They Stayed Too Long

I’m gonna say Madonna should have hung it up after the “Music” album. She had that flop after that that nobody talks about, and then she had “Confessions” which was mildly successful, but I think the desperation started there.

Tom Cruise. No one asked for more Mission impossible’s or another Top Gun. But his old ass has to keep doing them.

How I Met Your Mother

Roseanne

The Walking Dead (it's a fucking corpse now with that annoying Jeffrey Dean Morgan still chewing the scenery and now they want to bring his wife on. Why does AMC kiss his ass especially after that annoying Morgans show where they had to keep emphasizing their souther DRAWAL? We get it).

Beyone's awards performances. It must be contractually obligated she gets 15 minutes per performance, which is 10 minutes too long.

[quote]Which actors had the opportunity to leave a TV show on a high note but stuck around just long enough to see their characters ruined?

Donald Trump. His White House Reality Show should have been cancelled in 2018.

R4 seriously dude, do you ever talk about anything else....

Very few shows once they got past season 7 (on the old 26 or so shows/season schedule), but especially the later seasons of The Facts of Life, One Day at a Time, Coach, The Jeffersons, Night Court are hard to take.

Almost every talk show host (with the possible exception of Rosie, who self destructed) fits this category.

Oh god not again!

Not an actor but....Rudy Giuliani should have retired after all the "America's Mayor" bullshit. Everyone's laughing at him now.

R9 That's a good one. He was almost universally beloved after 9/11. Now he's made a fool of himself on several occasions. It's sad to watch.

Lucille Ball in "Life with Lucy."

I hate to invoke her name because she's my favorite actress of all time, but definitely Bette in WICKED STEPMOTHER. I wish her career had ended on the high note of THE WHALES OF AUGUST.

I would add Stevie Nicks to the list. Used to be a huge fan but I just wish she's quit at this point.

Sigourney Weaver should have never done Aliens 3 and 4.

R13 I disagree. Just saw Fleetwood Mac last year and Stevie Nicks still sounds great.

Mariah Carey should have hung it up years ago

I disagree about Sigourney. She's always good despite the writing. She hasn't had a great script in a long time.

OP.

roflmao r18. You win this thread :D

I agree r17 but I don't like what the Alien 3 and 4 did with the character of Ripley.

I'd prefer to think she flew off with the little girl at the end of Aliens and lived happily ever after with the kid and Michael Biehn. (although she didn't really have much chemistry with him. He was prettier.)

Kurt Browning for sure. He’s trying to keep up with skaters half his age (including his latest lover).

Usually I stay too long.

American Horror Story

It has run it's course and should be long over. Yet they keep making more and more.

Ugh, r21 Kurt Browning has a commercial that plays non-stop on Canadian television. Of course, he has to throw in some skating at the end. I find him so smug.

I remember an interview with him and he was so offended that people would think he was gay because he was in figure skating. Doth protest too much...

Frank Sinatra. He should have quite at least ten years earlier. And those "Duets" albums? Very unnecessary, crass grabs for cash. But I suppose his last wife (that whore) was expensive to manage.

Speaking of whores, no wonder Kurt is pushing these reverse mortgages. He has to pay for his ex-wife and also for his new sugar baby Alissa Czisny. What the F was he thinking!? Alissa was still shitting in her diapers when he landed the quad toe.

[quote] and then she had “Confessions” which was mildly successful,

Confessions wasn't "mildly" successful, it topped the album charts in a record number of countries. Same with "Hung Up". That would have been the best time to callit quits or get assasinated or die from a drug overdose. Think of all the nostalgia! But no....I don't know if she will ever have the surge in her sales that MJ/Whitney did after their deaths.

[quote] They Stayed Too Long

Most American sitcoms can fill this thread. Why do all of them need to last for at least 10 years?

Shelley Long is a shining example of the opposite. Cheers was never as good after she left - but was that because it lacked her, as is commonly said, or because she was the only one who realised it could not go on at the same level? Same is true of Larry David. He left Seinfeld when he'd said what he had to say. In neither case did the show jump the shark, but in both cases you can see the schism line.

To answer the question: Jared and Jensen. The showrunner always told them the story arc was five years, and he left at that point, but they chose to stretch it out a further TEN. The results speak for themselves.

South Park and The Simpsons.

Star Wars after Return of the Jedi. I did really enjoy Rogue One and Solo, though., so might limit it to "the Skywalker saga" aspect of things.

Whoopi on the View.

Kathy Griffin on tv.

The o'Reilly Factor

B. Walters on everything she did

the Kardashians

Cher & her dumbass retirement tour (& evry1 else who uses that gimmick)

LOST should’ve ended after season 3. That season finale would’ve been a perfect series ending. Instead they went on to ruin it.

Harry Potter after book three.

Yes!! Why are there so many aging rock stars and bands who are on farewell tours? Isn’t it meant to be used as a one time pass?

SNL. Overrated unfunny show.

"Why are there so many aging rock stars and bands who are on farewell tours? "

Because people will pay an unholy fortune to see their old faves, and these guys have realized they're retirement age and a lot of them can't afford to retire.

And if you picked 2020 to fund your retirement through performing, well, it sucks to be you.

Friends could have finished for me at least five years earlier. It became so cloying towards the end.

Paul McCartney.

He can't sing anymore. He sounds horrible. His voice is weak, wheezy and wobbly, and has been for the past decade. He refuses to drop the keys on his songs to make them a bit easier to sing, which is what most aging singers do. He uses his backup singers to cover for his weak voice.

If he wants to keep churning out mediocre albums, that's one thing. Production can hide a multitude of weaknesses. But he really should stop touring.

Don't get me wrong, he's earned the right to do what he wants, and if his fans want to shell out hundreds of dollars to watch him badly croak out the old hits, by all means, knock yourselves out. But it's pretty pathetic at this point.

[quote]Most American sitcoms can fill this thread. Why do all of them need to last for at least 10 years?

Sometimes they come back.

Interesting thread, I'm reading a Rolling Stone article about Bill Withers "retiring" from music in 1985. It seems that musicians, actors, etc. very rarely leave the industry (or settle into a nice niche) at the appropriate time. Most hang around and embarrass themselves for far too long.

R34 I agree. The third one was the best. It is the most cohesive story. She became so unfocused after that one.

Downton Abbey.

Yes, to Madonna and The Simpsons as well.

Law & Order

Woody Allen, he could have stopped ages ago. At one point it just seemed like an excuse for him to travel all expenses.

Olivia de Havilland

Downtown Abbey, for me, died along with Cousin Matthew and his original jawline.

Most movie franchises. Indiana Jones should have been left alone after the 1980s.

Jennifer Lopez needs to go away. She seems stuck in 2003. She should have gone away at least 5 years ago. She has nothing new to offer.

I'm over Bruce Springsteen. On SNL the other night he and Patty Scialfa looked like the Sleepy Acres Talent Show. I'm old, too, but enough is enough.

Bob Hope, the worst case I can recall

JAY LENO.

Trump

With these old rock stars, I don't think they need the money so much as they need the energy and excitement of the stage. If the Rolling Stones were to retire tomorrow, they'd probably croak in a year.

Another vote for Mariah Carey. Mariah, people only care about your damn Christmas song now, ain't nobody interested in your new material, time to hang it up girl!

"Absolutely Fabulous""- French, Saunders and Wax should have ended it in the late 1990s. It has been a ghastly, smug mess since.

Toni Braxton - She was a good singer for an album and a half until her talent got swallowed up by her ego, spendthrift habits, breast implants and rapidly disappearing clothes. How many bankruptcies has this moron had already? She should have retired after the second album (and the first bankruptcy) and gone off to work as Oprah's admin assistant or something.

Gramps Fed and Granny Vee - yo, Gramps and Grandma, neither of you is going to win even a title like Miami or Indian Wells ever again, let alone a Grand Slam. Just retire already.

James Charles. Every nanosecond he's around is too long.

Erika Jayne

[Quote] The Walking Dead (it's a fucking corpse now with that annoying Jeffrey Dean Morgan still chewing the scenery and now they want to bring his wife on. Why does AMC kiss his ass especially after that annoying Morgans show where they had to keep emphasizing their souther DRAWAL? We get it).

Do you have something against Hilarie or....?

[Quote] Jennifer Lopez needs to go away. She seems stuck in 2003. She should have gone away at least 5 years ago. She has nothing new to offer.

Except a beauty line. Because no other celebrity has done that 🙄

Religion

Another vote for Sex and the City. I was reminded of this shit show by the thread speculating about yet another season of this show. SJP and the other crones just need to go away and do a stage version of "Hocus Pocus" or something.

Queen Elizabeth II.

Streisand shouldn’t do any more concerts. It’s time.

Seinfeld went on 2 years too log. Those last 2 years were just to make money.

Bob Dylan should never have even started to try sing. The company that just bought the rights to his songs should refuse to let him sing them.

R64 Yes. This one doesn’t get enough mention. The last 2 seasons had their moments, but the characters became caricatures and the storylines became so farfetched. Susan’s death would have made a perfect finale.

[quote] Toni Braxton

I have to disagree with this one. That album she did with Babyface about 6 years ago or so was excellent. She still sounds good too.

Metallica, 30 years ago. The Rolling Stones, 40 years ago. It's always sunny...after few seasons. The Office (American) after third season. Twin Peaks, after seventh episode of the second season. Shameless, after second or third season.

Madonna after 2006.

Mariah after 2006.

Michael Jackson after Bad (maybe Thriller).

Stevie Nicks after Trouble in Shangri-La (2001) and Say You Will (2003).

Ryan Murphy. Everything he produces is remake of Glee.

Adam Sandler. Talentless, unfunny hack. Just stop.

Margaret Thatcher. By 1989, she had won three general elections and been prime minister for ten years. Allegedly, her husband encouraged her to stand down at that point. If she had done so, she would have left office with her dignity intact. Instead, she stayed on and ended up being forced out by her own party the following year. And thank God she did, because that public humiliation was exactly the end she deserved.

Gwyneth Paltrow should have stuck to acting.

r49 Selena was good, and the 2000 Green Versace Jungle Dress. That's all I need from her. Dismissed.

Uh really r75?

The Mamas and Papas' last album, made to fulfill an obligation to the record company. No bueno.

Boy George . God how I loved him back in the day , but he sounds ghastly now . Yet he wont stop touring .

Michel Lucas

Dianne Feinstein owns this thread.

Jeff Probst on Survivor. He actually tried to quit after season 17/Gabon. He has lost his looks and he seems to be bitter/angry now, and he has a toxic relationship with the show's fandom. He should have stepped aside ages ago.

[quote] They Stayed Too Long

Yes, you did. The 5846 with your new stage name confirms exactly that.

R27 in 1995, I remember a friend said that would be the perfect time for Madonna to die. This was a year before EVITA/Lourde's birth and shortly after her comeback with BEDTIME STORIES after the SEX/EROTICA fiasco/backlash in '92. Madonna was pretty legendary by then, but he said that an early death, while she was still in her thirties/career prime and childless, would guarantee her mythical status like Marilyn Monroe.

R83 A bit morbid.

bump

You certainly overstayed your welcome, DeJecto.