What is the single best episode of any TV series that you have ever seen? - Page 3

JohnT · June 3, 2003, 13:48

"Yeah, packed full of extras. 100% full Buffy DVD extravaganza goodness. Commentary, behind the scenes, bloopers, etc. Same DVD collection you get, except we get it first."

Bastard!

Charlemagne120 · June 3, 2003, 13:55

how have we got this many people and overlooked the Soup Nazi episode of Seinfeld?

FrustratedPoet · June 3, 2003, 13:56

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Originally posted by JohnT
Bastard!

If your DVD player is multi-region you could buy them from AmazonUK. They can deliver DVD's to the US, just not video games IIRC.
Season's 5 and 6 on sale here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...130209-9637213
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...130209-9637213

JohnT · June 3, 2003, 13:57

Charlemagne120: I was actually going to mention that one in the OP, but "The Contest" sprang into mind as I was typing so I went with that one.

Sandman · June 3, 2003, 13:59

Add another vote for Yesterday's Enterprise, truly outstanding episode.

The episode of Blackadder the Third where he has to try to 'win' the election in a rotten borough, my history teacher showed it to the class in order to educate us about electoral reform in the 19th century.

Simpsons: I love Lisa.

JohnT · June 3, 2003, 14:04

My wife wanted to chip in and say that one of the most non-Buffy memorable TV episodes that she can remember was the Cosby Show episode where all the men became pregnant.

loinburger · June 3, 2003, 14:10

That episode was fantastic! I loved it when one of them (Theo?) gave birth to two 2-liter bottles of soda, and the nurse said "Look, twins!"

A memorable scene (I forget most of the rest of the episode) was the time in Family Guy that Peter was having a day-dream about being on one of those dating shows.
Bachelorette: "If I were ice cream, then how would you eat me?"
Bachelor 1: "I'd lick you up nice and slow..."
Bachelor 2: "I'd gobble you all up, baby!"
Peter: "I'd eat you as fast as I could, before I went flaccid."

Ben Kenobi · June 3, 2003, 14:13

"Five card stud, nothing wild, and the sky's the limit."

JohnT · June 3, 2003, 14:15

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Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Best episode of an American series: the episode of "The X-Files" in which Peter Boyle plays a life-insurance salesman who can forsee the deaths of the people he meets. The best writing I've ever seen on American TV.

Here, Rufus, somebody just posted this on the SDMB (I cross-posted this thread, of course.) Thought you'd enjoy a little laugh. (for those of you not in the know, the salesman is Clyde):

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Clyde: Not that it's any of my business, but autoerotic asphyxiation is a really undignified way to die.
Mulder: What makes you say that?
Clyde: Never mind. Forget I said anything.

Stefu · June 3, 2003, 14:18

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There are just too many great episodes of Seinfeld, but Master of my domain might just be the funniest, with Kramer out in no time

The funniest Seinfeld episode is "Not that there's anything wrong with it" episode. Again, the best moment is a Kramer moment - his reaction after Jerry tells him that he's 30ish male and a single, too.

gunkulator · June 3, 2003, 14:32

South Park: The one with Tweek Coffee and the Underwear Gnomes.

Mary Tyler Moore: Chuckles Bites the Dust

FrustratedPoet · June 3, 2003, 14:44

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Originally posted by Stefu

The funniest Seinfeld episode is "Not that there's anything wrong with it" episode. Again, the best moment is a Kramer moment - his reaction after Jerry tells him that he's 30ish male and a single, too.

Yeah, that's "The Outing" and it's a great one too. Check out "The Tape" If you haven't already seen it 'cos that's just as good.

FrustratedPoet · June 3, 2003, 14:45

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Originally posted by JohnT
(I cross-posted this thread, of course.)

Link for the lazy?

JohnT · June 3, 2003, 14:51

Don't say I never did anything for you, FP.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...9&pagenumber=1

Charlemagne120 · June 3, 2003, 14:56

the seinfeld where elaine finds the bizarro world is also one of my favorites

Richelieu · June 3, 2003, 14:58

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Originally posted by obiwan18
"Five card stud, nothing wild, and the sky's the limit."

That's the best line in that episode, and a fitting end to the series.
I didn't like the last 2 episodes much, except for that last part when he goes to play cards with them and says: "i should have done this a long time ago".

chequita guevara · June 3, 2003, 15:39

I will have to disagree with JohnT. "Hush" was the best Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode ever. It was the best show I've watched in years. "Once More with Feeling" is a very close second, however. Followed shortly thereafter by, "The Body."

Starchild · June 3, 2003, 15:46

Any Buffy ep with Glory in it.

Hey, the Slayer's a robot. Anyone else know the Slayer was a robot?

Bugs ****ing Bunny · June 3, 2003, 17:20

The final episode of "Edge of darkness". Radiation poisoning, two plutonium pellets being used as an offensive weapon, and black flowers spontaneously appearing at the poles.

Nothing else I've seen has come close. I was actually holding my breath.

FrustratedPoet · June 3, 2003, 17:32

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Originally posted by JohnT
Don't say I never did anything for you, FP.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...9&pagenumber=1

Thanks John.

JohnT · June 3, 2003, 17:56

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Originally posted by Starchild
Any Buffy ep with Glory in it.

Hey, the Slayer's a robot. Anyone else know the Slayer was a robot?

OMG, I just love Glory! Easily my favorite of the Buffy villains, she even beat out Mayor Wilkens as all-time fave TV bad-ass.

Starchild, honey, you have taste.

SpencerH · June 4, 2003, 09:45

The episode of Some mothers do have em where in the beginning of the show Frank is driving along on his moped carrying a 2x4 (I think). It's 5-10 minutes of gut-wrenching laughter (and the first episode I ever saw).

Fawlty towers "The germans"

Monty Python the episode with the "Dirty vicar sketch" after the end credits.

TheStinger · June 4, 2003, 09:48

Monty Python- Dinsdale Brothers was great. the whole epsiode was devoted to 1 sketch

Ubergeek · June 4, 2003, 10:26

The Fawlty Towers episode that gets me the hardest was the one where he's having Gourmet Night and his friend is making the food, but Basil has to go get it and his car breaks down. He leaps out (he drives a mini, so seeing his gangling frame leaping out of the car is funny in and of itself), gives the car a stern lecture and a warning to start, and, when the car doesn't start, he yells, "I'm going to give you a damned good thrashing!" He disappears off camera for 10 seconds and then leaps back in with an uprooted sapling, with which he proceeds to pummel his automobile. I don't think I've ever laughed that hard at anything.

Timexwatch · June 4, 2003, 12:52

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Originally posted by Richelieu

That's the best line in that episode, and a fitting end to the series.
I didn't like the last 2 episodes much, except for that last part when he goes to play cards with them and says: "i should have done this a long time ago".

Q's performance throughout the episode was great, especially the little speech at the end telling Picard what he should've learned. It help set up a great, upbeat ending.

Guynemer · June 5, 2003, 19:47

Most of the ones that sprang to mind when I saw this thread were already taken...

"Cylde Bruckman" and "Jose Chung" from the X-Files, the first "24" finale (just absolutely heart-breaking), "The Contest", the Newhart finale.

I'd also mention "Humbug" from the X-Files, a second season episode where they investigate murders at a freakshow. Hilarious.

But a few more that always haunt me when I think of them, all from Homicide: Life on the Street--

--the interrogation of the araber by Bayliss and Pembelton
--the execution of Luther Mahoney by Detective Kellerman
--the squadroom shootout that resulted from that execution
--the finale, where Bayliss leaves the force, and the next scene finds a suspected murderer dead, with no clues or evidence in sight, leading a detective to say, "Whoever did this knew what they were doing..."

Lonestar · June 5, 2003, 20:23

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Originally posted by obiwan18
"Five card stud, nothing wild, and the sky's the limit."

Beautiful ending to TNG.
The final episode of B5 was great too, as was Quantum Leap

The Futurama episode Where no Fan has Gone before was a great tribute to the orginal cast of Star Trek

Most heartbreaking...There was an episode of Futurama where Fry was trying to clone his Dog. He eventually decided That he had no friends back in 2000, and his dog had probaly moved on.

It ends with his dog waiting outside of the Pizza Parlor where he worked, growing older with the neighbor, waiting for Fry. Man, I'm tearing up just thinking of it.

Ubergeek · June 5, 2003, 20:34

Lonestar, that ep of Futurama had me sad for a week.

Lonestar · June 5, 2003, 20:41

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Originally posted by Ubergeek
Lonestar, that ep of Futurama had me sad for a week.

Same here.

Tuberski · June 5, 2003, 20:44

I have several that haven't been mentioned and several that have:

M*A*S*H- The "Stevie" episode. Episode about a medic that forgets who he is, and under hypnosis reveals that his little brother Stevie was killed in a battle and that he had, the medic, had promised his mother he would look after Stevie.

The Jeffersons- The Episode where George does CPR on a hatemonger white man and saves his life.

The hatemonger, after being told that George saved his life, said," You should have let me die." The son of the hatemonger however was changed by George's saving of his fathers life.

WKRP-Turkey Day, 'nuff said.

The Bob Newhart Show- The episode in which he orders moo goo goo goo from a Chinese restaurant.

ACK!