Feud Episode / Live-Action TV

Feud Episodes in Live-Action TV.

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• The Addams Family:
  • In the episode"Morticia & Gomez vs Fester & Grandmama", they have a feud because Morticia and Gomez believe that Uncle Fester and Grandmama are spoiling the kids.
  • In "The Winning of Morticia Addams", Uncle Fester tries to make Gomez and Morticia fight for their own good, and even enlists Grandmama, Lurch, and Thing. They mess with a chess game in progress and try to convince each person that the other is cheating and Fester claims Morticia called Zen Yogi (which Gomez highly enjoys) quackery. None of it works.
• Barney & Friends has some episodes where Baby Bop and BJ fight and argue with each other such as "Oh Brother... She's My Sister", "Trading Places" and "That Makes Me Mad".
• In Boy Meets World, Cory and Shawn go through this in the episode "It's Not You, It's Me..." after Shawn accuses Cory of leaving him behind because Cory wants to apply for a higher level college than Shawn can get into.
• Buffyverse:
  • The team on Angel splits up for part of one season (actually, they split up several times), with Angel firing the rest of the crew because they're worried he's getting too evil.
    • This trope also takes up a large part of season 4.
  • Meanwhile, Buffy temporarily loses her friends a few times, although it's always made clear that it could never be permanent. The worst of these was in the seventh season.
    • Invoked by Spike in "The Yoko Factor" between Giles and the Power Trio, though it doesn't take much episode.
    • "Triangle" has Xander's best friend (Willow) and his girlfriend (Anya) feud because they are both worried that the other will hurt him.
• The 1952-04-24 episode of George Burns and Gracie Allen's TV program revolved around a feud between George and his old friend Jack Benny, after Jack stole one of George's jokes during a performance.
• Community had an episode in which an argument between Heterosexual Life-Partners Troy and Abed escalated into a campus-wide Civil War.
• Degrassi: The Next Generation seems to like this trope:
  • Happened a couple of times with Emma and Manny in season 3. First in "U Got The Look" when Manny gets her infamous makeover and starts flirting with JT while she is interested in another guy. Emma tells Manny she's leading JT on. Manny then tells Emma to either mind her own business or stop talking to her. They make up pretty quickly after this, but their bigger fight comes later that season in "Against All Odds" when Emma doesn't approve of Manny helping Craig cheat on Ashley. They don't talk to each other for what appears to be several months in-universe. Things between the two are finally patched up when Emma helps Manny out with her pregnancy. They also got into some arguments where they temporarily stopped speaking to each other in seasons 4, 5, and 6. However, these fights didn't last for too long.
  • This also happened several times with Jimmy and Spinner throughout the series. The worst was when Jimmy stopped talking to Spinner for the rest of season 4 and a good portion of season 5 after finding out he was responsible for Rick shooting him.
  • Anya ended her friendship with Holly J after realizing she was sick of being treated like dirt. While the two do eventually reconcile, they never quite go back to being best friends (Fiona is Holly J's current best friend).
• Doctor Who: In "Father's Day", Rose and the Doctor have a fight about how Rose just destroyed the time stream, and he steams out, threatening to leave her. He can't, since it turns out the TARDIS is just a police-box for once, but he later says he wouldn't have left her.
• Drake & Josh: Many episodes have feuds involving the two title characters, but the two most notable feuds between them are in the episodes Foam Finger and Dr. Phyllis Show.
• Friends has "The One With The Morning After", in which Ross and Rachel's quarrel results in their break-up. Meanwhile, their four friends are trapped in Monica's room and are unable to leave due to the argument taking place.
• Full House:
  • Many episodes have feuds involving DJ and Kimmy - "Tanner vs. Gibbler", "Good News, Bad News", "Birthday Blues" and "Under the Influence".
  • Many early episodes have feuds involving Danny and Joey - "Mad Money", "Pal Joey", and "Fraternity Reunion".
  • Many sister episodes as well - the DJ/Stephanie feuds - "Sisterly Love", "Jingle Hell", Divorce Court", "The Hole in the Wall Gang", and "Crushed"; plus also one involving Stephanie/Michelle - "The House Meets the Mouse".
  • A rare feud involving Danny and Aunt Becky - "The Producer".
• The episode "Get the Message" of Ghostwriter featured one of these—when Mr. Fernandez, Alex and Gaby's father, inadvertently spirals out of control while driving and crashes into Lenni's father's music equipment, the families begin to feud; things only get worse when Tina, who would in most cases be a neutral party, is interviewed about the accident and says that she felt frightened by Mr. Fernandez's crazy driving. To compound the issue, resident Jerkass Calvin deliberately plays up the team's anger at each other to try to determine the secret they've been hiding. The trouble is that Ghostwriter apparently lives on The Power of Friendship, and the team's feud is slowly killing him. It takes Jamal and Rob (the latter offering a Big "SHUT UP!") to reconcile the team, save Ghostwriter, and solve a local art heist.
• Nate and Chuck on Gossip Girl when Nate finds out Chuck had sex with Blair. They sort of make up by the end of the season, but soon have another falling out and their friendship has never really been shown to recover.
  • Serena and Blair do this dance at least once per season.
• Gullah Gullah Island has quite a bunch.
  • "The Binyah Binyah Polliwog Show": One-sided, for James and Binyah Binyah. James is only one who's angry, so when he tells Binyah Binyah to leave the house, Binyah Binyah does just that.
  • In "Who's Friend Are You Anyway?", James meets Greg (who moved to Gullah Gullah Island from New York) for the very first time and is the first person to make friends with. But then when the other kids gather around with Greg and hang out with him, James get so jealous. Then later, the two got into a little fight and separate from each other after Greg becomes good friends with Bryan and not paying attention to James. At the end of the episode, they forgave each other and become really good friends again.
  • In "Special Places", Vanessa and Shaina got into a little fight when Shaina keeps crowding Vanessa in their bedroom which she decided to move out of their room and move into the garage. At the end of the episode, Vanessa decided to move back into her own room and forgive Shaina.
  • In "James' New Buddy", Vanessa and Jessica got into a fight and forced to not speak to each other again after Jessica calls Vanessa her favorite nickname from preschool that she was trying to forget (Boo-Boo). At the end of the episode, the two became friends again after Shaina and Natalie got them back together and stop being separate from each other.
  • In "The Big Sleepover", Vanessa, Shaina, Jessica and Mia fight over the space in Vanessa and Shaina's bedroom. Later, both girls and boys fight and argue over the space in the living room and sharing with Binyah Binyah.

• In the Here Come the Brides episode "Loggerheads," Joshua wants to try profit sharing, but Jason refuses. The two brothers argue until Josh leaves to found his own logging camp.
• House and Wilson, after the death of Wilson's girlfriend.
• Ted and Barney on How I Met Your Mother after Barney slept with Robin.
• iCarly: Carly and Sam's quarrel episodes.
  • "iDon't Want To Fight", where Carly gives Sam a handmade iCarly t-shirt (possibly the first ever made, but it's important to Carly), and Sam trades it for concert tickets.
  • "iSaw Him First", where they fight over a hot guy, complete with sabotage and tricks. The actual conflict is resolved by the guy, who gets sick of their competitiveness, and then falls down an elevator shaft, and after they resolve not to fight over a guy anymore.
  • "iQuit iCarly" is probably the worst fight between them, when Sam pissed off Carly by not showing up or taking things seriously, Sam runs off and refuses to go back to her. It ends with the girls nearly falling off the side of a building after Sam rashly jumps out onto a window cleaners platform to get a good camera shot. They get a proper comeuppance by getting stranded upon a scaffold without a harness, which Sam accidentally lowers, and it later breaks, and the girls almost fall to their deaths.
  • "iKiss" is the first example for Freddie splitting with the girls, as he quit the show because Sam revealed he hadn't kissed a girl. I'm sure you wouldn't be shocked to find out they ended up sharing a First Kiss with each other at the end to fix it.
  • "iHire An Idiot" threatens this with Freddie and Carly, over the girls (although it's only Carly who Freddie gets mad at) hiring the titular idiot Cort, Freddie threatens to quit unless they fire Cort, then ends up hiring his own hot dumb intern before they resolve the situation and Freddie's reveals a gambit that his intern has been Obfuscating Stupidity so she can do a sociology project and make Carly jealous.
• iCarly (2021) has "iFauxpologize", which features one between Carly and Spencer. After Harper uploads an image of Carly spitting out a rancid meatball, the image goes viral and Harper urges Carly to cash in on its popularity. But in the process, she accidentally ruins Spencer's reputation as an artist (his latest sculpture was in the background and people thought Carly's cringe-y expression was aimed at the sculpture). In retaliation for her Backhanded Apology and refusal to let the meme die out, he creates an entire art exhibit meant to slander internet culture, which Carly livestreams and draws a crowd of local internet creators to crash the exhibit. When Carly urges Spencer to apologize for pissing off the rioters, even though he didn't intend to, she realizes that she did the same thing to him and gives Spencer a real apology.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: In episode Partings, Halbrand has a fall out with Galadriel because she lied to the Queen that he agreed to join them in their military expedition and about him wanting to unite his people. He feels used by Galadriel and accuses her of being a False Friend. She gets offended that Halbrand is upset at what she did and not appreciative of her efforts.
• A M*A*S*H episode has Hawkeye and BJ fighting because BJ is obsessing over his patient that might die from complications in the Seoul hospital, which annoys Hawkeye, because there's nothing BJ can do about it either way. The two of them get increasingly snippy with each other over minor quirks until Hawkeye finally decides to sleep in Radar's office, but when Hawkeye gets a call that BJ's patient will be fine, he's immediately delighted and runs to tell BJ, and the two of them apologize for being petty.
• The Office had the episode "The Lover", in which Pam and Michael fought after Michael started dating Pam's mom. The issue took several episodes to be resolved finally ending with Pam slapping Michael in the face and then proceeding to ask "Are you okay?"
• Pee-wee's Playhouse has an episode called "Heat Wave" wear both Ms. Yvonne and Mrs. Rene have one-of-a-kind dresses but they look identical and accuse each other that one of the dresses are a fake. Pee Wee tried staring a trial but it didn't work. So he asked the designer, Monsuier Robert, to show which one is real and they BOTH turn out to be real but that the lemons and bows on the dresses are on different areas of their bodies.
• Several seasons of Power Rangers include an episode where the Pink and Yellow Rangers get into a tiff. Cassie and Ashley, the Pink and Yellow Turbo and Space Rangers, get one in both of their seasons, the first time over a boy and the second time over their personal habits.
• In the French Canadian series Radio Enfer:
  • A Season 5 episode has Camille telling Vincent that Carl seemingly insulted Maria by calling her a "tarte" (which literally means "pie", but is a French slang to refer to someone as an idiot), with Vincent publishing an article about it. Once Carl and Maria learn about it, all four of them are angry at each other until they eventually reconcile.
  • Another episode has Dominique has manipulating Mr. Giroux into hating Carl, Carl into hating Maria, Maria into hating Germain, Germain into hating Vincent, and Vincent into hating Maria. She does this as part of a psychological exercise to have them all releasing tensions and frustrations by getting their anger out of them. At the very end, once they realize they have been manipulated by Dominique, they stop hating each other in favor of hating her.
• In Shine a Light, Wally and Les spend "The Chips are Down" at each other's throats due to the stress of their food supply dwindling.
• Dan and Casey of Sports Night do this after Dan, feeling picked-on by the rest of the team, embarrasses Casey on-air. It doesn't last very long, luckily, since their friendship is one of the most rewarding things about the show.
• Starsky & Hutch has the appropriately named "Starsky vs. Hutch," in which Hutch sleeps with Starsky's girlfriend, causing him to be furious and upset for most of the episode. By the tag, they seem to have made up offscreen.
• Supernatural:
  • One "Rashomon"-Style episode ("Tall Tales") dealt with the brothers fighting, which, as Sam pointed out, was understandable for two guys who spend all their time cooped up in a car together. Bobby was not amused.
  • Early Season 5 episode Free To Be You And Me sees the Winchesters split up and go their own ways, as they're having apparently irreconcilable differences. It only lasts a few episodes.

• The Thundermans features in episode called, "Are You Afraid of the Park?" The twins, Max and Phoebe, recall when they were kids that riding "Thunder Man: The Ride" was scary for them. When they found out that their sister, Norah, was old enough to go on, they were scared to come back. So they decide to use their powers on their brother Billy to make it look like he was attacking and fighting against her making her mad, she destroyed her father, Hank's cap and Hank was so irrated by this that he decided to take the family home making Billy and Norah not speak to each other and the twins try their best to make their younger siblings friends again. Only at the end when their oldest siblings confess they were scared that they forgave each other and also in revenge for doing that, make them ride the ride a bunch of times.

• Zoey 101: The special "Spring Break-Up" has Zoey and the gang participate in a battle-of-the-sexes reality show which pits them against each other; it gets worse when Chase accidentally sends Zoey a text proclaiming his love for her, and when he tries to delete it off her gadget, she accuses him of theft and their friendship is severely tested. Chase is able to resolve the conflict by letting Zoey beat him in the final competition.

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