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Seconding Parks and Rec and Star Trek TNG. I have a soft spot for Star Trek TNG's first season, but only because I think some of it is entertaining or interesting to compare to later episodes -- seeing how drastically something changed, or how the seeds of something good were sown back in season 1, etc. Parks and Rec...I kinda just pretend that season doesn't exist because it's one of those deals where the incongruity is very difficult to make sense of.

And Buffy, YES. It's the weird un-Buffy-ish style of Buffy S1 that weirded me way more than its general badness.

Also, I submit to you MASH. Not "terrible" exactly, but very...um...wrong-feeling. Like a sense of "WTF are they doing behaving this way? Do they think this is a normal sitcom??? There's a war on!!!" and the sitcominess felt so forced and fake too. But this only applied to the first half of the first season, not the whole first season.

Also, Torchwood. I don't really like Torchwood apart from Children of Earth and I've only seen about half the episodes, but season 2 definitely >>> season 1.

Right from the beginning, TPTB on the show were fighting with TPTB at the network to get rid of the laugh track. It was sort of a big deal that they finally got permission to get rid of it during OR scenes in the second season. Personally I enjoy the first season, but it really does seem like a different (better) show after that.

Oh, I love several episodes from MASH's first season, there's some real awesome classics there, even the light-hearted comedic ones -- The Army-Navy Game, Tuttle, and The Longjohn Flap come to mind, never mind Sometimes You Hear The Bullet. My main problem with season 1 of MASH was that those episodes would suddenly be weirdly interspersed with sudden goofy cheery storylines that wouldn't have felt out of place in Mary Tyler Moore or something.

I never realized that they didn't cut the OR laugh track until season 2! I thought OR scenes were always laugh-free. Huh, it must be one of those things that my mind just kinda tunes out.

(also sjfhgdsjhfgsdkfgd I love being able to fangirl over MASH in-depth like this :D)

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