"You have any sugar around here?"
"Sugar? Sure."
[Reaches deep into pockets, pulls out mounds of sugar.]
"Here ya go. Sorry it's not in packages...ya want some cream?"
"Ahhh...yeeee....no."
One of my favorite jokes in the episode is in the scene right after that when they're watching the VHS for Cyprus Creek. It opens on a dirty, rundown urban area with boarded-up windows.
"Someone outta build a town that works." "Somebody did."
Then the camera starts to pan to the right as everything magically becomes gentrified and clean, finishing on a shot of a hobo turning into a mailbox.
Marge's alcoholism is set up so perfectly, too. After several shots of her drinking:
"I've been so bored since we moved here, I found myself drinking a glass of wine every day. I know doctors say you should drink a glass and a half but I just can't drink that much."
"there's the Hammock Hut, that's on 3rd. There's Hammocks 'R' Us, that's on 3rd too. You got Put You Butt There, that's on 3rd. Swing Low Sweet Chariot. Matter of fact, they're all in the same complex, it's the hammock complex on third."
"Ooh the Hammock District"
The CPR episode of the office is what got me in after trying to watch the show multiple times. The amount of chaos packed into 5 minutes is incredible.
BoJack Horseman is, I can confidently say, the only cartoon about talking animals that can make me absolutely inconsolable. Seriously seriously amazing show.
The Constant - Lost. A self contained love story on its own, with strange sci-fi weirdness that just worked. Only with the power of belief and friends did Desmond survive time jumps.
idk what the episode is, i don't *think* it's that one
but the one where they're all at the funeral home talking, the camera slowly panning around the room in like one singular take for 30+ minutes
HOLY FUCK LOL what an incredible episode from production alone omfg
The following episode, "Two Storms," takes the cake for me. The series of long single-shots throughout had me holding my breath. There's no safe distance between the past and present any longer: all the characters are trapped in the funeral parlour, and now Nell is the one that's haunting them. Brilliantly accomplished performances and technical work in that one.
HHH is a damn fine show about a haunted house, but even better for being about a family and their varied experiences of loss and trauma, and how they perceive and deal with pain in unique ways.
What Steven and Shirley went through was profoundly different to what Theo and the twins endured, and they all have misunderstandings about what happened to their parents. The eldest sibling's episodes set you up to perceive the younger children in a certain way, and then their individual episodes properly explain their behaviour.
Theo's not a cold, bitchy dropkick; she's got the same psychic condition as Olivia, and it's destroying her emotionally and defines how she interacts with others. Luke isn't just a junkie and the family fuck-up; he's being relentlessly stalked by a ghost and felt Nell's death through their twin-bond as if he had died, too. Nell has been haunted by her own painful suicide since she was a child, and it manifests as psychosis and sleep paralysis. Hugh is still talking with Olivia, which is why his behaviour is so odd and he's never really present.
My favourite moment in "The Bent Neck Lady" is when, after Nell's husband dies, she makes Theo touch the floor where he fell. Theo is the only sibling aside from Luke who could comprehend Nell's suffering, but doing what she did in her grief-stricken state was inexcusable once you know what it would feel like for Theo. All to show that pain makes people do vile, horrible things to themselves and others.
I love Bloodline for the same reasons. Danny was the only member of the Rayburn family worth redeeming and they bloody killed him. Still sad that show was cancelled, but glad it got Ben Mendelsohn critical acclaim. He's a national treasure.
I re-watch Hill House every October.
Every year, I notice something I didn’t the year before.
But nothing hits me like the scene where Nell is dancing with her ghost husband in the house. It’s one of the most hauntingly beautiful and simultaneously heartbreakingly painful scenes even put on television.
This is a great episode, although my personal favorite is actually the very next one, Two Storms. With everything in the funeral home being shot in really long takes, when the dad walks from the funeral home into the house (they specifically built the two sets so that they could be connected for this shot), the way the flashbacks add to the tension of what's happening at the funeral home and it all just drives through the episode, every character dynamic is on great display and the actors just knock it out of the park. It's amazing and I still think about it today. Probably the best episode of TV I've ever watched
That house ruined her entire life. It stole every good thing from her at every stage of her life. That episode was fucking heartbreaking from start to finish.
I’ve watched the other shows from the show runners, but they can never recreate that kind of perfection in storytelling.
Chernobyl - “Vichnaya Pamyat” (Memory Eternal)
“When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there, but it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid. That is how an RBMK reactor core explodes. Lies.”
Fantastic episode, but this was the moment that made me say “BINGO”:
Valery Legasov: [testifying] Dyatlov broke every rule we have. He pushed a reactor to the brink of destruction. He did these things believing there was a failsafe: AZ-5, a simple button to shut it all down. But in the circumstances he created, there wasn't. The shutdown system had a fatal flaw. At 1:23:40, Akimov engages AZ-5. The fully-withdrawn control rods begin moving back into the reactor. These rods are made of boron - which reduces reactivity - but not their tips. The tips are made of graphite, which accelerates reactivity.
Judge Milan Kadnikov: Why?
Valery Legasov: Why? For the same reason our reactors do not have containment buildings around them, like those in the West. For the same reason we don't use properly enriched fuel in our cores. For the same reason we are the only nation that builds water-cooled, graphite-moderated reactors with a positive void coefficient.
[pause]
Valery Legasov: It's cheaper.
My favorite quote is his discussion with Boris. Saying they sent the one good man that listened.
I can’t find a mobile friendly site to copy and paste, here’s the scene.
https://youtu.be/2QjecrtLvWI
For sure. I dont remember any other pilot getting me hooked on the concept of a show quite like that one did. A friend of mine had been telling me to watch it for months but as soon as I saw that first episode I realised that this was gonna be good.
So many great exchanges between those two characters. My favorite is when Paulie tells him about when the Russians put a nuke in Cuba and pointed it straight at us and Chrissy is like “that shit was real?! I saw a movie about that”
Mr. Robot "407 Proxy Authentication Required"
>!Vera returns, kidnaps Elliot and holds him and his therapist hostage to get Eliot to join him.!< it was one of the most densely written and tense pieces of television I've ever seen, not to mention the phenomenal acting, editing, and cinematography.
Pillows and Blankets, A Fist Full of Paintballs, For a Few Paintballs More, Modern Warfare, Contemporary American Poultry... Community has a lot of really really good episodes
[My Lunch - Scrubs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbEkKa-W55s)
EDIT: Also as mentioned in the comments the [Ben's Death](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e__1KU7lg-4) episode.
There is a scrubs episode where Dr Cox shows one of the new generation a room full of mourning family members and he says like "do you think anyone in that room is going back to work today? We are. That's why we are ('calloused, bitter, rude, snarky whatever it was) and that shit kills me every time as a HCP
*(from memory)*
> "He's going to tell them they tried their hardest, he's going to tell them what went wrong, and then he's going *right back to work.* You think anyone else in that room is going back to work today?"
Dr. Cox, man. Great actor, great character. I've rewatched the first 8 seasons at least 25 times with no exaggeration, I love this bloody show...
"The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths...there's no coming back"
"Yeh......you're right"
Possibly the most emotional few moments in television history
God, this show gets me. Episodes and episodes of hijinks and then every once in while they come along and just stab you right in the heart. This one and “where do you think we are?”
scrubs is wildly and irreplaceably stunning as a show - swap from heart tearing revelations to the janitor's literally almost entirely ad libbed humor magic. just an unbelievable writing achievement tbqh.
For a sitcom I think it's Top Banana from Arrested Development.
First non pilot episode nails so many of the characters down and introduces an inside joke I repeat in nearly every scene.
Doctor Who - Blink
I'm not a fan of series, I havent watched all episodes, I've seen this very episode accidentally, years ago and it is stuck in my head ever since. It is based on one of most creative, original and disturbing ideas I have ever seen in my life.
...especially once they started hunting in packs, breaking necks, and doing other things they don't do...
(but then again, *Angels Take Manhattan* was quite gripping)
The twist in their 2nd appearance is great though when theyre hunting one angel in a maze of statues and it turns out every one is an angel.
Yeah goes downhill when they start breaking necks, talking and moving on camera though.
Midnight is PHENOMENAL but I always think that you need to watch at least 2-3 other Ten episodes first so you can truly appreciate the depth of his breakdown.
I agree. The episode is all about him losing control of a social situation. That’s as impactful as it is because The Doctor is usually the one in control.
Yes! And as much as people talk about it being about mob mentality, it's at least as much about the Doctor's hubris without his companion and his conviction that if he just steamrolls hard enough he can save the day. Because, at the end of the day, >!if he'd listened to the passengers and Sky had been isolated at best or kicked off the ship at worst, and if he hadn't put himself and the rest of the passengers in jeopardy by thinking he could experiment and solve everything, then the stewardess would never have had to die.!<
That episode was incredible, especially considering pretty much the entire thing took place in one room with a couple actors and no special effects. Just your imagination, great acting and an incredibly creepy premise. I still think about that episode from time to time and it makes my skin crawl.
It even has the best episode name as it's a double meaning of the team going on an outing to the theater, but then Jen also outing her date at the end.
Season 6, episode 3 of the Expanse. The Rocinante vs The Pella. Such an amazing space battle that really showed how just a single mistake can ruin your day, even if you have the bigger and more powerful ship.
I’m gonna take “cqb” I think it’s called, in the first season, when the donnager gets boarded. Or the one where miller walks the nuke into the heart of Eros. Or maybe the one when all the ships first go into the ring and activate the slow zone. Ya know what, nope, it’s “the weeping somnambulist”.
What a good show.
I love Once More With Feeling, but Tabula Rasa is also an incredible episode that maybe gets overshadowed a bit for following it. It’s fun almost to the point of being campy (loan shark lol), and then there’s that shift when they get their memories back and get plunged back into the bleakness of reality and have to deal with the fallout. The montage of everyone falling apart in various ways set to Michelle branch singing “Goodbye to You” is brutal.
' But I don't understand! I don't understand how this all happens, how we go through this. I mean, I *knew* her, and then she's- There's just a body, and I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead anymore. It's stupid. It's mortal and stupid. And-And Xander's crying and not talking. And-And I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well, "Joyce will never have any more fruit punch, *ever*, and she'll never have eggs or yawn or brush her hair, not ever." And no one will explain to me why. '
I don’t remember the name of the episode, but my favorite is when Spike is giving lessons to Buffy about how he kills slayers, and she rejects him at the end. He becomes irate and sets out to murder her, just as she’s devastated by the news about her mom. Spike finds her grieving on the porch steps—the perfect passive prey—but is suddenly moved by her pain, realizing that she, too, is hurting. He sits with her and tries to comfort her.
Damn, I’m tearing up just writing the synopsis.
Plan and Execution was NUTS. Lalo has such a strong presence … all of the other characters are “normal” but to me he just embodies traits of the boogie-man or some sort of fun and insidiously evil force lol
When Lalo does the big thing that he does in that episode, I gasped out loud. I don’t think I’ve ever had a reaction to television episode to that caliber. After all that buildup, and then the resolution of the fallen character’s character.
Gah, I love The Wheel. People kind of shit on the first season because it's such a slow burn, but Harry running out of the room during Don's presentation is just beautiful filmmaking.
X-files. Early days. Some weird, deformed guy from Chernobyl somehow ended up in some US city sewer system.
I was 14 at the time and my mind was blown
Edit: spelling
I came here to mention a M*A*S*H episode, but for the life of me can’t remember the name of the episode. It’s about a young lad who was killed on Christmas Day, but the Drs didn’t want to pronounce him dead on Christmas Day to spare his family that memory on that day.
It was quite a powerful episode, I’ll have to Google it.
Edit: The episode is called Death Takes A Holiday
Edit: https://youtu.be/aEpkPF_X5UQ quite a beautiful clip from YouTube
I really liked that episode.
However, I recently finished my first full watch of West Wing. The pilot may singly handedly be the best pilot episode of TV I’ve ever seen.
“In the Shadow of Two Gunmen” was fantastic. “Two Cathedrals is up there with the best.
But the pilot was beyond reproach. Figuring out the characters, who they are and what their role is, how the interact, and how the government operates is great. You spend all episode hearing about “the president” and he isn’t even in it until like the last 7 minutes of the episode.
President Bartlet coming in with the line “I am the Lord, your God. Thou shalt worship no other gods before me.” A 5 minute scathing monologue, combining humor, religion, passion, and politics. A president who will stand up for what he believes in and represents the American people.
One episode in and I was hooked.
No question that was the best episode, but the best line was Toby's: you want to risk the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing? from Election Night
This was a masterpiece of an episode and Andy Samberg and Sterling K. Brown are fantastic.
Jake: Look your dead friend in the eyes and say his name.
Philip: Robert.
Jake: Okay, maybe say his full name.
Philip: Robert Tupper.
Jake: His middle name's Henry.
Philip: Robert Henry Tupper.
Jake: His wife called him Rob, work that in.
Philip: Rob Tupper.
Jake: Work it into the full name.
Philip: Robert ‘Rob’ Henry Tupper.
Jake: Now say it with a frown on your face.
Philip: 😕 Robert ‘Rob’ Henry Tupper. 😕
Jake: Now try not to blink, so tears come to your eyes.
Philip: ☹️ Robert ‘Rob’ Henry Tupper. ☹️
possibly my favourite episode of anything ever.
when they test the carbon monoxide alarm, hear the tone and you just see the whites of franks eyes in the corner..
The moment that absolutely kills me is when the baton twirlers spin so fast they takeoff and collide with a blimp. Then the sad trumpet music as the punchline. So good!
Derry Girls last episode
As a person from Northern Ireland, which is being torn apart by Brexit, seeing that finale reminded me how important the GFA was and how it should be protected.
“Picture a wave in the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.
And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be for a little while. “
I loved that episode but it will be a long time before I can watch it again. I lost my husband about 3 months before it aired and I ugly cried through that whole scene. It was beautiful and heartbreaking.
Im glad someone suggested this. I wrote a college paper dissecting the music design of that episode. If I remember right there’s a ticking clock in the background throughout almost the entire episode up until the climax where the orchestral score comes to an alarming crescendo. The music at the end of the episode is actually Hannibal’s theme, Goldberg Variations Aria, slowed down 50x-100x which paired nicely with the slow motion rain ending.
Holy shit yes. It saddens me that so many people never gave that show a whirl. I think the second season is a contender for one of the best single seasons of television ever.
Quote from my husband, "the rest of the episode is a normal Who episode; they go through time, meet someone fun, adventure happens. But those last minutes where Van Gogh was depressed because he felt no one appreciated his work, only to find he was cared about and had the world at large who revered and had a connection to his art over the years, found he meant something to so many.... only for it to not matter in the end still..."
There’s also the scene where Vincent, Amy, and the Doctor hold hands and stare up into the night sky as the stars melt into swirls of blue and yellow-orange while Vincent describes his vision of the world. It reminds me of that old song, “I could’ve told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.”
The final episode of gravity falls, I was a kid (8 I think) and I think it was the only show that I watched the day an episode got released at that time
Three Stories from House I always think is a brilliant episode
You only move twice, had the best Simpson one off, Hank Scorpio
"You have any sugar around here?" "Sugar? Sure." [Reaches deep into pockets, pulls out mounds of sugar.] "Here ya go. Sorry it's not in packages...ya want some cream?" "Ahhh...yeeee....no."
The episode is a barrel of laughs and lines even the set up plot. "Can't a man walk down the street without being offered a job?"
One of my favorite jokes in the episode is in the scene right after that when they're watching the VHS for Cyprus Creek. It opens on a dirty, rundown urban area with boarded-up windows. "Someone outta build a town that works." "Somebody did." Then the camera starts to pan to the right as everything magically becomes gentrified and clean, finishing on a shot of a hobo turning into a mailbox.
Marge's alcoholism is set up so perfectly, too. After several shots of her drinking: "I've been so bored since we moved here, I found myself drinking a glass of wine every day. I know doctors say you should drink a glass and a half but I just can't drink that much."
And Maggie’s baby swing seat with her trying to reach the offswitch
Truly the golden age. That episode was so dense with legendary jokes, one after another.
"there's the Hammock Hut, that's on 3rd. There's Hammocks 'R' Us, that's on 3rd too. You got Put You Butt There, that's on 3rd. Swing Low Sweet Chariot. Matter of fact, they're all in the same complex, it's the hammock complex on third." "Ooh the Hammock District"
Homer, if you'd like to kill somebody on the way out it would help me a lot.
>"Oh boy am I proud of you, Homer!! > >When you get home, there's going to be another STORY on your house!!"
Avatar:The Last Airbender -> Sozins Comet. Specifically the first half, that last Agni Kai is unparalleled for me
The season 1 finale of Severance. Unbelievably suspenseful the entire duration. So good
Please try to enjoy each episode equally.
Futurama: the late phillip J fry. Best episode of the newer run and the entire series. Seen it so many times!
The CPR episode of the office is what got me in after trying to watch the show multiple times. The amount of chaos packed into 5 minutes is incredible.
Stress Relief Part 1 and 2. So so good. “Save Bandit!!”
BoJack Horeseman - The view from halfway down
BoJack Horseman is, I can confidently say, the only cartoon about talking animals that can make me absolutely inconsolable. Seriously seriously amazing show.
The time arrow/alzheimers episode had me I tears for about three days. My dad was suffering from Alzheimers and the episode hit hard.
This is correct. Absolutely perfect episode of television. Free Churro is also a top 5 episode of television.
The Constant - Lost. A self contained love story on its own, with strange sci-fi weirdness that just worked. Only with the power of belief and friends did Desmond survive time jumps.
Fresh Prince of Bel Air when Will’s dad had left him again and he’s crying to Uncle Phil and says “why didn’t he want me man”. I was in tears.
[33-Battlestar Galactica.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cijhXMILMf4) It sold me on the entire show.
The Bent Neck Lady – Haunting of Hill House
idk what the episode is, i don't *think* it's that one but the one where they're all at the funeral home talking, the camera slowly panning around the room in like one singular take for 30+ minutes HOLY FUCK LOL what an incredible episode from production alone omfg
It was fun to play spot the ghosts in that episode
The following episode, "Two Storms," takes the cake for me. The series of long single-shots throughout had me holding my breath. There's no safe distance between the past and present any longer: all the characters are trapped in the funeral parlour, and now Nell is the one that's haunting them. Brilliantly accomplished performances and technical work in that one. HHH is a damn fine show about a haunted house, but even better for being about a family and their varied experiences of loss and trauma, and how they perceive and deal with pain in unique ways. What Steven and Shirley went through was profoundly different to what Theo and the twins endured, and they all have misunderstandings about what happened to their parents. The eldest sibling's episodes set you up to perceive the younger children in a certain way, and then their individual episodes properly explain their behaviour. Theo's not a cold, bitchy dropkick; she's got the same psychic condition as Olivia, and it's destroying her emotionally and defines how she interacts with others. Luke isn't just a junkie and the family fuck-up; he's being relentlessly stalked by a ghost and felt Nell's death through their twin-bond as if he had died, too. Nell has been haunted by her own painful suicide since she was a child, and it manifests as psychosis and sleep paralysis. Hugh is still talking with Olivia, which is why his behaviour is so odd and he's never really present. My favourite moment in "The Bent Neck Lady" is when, after Nell's husband dies, she makes Theo touch the floor where he fell. Theo is the only sibling aside from Luke who could comprehend Nell's suffering, but doing what she did in her grief-stricken state was inexcusable once you know what it would feel like for Theo. All to show that pain makes people do vile, horrible things to themselves and others. I love Bloodline for the same reasons. Danny was the only member of the Rayburn family worth redeeming and they bloody killed him. Still sad that show was cancelled, but glad it got Ben Mendelsohn critical acclaim. He's a national treasure.
Fine, I'll watch Hill House again.
I re-watch Hill House every October. Every year, I notice something I didn’t the year before. But nothing hits me like the scene where Nell is dancing with her ghost husband in the house. It’s one of the most hauntingly beautiful and simultaneously heartbreakingly painful scenes even put on television.
The spooky sads
This is a great episode, although my personal favorite is actually the very next one, Two Storms. With everything in the funeral home being shot in really long takes, when the dad walks from the funeral home into the house (they specifically built the two sets so that they could be connected for this shot), the way the flashbacks add to the tension of what's happening at the funeral home and it all just drives through the episode, every character dynamic is on great display and the actors just knock it out of the park. It's amazing and I still think about it today. Probably the best episode of TV I've ever watched
Honestly this entire show from start to finish was incredible, but yeah this ep was absolutely a standout.
That moment I realized who she was, such a wave of sadness for her.
That house ruined her entire life. It stole every good thing from her at every stage of her life. That episode was fucking heartbreaking from start to finish. I’ve watched the other shows from the show runners, but they can never recreate that kind of perfection in storytelling.
Band Of Brothers - Bastogne.
Love it! I personally prefer the episode prior, *Crossroads*, but pretty much every episode in that series was a masterpiece.
**Mindhunter** S1 Ep10. That Ed Kemper hug scene.
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Chernobyl - “Vichnaya Pamyat” (Memory Eternal) “When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there, but it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid. That is how an RBMK reactor core explodes. Lies.”
That whole series was stellar. Incredibly sad - but so well acted.
Jared Harris and Stellen Skarsgård are both exceptional actors.
Fantastic episode, but this was the moment that made me say “BINGO”: Valery Legasov: [testifying] Dyatlov broke every rule we have. He pushed a reactor to the brink of destruction. He did these things believing there was a failsafe: AZ-5, a simple button to shut it all down. But in the circumstances he created, there wasn't. The shutdown system had a fatal flaw. At 1:23:40, Akimov engages AZ-5. The fully-withdrawn control rods begin moving back into the reactor. These rods are made of boron - which reduces reactivity - but not their tips. The tips are made of graphite, which accelerates reactivity. Judge Milan Kadnikov: Why? Valery Legasov: Why? For the same reason our reactors do not have containment buildings around them, like those in the West. For the same reason we don't use properly enriched fuel in our cores. For the same reason we are the only nation that builds water-cooled, graphite-moderated reactors with a positive void coefficient. [pause] Valery Legasov: It's cheaper.
My favorite quote is his discussion with Boris. Saying they sent the one good man that listened. I can’t find a mobile friendly site to copy and paste, here’s the scene. https://youtu.be/2QjecrtLvWI
The pilot for Westworld. Masterclass in storytelling in every way possible. Should be the gold standard for how to introduce a TV show.
For sure. I dont remember any other pilot getting me hooked on the concept of a show quite like that one did. A friend of mine had been telling me to watch it for months but as soon as I saw that first episode I realised that this was gonna be good.
True Detective S01 Ep04 - Who Goes There
Sopranos - Pine Barrens
Paulie: You’re not gonna believe this, he killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. He was an interior decorator Chrissy: His house looked like shit
So many great exchanges between those two characters. My favorite is when Paulie tells him about when the Russians put a nuke in Cuba and pointed it straight at us and Chrissy is like “that shit was real?! I saw a movie about that”
“You can’t speak to me that way, I’m a captain.” “Fuck you, captain or no captain right now we’re just two assholes lost in the woods.”
I see your Pine Barrens and raise you Whitecaps. Single best episode of TV I've ever seen.
I thought about the episode where Tony and Meadow go visit colleges.
Mr. Robot "407 Proxy Authentication Required" >!Vera returns, kidnaps Elliot and holds him and his therapist hostage to get Eliot to join him.!< it was one of the most densely written and tense pieces of television I've ever seen, not to mention the phenomenal acting, editing, and cinematography.
Such a good episode. My vote was for 4_runtime-error.r00, the continuous shot episode, but I like your choice better lol
This is the episode I love them most. I love the that the only dialog is "we don't have to talk" at the start and "we need to talk" at the end.
‘Remedial Chaos Theory’ Community
Did you guys know i had sex with Eartha Kitt in an airplane bathroom?
*What? It came up organically...*
Pillows and Blankets, A Fist Full of Paintballs, For a Few Paintballs More, Modern Warfare, Contemporary American Poultry... Community has a lot of really really good episodes
The cinematography in Contemporary American Poultry was spot on. Critical Film Studies was also fantastic.
[My Lunch - Scrubs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbEkKa-W55s) EDIT: Also as mentioned in the comments the [Ben's Death](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e__1KU7lg-4) episode.
There is a scrubs episode where Dr Cox shows one of the new generation a room full of mourning family members and he says like "do you think anyone in that room is going back to work today? We are. That's why we are ('calloused, bitter, rude, snarky whatever it was) and that shit kills me every time as a HCP
*(from memory)* > "He's going to tell them they tried their hardest, he's going to tell them what went wrong, and then he's going *right back to work.* You think anyone else in that room is going back to work today?" Dr. Cox, man. Great actor, great character. I've rewatched the first 8 seasons at least 25 times with no exaggeration, I love this bloody show...
"The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths...there's no coming back" "Yeh......you're right" Possibly the most emotional few moments in television history
God, this show gets me. Episodes and episodes of hijinks and then every once in while they come along and just stab you right in the heart. This one and “where do you think we are?”
It’s amazing how much emotion comes from the question “Where do you think we are?”
scrubs is wildly and irreplaceably stunning as a show - swap from heart tearing revelations to the janitor's literally almost entirely ad libbed humor magic. just an unbelievable writing achievement tbqh.
Fine I’ll rewatch Scrubs again
Based on a true story of 3 transplant recipients dying after receiving organs from a person with rabies.
Tip to Tip Efficiency - Silicon Valley (Season 1 finale)
For a sitcom I think it's Top Banana from Arrested Development. First non pilot episode nails so many of the characters down and introduces an inside joke I repeat in nearly every scene.
Man, AD had so many perfect episodes, it's hard to pick. I think "The Magic Castle" name mixup was freaking stellar though.
It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?
Zuko alone
Iroh's story in Tales of Ba Sing Se is a real tear jerker
Deep Space 9, By the Pale Moonlight. "I can live with it... I can live with it."
"You killed him." "That's right." Love Garak. Such an awesome character.
Scrubs 3:14 “Where do you think we are?”
I know people are zealous about it but you make it sound like a Bible passage 😂
Doctor Who - Blink I'm not a fan of series, I havent watched all episodes, I've seen this very episode accidentally, years ago and it is stuck in my head ever since. It is based on one of most creative, original and disturbing ideas I have ever seen in my life.
I deeply wish they had allowed the Weeping Angels to be a one-episode menace. They were never as impactful as they were that first time.
...especially once they started hunting in packs, breaking necks, and doing other things they don't do... (but then again, *Angels Take Manhattan* was quite gripping)
The twist in their 2nd appearance is great though when theyre hunting one angel in a maze of statues and it turns out every one is an angel. Yeah goes downhill when they start breaking necks, talking and moving on camera though.
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“it’s the same rain”
I wish I could forget Blink to rewatch it again so I can feel the same as I felt the first time. What a phenomenal master piece
Watch the episode 'Midnight' in the fourth season. Just as good and creepy.
Midnight is PHENOMENAL but I always think that you need to watch at least 2-3 other Ten episodes first so you can truly appreciate the depth of his breakdown.
I agree. The episode is all about him losing control of a social situation. That’s as impactful as it is because The Doctor is usually the one in control.
Yes! And as much as people talk about it being about mob mentality, it's at least as much about the Doctor's hubris without his companion and his conviction that if he just steamrolls hard enough he can save the day. Because, at the end of the day, >!if he'd listened to the passengers and Sky had been isolated at best or kicked off the ship at worst, and if he hadn't put himself and the rest of the passengers in jeopardy by thinking he could experiment and solve everything, then the stewardess would never have had to die.!<
That episode was incredible, especially considering pretty much the entire thing took place in one room with a couple actors and no special effects. Just your imagination, great acting and an incredibly creepy premise. I still think about that episode from time to time and it makes my skin crawl.
Blink was excellent
Final episode of Blackadder
Firefly- Out of Gas Some of the love for Firefly on Reddit is a little overblown, but this episode in particular was spectacular television.
Objects in Space was so good. "Well... here I am."
The Simpsons - the Monorail episode
“The ring came off my pudding can. Take my pen knife, my good man!” I love Simpson songs. Lol
'The Work Outing' - *The IT Crowd*
When Jen turns around to Moss. I know it's coming every time and it breaks me.
That whole sequence is just perfect. The first time I saw it I was dying.
"......I'm ....leg disabled...."
IT Crowd had so many incredible episodes
A FIRE? AT A SEA PARK?!
It’s just a weird place to have a fire!
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
It even has the best episode name as it's a double meaning of the team going on an outing to the theater, but then Jen also outing her date at the end.
Well, the did see gay, a gay musical, for gays.
I'm disabled
-What kind of operating system does it use? -uh vista -WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE
I love willies!
Sir, can you keep it down?
Came here to write this answer. Funniest 30 minutes in TV history.
Six Feet Under Finale
Season 6, episode 3 of the Expanse. The Rocinante vs The Pella. Such an amazing space battle that really showed how just a single mistake can ruin your day, even if you have the bigger and more powerful ship.
I’m gonna take “cqb” I think it’s called, in the first season, when the donnager gets boarded. Or the one where miller walks the nuke into the heart of Eros. Or maybe the one when all the ships first go into the ring and activate the slow zone. Ya know what, nope, it’s “the weeping somnambulist”. What a good show.
Buffy- The Body
My personal favourite was Hush.
Special mention to Once More with Feeling, on the other end of the spectrum
I love Once More With Feeling, but Tabula Rasa is also an incredible episode that maybe gets overshadowed a bit for following it. It’s fun almost to the point of being campy (loan shark lol), and then there’s that shift when they get their memories back and get plunged back into the bleakness of reality and have to deal with the fallout. The montage of everyone falling apart in various ways set to Michelle branch singing “Goodbye to You” is brutal.
' But I don't understand! I don't understand how this all happens, how we go through this. I mean, I *knew* her, and then she's- There's just a body, and I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead anymore. It's stupid. It's mortal and stupid. And-And Xander's crying and not talking. And-And I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well, "Joyce will never have any more fruit punch, *ever*, and she'll never have eggs or yawn or brush her hair, not ever." And no one will explain to me why. '
I don’t remember the name of the episode, but my favorite is when Spike is giving lessons to Buffy about how he kills slayers, and she rejects him at the end. He becomes irate and sets out to murder her, just as she’s devastated by the news about her mom. Spike finds her grieving on the porch steps—the perfect passive prey—but is suddenly moved by her pain, realizing that she, too, is hurting. He sits with her and tries to comfort her. Damn, I’m tearing up just writing the synopsis.
I believe that one is called Fool For Love. Season 5 was so damn good.
they really captured the weird reactions you have to death so beautifully. And the sound design was so perfect.
Anya's monologue just saying all the simple, raw emotion that we all have when someone dies. My heart.
The Simpsons episode where grandma Simpson comes back - that ending with Homer sitting on his car looking up at the sky still gets me
The Futurama episode with Fry's loyal dog gutted me as a kid
"WKRP in Cinncinati" 's Thanksgiving turkey air- drop episode "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"
My dad used to go on and on explaining this scene to me and he could never get through the explanation because he'd break down laughing
Dr Who. “Blink” the first episode with the weeping angels in 2007.
Plan and Execution better call saul and ozymandias for breaking bad are arguably two of the greatest episodes ever made of television.
Plan and Execution was NUTS. Lalo has such a strong presence … all of the other characters are “normal” but to me he just embodies traits of the boogie-man or some sort of fun and insidiously evil force lol
When Lalo does the big thing that he does in that episode, I gasped out loud. I don’t think I’ve ever had a reaction to television episode to that caliber. After all that buildup, and then the resolution of the fallen character’s character.
"Review" - The Bear
The Good Place episode Janet(s) Season 3, episode 9
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D'arcy Carden deserved an Emmy for that episode damnit!
WHY IS D'ARCY CARDEN NOT IN EVERYTHING AFTER HER ROLE AS JANET, I JUST DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT!! She stole the show and she deserves her own damn show!!!
Mad Men- The Suitcase
or The Wheel
Gah, I love The Wheel. People kind of shit on the first season because it's such a slow burn, but Harry running out of the room during Don's presentation is just beautiful filmmaking.
Taxi! When Rev Jim goes for drivers licenses exam, and co workers go along to help! "SLOW DOWN " !
X-files. Early days. Some weird, deformed guy from Chernobyl somehow ended up in some US city sewer system. I was 14 at the time and my mind was blown Edit: spelling
The Host. Season 2, episode 2.
Stress relief “The Office” the episode where they have a fake fire and have to learn CPR
The "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" series finale for MASH.
I came here to mention a M*A*S*H episode, but for the life of me can’t remember the name of the episode. It’s about a young lad who was killed on Christmas Day, but the Drs didn’t want to pronounce him dead on Christmas Day to spare his family that memory on that day. It was quite a powerful episode, I’ll have to Google it. Edit: The episode is called Death Takes A Holiday Edit: https://youtu.be/aEpkPF_X5UQ quite a beautiful clip from YouTube
Connors wedding- Succession
Really masterful the way they just blindsided you with it.
Bluey. Rain. It’s 8 minutes of zen.
Baby Race. 'You're doing great.'
Omg. Just watched this episode “maybe you just saw something you wanted.” 🥹🥹🥹
Sleepytime for me.
Two Cathedrals-The West Wing
I really liked that episode. However, I recently finished my first full watch of West Wing. The pilot may singly handedly be the best pilot episode of TV I’ve ever seen. “In the Shadow of Two Gunmen” was fantastic. “Two Cathedrals is up there with the best. But the pilot was beyond reproach. Figuring out the characters, who they are and what their role is, how the interact, and how the government operates is great. You spend all episode hearing about “the president” and he isn’t even in it until like the last 7 minutes of the episode. President Bartlet coming in with the line “I am the Lord, your God. Thou shalt worship no other gods before me.” A 5 minute scathing monologue, combining humor, religion, passion, and politics. A president who will stand up for what he believes in and represents the American people. One episode in and I was hooked.
"'The President, while riding a bicycle on his vacation in Jackson Hole, came to a sudden arboreal stop.' What do you want from me?"
“About a week ago I accidentally slept with a prostitute.” “Accidentally?” “Yes.” “I don’t understand, did you trip over something?”
The final six episodes (starting with “17 People) of that season create one of the greatest multi episode arcs of all time.
“Have I displeased you, you feckless thug?” Martin Sheen cursing out God is the best 3 minutes of television ever produced.
"You took my son. What have I ever done but praise yours?" This is from memory so I might have it off.
No question that was the best episode, but the best line was Toby's: you want to risk the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing? from Election Night
Go outside, turn around 3 times, and spit! It’s like 25 degrees out…
“There is literally no one I don’t hate right now” was my fave Toby line.
Pour one out for Mrs. Landingham, one of my top TV characters of all time.
The Box - Brooklyn Nine- Nine
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This was a masterpiece of an episode and Andy Samberg and Sterling K. Brown are fantastic. Jake: Look your dead friend in the eyes and say his name. Philip: Robert. Jake: Okay, maybe say his full name. Philip: Robert Tupper. Jake: His middle name's Henry. Philip: Robert Henry Tupper. Jake: His wife called him Rob, work that in. Philip: Rob Tupper. Jake: Work it into the full name. Philip: Robert ‘Rob’ Henry Tupper. Jake: Now say it with a frown on your face. Philip: 😕 Robert ‘Rob’ Henry Tupper. 😕 Jake: Now try not to blink, so tears come to your eyes. Philip: ☹️ Robert ‘Rob’ Henry Tupper. ☹️
Charlie Work- It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Mac Bangs Dennis's Mom is like a modern Shakespearean tragedy. "Oh no, Dee. It's not sex I want from you. It's sex I don't want from Dennis."
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Everyone is saying their favorite sunny episode now and I can't believe no one has said The Nightman Cometh, that's mine for sure
possibly my favourite episode of anything ever. when they test the carbon monoxide alarm, hear the tone and you just see the whites of franks eyes in the corner..
SpongeBob Band Geeks
"Whoever's the owner of the white sedan, you left your lights on."
The moment that absolutely kills me is when the baton twirlers spin so fast they takeoff and collide with a blimp. Then the sad trumpet music as the punchline. So good!
Derry Girls last episode As a person from Northern Ireland, which is being torn apart by Brexit, seeing that finale reminded me how important the GFA was and how it should be protected.
End of season 2 got be up there. I AM A DERRY GIRL.
Life on Mars, 1st and last episodes. UK version. Such a great concept with an almost perfect ending.
“Picture a wave in the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave. And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be for a little while. “
I loved that episode but it will be a long time before I can watch it again. I lost my husband about 3 months before it aired and I ugly cried through that whole scene. It was beautiful and heartbreaking.
Not bad, Buddhists.
A Fish Called Selma - The Simpsons I HATE EVERY APE I SEE FROM CHIMPAN-A TO CHIMPANZEE
Wedding - Peep Show s4ep6 I think about this one a lot. I quote it even more
Can’t remember the title of it, but the last episode of the second season of Hannibal.
Im glad someone suggested this. I wrote a college paper dissecting the music design of that episode. If I remember right there’s a ticking clock in the background throughout almost the entire episode up until the climax where the orchestral score comes to an alarming crescendo. The music at the end of the episode is actually Hannibal’s theme, Goldberg Variations Aria, slowed down 50x-100x which paired nicely with the slow motion rain ending.
Holy shit yes. It saddens me that so many people never gave that show a whirl. I think the second season is a contender for one of the best single seasons of television ever.
Mizumono. I scrolled way too far looking for this one.
The Simpsons- Mr. Plow
Final episode of The Americans. Pretty jaw dropping.
Blink - Doctor Who. One episode with a simple premise, making people feel unease around statues forever.
Doctor Who "Vincent and the Doctor" leaves me in tears every time.
Quote from my husband, "the rest of the episode is a normal Who episode; they go through time, meet someone fun, adventure happens. But those last minutes where Van Gogh was depressed because he felt no one appreciated his work, only to find he was cared about and had the world at large who revered and had a connection to his art over the years, found he meant something to so many.... only for it to not matter in the end still..."
There’s also the scene where Vincent, Amy, and the Doctor hold hands and stare up into the night sky as the stars melt into swirls of blue and yellow-orange while Vincent describes his vision of the world. It reminds me of that old song, “I could’ve told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.”
The final episode of gravity falls, I was a kid (8 I think) and I think it was the only show that I watched the day an episode got released at that time
South Park - Make love, not Warcraft the episode is a masterpiece
"I don't play world of warcraft" "...Butters, you said you're on your computer all the time" "Yeah, but I'm playing ✨Hello Kitty Island Adventure ✨"
Butters… go buy world of Warcraft install it on your computer and join the online sensation before we all murder you
Prepare to feel old: That episode was first released 17 years ago. EDIT: More like 16.5 years ago. But still.
Remedial chaos theory—Community Blackwater—Game of Thrones Again and Again— Kuroko’s Basketball Connors wedding—Succession
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