dolphinboy

Newsradio got screwed.

How I Met Your Mother at its best isn't half the show Newsradio was.

Robert

Jose Chung's From Outer Space is the best X-Files episode. 'Clyde Bruckman' is third behind 'Bad Blood'.

7Keys

The kangaroo was the other school's mascot. Some of the guests captured it. It was a really short scene, if I remember correctly.

That was a great episode, but I think the Fugitive 2 parter with Tom Hanks guest starring is the best Family Ties episode. I'd probably put that #1 for any tv episode.

7Keys

I'd rank Jose & Bad Blood as the two funniest episodes of the X Files, but Bruckman as the best overall episode. It was funny, had a great story, and was emotional.

rw2516

No Babylon 5?

And I think "The Inner Light" is the best TNG episode.

mzupeman2

Seriously with Buffy, they chose the musical episode? Come on. As far as The Sopranos, ironically, College has been my favorite episode for a long, long time.

hasslein

I think the fourth season "Jim the Psychic, aka Jim's Premonitions" should have been there instead, Not only is it the best Taxi, but the best sitcom episode ever. IMO.

kantonburg

Easily the best episode of scrubs. I always laugh at these lists because at the end of the day they mean nothing.

Birrman54

It's clearly "My Screw Up".

Also, my pick for Battlestar would have been Resurrection or Exodus

Birrman54

My pick for the Wire is "Middleground", a tremendous climax to possibly the best season of the best series ever.

Charlie Goose

"Reeger, did you see it? It was hideous!"

That scene still cracks me up every time, definitely my favorite episode.

dolphinboy

Buffy is my #1 all-time favorite show (just ahead of the X-Files) and I'm fine with that choice. "The Body" and "Hush" which gets most mentioned as the best and one of my personal favorites, "Selfless" certainly carried a lot more dramatic weight, but OMWF was an incredible achievement in television and it's the single episode of television that I've watched the most times.

TheKing

The best episode of Lost is The Constant. The pilot was great, but The Constant began to pay off what the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th seasons had been building toward, and at the same time laid the groundwork for where the show was going for season 5.

writer106

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dhmac

Although the ranking order is pretty messed up, I think they did a fairly good job of picking a top episode for each show. Even when they didn't pick the exact episode I would pick as the best episode, they did at least pick an episode that I would consider as one of the best of a particular series (...that is, of the series here that I've seen).

Arthur Dent

Once More, with Feeling probably wouldn't get the nod from me, but it would almost certainly fall in my top 3. Dolphinboy mentions a few great ones; you'd have to throw Innocence and Becoming into the mix, too. Doppelgangland is a personal favorite.

With regards to the Sopranos: Irony and coincidence aren't the same thing.

I remember the basic plot of College, but the episode didn't stand out to me when I went through the series. It's hard for an episode to stand out in the first few seasons because those first few seasons are television at its finest.

dolphinboy

Two Willows are always better than one.

Post Modern Prometheus and Home are also usually mentioned right up there with Jose, Clyde, and Bad Blood as The X-Files best eps. I think that they made the right choice.

I always wondered what the writer's wanted us to think when Clyde Bruckman tells Scully that she's never going to die. Mulder goes the Carradine way...autoerotoasphyxiation.

naitram

Twin Peaks' pilot blows away most anything on that list.

Sanjuro37

Not the worst list in the world (the gold standard turd is RS's Greatest Guitarists lists, which only made it to Hendrix in the 1 slot before falling apart), but some of these choices are just silly. For Buffy, they should have gone with The Body or Hush (Becoming Pt. 2 and The Gift are best ones, but I figure those appeal more to the Buffy fan than to audiences in general), though OMWF isn't by any means a bad choice. But BSG should have really gone for Exodus Pt. 2. Mad Men, though excellent, has not produced the 8th best episode of TV ever (and for that matter, "The Contest," masterful as it is, is not number 1).

Ugh, but I'm not spending any more time on this. As hard as it is to rank the best shows (and therefore compare sci-fi to drama to sitcom to mystery), picking the single best episodes of TV, even limiting yourself to one per show, is fucking impossible.

dstrauss

Ding. We have a winner.

dom56

I believe these should have been on the list.

WRKP in Cincinnati - The Who concert tragedy (eleven kids lost their lives)
The X-Files - Home (creepy and shocking)
All in the Family - Sammy Davis Jr. visit the Bunker.
Lost - The Constant (very touching, had me in tears at the end)