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1. Seinfeld, "The Contest"
2. The Sopranos, "College"
3. The Mary Tyler Moore Show, "Chuckles Bites the Dust"
4. I Love Lucy, "Lucy Does a TV Commercial"
5. Lost, "Pilot"
6. ER, "Love's Labor Lost"
7. The Honeymooners, "Better Living Through TV"
8. Mad Men, "Nixon Vs Kennedy"
9. All in the Family, "Cousin Maude's Visit"
10. 24, "Season 1: 11PM-12AM"
11. The Twilight Zone, "Time Enough at Last"
12. Saturday Night Live, 04/22/1978
13. The Dick Van Dyke Show, "It May Look Like a Walnut"
14. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Once More, With Feeling"
15. The Cosby Show, "Goodbye Mr. Fish"
16. The Fugitive, "The Judgment"
17. South Park, "Trapped in the Closet"
18. The Andy Griffith Show, "Opie the Birdman"
19. The Office, "Diversity Day"
20. M*A*S*H, "Abyssinia, Henry"
21. Friends, "The One With the Embryos"
22. Six Feet Under, "Everyone's Waiting"
23. St. Elsewhere, "Time Heals"
24. The Simpsons, "Krusty Gets Kancelled"
25. Homicide: Life on the Street, "Subway"
26. The Wire, "Final Grades"
27. Curb Your Enthusiasm, "The Special Section"
28. 30 Rock, "Black Tie"
29. Cheers, "Show Down"
30. NYPD Blue, "Hearts and Souls"
31. Frasier, "The Ski Lodge"
32. Arrested Development, "Development Arrested"
33. Roseanne, "A Stash From the Past"
34. Thirtysomething, "A Second Look"
35. The X-Files, "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose"
36. Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Best of Both Worlds I"
37. The Bob Newhart Show, "Over the River and Through the Woods"
38. The Shield, "Possible Kill Screen"
39. The Wonder Years, "Pilot"
40. The West Wing, "Two Cathedrals"
41. Freaks and Geeks, "Carded and Discarded"
42. Everybody Loves Raymond, "Marie's Sculpture"
43. Battlestar Galactica, "Blood on the Scales"
44. My So-Called Life, "Self-Esteem"
45. General Hospital, "Luke & Laura's Wedding"
46. Ellen, "The Puppy Episode"
47. CSI, "Grave Danger"
48. Moonlighting, "Atomic Shakespeare"
49. Dexter, "The British Invasion"
50. The Larry Sanders Show, "Flip"
51. Taxi, "Reverend Jim: A Space Odyssey"
52. Damages, "Because I Know Patty"
53. The Carol Burnett Show, "Went With the Wind"
54. Twin Peaks, "Pilot"
55. Desperate Housewives, "One Wonderful Day"
56. How I Met Your Mother, "Slap Bet"
57. Hill St Blues, "Freedom's Last Stand"
58. The Odd Couple, "Password"
59. Alfred Hitchcock Presents, "Lamb to the Slaughter"
60. The Big Bang Theory, "The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis"
61. L.A. Law, "Good to the Last Drop"
62. Law & Order, "Life Choice"
63. Grey's Anatomy, "Losing My Religion"
64. Murphy Brown, "You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato"
65. WKRP in Cincinnati, "Turkeys Away"
66. House, "Three Stories"
67. Dynasty, "The Threat"
68. Heroes, "Company Man"
69. Dallas, "A House Divided"
70. Sex and the City, "Pick-A-Little, Talk-A-Little"
71. Little House on the Prairie, "I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away"
72. Batman, "Better Luck Next Time"
73. The Outer Limits, "Demon With a Glass Hand"
74. Will & Grace, "Homo for the Holidays"
75. Gilmore Girls, "Raincoats and Recipes"
76. Family Ties, "The Real Thing, pt 2"
77. The Waltons, "The Easter Story"
78. Angel, "I Will Remember You"
79. Charlie's Angels, "Angels in Chains"
80. Star Trek, "The City on the Edge of Forever"
81. Smallville, "Rosetta"
82. Farscape, "Revenging Angel"
83. Good Times, "Black Jesus"
84. Alias, "The Telling"
85. Melrose Place, "The B**** is Back"
86. Scrubs, "My Musical"
87. Happy Days, "Fonzie Loves Pinky"
88. Magnum, P.I., "Did You See the Sunrise?"
89. Beauty and the Beast, "Orphans"
90. Malcolm in the Middle, "Bowling"
91. Beverly Hills, 90210, "Spring Dance"
92. Party of Five, "Intervention"
93. Big Love, "Come, Ye Saints"
94. Ally McBeal, "Cro-Magnon"
95. Supernatural, "No Rest for the Wicked"
96. Rescue Me, "Baptism"
97. Mary Hartman, "Chicken Soup"
98. Breaking Bad, "Peek a Boo"
99. Family Guy, "Blue Harvest"
100. The Brady Bunch, "The Subject Was Noses"

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-There are so many issues with this list. The biggest problem are the shows that have been on only for a year or two should never make a top 100 list. I'm glad two and a half men didn't make the list. And they chose the campy live tv batman over the far superior animated batman series??? There are also plenty of other episodes of Buffy that should be on there instead of the musical. "Hush", and "Becoming" come to mind. Same thing with Angel and especially The Shield. "Possible kill screen" was a great episode and all but it really didn't do anything groundbreaking. "The Pilot" should've made the list. I agree with the 24, Party of five, Seinfeld, and family guy episodes.

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Episodes 1-60 should be The Wire.

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I didn't scrutinize the list too closely, but it appears as if each show is only listed once, correct? So then in essence they've ranked 100 shows' top episodes.

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At least Lost, rightfully, has an episode near the top of the list.

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I think the Dawson's Creek pilot episode should have made the top 100. It was not only written very well with strong characters, but it changed the landscape of teen dramas for the future....despite what the show became after that. :P

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as with any list, there are always going to be great picks and terrible ones.

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Yeah, I dont like this. Maybe they felt they would get too many complaints from people because their favorite show wasnt mentioned. Still, some damn good tv on that list.

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Exactly. And they didn't even get the right episode for a lot of the shows. The musical Scrubs episode, seriously?

Picking Slap Bet for How I Met Your Mother was dead on though.

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The last time I remember they did a list, Star Trek "City on the Edge of Forever" came in around #15. Now it's #80 behind Charlie's Angels "Angels in Chains"? The list is a joke.

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"The Contest" is one of the few Seinfeld episodes that I actually find myself still enjoying after having seen it a few times, so I agree it should be on the list. But even on this list of selections, I think it's overrated. Nice to see they included that episode of Magnum, P.I. that's inevitable referred to as "The One Where Magnum Has Flashbacks While Treading Water." "College" was always the episode of The Sopranos I showed people who hadn't watched it yet but wanted to get a feel for the series; not sure it's the greatest of the series, but certainly it's a great represenation of the series.

Methinks that was the essence of this list, really, because while "Subway" is good--and has received many well-earned accolades over the years--I've always felt that "Three Men and Adena" was more compelling. But then, it's hard to isolate that episode from the Adena Watson arc of the first season of Homicide: Life on the Street.

Good call on "I Say Potatoe, You Say Potato" from Murphy Brown. Just reading that title, and without watching any of that series in nearly a decade, I can immediately recall Candace Bergin yelling to her TV, "Do I look glamorous?!" That was the moment when the show set in D.C. waded into real life politics in a way not seen again until Tina Fey aped Sarah Palin.

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The pot episode of Roseanne?
The embryo episode of Friends?

The "Trapped in the Closet" episode of South Park?? That wasn't even close to being the best SP episode of the season!

These lists will never please everyone, I know, but this one seems particularly clueless.
Of course, they had to stick the everfucking Chuckles shitfest in there too.

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I never understood to make lists like this. It's entirely arbitrary based on a lot of varying factors. It's hardly authoritative. And what purpose does it serve? Other than sparking debate?

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Um..."The One With the Embryos" is THE best Friends episode of all time. That's the "gameshow" one. A classic in every way.

Of the shows I watch on here, I think they picked good ones. I would have picked "My Screw Up" over "My Musical" on Scrubs, but other than that I'm fine with this.

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I like Mad Men, but saying it had the #8 episode of all time is ridiculous.

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:up: to Freaks and Geeks being mentioned.
:down: to it being the wrong episode.

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No love for Deadwood??

And Six Feet Under should be higher up.

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It seems like for some of these they went with "concept" episodes instead of best episodes. The musical episodes of Scrubs and Buffy and the animation episode of Farscape were interesting but not what I would consider the best of any of them.

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The Rick James episode of "Chappelle's Show" didn't make it either.

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They picked the correct episodes of "Taxi" and "WKRP", but they didn't rank them high enough.

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As far as I'm concerned, they picked the right episodes for the following shows:

24
Lost
Friends
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Sopranos
ER
Six Feet Under
The Wire
Taxi
WKRP
Arrested Development
The West Wing
How I Met Your Mother
The X-Files
Battlestar Galactica
Gilmore Girls

Where they got it wrong:

The Simpsons (Marge vs. the Monorail would be my pick)
Freaks and Geeks (Test and Breasts)
Heroes (Five Years Gone)
Family Ties (A for Alex)
Scrubs (My Screw Up)
The Big Bang Theory (The Nerdvana Annihilation)

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Seinfeld should have about 10 episodes on this list:)

'The Contest' was so groundbreaking at the time, or should I say taboo at the time, as TV was much different back in 1992 when it aired. At that time, you just didn't do a show about masturbation, and what made that episode more classic was they never used the word once!

I don't know what the name of the Seinfeld Episode was, but the one where George and Jerry are suspected by a college writer of being Gay, and she publishes the articles and gets picked up by the AP. The classic line, "I'm not gay.......not that there's anything wrong with that!"

Best episodes of other favorite TV shows I loved:

The Sopranos - 'The Pine Barrens.' 'College' is a classic epsiode, but 'The Pine Barrens' is one of the funniest hours of TV I have every seen with Paulie and Christopher!

Family Ties - Where Mr & Mrs Keaton go away for the weekend, Alex and the family rent out the house to all the alumni for the Homecoming Game. I remember Skippy was the Bellboy, "Hello Keating Manner!"

King of Queens - The one where Doug takes a picture of his 'be-front' at a Wedding, and the Bride & Groom see the picture!

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My favorite part of that episode is when Steven and Elyse come home and see the kangaroo in the living room. Michael Gross nailed the following line perfectly: "There was a kangaroo..... in my living room."

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Which episode would you have chosen?

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Strange, I know that I remember the episode where they rent the place out like a hotel for a football game, but I don't remember there being a kangaroo.

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I'm really glad to see ER's Love's Labour Lost up there, which would probably be my #1.

I think Scrubs should have definitely been either My Screw Up or My Lunch, both of which are way way better than My Musical.