Greatest episode of anything
05-15-04 | 09:21 PM
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Curb Your Enthusiasm - "The Car Pool Lane" - where Larry picks up a hooker so he can use the carpool lane to get to the game on time and when he gets his father some medical marijuana. Absolutely hilarious!
05-15-04 | 10:24 PM
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Here's a few older titles I really liked
Moonlighting "Witness For The Execution" (and of course "Dream Sequence")
Taxi -- "Cooking For Two" & "Simka Returns"
Fawlty Towers "Basil the Rat" (aka "The Health Inspector")
Cheers - "Old Flames", "Simon Says" (John Cleese again), and a special spot in my heart for "The Visiting Lecher", since I went to the filming of that episode
China Beach : "Tet '68"
And believe it or not, the 1986 William Shatner episode of SNL. That was a classic.
05-15-04 | 10:58 PM
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And believe it or not, the 1986 William Shatner episode of SNL. That was a classic.
And believe it or not, the 1986 William Shatner episode of SNL. That was a classic.
And my personal motto, taken from that very episode: "There's a whole world out there! When I was your age, I didn't watch television ... I lived!!!" Words to live by ... words to live by.
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05-15-04 | 11:59 PM
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I can never remember the names of the eps.. Theres a few Buffy's that rocked my world... 'the body' is one.
From ST:TNG 'Yesterdays Enterprise' and 'All good things'.
From ST:TNG 'Yesterdays Enterprise' and 'All good things'.
05-16-04 | 02:02 AM
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Originally posted by movielib
For Star Trek-TNG I'll add The Measure of a Man and The Chase. [/B]
For Star Trek-TNG I'll add The Measure of a Man and The Chase. [/B]
Buffy: "Earshot"
Not the best episode of the show, by far, but the closing shot cracks me up every time.
Fawlty Towers: "Communication Problems"
Babylon 5: "Severed Dreams"
All I can think of at 3AM.
05-16-04 | 02:40 AM
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From: Lounging on the beach in L.A., frappucino in hand...
Originally posted by badger1997
I would also have to second the episode of "Cheers" with Woody's marriage and I also loved the one with Kevin McHale where they count the bolts in the floor at Boston Gardens.
I would also have to second the episode of "Cheers" with Woody's marriage and I also loved the one with Kevin McHale where they count the bolts in the floor at Boston Gardens.
Originally posted by movielib
For Star Trek-TNG I'll add The Measure of a Man and The Chase.
For Star Trek-TNG I'll add The Measure of a Man and The Chase.
I agree with a lot here (especially Vitameatavegamin!!
), but to add a few:Ally McBeal: the one where Robert Downey Jr.'s character sings a song he wrote to her (loved their relationship), and another episode where Ally is representing one side of a legal battle where a poor man wants to give his healthy heart to his sick richer friend... I think it was a crossover episode with Practice? Excellent, excellent dialog in that one.
:Designing Women: the one where Charlene goes to meet Bill's family, and the dialog she has with Bill's mother in the dining room, or the one where she meets him (she thinks he's not a real officer, then dreams they're both back in WWII), or (funniest one) the episode where the redesign a nudist colony.
I LOVE that show, still! That's all I can think of at the moment... I agree, it's hard to think of great episodes in dramas... also, it's hard because there are many great MOMENTS, but not overly great episodes... I LOVED the Friend's episode where they won the apartment, but wasn't impressed with the whole episode, just that one scene, if I recall correctly.
Still hilarious, though!
05-16-04 | 05:04 AM
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Band of Brothers: Part 5 - I heard "Crossroads" is the least favoured episode by majority. I thought it was quiet unique from other episodes; had warmness, simple flashbacks and in-depth exploration of characters. It also had two companies of SS shot the hell out of! I just ignored the historical concept and went for viewing pleasure (pure violence). Bejesus!
National Geographic: The Last Feast of the Crocodiles - One of documentary based episodes I guess. Hippos, crocodiles, a lioness, bees, birds, baboons, gazelles and other animals I can't name all live around a small pound. It was hilarious, fascinating and scary. A crocodile snaps on a head of baboon but escapes with a fight and hippos licking/slobbing on crocodiles. The ending was wonderful and fulfilling, equivalent to such films like Shawshank Redemption. :P
The Simpsons - This is the craziest and hardest of them all. Can't choose between The Flying Hellfish and Bart being Mr. Burns' son.
National Geographic: The Last Feast of the Crocodiles - One of documentary based episodes I guess. Hippos, crocodiles, a lioness, bees, birds, baboons, gazelles and other animals I can't name all live around a small pound. It was hilarious, fascinating and scary. A crocodile snaps on a head of baboon but escapes with a fight and hippos licking/slobbing on crocodiles. The ending was wonderful and fulfilling, equivalent to such films like Shawshank Redemption. :P
The Simpsons - This is the craziest and hardest of them all. Can't choose between The Flying Hellfish and Bart being Mr. Burns' son.
05-16-04 | 10:40 AM
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Originally posted by RobCA
I remember that episode, but what was the closing line?
Rob
I remember that episode, but what was the closing line?
Rob
"The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night...you can always change the channel."
05-16-04 | 11:49 PM
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Originally posted by Apone
Band of Brothers: Part 5 - I heard "Crossroads" is the least favoured episode by majority. I thought it was quiet unique from other episodes; had warmness, simple flashbacks and in-depth exploration of characters. It also had two companies of SS shot the hell out of! I just ignored the historical concept and went for viewing pleasure (pure violence). Bejesus!
Band of Brothers: Part 5 - I heard "Crossroads" is the least favoured episode by majority. I thought it was quiet unique from other episodes; had warmness, simple flashbacks and in-depth exploration of characters. It also had two companies of SS shot the hell out of! I just ignored the historical concept and went for viewing pleasure (pure violence). Bejesus!
05-17-04 | 12:28 AM
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Originally posted by shoppingbear
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"Measure of a Man" sounds familiar, which one was that?
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"Measure of a Man" sounds familiar, which one was that?
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When the U.S.S. Enterprise arrives at the newly established Starbase 173, Data is ordered to serve under Captain Bruce Maddox, who wishes to disassemble and study him so that more androids can be made for Starfleet's use.
But after Data learns that Maddox may not be able to reassemble him, he refuses to submit to the procedure. When Captain Picard is unable to have the orders changed, Data's only option is to resign from Starfleet. His decision to resign, however, is challenged by Maddox on the basis that Data is not a person with rights, but property of the Federation.
The J.A.G. (Judge Advocate General) officer of the starbase, Phillipa Louvois, an old acquaintance of Picard, rules that Maddox's contention is supported by a twenty-first century precedent. Picard announces that he will challenge that ruling at a hearing. Insufficiently staffed, Phillipa explains that as senior officer, Picard would have to defend Data, while the next most senior officer, Riker, would have to prosecute. A stickler for the law, Phillipa warns that if Riker does not give his best effort, she will summarily rule in favor of Maddox.
Faced with no other choice, Riker must contend in his prosecution that Data is simply a machine - the creation of man - and dramatically emphasizes his point by approaching Data from behind and switching him off, leaving him lifeless in his seat. Certain of his defeat, Picard has a discussion with Guinan and she suggests that the Federation's desire to create and own a race of disposable androids is the recreation of slavery...
But after Data learns that Maddox may not be able to reassemble him, he refuses to submit to the procedure. When Captain Picard is unable to have the orders changed, Data's only option is to resign from Starfleet. His decision to resign, however, is challenged by Maddox on the basis that Data is not a person with rights, but property of the Federation.
The J.A.G. (Judge Advocate General) officer of the starbase, Phillipa Louvois, an old acquaintance of Picard, rules that Maddox's contention is supported by a twenty-first century precedent. Picard announces that he will challenge that ruling at a hearing. Insufficiently staffed, Phillipa explains that as senior officer, Picard would have to defend Data, while the next most senior officer, Riker, would have to prosecute. A stickler for the law, Phillipa warns that if Riker does not give his best effort, she will summarily rule in favor of Maddox.
Faced with no other choice, Riker must contend in his prosecution that Data is simply a machine - the creation of man - and dramatically emphasizes his point by approaching Data from behind and switching him off, leaving him lifeless in his seat. Certain of his defeat, Picard has a discussion with Guinan and she suggests that the Federation's desire to create and own a race of disposable androids is the recreation of slavery...
05-17-04 | 01:24 AM
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the season finale of Season 2 ( I think) for Melrose Place when Kimberley comes back from the dead and you see her standing outside of Michael's beach house. That was the greatest episode for that show.
05-17-04 | 02:59 AM
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Originally posted by shoppingbear
My fav ST-TNG episode was the one where a probe causes Picard to live the whole life of a man on a distant planet... I still think of that, especially the final scene with the friends and family, and the final scene of the episode with him playing the flute.
My fav ST-TNG episode was the one where a probe causes Picard to live the whole life of a man on a distant planet... I still think of that, especially the final scene with the friends and family, and the final scene of the episode with him playing the flute.
05-17-04 | 03:00 AM
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Originally posted by movielib
http://www.starfleetlibrary.com/tng/...e_of_a_man.htm
http://www.starfleetlibrary.com/tng/...e_of_a_man.htm
The Inner Light
05-17-04 | 07:06 AM
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Originally posted by Tom Banjo
Yeah, that's one of my all-time favorites, also. Even my gf likes that episode and she hates Star Trek with a passion. Wish I could remember the name of it.
Yeah, that's one of my all-time favorites, also. Even my gf likes that episode and she hates Star Trek with a passion. Wish I could remember the name of it.
STNG - The Inner Light
05-17-04 | 08:57 AM
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WKRP in Cincinnati - "Turkeys Away"
WKRP in Cincinnati - "Turkeys Away"
We might have a winner.
Taking away the no-multi-episode option took away my favorite entries (D-Girl, Turnaround, and Showtime - the L.A. Trilogy of episodes) from Law & Order.
05-17-04 | 09:06 AM
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I don't know the titles:
Little Rascals - The Soap Box Derby
Homicide - The Adena Watson Interrogation
Farscape - A human Reaction
I Love Lucy - Vitaveggimite
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Little Rascals - The Soap Box Derby
Homicide - The Adena Watson Interrogation
Farscape - A human Reaction
I Love Lucy - Vitaveggimite
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05-17-04 | 09:08 AM
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Originally posted by Decker
And believe it or not, the 1986 William Shatner episode of SNL. That was a classic.
And believe it or not, the 1986 William Shatner episode of SNL. That was a classic.
Plus, the classic (and I never watched Star Trek) "I need full relish!"
05-17-04 | 09:24 AM
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I love "The Mute Marine" ... those little movements where Shatner (North) acts like he's about to say something while the chorus is humming are priceless. "He's one part man, one part machine. He's Ollie North ... the Mute Marine."
Another great part of that episode (and somewhat forgotten since it doesn't really feature Shatner) is the lost ending to It's a Wonderful Life.
das
Another great part of that episode (and somewhat forgotten since it doesn't really feature Shatner) is the lost ending to It's a Wonderful Life.
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