User blog comment:FreeSpirit98/Are tropes and plots excusable to dislike an episode?/@comment-24364245-20180708191834

I think it depends on its execution. Take a look at an episode like “Pipe Dreams”: it’s an episode that uses the “Status Quo is God” ending, making everything in the episode feel pointless (since the episode just reverts back to the event that started the episode). However, I can enjoy the episode because everything in between made for some good jokes, and the ending, while making the episode start all over again, had a joke that made it funny.