. Unfortunately, it all went downhill from there: Season 2 was strangled by the writer’s strike and Seasons 3 and 4 have wandered so far off course that the audience doesn’t even know what the course is anymore. Heroes was good for a while, but we’re more than happy to see it be put out of its highly confused misery.

What do you think? Were we too harsh on the budding sitcom or the long-standing drama? Are you going to miss the shows we’re glad to see the end of, or are we missing shows that you’re more than happy to see leave? Comment and let us know!

Katherine

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