What are your favorite TV episodes?

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

Are there any episodes of any show that you thought were exceptional for one reason or another? Two of my favorites are the episode of Seinfeld that was told backwards and the Simpsons episode that gave every character a few moments to tell a story. I believe the Seinfeld Episode was called "the Revenge" and the Simpsons Episode was called "22 Short Stories of Springfield."

[Guest Spaceman Spiff]

Newsradio - "Bill Moves On"

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

Batman: The Animated Series (WB era): "Over the Edge" - Nothing will ever top this as far as Saturday Morning cartoons go.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Buffy

"Passion" (Angel breaks Jenny's neck)

"Hush" (The Gentlemen...best non muscial episode ever)

"The Wish"

"Superstar" (always good for a laugh)

"Restless" (season 4 final..."I got here first, so I get to be cowboy guy!")

"Prophocy Girl" (season 1 final)

"Once More With Feeling"

and the season 6 final, don't know the name

and many more

 

Sopranos

the one where Christopher and Paulie get lost in the woods from season 3

plus tons others...almost any episode really

[Guest Strike Force!]

Taxi- Reverend Jim takes his driver's test.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Simpson's-Monorail

Seinfeld-Master of your Domain

Rockford Files-The PI Awards

Cheers-Cheers vs Gary's Old Town Tavern (with Kevin McHale)

[Guest GeneMean]

Married with Children:

 

Kelly is sick and Al is the only person available to take care of her. Any time she needs assistance she rings a little bell, which of course always happens right when Al is napping and dreaming of scoring with a beautiful woman. Eventually Al gets pissed and throws the bell away, leaving him no way to be awakened when he has a nightmare of a fat nurse giving him an enema. Then of course to top it all off, he catches the flu from Kelly at the end.

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

I remember that episode of Married with Children. I have the commercial for it on a tape somewhere where the nurses where saying, "Al it's enema time!"

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

backwards seinfeld was great. Another classic one was when Kramer went on the Leonardo da Vinci sleep cycle, (or was it Michelangelo?) and fell asleep on top of a girl, which prompted her to call her mob family, and they dumped him in the Hudson in a burlap bag.

 

Kramer swimming in the East river was great, too.

Kramer adopts a highway.

 

and of course, Soup Nazi.

 

Simpsons-Screaming Caterpillar

Simpsons-Homer gets put on death row. "Play the race card!...play it (menacingly)"

 

MWC-The episode with the Andy Griffith sequence on Lake Chicamogomiko (or whatever it was called..The toxic waste dump)

[Guest kane3212321]

Talking Batman Animated Series the episode Heart of Ice springs to mind. The introduction to Mr. Freeze at the beginning of that eipsode was absolutely perfect in every regard.

[Guest Anorak]

The last episode of "Blackadder Goes Forth" was a masterpiece, a perfect combination of humour and pathos which I covered in an old thread about 'best endings to a series'. Any episode in that particular series is far superior to roughly 90% of sitcoms which have followed in its wake, the closure of that final episode is unmatched IMO.

 

Too many "Simpsons" episodes to mention and its incredibly hard to pick out even a couple because everyone has about a 1000 different favourite lines or events from that show.

 

Last years christmas special of "The League Of Gentlemen" was incredibly good and further removed the show from what could be labelled a 'sitcom' or even 'comedy' for that matter. The historical backstory format worked very well and the tone was even more desperate, disturbing and macarbe than usual.

 

The "Father Ted" episode where they go on holiday and Ted tries to explain 'perspective' to Dougal before they both get showered in gunge at the end is a classic. Also worth a mention is one man show episode of "One Foot In The Grave" where Victor Meldrew stays at home for the day in what is basically an extended monlogue, a brilliantly written piece of television.

 

Victor thinks he's going to die of some infection/disease...

 

<Sighing wistfully>....Oh well,...I've had a good life....

 

<Pauses> I'VE HAD A BLOODY AWFUL LIFE!!

 

For "Fawlty Towers" i'll go with the 'German' episode.

 

"Alan Partridge" has to be the episode where he met his obsessive fan.

 

I've got a whole bunch of favourite episodes from Red Dwarf, especially series 3, 4 & 5. "Back To Reality" and "The Inquisitor" were both great in RD 5 but for sheer fun then maybe "Waxworld" (right title?) from series 4. Rimmer commanding an army including Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Stan Laurel, Noel Coward and Queen Victoria against the 'army of darkness' that was Hitler, Mussolini, Caligula and 'Rice Pudding' was brilliantly daft.

 

<Cat and Lister being held prisoner by the baddies and looking outside their cell window at an upcoming execution>

 

Lister: "Wait a minute, they're bringing somebody out! <Pause> I dont believe it.

 

Cat: "What? Who is it?"

 

Lister: "Its WINNIE THE POOH!!"

 

Classic stuff.

[Guest MaxPower27]

Simpsons 22 short stories about Springfield

Cheers Thanksgiving at Carla's house

Newsradio Workman's Comp

Seinfeld The blood bank, Soup Nazi, Buying a Car

Greg the Bunny Any eps.

[Guest treble charged]

One of my favourite Seinfeld episodes is the one where Kramer gets an intern for his Kramerica company, and they dump the big giant ball of oil out the window. It also featured the 'HELLO!' voice.

 

Funny stuff.

[Guest MaxPower27]

Yeah, TC, that one was good, as well. I also liked the one when Kramer got the screen door, I think that was the "serenity now" eps.

[Guest The Fett]

Everybody Loves Raymond - "Bad Moon Rising"

-The PMS episode when Ray decides to finally stand up to Debra whenever she's all moody because of her "ladies days"

 

Newsradio - "Arcade"

-The episode when Lisa and Dave retake the SATs and Bill is craving over those sandwiches

[Guest Spaceman Spiff]

Newsradio - "Arcade"

-The episode when Lisa and Dave retake the SATs and Bill is craving over those sandwiches

That's a great episode, plus Lisa & Beth look smokin' hot in it.

[Guest Zack Malibu]

Mystery Science Theater 3000-Mitchell

 

Dawson's Creek-The Longest Day (when Dawson finds out Pacey and Joey have a thing going, and it shows the events from everyone's perspective)

 

Simpsons-Freddy Quimby goes on trial

 

Saved By The Bell:The New Class-when a developer is threatening to tear Bayside down, so Zack, Lisa and Slater all show up to stand up for the school (this was from the second season, as Screech was already Belding's assistant)

 

California Dreams-the one where Sly did a secret admirer scam to win Lorena over, and the last episode.

 

And if you expect me to pick one favorite from regular SBTB, you're nuts .

[Guest Angle-plex]

A lot of MST3K episodes.

 

The Sienfield where Kramer gives the Horse the beef stuff.

 

I've also heard the episode of Powerpuff Girls where Bubbles thinks she is Mojo is good, but I don't watch little kid shows.

[Guest franchise632]

Two Episodes of ER:

 

The first where Carter and Lucy Knight are stabbed by the schizophrenic. The ending sequence was just awesome, with the music and all. Who woulda guessed Laura Innes directed that.

 

And the following episode where they staff battles to save the lives of Carter and Lucy. This is the episode where i started to like Rocket Romono.

 

these are two of my faves. Any ER from the last 2 seasons are good. Etc Etc

 

B.T.W. Zach Malibu, Its good to know im not the only one on this board that watches Dawson's Creek.