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I usually start with a big long post but i doubt anyone even reads it so a few of my favourites:
Simpsons - Homer The Heretic
The Sopranos - Long Term Parking
Mad Men - The Suitcase
South Park - All About The Mormons
Twilight Zone - Walking Distance
I'm fine explaining any of these if anyone is curious.
Jeff Costello
02-24-17, 03:01 AM
Pine Barrens is by far my favourite Sopranos episode.
Pine Barrens is by far my favourite Sopranos episode.
I love Pine Barrens so much. It's pretty pointless though, which is the reason i can't call it my favourite. It has very little impact on Season 3 and as much as i loved the kill the waiter storyline in Season 5 it was just a one episode thing that cleverly used that story as an excuse. Great callback and hilarious episode but one i appreciate less every time i see it.
Dennis and Dee Go On Welfare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcK_p1ca-u0
Jeff Costello
02-24-17, 03:36 AM
I love Pine Barrens so much. It's pretty pointless though, which is the reason i can't call it my favourite. It has very little impact on Season 3 and as much as i loved the kill the waiter storyline in Season 5 it was just a one episode thing that cleverly used that story as an excuse. Great callback and hilarious episode but one i appreciate less every time i see it.
I get what you're saying, but comedy in this episode is just flawless. So many great lines and the dynamics between Paulie and Christofah is hilarious. It was a shame these 2 didn't get more time together in later seasons. Also despite being a crime drama I always thought Sopranos had a great humour.
Jeff Costello
02-24-17, 03:47 AM
Dennis and Dee Go On Welfare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcK_p1ca-u0
Great choice! I honestly don't think I can choose just one for IASIP. There are just too many of the great episodes.
I get what you're saying, but comedy in this episode is just flawless. So many great lines and the dynamics between Paulie and Christofah is hilarious. It was a shame these 2 didn't get more time together in later seasons. Also despite being a crime drama I always thought Sopranos had a great humour.
They got much more time together in later seasons. Chris and Paulie seemed like a weird combination until Chris was made in Season 3. Every notable Chris and Paulie moment was made after that including Pine Barrens.
Pine Barrens is a great episode but it's a bad answer coz it's the one great filler episode. Don't blame anyone for liking it best but i find that answer really uninteresting when you compare it to the multiple personal growth episodes each season.
Jeff Costello
02-24-17, 04:29 AM
They got much more time together in later seasons. Chris and Paulie seemed like a weird combination until Chris was made in Season 3. Every notable Chris and Paulie moment was made after that including Pine Barrens.
Pine Barrens is a great episode but it's a bad answer coz it's the one great filler episode. Don't blame anyone for liking it best but i find that answer really uninteresting when you compare it to the multiple personal growth episodes each season.
Well you asked for a favourite episode, not the best. Despite not being essential to the plotline and character development, it's still the episode I enjoyed the most.
As for Paulie and Christofah I think they should've gotten even more screentime considering how great their dynamics was, but that's just me.
Well you asked for a favourite episode, not the best. Despite not being essential to the plotline and character development, it's still the episode I enjoyed the most.
As for Paulie and Christofah I think they should've gotten even more screentime considering how great their dynamics was, but that's just me.
Sorry, my post there wasn't meant to be confrontational. Well anymore than the fact that you were the only one that responded so i was trying to drag out some discussion.
Pine Barrens is a great choice.
gbgoodies
02-24-17, 05:00 AM
Sorry, my post there wasn't meant to be confrontational. Well anymore than the fact that you were the only one that responded so i was trying to drag out some discussion.
I haven't responded because I've been busy in the roller coaster thread. Plus, you probably don't watch the shows with my favorite episodes.
The Dick Van Dyke Show - It May Look Like A Walnut
The Dick Van Dyke Show - 100 Terrible Hours
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Uhny Uftz
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Love Is All Around (the pilot episode)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Chuckles Bites the Dust
Mad About You - Giblets for Murray
Stark Raving Mad - Fish Out of Water
Barney Miller - Werewolf
Becker - P.C. World
Cheers - Bad Neighbor Sam
Frasier - The Seal Who Came To Dinner
Frasier - Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz
Wings - Planes, Trains, and Visiting Cranes
The Odd Couple - Sleepwalker
Taxi - Reverend Jim, A Space Oddity
The Big Bang Theory - The Euclid Alternative
The Big Bang Theory - The Bath Gift Hypothesis
WKRP in Cincinnati - Turkeys Away
I haven't responded because I've been busy in the roller coaster thread. Plus, you probably don't watch the shows with my favorite episodes.
The Dick Van Dyke Show - It May Look Like A Walnut
The Dick Van Dyke Show - 100 Terrible Hours
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Uhny Uftz
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Love Is All Around (the pilot episode)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Chuckles Bites the Dust
Mad About You - Giblets for Murray
Stark Raving Mad - Fish Out of Water
Barney Miller - Werewolf
Becker - P.C. World
Cheers - Bad Neighbor Sam
Frasier - The Seal Who Came To Dinner
Frasier - Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz
Wings - Planes, Trains, and Visiting Cranes
The Odd Couple - Sleepwalker
Taxi - Reverend Jim, A Space Oddity
The Big Bang Theory - The Euclid Alternative
The Big Bang Theory - The Bath Gift Hypothesis
WKRP in Cincinnati - Turkeys Away
Really like your Frasier choices, even though it's the boring, obvious choice: Ham Radio is definitely mine. It might be the funniest tv episode i've seen.
Not seens the Cheers one as i've only watched up to the first episode with Rebecca, Coach not being in it really depressed me and made me slug through the rest of it then i just stopped.
gbgoodies
02-24-17, 05:10 AM
Really like your Frasier choices, even though it's the boring, obvious choice: Ham Radio is definitely mine. It might be the funniest tv episode i've seen.
Not seens the Cheers one as i've only watched up to the first episode with Rebecca, Coach not being in it really depressed me and made me slug through the rest of it then i just stopped.
"Ham Radio" is another great "Frasier" episode. :up:
Does anyone have a The Wire best episode? I was thinking:
3:11 with Stringers death.
but more than anything that just feels notable because i didn't really expect it, at least the way it happened. I can't think of a Pine Barrens or that Fly episode in Breaking Bad ecquivilent in The Wire; any episode that didn't have massive importance in the plot.
Jeff Costello
02-24-17, 05:27 AM
Does anyone have a The Wire best episode? I was thinking:
3:11 with Stringers death.
but more than anything that just feels notable because i didn't really expect it, at least the way it happened. I can't think of a Pine Barrens or that Fly episode in Breaking Bad ecquivilent in The Wire; any episode that didn't have massive importance in the plot.
That'd be mine aswell .
I always liked the scene when Avon and Stringer were on the rooftop reminiscing about the "good old times" while knowing they had just betrayed one another.
That'd be mine aswell .
I always liked the scene when Avon and Stringer were on the rooftop reminiscing about the "good old times" while knowing they had just betrayed one another.
:up: I talked to a member here about exactly that in one of the TV Tournament's i ran about how much it affected me. Especially on a rewatch when i knew exactly what was going to happen.
I feel like Season 3 is the best whenever i'm reminded of it but i prefer Season 4.
Top 6 Episodes of "Breaking Bad"
1. S04E13 "Face Off"
2. S03E13 "Full Measure"
3. S04E12 "End Times"
4. S03E12 "Half Measure"
5. S04E11 "Crawl Space"
6. S02E08 "Better Call Saul"
Top 6 Episodes of "Breaking Bad"
1. S04E13 "Face Off"
2. S03E13 "Full Measure"
3. S04E12 "End Times"
4. S03E12 "Half Measure"
5. S04E11 "Crawl Space"
6. S02E08 "Better Call Saul"
Why do you like Face Off best?
Crawl Space might be my favourite, i've never thought about that. Walt cracking up at the end at the sheer absurdity of the position he's in and the seeming impossibility of him getting out of it is amazing.
Least favourite out of episodes i remember is probably the finale outside of the song choice.
ScarletLion
02-24-17, 06:51 AM
Gomorra, Season 1 episode 12. I keep championing this tv series. I'm not sure who else on here has watched it. It is a must see
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3184646/?ref_=ttep_ep12
The Americans: "The Magic of David Copperfield V:
The Statue of Liberty Disappears"
It was the culmination of the Martha storyline that had been going on from Season 1. It started as a joke storyline, lol Phillip has to seduce and have sex with this unattractive (she's attractive) dull (she was never dull) office chick to get close to the FBI. It evolved into so much more though, at first i was saying this isn't funny anymore can we just drop this then i got completely sucked into the blurred, undefined lines of their relationship. In the first 8 episode strech of Season 4 we learned that Phillip had genuinely fallen in love with her and that Elizabeth was completely aware of this and had to take this without objection since she was the one more devoted to the cause. It ended with the two of them arguing for the first time in about a Season and a half; with Phillip completely exhausted both mentally and psyically looking like he was ready to fall over and die, and Elizabeth seemingly losing her mind having just brutally executed someone she had been working with for months before Gabriel orders both of them to take a break from everything.
I don't think that's the best really, just the end of the best storyline and the ending of that episode was amazing :cool:
Gomorra, Season 1 episode 12. I keep championing this tv series. I'm not sure who else on here has watched it. It is a must see
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3184646/?ref_=ttep_ep12
I've seen the film Gomorrah and i know quite a bit about the real Camorra. Not tried the show yet though.
ScarletLion
02-24-17, 07:08 AM
I've seen the film Gomorrah and i know quite a bit about the real Camorra. Not tried the show yet though.
I think you'd like it. It's worth getting hold of.
Jeff Costello
02-24-17, 07:12 AM
Gomorra, Season 1 episode 12. I keep championing this tv series. I'm not sure who else on here has watched it. It is a must see
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3184646/?ref_=ttep_ep12
I've seen Gomorrah, but only the first season. It's pretty enjoyable, like a mixture of The Wire and Sopranos.
How does season 2 compare to the first?
ScarletLion
02-24-17, 07:17 AM
I've seen Gomorrah, but only the first season. It's pretty enjoyable, like a mixture of The Wire and Sopranos.
How does season 2 compare to the first?
Season 2 has a messy start. But gets going after about 4 episodes. It's probably not quite as good as the 1st season, but in my opinion not much is.
The 3rd season is scheduled for release in May or June. But they are filming both seasons 3 and 4 together so there may be some delay.
I've seen Gomorrah, but only the first season. It's pretty enjoyable, like a mixture of The Wire and Sopranos.
How does season 2 compare to the first?
How is it like a mixture of The Wire and The Sopranos? That sounds like the best thing ever.
ScarletLion
02-24-17, 07:21 AM
How is it like a mixture of The Wire and The Sopranos? That sounds like the best thing ever.
Watch it and find out. It's freaking awesome.
Watch it and find out. It's freaking awesome.
I will but do you agree with that and if so can you explain why? It just sounds mad to me as an idea.
Community - The Dungeons and Dragons Episode
Dunno it's hilarious. Season 2 is the best it's just a full season of unrelated craziness which was always what the show was best at. Pierce as the villain was just amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFFqCIeuGE8
ScarletLion
02-24-17, 07:26 AM
I will but do you agree with that and if so can you explain why? It just sounds mad to me as an idea.
It's more the Sopranos than the Wire. Because it's all about bad guys not good guys. But there are elements of the Wire in the way we follow the bad guys and the realistic way that they are portrayed. Superb tv.
Jeff Costello
02-24-17, 07:30 AM
How is it like a mixture of The Wire and The Sopranos? That sounds like the best thing ever.
Well the show looks really authentic and gives you a very good insight in a world of an organized crime .The acting is very good aswell and characters are well written imo.
The show kind of offers you the authenticity and realism of "the Wire" while maintaing dramatic style of Sopranos.
The film Gomorrah is pretty great, i liked how it focused on the hardworking good people affected by the Camorra, as well as the dumb kids that wanted to break into it. Was hoping the show would do the same rather than just focus on the main criminals, kinda like The Wire i'll try it though.
Why do you like Face Off best?
All episodes I listed are pretty equal in quality. Rising tension in episodes leading to finale was extremely well executed. Unsatisfying finales of seasons 3 & 4 could have easily diminished the appreciation of prior episodes. Otherwise there isn't much difference.
All episodes I listed are pretty equal in quality. Rising tension in episodes leading to finale was extremely well executed. Unsatisfying finales of seasons 3 & 4 could have easily diminished the appreciation of prior episodes. Otherwise there isn't much difference.
Cool. Don't think Season 4 works for me like it does for everyone else as that's not a favourite of mine, i always see it on best of lists though.
ScarletLion
02-24-17, 07:43 AM
I think 'Dead Freight' was the Breaking Bad episode I enjoyed the most.
Jeff Costello
02-24-17, 07:44 AM
My favourite community episodes in no particular order are:
Pillows and Blankets (s3ep14)
Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas (s2ep11)
Contemporary American Poultry (s1ep21)
and both Paintball episodes
My favourite community episodes in no particular order are:
Pillows and Blankets (s3ep14)
Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas (s2ep11)
Contemporary American Poultry (s1ep21)
and both Paintball episodes
The Chicken Fingers-Goodfellas episode is probably the first great one.Pillows and Blankets is really sweet as well as funny and the Paintball ones are hilarious, don't like Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas though.
SeeingisBelieving
02-24-17, 03:56 PM
Doctor Who — The Happiness Patrol
Blake's 7 — Breakdown
Ulysses 31 — The Magic Spells of Circe
Star Trek: The Original Series — A Taste of Armageddon
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Skin of Evil
The Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries — Strong Poison
Sherlock Holmes — The Last Vampyre
Taggart — Death Comes Softly
Cadfael — The Rose Rent
Wallander (Lassgård) — The Fifth Woman
Black Books — Blood
Blackadder — Amy and Amiability
"Buridan's Ass" (s1e6) - Fargo (season 1)
"The Castle" (s2e9)- Fargo (season 2)
"Goodbyeeee" (s4e6) - Blackadder
"Gone" (s2e5) - Spaced
"Holdiay" (s4e5) - Peep Show
"Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency" (s1e8) - Silicon Valley
"Spinners and Losers" - The Thick of It
"Christmas Special (Part 2)" - The Office (UK)
"Dinner Party"(s4e9) - The Office (US)
"Kate Winslet" (s1e3) - Extras
"Leslie and Ron" (s7e4) - Parks and Recreation
"Hello, Dexter Morgan" (s4e11) - Dexter
"Felina" (s5e16) - Breaking Bad
gbgoodies
02-25-17, 03:31 AM
Star Trek: The Original Series — A Taste of Armageddon
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Skin of Evil
These are both good episodes, but I wouldn't put either of them in my favorite episodes list. These are some of my favorite "Star Trek" episodes:
Star Trek: The Original Series: "Mirror, Mirror", "Shore Leave", "City on the Edge of Forever", "I, Mudd", ''Amok Time'', “Requiem for Methuselah”, “A Piece of the Action”
Star Trek: The Next Generation: "The Inner Light", "Q Who", (or any other episode with Q), "Elementary, Dear Data", "The Measure of a Man", "Cause and Effect"
SeeingisBelieving
02-25-17, 07:46 AM
These are both good episodes, but I wouldn't put either of them in my favorite episodes list. These are some of my favorite "Star Trek" episodes:
Star Trek: The Original Series: "Mirror, Mirror", "Shore Leave", "City on the Edge of Forever", "I, Mudd", ''Amok Time'', “Requiem for Methuselah”, “A Piece of the Action”
Star Trek: The Next Generation: "The Inner Light", "Q Who", (or any other episode with Q), "Elementary, Dear Data", "The Measure of a Man", "Cause and Effect"
It's interesting to see another fan say Skin of Evil is good – usually people hate it :).
I like Shore Leave as well. It's not easy picking a favourite from that first season. For some reason I particularly like the first seasons of both TOS and TNG – perhaps it's because they were finding their feet a little.
The Inner Light was very memorable; great story. I like We'll Always Have Paris as well, mainly for the music actually. Also Where Silence Has Lease, which really is like "Skin of Evil 2" isn't it :p? Samaritan Snare as well – love that.
Top 10 CSI Seasons 1 to 7 Episodes
S04E14 Paper or Plastic
S06E07/8 A Bullet Runs Through It
S02E14 The Finger
S02E02 Chaos Theory
S06E14 Killer
S06E05 Gum Drops
S05E21 Committed
S07E04 Fannysmackin
S07E13 Redrum
S04E12 Butterflied
Some of my favourites.
Breaking bad
S01E06 - 'Crazy handful of nothin'
S04E01 - 'Box cutter'
S05E09 - 'Blood money'
GoT
S04E02 - The Lion and the Rose
S04E08 - The Mountain and the Viper
S06E09 - The Battle of the Bastards
S01E09 - Baelor
S03E09 - The Rains of Castamere
Prison Break
S01E01 - Pilot
S01E21 - Go
The Sopranos
S01E05 - College
S03E04 - Employee of the month
S03E11 - Pine Barrens
S05E12 - Long term Parkin
Fargo
S01E06 - Buridans ass
S02E07 - Did you do this? No you did it
Stranger things
S01E08 - The upside down
The Wire
S03E11- Middle ground
S02E06 - All prologue
S03E04 - Employee of the month
Great episode. It's so bleak and revolting and depressing then the ending is just the best especially coupled with Melfi saying to Elliott in a later episode that knowing she could have had Tony "deal" with him if she wanted to was a great feeling; clearly what made her move on by giving her a sense of power over the situation. The only thing i don't like is that it's pretty much the end of Melfi's arc.
Your other Sopranos choices are great too although i'm not as crazy about College as everyone else.
Great episode. It's so bleak and revolting and depressing then the ending is just the best especially coupled with Melfi saying to Elliott in a later episode that knowing she could have had Tony "deal" with him if she wanted to was a great feeling; clearly what made her move on by giving her a sense of power over the situation. The only thing i don't like is that it's pretty much the end of Melfi's arc.
Your other Sopranos choices are great too although i'm not as crazy about College as everyone else.
The thing I like about College is that was the episode when I was fully invested. I like the contrast between the two lives Tony leads.
With 'Employee of the month' it was so bleak and although Melfi had her principles and morals to do the right thing, something in all of us just wanted her to answer "Yes" when Tony asks her if there is anything wrong.
The thing I like about College is that was the episode when I was fully invested. I like the contrast between the two lives Tony leads.
With 'Employee of the month' it was so bleak and although Melfi had her principles and morals to do the right thing, something in all of us just wanted her to answer "Yes" when Tony asks her if there is anything wrong.
Definitely agree about that Employee of the Month part. The amazing thing for me at least was that Season 3 was the first Season that i had started getting truly disgusted by Tony and the rest then in the middle of it all that happens and in a way i was definitely wanting her to say yes.
Yeah, that makes sense with College too. It is a great episode just not top 20 or anything for me, partially because i'm not crazy about the Carmela and Father Phil plot in Season 1 and this is the episode that focuses on it the most.
I_Wear_Pants
02-26-17, 03:12 AM
Face the Press: Flying Circus
Talking Doll: Twilight Zone
Liquor vs Finance: MXC
re93animator
02-26-17, 03:52 AM
Twilight Zone: To Serve Man
"It's a cookbook!" :laugh: One of the GOAT twists.
Fawlty Towers: The Kipper and the Corpse
Twin Peaks: ALL (...expecially the pilot)
Northern Exposure: Prolly one in S2 when it started to get weird.
Mr. Bean: The one at the barber.
Nowhere Man: A hit & miss show, but the 1st ep and I think Dark Side of the Moon (the one with the gritty, dark urban setting?). I actually was really disappointed with the finale though. They'd stretched the show out so much at that point, and the twist was super predictable. Good, underacknowledged show though.:D
... and the second to last Breaking Bad episode. Exactly what the show needed on the eve of the finale.
Twin Peaks: ALL (...expecially the pilot)
Do you really love every Twin Peaks episode? Man, i love the show but some of the Season 2 ones after Lynch left were borderline unwatchable for me. Who knows, maybe they'll work more the second time.
re93animator
02-26-17, 05:32 AM
Do you really love every Twin Peaks episode? Man, i love the show but some of the Season 2 ones after Lynch left were borderline unwatchable for me. Who knows, maybe they'll work more the second time.
Yep. I don't care what the common sentiment is. I can't get enough. Even the gratuitous Billy Zane character and James' ridiculous love triangle. I admit that the quality fluctuates, but I just love the TP world so much that I'm willing to take anything as long as it's idiosyncratic enough.
Yep. I don't care what the common sentiment is. I can't get enough. Even the gratuitous Billy Zane character and James' ridiculous love triangle. I admit that the quality fluctuates, but I just love the TP world so much that I'm willing to take anything as long as it's idiosyncratic enough.
Cool. Going to go through Season 2 again in the next few weeks so hopefully it works as well for me. The James' love triangle was the first thing that came to mind, seriously doubt i'll ever find a way to enjoy that. Completely awful.
Are there any episodes that are generally considered among the best in the show that you don't like or think are just ok?
For me it's Once More, WIth Feeling from Buffy. It's constantly in top five or at least top ten lists but it wouldn't even make my top 100, i find it really hard to sit through. Mostly because i don't like most musicals, it's a shame because it is a great episode really. It's probably the most impressive on the show, has alot of character development and it does an amazing job of keeping the humour present. I cringe at so much of it though, it's one of those where i realize exactly why it's so praised but i just don't enjoy at all.
Ugh. Can people not just name whole shows? It was fine reanimator doing it for one since he also mentioned other shows with a favourite episode but there's a thread for favourite shows this is for favourite epsiodes.
Nestorio_Miklos
02-26-17, 06:39 AM
Ugh. Can people not just name whole shows? It was fine reanimator doing it for one since he also mentioned other shows with a favourite episode but there's a thread for favourite shows this is for favourite epsiodes.
Sorry :) I'm gonna remove it. Where's the thread for favorite TV Shows?
Jeff Costello
02-26-17, 06:48 AM
That's My Dog - Six Feet Under
Literally the only episode I disliked from this amazing show.
Documentary Filmamaking: Redux - Community
Interesting concept but I didn't enjoy it that much. Thought it was just average.
That's My Dog - Six Feet Under
I stopped watching that show after two Seasons, not because i wasn't enjoying it but because it was really draining i'll return to it at some point. So i haven't seen that episode but i've had the full thing described to me by a friend and it sounds horrific. Weirdly i've seen it on both best of and worst of lists.
re93animator
02-26-17, 07:51 AM
I stopped watching that show after two Seasons, not because i wasn't enjoying it but because it was really draining i'll return to it at some point. So i haven't seen that episode but i've had the full thing described to me by a friend and it sounds horrific. Weirdly i've seen it on both best of and worst of lists.
That show has the most powerful ending I've seen. I bawled for like 15 mins watching it. Worth sitting through the whole thing for that.
... and
Blackadder: if it counts as an episode, Blackadder's Christmas Carol.
Father Ted: if it counts as an episode, A Christmassy Ted.
In Search of: Cool infotainment series on unusual stuff. I think my favorites are The Money Pit Mystery or Siberian Fireball (even though the content is out of date). For comic relief, Salem Witches.
mattiasflgrtll6
02-26-17, 08:48 AM
The Simpsons: Old Money (Makes me cry, the most emotional episode the show has ever done)
Family Guy: Not sure, but The Courtship Of Stewie's Father is a runner-up.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The Cloning (There are many from season 2 I could pick, but this is probably the one)
Oz: You Bet Your Life (Heartstopping television!)
Mister Ed: Wilbur The Masher (The show is always funny, but once in a while it's so much so I laugh non-stop)
Solsidan: Alex Hatar Ove (the show never reached the greatness of season 1 and 2 again, and this early gem is by far the funniest episode)
Californication: Mia Culpa (The most defining episode of the series, and beautiful in every single way)
Two And A Half Men: That Special Tug (Not "by far" since there are so many hilarious classic episodes, but I think it's the best because of how it depicts Alan)
Father Ted: Hell ("Ted..." "Yeah, Dougal?" "I think we're in hell.")
SpongeBob SquarePants: Nasty Patty (The show at its greatest and most dark)
The X Files: [so far] Die Hand Die Verlezt
24: 11:00 p.m-12:00 p.m. (The season 1 finale, and a more perfect one you couldn't ask for)
Moral Orel: The Lord's Prayer
Futurama: Insane In The Mainframe
The Simpsons: Old Money (Makes me cry, the most emotional episode the show has ever done)
That's an interesting choice. I like it but it's not a favourite. I also disagree with it being the most emotional episode but i can see why it could be for someone.
My favourite Futurama episode is probably Luck of the Fryrish or Roswell That End's Well.
Speaking of that, another episode alot have as one of the best of a show that i don't like much is Jurrasic Bark. It's okay, not bad, but the emotion to me is completely ineffective partially because i was already aware of the Hachiko story and i found Futurama's attempt to recreate it cloying. Plus the rest of the episode isn't very funny, Bender was alright at first but he crossed over into annoying territory pretty early on. Actually the only time i found Bender more annoying in the first four seasons was in the Pharoah episode i think.
BoxOfficePoison
02-26-17, 07:48 PM
In no order whatsoever:
Game of Thrones: A Golden Crown, The Mountain and the Viper, Cripples Bastards and Broken Things
House: Three Stories, Maternity, Paternity (purely coincidentally)
Bones: The Man in the Fallout Shelter (a holiday tradition at my house), The Mummy in the Maze
Mr. Bean: Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean (see above), the one at the beach
Kung Fu: The Ancient Warrior, Beseiged
Emergency!: Snakebite, Inferno
Barney Miller: Werewolf, Hashish
Star Trek TOS: The Trouble With Tribbles
The Twilight Zone: Time Enough at Last
The Big Bang Theory: The Precious Fragmentation
Mary Tyler Moore: Chuckles Bites the Dust
WKRP. in Cincinnati: A Commercial Break, Who Is Gordon Sims?, In Concert, Clean Up Radio Everywhere
Other stuff, I'm sure.
BoxOfficePoison
02-26-17, 08:12 PM
Oh yeah.
Walking Dead: Vatos, Judge Jury Executioner, The Grove, Here's Not Here
Monty Python: Full Frontal Nudity
Surprised by the Twilight Zone choices so far. To Serve Man and Time Enough At Last are excellent episodes but i personally don't think they are as good the second time after you know what happens. Something like Walking Distance holds up better for me because it's not really about a twist, it's just very powerful and haunting. Then again my number two would probably be The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street and that's largely because of the ending.
BoxOfficePoison
03-01-17, 01:06 AM
You make a nice point about Walking Distance (and others like it); I think Time Enough at Last just hit me harder the first time I saw it, for whatever reason, and that's stuck with me. Then again, a lot of my favorite movies are horror movies, even when I know what's coming and when. (Maybe I'm just getting forgetful in my old age.)
Black Mirror - San Junipero
Black Mirror - Shut Up and Dance
The Simpsons - Summer of 4'2"
Arrested Development - Pier Pressure
Family Guy - PTV
Utopia - 2.1 (1974)
Black Mirror - San Junipero
Black Mirror - Shut Up and Dance
The Simpsons - Summer of 4'2"
Arrested Development - Pier Pressure
Family Guy - PTV
Utopia - 2.1 (1974)
I couldn't begin to think of a favourite Arrested Development episode but Pier Pressure would be up there. Hilarious.
Does anyone have a favourite Buffy Episode? I like the show quite a bit but it's not one of my favourites so i didn't really think i had a favourite episode. That was until i told my gf that i really don't like Once More, With Feeling and she explained the next episode. Tabula Rasa, i think that's probably my favourite episode. I dunno though because i don't remember so much of the show. When she was describing it to me i kept being reminded of funny moments and so i think it was at least the funniest to me. The whole Giles and Spike thinking they are father and son, especially Giles asking Spike to come in for a hug before he left to fight vampires and possibly die was hilarious when you know how both Giles and Spike were and how they were together.
Also the funniest moment (for me), at least laugh out loud funny the first time was in this episode: during the Giles and Anya think they are engaged storyline, Anya is failing at magic and constantly bringing up bunnies, we then go to a really touching/dramatic Buffy scene before going back to Giles fighting the most fake looking skeleton imaginable :rotfl:
Mizumono. Season 2 finale of Hannibal.
Does anyone have a favourite Buffy Episode? I like the show quite a bit but it's not one of my favourites so i didn't really think i had a favourite episode. That was until i told my gf that i really don't like Once More, With Feeling and she explained the next episode. Tabula Rasa, i think that's probably my favourite episode. I dunno though because i don't remember so much of the show. When she was describing it to me i kept being reminded of funny moments and so i think it was at least the funniest to me. The whole Giles and Spike thinking they are father and son, especially Giles asking Spike to come in for a hug before he left to fight vampires and possibly die was hilarious when you know how both Giles and Spike were and how they were together.
Also the funniest moment (for me), at least laugh out loud funny the first time was in this episode: during the Giles and Anya think they are engaged storyline, Anya is failing at magic and constantly bringing up bunnies, we then go to a really touching/dramatic Buffy scene before going back to Giles fighting the most fake looking skeleton imaginable :rotfl:
Used to love BTVS but can't remember a favourite episode. I wanted to be Xander though.
Dexter007
03-05-17, 01:23 PM
The West Wing- Noēl
A haunting yet ultimately hopeful look at PTSD and the effects it can have on somebody inexperienced. Bradley Whitford gives and incredible performance.
Jeff Costello
03-05-17, 01:27 PM
Mizumono. Season 2 finale of Hannibal.
Mizumono was spectacular. Great choice.
Mizumono was spectacular. Great choice.
I'm embarrassed to say how many rewatches I might have had, sarge. Oh god the music. Who would have thought Bch slowed down would sound like rain. Playing it now - goosebumps.
I'm embarrassed to say how many rewatches I might have had, sarge. Oh god the music. Who would have thought Bch slowed down would sound like rain. Playing it now - goosebumps.
Not sure why you are bringing me into it :D Thanks for letting me know. 👍
Not sure why you are bringing me into it :D Thanks for letting me know. 👍
Oops sorry I meant Jeff. Just caught the avatar out of the corner of my eye and it's the same palette. Derp. Monday morning at stupid o'clock.
Blix the Goblin
03-05-17, 01:50 PM
Farscape - Crackers Don't Matter
Brilliant and hilarious episode that remains my favorite piece of television ever. It involved the crew being driven mad and fighting each other over a shipment of crackers, "cracking up" as it were. It has to be seen to be believed.
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Does anyone have a favourite Buffy Episode? I like the show quite a bit but it's not one of my favourites so i didn't really think i had a favourite episode. That was until i told my gf that i really don't like Once More, With Feeling and she explained the next episode. Tabula Rasa, i think that's probably my favourite episode. I dunno though because i don't remember so much of the show. When she was describing it to me i kept being reminded of funny moments and so i think it was at least the funniest to me. The whole Giles and Spike thinking they are father and son, especially Giles asking Spike to come in for a hug before he left to fight vampires and possibly die was hilarious when you know how both Giles and Spike were and how they were together.
Also the funniest moment (for me), at least laugh out loud funny the first time was in this episode: during the Giles and Anya think they are engaged storyline, Anya is failing at magic and constantly bringing up bunnies, we then go to a really touching/dramatic Buffy scene before going back to Giles fighting the most fake looking skeleton imaginable :rotfl:I really enjoy Tabula Rasa but I wouldn't call it a favorite. Band Candy is my favorite "everyone has gone bonkers" episode, and the funniest ep of the series in my opinion. In general I very much prefer the earlier episodes over the later ones, I really think the show became too soapy and melodramatic for its own good in those last few seasons.
If I had to pick one episode as my absolute favorite, it would be Graduation Day. It's such an epic finale with so many unforgettable moments.
"Guys. Take a moment to deal with this. We survived."
"It was a hell of a battle."
"Not the battle. High School."
From recent memory ...
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... was pretty darn intense (good).
Does anyone have a The Wire best episode? I was thinking:
3:11 with Stringers death.
but more than anything that just feels notable because i didn't really expect it, at least the way it happened. I can't think of a Pine Barrens or that Fly episode in Breaking Bad equivalent in The Wire; any episode that didn't have massive importance in the plot.
Too much Brother Mouzone to be on my best of The Wire shortlist. I think the show was really at its best, character and nitty gritty procedural-wise, in the first season and my favorite one from that year is probably the ep where
Kima gets shot
Pine Barrens is by far my favourite Sopranos episode.
Really fun obv but the ep I love most is whatever season opener it was where the feds were setting up surveillance in Tony's basement. I remember feeling like the episode was over way too fast
Farscape - Crackers Don't Matter
Brilliant and hilarious episode that remains my favorite piece of television ever. It involved the crew being driven mad and fighting each other over a shipment of crackers, "cracking up" as it were. It has to be seen to be believed.
Hmmmm I don't recall the later seasons of Farscape all that well. The ep I always think of is DNA Mad Scientist, which gave me nightmares as a kid
Star Trek: The Next Generation: "The Inner Light"
My favorite episode from any show, probably. Patrick Stewart was too good for first-run syndication
Not as high as you on Q eps, tho
Blix the Goblin
03-06-17, 07:50 PM
Hmmmm I don't recall the later seasons of Farscape all that well. The ep I always think of is DNA Mad Scientist, which gave me nightmares as a kidYou should give the show a rewatch, season 1 is great but the seasons after it are insane.
I will say DNA Mad Scientist is definitely the creepiest episode, Namtar looks and sounds scary as hell. Another good horror episode is Eat Me, although it's a little bit more tongue-in-cheek.
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