Your 10 Favourite TV episodes

[Guest wildpegasus]

I'll try this but my memory truly does suck. A lot of great shows I know I love I can't truly remember

 

Seinfeld -- The blood episode where Jerry gets a blood transfer from Kramer

 

 

Wonder Years -- Something from here deserves to be on. Great, depressing show

 

 

Samurai Jack -- "Couple on a train" although that might not be the name of it -- Everything I love about the show. The coolness factor is in maximun overdrive and the innovaive thinking is here as well. Mad props to the episode where Jack jobs to the time portal dude as well. Amazing show with a lot of great episodes

 

 

Weird Science --Video game episode where Gary and Wyatt play live action pong to save the world.

 

 

X-Men Animation show -- I don't know, some episode where they mention Wolverine and Canada. For the markout factor alone of seeing an animation show mention Canada. Great show that was partly responsable for all TV shows having ratings now.

 

 

Astroboy from the 1980s -- From the most underrated show of all time comes a fantastic 2 parter where the backstory of Atlas and Vivian is shown. Charactor development, heartbreaking and plain out coolness, this has it all. It immediatly lets the viewer think twice about Atlas for the rest of the show.

 

Astroboy -- Well, I could easily fill out all 10 picks with this show. One show that has to be mentioned though is the robot tournament. Growing up Astroboy wasn't my favourite show but I appreciated it because of the way it made me think. What I did do growing up is take a note of what the best show I ever saw on TV was and it was this one. Everytime I watched a great episode of whatever show on TV I'd think back and try to remember if it was better than this. Nothing ever was.

 

I rewatched this unedited about a year ago with my good friend who had also remember it very fondly from his youth. Did it hold up? Oh yeah. I just wished they made this into a 4 parter or something which they easily could've. Fantastic robots, imagination and moral judgements are the highlight of this. Wrestling fans in particular should love this.

 

 

Tiger Mask 1969 -1971 -- Episode where Mask takes on ? in maybe the best fight I have ever seen from anywhere. Blood, physcology, ring bells, broken tables, emotion. This makes FMW look tame.

 

 

 

Dragonball -- Episodes around where Goku climbs up that tower to obtain the "unreachable" water. Dragonball is actually better than Z.

 

Transformers Robots in Disguise -- Episode where Optimus Prime has to come back and save the Autobots from the hate plague. The same reason why I love Resident Evil and Predator. I love everyone going down until there's only one survivor left to fight the enemy. When it's Optimus Prime baby that makes it all the sweeter.

[GreatWhiteNope 0]

Weird Science --Video game episode where Gary and Wyatt play live action pong to save the world.

Death: Choose your form of competition.

 

:: Gary and Wyatt look blankly at each other ::

 

:: Room turns into Pong game ::

 

Wyatt: Sorry Gary, it was the first thing I thought of!

 

 

GOLD.

[Nighthawk 0]

Isn't that blatantly stolen from Bill and Ted?

[Guest wildpegasus]

Weird Science --Video game episode where Gary and Wyatt play live action pong to save the world.

Death: Choose your form of competition.

 

:: Gary and Wyatt look blankly at each other ::

 

:: Room turns into Pong game ::

 

Wyatt: Sorry Gary, it was the first thing I thought of!

 

 

GOLD.

Genie --- "Remember, the whole world's counting on you .... so don't choke!"

 

 

 

I thought the whole episode was gold. Especially for video game lovers. Gary and Wyatt playing to the wee hours of the morning, G & W shooting each other with their real life video game guns, Gary's confession while dying, Chett's military ammo stash hidden underneath the house and his warning about not telling mother and the "Nash" finkerpoke of doom that eliminates Chett. Loved it all. I think there might have even been a He-Man belt buckle reference in there unless that was another ep.

[starvenger 0]

Isn't that blatantly stolen from Bill and Ted?

I think they played Twister with Death.

[Nighthawk 0]

I remember Battleship... they played several games I think. Still, the concept is extremely similar.

[JHawk 0]

Isn't that blatantly stolen from Bill and Ted?

I was thinking Ghostbusters myself, but that does work too.

[starvenger 0]

I remember Battleship... they played several games I think. Still, the concept is extremely similar.

No, you're right. Several games, but Twister stands out for me for no reason at all.

[Youth N Asia 0]

Don't forget Clue.

 

Death stole that movie.

[The Ghost of bps21 0]

1. Firefly: Out Of Gas

 

2. Buffy: Passion

 

3. Angel: A Hole in the World

 

4. Quantum Leap: The Leap Home 1+2

 

5. Angel: Not Fade Away

 

6. Buffy: The Body

 

7. Buffy: Becoming 1+2

 

8. Firefly: Objects In Space

 

9. Lost: Walkabout

 

10. Buffy: The Gift

 

 

I'm actually surprised it wasn't all Buffy. Anyway...I reserve the right to rip this tentative list apart and redo it often. I'll comment on them later.

 

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[CBright7831 0]

Any episode from the 1960's Batman serials.

[Youth N Asia 0]

I couldn't just pick 10 between Buffy, Angel, Nip/Tuck, Oz, The Shield, Rescue Me, and Six Feet Under.

 

Although "Passion" from Buffy is my favorite TV episode ever.

[Ravenbomb 0]

In no particular order, and I'll probably change it a bunch:

 

South Park: Scott Tenormen Must Die

 

Angel: Not Fade Away

 

MST3K: Manos: The Hands of Fate

 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Passion

 

MST3K: Pod People ("Trumpy, you can do stupid stuff!")

 

Angel: Hole in the World

 

Angel: Apocalypse Nowish

 

Twilight Zone: The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

 

Spawn: Prophecy (the last episode)

 

Buffy: Hush

 

 

 

I was going to have Walkabout from Lost on the list, but I decided to discount any Lost episodes until the season is over

[Vern Gagne 0]

The Simpsons-Marge vs The Monorail

 

The Simpsons-Burns' Heir

 

Bob Newhart-Chinese Takeout

 

The Odd Couple-Password

 

Seinfeld-The Parking Garage

 

Seinfeld-Not that theirs anything wrong with that

 

Andy Griffith-Deputy Pyle

 

MST3K-The Human Hand

 

Gilligans Island-Japanese Sailor

 

Rockford Files-The Private Detective Awards

[Guest Smues]

Top off the top of my head:

 

MST3K: The PumaMan (help I'm falling at a 60 degree angle breaking all the laws of physicsssss)

 

The Simpsons: Marge vs. the Monorail

 

Dragonball Z: The episode where cell kills Android 16 and Gohan goes SSJ2. (The Japanese version, the moment were Gohan finally gives in to his anger is just incredibly well done and emotional.

 

Beavis and Butthead: The first Cornholio episode

 

Star Trek The Next Generation: The Inner Light

 

Star Trek The Next Generation: Cause and Effect

 

Duckman: Hamlet 2: The Revenge

 

MST3K: Soul Taker

 

The Simpsons: The one where Bleeding Gums Murphy dies

 

Southpark: Biggest Douche in the Universe

[Nighthawk 0]

Ok...

 

Get A Life: Bored Straight

 

Get A Life: construction workers remodel the kitchen... can't remember the name

 

Mr. Show: Rudy Will Await Your Foundation

 

Curb Your Entusiasm: Porno Gil

 

Tales From the Crypt: And All Through the House

 

Simpsons: Cape Feare

 

Sanford and Son: the one where they move a piano for a gay man

 

Jerry Springer: GWAR

 

The Prisoner: final episode

 

MST3K: Final Justice

 

I tried to limit it to one per show... had to have two Get A Life's though.

[Vyce 0]

This thread was moving along just fine and THEN the Whedon marks come out of their hidey holes.

[The Ghost of bps21 0]

Hey...only 9 of my 10 were written by Whedon writers.

 

That's a big improvement.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

I'll c/p my list from DVDVRMB.

 

I'll only count one show once.

 

1. FIREFLY - Out of Gas. This had everything in it. Inventive storytelling, great acting, character development, humour, action, etc.. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc .etc. (Considerations: Serenity, Trash, Objects in Space)

 

2. ANGEL - Not Fade Away. The best finale I've ever seen for any show. It almost brings me to tears at certain points, makes me jump up and scream "FUCK YEAH!" at others. Great resolution. (Considerations: Home, Apocalypse Nowish, Habeas Corpses, Redefinition, Reprise, Hole in the World, Destiny... fuck it was a great show)

 

3. BUFFY - The Gift. Joss Whedon crafted Buffy Season 5 and The Gift was the end result. Everything that was done came together, all the little things like Spike being invited in, to Buffy-bot, to the War Hammer. Essays could (and probably have) be written on this episode. (Considerations: Hush, The Body, Restless)

 

4. SIMPSONS - Homer goes to College. "Hello Dean, you are a stupid head." It's the pinnacle of Homer Simpson and is what the past 10 years has been trying to recreate to no success. (Treehouse of Horror IV, Homer at Bat, Homer in Space, The Greyhound one, Itchy and Scratchy Land)

 

5. DEEP SPACE NINE - The Vistor. Tony Todd plays an adult Jake Sisko who tries to free his father from a temperal subspace thingamajig. The most emotional Trek episode, by far. It is just beautiful storytelling and Avery Brooks' performance surpasses every Captains by a country mile. I love me some Picard, but Stewart couldn't hit those notes. (Considerations: All Good Things (Prt 1 and 2), Cause and Effect, Parallels, The Inner Light.. ok, those are TNG episodes.)

 

6. LOST - Walkabout. This is where Terry O'quinn became GOD and this show became a replacement for Angel. "DON'T TELL ME WHAT I CAN'T DO!", I still get goosebumps. (Considerations: Pilot -1,2-, Confidence Man, Raised by Another)

 

7. ASTROBOY - Worlds Greatest Robot (1 and 2). This show, in general, shaped a lot of who I am today. For a 6 year old watching this sort of content, which was really adult for what it was, it was mind blowing. This particular episode seemed much longer as a kid than it does today, but it still fucking rocks. Completely unconventional for a cartoon back then to have the main villain turn good and sacrifice himself for Astrogirl. (Consideration: Blackie Young - I would have put this first, cause it was amazing. A robot hating human, who hates robots because they killed his mother. Who he thought was his mother turns out to be a robot nurse. Fucking sad, sad, sad, sad, sad shit.)

 

8. SOUTH PARK - Red Hot Catholic Love

 

Gelgamic Catholic: The Gelgamic vagina is three feet wide and filled with razor sharp teeth. Do you really expect us to have sex with that?

Maxi: Maybe we should just forget about the Gelgamics for a little...

Gelgamic catholic outraged: Forget about the Gelgamics??!!!

Other Gelgamics:(Incomprehenisble alien babbling.)

 

There are so many fantastic and bizarre South Park episodes that could be up here as well, but the way they structured it and brought together the A and B storylines, and the absurdity of the Spider and the moral message...Parker and Stone are masters of television. That is all. (Consideration: Butter's Very Own Episode, Towlie, Kenny Dies, Prof. Chaos, Christian Rock Hard)

 

9. CSI - The Accused is Entitled. Grissom's mentor puts CSI on Trial. Grissoms Mother says "Hello". Fuck Yeah. It's great to see Grissom just own shit when the chips are down. (Considerations: Butterflied, Bad to the Bone, Early Rollout)

 

10. DRAGONBALL Z - Goku... Super Saiyan?. At the height of my DBZ markdom came this episode. It was the last episode they aired for a long, long, long time, and even after all the months I was still hyped to see what happened next. I love the formula of "guys get beat up, Goku comes back strong than ever and fucks shit up somethin proper". This episode defined that formula. (Considerations: Goku Strikes Back)

[The Ghost of bps21 0]

You took my #1.

 

Jerkface.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

It's not my fault you have good taste.

[chaosrage 0]

Not in any order.

 

South Park: Death Camp of Tolerence

South Park: The Red Badge of Gayness

South Park: Kenny Dies

Simpsons: Homer's Enemy

Twilight Zone: It's a good life

Twilight Zone: The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

Quantum Leap: The Leap Home

Quantum Leap: Jimmy

Buffy: Restless

Buffy: Blood Ties

[Vern Gagne 0]

Get A Life: Bored Straight

 

Get A Life: construction workers remodel the kitchen... can't remember the name

 

Screw the Parking Garage of Seinfeld. I want to add when Chris's Cousin Donald visits.

[AnonymousBroccoli 0]

In no particular order, also limiting myself as much as possible to one episode per series...

 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Gift

The Simpsons - A Streetcar Named Marge (Homer At The Bat, Homer Defined, Last Exit To Springfield, and any number of other episodes from seasons 2-6, and scattered others could be here.)

Angel - A Hole In The World

Firefly - Out Of Gas

Scrubs - My Screw Up

Seinfeld - The Fix-Up (Again, any number of episodes could be here.)

Lost - Walkabout (All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues a close 2nd.)

My So-Called Life - So-Called Angels

24 - Day 2: 10:00 P.M.-11:00 P.M. (The nuke detonation episode.)

The West Wing - Two Cathedrals

 

South Park should be in there, but I couldn't think of one episode I'd put on top. Woodland Critter Christmas would be my choice, but it loses the crazy shock value during repeat viewings.

[haws bah gawd 0]

Slimer and The Real Ghostbusters - The episodes featuring the Boogeyman monster, and the other monster that disguised himself as an old lady, and was called "WHAT". Both of those creeped me the fuck out when I was a kid.

 

South Park - Cartman joins NAMBLA, Return of the Lord of the Rings to the Two Towers, the Paris Hilton episode.

 

Beavis and Butthead - The Great Cornholio, Viya Con Cornholio, Buttniks, Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest.

 

X-Men Animated Series - The 4-part episode that was a take on the Age of Apocalypse.

[Dr. Zoidberg 0]

10. Dark Angel - Art Attack

 

9. Family Guy - The Thin White Line

 

8. Family Guy - Death Lives

 

7. The OC - Chrismakkuh

 

6. The Simpsons - Marge vs. The Monorail

 

5. MST3K - Hellcats

 

4. Dark Angel - The Kidz are Aiight (what a shitty title, but good episode)

 

3. Family Guy - Road to Europe

 

2. Family Guy - Road to Rhode Island

 

1. MST3K - The Crawling Hand

[Guest Askewniverse]

In no particular order:

 

Arrested Development - Pilot

 

Arrested Development - Pier Pressure

 

Clerks - A Dissertation On The American Justice System By People Who Have Never Been Inside A Courtroom, Let Alone Know Anything About the Law, But Have Seen Way Too Many Legal Thrillers

 

The Simpsons - Homer The Great

 

Smallville - Rosetta

 

Smallville - Run

 

The Sopranos - College

 

The Sopranos - Pine Barrens

 

The Sopranos - Long Term Parking

 

South Park - Scott Tenorman Must Die

[Youth N Asia 0]

The Sopranos - Pine Barrens

 

"I'll leave you here you one-shoed cocksucker!"

 

My favorite episode.

[Jingus 0]

Damn, half my picks have already been named. And so (once again) in No Particular Order:

 

Cowboy Bebop: Ballad of Fallen Angels

MST3K: The Final Sacrifice

My So Called Life: So Called Angels

Venture Brothers: Pilot

Buffy: The Body

Angel: Not Fade Away

Monday Nitro: the Russo/Bischoff "restart" show

X-Men animated series: the season finale where they murder-death-killed about a thousand Sentinels

The New He-Man show: Pilot (why the hell didn't they make more of this? This show fucking ruled)

Homicide: that episode that took place entirely in The Box

Briscoe County Jr: season finale

[Zack Malibu 0]

Sopranos-Pine Barrens

 

The OC-name escapes me right now (and I can't be bothered to double check), but it's the one where Ryan finally slugs Oliver.

 

Saved By The Bell:The New Class-Goodbye Bayside (two parter)-the old gang returns to Bayside to save it from being bought and destroyed by a developer.

 

Barney Miller-Werewolf

 

MST3K-Mitchell and I Accuse My Parents (tie)

 

California Dreams-The Last Gig (final episode)

 

Friends-The One With The Free Porn

 

Family Guy-Mister Saturday Knight

 

Saved By The Bell-Cut Day

 

The Incredible Hulk-Ricky

 

Honorable mention to the episode of Soap in the second season where Chuck and Bob do their psychic bit to Danny, Burt and Mary. Hysterical.

Edited February 9, 2005 by Zack Malibu