12 Incredible TV Episodes (That Fans HATED)

12. Stan’s Best Friend - American Dad

More consistently strange than The Orville creator Seth MacFarlane’s earlier animated hit Family Guy, American Dad has since its inception trafficked in some bizarre and surreal stories such as the seventh season instalment Hot Water, a horror musical which kills off the entire cast.

However even this show’s fan base has its limits, and the gruesome blackly comic instalment Stan’s Best Friend proved unpleasantly mean-spirited enough to earn their ire.

Yes, admittedly the choice to repeatedly and violently off an innocent dog was pretty vicious.

But the episode is also far funnier than fans give it credit for, particularly after years of seeing Rick and Morty and Solar Opposites put its minor characters through similarly gross ordeals.