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Which TV show should have ended years ago?

by YPB Team

Some of these wrapped up five seasons ago and nobody told the network.

  1. The Simpsons — ranked #11
    The Simpsons
    Past season 700 and still running, decades after its golden age closed.
  2. Grey's Anatomy — ranked #22
    Grey's Anatomy
    Medical drama that has outlived most of its original cast and twenty-plus seasons of interns.
  3. Supernatural — ranked #33
    Supernatural
    Fifteen seasons of Winchester brothers dying, returning and re-fighting the apocalypse.
  4. The Walking Dead — ranked #44
    The Walking Dead
    Zombie epic that kept expanding long after its central cast and momentum were gone.
  5. Dexter — ranked #55
    Dexter
    Peaked with the Trinity Killer in season 4, then limped to one of TV's most hated finales.
  6. Glee — ranked #66
    Glee
    The musical hit that lost its footing once the original glee club graduated.
  7. The Office — ranked #77
    The Office
    Kept going two seasons past Michael Scott's exit, and everyone noticed.
  8. How I Met Your Mother — ranked #88
    How I Met Your Mother
    Nine seasons of stalling that spent its final one on a single wedding weekend.
  9. Once Upon a Time — ranked #99
    Once Upon a Time
    Ran out of fairy tales around season six and rebooted itself with a new cast anyway.
  10. True Blood — ranked #1010
    True Blood
    HBO's vampire soap that kept adding supernatural factions until the plot collapsed.
  11. Family Guy — ranked #1111
    Family Guy
    Twenty-plus seasons of cutaway gags long after the format stopped surprising anyone.
  12. Two and a Half Men — ranked #1212
    Two and a Half Men
    Survived losing its lead actor and carried on for four more seasons.
  13. Riverdale — ranked #1313
    Riverdale
    Teen mystery that escalated from small-town murder to time travel and comic-book multiverses.
  14. Sherlock — ranked #1414
    Sherlock
    Many fans stop at the season 2 rooftop; the show kept going into hidden-sibling territory.
  15. The Big Bang Theory — ranked #1515
    The Big Bang Theory
    Twelve seasons of a sitcom whose premise had been fully mined by year six.

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Comments

Fox renewed it in April 2025 for seasons 37 through 40, two decades after most viewers name the drop-off. Everything else here has stopped: https://youpick.best/articles/the-simpsons-ranked-many-ways

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