Triggered

This should not have been an episode of "The conners". This should have been a one act play where the actors sat down, faced the camera, and lectured America on all their feelings. Guns are bad, Why can't the cops catch bad guys?, Being a teenager is so hard, blah blah blah. There was really no acting in this episode, it was just people lecturing the audience. This is by far the worst episode of this show, which is normally pretty funny, but I guess they decided they owe to us to tell us how bad our country is. Total garbage, if you read this before watching, I urge you to just skip it.

Without even having to look first I knew this episode would be destroyed as rated due to the gun message. People are so touchy about this topic.

I disliked it though and it had nothing to do with the message, it's just the usual bad "The Conners" writing.

My weekly examples:

-Landford isn't Chicago, yet the inference is that Dan is "from Chicago". No, he's from Landford, and Landlord is supposed to be 2-3 hours from Chicago.

-Return of the giant 2 1/2 year old. A mystery of science, by far the most advanced 2-year old I've ever seen. Full sentences. Running. 4 1/2 feet tall.

-They show the cop stand-off. Live. This does not happen in modern society since Columbine. Media rules actually. Everyone knows this. Tell me about the last time you saw such a thing on live tv?

Ultimately though, my biggest complaint was that in a "Very Important Episode" they didn't go far enough. Just grazed the topic, that'll be completely ignored next episode. Just like Mark's "addiction" that suddenly no longer exists after one week.

Preachy to the point of being vomit inducing. Did they run out of ideas for this show and decide to make some political statement instead of actually coming up with an interesting sitcom plot?

Becky is more unhinged than usual. Harris is insufferable as ever.

This show is on fumes.

So, the message here is that decent, good people should not have guns in their homes to protect themselves. If an armed bad guy breaks into their home, they should allow such bad guy to shoot them.