What is your favorite single episode of a TV show?

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Anonymous wrote:I think Bill Cosby is disgusting now, but I admit I LOVED the Cosby show episode where the family shows Theo what the real world would be like by turning the house into an apartment complex/bank/store/restaurant.

NP. I also love the one when Denise makes Theo a shirt so he doesn't have to spend a ton of money on a designer shirt, and it's awful- uneven, no arm holes, etc.

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Sex and the City- My Motherboard, Myself (the one where Miranda's mother dies)

Felicity- the one where her parents get divorced

The Americans- pilot

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Anonymous wrote:I think Bill Cosby is disgusting now, but I admit I LOVED the Cosby show episode where the family shows Theo what the real world would be like by turning the house into an apartment complex/bank/store/restaurant.

NP. I also love the one when Denise makes Theo a shirt so he doesn't have to spend a ton of money on a designer shirt, and it's awful- uneven, no arm holes, etc.

The Gordon Gartrell!

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Anonymous wrote:I think Bill Cosby is disgusting now, but I admit I LOVED the Cosby show episode where the family shows Theo what the real world would be like by turning the house into an apartment complex/bank/store/restaurant.

NP. I also love the one when Denise makes Theo a shirt so he doesn't have to spend a ton of money on a designer shirt, and it's awful- uneven, no arm holes, etc.

Yes! Fantastic episode. I also loved any episode where they sang and put on a show as a family.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm gonna go off the rails and take it back to my childhood.

Either the "Friends Forever" episode or the breakup episode of Saved By the Bell.

Not great TV at all, but I still remember going to school that Monday and all of us eight year olds sitting around lamenting Zack and Kelly's breakup.

"How could she leave Zack for that Jeff guy from college? She's a bitch!"

Sorry the best SBTB episode is when Jessie takes the caffeine pills. It taught me everything I needed to know about drugs.

"I'm so excited and I just can't hide it! I'm so, so SCARED!"

Yes!

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The Family Matters episodes when Urkel turned into Stefan.

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Also: The Simpsons: Marge vs the Monorail; and the stonecutter episode

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Anonymous wrote:Mash finale tops all others
Diversity Day - The Office (best.episode.ever)
LBOTP when Mary goes blind in the fire (also the one where Albert's gf is raped by her father)
Law & Order when they watch an execution and Claire is killed in a car crash with Lenny driving
Facts of Life when the girls finally work off their "debt" and can live anywhere but opt to stay together (ok, not great tv but I had to add it for nostalgia!)

She didn't go blind in the fire. ??? She went blind from having scarlet fever in her childhood, way before the fire. Her baby dies in a fire though.

The episode with Albert's girlfriend being abused is "Sylvia," and it's a 2-parter.

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Anonymous wrote:WKRP in Cincinnati - The Consultant
It's even better than the flying turkeys episode.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3p0v4a

But flying turkeys was pretty good!

The flying turkeys -- or not flying turkeys, rather -- episode was so clever with Les evoking the Hindenburg disaster. Oh, the humanity! And of course Mr. Carlson "As God as my witness . . . " So funny.

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Anonymous wrote:Sex and the City- My Motherboard, Myself (the one where Miranda's mother dies)

Felicity- the one where her parents get divorced

The Americans- pilot

Oooo I forgot about that one! The scene in the fitting room? Sigh.

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The episode from Battle of the Planets where Princess loses her shoe in an amusement park. I'm sure you all know it well and agree.

Just me? Ok.

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Anonymous wrote:Mash finale tops all others
Diversity Day - The Office (best.episode.ever)
LBOTP when Mary goes blind in the fire (also the one where Albert's gf is raped by her father)
Law & Order when they watch an execution and Claire is killed in a car crash with Lenny driving
Facts of Life when the girls finally work off their "debt" and can live anywhere but opt to stay together (ok, not great tv but I had to add it for nostalgia!)

I was wondering if anyone would say that Law and Order episode. It's so good.
Also - Cosby show where Vanessa wears a strapless dress to go to a club and Claire basically calls her a tramp.
Every episode of Daria.
"I'm just so....scared" episode of Saved by the Bell.
The Wire - Most people would say the episode where Stringer dies (I agree it's probably the best) but my favorite is the one that shows Rawls in the gay bar.
House of Lies - They are consulting for a beverage company in Indiana and Marty and Jeanie and up hooking up with a husband and wife couple
House of Cards - OK, it's a terrible show, but I like the one where Frank, Meechum, and Claire hook up

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The "Taming of the Shrew" episode of Moonlighting, written entirely in iambic pentameter.

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Community; Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. Great episode structure, jokes, riff on LOTR tone.

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Anonymous wrote:To the poster who mentioned Dule Hill-there was an episode of the show Robin Williams did with Sarah Michelle Gellar where she was learning how to drive. They ran a gag real at the end where he says something like "where did you learn that?" And she replies "Sunnydale"

I laughed until I cried

That's awesome!

I love the allusions to shows within shows.

While Supergirl isn't the best show ever, I love that they got Helen Slater and Dean Cain to play her parents.

I also cracked up at the joke about Harrison Ford from Callista's character.

I get a kick out of these things.

There's a scene in 3rd Rock from the Sun where John Lithgow is basically doing his preacher role from Footloose.

I also love the scene in Frasier where is ex wife Nanette who is supposed to a children's entertainer is complaining about the grind of this profession by exclaiming to Kelsey Grammar, "Do you have any idea what it's like playing the same character for 20 years?" Of course, Kelsey Grammar had been playing Frasier for about as long between Cheers and Frasier.